A history of the Columbia Coast Mission, 1973. v. 103 p: map. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Victoria, 1973. Vita. Bibliography: p 95-103.

Loaned for copying by the Department of History, University of Victoria, 1977.

"Our Indians in British Columbia"; describes Indians in vicinity of Yale and missionary activities at Lytton, said to have been written by a Sister of All Hallow's School, Yale [correspondence file].

SUMMARY: "Morning at Metlakatla", the first part of "CBC Monday Evening", is a docudrama by Imbert Orchard about the Anglican missionary William Duncan, who founded the controversial Indian mission of Metlakatla on the northern coast of B.C. in the 1850s.

List of villages, showing names of chiefs and captains, watchmen, and population. Register of baptisms, marriages, burials, and other statistics concerning the spiritual life of the parish.

Series consists of Church of England parish baptismal records, 1890-1923. Some Indian names given as well as Christian names up to 1898. Completed provincial government form releasing a body for burial on completion of an inquest.

SUMMARY: The growth and decline of the mission at Minskinisht on the Skeena River, founded by Robert Tomlinson. The story is told by Mrs. Cathy Johnson (Tomlinson's granddaughter) and Mrs. Annie Moberly (his daughter). A continuation of the story that begins in the program "Robert Tomlinson"; see tape T2460:0001 (description AAAB2664).

SUMMARY: The story of Robert Tomlinson, the missionary doctor who founded the mission of Minskinisht on the Skeena River, as told by Mrs. Cathy Johnson (Tomlinson's granddaughter) and Mrs. Robert Tomlinson, Jr. (his daughter-in-law). Tomlinson's story continues in the program "Minskinisht"; see tape T2461:0001 (description AAAB2665).

The series consists of 34 glass lantern slides of Alert Bay, Whaletown, Columbia Coast Mission, ships, and clergy. Fred Comley was an Anglican priest in British Columbia between 1915-1948. He served with the Columbia Coast Mission (1914-1919) and parishes in Cumberland, Sooke, Alert Bay, and Victoria. Not all of the photographs are identified, but those that are include photographs from Whaletown and the industrial school at Alert Bay.

Series consists of Church of England parish baptismal records for St. John the Baptist, Port Essington, B.C. 1885-1932, and Metlakatla [Metlakahtla], 1861-1883. The Metlakatla records list the Indian names of the persons baptized as well as their Christian names. Dates and causes of death are sometimes entered later.

Series consists of a diary of Monica Storrs' experiences as a mission worker with the Anglican Church in the Peace River district, 1929-1939.

Amateur film. Nurses and hospital building, Esperanza. Pan of a bay and buildings. Ship ("Princess Maquinna"?). Tahsis: loading lumber on dock, mill, townsite.

Amateur film. Cable logging operation. View of Port Renfrew from a boat -- docks and fishboats. Gardens. Baptism service at Port Renfrew. Close-up of Mrs. Tugwell, Ucluelet parishioner.

Amateur film. Baptism service inside home in Sarita River. Trucks and road building. Cable logging; steam donkey; loading a truck. Float plane takes off from bay at Sarita River.

Amateur film. Aerial view of forest fire. Wedding procession in cars at Tofino. Pan of Tofino and St. Columba's Church. Felling trees in churchyard.

Amateur film. Tofino school, students, schoolyard, teacher. Pan of Tofino, including St. Columba's Anglican church. Fish boats and floats in Tofino. Community picnic at Long Beach with various races, clam bake on beach, horseshoes, high- jump, more races and other sports. Pan of Tofino. Close-up of St. Columba's church and rhododendrons. Interior of church. Pan of Kildonan, BC Packers building, unloading "Princess Maquinna" at dock. Captain of "Princess Maquinna" at wheel. Cable station at Bamfield; views of Bamfield, its dock. Altar set up in Bamfield hall for a wedding. Wedding service. United Church boat "Melvin Swartout"; boat "Messenger III". More views of Bamfield, and lifeboat station and boat. Views of Barkley Sound.

Amateur film. Pan of Ucluelet (houses, businesses, St. Aidan's-on-the-Hill church). Sequence showing construction of new church: [COLOUR] clearing a new site for old church; construction foreman Ted E.A. Welland removing bell from old church; moving old church on skids; clearing old site for new church; Reverend Arthur Holmes blessing site; [B&W] members of Diocese Women's Auxiliary; fish packer "Naomi" at Ucluelet wharf delivering cement; cornerstone-laying ceremony with Archbishop Sexton; also a confirmation service, building of foundation, building frame. A Sunday school class. Horse logging of knotty pine for church basement. A congregation picnic at Long Beach, including children's races, a close-up of Tofino parishioner Mrs. Alma Sloman, and a service on the beach. View of Tofino surroundings. School kids in front of Ucluelet Secondary School. Indian Village of Opitsat. Children on school steps.

The series consists of microfilmed copies of William Duncan's papers relating to missionary activities in Metlakatla (B.C.) and Metlakatla (Alaska). The records include correspondence, including that with Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, journals, notebooks, memoranda printed material, speeches, community business, financial and legal records. Rev. William Duncan established the Metlakahtla Christian Mission in northern British Columbia under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society in 1857 but in 1881 relations between the Mission and the Society became so strained that the connection was broken. In 1887, relations with the Dominion and Provincial governments reached such a point that the mission and many of its adherents moved to Annette Island in Alaska. Rev. Duncan remained in full charge of the mission until his death in 1918 in the midst of a jurisdictional dispute with the United States Government. Because the mission was so much the creation of the Rev. Duncan, it is virtually impossible to separate official mission business from the personal affairs of its leader. Included are some papers of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, who was a close friend of Duncan, and acted as trustee after his death. The description of the collection identifies William Duncan "The Reverend William Duncan", although Duncan was never ordained.