A kermode bear in forest on northern Princess Royal Island. The Kermode bear, also known as the "spirit bear", is a rare subspecies of the American black bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia. It is noted for about one-tenth of its population having white or cream-coloured coats like polar bears. (Family: ursidae; trinomial name: Ursus americanus kermodei)

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Forest ecology
• Forest animals
• Kermode bear
• Bears
• Mammals

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_006; Cowan_PN_555; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 2

Date created

• 1939

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white ; 7.5 x 11.5 cm

Alternative title

• Ghost bear
• Spirit bear
• White spirit bear
• Bear, Kermode

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Surf Inlet

Coordinates

• 52.93705, -129.0037

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/bshn-xh21

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