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Gordon Cormier playing bagpipes for Tom Jeffrey
- Date Range
- December 18, 1997
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Gordon Cormier playing the bagpipes for Tom Jeffrey at his 100th birthday party at Bulkley Lodge. Born in Scotland in 1897, Jeffrey immigrated to British Columbia as a child and lived in the vicinity of Francois, Burns, and Babine Lakes for 74 years. He and his wife Rae moved to Smithers i…
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Susan Smith
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Series No.
- S4
- Item No.
- P8717
- Accession No.
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- December 18, 1997
- 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 Gordon Cormier playing the bagpipes for Tom Jeffrey at his 100th birthday party at Bulkley Lodge. Born in Scotland in 1897, Jeffrey immigrated to British Columbia as a child and lived in the vicinity of Francois, Burns, and Babine Lakes for 74 years. He and his wife Rae moved to Smithers in 1987.
- 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.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Appears in the Interior News, December 30th 1997. Negative available.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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