This fonds comprises records of four Cortes Island women's service organizations, including minutes, financial records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, ephemera and artifacts. It is arranged in four sous-fonds according to the creator of the records: Whaletown Women's Institute (2009.001.1); Whaletown Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church (2009.001.2); Cortes Island Women's Institute (2009.001.3); and Island Women's Club (2009.001.3). Related material in CIMAS archives may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds (1999.002), the Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001), and the May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds (2007.001).
The Island Women's Club was formed in 2000, when the members of the Cortes Island Women's Institute withdrew from the British Columbia Women's Institute in order to focus their efforts locally. It was the successor to previous women's service organizations on Cortes, local branches of the Women's Institute and the Anglican Church Women's Auxiliary. Activities included awarding bursaries to graduating high school students, contributing to school projects such as printing yearbooks, sponsoring sports teams and building playground equipment, supporting the community halls and organizing memorial teas on behalf of bereaved families. They disbanded in 2016.
Custodial History
After they disbanded, records of the Whaletown Women's Institute and the Whaletown Women's Auxiliary passed into the hands of the Cortes Island Women's Institute and its successor, Island Women's Club, who donated them to CIMAS in 2009. The organizational records created by the Island Women's Club were donated to CIMAS in 2018.
Scope and Content
This fonds comprises records of four Cortes Island women's service organizations, including minutes, financial records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, ephemera and artifacts. It is arranged in four sous-fonds according to the creator of the records: Whaletown Women's Institute (2009.001.1); Whaletown Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church (2009.001.2); Cortes Island Women's Institute (2009.001.3); and Island Women's Club (2009.001.3). Related material in CIMAS archives may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds (1999.002), the Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001), and the May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds (2007.001).
Slide shows (L to R): Pat McCoy, Jeannie Mathews, Brigid Weiler, Sheril Mathews, Johnny Weiler and teacher Don McDevitt; Heather and Ian Maclean are in front
Slide shows (L to R): Pat McCoy, Jeannie Mathews, Brigid Weiler, Sheril Mathews, Johnny Weiler and teacher Don McDevitt; Heather and Ian Maclean are in front
Slide shows, in the back row, L to R: Teacher Don McDevitt with his hands on the shoulders of (ID), Johnny Weiler, Sheril Mathews, Pat McCoy
Middle: Heather Maclean, Jeannie Mathews, Ian Maclean
Front: Doug McCoy, Philip Bergman, Janice Maclean, ? (ID), Sarah Weiler in pink dress, Ricky Mathews
Slide shows, in the back row, L to R: Teacher Don McDevitt with his hands on the shoulders of (ID), Johnny Weiler, Sheril Mathews, Pat McCoy
Middle: Heather Maclean, Jeannie Mathews, Ian Maclean
Front: Doug McCoy, Philip Bergman, Janice Maclean, ? (ID), Sarah Weiler in pink dress, Ricky Mathews
