Image of the steamship the Princess Marguerite sailing in the Georgia Strait. The Princess Marguerite was built for the B.C Coast Service by the Fairfield Company of Glasgow, Scotland. It commonly sailed the Seattle-Victoria-Vancouver triangle.
Negatives show the carving of Bill Reid's Lootaas (Loo Taas) canoe, which was carved in 1984 at MOA for Expo '86. The canoe now resides at the Haida Heritage Centre.
See file 03 in this series for prints of these negatives.
File also includes Hilary's notes about and sketches of the canoe, newspaper clippings, and MOA/UBC press releases.
Photographs show the carving of Bill Reid's Lootaas (Loo Taas) canoe, which was carved in 1984 at MOA for Expo '86. The canoe now resides at the Haida Heritage Centre.
Note that accompanied photographs: "These are not Hilary Stewart photos - whose?" It is not clear who wrote this note. The negatives are in file 02 of this series.
Image of two people standing next to a canoe that is propped up in a yard. The canoe, which is upside down, ha s a white strip painted along the top edge, and is labelled `St. John.
File contains copies of administrative files related to the Bill Reid Canoe displayed at Expo 86. The files contain budgets, copies of correspondence to McLennan from Expo organizers, notes, copies of contracts between Expo and MOA, and other reports related to the exhibition.
File contains a document on canoe making. It also contains a photocopy of a manuscript from the Newcombe Notebook held at the BC Provincial Archives (now known as the Royal British Columbia Museum).
File contains images of a canoe created by Captain Carpenter housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Images show the canoe prior to and post restoration. In addition this file contains the Canadian Conservation Institute report regarding the paint samples taken from the canoe.
