File contains material relating to the formation of the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Cooperative; agendas and minutes of meetings; newsletters produced by the association; and correspondence.
File contains material relating to the formation of the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Cooperative; agendas and minutes of meetings; newsletters produced by the association; and correspondence.
Fonds contains material relating to the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Coop and the Bee Islets Growers Corp, of which Jordan was a member, and other documents relating to aquaculture.
Joseph (Joe) John Jordan (May 21, 1936 – January 6, 2019) was raised in the Tsawwassen/Point Roberts area. He attended technical college in California, and worked for Monroe Lytton Industries repairing machines and early computers. After returning to BC he became a commercial fisherman, and after moving to Cortes Island in 1976, an oyster grower as well. (See Information files for an obituary).
Custodial History
Records were kept by Joe Jordan and donated to the Museum in 2019 by his wife (and CIMAS president) Lynne Jordan.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains material relating to the Cortes Island Shellfish Growers Coop and the Bee Islets Growers Corp, of which Jordan was a member, and other documents relating to aquaculture.
Photograph of a group of people seated outside the first schoolhouse in Whaletown, which was at the corner of present-day Harbour and Carrington Bay Rds. The same photograph, copied from the collection of Meg Robertson Shaw, is found in the "Whaletown to 1930" album compiled by Doreen Huck Thompson.
The date is given as May 1920, and the people are identified by Doreen Thompson as:
(Back row, L to R) Bert Middleton, Elsie Allen, Alice Strange, Mrs. Barrett (Ina's mom), Meg Robertson, Ina Munro, Mr. Neale
(Front row, L to R) Verna, Melva & Jack Munro, Bernie Allen, Jim Allen, Pete (Margaret) Middleton, Violet Stoney, Miss James, Dolly Borden, Mr. & Mrs. Robertson, Roy Borden in hat
Mrs. Stoney in window
Photograph of a group of people seated outside the first schoolhouse in Whaletown, which was at the corner of present-day Harbour and Carrington Bay Rds. The same photograph, copied from the collection of Meg Robertson Shaw, is found in the "Whaletown to 1930" album compiled by Doreen Huck Thompson.
The date is given as May 1920, and the people are identified by Doreen Thompson as:
(Back row, L to R) Bert Middleton, Elsie Allen, Alice Strange, Mrs. Barrett (Ina's mom), Meg Robertson, Ina Munro, Mr. Neale
(Front row, L to R) Verna, Melva & Jack Munro, Bernie Allen, Jim Allen, Pete (Margaret) Middleton, Violet Stoney, Miss James, Dolly Borden, Mr. & Mrs. Robertson, Roy Borden in hat
Mrs. Stoney in window
Fonds consists of materials generated or gathered by Nursall in the course of his activities as Regional Director for Cortes Island, and as a participant in the Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee and the treaty negotiations process. Fonds is arranged in three series: Regional Director of Cortes Island Electoral Area, Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee, and Treaty Negotiations. Original order has been maintained.
The Regional Director series includes minutes, community plans and maps, correspondence, background material and ephemera. Fonds 2002.001 Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) contains related records.
The Salmon Aquaculture Review series includes terms of reference, correspondence, background information and clippings, material from sessions of the Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee (SARC), submissions from industry and environmental groups, reports, and Nursall's notes and comments.
The Treaty Negotiations series includes records of the Cortes Island Local Advisory Committee (CILAC) including Terms of Reference, minutes, lists of members, correspondence, notes and background material, minutes of meetings of the Klahoose Table and copies of the newsletter "Treaty Talks". There are also records relating to the Desolation Sound Regional Advisory Committee and its successor, the North Island Regional Advisory Committee, and background materials on the treaty negotiation process.
(John) Ralph Nursall was born in 1925. He joined the University of Alberta in 1953 as a lecturer in marine zoology and was granted full professorship in 1964. Nursall chaired the Department of Zoology for three terms, retiring in 1988. A specialist in freshwater biology and the anatomy of fish, he was president of the Edmonton Zoological Society and Chair of the panel on hazardous waste for the Environmental Council of Alberta. Material relating to his professional career may be found in the John Ralph Nursall fonds in the University of Alberta Archives.
Ralph and Mary (Stewart) Nursall (1924-2017) married in 1953. They lived in Edmonton for thirty-five years, both working at the University of Alberta, and moved to Cortes Island in 1989.
Nursall was elected Regional Director of Electoral Area I (Cortes Island) for the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona (RDCS) in November of 1990. He served two terms as Director: 1990-1993, and 1993-1996. From 1995 to 1997 the BC government undertook a comprehensive review of salmon aquaculture; continuing after the end of his term, Nursall represented the RDCS on a Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee. He was involved in the BC First Nations treaty process from 1996 to 2002 as chair of the Cortes Island Local Advisory Committee (CILAC).
Custodial History
This fonds was donated to CIMAS by Ralph Nursall in 2008.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of materials generated or gathered by Nursall in the course of his activities as Regional Director for Cortes Island, and as a participant in the Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee and the treaty negotiations process. Fonds is arranged in three series: Regional Director of Cortes Island Electoral Area, Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee, and Treaty Negotiations. Original order has been maintained.
The Regional Director series includes minutes, community plans and maps, correspondence, background material and ephemera. Fonds 2002.001 Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) contains related records.
The Salmon Aquaculture Review series includes terms of reference, correspondence, background information and clippings, material from sessions of the Salmon Aquaculture Review Committee (SARC), submissions from industry and environmental groups, reports, and Nursall's notes and comments.
The Treaty Negotiations series includes records of the Cortes Island Local Advisory Committee (CILAC) including Terms of Reference, minutes, lists of members, correspondence, notes and background material, minutes of meetings of the Klahoose Table and copies of the newsletter "Treaty Talks". There are also records relating to the Desolation Sound Regional Advisory Committee and its successor, the North Island Regional Advisory Committee, and background materials on the treaty negotiation process.
Regional Director of Cortes Island Electoral Area fonds
John Ralph Nursall fonds at the University of Alberta Archives (https://albertaonrecord.ca/john-ralph-nursall-fonds)
File contains task lists, merchant lists, advertising materials, donor lists, crew lists, correspondence, and financial statements pertaining to Whaletown Community Club plant sales and Gorge Hall work bees.
File contains task lists, merchant lists, advertising materials, donor lists, crew lists, correspondence, and financial statements pertaining to Whaletown Community Club plant sales and Gorge Hall work bees.
Photograph of the cabin at Channel Rock, sitting above the water on a large rock, with a forested bluff behind. The photograph was taken from Lavender Islet, just across a small bay.
Photograph of the cabin at Channel Rock, sitting above the water on a large rock, with a forested bluff behind. The photograph was taken from Lavender Islet, just across a small bay.
