Part Of

CIMAS ephemera collection

Description Level

File

File Number

15

Date Range

2005

Scope and Content

File contains one copy of the Cortes Health Center fund-raising calendar.

Storage Location

Ephemera box 1-15

Subject Access

Health care

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CIMAS ephemera collection

Description Level

File

File Number

3

Material Type

textual records

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1990s]

Physical Description

1 printed booklet

Scope and Content

File contains a booklet with colour photographs of roadside signs on Cortes Island.

Storage Location

Ephemera box 1-3

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.008

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. Topics covered include how Elmer came to the island and met May; logging experiences; Cortes roads and telephone system; and living at Von Donop Inlet. Several humorous stories are related. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.009

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. May traces her family history and then talks about her childhood on Cortes and Hernando Islands; meeting and marrying Elmer; living in a float house at logging camps in Loughborough Inlet, Phillips Arm and Von Donop Inlet; and moving the house to Hague Lake in 1952. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Hentschel, Diane

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.027

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[ca.2003]

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Dianne Hentschel.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Abelson,Martha

Milton, Jill

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.028

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

2003

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Martha Abelson and Jill Milton. Topics covered include Manson family history; May's reminiscences about her childhood on Cortes; schools.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.049

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1981

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is of a sing-along led by Elmer Ellingsen interspersed with reminiscences.

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

53

Date Range

2014

Scope and Content

Clipping, school open for registration, 2014

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.015

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.016

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

103

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

27

Date Range

1963-2019

Scope and Content

Co-operative Fire and Casualty Company info regarding request to insure a property, Mr and Mrs Ellingsen, 1963. Licensing and insurance papers for E. Ellingsen, 1968-1970. Info on residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and investment real estate, "Growing with Vancouver," featuring Bruce Ellingsen, 1974. Excerpts from The Columbia is Coming!, Doris Andersen, 1982. Receipts from Mansons Landing Store for May and Elmer Ellingsen, 1982-1987. Old notebook cover, Elmer Ellingsen, undated. Info on memorials: Elmer Ellingsen, 2002; May Ellingsen, 2012; and Virginia Hazel Ellingsen, 2019. Letter from Etta to CIMAS, 2012. Invoice for art purchased by CIMAS from David Ellingsen, 2017. Info on The Last Stand, D. Ellingsen, 2019. Info on Cortes Connection, 2019. Photo of Dianne Hentschel, Nellie Jeffrey, May Ellingsen, undated.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

27.1

Date Range

2002

Scope and Content

Written reminiscences of Elmer Ellingsen by family and community members collected at his memorial.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0055

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 24.5 x 19.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas (second from right) and members of the Women's Institute executive.

Subject Access

Women's Institute

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0056

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950-1960]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 24.5 x 19.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas with members of the Women's Institute (Needs ID)

Subject Access

Women's Institute

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0409

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1970

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the sign marking the property boundary of Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0573

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1972

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 12.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of signs at the ferry landing: Soft Pavement, no horses allowed; Campbell - Social Credit).

Subject Access

Ferries

Transportation

Water transport

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0665

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

L to R: Art Hayes, (ID), (ID), Mrs. A. J. Hayes, (ID), (ID), Frank Hayes (grandson)

Geographic Access

Cortes Bay

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0667

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

L to R: (ID), (ID), Art Hayes, Grandpa A. J. Hayes, Frank Hayes (grandson). See also #1999.001.665

Geographic Access

Cortes Bay

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0852

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1927

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas (second from left) holding a rifle and three men (two with guns and one holding an unidentified animal upside down), standing in front of a log building at Limberlost.

Subject Access

Hunting

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