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Official opening of Robron School

Left to right: Dot Andrews, Chairman of Board for School District 72; Mike Lange, prior Chairman of Board for SD 72; Brian Smith, the Minister of Education; Tom Barnett, Mayor of Campbell River; and Reverend Dick Hunt, St. Peter's Anglican Church.

Winners of the annual boat regatta, Campbell River

The Second Willows Hotel, Campbell River

The second Willows Hotel in Campbell River was built in 1908. It burned to the ground on February 9, 1909. Shortly thereafter, a third Willows Hotel was built on the same location.

Roderick Haig-Brown fishing at the mouth of the Campbell River

Roderick fishing approximately below Perkins Road, 1928.

Lillie Thulin and cats

Photo taken October 25, 1913.

Campbell River High School graduation class, 1965

Peter Smith Memorial Service

Tony Roberts dancing the Cedar Bark Dance.

Hilda Parker

Construction of the John Hart Dam

This woodstave pipeline was one of three built for the John Hart Development. Each pipeline is three metres in diametre and 1.8 kilometres long, delivering water from the watershed to the generating station turbines.

Wallace H. McMillan, Tyee Man and 3/6 Champion

Wallace H. McMillan, Tyee Man and 3/6 Champion 1951, with his catch a 67 lb. Tyee which he caught on August 19, 1951.

View of John Hart Generating Station

B.C. Hydro's John Hart generating station with the surge towers behind, 1951.

May Day celebrations at Lane Field

Willow Point Scouts Club

Robbie Burn's night celebrations, Campbell River

Group participating in Burn's night event - likely taken inside the Community Hall in Campbellton.

Mary Henderson hanging laundry

Mary Henderson, eldest daughter of Sam and May Henderson, stands in the yard of her family home with the Spit Cemetery behind her.

Float plane base at the Tyee Spit

B.C. Airline's float plane tied up at the dock, located in the Campbell River estuary. Log booming grounds visible in the back ground. September 1965.

Big Rock 'dressed up' as a Pumpkin, 1986

Henderson family potlatch

Ernie and Sam Henderson carving the Mileage Totem

Mrs. Butler, Tyee Man

Mrs. W.C. Butler, Tyee Man 1934, with her catch.

The third Willows Hotel, Campbell River

View of the Willows Hotel looking south.

Aerial view of downtown Campbell River, 1968

Campbell River School class, 1931, Division 2

Teacher: Herb Walters Back row (L-R): Ernie Petersen, Lloyd Roller, unknown, unknown, Gladys Anderson, Erma Saarikko, Betty Foster, Fred Peterson, unknown, Norman Stanley. Front row: Harry Benson, Edward Foster, Joan Painter, Dorothy Andrews(?), Elvira Livingson, Frances McCarthy, Joan Leyland,...

A first nations float in the Centennial Parade

Herbert Pidcock and Dr. Wiborn with a salmon

Herbert Pidcock on left holding salmon.