Parks Canada and Vancouver Maritime Museum Collected Materials

Dates of Creation:

1930-2000

Physical Extent:

21 cm of textual records and other materials.

Scope and Content:

This subseries consists of materials collected by the staff members of Parks Canada and the Vancouver Maritime Museum related to the St. Roch.  In large part this subseries is composed of newspaper clippings and other collected items of ephemera created by parties external to custodians of the ship. This subseries also includes the collection of photographs accumulated by the custodians of the ship.  The records in this subseries take the form of newspaper clippings, notes, audio cassettes, release forms, research papers, photographs, ephemera, correspondence, (1) Eva-Tone soundsheet (flexible record), negatives, slides, photographic studies, and contact sheets.

Notes:

Title of subseries:  Supplied title based on the contents of the subseries.

Physical Description:

  • 1 Eva-Tone soundsheet
  • 6 audio cassettes
  • 408 photographs : b&w  and col. ; various sizes
  • 80 slides : col. 35mm
  • 182 negative frames : b&w and col. 35 mm
  • 2 contact sheets : b&w

Subseries 4.2 File List:

Series Box.File # File Title Date
4.2 1.9 [Historical notes and clippings] 1965-1998
4.2 2.5 [Audio materials from Inuit communities] 2000
4.2 2.6 [Oral history release forms] 2000
4.2 3.13 St. Roch voyages / timeline [ca. 1970]
4.2 4.20 Invitation and photos of unveiling monument to the Northwest Passage 1950
4.2 8.12 [Correspondence with H.B.C. re: 1930s towing operation] 1930
4.2 13.1 Ship: general history report Morrison n.d.
4.2 13.2 Ship: history of name n.d.
4.2 14.16 Ship: general history – report (Thompson) n.d.
4.2 14.17 The St. Roch story 1928 to present day 1991
4.2 15.9 Miscellaneous photographs [ca. 1950]
4.2 15.15 Miscellaneous slides and negatives n.d.
4.2 19.4 St. Roch: 1944 a photographic study by John Beswarick Thompson 1972
4.2 20.2 [St. Roch photos and negatives] n.d.
4.2 22.6 Memorial of St. Roch trip 1936