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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
early 1900s-present
Scope and Content
Notes, emails, clippings, maps, scanned photographs, and written info on Squirrel Cove, including local businesses and people, early 1900s-present. Squirrel Cove store receipts, 1952-1953. Envelope of files titled "Squirrel Cove - early days - info from Ron Forrest, Nov 2014." Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, and Chalkdust & Outhouses, Barbara Ann Lambert. Keywords: Nichols, Squirrel Cove General Store, The Cove Restaurant, Flying Squirrel Take Out, Union Steamship "Cheakamus," Squirrel Cove Church.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
4
File Number
31
Date Range
early 1900s-present
Scope and Content
Notes, emails, clippings, maps, scanned photographs, and written info on Squirrel Cove, including local businesses and people, early 1900s-present. Squirrel Cove store receipts, 1952-1953. Envelope of files titled "Squirrel Cove - early days - info from Ron Forrest, Nov 2014." Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, and Chalkdust & Outhouses, Barbara Ann Lambert. Keywords: Nichols, Squirrel Cove General Store, The Cove Restaurant, Flying Squirrel Take Out, Union Steamship "Cheakamus," Squirrel Cove Church.
Storage Range
Drawer 4
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Forrest, Family, Squirrel Cove

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1908-1927
Scope and Content
Photocopies: Fire Insurance receipt, 1908; letters from PO Inspector to David Forrest, 1915; Public Schools Act Assessment letters, 1915; notary and registry papers, Wallis Walter Lefeaux, W. Lawrence Forrest, Joseph Edward Mellor last will and testament, 1927; pharmacy receipts, undated; letters, undated
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
30
Date Range
1908-1927
Scope and Content
Photocopies: Fire Insurance receipt, 1908; letters from PO Inspector to David Forrest, 1915; Public Schools Act Assessment letters, 1915; notary and registry papers, Wallis Walter Lefeaux, W. Lawrence Forrest, Joseph Edward Mellor last will and testament, 1927; pharmacy receipts, undated; letters, undated
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1792-2017
Scope and Content
Info on: Chief and Council, community initiatives, cultural practices and events, reconciliation, cultural tourism, land use and treaty negotiations, economic opportunities and development, fishing, shellfish, material culture, and early history, 1792-2017. Utilization of Fishes, Beach Foods, and Marine Animals by the Th'uhus Indian People of British Columbia, manuscript from Rose Mitchell, prepared by Dorothy Kennedy, 1974. Neh'Motl newsletter, 1981. Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, Kennedy and Bouchard, 1983 , and Handbook of North American Indians, 1990. Interviews with Mary Reif (nee Pille), and Tom Hill, 1995. Klahoose and the Treaty Process brochures, 1995. "Treaty Talk" newsletter, 1996. Some printed photographs. Marilyn's Salmon brochures. Brenda Rose Bio. Keywords: Strathcona Redional District (SRD); Plutonic Power's proposed "Green Energy Cooridoor,"; Comprehensive Community Planning (CCP); the Drone Territory Initiative; Community Forest; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); Toba Inlet; Forbes Bay; Squirrel Cove
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
20
Date Range
1792-2017
Scope and Content
Info on: Chief and Council, community initiatives, cultural practices and events, reconciliation, cultural tourism, land use and treaty negotiations, economic opportunities and development, fishing, shellfish, material culture, and early history, 1792-2017. Utilization of Fishes, Beach Foods, and Marine Animals by the Th'uhus Indian People of British Columbia, manuscript from Rose Mitchell, prepared by Dorothy Kennedy, 1974. Neh'Motl newsletter, 1981. Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, Kennedy and Bouchard, 1983 , and Handbook of North American Indians, 1990. Interviews with Mary Reif (nee Pille), and Tom Hill, 1995. Klahoose and the Treaty Process brochures, 1995. "Treaty Talk" newsletter, 1996. Some printed photographs. Marilyn's Salmon brochures. Brenda Rose Bio. Keywords: Strathcona Redional District (SRD); Plutonic Power's proposed "Green Energy Cooridoor,"; Comprehensive Community Planning (CCP); the Drone Territory Initiative; Community Forest; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); Toba Inlet; Forbes Bay; Squirrel Cove
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Ewart, Family, Squirrel Cove Store

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1921-2017
Scope and Content
Info on George Eward and Emma Jane Ewart, 1921 census, medical certificate of death, George Ewart, 1946. Info on marriage registration of Frank George Barnard and Blanche Madeline Dennis, 1938 (Ewart's son). Info on medical certificate of death and cemetery query, Josephine Skerton, 1968. Emails associated with all information from 2017. Notes with photographs on Eward family research, 2017
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
28
Date Range
1921-2017
Scope and Content
Info on George Eward and Emma Jane Ewart, 1921 census, medical certificate of death, George Ewart, 1946. Info on marriage registration of Frank George Barnard and Blanche Madeline Dennis, 1938 (Ewart's son). Info on medical certificate of death and cemetery query, Josephine Skerton, 1968. Emails associated with all information from 2017. Notes with photographs on Eward family research, 2017
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Drawer 3
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Looking into Carrington Lagoon from Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house.

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
“Large numbers of sea birds overwinter in Carrington Lagoon & Bay. Nudibranchs spawn in lagoon as well as chum & coho (Spruce Creek). Herring run into the bay.”
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.024
Item Number Range
JP.024
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Scope and Content
“Large numbers of sea birds overwinter in Carrington Lagoon & Bay. Nudibranchs spawn in lagoon as well as chum & coho (Spruce Creek). Herring run into the bay.”
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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First Nations: Klahoose & CIMAS

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
2007-2017
Scope and Content
Emails and letters from CIMAS with/regarding Klahoose and local FN history, 2007-2017. Information and typed notes with info for CIMAS permanent exhibit on local FN history. Keyword: Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
21
Date Range
2007-2017
Scope and Content
Emails and letters from CIMAS with/regarding Klahoose and local FN history, 2007-2017. Information and typed notes with info for CIMAS permanent exhibit on local FN history. Keyword: Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Looking north from the log jam at Carrington Lagoon, Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house on left

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.001
Item Number Range
JP.001
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Group photo of Refuge Cove residents, in front of the building used for a school

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Scope and Content
Back row, L to R: Pat Lovell, Max Beck, Norm and Denise Gibbons, Sherry Hall, Ann and Ken Ferguson with infant Andrew, Bruce Stevenson Middle, L to R: Lisa Gibbons holding her pet rock, (unidentified), Monty Hall, Stuart Arsenault, (woman in green unidentified), Glynne Evans, Mike Lovell, (person at end unidentified). Front, L to R: Laurie Lovell, Mark Melul, Kris Hall, Tracy Lovell, Lisa Hall, Michael Gibbons, Dean Lovell (pulling a hat over Michael's face), Ann Melul (Ann was a teacher)
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.027
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Back row, L to R: Pat Lovell, Max Beck, Norm and Denise Gibbons, Sherry Hall, Ann and Ken Ferguson with infant Andrew, Bruce Stevenson Middle, L to R: Lisa Gibbons holding her pet rock, (unidentified), Monty Hall, Stuart Arsenault, (woman in green unidentified), Glynne Evans, Mike Lovell, (person at end unidentified). Front, L to R: Laurie Lovell, Mark Melul, Kris Hall, Tracy Lovell, Lisa Hall, Michael Gibbons, Dean Lovell (pulling a hat over Michael's face), Ann Melul (Ann was a teacher)
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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View of buildings and docks at Refuge Cove, taken from the bluff above

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1960-1968]
Scope and Content
Photo shows the old store, with docks in a U formation and a new government dock.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.003
Item Number Range
NG.003
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1960-1968]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Photo shows the old store, with docks in a U formation and a new government dock.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Looking north from Green Mountain over Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay (tidal falls in between) across 5 miles of water to Read Island, with a slew of islands to the north.

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.033
Item Number Range
JP.033
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Responsibility
Photographer: Frank Mathers ??
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
Images
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Looking past Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house to boats in Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.018
Item Number Range
JP.018
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
Images
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Looking across a snowy log jam to Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's float house

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.026
Item Number Range
JP.026
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1979-2018
Scope and Content
Clippings and emails with info on Refuge Cove and its inhabitants over the years, 1979-2018. "Hope's Refuge," Doris Hope, 1992. "Memories of Refuge Cove," June Cameron, 1997. Photographs, undated. Posting for Refuge Cove Coastal Kitchen for sale at CIMAS
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
4
File Number
6
Date Range
1979-2018
Scope and Content
Clippings and emails with info on Refuge Cove and its inhabitants over the years, 1979-2018. "Hope's Refuge," Doris Hope, 1992. "Memories of Refuge Cove," June Cameron, 1997. Photographs, undated. Posting for Refuge Cove Coastal Kitchen for sale at CIMAS
Storage Range
Drawer 4
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Lagoon in foreground, looking over log jam to Carrington Bay; Al Murray’s cement power boat under a classy plastic structure.

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.016
Item Number Range
JP.016
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Buildings at Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school. The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.001
Item Number Range
NG.001
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school. The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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The old store at Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1955]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the original store at Refuge Cove, taken from the head of the ramp by Norman and Doris Hope's house. To the right of the store is a fuel tank and a shed used for storing the tools needed for the tanks, drums of oil, etc. The store burned down in 1968.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.002
Item Number Range
NG.002
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1955]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of the original store at Refuge Cove, taken from the head of the ramp by Norman and Doris Hope's house. To the right of the store is a fuel tank and a shed used for storing the tools needed for the tanks, drums of oil, etc. The store burned down in 1968.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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The new store at Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
ca. 1976]
Scope and Content
View of the new store, still sitting on its barge but the barge is no longer floating; it is now inter-tidal. Skip Frucktinick's (sp?) ferro-cement sailboat is leaning against it.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.047
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
ca. 1976]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
View of the new store, still sitting on its barge but the barge is no longer floating; it is now inter-tidal. Skip Frucktinick's (sp?) ferro-cement sailboat is leaning against it.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Memories of Refuge Cove - Norm Gibbons

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1956-2023
Scope and Content
File contains digitized copies of photographs from Norm Gibbons' photograph album of Refuge Cove. For the stories behind the photos, see 2003.007.001, a recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences living at Refuge Cove.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1956-2023
Physical Description
47 images (electronic) : col & b&w
Scope and Content
File contains digitized copies of photographs from Norm Gibbons' photograph album of Refuge Cove. For the stories behind the photos, see 2003.007.001, a recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences living at Refuge Cove.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Gibbons, Lisa
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Building a cedar fence, Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978
Scope and Content
Verso of photo: "Pigs arriving any minute - get that fence built!"
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.029
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Verso of photo: "Pigs arriving any minute - get that fence built!"
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Chicken plucking party at Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1978]
Scope and Content
Plucking some of the 50 chickens raised for meat before dinner and a dance, "Chicken Pluckers' Stomp". L to R: (ID), (ID), Michael Gibbons (mostly hidden), Judy White in blue, (ID), Mark Mellieux (sp?), Lisa Gibbons
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.030
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1978]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Plucking some of the 50 chickens raised for meat before dinner and a dance, "Chicken Pluckers' Stomp". L to R: (ID), (ID), Michael Gibbons (mostly hidden), Judy White in blue, (ID), Mark Mellieux (sp?), Lisa Gibbons
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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