Part Of

Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2002.001.3

Sous Fonds Number

3

Series Number

6

File Number

2

Accession Number

2004.004

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1997-2002

Scope and Content

File contains Sirks's Regional Director's Reports: three printed reports (1997-1999), one typed draft (ca. 2002), and two photocopies and a clipping from the Howling Wolf (ca. 2000-2001).

Storage Location

5-24

Storage Range

5-24

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds

Description Level

Sous-fonds

Creator

Sirk, George

Fonds Number

2002.001.3

Sous Fonds Number

3

Accession Number

2004.004

Material Type

textual records

cartographic material

multiple media

Date Range

1970-2003

Physical Description

1.2 m of textual records

Extent

1.2 m

History / Biographical

George Sirk was elected Regional Director of Electoral Area I (Cortes Island) in the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona in 1996. He served three terms as Director, from 1996 to 2005.

Custodial History

Material was donated to CIMAS by George Sirk in 2004, prior to his move from Cortes Island to Victoria, BC.

Scope and Content

Sous-fonds consists of materials generated or gathered by George Sirk during his term as Regional Director. It includes correspondence; minutes and reports of the Cortes Island Advisory Planning Commission (APC); Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw revision materials; records of foreshore leases and licenses; correspondence on various island issues, and material relating to parks, aquaculture, forestry, treaty negotiations and other island concerns. Sous-fonds is arranged into six series: Advisory Planning Commission; Community Plans and Bylaws; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Regional Board; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Committees; Rezoning and Development Proposals; Subject Files: Cortes Affairs; Aquaculture; and Treaty Negotiations.

Storage Location

2-28 - 7-15

Storage Range

2-28 - 7-15

Name Access

Sirk, George

Nursall, Ralph

Subject Access

Advisory Planning Commission

Local governments

Regional District

Zoning

Aboriginal affairs

Aquaculture

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

Arrangement

Original content of folders has been retained; archivists have arranged files into series.

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

8

File Number

37

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

2000

Scope and Content

File contains a survey from the national Women's Institute and a response from the Cortes Island chapter, resigning from the national organization.

Storage Location

7-37

Storage Range

7-37

Subject Access

Women's Institute

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

14

Item Number

2007.001.441

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[197-?]

Digitized Date

March 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette audio tape

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Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Whalley, Dorothy Huck

Fonds Number

2011.001

Series Number

1

Item Number

2011.001.096

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1919]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Betty and George Gray, she sitting and he standing on a log high above the ground, Green Valley.

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

48

Date Range

1792-2017

Scope and Content

Menzies' Journal of Vancouver Voyage, April to October, 1792, 1923; clipping with info on Archibald Menzies, Cap. George Vancouver and the HMS Discovery, 2017

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

25

Date Range

?-2017

Scope and Content

Artile from British Columbia Magazine, "Foraging for Fungi: Mushrooms 101," 2017; clipping on Indian pipe plant found along creek draining Hague Lake into lagoon, undated

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.624

Accession Number

2018.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[191-?]

Physical Description

2 photograph prints: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

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

2007.001.230

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. early 1930s]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of Val Nichols and George Seville on George's boat at Val's boat building, Squirrel Cove.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Geographic Access

Squirrel Cove

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Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Whalley, Dorothy Huck

Fonds Number

2011.001

Series Number

1

Item Number

2011.001.047

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of John (Jack) Huck and a younger boy sitting on the roof of the porch of the Huck home at Hell's Half Acre.

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.732

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[192-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 14 cm

Scope and Content

The reserve mentioned in the caption is currently part of Tla’amin Nation Lands.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

14

Item Number

2007.001.444

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[197-?]

Digitized Date

March 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette audio tape

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.065

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 190-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of George McGee ("Old George") of Klahoose, a contemporary of Mike and John Manson.

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

2007.001.090

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1940s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 8 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of George and Evelyn Goudie on the Shetland Islands (presumably relatives of John Manson).

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

101

Accession Number

2019.002

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1945-1947

Storage Location

6-7.4

Storage Range

6-7.4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

47

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1980s]

Scope and Content

File contains a hand-written transcription of an interview with George Griffin.

Storage Location

5-47

Storage Range

5-47

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.211

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1968

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of George Freeman, age 80, with a bear he had shot in his orchard after a previous sheep kill.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Subject Access

Hunting

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Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Whalley, Dorothy Huck

Fonds Number

2011.001

Series Number

1

Item Number

2011.001.021

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of three people (Mary, George and Aunt Min) in a field, Moose Jaw, Sk.

Geographic Access

Saskatchewan

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.011

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1964

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 12 x 8

Scope and Content

Photograph of George and Eva Freeman with two cougar hounds; a large cougar, its head propped up with a stick, is stretched out beside them.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Subject Access

Hunting

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.075

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1936

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Rose Manson and Olive Gillard, St. George's Hospital, Alert Bay.

Storage Location

Photo box 4

Geographic Access

Alert Bay

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