File contains material relating to the formation of the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Cooperative; agendas and minutes of meetings; newsletters produced by the association; and correspondence.
File contains material relating to the formation of the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Cooperative; agendas and minutes of meetings; newsletters produced by the association; and correspondence.
Newspaper clippings, articles, and posts about shellfish aquaculture, local debates and mechanization, and toxicity warnings--from 1972-2019. Bee Islets Growers Corporation financial statement, 2003; photographic handout of the Deep Water Shellfish Industry in Gorge Harbour, 2003; newspaper clipping about Cooper's Cove Oyster Farm, undated; Lummi Nation Shellfish Hatchery price list, undated (pre-Canadian shellfish hatcheries); photograph, Bee Islets Aquaculture by Mike Moore, undated; Writeup and photographs entitled "Women in the Shellfish Industry" by Foulkes and Rowse-Simmons, undated. Some notable keywords: Vern and Mary Kemp; ocen acidity; SS Minnow; Co-op Oyster Farm; Chief Ken Brown and MLA Claire Trevena; saxitoxin and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP); mechanization in the Gorge Harbour; Cortes Island Shellfish Interpretive Centre; OysterFest; SeaFest; dinophysis
Newspaper clippings, articles, and posts about shellfish aquaculture, local debates and mechanization, and toxicity warnings--from 1972-2019. Bee Islets Growers Corporation financial statement, 2003; photographic handout of the Deep Water Shellfish Industry in Gorge Harbour, 2003; newspaper clipping about Cooper's Cove Oyster Farm, undated; Lummi Nation Shellfish Hatchery price list, undated (pre-Canadian shellfish hatcheries); photograph, Bee Islets Aquaculture by Mike Moore, undated; Writeup and photographs entitled "Women in the Shellfish Industry" by Foulkes and Rowse-Simmons, undated. Some notable keywords: Vern and Mary Kemp; ocen acidity; SS Minnow; Co-op Oyster Farm; Chief Ken Brown and MLA Claire Trevena; saxitoxin and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP); mechanization in the Gorge Harbour; Cortes Island Shellfish Interpretive Centre; OysterFest; SeaFest; dinophysis
File contains material relating to schools on Cortes Island: a history of the Whaletown school and clippings, including an article about the Whaletown school by Gilean Douglas; a report of the Board of School Trustees, a program from a 1963 Manson's Landing school Christmas concert, and a PAC newsletter.
File contains material relating to schools on Cortes Island: a history of the Whaletown school and clippings, including an article about the Whaletown school by Gilean Douglas; a report of the Board of School Trustees, a program from a 1963 Manson's Landing school Christmas concert, and a PAC newsletter.
File contains various local publications: Blue Jay Lake Gardening Partners newsletter, BC Ferries newsletter, Whaletown National Enquirer and SCCA newsletter.
File contains various local publications: Blue Jay Lake Gardening Partners newsletter, BC Ferries newsletter, Whaletown National Enquirer and SCCA newsletter.
File contains correspondence and associated materials about logging on Cortes, including a letter from Ken Hansen to Friends of Cortes Island, and a membership form with a description of FOCI aims.
File contains correspondence and associated materials about logging on Cortes, including a letter from Ken Hansen to Friends of Cortes Island, and a membership form with a description of FOCI aims.
File contains an account by May Ellingsen of the activities of the Cortes Island Historic Committee, the forerunner of the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society.
File contains an account by May Ellingsen of the activities of the Cortes Island Historic Committee, the forerunner of the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society.
File contains material from Cortes businesses such as restaurants, pottery making, and the Cortes Connection. It includes a Visitor's Information brochure published by the Whaletown National Enquirer in 1982.
File contains material from Cortes businesses such as restaurants, pottery making, and the Cortes Connection. It includes a Visitor's Information brochure published by the Whaletown National Enquirer in 1982.
File contains ephemera from a global warming seminar, "First Aid for a Scorched Planet" by Basil Seaton, materials from the Linnaea Seed Project and the Cortes Island Co-operative Self-Sufficiency initiative.
File contains ephemera from a global warming seminar, "First Aid for a Scorched Planet" by Basil Seaton, materials from the Linnaea Seed Project and the Cortes Island Co-operative Self-Sufficiency initiative.
