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Pages from The Sunday Province newspaper

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Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1926
Scope and Content
File contains oversize newspaper pages (18 inches x 22.5 inches) with an article about Cortes Island. John Manson is mentioned in the article
Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
File Number
17
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1926
Scope and Content
File contains oversize newspaper pages (18 inches x 22.5 inches) with an article about Cortes Island. John Manson is mentioned in the article
Name Access
Southern Cortes Community Association
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Whaletown Women's Institute cookbook master pages

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Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
ephemera
Date Range
1959
Scope and Content
File consists of master pages of a fund-raising cookbook produced by the Whaletown Women's Institute. Typed recipes are pasted onto construction paper sheets; sheets are crumbling. Complete copies of the cookbook may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds and the Island Women's Club fonds.
Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
File Number
24
Material Type
ephemera
Date Range
1959
Custodial History
Donated by Ian Disney in 2012.
Scope and Content
File consists of master pages of a fund-raising cookbook produced by the Whaletown Women's Institute. Typed recipes are pasted onto construction paper sheets; sheets are crumbling. Complete copies of the cookbook may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds and the Island Women's Club fonds.
Storage Location
Ephemera - Box 1
Name Access
Whaletown Women's Institute
Subject Access
Women's Institute
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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May and Elmer Ellingsen interview

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1995
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. Topics covered include how Elmer came to the island and met May; logging experiences; Cortes roads and telephone system; and living at Von Donop Inlet. Several humorous stories are related. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.
  1 audio     2 documents  
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Creator
O'Connor, Oonagh
Series Number
1
Item Number
1999.004.008
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1995
Digitized Date
February 2017
Physical Description
1 cassette tape
Custodial History
Found in collection
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. Topics covered include how Elmer came to the island and met May; logging experiences; Cortes roads and telephone system; and living at Von Donop Inlet. Several humorous stories are related. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.
Subject Access
Logging
Audio Recordings
Documents

1999.004.008A May & Elmer Ellingsen.pdf

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1999.004.008B May & Elmer Ellingsen.pdf

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1995
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. May traces her family history and then talks about her childhood on Cortes and Hernando Islands; meeting and marrying Elmer; living in a float house at logging camps in Loughborough Inlet, Phillips Arm and Von Donop Inlet; and moving the house to Hague Lake in 1952. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Creator
O'Connor, Oonagh
Series Number
1
Item Number
1999.004.009
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1995
Digitized Date
February 2017
Physical Description
1 cassette tape
Custodial History
Found in collection
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. May traces her family history and then talks about her childhood on Cortes and Hernando Islands; meeting and marrying Elmer; living in a float house at logging camps in Loughborough Inlet, Phillips Arm and Von Donop Inlet; and moving the house to Hague Lake in 1952. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.
Subject Access
Logging
Audio Recordings
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May and Elmer Ellingsen interview

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
[ca.2003]
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Dianne Hentschel.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Creator
Hentschel, Diane
Series Number
1
Item Number
1999.004.027
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
[ca.2003]
Digitized Date
February 2017
Physical Description
1 cassette tape
Custodial History
Found in collection
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Dianne Hentschel.
Audio Recordings
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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
2003
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Martha Abelson and Jill Milton. Topics covered include Manson family history; May's reminiscences about her childhood on Cortes; schools.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Creator
Abelson,Martha
Milton, Jill
Series Number
1
Item Number
1999.004.028
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
2003
Digitized Date
February 2017
Physical Description
1 cassette tape
Custodial History
Found in collection
Scope and Content
Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Martha Abelson and Jill Milton. Topics covered include Manson family history; May's reminiscences about her childhood on Cortes; schools.
Audio Recordings
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Sing-along with Elmer Ellingsen, plus reminiscences

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1981
Scope and Content
Recording is of a sing-along led by Elmer Ellingsen interspersed with reminiscences.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
1
Item Number
1999.004.049
Material Type
sound recording
Date Range
1981
Digitized Date
February 2017
Physical Description
1 cassette tape
Custodial History
Found in collection
Scope and Content
Recording is of a sing-along led by Elmer Ellingsen interspersed with reminiscences.
Audio Recordings
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"Variety Nite - May 2, 1992 at Gorge Hall"

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
multiple media
Accession Number
2006.002
Date Range
1992
Scope and Content
DVD of performances at a Variety Night held at the Gorge Hall.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
2
Item Number
2006.002.009
Accession Number
2006.002
Material Type
multiple media
Date Range
1992
Physical Description
1 DVD
Custodial History
Donated by Howie Roman.
Scope and Content
DVD of performances at a Variety Night held at the Gorge Hall.
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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May Ellingsen talks - "Life and Times on Cortes"

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
multiple media
Accession Number
2019.013
Date Range
2000
Scope and Content
One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
3
Item Number
2019.013.015
Accession Number
2019.013
Material Type
multiple media
Date Range
2000
Physical Description
1 VHS tape
Scope and Content
One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.
Storage Location
VHS tape box
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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May Ellingsen talks - "The Manson Family"

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Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
multiple media
Accession Number
2019.013
Date Range
2000
Scope and Content
One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.
Part Of
CIMAS audiovisual collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
3
Item Number
2019.013.016
Accession Number
2019.013
Material Type
multiple media
Date Range
2000
Physical Description
1 VHS tape
Scope and Content
One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.
Storage Location
VHS tape box
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1963-2019
Scope and Content
Co-operative Fire and Casualty Company info regarding request to insure a property, Mr and Mrs Ellingsen, 1963. Licensing and insurance papers for E. Ellingsen, 1968-1970. Info on residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and investment real estate, "Growing with Vancouver," featuring Bruce Ellingsen, 1974. Excerpts from The Columbia is Coming!, Doris Andersen, 1982. Receipts from Mansons Landing Store for May and Elmer Ellingsen, 1982-1987. Old notebook cover, Elmer Ellingsen, undated. Info on memorials: Elmer Ellingsen, 2002; May Ellingsen, 2012; and Virginia Hazel Ellingsen, 2019. Letter from Etta to CIMAS, 2012. Invoice for art purchased by CIMAS from David Ellingsen, 2017. Info on The Last Stand, D. Ellingsen, 2019. Info on Cortes Connection, 2019. Photo of Dianne Hentschel, Nellie Jeffrey, May Ellingsen, undated.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
27
Date Range
1963-2019
Scope and Content
Co-operative Fire and Casualty Company info regarding request to insure a property, Mr and Mrs Ellingsen, 1963. Licensing and insurance papers for E. Ellingsen, 1968-1970. Info on residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and investment real estate, "Growing with Vancouver," featuring Bruce Ellingsen, 1974. Excerpts from The Columbia is Coming!, Doris Andersen, 1982. Receipts from Mansons Landing Store for May and Elmer Ellingsen, 1982-1987. Old notebook cover, Elmer Ellingsen, undated. Info on memorials: Elmer Ellingsen, 2002; May Ellingsen, 2012; and Virginia Hazel Ellingsen, 2019. Letter from Etta to CIMAS, 2012. Invoice for art purchased by CIMAS from David Ellingsen, 2017. Info on The Last Stand, D. Ellingsen, 2019. Info on Cortes Connection, 2019. Photo of Dianne Hentschel, Nellie Jeffrey, May Ellingsen, undated.
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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Ellingsen, Family - Memorial for Elmer Ellingsen

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
2002
Scope and Content
Written reminiscences of Elmer Ellingsen by family and community members collected at his memorial.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
27.1
Date Range
2002
Scope and Content
Written reminiscences of Elmer Ellingsen by family and community members collected at his memorial.
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1905-ca. 1916], 1967-[ca. 1991]
Scope and Content
Series consists of "Birthday Books" (small leather-covered journals with a quote for each day beside a page for recording people's birthdays) dating from Douglas's childhood and a group of small format soft cover day-timer notebooks used by Douglas for notes on various subjects.
Other Title Info
Title based on contents of the series.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
12
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1905-ca. 1916], 1967-[ca. 1991]
Physical Description
6 cm. of textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of "Birthday Books" (small leather-covered journals with a quote for each day beside a page for recording people's birthdays) dating from Douglas's childhood and a group of small format soft cover day-timer notebooks used by Douglas for notes on various subjects.
Storage Range
5-50 - 5 55
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1904-1915
Scope and Content
Scrapbook compiled by Ada Page, housekeeper during Douglas's childhood and her primary care-giver after the death of her mother in 1906. The scrapbook contains clippings of menus, recipes and household hints.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
17
File Number
1
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1904-1915
Scope and Content
Scrapbook compiled by Ada Page, housekeeper during Douglas's childhood and her primary care-giver after the death of her mother in 1906. The scrapbook contains clippings of menus, recipes and household hints.
Storage Location
7-1
Storage Range
7-1
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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Freshly turned soil in the vegetable area of the garden at Channel Rock; the water may be seen through the trees at the bottom of the garden

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1958
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2068
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1958
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Subject Access
Channel Rock
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Man and woman at Channel Rock (ID) (woman may be Emilia Hansen?)

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1970
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2551
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1970
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Subject Access
Channel Rock
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Images
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Cedar stump with a cedar tree growing out of it; a building and a trailer may be seen behind it (ID location)

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2602
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Images
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Journal of Philip Major Douglas

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1948
Scope and Content
Handwritten daily journal of Philip Major Douglas from May of 1948 when he first moved to Channel Rock to the end of 1948. The journal was written to be sent to Gilean Douglas, who had not yet moved to Cortes, and contains many details of daily life on the island.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
9
File Number
2
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1948
Scope and Content
Handwritten daily journal of Philip Major Douglas from May of 1948 when he first moved to Channel Rock to the end of 1948. The journal was written to be sent to Gilean Douglas, who had not yet moved to Cortes, and contains many details of daily life on the island.
Storage Location
4-2
Storage Range
4-2
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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Channel Rock garden: Catalogue pages and order forms

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1970-1979
Scope and Content
Annotated seed and nursery catalogue pages, plant lists, completed order forms and invoices for the garden at Channel Rock
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
9
File Number
24
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1970-1979
Scope and Content
Annotated seed and nursery catalogue pages, plant lists, completed order forms and invoices for the garden at Channel Rock
Storage Location
4-24
Storage Range
4-24
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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Channel Rock garden: Catalogue pages and order forms

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1980-1984
Scope and Content
Annotated seed and nursery catalogue pages, plant lists, completed order forms and invoices for the garden at Channel Rock
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
9
File Number
25
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1980-1984
Scope and Content
Annotated seed and nursery catalogue pages, plant lists, completed order forms and invoices for the garden at Channel Rock
Storage Location
4-25
Storage Range
4-25
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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