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Frank Bazil fonds
- Date Range
- 1964-1969
- Collection
- Frank Bazil fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of documents relating to Frank Bazil, particularly his involvement in the canning and fishing industry. It has been arranged in three series: S1) invoices, receipts, and cheque stubs, S2) booked fish / cash fish short form booklets and credit lists, and S3) official documents, includ…
- Collection
- Frank Bazil fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- PF30
- Accession No.
- 2018.85
- Physical Description
- 5.5 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- 1964-1969
- History / Biographical
- Frank Bazil, a member of the Wit’suwet’en nation, was born in the Bulkley Valley in 1914. He had at least one brother, Charlie, and two sisters, Mary Louise and Jenny. Frank married Gguhe' Lucy Bazil-Verigin and raised twelve children – children Violet (Gellenbeck), Charlotte (Euverman), Carrie (Goold), Roger, Betty Ann (Halonen), Neil, Gerald, Lillian, Marlene, Sandra, Lawrence, and Dolores – in Smithers in the 1940s and 50s. Two other sons, Kenneth (1956-57) and Herbert (c. 1941-1958) died young. Bazil was highly active in the local economy, working at canneries and sawmills as well as hunting, trapping, and fishing seasonally. He worked out of Port Essington around 1936-37, then at the North Pacific Cannery east of Port Edward from 1939 to 1952. He died in Kelowna, B.C. on September 27th 1968 as a result of a car accident. For further information, see Shared Histories by Tyler McCreary.
- Custodial History
- Items were donated by Bazil's daughter Charlotte Euverman on September 19th, 2018. Additional items were added on later dates.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of documents relating to Frank Bazil, particularly his involvement in the canning and fishing industry. It has been arranged in three series: S1) invoices, receipts, and cheque stubs, S2) booked fish / cash fish short form booklets and credit lists, and S3) official documents, including Unemployment Insurance Commission booklet and instructions, four Personal Commercial Fishing Licenses, and a British Columbia Packers Limited Fishermen's Statement.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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