Alice Ravenhill to John Laurie (Sept.15, 1941)
A useful overview of the goals of the British Columbia Indian Arts and Crafts Welfare Society (BCIACWS) and how it came to be. Ravenhill responds to Laurie’s request for information on how to start up a Committee similar to by touching on the BCIACWS’ history; she advises him on steps he can take to make contacts within the provincial and federal governments. Mentions repeatedly the apathetic and contemptuous attitudes of the majority in Victoria towards Aboriginal people, as well as the steps she and the Committee have taken to try and combat these conceptions. She also discusses how policies drafted and enacted by the United States around interacting with Aboriginal People can function as useful models for shaping Canadian policy.
Alice Ravenhill
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives (F/!/R19)
Sept.15, 1941
Scrapbook of the Society for the Furtherance of BC Indian Arts and Crafts
News clippings
A scrapbook that contains a variety of news clippings, photographs, and drawings that demonstrate the social impact that the British Columbia Indian Arts and Crafts Welfare Society (previously known as the Society for the Furtherance of BC Indian Arts and Crafts) had in their quest to encourage and enable arts-based education initiatives in the province's Indian Residential Schools, between 1939 and 1941.
The Society for the Furtherance of B.C. Indian Arts and Crafts
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives (F/I/R19)
1939-1941