A metal coin one side with a picture of a totem with a mountain background, there are words by the border "CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA 1858 1958 DOLLAR" The other side of the coin has a picture of a woman wearing a flower crown in profile view with words by the border: "ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA"
A metal coin one side with a picture of a totem with a mountain background, there are words by the border "CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA 1858 1958 DOLLAR" The other side of the coin has a picture of a woman wearing a flower crown in profile view with words by the border: "ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA"
Brown Canadian Army Soldier's Service and Paybook. For Moses Williams.
Physical Condition
Poor
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
Worn out
Accession Number
2019.62.11
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.
