Possible Places

Downtown Port Alberni

Alberni Valley Museum:

Port Alberni's Maritime Discovery Centre:

McLean Mill Historic Park

Photographs

BC Archives:  Digital Objects within the provincial archive collection can be browsed at  .  Photos from this vast repository can also be searched by term on this page.

  Leonard Frank:  See Leonard Frank Collection -- Vancouver Public Library  .  Frank was based in Port Alberni for several years.  I recommend that you type in "Alberni" as a search term.

  City Of Port Alberni -- Historic Photograph Collection:  Historic images of Port Alberni are available here through the Alberni Valley Museum.

Newspapers

Alberni Advocate (1912-1915):  Early twenthieth-century Alberni newspapers are available through UBC's BC Historical Newspapers project.  Note that you can access different years by clicking on the relevant circles and that this is a searchable database.

Other NIC Communities -- B.C. History In The News:  Includes a few recent articles about the history of Port Alberni.

Other NIC Communities -- B.C. History In The News -- NIC Database:  Includes a few recent articles about the history of Port Alberni.

Books

Peterson, Jan.  Port Alberni: More Than Just A Mill Town.  Victoria: Heritage, 2014.  (Main Stacks, NIC Port Alberni FC3849 P56 P485 2014).

_____.  The Albernis: 1860-1922.  Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 1992.  (Main Stacks, NIC Port Alberni FC 3849 P56 P48 1992).

Miscellaneous

"Young In A Small Town," CBC (1967, 28 mins.):  An old documentary about life in Port Alberni.

Gordon Hak, "The Socialist And Labourist Impulse In Small-Town British Columbia: Port Alberni And Prince George, 1911-33," Canadian Historical Review, 70 (December 1989): 519-542.