Port Simpson Residential School (Crosby Girls’ and Boys’ Homes)
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Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
Crosby Girls' Home, 1943
Port Simpson, British Columbia, 1943
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
Crosby Girls' Home, Mission House, and Boy's Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia, [after 1914]
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia, [1890?]
Crosby Girls' Home, 1943
Port Simpson, British Columbia, 1943
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
Crosby Girls' Home
Port Simpson, British Columbia
[Rev. Thomas, Emma Crosby and Miss Agnes Knight, on the porch, and children who were taken to Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School) gathered on the grass in front of the building]
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, 1888
[Grace] Methodist Church and mission school, Port Simpson, B.C.
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
[Grace] Methodist Church, Port Simpson, B.C.
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
[Rev. Thomas Crosby and Miss Hargrave, institution staff, with Henry Tate, interpreter and assistant staff, and children of the Port Simpson Residential School, on the steps of the Church, Port Simpson, B.C.]
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
Rev. Thomas and Emma Crosby with Miss Susanna Lawrence and [children from Port Simpson Residential School, B.C.]
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
[Staff and children on the steps of Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School).]
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
[Staff and children on the steps of Crosby Girls' Home (Port Simpson Residential School).]
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
Staff of Crosby Girls' Home [Port Simpson Residential School] as they looked when leaving Port Simpson
Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia
