Materials relating to the formation of the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona and Cortes Island APC including inquiries concerning museums and the legal status of historic artifacts.
File consists of papers about the start of the local Women's Institutes, including a letter by May Ellingsen outlining the history of the women's service groups in Manson's Landing.
File consists of papers about the start of the local Women's Institutes, including a letter by May Ellingsen outlining the history of the women's service groups in Manson's Landing.
Clippings with Strathcona Regional District public hearing notices, referendums, funding, elections, controversies, hearings, and other regional district information, 1973-2021. Regional Director reports and newsletters (George Sirk, Jenny Hiebert, Jim Abram, Noba Anderson), 1998-2018. Posters, pamphlets, and additional information. Note: file in two folders due to size
Clippings with Strathcona Regional District public hearing notices, referendums, funding, elections, controversies, hearings, and other regional district information, 1973-2021. Regional Director reports and newsletters (George Sirk, Jenny Hiebert, Jim Abram, Noba Anderson), 1998-2018. Posters, pamphlets, and additional information. Note: file in two folders due to size
Gas Tax/Public Transit Management Services letter from gov BC, 2006. Info on the Community Works Fund in emails, notes, reports, schedules, and letters, 2011-2012.
Gas Tax/Public Transit Management Services letter from gov BC, 2006. Info on the Community Works Fund in emails, notes, reports, schedules, and letters, 2011-2012.
Regional District Conference, Dept. of Municipal affairs - program of the conference including agenda and presentations by Deputy Ministers of provincial ministries on the relationships between roles of the Regional District level and the provincial level of government.
Sous-fonds consists of records of the Cortes Island Women's Institute. It is arranged in nine series: Minutes, Reports, Financial, Administrative Records, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera, Photographs and Artifacts.
The Cortes Island Women's institute was formed in 1984. Although Cortes Island had historically been difficult to traverse, and the communities consequently insular, by the 1980s the road systems were such that "a Women's Institute for the whole of Cortes Island" seemed to make sense.
CIWI was founded with the bank balance of a Manson's Landing service group called the Ladies Guild, which was founded in the 1940s. When membership and activity in the guild declined in the 1970s, the focus was shifted to a renovation and addition to Manson's Hall. Once the Hall had been sufficiently updated, it was thought that the remaining funds might be put to use "creating an instrument for better communication between all our women and a chance to work together in the community".
Charter members of the CIWI were Heather Berry, Peggy Newsham, Maryann McCoy, Linda Hendricks, and Mary Block.
Custodial History
Records were donated to CIMAS by the Island Women's Club in 2009.
Scope and Content
Sous-fonds consists of records of the Cortes Island Women's Institute. It is arranged in nine series: Minutes, Reports, Financial, Administrative Records, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera, Photographs and Artifacts.