Part Of

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

Creator

Gzowski, Peter

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.031

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[198?]

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording consists of a CBC radio interview of Peggy Newsham about her salt and pepper shaker collection, by Peter Gzowski for "Morningside". It was recorded from the radio broadcast on a cassette tape previously used for Christmas music.

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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 audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

1

Item Number

2023.007.001

Accession Number

2023.007

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

2023

Physical Description

1 .mp3 file : 36.2 MB

Custodial History

Recorded by Lisa Gibbons on her iPhone, July 15, 2023

Scope and Content

Recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences at Refuge Cove, recorded by Lisa Gibbons during a museum-sponsored trip to Refuge Cove on the "Misty Isles". See also the digitized photographs from Norm Gibbons' album which illustrate many of the stories in the recording. (Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds, Series 5, File 2)

Name Access

Gibbons, Norm

Gibbons, Lisa

Geographic Access

Refuge Cove

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

2

Item Number

2006.002.009

Accession Number

2006.002

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1992

Physical Description

1 DVD

Custodial History

Donated by Howie Roman.

Scope and Content

DVD of performances at a Variety Night held at the Gorge Hall.

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

2

Item Number

2007.004.006

Accession Number

2007.004

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1990

Physical Description

1 DVD, copied from an original VHS tape

Custodial History

Copied from George Sirk's VHS tapes with his permission to use the contents for display and research purposes.

Scope and Content

DVD with footage shot by George Sirk of the OAP Christmas party, 1990. Copyright George Sirk; to be used for display and research purposes only.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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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

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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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

57

Date Range

early 1900s-2020

Scope and Content

Info on World War I and World War II, local veterans, and remembrance day, early 1900s-2020

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.5

Sub-series Number

1.5

File Number

75

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1943]

Scope and Content

"Mountain Year" - "corrected copy" (carbon typescript)

Storage Location

2-9

Storage Range

2-9

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.5

Sub-series Number

1.5

File Number

76

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1943]

Scope and Content

Bound typescript of "Mountain Year", retitled "Silence Is My Homeland"

Storage Location

2-10

Storage Range

2-10

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0011

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1914

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas (far right) with three friends on a tennis court. They are all dressed in long tennis dresses, holding tennis rackets.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0316

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the cabin at Channel Rock, covered in at least a foot of snow.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0629

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1944-1954]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 17 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Yvonne and Louise, daughters of Rollo and Kathleen Boas, in front of a brick fireplace.

Subject Access

Columbia Coast Mission

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0846

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1916]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas, age 16, standing between two people.

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