Clippings, emails, posters, brochures and pamphlets with info on museum history and featuring museum exhibits and events, 1996-2017. Copy of B.C. Museum Roundup, British Columbia Museum Association, 2001. Info on Museum stats and lease, 2010-2017
Clippings, emails, posters, brochures and pamphlets with info on museum history and featuring museum exhibits and events, 1996-2017. Copy of B.C. Museum Roundup, British Columbia Museum Association, 2001. Info on Museum stats and lease, 2010-2017
Info on social gatherings of early settlers such as picnics, shows and dances. Printed photos and descriptions of settler social life from 1930s-1950s. Old posters for Community Club meeting and a Masquerade Ball. Keywords: Boat Days, Cortes Day, Regatta at Corneille's.
Info on social gatherings of early settlers such as picnics, shows and dances. Printed photos and descriptions of settler social life from 1930s-1950s. Old posters for Community Club meeting and a Masquerade Ball. Keywords: Boat Days, Cortes Day, Regatta at Corneille's.
File contains an informational booklet created by the Friends of Cortes through a grant from Canada Works. Topics include island geography, social and natural history, place names and tourist education.
File contains an informational booklet created by the Friends of Cortes through a grant from Canada Works. Topics include island geography, social and natural history, place names and tourist education.
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.
File contains newsletters, correspondence, report of the helipad committee, Nursall's notes on the helipad, and a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation.
File contains newsletters, correspondence, report of the helipad committee, Nursall's notes on the helipad, and a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation.
File contains newspaper articles about pulp mill pollution and a publication by Rex Weyler, "Seafood and Pulp: Striking a Balance in the Georgia Strait".
File contains newspaper articles about pulp mill pollution and a publication by Rex Weyler, "Seafood and Pulp: Striking a Balance in the Georgia Strait".