Item a033210 - Gov. General and Mrs. Mitchner [sic] visit to Alert Bay [event in longhouse]

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Gov. General and Mrs. Mitchner [sic] visit to Alert Bay [event in longhouse]

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1 photograph : col. print ; 12 x 9 cm

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Thomas Laurie and Mildred Laurie were a married couple who managed the B.C. Packers general store in Alert Bay for many years. Their daughters Leslie and Cathie attended the first local integrated school there in the 1950s, and their son Tom was born in ... »

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Photograph of dancers at an event in the Alert Bay longhouse. Though not pictured in this image, the former Canadian Governor General Roland Michener and his wife were in attendance. This image shows one end of the longhouse interior, with two ... »

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