Part Of

CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

46

Date Range

1892-present

Scope and Content

Emails, written info, and clippins with info on Twin (Ulloa) Islands, including history of colonization/preemptions, uses, settlements over the years, forestry, and CIMAS garden tour, 1892-present. Excerpt from From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska and the United States, Sinclair Thomson Duncan, 1911. Keywords: William H. Jones, Reverend Harper Nixon shooting

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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Cortes Island Ratepayers Association fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2000.003

Series Number

6

File Number

10

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1970

Storage Location

2-31

Storage Range

2-31

Name Access

Cortes Island Ratepayers Association

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Cortes Ecoforestry Society fonds

Description Level

File

Creator

Cortes Ecoforestry Society

Fonds Number

2017.011

Series Number

13

File Number

6

Accession Number

2017.011

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

2001

Scope and Content

File contains workshop schedule, instructor bios, participant list, contact list, and notes.

Storage Location

2-35

Storage Range

2-35

Name Access

Cortes Ecoforestry Society

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.008

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

1918

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

A view of Twin Islands through the trees. There is a bald eagle on one branch.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

File

Creator

Southern Cortes Community Association

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

2

File Number

11

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1958, 1960

Storage Location

2-11

Storage Range

2-11

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.178

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1912]

Physical Description

1 photograph postcard: b&w; 13 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the Mission Manson family taken at Twin Islands.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.030

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1913]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Bay between the Twin Islands, breakwater structure on the left.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.043

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Grouse perched on the shake roof of the Nixon house, Twin Islands.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Subject Access

Hunting

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.035

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon inside the Dan McDonald house, Twin Islands. She is modelling an elaborate hat and clothing.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.036

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands modelling an elaborate hat and clothing.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.037

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands among the blossoms of the fruit trees that Mr. Dan McDonald had planted many years before.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.038

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mrs.Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands, in dress clothes, posing beside a stump.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.039

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands, wearing an elaborate hat, is shown standing beside a hanging carcass of one of the pigs the Nixons raised. She is holding the head of the pig.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.025

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1912]

Physical Description

1 photographic postcard: b&w; 8.5x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content

A group photo of Mr. and Mrs. Nixon and friends on Twin Islands. Standing left to right: Mrs. Michael (Jane) Manson, daughter Ethel (Mrs. J. Hurren), Mrs. James Nixon and Mr. James Nixon. Seated left to right: Hazel (Manson) Herrewig, Henry Herrewig, Mrs. and Mr. Dudley (friends of Hazel and Henry).

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.029

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1912]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Buildings by the bay, Twin Islands. On the left is the house being built by Mr. Harpur C. Nixon for his son James. On the right is the home built by Dan McDonald. Foreground shows, beach, bay and two rowboats.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.031

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1912-1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Bedroom of the former Dan McDonald house on Twin Islands. The Nixons lived in the house prior to moving into their new home.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.046

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1913]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mr. and Mrs. James Nixon of Twin Islands seated outdoors, looking fondly at each other.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.049

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands feeding chickens.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.050

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1915]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Mrs. Margaret Nixon with two of their pigs on the beach at Twin Islands.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.021

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

1918

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Custodial History

A view from Cortes Island towards Twin Islands and Long Tom.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Twin Islands

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