Image of a carving

Image of four carvings

Image of a carving

Image of four carvings

Image of two carvings

Image of a pole from House 17 at Sgang Gwaay (Skunggwai). This is an interior pole from the Raven House. It was removed on a BC Totem Pole Preservation Committee trip in 1957. The pole is now part of the Museum of Anthropology's object collection (A50016).

Norman Tait and Francis Williams carving a pole, possibly restoration work related to pole A50020.

Item is an image of five men carrying a boat. According to annotations, photograph was taken on the Hayes River between York Factory and Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of two boats and some people at a shore. According to annotations, photograph was taken on the Hayes River between York Factory and Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of three boats leaving a wharf. According to annotations, boats were leaving York Factory wharf to reach the S.S. Nascopie

Item is an image of a church. According to annotations, photograph was taken at York Factory, Manitoba

Item is an image of the sea. According to annotations, the photograph is of the Atlantic Ocean taken from Cape Chidley in the Labrador Coast

Item is an image of a several buildings along the coast. According to annotations, the building is the Hudson Bay Company Post in Cartwright

Item is an image of a church. According to annotations, church belonged to the indigenous community in the area (probably from the Cree First Nation or Metis) and photograph was taken at York Factory, Manitoba

Item is a glass lantern slide of a linen closet. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a glass lantern slide of a laundry room. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a glass lantern slide of six people. One of them seems to be the kitchen matron with five of her staff at one end of the kitchen at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. Item is a duplicated of item no. 902, fonds 008 Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds, from the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives.