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Object Name
Painting
Object ID
1958.108.001
Artist
Sinclair, J.W.
Title
Yale 1882.
Date
1934.
Description
A framed oil painting of "Yale" as it was in 1882. The image shows the town, visible over a line of railway tracks which run through the painting. On the right hand side is the Fraser River, with a paddler wheeler at the dock. The artist, J.W. Sinclair signed their work on the bottom right, and dated it to 1934. It has a gilt frame.
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Fraser River, stɑl̓əw̓, stó:lō
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Native Sons and Daughters of British Columbia
A small, secret organization created in 1899, based on a similar organization in California. They adopted Hudson's Bay company titles for their Officers, such as "Chief Factor" for the head of a local chapter or "Post". They were formed to maintain awareness of BC pioneers and provide mutual economic benefits for their members. The organization ran what is today Fort Langley Historical Site from the 1930s until 1955. The Native Sons viewed different cultural groups, in particular Asian cultures, as threats to white Canadian society.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-435/1191)
Yale, B.C.
Yale is an unincorporated community in BC, located within the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Nlaka’pamux and Stó:lō peoples. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale. In its heyday, at the peak of the gold rush, it was reputed to be the largest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco. Yale played an important role in the gold rush period, the Fraser Canyon War and McGowan's War.
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