Programme for a concert held by school bands and choirs from Kitimat, Smithers, and Telkwa to celebrate British Columbia's 100th anniversary. Features list of songs and directors. Treble clef on front cover.
Heavy horizontal creases all across item. Brownish residue on top left-hand side of front cover. Yellow glue residue and pieces of brown paper on back cover, presumably from having been attached to a scrapbook page. Green pen marks also on back cover near the top. Two chunks have been ripped out of the back cover along the outer edge. Text on inside of second page is faded in some areas.
Custodial History
Onwed by Mount Elizabeth band teacher Dennis Tupman for many decades before being donated to the Museum by his family.
Scope and Content
Programme for a concert held by school bands and choirs from Kitimat, Smithers, and Telkwa to celebrate British Columbia's 100th anniversary. Features list of songs and directors. Treble clef on front cover.
Kitimat/Kemano school assignment from 1954 by Sheila Helsel. Cover has Kitimat and Kemano written in green text, with an image of a power tower. Contents include Introduction, Aluminum, Location, Construction, Uses of Aluminum, and The Kitimat Project and What It Means to Canada. There is both written report pages, and illustartions and maps inside.
Sheila Helsel (Marsh) was from Moose Jaw, Sask. She moved to Kitimat in 1973.
Scope and Content
Kitimat/Kemano school assignment from 1954 by Sheila Helsel. Cover has Kitimat and Kemano written in green text, with an image of a power tower. Contents include Introduction, Aluminum, Location, Construction, Uses of Aluminum, and The Kitimat Project and What It Means to Canada. There is both written report pages, and illustartions and maps inside.
Coil-bound memory book for Roy Wilcox Elementary School, created by Denise Pedro (parent of a student) upon its closing in 2011. Includes history of the school, casual photos of students, Japanese paper crane project, and formal group photos of staff and classes.
Roy Wilcox Elementary School, originally known as Whitesail School, was constructed in 1958 and held classes from 1963 until 2011.
Scope and Content
Coil-bound memory book for Roy Wilcox Elementary School, created by Denise Pedro (parent of a student) upon its closing in 2011. Includes history of the school, casual photos of students, Japanese paper crane project, and formal group photos of staff and classes.
Programme for the Mount Elizabeth High School Christmas Concert, 1960. Blue cover page with illustration of an angel in a stained-glass window. Includes list of performances, song lyrics, and cast list for "The Death of Caesar" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Pages are creased horizontally down the middle. Holes along the left sides from staples being removed. Black dots on back of third page. Back of last page has some yellow glue residue and a hole torn out of the bottom left corner.
Custodial History
Onwed by Mount Elizabeth band teacher Dennis Tupman for many decades before being donated to the Museum by his family.
Scope and Content
Programme for the Mount Elizabeth High School Christmas Concert, 1960. Blue cover page with illustration of an angel in a stained-glass window. Includes list of performances, song lyrics, and cast list for "The Death of Caesar" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Programme for 1967 Mid-Winter Concert by the Mount Elizabeth School band and choir. Includes list of performances and band personnel. White paper with light blue border along outer edge of front cover. Snowflake-like logo on front cover.
Stains/smudges on front and back covers. Yellow tape residue along spine and on back cover. One piece of tape is still stuck to the front cover, but cannot be removed without damaging the object.
Custodial History
Onwed by Mount Elizabeth band teacher Dennis Tupman for many decades before being donated to the Museum by his family.
Scope and Content
Programme for 1967 Mid-Winter Concert by the Mount Elizabeth School band and choir. Includes list of performances and band personnel. White paper with light blue border along outer edge of front cover. Snowflake-like logo on front cover.
Pink programme for the official opening of Mount Elizabeth High School by the Honourable Leslie R. Peterson, Minister of Education. Includes schedule of events, info on the (re)naming of Mount Elizabeth, and list of School Board members.
A few faint stains on front cover. Small piece of brown paper stuck to bottom left area of front cover. Multiple larger pieces of brown paper and yellow glue residue on back cover, presumably from being pasted into a scrapbook; some areas of the paper have been peeled away as well.
Custodial History
Onwed by Mount Elizabeth band teacher Dennis Tupman for many decades before being donated to the Museum by his family.
Scope and Content
Pink programme for the official opening of Mount Elizabeth High School by the Honourable Leslie R. Peterson, Minister of Education. Includes schedule of events, info on the (re)naming of Mount Elizabeth, and list of School Board members.
Programme for a concert held by Kitimat schools to celebrate British Columbia's centennial in 1958. Includes list of performances, and the names of the Centennial and Display Committees and others involved with the event. Cover features three figures drawn in a 'Native' style.
Small, dark specks on upper right-hand side of front cover. Yellow glue residue on back, presumably from having been pasted into a scrapbook. Some creasing/folding in the corners and a few pieces missing from the edges of the back cover.
Custodial History
Onwed by Mount Elizabeth band teacher Dennis Tupman for many decades before being donated to the Museum by his family.
Scope and Content
Programme for a concert held by Kitimat schools to celebrate British Columbia's centennial in 1958. Includes list of performances, and the names of the Centennial and Display Committees and others involved with the event. Cover features three figures drawn in a 'Native' style.
Notes
Unrelated handwriting on back, seemingly related to a school assignment.
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.
