File contains text of the Memorandum of Understanding developed by Cortes Ecoforestry Society and Klahoose First Nation. Also includes twenty-nine (29) color photographic prints and eleven (11) color inkjet prints, which depict the signing of the MoU at Squirrel Cove and an Ecoforestry display at Smelt Bay. Photographs are stored in Photo Box #3.
File contains text of the Memorandum of Understanding developed by Cortes Ecoforestry Society and Klahoose First Nation. Also includes twenty-nine (29) color photographic prints and eleven (11) color inkjet prints, which depict the signing of the MoU at Squirrel Cove and an Ecoforestry display at Smelt Bay. Photographs are stored in Photo Box #3.
Left to right, back row: Howie Brown, Rollie Wilkins(?), Elmer Ellingsen, Mike Talbot, Duane Campbell, John Sprungman, Sherrie Sprungman, (?), Joan Disney, Victoria Summers, Sandra Reedel, Peggy Newsham, Donna Norman,
Peggy Talbot, May Ellingsen, Velma Bergman, Paula Snow, Kate Hathaway, Fay Raymont, Emilie Hansen, Dierdre Quinn, John Mottishaw, Bruce Ellingsen, Bob Cairns, Hillel Wright(?)
David Blintzinger conducts.
List of people is in the CIMAS Photograph Collection Information folder in the Archives filing cabinet.
Left to right, back row: Howie Brown, Rollie Wilkins(?), Elmer Ellingsen, Mike Talbot, Duane Campbell, John Sprungman, Sherrie Sprungman, (?), Joan Disney, Victoria Summers, Sandra Reedel, Peggy Newsham, Donna Norman,
Peggy Talbot, May Ellingsen, Velma Bergman, Paula Snow, Kate Hathaway, Fay Raymont, Emilie Hansen, Dierdre Quinn, John Mottishaw, Bruce Ellingsen, Bob Cairns, Hillel Wright(?)
David Blintzinger conducts.
List of people is in the CIMAS Photograph Collection Information folder in the Archives filing cabinet.
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Muriel Horner Whiting (1882-1977) and William Henry Evans Whiting (1853-1927) settled on Cortes in about 1918, having purchased 58 acres of land in Whaletown (present-day 1474 and 1416 Robertson Rd.) from Charles Allen. Their son Basil Evans Whiting was born in 1923.
William Whiting was considerably older than Muriel; he died in 1927 and is buried in the old Whaletown cemetery. After his death, Muriel supported herself by raising poultry and eggs for sale and by taking in boarders. Her only son, Basil, joined the Royal Canadian Navy just before the outbreak of World War II. He lost his life at the age of 19, when the destroyer HMCS "Ottawa" was torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 13,1942. His war medals are in the Cortes Island Museum Artifacts Collection.
Muriel remained on Cortes until the late 1960s; she died in Whiterock in 1977. Although the Whiting house burned down in 1982, remnants of the homestead remain: a tumble-down barn built of hand-split cedar boards, a few old apple trees and some hardy garden survivors such as japonica, mock orange, and St. Johnswort. The yellow primroses in the Museum garden are descendents of her flowers.
Custodial History
This material was found stored in the barn on the former Whiting property in 1971. It was passed down through several owners of the property before being donated to the museum by Sabina Leader-Mense in 2018.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Photograph of Trude Albright next to a large cake she has made to celebrate the completion of an addition to the Gorge Hall. The cake is in the shape of the fireplace constructed by Andy Ducasse in the new lounge.
Photograph of Trude Albright next to a large cake she has made to celebrate the completion of an addition to the Gorge Hall. The cake is in the shape of the fireplace constructed by Andy Ducasse in the new lounge.
Photograph of the Co-op building with the Skateboard Shop at left, Books and Homespun Wool Shop beyond; the Sunset Restaurant is behind it in the same building.
Photograph of the Co-op building with the Skateboard Shop at left, Books and Homespun Wool Shop beyond; the Sunset Restaurant is behind it in the same building.