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[The Columbia Coast Mission]

Item number (ISN):

21308

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1932/1946 ?

Item number (ISN):

21308

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ANGLICAN PROVINCIAL SYNOD OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE

Accession:

1975-0211

Media:

Film

Part:

16 of 16

Production date:

1932/1946 ?

Production company:

Alfred Booth (Photography)

Sponsor:

Columbia Coast Mission

Description:

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The voyages of the Hospital Mission Ships "Columbia", "John Antle", "Rendezvous" and "Gwa-Yee" which provide medical, religious, and social ministrations to 600 European, First Nation, Japanese, and Chinese families on the British Columbia coast from the Strait of Georgia to Queen Charlotte Strait. Medical care, surgery and recovery at St. Mary's Hospital Pender Harbour and St. George's Hospital Alert Bay are documented as are services, christenings, communions, weddings, festivals and funerals at the five mission churches and coastal villages. Aspects of logging including float houses, net fishing for salmon, canneries with First Nation and Chinese workers. Japanese fishing fleet prior to evacuation, First Nation totem and mortuary poles, the Wolf Clan soccer team, dug-out canoes, farming and trapping are seen.~Ships include the "Catala", "Chelosin" and "Sky Pilot", freighters, seine boats and scows. Military activity shows the Royal Canadian Navy, The Canadian Scottish Regiment, the 15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade, Royal Canadian Artillery from the Yorke Island defences and a visit by the Governor General, the 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) in service dress to the "Columbia" in Vancouver in 1938.~Communities include: Alert Bay; Bold Point Quadra Island; Bull Harbour Hope Island; Camp Artaban; Campbell River; Cape Mudge; Egmont Sechelt Inlet; Fort Rupert; Glendale Cannery Knight's Inlet; Grant Bay Quadra Island; Halfmoon Bay; Jervis Inlet; Kelsey Bay; Kingcome Inlet; Loughborough Inlet; Manson's Landing Cortez Island; Minstrel Island; Owen Bay; Pender Bay; Port Neville; Princess Louisa Inlet; Quathiaski Cove; Read Island; Rock Bay; Salmon Arm Sechelt Inlet; Sayward; Simon Sound; Squirrel Cove; Squitty Bay Lasqueti Island; Village Island; Whaletown; Wyatt Bay.~Families and personalities documented include: Arrowsmith; Auchinleck; Bayfield; Browning; Christmas; DePencier; Dibben; Feishman; French; Godfrey; Greene; Halliday; Hamilton; Hansen; Lang-Connald; Lang; Leask; Mann; Obrien; Robertson; Ryall; Smythe; Stringer; Telford; Venables; Vivash.

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Alfred Booth filmed during the summers 1935-1939. Other cameramen have not been identified.~2. B.C.A.R.S. also holds related films.~3. Some can descriptions and notes on Collection Development Section file.~4. Some rolls contain duplicate sections.~5. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~6. Booklets containing typed narration by the missionaries were extracted from the accession file and added to the fonds as archival records on 2024-01-25. The archival reference number is R-17116. Note that the description they provide does not cover the entirety of the film material.~7. The following description, provided by staff, was revised to address outdated and/or harmful descriptive language on 2024-03-14. The voyages of the Hospital Mission Ships "Columbia", "John Antle", "Rendezvous" and "Gwa-Yee" which provide medical, religious, and social ministrations to 600 European, Indian, Japanese, and Chinese families on the British Columbia coast from the Strait of Georgia to Queen Charlotte Strait. Medical care, surgery and recovery at St. Mary's Hospital Pender Harbour and St. George's Hospital Alert Bay are documented as are services, christenings, communions, weddings, festivals and funerals at the five mission churches and coastal villages. Aspects of logging including float houses, net fishing for salmon, canneries with Indian and Chinese workers. Japanese fishing fleet prior to evacuation, Indian totem and mortuary poles, the Wolf Clan soccer team, dug-out canoes, farming and trapping are seen.
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open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2004-02-0019
V1 2004-02-0020
V1 2004-02-0021
V1 2004-02-0022

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the Anglican Synod of British Columbia is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of donor~If the material is to be used for educational (ie. non-commercial) purposes, the National Archives has the right to provide this footage.

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