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CA ABL 980-186 · Fonds · 1960-1970

The fonds consists of logbooks and daily journals for the B.C. Hydro Alert Bay Station.

British Columbia Hydro. Alert Bay Station
CA ABL 980-193 · Fonds · 1950-1966

The fonds consists of minute books and receipt books (1950-1966) of the United Church Woman's Association in Alert Bay along with catering information and a guest book.

United Church of Canada. Woman's Association (Alert Bay, B.C.)
Sadie Thompson collection
CA ABL 983-349 · Collection · [ca. 1927-1984]

The collection consists of scrapbooks containing records and clippings related primarily to native people and events in Alert Bay (including records relating to St. Michael's Indian Residential School) and on Vancouver Island and to missionary activities throughout B.C.

CA ABL 984-257 · Fonds · 1957-1969

The fonds consists of the minutes of the Board of the Alert Bay United Church (1957-1968) and of congregational meetings (1957-1969).

Alert Bay United Church
T. Westerlund fonds
CA ABL 984-292 · Fonds · [ca. 1948-1962]

The fonds consists of plans, maps, blueprints, and specifications relating to a variety of construction projects in Alert Bay and area, including construction work for the Village of Alert Bay, the Community Hall at Alert Bay, the Rainbow Theatre, and Christ Church and parish.

Westerlund, T.
CA ABL 985-295 · Fonds · 1946-1962

The fonds consists of minutes of the Board of Trustees and annual general meeting minutes of the St. George's Hospital Society.

St. George's Hospital Society (Alert Bay, B.C.)
CA ABL 985-299;987-310;987-311;987-312;987-313;987-314 · Fonds · 1965-1985

The fonds consists of certificate of incorporation, constitution, minutes, banking records, ledger books, annual statements, agreements, and correspondence.

Cormorant Island Receiving Home Society
CA ABL 990-340 · Fonds · 1961-1971

The fonds consists of CGIT and Explorer notebooks, registers, correspondence and pamphlets.

Canadian Girls in Training (Alert Bay, B.C.)
CA ABL 990-342 · Fonds · 1976-1979

The fonds consists of certificate of registration, minutes of meetings and individual Brownie sheets of the First Alert Bay Brownie Pack.

Girl Guides of Canada. Alert Bay Brownies Pack, 1st
CA ABL 993-350 · Fonds · 1956-1965

The fonds consists of two journals of the Women's Auxiliary (1956-1965) of Christ Church (Anglican) at Alert Bay.

Christ Church (Alert Bay, B.C.). Women's Auxiliary
Beverley Brown fonds
CA UBCMOA 17 · Fonds · [ca. 1937 - ca. 1949]

The fonds consists of 478 photographs, predominantly of students at the St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay. Beverley Brown and her friends took the photographs between ca. 1937 and ca. 1945 using Brown’s camera. Photographs from this period include shots of the students with their friends and of social events, as well as posed class photographs. These class photographs were taken by school supervisors who subsequently sold the prints to other students. Other photographs were taken in Brown’s hometown, Bella Bella, and in the area of the Namu cannery. These show weddings, fishing boats, landscapes, and buildings. Peter Mason Sr., Brown’s father, had the photographs developed in Vancouver.

The fonds has been arranged into three series:

  1. St. Michael’s Residential School photographs
  2. Bella Bella photographs
  3. Langley High School photographs
Brown, Beverley
Johan Helders fonds
CA VPL 54743-54774 · Fonds · [ca. 1925]-1937

The fonds consists of Helders' photographs taken in Vancouver, Ottawa, Friendly Cove, Williams Lake, Tofino, and Alert Bay depicting scenes, events, and native Indian life.

Helders, Johan
Collection · [ca. 1860]-1994

The collection consists of photographs of Alert Bay and area depicting persons, families, churches, schools, hospital, businesses, organizations, industry, social events, activities of the Columbia Coast Mission, native Indians, and general scenes of the area. The collection incorporates the photographs of the Pioneer Journal (1939-1941, 1951-1964), a newspaper published in Alert Bay.

Collection · 1940-2003 [predominantly 1940-1972]

The collection includes material relating to Alert Bay that was created or collected by Thomas and Mildred Laurie, as well as photographs and textual records created or received by James Barclay Williams, who bequeathed the records to Mildred Laurie. The collection includes a photo album, photographs, postcards, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a calendar. Photographs document Alert Bay and the surrounding area, including the B.C. Packers store, Christ Church, the native cemetery, St. Michael’s Residential School and Preventorium, Canada Packers, Hardy Bay, totem poles, a long house, and the Nimpkish Hotel. Photographs also document local events, including potlatches, weddings, an outdoor salmon barbeque, BC centenary celebrations in 1958, native ceremonies, and a visit by the Governor General.

The material is arranged in the following files:

1.1 - James Barclay Williams – Correspondence and press clippings, 1968-1972
1.2 - James Barclay Williams – Photographs, [1908?]-1967
1.3 - Mildred Laurie - Photo album photographs, [194-]-1974
1.4 - Mildred Laurie – Photographs and postcards, [194-]-[199-]
1.5 - Slides and negatives, 1952-1972
1.6 - Pamphlets, ephemera, and press clippings, 1947-2003
2.1 - James Barclay Williams – Photo album, 1940-1941

Burrows family fonds
Fonds · 1923-2010

Fonds consists of records relating to the Rev. Bob and Joan Burrows and of Joan’s parents, the Rev. Frank and Marguerite Fidler. Includes the following series: Frank and Marguerite Fidler correspondence and other material (1923-1995); Frank and Marguerite Fidler photographs (1928-1974); Bob Burrows research material and interviews (1962-2010); Joan Fidler Burrows church leadership and committee materials (1960-1984); Burrows family memorabilia (1961-1987); Burrows family photographs (1991); and Bob Burrows audio recordings (1961-1967).

Burrows family
Fonds · 1950-1995

The collection consists of sound recordings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwagiulth) songs, oral histories of Kwakwaka'wakw peoples (primarily at Alert Bay), and interviews relating to ethnobotany in the northern Vancouver Island area and to the Kwakwaka'wakw language.

Fonds · 1925-1964

Fonds consists of Baptism, Marriage and Burial records (1938); Membership records (1915-1955); Managers minutes (1915-1918), Stewards minutes (1931-1936), Official Board minutes (1929-1956), Congregational Meetings minutes (1929-1956), and Trustees minutes (1929-1957); Woman's Association minutes (1940-1959), Ladies Aid/Woman's Association financial records (1914-1942); Congregational financial records (1921-1952); and Annual reports (1956-1960, 1964).

Alert Bay United Church
Helen Frances Codere fonds
Fonds · 1955

The fonds consists of 28 black and white photographs taken by Codere in 1955 during her second field work expedition to B.C. 19 of the photos were taken in and around Alert Bay, while the remaining 9 were taken on Hope Island.

Codere, Helen Frances
Fonds · 1950 - 1958

The fonds consists of 7 photographs from a June 1958 centennial celebration in Alert Bay that Barwick described as having been ordered from a local cameraman. There are also 7 postcards that contain images of Alert Bay ca. 1949 or 1950 that were purchased by Barwick in the summer of 1958. Sixteen negatives were taken by Barwick at an excavation at Beach Grove in the Fraser River delta in June of 1957, likely done under the guidance of Charles Borden, a Lecturer and later Professor of Archaeology at UBC who studied the Beach Grove site from ca. 1955 to 1958. Notes on the envelope indicate these include images of D. N. Abbott, Colin McCafferty, and Nansi Swayze.

Barwick, Diane Elizabeth
Fonds · 1959-1974

Fonds consists of the following record series: Membership records (1960-1968); Board and committee records (1959-1972); Sunday school records (1963-1971); Financial records (1963-1970); Correspondence (1959-1974); Annual reports (1959-1972).

North Island Pastoral Charge (Port Alice, B.C.)
John Mennie fonds
Fonds · 1862 - 1937, predominant 1930 - 1937

Fonds consists of various photographic materials and a small number of textual records. Glass plate negatives document totem poles, house fronts, street scenes, church groups, school groups, weddings, the local store and maritime subjects in Alert Bay. Textual records include a Christmas card from Alert Bay Radio and two small pamphlets of photography instructions printed by "J. Mennie, Developing & Printing Service." The oldest negative dates from 1862, though the identity of its photographer is unknown.

Mennie, John
Fonds · [ca. 1890-1974]

The collection consists of photographs depicting Kwakwaka'wakw people in Alert Bay and on Vancouver Island from Fort Rupert in the north to Comox in the south. Collection includes photographs of individuals, families, village scenes, community activities, industry (primarily fishing), and of students at St. Michael's Residential School at Alert Bay.

Fonds · 1966-1980

The collection consists of slides of Alert Bay and area depicting people, totem poles, community events and activities, general scenes, and economic activity (particularly fishing). Collection incorporates the slides created by Bill Kraus.

Village of Alert Bay fonds
Fonds · 1944-1979

The fonds consists of council minutes, bylaws (1946-1979), assessment rolls (1947-1958, 1960-1966), land titles (1946-1979), petitions, financial records, correspondence, business licences, foreshore leases, boats ledgers, and urban renewal studies. Fonds includes ledgers and other records of the Community Hall Cooperative Association and minutes of the Alert Bay Recreation Association.

Alert Bay (B.C.)