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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

55

Date Range

1970s-1980s

Scope and Content

Scanned newspaper clippings about local legal cases/problems including wolf attacks, murders, vehicle accidents, accidental deaths, unpasturized milk, etc, 1970s-1980s

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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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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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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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

107

Date Range

1989

Scope and Content

Local property assessments, 1989

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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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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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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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

10

File Number

20

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1973

Scope and Content

Handwritten notes and Douglas's obituary for Otto (Ottie) Weiler

Storage Location

5-7

Storage Range

5-7

Name Access

Weiler, Otto

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

14

File Number

18

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1967

Storage Location

6-17

Storage Range

6-17

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0164

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1960s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a helicopter landing on the big rock by the channel marker buoy in front of Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0252

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1949]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 16.5 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the shore near Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0280

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a house on a low bank just up from the shore. Two men are standing on the shore. (see #1999.001.279, .276 and .281)

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0424

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1970]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a man standing at the gate that marked the point where the trail to Channel Rock enters the property.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0780

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 17.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Peter Police, standing on the foreshore of his property at the western end of Gorge Harbour.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0835

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1950

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 7 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Bob MacGregorstanding near the shore. A caption on the back says "Near Blind Creek off the Redondas up coast summer 1950".

Geographic Access

Cortes Bay

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