Photograph of Nancy and Clyde Gildersleeve standing beside the woodshed behind the house at Channel Rock. They were from Port Hardy, and operated a mission boat for the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Photograph of Nancy and Clyde Gildersleeve standing beside the woodshed behind the house at Channel Rock. They were from Port Hardy, and operated a mission boat for the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
A portrait presented to the island on the occasion of the visit of the Restigouche to Cortes Island. It is signed on the matte "To the people of Cortes Island from H. P. Bell-Irving, Lieutenant Governor of BC and Nancy Bell-Irving, H.M.C.S. Restigouche, 15 June '82"
A portrait presented to the island on the occasion of the visit of the Restigouche to Cortes Island. It is signed on the matte "To the people of Cortes Island from H. P. Bell-Irving, Lieutenant Governor of BC and Nancy Bell-Irving, H.M.C.S. Restigouche, 15 June '82"
"Two Boys in a Boat" by Peg Pyner, recollections of her brothers Harry and Elton Anderson, with info from 1904-1940s, undated. Copy of Spring Love, Summer Weddings pamphlet, 2005. Info on Peg Pyner's passing, 2009. Email regarding interest in Peg Pyner's letters from 1950-1963 in Barbara Warman's possession, 2013
"Two Boys in a Boat" by Peg Pyner, recollections of her brothers Harry and Elton Anderson, with info from 1904-1940s, undated. Copy of Spring Love, Summer Weddings pamphlet, 2005. Info on Peg Pyner's passing, 2009. Email regarding interest in Peg Pyner's letters from 1950-1963 in Barbara Warman's possession, 2013
File contains a typed manuscript of a school play, "Gracious Living", a one act play in three scenes. Other information about Peggy Pyner, and photocopies of some of her columns, can be found in the CIMAS Informational Files.
Marguerite (Peggy) Flora Pyner (1914-2009) grew up in a family of seven children on Valdes Island. In 1945, she and her husband Jim Pyner bought 62 hectares on Cortes Island (now Hollyhock Retreat Center) for $2,500, where they logged and farmed. Their children Nancy (Anderson) and Barb (Warman) were born in 1946 and 1949. She wrote a weekly column, "The Manson's Landing Mirror" for the Campbell River Courier.
Custodial History
There is no accession record for this file; it has been given an arbitrary FIC (Found In Collection) number based on the date of processing.
Scope and Content
File contains a typed manuscript of a school play, "Gracious Living", a one act play in three scenes. Other information about Peggy Pyner, and photocopies of some of her columns, can be found in the CIMAS Informational Files.
This folder is for the copies of Peg Pyner's column, "Manson's Landing Mirror," containing a wealth of information on local people and daily happenings, 1954-1958
This folder is for the copies of Peg Pyner's column, "Manson's Landing Mirror," containing a wealth of information on local people and daily happenings, 1954-1958
