Part Of

May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.034

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 8.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman (Mrs. P), holding an infant, standing beside a totem pole.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Geographic Access

Alert Bay

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.557

Accession Number

2018.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print:colour; 12 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph is inscribed on the back "Teacher May Freeman directing May pole dance at Smelt Bay."

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.417

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[195?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 14.5 x 9 cm

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Subject Access

Fishing

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.033

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 8.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a man and woman standing beside a totem pole.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Geographic Access

Alert Bay

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.245

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1921

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 7 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Mary Marquette, Helen, Alice and Catherine in an orchard in Fruitvale, BC.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.643

Accession Number

2018.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[191-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph postcard: b&w; 8.5 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content

"Robina (Manson) Freeman's picture of baby Magnonie (Magnone?) (6 months old) of Union Bay, Vancouver Island. (Mother a girlhood friend when the Mike Manson family lived there.)

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Orchard, Imbert

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.051

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[ca. 1968]

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Tape was found at the Cortes Island Recycling Center and donated to the museum by Gail Ringwood on Oct. 3, 2004. Original owner is unknown.

Scope and Content

This is a copy of a recording made by Imbert Orchard as part of a "People in Landscape" series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In this program, some of the people who grew up on Cortes Island recall how the settlement began, and discuss the quality of life there -- as it is today, and as it used to be. Voices heard include: Otto and Mary Weiler, Elmer and May Ellingsen, Rose (Manson) MacKay, Allen Robertson, and Duncan Robertson.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Guthrie, David

Series Number

2

Item Number

2019.013.006

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

[200?]

Physical Description

1 CD

Scope and Content

CD of a map of early Cortes property owners; a copy of the map is in the map cabinet.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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