Green Canada Unemployment Insurance Commission Insurance Book. For Moses Williams. 1947-1948.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
Cover bending outwards
Width
19cm
Length
10cm
Accession Number
2019.62.13
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.
Photograph showing a man standing on a log cutting pieces of the log off with a chain saw. There is an audience behind him in wood bleachers watching him. There is a hill and a powerline behind him.
Photograph showing a man standing on a log cutting pieces of the log off with a chain saw. There is an audience behind him in wood bleachers watching him. There is a hill and a powerline behind him.
Photograph showing George More holding a mounted Indian carving, with an engraved inscription recognizing the regular visits of the steamship Princess Patricia, and its captain H.J. Murray.
Photograph showing George More holding a mounted Indian carving, with an engraved inscription recognizing the regular visits of the steamship Princess Patricia, and its captain H.J. Murray.
Notes
This photograph appears in the Northern Sentinel on October 2nd, 1968, page 7. "Grateful recognition of the reglar visits of Canadian Pacific steamship's Princess Patricia and the part played by its captain, H.J. Murray. At the reception last Thursday tendered by Kitimat Chamber of Commerce, George More, right, noted the lengthy and distinguished coastal career of Capt. Murray who is retiring after more than 45 years afloat. Mr. More is holding the Chamber's gift; a mounted Indian carving, with an engraved inscription noting the occasion as Capt. Murray's last stop prior to retirement. Capt. Murray is the father of Kitimat's Magistrate Don Murray."
A photograph of Mr. Sven Granewall (left) chairman of the Education Committee, Chemical of Canada. Chemical of Canada presents Mr. C. Armstrong, head of the science division of MESS with a new text book for chemistry students
A photograph of Mr. Sven Granewall (left) chairman of the Education Committee, Chemical of Canada. Chemical of Canada presents Mr. C. Armstrong, head of the science division of MESS with a new text book for chemistry students