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The Northland’s Greatest Disaster – The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia

By Emily Witherow on November 29, 2024

By 1918, the world had all but forgotten the Klondike, but on October 25th of that year the tragic sinking of the CPR steamer SS Princess Sophia in the Lynn Canal, causing the deaths of all 343 of her passengers, shocked the world and reminded BC residents of the shrinking mining communities across the Yukon and Alaska.

Posted in BC Coast Steamships, canadian pacific railway, Carousel, Chung Lind Gallery, Collections, Dawson City, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Lind, Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection, Seattle, SS Princess Sophia, vancouver, Victoria | Read More | No Comments

26 Above Bonanza

By Emily Witherow on November 15, 2024

This blog post is part of RBSC’s new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection. When Phil Lind’s grandfather, John (Johnny) Grieve Lind, arrived in what was then part of the Northwest Territories in June 1894, he first traveled to a mining […]

Posted in Carousel, Chung Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, History, Klondike Gold Rush, Lind, mining, Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection, Research and learning | Read More | No Comments

Dawson City Firemen

By Emily Witherow on October 18, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at Dawson City’s firemen.

Posted in Chung Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, History, Klondike Gold Rush, Lind, Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection, Research and learning, show and tell, Yukon | Read More | No Comments

Commemorating Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th 2024

By ewith017 on October 3, 2024

Each year on September 30, people across Canada wear orange to recognize, commemorate, and raise awareness about the history and ongoing legacies of the Indian Residential School system (IRSS). Here at the Chung | Lind Gallery, we are commemorating the day with this blog post by Gallery Attendant and Exhibitions Assistant, Emily Witherow, which introduces […]

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