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Welcome to "The Beat Goes On" Gallery. Select an image to enlarge it and learn more. Enjoy exploring the story of Ladysmith and the music that helped shape our community.
Black and white photograph of a group of 26 men in work clothes, some carrying lunch buckets, posed in front of a truck modified as a crude open-sided bus.
Black and white photograph of a single-story office building with several cars parked out front. Ordered log booms float in the harbour waters in the background.
A dozer boat manages logs in the Ladysmith Harbour booming grounds. The overhead crane in the background is loading load logs onto a barge for shipment to sawmills located on the B.C. Mainland, 1983.
Black and white photograph of soldiers, rifles over their shoulders, marching along an unpaved town street.
Black and white photograph of an unpaved town street along which march armed soldiers flanking a group civilians.
Black and white photograph of men in civilian clothes parading downhill along an unpaved street carrying a banner with the wording ‘In Union Is Strength’. Some men wear prominent lapel pins.
Black and white photograph looking downhill along an unpaved street up which a brass band is leading a procession of women and children. The waters of a harbour form the background.
Black and white photograph of a formation of kilted soldiers led by a band consisting of three bagpipers and three drummers marching along an unpaved street lined by detached wooden houses, between which can be glimpsed the waters of a harbour.
Printed words of the song ‘Bowser’s Seventy Twa’ published In the British Columbia Federationist Newspaper.
Funeral for a victim of the October 5th 1909 explosion in the Extension Mines.
Black and white photograph of a rectangular marble cemetery headstone with carved inscription reading “In memory of Moses son of T & A Webley. Native son of Northfield B.C. who met his death in Extension Mine June 7 1909 Aged 14 years 6 months. Gone but not forgotten.”
Black and white photograph of a large group of child actors in costume arranged on a stage in three rows, kneeling at the front, sitting in the middle and standing at back. The back row features in its centre three actresses elevated from the rest, each holding flags vertically with a central Union Jack above all.