Photograph of group standing around table with potlock food. Filling Plates. People include Kawn and Mina Tran, Huey-Lin Wu, Moreno, Guizzo, Carlo Piroso, and Julia Piroso. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year Celebration. Sign at top left reads "ready aye ready cadet NCO officer". Event held at Riverlodge.
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.
Custodial History
Donated by Huey-lin Wu
Scope and Content
Photograph of group standing around table with potlock food. Filling Plates. People include Kawn and Mina Tran, Huey-Lin Wu, Moreno, Guizzo, Carlo Piroso, and Julia Piroso. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year Celebration. Sign at top left reads "ready aye ready cadet NCO officer". Event held at Riverlodge.
Photograph of Eunnel Cheung throwing toy food at a toy mouse in a wall. For feed the mouse game. Girl in violet coat holding bag with toy food is Ting-Ya Guizzo. Man on right watching is Ming Lo. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Red rat posters visible on the wall. Event held at Riverlodge.
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.
Custodial History
Donated by Huey-lin Wu
Scope and Content
Photograph of Eunnel Cheung throwing toy food at a toy mouse in a wall. For feed the mouse game. Girl in violet coat holding bag with toy food is Ting-Ya Guizzo. Man on right watching is Ming Lo. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Red rat posters visible on the wall. Event held at Riverlodge.
Photograph of Mr. Cheung throwing toy food at a toy mouse in a model wall. For a feed the mouse game. Ting-Ya Guizzo is on the side in a violet coat holding bag with more toy food. Red rat posters visible on wall. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Event held at Riverlodge.
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.
Custodial History
Donated by Huey-lin Wu
Scope and Content
Photograph of Mr. Cheung throwing toy food at a toy mouse in a model wall. For a feed the mouse game. Ting-Ya Guizzo is on the side in a violet coat holding bag with more toy food. Red rat posters visible on wall. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Event held at Riverlodge.
Photograph of three girls wearing traditional Chinese outfits. Girl in center is Julia Piroso and is wearing a pink cheongsam, and the girls on either side of her in red. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Event held at Riverlodge.
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.
Custodial History
Donated by Huey-lin Wu
Scope and Content
Photograph of three girls wearing traditional Chinese outfits. Girl in center is Julia Piroso and is wearing a pink cheongsam, and the girls on either side of her in red. For Year of the Rat Chinese New Year celebration. Event held at Riverlodge.
Photograph of man and woman wearing traditional Perucian clothes. Woman's outfit includes a Polleras (wide skirt), and Jobona (coat). Man is wearing a black hat with gold borders and lines, and a white vest with a pink patterned front. He appears to be putting a rainbow boa on the woman, while she holds another in her left hand. And audience is watching from a tabled seating area. Green, white, and red decorations hang in lines from the cieling. From the Italian club who hosted the event.
Photo taken during Kitimat Multicultural Society potluck celebration event.
Scope and Content
Photograph of man and woman wearing traditional Perucian clothes. Woman's outfit includes a Polleras (wide skirt), and Jobona (coat). Man is wearing a black hat with gold borders and lines, and a white vest with a pink patterned front. He appears to be putting a rainbow boa on the woman, while she holds another in her left hand. And audience is watching from a tabled seating area. Green, white, and red decorations hang in lines from the cieling. From the Italian club who hosted the event.
Photograph of woman dancing while wearing a red, floral patterned Peruvian lliccla (cape), a red a black, patterned jobona (jacket), and a black, patterned polleras (wide skirt). Audiance watching behind. Green, white, and red decorations hang in lines from the cieling. From the Italian club who hosted the event.
Photo taken during Kitimat Multicultural Society potluck celebration event.
Scope and Content
Photograph of woman dancing while wearing a red, floral patterned Peruvian lliccla (cape), a red a black, patterned jobona (jacket), and a black, patterned polleras (wide skirt). Audiance watching behind. Green, white, and red decorations hang in lines from the cieling. From the Italian club who hosted the event.
Photograph of traditional Peruvian dress set hanging on a wall. Includes black with rainbow pattern monteras (hat), red with rainbow pattern jobona (jacket), and black with rainbow pattern polleras (wide skirt).
Photo taken during Kitimat Multicultural Society potluck celebration event.
Scope and Content
Photograph of traditional Peruvian dress set hanging on a wall. Includes black with rainbow pattern monteras (hat), red with rainbow pattern jobona (jacket), and black with rainbow pattern polleras (wide skirt).
2 negatives of the Haisla Choirs at the United Church. Choir members left to right (in large group image): T. Starr, H. Amos, Miss C. Grant, Mrs. L. Starr, J. Green, Mrs. F. Woods, C. Maitland, Miss L. Williams, G. Stewart, Mrs. D. Stewart, J. Stewart, Miss K. Starr, R. Stewart, Mrs. G. Robinson, C. SMith, Mrs. S. Ross, H. Amos, Mrs. E. Grant, J. Gray, Mrs. C. Smith, R. Smith, Mrs. I. Woods, M. Shaw, Miss E. Grant, Mrs. J. Green, Mrs. M. Patterson.
2 negatives of the Haisla Choirs at the United Church. Choir members left to right (in large group image): T. Starr, H. Amos, Miss C. Grant, Mrs. L. Starr, J. Green, Mrs. F. Woods, C. Maitland, Miss L. Williams, G. Stewart, Mrs. D. Stewart, J. Stewart, Miss K. Starr, R. Stewart, Mrs. G. Robinson, C. SMith, Mrs. S. Ross, H. Amos, Mrs. E. Grant, J. Gray, Mrs. C. Smith, R. Smith, Mrs. I. Woods, M. Shaw, Miss E. Grant, Mrs. J. Green, Mrs. M. Patterson.
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Four copied maps showing the grease trail within traditional Haisla territory. One map is put together with different sheets in a patchwork style. The maps were prepared for the Haisla Land Claims Centre.
Four copied maps showing the grease trail within traditional Haisla territory. One map is put together with different sheets in a patchwork style. The maps were prepared for the Haisla Land Claims Centre.
