Part Of

May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

1

File Number

10

Item Number

2004.003.016

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1907

Physical Description

1 photograph postcard: b&w; 14 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

A.B. Freeman in uniform. He was a bugler in the 91st Canadian Scottish (Kelties). He owned property on the right side of the entry to Gorge Harbour.

Storage Location

Photo Box 3

Location - Copy

Vol. 6, p. 6b

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0011

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1914

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas (far right) with three friends on a tennis court. They are all dressed in long tennis dresses, holding tennis rackets.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0847

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1922

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 5 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas while on her cross-country automobile trip, holding up two oranges.

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Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Whalley, Dorothy Huck

Fonds Number

2011.001

Series Number

2

Item Number

2011.001.438

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1923

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of high school girls playing tug-o-war, Woodrow, Sk.

Geographic Access

Saskatchewan

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.264

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1926

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of two men and a girl standing beside a pile of hay. This is the same background as #277. Possibly at Sunny Brae?

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.604

Accession Number

2018.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1927

Physical Description

2 photograph prints: b&w; 16 x 11 cm

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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Island Women's Club fonds

Description Level

File

Creator

Whaletown Women's Institute

Fonds Number

2009.001.1

Sous Fonds Number

1

Series Number

4

File Number

1

Accession Number

2009.001

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1930

Scope and Content

File consists of a report on Girl Guide work sponsered by the Whaletown Women's Institute.

Storage Location

1-17

Storage Range

1-17

Subject Access

Women's Institute

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Peggy Newsham fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.007

Item Number

2019.007.004

Accession Number

2019.007

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1946

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm

Custodial History

Donated by Dennis Newsham and Frances Guthrie after Peggy Newsham's death.

Storage Location

Photo Box 3

Name Access

Newsham, Peggy

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Wilfred Freeman fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2001.001

Series Number

2

File Number

11

Accession Number

2002.002

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1957

Scope and Content

Guide to community recreation associations put out by the provincial Community Programmes Branch, Dept. of Education.

Storage Range

1-14

Name Access

Freeman, Wilfred

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Mary and Otto Weiler fonds

Description Level

File

Creator

Zim, Herbert and Gabrielson, Ira

Fonds Number

2003.002

Series Number

5

File Number

2

Accession Number

2022.05

Material Type

textual record

Edition

Revised edition, 1956

Date Range

1962

Publication

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York

Physical Description

1 book, 160 pages

Custodial History

Donated by Brigid Weiler, Aug 2023

Scope and Content

File consists of a paperback book "Birds: A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds", with notes on dates and locations of bird sightings on Cortes Island made by Otto Weiler and Brigid Weiler. The cover is missing.

Storage Location

1-30

Name Access

Weiler, Mary

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0340

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1963

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 11 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Nesta Slater and Ellen Musclow dressed up in pioneer clothes, probably at the Fiesta at Manson's Spit.

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Mary and Otto Weiler fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Weiler, Mary

Fonds Number

2003.002

Series Number

1

Item Number

2003.002.175

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1963

Physical Description

1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Slide shows (L to R): Jeannie Mathews, Heather Maclean, Sheril Mathews, Johnnie Weiler, Lynn Bergman and Christine Weiler; Doris Maclean behind.

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Name Access

Weiler, Mary

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

Whaletown

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Mary and Otto Weiler fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Weiler, Mary

Fonds Number

2003.002

Series Number

1

Item Number

2003.002.177

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1963

Physical Description

1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Name Access

Weiler, Mary

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Mary and Otto Weiler fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Weiler, Mary

Fonds Number

2003.002

Series Number

1

Item Number

2003.002.178

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1964

Physical Description

1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Name Access

Weiler, Mary

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.298

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1967

Physical Description

1 photograph print: tinted; 15 x 20 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a girl holding a kitten, beside an out-building with hand-split cedar board siding. The location is identified as "Cortes Island, The Gorge" and the date as 1956. (Oversize)

Storage Location

Photo box 4

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0580

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1972

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Others in photograph: Pearl Graham with camera; Lottie McDevitt to right of Debbie Musclow

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Part Of

CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.116

Accession Number

2014.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1974

Physical Description

1 photographic slide : colour ; 4 x 2.5 cm

Custodial History

Donated by Tom Bohart

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Part Of

Cortes Island Workbook: A guide to Business and Employment Opportunities in Rural and Remote Communities

Description Level

Fonds

Fonds Number

2013.003

Accession Number

2013.003

2023.002

Material Type

textual records

graphic material

Date Range

1984

Physical Description

2 binders : 1.5 cm each

Extent

1.5 cm

History / Biographical

This Resource Manual is the result of a Canada Works project grant, and was researched and written by a group of eight Cortes Island women over a five month period.

Custodial History

This binder is one of two copies of the Workbook kept at the Louisa Tooker Library in Whaletown. It was donated to CIMAS by Brigid Weiler, librarian and president of the Whaletown Community Club. The second binder was donated to CIMAS in 2023 by Bernice McGowan, librarian of the Louisa Tooker Library for the Whaletown Community Club.

Scope and Content

"Cortes Island Workbook: A guide to Business and Employment Opportunities in Rural and Remote Communities" is a 130 page resource manual. Researched and written in 1984 by a group of eight island women, it contains a description of the the community, economy and rural lifestyle on Cortes, and ideas for finding or creating a business. Each chapter divider page has an illustration by Brigid Weiler. Binder #2 also contains a letter announcing the end of the project with list of contributors.

Storage Location

Archives storage room - open shelf

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Information files

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Material Type

textual records

Responsibility

Clippings - to information files

Date Range

1986

Scope and Content

File contains

Storage Range

6-62

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Part Of

CIMAS ephemera collection

Description Level

File

Creator

Pemberton, Kathleen

File Number

31

Material Type

textual records

ephemera

Date Range

1999

Scope and Content

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."

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

Storage Range

1-31

Name Access

Pemberton, Kathleen

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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