Showing 417 results

archival descriptions
Irving family collection
Fonds · 1860-1990

The Irving family collection is one of the oldest manuscript collections in the city archives collection as it was initiated upon the acquisition and opening of Irving House Historic Centre in 1950 by the City of New Westminster and the Native Sons and Daughters of B.C. Post #4. The Irving Family Collection is unique among the Manuscript Collections of the N.W. Museum and Archives because it was collected with the intention of forming the primary documentation source to interpret the history of Irving House and the Irving family. The collection that has been assembled is large and diverse as it is an artificial amalgamation of several disparate private record groups accessioned over many years. This collection of record groups is integral to the operation of the museum's interpretive and research programs for Irving House and remains an open collection in order to integrate future additions.

In 1989 museum staff organized the various donations of archival material related to the Irving Family into one physical location within the Museum building for the purpose of maintaining one collection. All photographs were numbered and indexed as one collection with the prefix IFP [Irving Family Photograph]. The Irving family collection was arranged and described in 2006 into five family groups representing the different branches of the Irving Family created by the children of Capt. William and Elizabeth Irving: John Irving family, Mary Irving Briggs family, Susan Irving Cox family, Elizabeth Irving Spencer family, and the Nellie Irving Chandler family. There are also two other records groups: Other Sources and Photographs. Each item or file represents separate donations from various descendants and others to the archives. Provenance of this collection's items with known accession numbers has been noted where documented.

Irving, William, 1816-1872 (family)
Fonds · [ca. 1858-2000]

The collection consists of documents and photographs intentionally assembled collection of discrete items documenting the following areas: the occupational pursuits of B.C. and Yukon Jewry; the organized religious life of Jews in B.C.; leisure activities; and the membership and good works of organizations formed to aid and represent the Jewish community, such as the National Council of Jewish Women. There is also a wide range of individual and family portraits, and photographs of headstones.

Alfred and Agnes Flett fonds
Fonds · 1878, 1939-1986

Fonds consists of four Series: Flett family history records; Personal papers; Broadcasting scripts; Photographs

Flett, Alfred
William Nicholls fonds
Fonds · 1933-2003

The fonds consists of biographical materials, conference proceedings, reports, articles, books, sermons, speeches, talks, committee reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a photograph and a video tape. The fonds consists of nine series: Biographical; Publications; Speeches, Addresses and Talks; Committees; London School of Economics; Vanier Institute of the Family; Subject Files, Miscellaneous and Video Tape.

Nicholls, William
Item · 1984

The title is based on the contents of the fonds. The collection is divided into six series and consists of minutes, correspondence, and membership lists.

K-ette Club of Salmon Arm
Merville Community Records
Item · 1919-1945

Merville was created as a land settlement scheme for WW I returned soldiers initiated by the provincial government in 1919.
Item 1: Settlement Committee Minute book, 1919-1922. Item 2: Lists of Land Settlement Board settlers and the order in which they drew their allotments, 1919. Item 3: Accounts for community events, 1935-1945. Item 4: Merville Committee minutes, 1936-1937.

Merville committees
Genni Hennessy fonds
Fonds · 2002 - 2003

The fonds consists of records relating to Hennessy’s 2003 MA thesis titled The Spirit of Collaboration: Exploring Critical Pedagogical Principles in Transforming the Museum Through Space and Time. Hennessy was interested in the relationships that developed between community members and museum staff during the process of putting together the Museum of Anthropology’s exhibit The Spirit of Islam, which ran from October 2001 to May 2002. Her purpose was to document the kinds of collaborative processes that occurred as the exhibit planning progressed in order to identify a model from which other museums working with communities might benefit.

Hennessy, Genni
Dan Jorgensen fonds
Fonds · 1974 - 1975

Fonds consists of 83 photographs taken between 1974 and 75 when Dan Jorgensen was in Papua New Guinea to study the Telefolmin people. The images have been mounted on card and are labeled with place and title. Most of them were assigned a number and letter by Dr. Jorgensen. On the verso of the card, Dr. Jorgensen has detailed what is happening in the image.

The material is grouped according to a letter designation which Dr. Jorgensen had assigned. The assistant archivist has assigned a DJ and number to those images that Dr. Jorgensen had not numbered.

D :
1 Daduvip boy
2 village children
3 Daduvip children
4 Foiwalmin boy
5 three young girls
6 3 Telefomin girls
7 Daduvip children
8 women and children
9 women in mourning
10 women and children
11 gov’t headsman
12 Daduvip woman [Mislabeled. This is a portrait of Robinokof, a young man, of Dividuvip hamlet.]
13 father and son
14 Faiwolmin hunter
15 decorated feather bag
16 spirit house
15 Faiwolmin man
17 imitation headdress [initiation?]
19 two men in dance regalia
20 traditional dress
21 dancing costume
22 Telefolmin men

F :
1 prized taro plant
2 new taro garden
4 man and his gear
5 mother and child
6 pandanus fruit
7 preparing food
8 cooking fruit
9 placing cooking stones
10 cooking fruit parcels
11 food for feast
12 singeing pig
12 cooking for feast
13 & c. 2 small feast
14 cooking for feast
15 Daduvip women
16 pig-kill
17 binding pig for sacrifice
18 killing pig
19 kill pig
20 pig dispatched
21 singeing pig
23 butchering a pig

H :
1 & c. 2 ancestral village
2 Telfolip village
3 house building
4 house building
5 house building
6 house building
7 & c. 2 old Daduvip woman
8 spirit house
9 spirit house
10 the Yolan-ritual house
11 men’s compound
12 Kobelman
13 menstrual & childbirth hut
15 ethnographer’s house

[DJ] :
1 curing ceremony
2 plating ritual
3 ceremonial planting
4 curer & patient
5 fighting demonstration
6 fighting demonstration
7 fighting shield
8 fight demonstration
9 healing ritual
10 healing ritual
11 healing rituals
12 sacred netbag
13 child prophet NOTE: Consultation of photographer necessary before public display of this image
14 dancers
15 clay sculptures
16 Ifitamin valley
17 slow cooking technique
18 preparing a fire
19 ceremony
20 curing ritual
21 food for feast
22 (H 14 F 3) old garden house

Jorgensen, Dan
Ronnie Tessler fonds
Fonds · 1986 - 1987

The fonds consists of photographs created by Ronnie Tessler from 1986 to 1987 documenting a canoe project by the Nisga’a carver Norman Tait. The project was abandoned in the summer of 1987, and the canoe was left uncompleted. The photographs depict models for the canoe, transportation of the log for the canoe to the Museum of Anthropology, ceremonies performed throughout the project, and various stages of work on the canoe and model. Additional photographs from the same period depict a totem pole raising at Capilano Mall in North Vancouver and portraits of Les Baker, a model Tait wanted to use for a “white man” mask.

Tessler, Ronnie
Ann Lowden Gordon fonds
Fonds · 1894 - 1896

The fonds consists of photocopied and transcribed letters between the sisters and their mother, a manuscript and newspaper clippings, and divided into three series.

Gordon, Ann Lowden, 1865-1941
Fonds · 1962-1981

The fonds is divided into four series and consists of annual reports, an agenda, and newsletters. Title based on the contents.

Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union
Mt. Ida Women’s Institute
Fonds · 1915-1981

The fonds consists of one series containing one minute book that spans the years 1915-1920 and includes financial records and membership lists.

Mt. Ida Women's Institute, R.R. 1, Salmon Arm, B.C.
Fonds · 1907-1946

The fonds is divided into two series and fonds consists of a ledger containing financial accounts, minutes, and annual returns.

The Loyal Orange Lodge 1642 Royal Arch Purple
Fonds · 1977-2013

The fonds is incomplete. It is arranged into 14 Series and consists of minutes, financials, membership lists, Executive and committee reports, correspondence and ephemera.

The Talana Women’s Institute disbanded early in 2013.

Talana Women’s Institute (Talana W.I.)
Fonds · 1916

The fonds is one series and consists of scrapbooks with photographs, newsclippings and postcards.

Women's Institute, Tappen, B.C.
Fonds · 1951

The fonds consists of one series of Lodge registers from 1956 – 1984, Minutes from 1954 – 2004, Past Noble Grand Register and minutes from 1961 – 1972.

The Dove Rebekah Lodge # 69 Order for Women
Graham Family fonds
Fonds · 1917

The fonds is divided into four series and that contain addresses to graduating classes by Guy and Davis Graham, Salmon Arm Quee Coronation programs, Ethel Graham's 1939 autograph book, and examination records.

Graham Family
Martin Family fonds
Fonds · 1879

The fonds is divided into three series and consists of a diary, person papers of Albert and Amelia Martin.

Martin Family
Fonds · 1907- 1914

The fonds consists of nitrate negatives and glass negatives that depict the early Prince Rupert town site, pioneers, businesses, scenes, and events. Included is a wedding certificate from 1923 for Ethel Vivian Alabaster and Gus Slane.

J.D. Allen Photographic Company
May Ellingsen fonds
Fonds · 1910-1990

Fonds consists of ten photograph albums compiled and annotated by May Ellingsen. The albums contain both original and reproduced photographs of Cortes Island and nearby islands, including Twin Islands and Hernando Island. They are accompanied by captions and additional textual information such as pre-emption records, reminiscences and newspaper clippings. Most of the photographs date from the early decades of the 20th century, depicting homes and buildings, pioneer families, community activities, schools, wharves, boats, logging and marine activity. Fonds consists of two series: Series 1 (The May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Vol. 1-9, Accession 2004.002) and Series 2 (The Manson Family Album, Accession 2004.003).

Ellingsen, May
Collection · [ca. 1870]-1993

The collection consists of photographs of the Agassiz-Harrison area depicting individuals, families, businesses, industry (particularly farming and logging), events (including the 1948 Fraser River Flood), community associations, schools, and general scenes.

H.G. Sherriff fonds
Fonds · 1907

The fonds consists of a diary spanning from April 20 to September 23, 1907 and a contract between Sherriff, his partner W. Phillip and E. Stuart Wood.

Sherriff, H.G.
Fonds · 1910-1920 and 1948-1978

The fonds consists of minutes, cash books, attendance rolls, one motion, a copy of another club's constitution, a mortgage, rules for a travelling gavel, a record of new members, receipts, a Bible and a scrapbook. The fonds is divided into 13 series and consists of minutes, correspondence, constitution, ledger, reports, roll book, cemetery plot, and a photograph album.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mt. Ida Lodge No. 71 (Salmon Arm, B.C.)
Mary Fawcett Meek fonds
Fonds · 1920-1930

The fonds consists of photographs predominantly from the 1920s and 1930s. They include family, beach, picnic, and golf scenes.

Meek, Mary Fawcett