Remeberance Day Commemoration Letter regarding Aboriginal Veterans. From the Dominion President Mary Ann Burdett of The Royal Canadian Legion to The Board of Directors, Kitamaat Health Centre, and Kitamaat Village Council Haisla, Kitamaat Village BC.
Remeberance Day Commemoration Letter regarding Aboriginal Veterans. From the Dominion President Mary Ann Burdett of The Royal Canadian Legion to The Board of Directors, Kitamaat Health Centre, and Kitamaat Village Council Haisla, Kitamaat Village BC.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
Creased
Width
21.5cm
Length
28cm
Accession Number
2019.62.16
Biographical Notes
Moses Williams attended the Kitamaat Village Day School, and then the Coqualeetza Residential School until the age of fifteen. Army recruiters conscripted Haisla men into the Canadian Army and Moses went in 1945. He was sent by train to the Canadian Forces' training camp at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He never shipped out overseas and the war ended. Moses and his wife Kay married in 1950, shortly after she arrived to teach at Kitamaat. They moved to Terrace in 1964. Moses worked as a carpenter, brick layer and fisherman. His wife Kay taught at Northwest Community College.
View of Kitimat looking northeast towards Mount Elizabeth, with the Kitimat General Hospital and ski hill in the foreground, and the Nechako neighbourhood and Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School in the middle distance.
Digital copy only; made from a scan of the original framed photograph which was then discarded. Damage to the original photograph (cracks across surface, especially in the upper right quadrant; yellowing varnish over surface) is highly visible in the scan.
Custodial History
Donated to the Museum in July 2023.
Scope and Content
View of Kitimat looking northeast towards Mount Elizabeth, with the Kitimat General Hospital and ski hill in the foreground, and the Nechako neighbourhood and Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School in the middle distance.
Notes
Digital copy only.
Conservation
Original was scanned and then discarded due to deteriorating quality.
