File folder - information re: Archeological material gathered from Pike Creek Foreshore Devastation Channel Permit#1993-39. Various documents and maps realting to this. Second folder contains pack of 22 photos and negatives titled Pike Creek A.I.A. 9315.
Donated by Crystal Sawyer from Amec Environment & Infastructure
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File folder - information re: Archeological material gathered from Pike Creek Foreshore Devastation Channel Permit#1993-39. Various documents and maps realting to this. Second folder contains pack of 22 photos and negatives titled Pike Creek A.I.A. 9315.
Gabriel (Gabor) Nyeste was one of the leaders of the Scouts of the First Kitimat Troop (Boy Scouts). He moved to Kitimat to work on the Alcan project and left in the early 60s. He passed away in Kamloops in July 2020.
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Donated by Gabriel Nyeste, Aug 6 1983.
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Large Brown Envelope to The Boy Scouts Association Training Department. From the Canadian General Council Boy Scouts Association.
British Columbia Heritage Series - Series 1, Our Native Peoples - Volume 7, Kwakiutl. Prep by Provincial Archives, Provincial Museum, Victoria, 1966. (A Social Studies Bulletin of the Dept. of Education) (hand-written, 4 pages)
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series III Volume IX, 1915. The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes by E. Sapir, Ph.D. (12 pages)
Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the Year 1887 Volume V, Montreal Dawson Brothers, Publishers, 1888. People of Vancouver Island/G.M. Dawson on the Kwakiool (36 pages)
Jenness, Indians of Canada, Chap XXI, "Tribes of the Pacific Coast, p. 344-45 (hand-written, 26 pages)
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
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Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
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Folder containing research material.
British Columbia Heritage Series - Series 1, Our Native Peoples - Volume 7, Kwakiutl. Prep by Provincial Archives, Provincial Museum, Victoria, 1966. (A Social Studies Bulletin of the Dept. of Education) (hand-written, 4 pages)
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series III Volume IX, 1915. The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes by E. Sapir, Ph.D. (12 pages)
Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the Year 1887 Volume V, Montreal Dawson Brothers, Publishers, 1888. People of Vancouver Island/G.M. Dawson on the Kwakiool (36 pages)
Jenness, Indians of Canada, Chap XXI, "Tribes of the Pacific Coast, p. 344-45 (hand-written, 26 pages)
Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, for the year ending 31st December, 1885, being an account of mining operations for gold, coal, etc in the Province of British Columbia (2 pages)
Mining File, Touch the Earth by Leon Kirstein
Builders of Kitimat by Stan Rough (2 pages)
Golden Crown Mine. John Dunn and James L. Steele
Dunn and Steele Arrival in Kitamaat Summer 1898. Oct 1898 issue Na Na Kwa
Correspondence To the Editor of Nanakwa, NaNaKwa July 1899
Letter from John Dunn, Oct 1900
A day at the Golden Crown, Rev. Raley 1901
Steele and Dunn, January 1902 NNK
The Bungalow Pioneer Prospectors and Crown Kitamaat,1904
Mount Claque Error Corrected to Clague. Northern Sentinel Aug 19, 1970
Hot Springs notes (hand-written)
Iron Mountain Near Kitimat. From folder History of Our Mines. (hand-written, 2 pages)
Collection of materials that Patricia Robertson used for her PhD.
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Donated to the museum by Patricia Robertson.
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Folder containing research material.
Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, for the year ending 31st December, 1885, being an account of mining operations for gold, coal, etc in the Province of British Columbia (2 pages)
Mining File, Touch the Earth by Leon Kirstein
Builders of Kitimat by Stan Rough (2 pages)
Golden Crown Mine. John Dunn and James L. Steele
Dunn and Steele Arrival in Kitamaat Summer 1898. Oct 1898 issue Na Na Kwa
Correspondence To the Editor of Nanakwa, NaNaKwa July 1899
Letter from John Dunn, Oct 1900
A day at the Golden Crown, Rev. Raley 1901
Steele and Dunn, January 1902 NNK
The Bungalow Pioneer Prospectors and Crown Kitamaat,1904
Mount Claque Error Corrected to Clague. Northern Sentinel Aug 19, 1970
Hot Springs notes (hand-written)
Iron Mountain Near Kitimat. From folder History of Our Mines. (hand-written, 2 pages)
3 letters to the Kitimat Chinese Canadian Association written in both Chinese and English.
June 4, 1985 - Association registration notice, Event Highlights (garage sale, Chinese food stand), Recreational Activities (outdoor picnic, Mah-Jong fun tournament, fishing tournament, call for member suggestions for hobbies and group activities), Member News (Mr. and Mrs. Kam Ping Chan baby birth annoucement, Mr. Andrew Lee car accident notice, Mr. and Mrs. Kam Wah Lee car accident notice). Back of letter includes member list for the association.
January 15, 1986 - Chinese New Year potluck party notice for feb 15. Includes info on entry, activities, expenses, and receipts.
New Year letter written by the association president Amy Mung thanking the members for their support and contributions, member totals, and encouraging members to get involved and support functions. Back of letter has 1985 report attached.
The Kitimat Chinese Association was founded in 1985. Their purpose was to connect all Chinese Canadians in Kitimat, with the local people too. They encouraged the members involved in the community to show and share Chinese culture with the people in Kitimat. Like activities in Multicultural Day, Canada Day, Canada Cancer Society's Relay of Life, etc. Every year they had three gatherings, summer picnic, Christmas and Chinese New Year. The association disbanded in December 2008 as most of the members got older and retired.
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Donated by Huey-lin Wu
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3 letters to the Kitimat Chinese Canadian Association written in both Chinese and English.
June 4, 1985 - Association registration notice, Event Highlights (garage sale, Chinese food stand), Recreational Activities (outdoor picnic, Mah-Jong fun tournament, fishing tournament, call for member suggestions for hobbies and group activities), Member News (Mr. and Mrs. Kam Ping Chan baby birth annoucement, Mr. Andrew Lee car accident notice, Mr. and Mrs. Kam Wah Lee car accident notice). Back of letter includes member list for the association.
January 15, 1986 - Chinese New Year potluck party notice for feb 15. Includes info on entry, activities, expenses, and receipts.
New Year letter written by the association president Amy Mung thanking the members for their support and contributions, member totals, and encouraging members to get involved and support functions. Back of letter has 1985 report attached.
Malcolm Baxter died in 2020. His father Basil, was very instrumental in the organization of Kitimat in the early years. Basil was married to Cathy Baxter and they had two sons - Malcolm and Michael.
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Part of items collected by Malcolm Baxter, former editer of NSP. Brought into the museum by Judith Cullington, Malcolm's sister-in-law.
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Folder containing correspondence letters from Basil and Malcolm Baxter.
Gabriel (Gabor) Nyeste was one of the leaders of the Scouts of the First Kitimat Troop (Boy Scouts). He moved to Kitimat to work on the Alcan project and left in the early 60s. He passed away in Kamloops in July 2020.
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Donated by Gabriel Nyeste, Aug 6 1983.
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2 letters from R.E. Powell, president, Alcan, 1955 and D.A. Aspinall, production manager, 1958.
Photograph of Mrs Marie Tolhurst, Burns Lake 1956.
Others in photo are Gladys Sevick (Hanke?), Audrey Lougheed, Doris Allan (matron of Burns Lake hospital), Agnes Hammry. They are standing in front of a building. Car in background on right.
Gabriel (Gabor) Nyeste was one of the leaders of the Scouts of the First Kitimat Troop (Boy Scouts). He moved to Kitimat to work on the Alcan project and left in the early 60s. He passed away in Kamloops in July 2020.
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Donated by Gabriel Nyeste, Aug 6 1983.
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Photograph of Mrs Marie Tolhurst, Burns Lake 1956.
Others in photo are Gladys Sevick (Hanke?), Audrey Lougheed, Doris Allan (matron of Burns Lake hospital), Agnes Hammry. They are standing in front of a building. Car in background on right.
Slides showing "Paintings from the Kitimat Valley" by Edward Epp, the museum stairs before the wall covering was added (shows concrete), Mrs.Markland (Mission School Teacher), a Kitlope women cleaning fish, and Mrs. Laurence with girls from the Haisla Girl's Home.
Photographs taken by Montserrat Gonzalez in her role as museum curator.
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Slides showing "Paintings from the Kitimat Valley" by Edward Epp, the museum stairs before the wall covering was added (shows concrete), Mrs.Markland (Mission School Teacher), a Kitlope women cleaning fish, and Mrs. Laurence with girls from the Haisla Girl's Home.