Photograph of a group of people seated on the steps of the home of Charles (Charlie) Allen in the Gorge Harbour (on the site of what is now the Gorge Harbour Marina.) The people are not identified.
Photograph of a group of people seated on the steps of the home of Charles (Charlie) Allen in the Gorge Harbour (on the site of what is now the Gorge Harbour Marina.) The people are not identified.
Photograph of Meg Robertson, Elsie Allen and Margaret (Pete) Middleton, standing in front of the stairs up to the Allen's house in Gorge Harbour (now the Gorge Harbour Marina).
Photograph of Meg Robertson, Elsie Allen and Margaret (Pete) Middleton, standing in front of the stairs up to the Allen's house in Gorge Harbour (now the Gorge Harbour Marina).
File contains a notebook used as a guest book for Cortez Lodge. It has lists of names of guests with occupations, addresses and charges for room and board. Records are listed by day and month but there is no year date.
Michael Manson started a trading post at Manson's Spit in the 1880s. In 1910, the "Lodge" was built to house the Mike Manson family. Many people - students and loggers - flowed through the building. In 1921 Hazel Manson and her husband Henry Herrewig moved into the Lodge, later turning part of it into a small store. Mr. and Mrs. Jacks rented the Lodge in 1940 and constructed the front half of a new building which became the Manson's Landing store. The Lodge, store and property was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Lowe and their in-laws, Ev and Jack Summers. Many improvements were made including living quarters in the store, cabins for rent along the beach and a coffee shop where Mrs. Summers sold her famous pies. Jim Taylor owned the property in the 1960s and it was sold to the government after his death. In 1974 the government designated the 117 acres at Manson's Landing a provincial park. The store continued to operate until 1995, but the Lodge and other buildings were dismantled soon after.
Custodial History
There is no accession record; an arbitrary FIC (Found In Collection) number based on the date of processing has been given.
Scope and Content
File contains a notebook used as a guest book for Cortez Lodge. It has lists of names of guests with occupations, addresses and charges for room and board. Records are listed by day and month but there is no year date.
Photograph of (L to R) Lorine, Mrs. Charles Allen, Mrs. Munn, Mr. Munn (in uniform) and Margaret (Meg) Robertson, standing in front of a house bordered with flowering bushes, probably at the Allen homestead, Bute Ranch, on Gorge Harbour.
Photograph of (L to R) Lorine, Mrs. Charles Allen, Mrs. Munn, Mr. Munn (in uniform) and Margaret (Meg) Robertson, standing in front of a house bordered with flowering bushes, probably at the Allen homestead, Bute Ranch, on Gorge Harbour.
Photograph of four young women pulling a wooden rowboat onto the shore, Gorge Harbour. Left to right: Dorothy Huck, Joyce Allen, Marge (?) and Jean Cornell. Identification comes from a photograph from the collection of Meg Robertson Shaw in the "Whaletown to 1930" album created by Doreen Huck Thompson.
Photograph of four young women pulling a wooden rowboat onto the shore, Gorge Harbour. Left to right: Dorothy Huck, Joyce Allen, Marge (?) and Jean Cornell. Identification comes from a photograph from the collection of Meg Robertson Shaw in the "Whaletown to 1930" album created by Doreen Huck Thompson.
Photograph of Elsie Allen standing beside sheep, with two cows in the pen in back of her, at the Allen homestead in Gorge Harbour (site of present-day Gorge Harbour Marina).
Photograph of Elsie Allen standing beside sheep, with two cows in the pen in back of her, at the Allen homestead in Gorge Harbour (site of present-day Gorge Harbour Marina).
Photograph of the house of Charles Allen in Gorge Harbour (site of present-day Gorge Harbour Marina). The photo is taken from the rocks at the shore. To the right of the house a rock retaining wall, a rocky bluff, and a boathouse at the high tide line can be seen.
Photograph of the house of Charles Allen in Gorge Harbour (site of present-day Gorge Harbour Marina). The photo is taken from the rocks at the shore. To the right of the house a rock retaining wall, a rocky bluff, and a boathouse at the high tide line can be seen.