"A close finish; war canoe race, the Gorge, Victoria BC"
- B-03972
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- [ca. 1900]
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"A close finish; war canoe race, the Gorge, Victoria BC"
A fishing canoe, made by Jack Adams, Suquamish people; Box 6, File 12.
Part of John Douglas Leechman fonds
A Maori war canoe, dug out of a single log, carrying 100 warriors.
A surveyor taking a canoe across a beaver dam.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
A view at Sooke of Muir's lumber mill, V.I. [Vancouver Island]
Part of Frederick Dally fonds
Part of John William Laing fonds
The item is a glass slide of canoes at Alert Bay, made to accompany Laing's 1896 lecture on the beauties and resources of Vancouver Island.
Alexander making a canoe during exploratory survey of the Finlay River near Fort Grahame.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Alexander making a canoe on an exploratory survey of the Finlay River.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Frederick Dally fonds
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. August Schnaar recalls how he arrived in British Columbia from Washington in 1909, and began hunting and trapping near Port Hardy, including a description of the terrain. Then he discusses his marriage in 1923 and the beginning of his family life at Bute Inlet; life at Owen Bay; hand logging and fishing; more on hunting and trapping in the interior; and building canoes. TRACK 2: Mr. Schnaar continues with his discussion about canoe building and paddling down rivers; a description of Knight Inlet; Shoal Bay; his dealings with animals including cougars; how his children raised cougars as pets; and more on animals including wolves and grizzly bears.
Baling the canoe at the ford of the Chilcotin.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
BC Centennial canoe pageant 1971
Part of Archives research collection
The item is a film print of special event coverage. To commemorate the hundred years since British Columbia joined the confederation of Canada as a province, the ten provinces and two territories each sent a seven-man crew into the B.C. interior for a nineteen-day sojourn over some 817 miles of provincial waters. The purpose was to draw attention to the challenge of Canada's outdoors and canoeing, and at the same time retrace the past routes followed by explorers. Travelling in twenty-five Norwester canoes, the flotilla began its journey from Fort St. James and concluded at Victoria's Inner Harbour.
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T1189:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey's seafaring background and her trips to Alaska (1937 and 1963) PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey talks about her childhood on Fidalgo Island, her impressions of the Indians and their skill with their dug-out canoes. She describes her first dug-out canoe and its background, ad;ventures during her trip to Alaska (1937), places and people she met along the route including: Dr. Darby, Rivers Inlet, Alert Bay, Columbia Mission Ship, Alison Harbour, Kitimat, canneries and memories of her reverse trip in 1963. TRACK 2: Betty Carey continues with recollections about her trip to Alaska (1937), Hartley Bay, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, the Inside Passage, her family ;life and a later trip with her husband, Neil. She describes Haida sites and villages, evidence of habitation, equipment and supplies for her trips, the Kozy family at Kelsey Bay and her impressions of; Ketchikan.
CALL NUMBER: T1189:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey : Alaska and the Queen Charlotte Islands (1939-1955) PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey continues with her recollections about her Alaska trip, subsequent trips to Alaska, a trip with her family (1955) to the Queen Charlotte Islands, Hecate Strait, Skidegate, Graham ;Island coast, and impressions of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Big bend of the Finlay River; Red Bluffs.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Big Bend on Finlay River near Porcupine Creek.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Big Bend on Finlay River near Porcupine Creek.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Bird Watching Creston Valley Wildlife Centre
Blasting out ledge in Deserters Canyon on the Finlay River.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Bob Stranack in tipping canoe.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bruce Otto discusses living in Jasper around 1909; he describes how he came there from Calgary; he offers several anecdotes; Tete Jaune; Jim Partridge who was a store owner; Valemount; a flood on the Fraser River; canoeing around the area; Louis Swift, a pioneer; the BC side of the Alberta/BC border; and Spiddle Creek. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Part of Forest Service photographs
Building Dugout Canoe Nitinat Lake
Part of Forest Service photographs
Building Dugout Canoe Nitinat Lake
Part of Forest Service photographs
Building Dugout Canoe Nitinat Lake
Part of Forest Service photographs
Building Dugout Canoe Nitinat Lake
Part of Forest Service photographs