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Nan Shipley fonds: MSS 21, PC 21 (A.79-14)

Finding Aid 3

Box Folder  
1 1 Agriculture - Harvesting Operations

(3 photographs)

   

1. Agriculture - Harvesting Operations - (cl954)

2. Agriculture - Harvesting Operations - (cl954)

3. Agriculture - Harvesting Operations - (cl905)

1 Airport Notices

4. (cl968)

5. (cl968)

1 Animals

6. Buffalo (transparency)

7. Bear Cubs

8. Polar Bear

9. Bear Skins

10. Chipmunk

11. Chipmunk in Pocket

12. White Whales at Churchill (Belaluga)

13. White Whales at Churchill

1 Awards

14. Manitoba Golden Boys

15. James McKay Silver Cups

1 Birds

16. Ducks Shot at East Meadows

17. Snow Buntings feeding at Churchill

1 18. Berens River
1 Boats

19. Old Steamboat at The Pas (2 negatives - 1 positive)

20. York Boat at Lower Fort Garry 1956

21. The Kenora at Selkirk

22. Fishing Boats at Selkirk

23. Bush pilots at God's Lake

2 Chesterfield Inlet

24. Catholic Bishops

25. Grey Nuns and Eskimo

3 Churches – Manitoba

26. Balsam Bay

27. Balsam Bay

28. Cook's Creek Ukrainian Catholic

29. Gillam Anglican Church

30. Oak River Reserve - Old Sioux Mission

31. Poplar Point-St. Anne's - (Anglican 1859)

32. Poplar Point-St. Anne's - Collection Box

33. Poplar Point-St. Anne's - Negatives

3 Churches - Manitoba - Winnipeg

34. St. Boniface Basilique Cathedrale

35. Old Kildonan Church

36. Jewish Synagogue

37-38. St. John's Cathedral (Anglican)

39. Norwood United Church

40. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

41. St. Andrews United Church

 

 

4 42. Churches - British Columbia - Windermere (The Stolen Church 1887)
4 Churches - Alberta - St. Albert

43. Oblate Mission

44. Lacombe Church (St. Albert) (near Edmonton 1950)

45. Edmonton - Methodist Church

46. McDougell Memorial Church 1873 (1st Protestant Church in Alberta)

47. Good Shephard Anglican Sunday School Mission Van

5 Churchill

48. First train to Churchill 1929

49. Mrs.Charles Lindberg at Churchill 1931

50. Grain Elevators - winter 1932

51. Locomotive with cariboo antler decoration 1930's

52. Fort Churchill (n.d.)

53-55. United States Transportation Corps 1953

56-57. Arctic Defence Training Unit February 1974

58. Tug assisting grain ship into harbour Port of Churchill (n.d.)

59-79. 21 views of Churchill taken in August 1955

80. One marker at Port Churchill (negative) erected by the Sons of Martha

81. Government of Canada plaque - Port Churchill

 

 

6 Cottage Industries - Moosehorne, Manitoba

82. Handicraft Doll Factory, H.E. Deutsch Doll maker and her staff

83. Elfriede Deutsch and "Hansel & Gretel"

84. Cowboys and Indians

85. Deutsch Doll Factory at Moosehorn

86. Costume Dolls made at Moosehorn

87. Cowboy doll

88. Indian Doll

89. Three colour transparencies of various dolls

6 Cottage Industries - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Stained Glass

90. Windows, Western Art Glass, President - Andrew Cordner 1968

91. Andrew Cordner at the drawing board

92. John R. Allward window "Listening" in Matheson House 1039 Louise Ave., Brandon, Manitoba

93. windows in Dunlop Museum (3)

94. The Hudson's Bay Crest (glass window in Edmonton house)

 

 

6 Glass Window - Edmonton

95. Hudson Bay Southgate Store interior Upper Fort Garry Store

96. Blood Indians

97. Fort Edmonton

98. Upper Fort Garry

6 99. Church windows - not identified
6 100-101. Basement Windows - John R. Allward - 1340 Louise Ave., Brandon
6 102. Glass Window - 1340 Louise Avenue, Brandon
6 103-114. Colour pictures of the Edmonton Glass Windows
6 115. Windows in the Manitoba Law Courts Building (transparencies 1 envelope)
7 116. Cranberry Portage - Forest Fire[ 1929 ]
7 117. Flin Flon - 1929
7 Flowers

118. Franklin's Lady Slipper - Churchill

119. Seneca Root Plant

120. Lady Slipper - Montague

121. Tin - Munton Flowers (7 transparencies) (see Article in Weekend Magazine)

7 Forts

122. Fort York 1782

York Factory 1853

Moose Factory 1854

Fort Simpson

Fort Chipewyan

123. Lower Fort Garry - Retail Store, 1955

124. Fort Garry Gate 1835

125. Old Fort Garry - University Gate (negative)

126. Lower Fort Garry 1955

127. Fort Prince of Wales - Churchill

128. Fort Prince of Wales - Churchill - fortifications

129. Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan - remains

7 130. Fossils - Stonewall
7 131.(e)Funeral Rites and Ceremonies - Rural Manitoba
8 Gillam

132. 1929 (photo and negative

133. Locomotive at Gillam (1920's)

134. Gillam under construction 1928-29

135. Nursing staff Gillam Epidemic of 1929

136. Railway Station 1953

137. Trailers used as classrooms 1967

138. Construction 1968

139. Hydro trip to Gillam August 1968

9 40. Graham, Ontario - Hudson Bay Co. General Store (n.d.)
9 Grain Elevators

141. Loaded grain cars entering the elevator

142. Grain barges arriving at elevators

143. Grain barges loaded with wheat at Fort William

9 Grand Portage Trail

144. U.S. Department of Interior marker

145. Sign re: Webster Ashburton Treaty

146. Lookout Point

147. Boundary Marker

148. One of original houses

149. Pallisades and lookout

150. Map and marker at beginning of the trail

9 151. Grand Rapids
9 152. Grand Rapids (a second view)
9 153. Grand Rapids Dam
9 154. Handcar (possibly near Churchill or Wabowden)
10 Historical Sites and Monuments

155. Dumoulin Church marker - North Dakota

156. Indian grave at Batoche

157. Duck Lake Battlefield (marker in English and Cree)

158. Parliament Buildings - Wolfe 1941

159. Parliament Buildings - LaVerendiyre 1941

160. Parliament Buildings - Burns 1941

161 Dufferin-Emerson NUIT Fort 1949

162. Fort Alexander-Cairn 1963

163. Fort Alexander-Cairn (Close-up)

164. Gimli 1968 cairn - 1st settlement of Icelandic people in Canada

165. Gimli-Viking monument

166. Gladstone 3rd crossing of White Mud River

167. Mordern-cairn

168. Morris, Manitoba Women's Institutes marker 1961

169. Morris, Manitoba - site of two fur trading posts Northwest Co and XY Co. 1801

170. Portage-cairn (La Reine)

171. St. Norbert and the Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies

172. Wawanesa-cairn

173. Wawanesa-cairn

174. Wawanesa-cairn

175. Willow Point - birthplace of 1st Icelander in Western Canada

176. Winnipeg-First Masonic Lodge

177. Lord Selkirk Monument 1959

178. Main Street Bridge marker marks bridge of Old Forts

179. Winnipeg-City Hall (both monuments)

180. Winnipeg-Queen Victoria monument

181. Winnipeg-South African Monument

182. Winnipeg-Vimy Ridge Monument

183. Winnipeg-Midwinter Park 1958

184. Unidentified Marker (Peguis perhaps?)

185. Negative of Sons of Martha Cairn

10 Houses

186. Oldest Log House in Fort Garry 1870 (currently known as "Nun's House")

187. Winnipeg-Dalnavert 1895 - Sir Hugh John Macdonald's house

188. Old St. Andrew's Manse, 1853 (made of Red River stone)

189. Stony Mountain Quarry Superintendent's home (pink tinted and buff limestone) C. A. Keplin home

190. Seven Oaks House and buildings

191. Old Houses seen on Manitoba Historical Trip East 1969 (5 prints and 1 negative)(photos unidentified)

192-194. Van Slyck House

195. St. Laurent House - (side entrance)

196. St. Laurent House - (front view)

11 Indians

197. Indian summer camp - Lake Winnipeg

198. Dorothy Francis and daughter on TV set (tepee)

199. Dorothy Francis(part of T.V. series)

200. Indian handicraft group

201. Dorothy Francis May 1963

202. Rev. and Mrs. F.E. Pitts who adopted Dorothy Francis

203. Chief of the Long Plains Reserve - Frank Merrick

204. Indian child in full chieftains garb

205. Cheyenne Scout - Red-Armed Panther or Red Sleeve

206. Indian Teepee on The Pas Reserve 1912

207. One (1) envelope of negative marked "Oak River Reserve"

11 208. Indian and Metis Centre - Donald St., Winnipeg - n.d.
11 209. Kettle Rapids on the Nelson
11 Lighthouses
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210. Lighthouse on Lake Winnipeg

211. At Warren's Landing

212. At Warren's Landing and Supplies being unloaded

11 213. St. Andrews Locks on the Red River 1949
11 214. St. Andrews Locks
11 Locomotives

215. Prairie Dog Central built 1882 Steam Locomotive

216. Steam Locomotive in Scotland 1958

217. Steam Locomotive in Scotland 1958

218. Old Steam Locomotive (unidentified, but probably in the Transcona yard)

219-225. Seven (7) Old Locomotives in Transcona Scrap Yard

226. Model Train

11 Museums

227. Gateway Stopping Place Museum-Emerson, Manitoba

228. John Walter Historic Site - Edmonton, Alberta

229. John Walter Historic Site - Edmonton, Alberta

230. Hudson's Bay Co. Historical Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

12 231-233. Neepawa, Manitoba 1960
12 Norway House

234. (Miss Seamens on Railroad track)

235. Hudson's Bay Co.

236. Hudson's Bay Co. another view

237. Hudson's Bay Co.(close up)

238. Old Jail

239. Indian Children (late 1920's)

240. Farmers

241-243. Residential school (three views)

12 244. Odhill Hudson's Bay Line (n.d.)
12 The Pas

245. Hudson's Bay Line 1913

246. Hudson's Bay Line 1913 (negative)

247. The Pas 1913

248. The Pas 1952

249. First baby born in an aeroplane - Le Pas 1931

250. Lynx

251. Lynx

252. Beaver hut

253. Indian Reserve

254. (nurses at Le Pas?)

255. Silver fox pelts

256. Fire Brigade

257. 1913-Mayor H. Finger (street scene)

258. Hauling lumber

259. Hauling lumber

260. Construction crew

13 261. Port Nelson
13 Portraits

262. Unidentified people on passenger ship

263. Andy Cordner - Glass maker 1968

264. Eskimo child (June Turner 2 yrs. - 1947)

265. Eskimo man and white woman

266. Nan Shipley and Frances (Frances and the Crees) Skelton 1957

267. Nan Shipley 1961

268. Children - possibly the Stretch Family

269. Elizabeth Young - Wife of missionary at Norway House and Berens River - signature appears on Treaty No. 5

270. Father Ruh - builder of more than twenty Ukrainian Catholic Churches

271. Jane Dallas McKay

272. Child - unidentified

273. Two negatives of 271 and 272.

274. Margaret Rowant McKay

275. James McKay

276. Rev. John McKay

277. Major General Fred Middleton

278. John Seamen and Wife (negative)

13 279. Prince Albert, Saskatchewan-Bridge
13 Portages

280. Lynx Falls

281. Burntwood Falls

14 Quarries
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1 14 Stony Mountain - Manager D. Kelpin

283. Truck loading from storage bin.

284. Rock crusher and feed chute

285. Dumping rock in Apron Feeder

286. Scalping Screen

287. Mechanical Shovel

288. Blasted limestone, Inwood, Manitoba

289. Shop Front facing of coloured limestone

290. Front end loader

291. Home, showing coloured limestone in walls, chimney and flower boxes

292. Blasted rock, Stoney Mountain

293. Another home of limestone

294. Another home

295. Photo of actual blast

296. Blasted rock with wagon drill and compressor

297. Rock entering crusher from Apron Feeder

298. 12 Ton capacity Apron Feeder

299. Double impeller 30" Rock Crusher and main conveyor

300. House - Tyndal Stone

301. Section quarry face

302. Bungalow type home

303. Bungalow type home

282. Limestone - Manitoba

15 Transportation - Railways

304. CNR Board Meeting(n.d.)

305. Canada's First Railway-Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway between Laprairie and St. John's Quebec July 21, 1837

306. First Transcontinental Train July 1, 1886

307. First through train in Vancouver Station July 4, 1886

308. First transcontinental train in Calgary July 2, 1886

309. before the branch lines - Hudson's Bay Company train of carts from the North arrives at Calgary Railway Station 1388, laden with furs.

310. Handcar on the Hudson's Bay Railroad

311. Old engine at Austin Museum 1958

312. Hudson's Bay Railroad

313. Mile 82

314. Mile 82

315-320. Mile 349

321-323. Mile 412

324-379. Old Engines

16 Transportation - Carts

380. Water cart-1874

381. Stage Coach on the Cariboo Trail, B.C. 1885

382. Ox Train 1872-1874 (Long River)

383. Red River carts 1870

384. Ox cart (Lord and Lady Dufferin visit Rockford 1877)

16 385-387. Transportation - Sledge Dogs
16 Transportation - Streetcars

388. Opening of Winnipeg

389. Last run of Winnipeg Streetcars Sept. 1955

16 Snowplows

390. Blizzard 1929

391. Swan Lake 1929

392-412. Transcona Scrapyard

16 413-414. Telegraph lines
16 415. Transcona Shops - Trees
16 416-422. Wabowden
16 Winnipeg

423. Buildings - Hudson's Bay Co-General Office

424. Buildings - St. Andrew's Rectory 1880

425. Flood 1950

426. Flood 1950 Highway 75 (south)

427. Winnipeg - Main Street - North [ca. 1875]

428. Main Street - East side looking south [ca. 1875]

429. Main Street - West side looking south [ca. 1875]

430. Monuments - Cairn at Portage

431. Parks - River - Pontoon bridge connecting Park 4 and St. Vital (at end of Osborne St. - 1911)

432. Parks - Happyland amusement park - Portage and Greenwood Place 1912

433. Parks - River Park playground 1914

434. Parks - The Zoo - River Park n.d.

435. Schools - Miss Davis School for Young Ladies 1858

18 Wetusko (Herbe Lake)

436-437. Handcar on railway

438. Railway under construction

18 Miscellaneous Items

439-443. Fishing Knives

444. Fishing Rods

445-448. Fishing lures

449. Finnish Ice Bore

450. NWMP Barracks, Regina 1885

451. Historical Western Scenes

Box Folder  
2   Album No. 1

452. Paddle wheel at port Nelson

453. Where the Limestone and Nelson Rivers meet

454. Bridge at Kettle Rapids

455. Bridge at Kettle Rapids

456. Mile 340 - Hudson's Bay Railway - Thos. Riddock and C. Traders

457. Telegraph lines at Mile 340 - Winter scene

458. Port Nelson Railway Terminus

459. Locomotive 2152 - with Cariboo Antlers

460. Telegraph lines along the Hudson's Bay Line beyond the tree-line

461. Cairn erected by the Sons of Martha in honour of those who built the railway

462. Arctic flowers

463. Arctic flowers at Churchill

464. Countess of Dufferin (old locomotive)

465. Locomotive 2747 - at end of the line

466. Temporary hospital tents at Gillam-Typhoid outbreak 1929

467. Digging out the snowplow after the great blizzard 1929 stranded Nurse Cotter's hospital car.

468. Locomotive 5140

469. Flooded railway tracks

470. Fort Prince of Wales - Churchill

Album No. 2

471. St. Boniface Basilica before the fire

472. Anglican Church at Gillam - built by Indians in the mid-1920's

473. The angels at the entrance to the church at Cook's Creek

474. Artists conception of Lower Fort Garry

475. Interior of trading store at Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg

476. Colour painting of Blood Indians

477. Churchill Historical Site - Battery on Cape Merry

478. Nurse Peggy Shomperlan in charge of emergency hospitals at Gillam 1929

1 Portraits

479. Elizabeth Alice Archibald (wife of Manitoba's first Lieutenant-Governor. The only woman to sign Treaty No. 1 at Fort Garry, August 3, 1871.)

480. William MacTavish (Governor of Assiniboia n.d.)

481. Dr. H.S. Atkinson (Portage la Prairie n.d.)

1 482. Feed Bag Fashions - colour transparencies (6) (see Montreal Star article)
1 483-485. Portage la Prairie - Indian Residential School
1 486. Delta Marsh 1954
2 487-500. Reader Collection

-Northcote Reader holding document assigning Joseph Reader to Indian Agency at Le Pas 1883

-as above (another pose)

-Joseph Reader's boat (Glad Tidings")

-Joseph Reader's York boat

-Joseph Reader's medicine chest

-river scene - unidentified

-roadside collection of horns on the road to Le Pas

-Lynx Falls

-Letter to J. Reader dated 1876

-another letter - same date

-home of Northcote Reader near Le Pas (log house built in 1883)

-12 negatives

3 St. Norbert

501. New Bridge

502. Old Wooden Bridge

4 503-505. Fort Garry Assembly Room and Conservatory
4 506. Tennis match (ca. 1900-1914)
4 507. Colour negatives of Nun's House and Washington Tree
4 508-509. Fisher River
4 510-514. Totem Poles (513. missing)
5 515. Pat Wheeler, Nan Shipley and Mayor Wankling of Fort Garry
5 516-519. Canadian Authors Convention - Banff 1954
5 520. Penhandlers Writing Group 1953
5 521-522. Nan Shipley - "Whistle on the Wind" celebration
5 523. Students - Rossville Residential Day School
5 524. Red River Cart train in 1870's (log building in background)
5 525. Mr. S. Brookes with his butterfly collection
5 526. One envelope of negative (colour) of Alex and Mary Grisdale and Scanterbury Reserve
5 527. Alex Grisdale
5 528. Mary and Alex Grisdale with Nan Shipley
5 529. Mary and Alex Grisdale (black and white photo)
5 530-531. The spring at Scanterbury Indian Reserve
5 532. Mary Grisdale (colour photo)
5 533. John Paupanchis (Magistrate-Norway House)

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