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 correspondence, species inventories of Cortes Island parks, financial information, a report by Fred and Ruth Zwickel on Manson's Spit which includes photographs of erosion (2000), and one clipping.
File contains correspondence, species inventories of Cortes Island parks, financial information, a report by Fred and Ruth Zwickel on Manson's Spit which includes photographs of erosion (2000), and one clipping.
File contains a report by Fred and Ruth Zwickel ("Fauna and Flora Associated with Manson's Lagoon", with photographs); correspondence about water quality in Hague Lake and aquaculture in park boundaries; a Memorandum of Understanding with Klahoose re a marine park in Von Donop Inlet.
File contains a report by Fred and Ruth Zwickel ("Fauna and Flora Associated with Manson's Lagoon", with photographs); correspondence about water quality in Hague Lake and aquaculture in park boundaries; a Memorandum of Understanding with Klahoose re a marine park in Von Donop Inlet.
Series of 12 spiral-bound booklets containing information about activities, businesses, events, services and articles about various aspects of island life. There are two copies of 2015.
Cortes Island Information Books were initiated by Carol London, who wanted a handbook to give to guests at Tai Li Lodge. The first issues were created by Carina Verhoeve, and after 2012, by Gina Trzesicka.
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Series of 12 spiral-bound booklets containing information about activities, businesses, events, services and articles about various aspects of island life. There are two copies of 2015.
File contains newsletters, correspondence, report of the helipad committee, Nursall's notes on the helipad, and a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation.
File contains newsletters, correspondence, report of the helipad committee, Nursall's notes on the helipad, and a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation.