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Blunt Creek Blockade

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Date Range
December 4, 1993
Collection
Interior News fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Scope and Content
Photo of three people standing next to a bonfire and banner at the Blunt Creek Blockade.
More detail
1 image
Collection
Interior News fonds
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Creator
Phillipa Beck
Fonds No.
BF5
Series No.
S4
Item No.
P8594
Accession No.
2020.36
Physical Description
1 photograph; colour
Scan Resolution
300 dpi
Date Range
December 4, 1993
History / Biographical
The Blunt Creek Blockade was set up on December 4th 1993 by members of the Witsuwit'en Nation to prevent logging trucks from Pacific Inland Resources from cutting down timber at Blunt Creek. Without this timber, the Witsuwit'en-run sawmill Kyah Forest Products was threatened with closure by August 1994. The blockade was a last-ditch act of peaceful civil resistance in order to get the attention of Forest Ministry officials. It came down on December 13th as Witsuwit'en chiefs negotiated a forest-use agreement for the Blunt Creek area.
Custodial History
Photo was originally taken by Interior News staff for publication in the paper. It was retained by the News until being transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum, likely in 2007, as part of a large donation of photographs, negatives, and textual records. Item was stored in Room 6 until being found in collections and accessioned in Fall 2020.
Scope and Content
Photo of three people standing next to a bonfire and banner at the Blunt Creek Blockade.
Arrangement
Item was found in an envelope with other photographs from the same date. All photographs in this series have been removed from original order and arranged in the order in which they were scanned.
Notes
Negatives available
Type of Record
Archival Description

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