FIRE: OLD CHURCH IN LAX KW'ALAAMS (formerly PORT SIMPSON) BRITISH COLUMBIA, JANUARY 30, 2021

[CBC]  A fire destroyed a 147-year-old church in British Columbia.

Fire destroys 147-year-old church in Lax Kw'alaams First Nation in a remote Indigenous community outside of Prince Rupert, B.C., January 30, 2021.

Map credit:  David Snadden

Map credit: Port Simpson Tide Forecast website

This is the church which burned down last week. Located in northern British Columbia in what used to be called ‘Port Simpson’ this was where my mother lived for a short period in her youth.  Her father was the minister of this church in the 1920s. [Photo: Lyle Angus/Facebook]

[CBC news item January 30, 2021]  Methodist Church fire

"The church is a historic landmark that's significant to many people in the community."

This photo shows the church with the curved window and I assume that is the manse in the background on the right. Comparing it to the above coloured photo, I am guessing that this is the same building located on the right behind the telephone pole.

Here is my grandfather holding the horse: “The Rev. Victor Sansum and his children, Margaret, Joan and John, beside the Methodist Church on Kispiox reserve, 1925.” [Source: ‘Now You Are My Brother - Missionaries in British Columbia by Margaret Whitehead, Prov of B.C., 1981.]  (This is my mother's photograph given to the museum some years ago.)