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Mabel Stanley was born in Cape Mudge on Quadra Island. As the daughter of a Kwakwakw'wakw chief she was taught the family traditions and was fluent in Kwakwala, but when Chief Joseph Johnson died in 1910, she was moved to the Coqualeetza residential school in Sardis. Her mother Lucie remarried a man named Bob Harris. She graduated with honours and married William Arthur Stanley in 1919, eventually having nine children, and moving to Vancouver in the 1950s. Stanley travelled extensively in Canada to promote aboriginal awareness, and helped to produce a book on Kwakwala language. She was recognized for her contributions to aboriginal rights in 1977 when she received a Certificate of Honour from the United Native Nations Society of BC. (Information from BC Woman article, June 1994, by Pat Price.) MOA hosted an exhibition about her, with a display of her regalia in 1994, and again in 2014.

Born: 1901
Died: 1979