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Mrs. James Nixon of Twin Islands posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck

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Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1913]
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck. "This is a pose only. Her husband shot the deer. They lived alone on Twin Islands and picture taking was a pleasant pastime. She was two years older than her husband's mother. They were very happy and a very fine couple. She was an English-trained nurse for missionary work. Married a missionary doctor. They went to India where the doctor died of fever so she left. Eventually came to Canada where she met and married Capt. James Nixon. Note the scar on her left cheek. While in India an insect went up her nose. It burrowed into the bone and the doctors were never able to effect a cure- it eventually reached the area of the brain. She had to undergo an operation and did not survive the operation. Her husband was desolated." (May Ellingsen).
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
2
Item Number
2004.002.044
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1913]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck. "This is a pose only. Her husband shot the deer. They lived alone on Twin Islands and picture taking was a pleasant pastime. She was two years older than her husband's mother. They were very happy and a very fine couple. She was an English-trained nurse for missionary work. Married a missionary doctor. They went to India where the doctor died of fever so she left. Eventually came to Canada where she met and married Capt. James Nixon. Note the scar on her left cheek. While in India an insect went up her nose. It burrowed into the bone and the doctors were never able to effect a cure- it eventually reached the area of the brain. She had to undergo an operation and did not survive the operation. Her husband was desolated." (May Ellingsen).
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Hunting
Geographic Access
Twin Islands
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"Joyce Allen and a hawk, Redlands, 1922"

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Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of Joyce Allen, dressed in overalls and holding a dead hawk by its outspread wings, at the Robertson homestead Redlands.
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Whalley, Dorothy Huck
Fonds Number
2011.001
Series Number
2
Item Number
2011.001.321
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 8 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Joyce Allen, dressed in overalls and holding a dead hawk by its outspread wings, at the Robertson homestead Redlands.
Subject Access
Hunting
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Mrs. James A. Nixon posing with a rifle and the geese shot by James A. Nixon

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Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1915
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing on the stairs of her home on Twin Islands with a gun and the geese shot by James A. Nixon. Capt. James A. Nixon's father, Rev. Harpur C. Nixon bought the property and paid for the building of the house.
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
2
Item Number
2004.002.058
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1915
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing on the stairs of her home on Twin Islands with a gun and the geese shot by James A. Nixon. Capt. James A. Nixon's father, Rev. Harpur C. Nixon bought the property and paid for the building of the house.
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Hunting
Geographic Access
Twin Islands
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Bertha and Frank Tooker at home in Coulter Bay

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2018.002
Date Range
1914-1917
Scope and Content
"Note the 38.55 Winchester rifle leaning on porch rail beside Frank. This and the .56 were since referred to as the guns that "won the West". Frank holds a .22 Winchester that got many grouse and some deer. The 38.55 W. was Frank Tooker Sr's and now belongs to grandson Fred Reedel--a keepsake from early days on Cortes Island."
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.578
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1914-1917
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 12.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
"Note the 38.55 Winchester rifle leaning on porch rail beside Frank. This and the .56 were since referred to as the guns that "won the West". Frank holds a .22 Winchester that got many grouse and some deer. The 38.55 W. was Frank Tooker Sr's and now belongs to grandson Fred Reedel--a keepsake from early days on Cortes Island."
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Hunting
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