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Picnic with Edna Leary, Haida guide Clara Russ, and old Billie dog at Ts'aahl Llnagaay (Chaatl)

Picnic with Edna Leary, Haida guide Clara Russ, and old Billie dog at Ts'aahl Llnagaay (Chaatl)

Item is a single photograph from one of the album pages (originally from a bound album) received in association with MS-2094.

The photograph depicts from left to right: Edna Leary, Emily Carr, and Clara Russ. In "Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr" (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), Gerta Moray identifies the image in the following caption: “Emily Carr at Ts'aa7ahl ‘llnagaay/Chaatl, Haida Gwaii, in 1912, with her Haida guide Clara Russ and ‘chaperone’ Edna Leary. Clara’s husband, William, is taking the photograph."

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The item consists of an oil on canvas painting set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executors of Carr's estate.

Tanoo, Q.C.I.

Tanoo, Q.C.I.

The item consists of an oil on canvas painting signed M.Emily Carr, titled "Tanoo Q.C.I." dating 1913 set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executor's of Carr's estate.

Katie O'Neill interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Katie O'Neill : the Veasy, O'Neill and Alexander families PERIOD COVERED: 1860s-1944 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Katie O'Neill speaks about her mother, Marianne Veasy coming out from New York with her family who pre-empted the Bonaparte Ranch outside of Ashcroft (1860's). After her mother and father, Charles Patrick O'Neill, were married they went to Barkerville (1879), there were 3 children in the family and her father worked as a blacksmith. Following her father's death, her mother married James M;orrison Lindsey Alexander and the family moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands to take up cattle ranching, later moving to Port Simpson. She relates childhood memories of the cattle ranch in the Queen ;Charlotte Islands near Masset and growing up in Port Simpson c.1900. She talks about the Minskinisht village, Rev. Robert Tomlinson and her position as telegraph operator at Minskinisht (1906-1909), and the wreck of the "Mount Royal". She later trained as a nurse (1909) and worked in Victoria. Katie O'Neill nursed Emily Carr in 1944 during her old age and she relates some memories and impressions.

People in landscape : The Agnes Russ story

SUMMARY: The story of Agnes Russ, granddaughter of a Haida chief. She was born in the 1850's and married to a young chief who died, and later married Amos Russ, also the grandson of a Haida chief and a Methodist missionary. She tells stories of her long life with the aid of her daughter, Grace Stephens, and another Haida missionary, her son-in-law, Dr. Peter Kelly.