British Columbia

Alert Bay cemetery

81-05-a033119
Item
[195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of pole and gravestones in a cemetery in Alert Bay, BC.

Alert Bay cemetery

81-05-a033117
Item
[195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of pole and gravestones in a cemetery in Alert Bay, BC.

Alert Bay cemetery

81-05-a033118
Item
[195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of pole and gravestones in a cemetery in Alert Bay, BC.

Alert Bay Community Centre

81-04-a033273
Item
[ca. 1966 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Image shows the original Alert Bay Community Centre, also known as the Namgis Big House. This original Big House was constructed in 1966, and destroyed in 1997 by arson. A new building, with a nearly identical exterior wall, was raised in 1999.

Alert Bay Community House, woman, and outdoor salmon barbecue

81-04-a033147
Item
[ca. 1980-1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Woman stands behind an outdoor salmon barbecue. The Alert Bay Community House with decorated wall can be seen in the distance and a black sedan is parked to the right.

Alert Bay Kingcome 73

144-1-7
File
[1973]

Part of Minn Sjolseth fonds

File consists of slides depicting totems in what the file annotation refers to as Alert Bay and Kingcome.

Alert Bay longhouse

81-05-a033122
Item
[195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of the exterior of the longhouse in Alert Bay, BC.

Alert Bay memorial pole

86-02-a039771
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].

William Carr

Alert Bay memorial pole

86-02-a039765
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].

William Carr

Alert Bay memorial pole

86-02-a039770
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].

William Carr

Alert Bay memorial pole

86-02-a039766
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].

William Carr

Alert Bay Petroglyphs, Quadra Totems

145-07
File
1969

Part of Lilo Berliner fonds

Includes images of petroglyphs, masks and headdresses, and totem poles.

Alert Bay Photographs and Postcards

41-1
File
1947 - 1950 and 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

File consists of 7 photographs and 7 postcards purchased by Barwick in Summer 1958. Photographs document a centennial celebration held in Alert Bay in 1958 by a local photographer. Postcard images depict buildings in Alert Bay (St. Michael's Indian Residential School, a community hall, hospital), a cemetery, and totem poles, carvings, and masks and were taken between 1949-1950.

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song