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Melding the traditions of two cultures

16-year-old bride Catherine Glendale poses with her wedding party on the steps of Mabel Stanley’s house in Cape Mudge village. Theirs was an arranged marriage, as Lekwiltok marriages traditionally were, and the couple exchanged vows in the Cape Mudge United Church. Flower girls were Mary Henderson...

The Big Rock undergoing a cleaning

Located on the waterfront, south of Campbell River, the Big Rock is a prominent feature. At this time It was heavily decorated with graffiti and signs for Forbes Landing Lodge. In 1975 the Mitlenatch Field Naturalists Society requested that it be made a historic site. Paint was subsequently...

Fishing guide and guest

Guide Herbert Pidcock (with man on his back) transporting one of his guests from one Painter rowboat to another.

Actor Glenn Ford boards a Pacific Western Airlines plane

May Day celebrations at Lane Field

Salmon on the scales

Fishing Report

July 1st Parade, Campbell River

Canadian Legion Branch 49 in the July 1st Parade, Campbell River. 1958.

Haig-Brown children

Roderick Haig-Brown's children: Mary, Alan, Celia, and Valerie - being photographed for a magazine.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Presnell with catch

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Presnell of Hollywood, California, with their catch of salmon and their guide, Mike Rippingale.

St. Peter's Anglican Church 25th Anniversary

Rev. Canon Alan Greene, first incumbent; Mrs. Greene, and Canon T.D. Proctor.

Art Carey with his catch of a rare Daily Triple

Art Carey of Walla Walla, Washington and his catch - a rare "Daily Triple", three registered Tyee taken in one day weighing 33 lb, 37 lb, and 38 lb respectively. All three fish were landed on August 9, 1963.

View of the Island Highway through downtown Campbell River

View looking north along the Island Highway through downtown Campbell River. The Gordon Motion Gas Station, a barber shop, and the Willows Hotel visible on the right.

Campbell River's waterfront and wharf

Buildings on shore from left: Laver's Store, Bee Hive Café block and the Willows Hotel.

An early Campbell River men's baseball team

Mrs. Butler, Tyee Man

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

Campbell River Airport manager, Pete Frumento

Phyllis Smith with fish

Margaret Drake, Katie Ferry, and Anne Henderson

Neighbours Margaret Drake, Katie Ferry and Katie’s niece, Anne Henderson, pause from their household chores. Born in 1905, Margaret Drake was the daughter of Skookum Charlie Wilson of Cape Mudge and his wife Lucy (Homiskin). The mother of nine (?) children, Margaret was widely known as ‘Ma’ Drake...

Willow Point Brownies flying up to Girl Guides

Sisters of St. Ann's receive gift to the hospital

Two of the nuns look over a new stretcher that was gifted to the Lourdes Hospital.

Quinsam Fish Hatchery

Jim Van Tine at Quinsam Fish Hatchery, inspects fish raised at the hatchery before they are released.

Johnny Ferry Jr.

Johnny Ferry Jr. posing with his decorated bike. What looks like a cedar bark gathering basket hangs on his back.

Charles Thulin

Portrait of Charles Thulin.

Alfred Moss with catch, Tyee Man

Alfred C. Moss, Tyee Man 1952, with is 67 lb Tyee that he caught on August 30, 1952.