Sous-fonds consists of records of the Cortes Island Women's Institute. It is arranged in nine series: Minutes, Reports, Financial, Administrative Records, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera, Photographs and Artifacts.
The Cortes Island Women's institute was formed in 1984. Although Cortes Island had historically been difficult to traverse, and the communities consequently insular, by the 1980s the road systems were such that "a Women's Institute for the whole of Cortes Island" seemed to make sense.
CIWI was founded with the bank balance of a Manson's Landing service group called the Ladies Guild, which was founded in the 1940s. When membership and activity in the guild declined in the 1970s, the focus was shifted to a renovation and addition to Manson's Hall. Once the Hall had been sufficiently updated, it was thought that the remaining funds might be put to use "creating an instrument for better communication between all our women and a chance to work together in the community".
Charter members of the CIWI were Heather Berry, Peggy Newsham, Maryann McCoy, Linda Hendricks, and Mary Block.
Custodial History
Records were donated to CIMAS by the Island Women's Club in 2009.
Scope and Content
Sous-fonds consists of records of the Cortes Island Women's Institute. It is arranged in nine series: Minutes, Reports, Financial, Administrative Records, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera, Photographs and Artifacts.
Photograph of Eddie Huck, Andy Robertson and Dennis Newsham, probably at Channel Rock while working on the Whaletown Women's Institute telephone line (see Gilean Douglas' Christmas letter for 1959).
Photograph of Eddie Huck, Andy Robertson and Dennis Newsham, probably at Channel Rock while working on the Whaletown Women's Institute telephone line (see Gilean Douglas' Christmas letter for 1959).
Photograph of (L to R) Jessie Hammond, Doris Maclean, Madeleine Emmanuelson, Jessie Thornton, and Louise Kendrick, seated at a table set for tea. (Duplicate of 1999.001.0764)
Photograph of (L to R) Jessie Hammond, Doris Maclean, Madeleine Emmanuelson, Jessie Thornton, and Louise Kendrick, seated at a table set for tea. (Duplicate of 1999.001.0764)
L to R: Louise Kendrick, Jessie Hammond, Doris Maclean, Madeleine Emmanuelson, Jessie Thornton, seated around a table. This is the same event as 1999.001.0317 and 1999.001.0764)
L to R: Louise Kendrick, Jessie Hammond, Doris Maclean, Madeleine Emmanuelson, Jessie Thornton, seated around a table. This is the same event as 1999.001.0317 and 1999.001.0764)
