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Port Alberni 25th anniversary coin
This source is a coin created in 1985, celebrating the 25th anniversary. The coin includes inscriptions such as, the Alberni Valley coin club, labor day weekend, the Port Alberni salmon festival as well as an image of a fish.
The coin demonstrates…
The coin demonstrates…
The Turnagain nugget
This is a gold nugget that was found by Alice Shea, after she saw a gold glint wedged in a boulder as she walked to her husband’s claim. It weights 52oz or 1642grams This happened in 1937 northern British Columbia, before being sold to the BC…
Mitsu, Margaret, Jane and Roy Nakai and baby, Manzanar Relocation Center
The photograph depicts the Nakai family in their living quarters from within the Manzanar Relocation Center. The photograph shows two women as well as three younger children, the photograph being one of many families whom found themselves placed into…
Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese
The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack…
"Hawaii: 49th State" brochure c.1946
This "Hawaii: 49th State” brochure was compiled by the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii in 1946. It shows student support for Hawaiian statehood and features reasons for statehood from University of Hawaii students and staff as well as…
Interior Salish Basket
The source is an interior Salish basket made from Athapaskan people collected by F. C. Swannell in Pemberton Meadows from 1917. The basket has an imbricated design of dyed and undyed cherry bark in the form of different shades of brown that form a…
The Bennett Sun
The Bennett Sun is a newspaper in northern British Columbia aimed at the local people of Bennett, now an abandoned town next to Lake Bennett. The paper has a range of news pieces and advertisements. Most notably the source has an editorial news piece…
Correspondence and papers re: schools
A letter, with attached table of figures, from a secretary for the Vancouver Schools Board, to Vancouver City Alderman. The letter, in response to the Alderman’s request for information, details the enrolment history of Asian, predominantly Chinese,…
Loading Sugar cane
In this short length film, it is possible to see a large receiving car being loaded by several men. In the foreground, other men can be seen cutting sugar cane for it to be loaded onto the car. A person wearing white trousers, a blue coat, and a…
Saw Mill and Pulp Mill, Port Alberni, B. C.
The source is a black and white photograph of a Saw and Pulp Mill in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
The photograph shows the coastal site of a saw and pulp mill. In the photo you can see piles of wood ready for use in…
The photograph shows the coastal site of a saw and pulp mill. In the photo you can see piles of wood ready for use in…