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A group of Fort George pioneers, standing beside the Hudson's Bay Company building.
A group of Victoria's pioneer men.
A pioneer reunion at the Kilarney home of Mrs. Z. K. Hall; Vancouver.
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T0675:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Angela McDairmid was born in Princeton before it was known as Princeton; she discusses her earliest memories; where the house was; several anecdotes about her mother and her youth; her father; floods; her family history; her father's arrival in Victoria in 1858; the gold rush on the Fraser River; the pack trains; the area around Princeton as she remembers it; more stories. Susan Louise Moir was her mother, and she discusses her life; her parents' early married life; the first settlers in Princeton; gold mining in Granite Creek; John Chance and other prospectors; how Princeton got its name. TRACK 2: Mrs. McDairmid continues by describing the first mines in the area; the Hope Trail; some characters; Chinese workers who worked for her father; stories; some characters whom she remembers.
CALL NUMBER: T0675:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. McDairmid continues with stories about the land around Princeton, some bodies that were found, building a bridge, a shooting among Indians, the Allison town site, Judge Haynes, Indian boat races at the river, potlatches, a shooting, the killing of a Nicola Indian, Merritt as a coal mining town, Dr. Tuttle's hanging, superstition among the Indians. Finally, she discusses her father giving the copyright to his stories to her sister. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Annual Convention Of Native Sons Of BC, Fort Langley.
Left to right: Standing; Winslow Lindhard Beedy of Stanley, William Vivian Bowron of Barkerville; seated; Hugh Cochran of Barkerville, Asa Beedy, William McArthur
BC pioneer reunion; group photo on steps of the Legislative Buildings.
Biographies of employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake and River Service
Biographies of employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake and River Service; St. Andrews By-The-Lake Church, Willow Point, by Evelyn N. Applewhaite, 1938 (Kootenay Manuscript Series #1); John Adam Watson of Watson, B.C. (Kootenay Manuscript Series #3).
"Birthday celebration given by Strath and Adams to the Missouri Club, Kaslo."
British Columbia Pioneers Re-union Vancouver B.C. May 7-9 1925
Item consists of one group portrait of unidentified women and men posed on a set of outdoor steps.
"Photo by M.L. Hawksley - 623 Hornby St" is captioned in the bottom left corner.
Clearing land on Salt Spring Island.
Composite photo of Chilliwack pioneers.
Denman Island Oldtimers William Baikie, R. Swan And George Mcfarlane.
Denman Island Pioneers On Wharf Road.
Part of Church family fonds
Diaries of H.E. Church, 1890-1933; account book and personal papers of R.H. Church, 1927-1969; business papers re the Church ranch; papers of the Big Creek Stock Breeders Association, 1923-1969. H.E. Church emigrated from England to Canada in 1886. He homesteaded on Sheep Creek in Southern Alberta from 1887 to 1897, farmed at Comox, B.C. from 1897 to 1902, and in 1903 moved to Big Creek, B.C.
Early residents in front of Hume Hotel, Nelson
Detail from larger group photograph taken 1924 of Victoria "pioneer" citizens.