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Mike Manson family, seated on a log

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [19??]

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.745

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [19??]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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"A History of Cortes Island Shellfish"

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Part Of: Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual records; textual records (electronic)

Date Range: 2009

Scope and Content: "A History of Cortes Island Shellfish" was created by Marcel Creurer and reviewed by Kathy Francis, Oct. 30, 2009.

1 document

Part Of: Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds

Description Level: File

Creator: Creurer, Marcel

Fonds Number: 2021.001

Series Number: 3

File Number: 3

Material Type: textual records; textual records (electronic)

Date Range: 2009

Physical Description: 1 binder : 22 pages 1 file: .pdf

Scope and Content: "A History of Cortes Island Shellfish" was created by Marcel Creurer and reviewed by Kathy Francis, Oct. 30, 2009.

Name Access: Creuer, Marcel; Francis, Kathy

Subject Access: Aquaculture; Historical research

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Documents

History of Cortes Island Shellfish.pdf

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May Ellingsen's notes on local history

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: [ca. 2000]

Scope and Content: File contains May Ellingsen's notes on local history. Subjects include the Ratepayers' Association, Von Donop, Mike Manson, Whaletown people, Blind Creek and Refuge Cove. There is a transcription of a taped interview with George Griffin.

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: File

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 5.2

File Number: 95

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: [ca. 2000]

Scope and Content: File contains May Ellingsen's notes on local history. Subjects include the Ratepayers' Association, Von Donop, Mike Manson, Whaletown people, Blind Creek and Refuge Cove. There is a transcription of a taped interview with George Griffin.

Storage Location: 6-5

Storage Range: 6-5

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Refuge Cove

Aldrich family

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [ca. 1908]

Scope and Content: Herb Aldrich, Cyrus Aldrich, Ed Wiley, Jesse Aldrich, Wallace Aldrich, Mary Aldrich with son Earl, Ruth Aldruch

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.692

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [ca. 1908]

Physical Description: 1 digital print: b&w; 12.5 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Herb Aldrich, Cyrus Aldrich, Ed Wiley, Jesse Aldrich, Wallace Aldrich, Mary Aldrich with son Earl, Ruth Aldruch

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Mrs. Beesley and the family home

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.667

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Family in front of house (ID)

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.696

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 11 x 7 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Cortes Family Trees Project

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Part Of: Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: textual records (electronic)

Date Range: 2022

Scope and Content: Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.

Part Of: Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds

Description Level: Series

Creator: Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society

Fonds Number: 2021.001

Series Number: 4

Material Type: textual records (electronic)

Date Range: 2022

Custodial History: Family trees were researched by Bernice McGowan (1387 Bodington Rd, Whaletown, BC) in 2022. The Manson family tree was provided to CIMAS by Greg Johnson (2837 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1X2; phone # 604 897 5925) in 2022.

Scope and Content: Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.

Subject Access: Historical research

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Mr. E.E. Beesley, Mrs. Anna Beesley, and their son Walter with unidentified family

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192?]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s". Lots of Beesley biographical info on verso.

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.686

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph postcard print: b&w; 14 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s". Lots of Beesley biographical info on verso.

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Family in a canoe in front of Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's floathouse 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

Scope and Content: Family of treeplanters from Oregon (Frank & Fawn with their 2 kids) lived across the log jam in a tipi where Al & Linda had lived

1 image

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.025

Item Number Range: JP.025

Material Type: graphic material (electronic)

Date Range: 1978-1985

Physical Description: 1 image (electronic) : b&w

Scope and Content: Family of treeplanters from Oregon (Frank & Fawn with their 2 kids) lived across the log jam in a tipi where Al & Linda had lived

Name Access: Palmer, Jim

Subject Access: Historical research

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Carrington Bay

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John Manson records

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1909-1954

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by John Manson of Sunny Brae farm, including legal documents, financial records, correspondence and ephemera.

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Series

Creator: Manson, John

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 6

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1909-1954

Physical Description: 16 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: John Manson (1868-1959) was born in the Shetland Islands and migrated to British Columbia in 1887, where he joined his brother Michael Manson on Cortes Island. He married Margaret Ellen Smith in 1894 and they had four children: Jack (born 1896), Anna (1898), Rose (1900) and Nicol (1906). The family lived at Sunny Brae Farm, on the south-east side of Cortes, across from Twin Islands.

Custodial History: Most of the files in this series were in an old wooden box when transferred to the archives, suggesting that they were collected from John Manson's house as a unit.

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by John Manson of Sunny Brae farm, including legal documents, financial records, correspondence and ephemera.

Storage Range: 6-8 to 6-36

Name Access: Manson, John

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Twin Islands; Mittlenatch Island

Graves of Mrs. Anna Beesley & Mrs. Margaret Manson, Manson's Landing cemetery

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [193-?]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.687

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [193-?]

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

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

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Manson's Landing fire hall construction

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1993

Scope and Content: Numbered series of photographs of the construction of the Manson's Landing fire hall, many with extensive captions on verso.

12 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.664

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1993

Physical Description: 17 photographic prints: colour; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Numbered series of photographs of the construction of the Manson's Landing fire hall, many with extensive captions on verso.

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

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St. James Church, Manson's Landing

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.699

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

Images

Aerial view of Hague Lake and Manson's Lagoon

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [198-?]

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.702

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [198-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 25 x 25 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Thanksgiving altar at St. James Church, Manson's Landing

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.700

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 9 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

Images

Thanksgiving altar at St. James Church, Manson's Landing

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.701

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 9 cm

Storage Location: Photo box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

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