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Nesta Slater, seated inside

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of Nesta Slater with typed caption taped on: "Nesta gets ready to tell a fish story."
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0796
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 18 x 12 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Nesta Slater with typed caption taped on: "Nesta gets ready to tell a fish story."
Subject Access
Fishing
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The Columbia Coast Mission boat "John Antle" and fish boats tied up at the Whaletown dock

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1961
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.038
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1961
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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The Columbia Coast Mission boat "John Antle" tied up at the Whaletown dock; the fish scow is behind it.

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. early 1950s]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.029
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. early 1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 14.5 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Henrietta and Slim Barnard, seated in a motorboat, holding fishing rods

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.416
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 14.5 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Fishing
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Rev. Rollo Boas and his wife Kathleen (Kay), scraping paint from "Rendezvous"

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1949]
Scope and Content
Photograph of Rev. Rollo Boas and his wife Kay scraping paint from the Columbia Coast Mission boat "Rendezvous" at the Whaletown wharf. Ken Slater's troller "Wahkana Bay" is in the background, two unindentified gas boats are tied to the floats. Of note: clearing for the Huck family home in background indicates the year the photo was taken. There are two captions on the back, in different handwriting (top is Gilean Douglas'.)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0605
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1949]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Rev. Rollo Boas and his wife Kay scraping paint from the Columbia Coast Mission boat "Rendezvous" at the Whaletown wharf. Ken Slater's troller "Wahkana Bay" is in the background, two unindentified gas boats are tied to the floats. Of note: clearing for the Huck family home in background indicates the year the photo was taken. There are two captions on the back, in different handwriting (top is Gilean Douglas'.)
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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"Port Neville - The view from the hospital mission ship "Columbia" with fishing vessels alongside the fishermen making various repairs"

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930s-1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of men and fish boats at a dock piled with fishing nets and gear; houses and a clearing may be seen in ghe background. Same as #1999.001.963.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Greene, Alan
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0951
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930s-1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 13 x 10 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of men and fish boats at a dock piled with fishing nets and gear; houses and a clearing may be seen in ghe background. Same as #1999.001.963.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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"Port Neville - The view from the hospital mission ship "Columbia" with fishing vessels alongside the fishermen making various repairs"

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930s-1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the wharf at Port Neville, showing fishermen, piles of nets and fish boats tied to the wharf. Greene's label is "The "Columbia" watches fishermen mending their gear." Same as #1999.001.951.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Greene, Alan
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0963
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930s-1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 25.5 x 20 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the wharf at Port Neville, showing fishermen, piles of nets and fish boats tied to the wharf. Greene's label is "The "Columbia" watches fishermen mending their gear." Same as #1999.001.951.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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Fish boats in front of a small settlement on an island

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1940s?]
Scope and Content
Photograph of fish boats anchored in front of a small settlement (possibly a First Nations village) on an island.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0967
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1940s?]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of fish boats anchored in front of a small settlement (possibly a First Nations village) on an island.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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First Nations village (needs ID)

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920-1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a First Nations coastal village, with houses and outbuildings along the shore. There are fish boats and canoes in the water and pulled up on shore. A long house is in the middle, and a school building is back of the village on a hill, (ID)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0968
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920-1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a First Nations coastal village, with houses and outbuildings along the shore. There are fish boats and canoes in the water and pulled up on shore. A long house is in the middle, and a school building is back of the village on a hill, (ID)
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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Two fish boats tied to the dock, Stuart Island

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of two fish boats tied to the dock, Stuart Island.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0997
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of two fish boats tied to the dock, Stuart Island.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1950
Scope and Content
Photograph of the view leaving Bull Harbour, with a building and several fishboats on the shore to the right.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1081
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1950
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the view leaving Bull Harbour, with a building and several fishboats on the shore to the right.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
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Mary and Otto Weiler fonds

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
textual records
Accession Number
2003.002
2022.005
2023.006
Date Range
1937-[ca.1980]
Scope and Content
Fonds consists primarily of photographs and slides taken by Mary Weiler. Textual records include correspondence, several issues of the "Log" of the Columbia Coast Mission, and material about Victor Von Donop, for whom Von Donop Inlet is named. Fonds is arranged in five series: 1: Photographs, 2: Correspondence, 3: Von Donop, 4: Ephemera, and 5: Books.
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Weiler, Otto
Fonds Number
2003.002
Accession Number
2003.002
2022.005
2023.006
Material Type
graphic material
textual records
Date Range
1937-[ca.1980]
Physical Description
510 photographs (132 prints: b&w and col.; 378 slides: col. slides)
1 cm of textual records
1 book
History / Biographical
In April of 1947 Otto and Mary Weiler were recently returned from London, and they were war weary---Mary was recovering from tuberculosis, and Otto from injuries sustained in the army, and like most people in those days, they were left strapped by the Depression and the War--- but they had a dream. They chartered a boat, and traveled up the BC coast, seeking a place where they could live---in their words---"a happy, romantic, bohemian life". Otto John—always known affectionately as Ottie---was born in Victoria, BC on March 27, 1903, to a well-to-do mercantile family. His grandparents, John and Christiana Weiler, arrive in Fort Victoria in the early 1850's from Germany by way of San Francisco, where they established a successful furniture factory and other businesses. Reminders of the Weiler family still exist in Victoria, most notably the six-story Weiler Building at the corner of Broad and Government streets, originally a grandly-appointed department store, and the Weiler cenotaph in Ross Bay cemetery. Mary was born Mary Agnes Campbell on March 13, 1915, in Enderby, BC. Her grandparents were pioneers who arrived in the North Okanogan to farm in the 1880's. The family moved to New Westminster in 1921. After high school Mary studied nursing at the Royal Jubilee hospital in Victoria, and then departed for France, having decided to work her way around the world. When war broke out, however, she was evacuated from France at Dunkirk, and immediately joined the British army. She served a nurse in London for the duration of the war, and here she met Ottie, a major with the Canadian Scottish regiment. There were married in 1943, and both went back to their respective postings with the army, looking forward to the day when they could live together. When Ottie and Mary sailed into Whaletown Bay, they were immediately enchanted by the house on the point, half-built and occupying 5 rocky acres of waterfront. They were urban and idealistic, and ready to throw themselves into life on a remote island. At first they turned their hand to fishing commercially. Their boat was twelve-foot clinker built inboard; a salmon license cost a dollar. In 1949 they were hired by Cece Stubbs to manage the Whaletown Store. When Gary and Velma Bergman bought the store in 1956, Ottie was offered the position of Whaletown postmaster, a job he held until a few months before his death. Mary was an artist—a talented and serious one. In spite of the isolation of Cortes Island in those days, she made a name for herself as a British Columbia artist of note, showing her work widely and selling internationally. Her studio was the dining-room table, surrounded by a swirl of children, and her paintings and prints were created in the midst of the gardening, fishing and canning necessary to country survival. Ottie was a writer---he had been a journalist before the war---and was a passionate gardener, fisherman, hunter and forager who tirelessly explored the trails and homesteads on the north end of Cortes, and beachcombed all his firewood. They were both dedicated to community service. Ottie was Justice of the Peace, a thoughtful counselor once famously referred to by Gilean Douglas as 'a Justice who really practiced peace' and he also served on the boards of the Whaletown Community Club and other organizations for many years. Mary acted as a community nurse, as well as teaching First Aid classes, holding monthly clinics, and canvassing for the Canadian cancer society. She taught annual art classes and workshops for adults and children, and in the late '60s, she and Ottie opened a summer art gallery in their Whaletown home---the Garden Gallery---as a showcase for local artists and craftspeople. Ottie and Mary had four daughters---Christina, born March 23rd, 1951; Brigid, born June 6th, 1953; Alexandra (who, however, has always gone by the nickname “Johnny”) born May 5th, 1955; and Sarah, born September 27th, 1958. In 1973 Ottie died after a short illness, and Mary didn't want to stay in their dream home without him. In 1974 she sold the house and said farewell to Whaletown. Mary Weiler went on to many more adventures—studying, travelling, and always making art---and died in Victoria in1999. [by Brigid Weiler, March 10, 2016]
Custodial History
This material was created or collected by Mary and Otto Weiler and donated to CIMAS by their daughter Brigid Weiler. The first accession was in 2003 (Accession #2003.002). There are two accruals: #2009.002 and #2017.001.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists primarily of photographs and slides taken by Mary Weiler. Textual records include correspondence, several issues of the "Log" of the Columbia Coast Mission, and material about Victor Von Donop, for whom Von Donop Inlet is named. Fonds is arranged in five series: 1: Photographs, 2: Correspondence, 3: Von Donop, 4: Ephemera, and 5: Books.
Storage Location
Photograph Box #3 Slide Album #2 Small Box 1
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Weiler, Otto
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
Health care
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Group of people (#1999.001.2472) boarding a fish boat at Channel Rock

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1968
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2474
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1968
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Subject Access
Channel Rock
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Maclean family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2019.023
2021.003
2021.006
Date Range
1951-1971
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.
Part Of
Maclean family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds Number
2019.023
Accession Number
2019.023
2021.003
2021.006
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1951-1971
Physical Description
29 photographs : b&w; 31 slides : colour
History / Biographical
The Maclean family (parents Don and Doris, and children Janice, Heather and Ian) lived in Whaletown from 1961 to 1973. Don Maclean's parents, John and Edna Maclean, lived for many years in Edmonton, Alberta. When their son came home from the war they bought property near Coulter Bay and moved to Cortes Island. Don Maclean became a fisherman, eventually living on his fishing boat. Doris Lancaster Maclean was born and raised in Victoria, B.C. In the late 1940s she answered a call from the Anglican Church to come and do Vacation Bible School with the Columbia Coast Mission on Cortes and nearby islands. Doris and Don married in 1954. They moved to Cortes Island in 1961 when Don was hired to operate the Columbia Coast Mission boat, the "Alan Greene". They lived in the Mission house in Whaletown, next to the church. Don Maclean acted as a Lay Reader for the Columbia Coast Mission in the 1960s when no clergymen were available, holding services in the three Anglican churches on the island. In 1967 the Diocese sold the "Alan Greene" and the Macleans were required to move out of the mission house. Maclean built a house on the beach of what used to be called Jardine’s property, although by this time it was owned by a cousin of Doris Maclean. He was hired as the Industrial First Aid man on site for the building of the Whaletown Ferry dock and after that worked as a clam digger. The Maclean family left Cortes in 1973 and moved to Regina, SK. The house that Don built was rented for a couple of years and then sold and moved to a new location; it burned down a few years later.
Custodial History
Twenty-seven photographs and 15 slides were mailed to CIMAS by Janice Maclean Kerr in 2019; two more photos were mailed in Apr. 2021; 16 slides were mailed in Sept. 2021
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.
Storage Location
Photo Box 3 Slide Box 2
Name Access
Kerr, Janice Maclean
Subject Access
Transportation
Columbia Coast Mission
Fishing
Union Steamship Company
Water transport
Geographic Access
Whaletown
Quatam River
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The "Rendezvous" in Whaletown Bay

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the "Rendezvous" in Whaletown Bay. This boat was owned by the Columbia Coast Mission from 1924-1955. It was operated by the Rev. Rollo Boas out of Whaletown from 1944 to 1954 and then briefly by Joe Titus, before being sold to Ed Tooker in 1955. Tooker renamed it the "Tari Jacque" after his two daughters, and used the boat for his work as a fisheries patrolman for the DFO. In 2015 Tooker sold the boat to Robert Critchley, who is the present-day owner (2021).
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.022
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 14.5 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the "Rendezvous" in Whaletown Bay. This boat was owned by the Columbia Coast Mission from 1924-1955. It was operated by the Rev. Rollo Boas out of Whaletown from 1944 to 1954 and then briefly by Joe Titus, before being sold to Ed Tooker in 1955. Tooker renamed it the "Tari Jacque" after his two daughters, and used the boat for his work as a fisheries patrolman for the DFO. In 2015 Tooker sold the boat to Robert Critchley, who is the present-day owner (2021).
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Fishboats at the Whaletown dock

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1970]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.045
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1970]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Boats tied to the Whaletown dock

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of fish boats tied to the Whaletown dock. The freight shed on the wharf is to the left.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0825
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of fish boats tied to the Whaletown dock. The freight shed on the wharf is to the left.
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Fish boat at Whaletown dock

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Scope and Content
Photograph of a fish boat at the Whaletown wharf.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0126
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a fish boat at the Whaletown wharf.
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Boats at the government wharf in Whaletown

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Part Of
Doreen Thompson fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
2005
Scope and Content
Photograph of boats, including the troller "Stacy Rock" and the "Vagabond". The buildings on the opposite shore may be seen in the background.
Part Of
Doreen Thompson fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2006.001
Series Number
4
Item Number
2006.001.035
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
2005
Physical Description
1 photograph print : col. ; 10 x 14 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of boats, including the troller "Stacy Rock" and the "Vagabond". The buildings on the opposite shore may be seen in the background.
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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The "Amboyna", a fish packer, at the Whaletown wharf

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[196-]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.419
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[196-]
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Fishing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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