File contains a placemat from the Taka Mika Restaurant, owned by Benny and Ruth Beaulieu, opened in 1986 and closed 11 years later. The placemat has some First Nations information and Manson's Landing history.
File contains a placemat from the Taka Mika Restaurant, owned by Benny and Ruth Beaulieu, opened in 1986 and closed 11 years later. The placemat has some First Nations information and Manson's Landing history.
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.
File contains a Cortes Island School yearbook 1994/15. In 1995 Ed Piggott retired after 20 years as the school principal. Yearbook originally belonged to Lorena Teames.
File contains a Cortes Island School yearbook 1994/15. In 1995 Ed Piggott retired after 20 years as the school principal. Yearbook originally belonged to Lorena Teames.
File contains two copies of the booklet "Birds of Cortes and Mittlenatch Islands, a checklist with seasonal graphs" by George Sirk, Christian Gronau and Fred Zwickel, published by the authors in 1993.
File contains two copies of the booklet "Birds of Cortes and Mittlenatch Islands, a checklist with seasonal graphs" by George Sirk, Christian Gronau and Fred Zwickel, published by the authors in 1993.
File contains four breakfast/lunch menus from the Wharfhouse Restaurant (three are encapsulated), The Wharfhouse was started and run by Paula Snow at the Hacienda Marina (later the Gorge Harbour Marina). It was originally a small building located at the head of the wharf. Later the building was pulled up the hill and enlarged, to eventually become the present-day (2022) Floathouse Restaurant.
Found in files. Donated by Paula Snow (exact date unknown).
Scope and Content
File contains four breakfast/lunch menus from the Wharfhouse Restaurant (three are encapsulated), The Wharfhouse was started and run by Paula Snow at the Hacienda Marina (later the Gorge Harbour Marina). It was originally a small building located at the head of the wharf. Later the building was pulled up the hill and enlarged, to eventually become the present-day (2022) Floathouse Restaurant.
File consists of offers of fuit trees and rose bushes from the BC Nurseries Company and a "Scribbler" notebook with Muriel Whiting's notes on growing fruit trees and bushes, with some newspaper clippings between the pages.
File consists of offers of fuit trees and rose bushes from the BC Nurseries Company and a "Scribbler" notebook with Muriel Whiting's notes on growing fruit trees and bushes, with some newspaper clippings between the pages.
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Muriel Horner Whiting (1882-1977) and William Henry Evans Whiting (1853-1927) settled on Cortes in about 1918, having purchased 58 acres of land in Whaletown (present-day 1474 and 1416 Robertson Rd.) from Charles Allen. Their son Basil Evans Whiting was born in 1923.
William Whiting was considerably older than Muriel; he died in 1927 and is buried in the old Whaletown cemetery. After his death, Muriel supported herself by raising poultry and eggs for sale and by taking in boarders. Her only son, Basil, joined the Royal Canadian Navy just before the outbreak of World War II. He lost his life at the age of 19, when the destroyer HMCS "Ottawa" was torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 13,1942. His war medals are in the Cortes Island Museum Artifacts Collection.
Muriel remained on Cortes until the late 1960s; she died in Whiterock in 1977. Although the Whiting house burned down in 1982, remnants of the homestead remain: a tumble-down barn built of hand-split cedar boards, a few old apple trees and some hardy garden survivors such as japonica, mock orange, and St. Johnswort. The yellow primroses in the Museum garden are descendents of her flowers.
Custodial History
This material was found stored in the barn on the former Whiting property in 1971. It was passed down through several owners of the property before being donated to the museum by Sabina Leader-Mense in 2018.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Collection consists of ephemera relating to the history of Cortes Island. Ephemera not belonging to another fonds or collection in the Archives have been described as part of this collection.
Donor information is described at the file level where it is known; however the provenance of many records in this collection is unknown.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of ephemera relating to the history of Cortes Island. Ephemera not belonging to another fonds or collection in the Archives have been described as part of this collection.
Donated to CIMAS by Lorena Teames in 2009. The cards were given to her as a gift from Bobby Ballantyne when Lorena Teames moved to Cortes Island in 1969.
Scope and Content
File contains six enclosure cards with pressed flowers, made by Elizabeth (Bobby) Ballantyne.
File contains newspaper pages from "Everywoman's World" with an article on the founder of the Women's Institutes, Adelaide Hoodless. The article has been photocopied; the original is deteriorating.
File contains newspaper pages from "Everywoman's World" with an article on the founder of the Women's Institutes, Adelaide Hoodless. The article has been photocopied; the original is deteriorating.
File contains a copy of a cookbook compiled and produced by Joan Disney and Joanne Saunders for the benefit of the building maintenance fund of the Cortes Island Community Church Mission. The booklet consists of photocopied pages, 14 cm x 22 cm in size, tied together with blue yarn.
File contains a copy of a cookbook compiled and produced by Joan Disney and Joanne Saunders for the benefit of the building maintenance fund of the Cortes Island Community Church Mission. The booklet consists of photocopied pages, 14 cm x 22 cm in size, tied together with blue yarn.
File consists of master pages of a fund-raising cookbook produced by the Whaletown Women's Institute. Typed recipes are pasted onto construction paper sheets; sheets are crumbling.
Complete copies of the cookbook may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds and the Island Women's Club fonds.
File consists of master pages of a fund-raising cookbook produced by the Whaletown Women's Institute. Typed recipes are pasted onto construction paper sheets; sheets are crumbling.
Complete copies of the cookbook may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds and the Island Women's Club fonds.
File contains a cerlox-bound copy of a booklet created by the students of the 1996 Outdoor Education and Marine Studies class of Cortes Island school with the help of the teacher, Lisa Thompson.
File contains a cerlox-bound copy of a booklet created by the students of the 1996 Outdoor Education and Marine Studies class of Cortes Island school with the help of the teacher, Lisa Thompson.
File contains a self-published booklet containing illustrations and notes about Whaletown, "a collection of facts, poems, short stories and drawings to enhance your visit."
File contains a self-published booklet containing illustrations and notes about Whaletown, "a collection of facts, poems, short stories and drawings to enhance your visit."
File contains two catalogs from Cold Mountain, one dated Summer 1972 and one undated. Cold Mountain Institute was a growth centre which operated from the late 1960s to 1980.
File contains two catalogs from Cold Mountain, one dated Summer 1972 and one undated. Cold Mountain Institute was a growth centre which operated from the late 1960s to 1980.