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Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

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  • ([192-] - [195-])

Collection consists of 48 glass lantern slides (29 of them tinted) and 2 negatives. The lantern slides include images related to four Residential Schools: Elkhorn (Manitoba), St. Michael’s (British Columbia), Shingwauk (Ontario), and Choutla (Yukon).

Collection includes images of the schools, classrooms, and different areas of the buildings (dining room, kitchen, etc.); the staff, students, and families engaged in different activities; and surroundings of the schools (cemeteries, churches, villages, etc.). Collection also includes images of landscapes and two images unidentified villages.

Collection might be similar to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada fonds, at the Anglican Church of Canada Diocese of Rupert's Land, Manitoba.

Lantern slides shows were used during the 1920s and 1930s by the Church of England in Canada to promote the work of their missionaries and to raise funds. The slide shows took place during missionaries’ services, church services, Sunday school groups, and special church programs. Usually, the slide shows were complemented with a text with basic commentary on the mission and content of the slides.

Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada

Nass River

Image of totem poles, canoes, and longhouses(?) in the Nass River valley of BC.

Anthony Carter

Northwest Coast groups

Series consists of photographs documenting events in various communities throughout British Columbia and Washington State. These include community photographs in Mt. Currie; the Salish Linguistic Conference in Oman, Washington State; a Robert Davidson Pole Raising; coverage of NWC artifacts at the National Museum of Copenhagen in Denmark; coverage of 1992 Nuxalk Potlatch at Bella Coola for Canadian Museum of Civilization; and photographs of a Haida bentwood box.

Between working on language and education projects, Jensen was often hired by communities to document important events, such as pole-raisings, conferences and potlatches. This series consists of the photographs taken at those events.

Pecked bedrock sandstone petroglyph

Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a sandstone rock with smaller rocks on the side, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included numbers 93 and 17.

Pecked bedrock sandstone petroglyph

Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked bedrock sandstone with smaller rocks on the side, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included number 14.

Pecked boulder

Item is an image of a rock with petroglyphs, surrounded by smaller rocks and stones, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, petroglyphs were pecked on beach boulder, and image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included number 22.

Pecked boulder

Item is an image of a rock with petroglyphs, surrounded by smaller rocks and stones, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, image is of a pecked boulder and was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included numbers 32 and 13.

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