Fonds consists of ten photographs (nine black and white; 1 coloured) depicting members of the extended Byers/ Manson families, logging at Seaford and Von Donop Inlet, and the Union Steamship Chelohsin.
Henry and Ruth Byers, Ervin and Florence (Manson) McKay, Clarence and Etta (McKay) Byers, Ken and Hazel (McKay) Hansen, Scotty and Amy (Byers) McKenzie moved to Von Donop Inlet in 1939, where they ran a logging operation.
Custodial History
Found in Information Files folder (Byers family), August 1, 2020 and transferred to Archives.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of ten photographs (nine black and white; 1 coloured) depicting members of the extended Byers/ Manson families, logging at Seaford and Von Donop Inlet, and the Union Steamship Chelohsin.
Photograph of two men standing on springboards, felling a large fir tree with a two-man saw. Part of a series of three photographs: 2011.001.299, .300 and .301.
Photograph of two men standing on springboards, felling a large fir tree with a two-man saw. Part of a series of three photographs: 2011.001.299, .300 and .301.
Photograph of a child, Colin Campbell, wearing night clothes, yawning and stretching on the porch of a house. Note cat door and feeding bowl on the right.
Photograph of a child, Colin Campbell, wearing night clothes, yawning and stretching on the porch of a house. Note cat door and feeding bowl on the right.
Photograph of Joyce Allen, Dorothy Huck and Margaret Middleton standing on the wharf in Whaletown. Two women are sitting on a bench beside the freight shed behind them.
Photograph of Joyce Allen, Dorothy Huck and Margaret Middleton standing on the wharf in Whaletown. Two women are sitting on a bench beside the freight shed behind them.