Myrtle (Nerine) Hayes standing in front of the top gate at "Spit House", Manson's Lagoon. When the Hayes family arrived on Cortes Island in 1917, they rented the "Big House", formerly the house of the Michael Manson family at Manson's Lagoon. The first Manson home, a cottage, was past the "Big House" towards the end of the sand spit. (Photograph from the Hayes family.)
Myrtle (Nerine) Hayes standing in front of the top gate at "Spit House", Manson's Lagoon. When the Hayes family arrived on Cortes Island in 1917, they rented the "Big House", formerly the house of the Michael Manson family at Manson's Lagoon. The first Manson home, a cottage, was past the "Big House" towards the end of the sand spit. (Photograph from the Hayes family.)
Photograph of the house beside the creek at the Robertson homestead in Whaletown, "Burnside". To the left is a tall round shingled water tower. (Same as #2003.002.471)
Photograph of the house beside the creek at the Robertson homestead in Whaletown, "Burnside". To the left is a tall round shingled water tower. (Same as #2003.002.471)
Photograph of Mrs. Charles (Jenny) Allen, her father, her adopted daughter Elsie (born 1903), and an orphan boy who was returned to the orphanage, on the porch of their house in Gorge Harbour. The house stood where the Floathouse Restaurant at the Gorge Harbour Marina is today (2013).
Photograph of Mrs. Charles (Jenny) Allen, her father, her adopted daughter Elsie (born 1903), and an orphan boy who was returned to the orphanage, on the porch of their house in Gorge Harbour. The house stood where the Floathouse Restaurant at the Gorge Harbour Marina is today (2013).
Photograph of the extended Hayes family, identified on the back as:
Back: Marjorie, George, Nerine, Art, Bill, Dorothy, Alice, Jack, Florence, Nora, Bettie
Front- Georgie, Granda with Nerine, Mary and Frankie, Grandma with June (2 or 3 years old), Rody
Photograph of the extended Hayes family, identified on the back as:
Back: Marjorie, George, Nerine, Art, Bill, Dorothy, Alice, Jack, Florence, Nora, Bettie
Front- Georgie, Granda with Nerine, Mary and Frankie, Grandma with June (2 or 3 years old), Rody