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Shown below are items associated with G. G. E. Raley available without first logging in. This person appears in records from MOA.

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Son of Reverend George Henry Raley, he grew up in Kitamaat while his father was the Methodist Missionary there. Later, he was made an honourary chief by the Kitamaat Haisla. He maintained contact with his friends in Kitamaat, even while he was living in New York (associated with a New York publishing house). He supplied equipment for two of the Kitamaat lacrosse teams, and donated a cup for athletic competitions. In 1941 he was presented with a canoe made by the Kitamaat Athletic Club, as a wedding present. In 1948, when his father George sold his collection of artifacts to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Emsley decided to donate his canoe to the Museum in order to keep it in British Columbia.