File contains Shirley (Ellingsen) Cole's reminiscences of life in Von Donop; notes from a meeting about logging in Von Donop; and interviews with May, Elmer, Bruce and Andy Ellingsen and with Norah Cowan Thompson.
File contains Shirley (Ellingsen) Cole's reminiscences of life in Von Donop; notes from a meeting about logging in Von Donop; and interviews with May, Elmer, Bruce and Andy Ellingsen and with Norah Cowan Thompson.
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).
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey.Photograph of four men standing beside a steam donkey. Other copies of this photograph are 2004.001.031; Campbell River Museum #13642, and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Donkey logging at Haywire Point, Hernando Island. Wilfred Manson, with cousins Nicol Manson and Jack Manson and brother-in-law Ervin McKay, standing in front of a steam donkey.Photograph of four men standing beside a steam donkey. Other copies of this photograph are 2004.001.031; Campbell River Museum #13642, and on p.32 of May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection, Album 5, p. 32 (fonds 2004.002).
Photograph of a logging camp in Lewis Channel, Cortes Island. Note chute - owned by Doug Forrest, Laurie Forrest and Herb Morrison. Note out house by the water. (description by May Ellingsen)(Item #2007.001.585 is a duplicate.)
Photograph of a logging camp in Lewis Channel, Cortes Island. Note chute - owned by Doug Forrest, Laurie Forrest and Herb Morrison. Note out house by the water. (description by May Ellingsen)(Item #2007.001.585 is a duplicate.)
Photograph of the scene of the steam donkey explosion on Gunflint Lake. One man was killed; a piece of the donkey went through the air and landed on the other side of the lake. (Item #2007.001.697 is a duplicate.)
Photograph of the scene of the steam donkey explosion on Gunflint Lake. One man was killed; a piece of the donkey went through the air and landed on the other side of the lake. (Item #2007.001.697 is a duplicate.)
Photograph of members of the Manson's Landing Women's Institute outside the home of Rose Tiber in Tiber Bay. Jack ??, who provided transportation, is also in the photo.
L to R: Eva Freeman, Mary Jeffery, Isla (Cowan) Forrest, Flo McKay, Anna Middleton, Mary Cowan
L to R kneeling: Betty Jeffery holding Joan Jeffery (daughter of Nellie Jeffery), Julia Smith, Rose Tiber
Photograph of members of the Manson's Landing Women's Institute outside the home of Rose Tiber in Tiber Bay. Jack ??, who provided transportation, is also in the photo.
L to R: Eva Freeman, Mary Jeffery, Isla (Cowan) Forrest, Flo McKay, Anna Middleton, Mary Cowan
L to R kneeling: Betty Jeffery holding Joan Jeffery (daughter of Nellie Jeffery), Julia Smith, Rose Tiber