Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Canoe races, North Van

25-01-03-a037536
Item
1966

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a canoe race in North Vancouver.

Anthony Carter

Canoe: Restoration Go BC

119-2-B-64
File
Oct. 1990

Part of Director's fonds

Grant application for restoration of Nuu-chah-nulth canoe in the great hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

Canoe text: Reid canoe

1-4-A-35 (24.6)
File
1997

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains a fax containing a draft of Bill Reid's canoe labels.

Canoe trip

3-3-16-3-16-B-7
File
1986 - August 2008, predominantly 1986

Part of Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds

File consists of materials relating to the Tait Canoe Project of 1986, including project description, design notes for canoe and notes on sourcing materials, images of canoe under construction, reflection on project from a transcribed excerpt of a recorded interview with Norman Tait, Isaac Tait, Ron Telek, Robert (Chip) Tait, Harry (Hammy) Martin, and Wayne Young.
Vickie Jensen's description (from November 2021 archival accession notes): "2 b&w photos and transcript of meeting regarding proposed canoe to be carved at MOA. This canoe was never completed, but the start was documented by photographer Ronnie Tessler who donated her photos to MOA; Tait Canoe Project, 1986, by Ronnie Tessler (see Vickie's 2 photos and notes from initial meeting about this cargo canoe project); 3 large photocopies of Norman's rough cargo canoe drawings, steam bent box and canoe bailer as well as a price list of canoe and equipment (paddles, rudder paddle, mast & sail, etc.)"

[Canoe, yard and dog]

12-12-01-12-01-01-a036081
Item
December 17, 1986

Part of Ronnie Tessler fonds

Image shows a yard with a canoe. Also visible is a house, some cut logs, a fence and a dog.

Canoeing, Sports Day, Port Alberni, Somass River

51-01-20-a035598
Item
1948

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Canoers

25-04-05-a038346
Item
January 1969

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a group of people in a canoe on an unidentified body of water.

Anthony Carter

Canoers

25-04-05-a038347
Item
January 1969

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a group of people in a canoe on an unidentified body of water.

Anthony Carter

Canoes

29-9-D-03
File
[19-]

Part of Wilson Duff fonds

Canoes

29-9-D-02
File
[19-]

Part of Wilson Duff fonds

Canoes

29-9-D-04
File
[19-]

Part of Wilson Duff fonds

Canoes

1-4-C-14 (67.6; 68.1-2)
File
[199-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains a combination of historical and modern day images of canoes used by First Nation groups living on the Northwest Coast. The historical images contain images of village life and uses of the canoe in a historical context. The modern day images show canoes housed in various museums in Canada and the United States. The textual records contained in this file are photocopies of images of canoes, both from historical photographs and of modern day photographs.

Canoes - manufacturing of Bill Reid's MOA canoe

1-5-52 (31.10-11)
File
ca. 1985

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

Canoes - miscellaneous

1-4-A-45 (24.16)
File
[199-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains catalogue titles of images housed at VPL (Vancouver Public Library?). The file also contains a information on the history of the Northwest Coast canoe.

Canoes and miscellaneous