Object Archives | British Columbia’s Black Pioneers

“I’m a direct descendant of Charles and Nancy Alexander”

Karen Hoshal is a long-term member including serving on the Board for the BC Black History Awareness Society, in interview format. Location: Karen is seated on a piano […]

John Craven Jones, Schoolteacher, immortalized in 1972 mural

In 1972 Alfred Temmel, local artist created a series of 4 wall murals, painted in the Bavarian tradition on a wall at the Harbour House Hotel, Salt Spring […]

Lucretia Alexander, daughter of Charles and Nancy

Lucretia is the 3rd daugher and 5th child of Charles and Nancy. Lucretia married William E. Mortimer on September 14, 1887. They had 8 children.

Fresh Salmon, Fraser River, Packed by J.S. Deas

Deas’ salmon can labels printed by G.T. Brown & Co. of San Francisco.

“Giant’s Castle Mountain”: A.L. Fortune’s Farm, Enderby B.C.October 6, 1882

The Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria B.C. holds some of Brown’s Canadian works. In March 2018 the Museum and Friends of the BC Archives purchased this painting. The […]

Grafton Tyler Brown in his studio in Victoria B.C., 1883

Grafton Tyler Brown in his Victoria studio. The painting in progress on the easel is “Valley of the Similkameen (1883)”. The text on the bottom of the image […]