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Description
Rare vintage photo of aboriginal family and others sitting on dock, canoe alongside. The man at left appears to be carving wood.
Alert Bay was loved by iconic Canadian artist Emily Carr, who visited the area during this period (1908-9, 1912).
Text on negative ‘At Alert Bay’ and photographer info ‘1297 rmp’
Photo paper used dates this to 1904-1918.
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Emily Carr's "Native Woman at Alert Bay", c. 1909
Alert Bay is a village on Cormorant Island, in the Regional District of Mount Waddington, British Columbia, Canada. 1,200-1,500 people live within the village.
More than half of the village's 982 residents are First Nations people. The village is in traditional Kwakwaka'wakw territory. Two Indian Reserves take up the rest of Cormorant Island, Alert Bay 1 on the east side of the island, Alert Bay 1A on the west.
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