The fonds consists of correspondence of Margaret Butcher to various family members describing her life in Kitamaat (Kitimat) and actibities at the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home.
Margaret Butcher emigrated to Canada around 1915. In 1916, she accepted a nursing position at the Kitamaat Girls Home (later the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home) a facility in Kitamaat supported by the Women's Missionary Society (Methodist) of British Columbia. She remained in Kitimat until 1919, when she moved to California.
Scope and Content
The fonds consists of correspondence of Margaret Butcher to various family members describing her life in Kitamaat (Kitimat) and actibities at the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home.
Notes
Title based on the contents of the fonds. Copies from originals held in the BC Archives and Records Service (Add.MSS 362)
Donor requested that copying be restricted to a few pages for research use, and that direct requests for complete copies be sent to the Provincial Archives. Copyright remains with Ms. Butcher's literary heirs. (See accession file)
Photocopied page from a scrapbook/album, containing four photographs of Kitimat youth, c. late 1950s. Clockwise from top left: unidentified young man; four students seated at a Christmas party; young man standing beside a fence; teenagers at a dance.
Donated to the Kitimat Museum & Archives by Arvid Hardin on May 10th 2022.
Scope and Content
Photocopied page from a scrapbook/album, containing four photographs of Kitimat youth, c. late 1950s. Clockwise from top left: unidentified young man; four students seated at a Christmas party; young man standing beside a fence; teenagers at a dance.
Notes
Names of the four students in the top right photo are hard to read, but seem to be: Kate Thiels?, Beth Jones, Eric Wilson, Gilda D____
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.