St. Islander at Port Essington
Founded in 1871, Port Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River between Prince Rupert and Terrace.
Picnic party at Shawatlans Lake
This colourized photo featuring Prince Rupert's first businessmen includes…
1907 Engineers and Surveyors
This colourized photo featuring Prince Rupert's first businessmen includes…
Bakers in Front of Imperial Bakery
Baker Alberta Bailey (left) arrived…
View from Acropolis Hill
View of downtown Prince Rupert from Acropolis Hill…
Knoxville: a colourful history
I’ve had quite a few questions about my coloured archival photographs of Knoxville…
Raven plays ball: Lax Kw’alaams Baseball Team, 1923
In the early twentieth century, the Tsimpshian village of Lax Kw’allams (Port Simpson) had two competing athletic clubs - The Port Simpson Athletic Club (PSAC)…
Smoke break at a campsite
A man smoking a pipe at a campsite with two tents in Prince Rupert, B.C.
Survey group at camp
A colourized photo of a group of surveyors and two dogs in front of a tent.
Construction of GTP Wharf
I love how the photographer was able to capture the streak of light through…
Entire population of Prince Rupert, October 1906
A colourized group portrait of Prince Rupert’s first residents assembled on the newly completed GTP Wharf
Clearing the Prince Rupert townsite, circa 1906-07
A group of loggers hired hired by the GTP to clear the Prince Rupert townsite.
Man with dog in boat
Colourized old photo of a man with a dog in a boat
Man and woman on rocky beach
Man and woman on rocky beach
Steamship arrival, August 26, 1910
Smartly-dressed people congregate at the bottom of Center Street
Men in raincoats, 1907-1911
Dead deer on plank, 1907
People standing in front of a tent house
S.S. Hazelton on Skeena River
Steamboat flying the Hudson Bay flag, 1907
First building in Prince Rupert, 1906
The first building in Prince Rupert was located near the GTP Wharf
Layout of town, ca. 1904
Old town layout of the British Columbian city of Prince Rupert, colourized