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 a group people in front of the home of Charles and Jenny Allen in Gorge Harbour (site of the present-day Gorge Harbour Marina).
L to R, front: Mrs C. Allen with adopted daughter Elsie on her lap, orphan boy behind her, Mrs. John Manson ("Auntie Maggie")
Above: Florence Manson, Mrs. Mike Manson, Gwen Robertson; Flossie Manson above Mrs. M. Manson.
Photograph of a group people in front of the home of Charles and Jenny Allen in Gorge Harbour (site of the present-day Gorge Harbour Marina).
L to R, front: Mrs C. Allen with adopted daughter Elsie on her lap, orphan boy behind her, Mrs. John Manson ("Auntie Maggie")
Above: Florence Manson, Mrs. Mike Manson, Gwen Robertson; Flossie Manson above Mrs. M. Manson.
Identified on the verso (May Ellingsen's handwriting) as (L to R) Jack Manson, Anna Manson, Beatrice Hawkins, Meg Robertson, Mabel Hawkins.
Jack Manson has his arm in a sling; he had suffered an accident while working in the woods.
Found on shelf, November 2021, in an envelope labelled "Early Days Cortes Island. Enclosed Etta Byers' stuff including her typed story".
Scope and Content
Identified on the verso (May Ellingsen's handwriting) as (L to R) Jack Manson, Anna Manson, Beatrice Hawkins, Meg Robertson, Mabel Hawkins.
Jack Manson has his arm in a sling; he had suffered an accident while working in the woods.
Photograph of group of people in front of a horse and wagon, taken near the barn at Sunny Brae farm.
L to R: John Manson, Rose Manson, Mrs. Bobbie, niece Tina Jamieson in front of Mrs. Bobbie
Photograph of group of people in front of a horse and wagon, taken near the barn at Sunny Brae farm.
L to R: John Manson, Rose Manson, Mrs. Bobbie, niece Tina Jamieson in front of Mrs. Bobbie
Photo of same group of people as #1999.001.2472, except with Ken Slater at far right
(L to R): Wilf Freeman, (ID), Elmer Ellingsen, Dan Campbell, Bud Guthrie, Nesta Slater, George Griffin, Harry Huck, Ken Slater
Photo of same group of people as #1999.001.2472, except with Ken Slater at far right
(L to R): Wilf Freeman, (ID), Elmer Ellingsen, Dan Campbell, Bud Guthrie, Nesta Slater, George Griffin, Harry Huck, Ken Slater
Back, L to R: (ID unknown), Jessie Thornton, John Nagle, Ruth Byers, Pat Robertson, Marg Dalskog
Center: Margaret Walsh, Dell Tooker, Meg Shaw, (ID unknown), Madeleine Emanuelson, Louise Kendrick
Front: Sid Fry, Velma Bergman
Back, L to R: (ID unknown), Jessie Thornton, John Nagle, Ruth Byers, Pat Robertson, Marg Dalskog
Center: Margaret Walsh, Dell Tooker, Meg Shaw, (ID unknown), Madeleine Emanuelson, Louise Kendrick
Front: Sid Fry, Velma Bergman
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