Fonds consists of two photograph albums containing 479 black and white photographs with captions, dating from 1916 to 1927. Most of the photographs depict family, friends and scenes from Cortes Island, especially the area known as Green Valley; some photographs show school friends and family from Vancouver and Saskatchewan. Titles in quotation marks are Dorothy Huck's photograph captions. Other information used in photograph descriptions comes from the "Green Valley", "Carrington Bay/Coulter Bay" and "Whaletown to 1930" albums created for CIMAS in 1999 by Doreen Huck Thompson, a grand-niece of Dorothy Huck. Unless otherwise noted, the location of all photos is Cortes Island.
Dorothy Mary Huck Whalley (June 30, 1904 - Nov. 17, 1983) was the oldest of five children born to Mabel Wells Huck and William Edward Huck. Her siblings were Wilfred Harold (Harry), John Edward (Jack), Margaret Ethel and William Frances (Billie). Shortly after the Huck family arrived on Cortes in 1915, William E. Huck enlisted in the Army. He was killed in France in 1916, leaving Mabel with five children to bring up on her own. Her brother, Harold John (Jack) Wells was invalided home from World War I in 1917 and moved to Cortes, where he boarded with Mabel.
The Huck homestead, referred to as Hell's Half Acre or Billy Goat Hill, was in the NE 1/4 of Section 40, in Green Valley, the area around what is now known as Blue Jay Lake. Neighbours included the Barrett, Middleton, Tait and Tiber families. Dorothy was sent to Vancouver for schooling, and then returned to Cortes to attend the new Squirrel Cove school in 1916. In 1920 the Huck family moved to the Robertson property, Burnside, in Whaletown. Dorothy, having outgrown the local school system, went to Moose Jaw, Sk. where she finished high school and then attended a secretarial school run by her aunt and uncle. She married Joe Whalley and lived in Saskatchewan for many years before returning to live in Vancouver and White Rock. Dorothy died in White Rock on Nov. 17, 1983.
Custodial History
The albums were created by Dorothy Huck Whalley and given to her daughter Dorothy Whalley Livingstone. Dorothy Livingstone passed the albums on to her cousin, Karen Lee (daughter of Margaret Huck Mann), who donated them to the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of two photograph albums containing 479 black and white photographs with captions, dating from 1916 to 1927. Most of the photographs depict family, friends and scenes from Cortes Island, especially the area known as Green Valley; some photographs show school friends and family from Vancouver and Saskatchewan. Titles in quotation marks are Dorothy Huck's photograph captions. Other information used in photograph descriptions comes from the "Green Valley", "Carrington Bay/Coulter Bay" and "Whaletown to 1930" albums created for CIMAS in 1999 by Doreen Huck Thompson, a grand-niece of Dorothy Huck. Unless otherwise noted, the location of all photos is Cortes Island.
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Squirrel Cove
Carrington Bay
Saskatchewan
Related Material
"Green Valley", "Carrington Bay/Coulter Bay" and "Whaletown to 1930" albums created by Doreen Huck Thompson.
Photograph of three children - Jack (John), Harold and Margaret Huck - in front of forest. Margaret is seated in a wheelbarrow. Doreen Thompson has identified them as (left to right) Harry, John and Margaret.
Photograph of three children - Jack (John), Harold and Margaret Huck - in front of forest. Margaret is seated in a wheelbarrow. Doreen Thompson has identified them as (left to right) Harry, John and Margaret.
Photograph of infant Hugh Christie seated in a wooden box, probably in the yard of his home in Green Valley. In the background is a house, clothesline with laundry and a wagon.
Photograph of infant Hugh Christie seated in a wooden box, probably in the yard of his home in Green Valley. In the background is a house, clothesline with laundry and a wagon.
Photograph of Margaret Robertson (Meg Robertson Shaw) and dog (Bruce), outside, possibly at the Robertson's homestead Burnside in Whaletown. Two buildings sided with long hand-split shakes can be seen in the background.
Photograph of Margaret Robertson (Meg Robertson Shaw) and dog (Bruce), outside, possibly at the Robertson's homestead Burnside in Whaletown. Two buildings sided with long hand-split shakes can be seen in the background.
Photograph of Mabel Huck ("Mother"), Lewis Barrett, Margaret Huck, Mrs. Barrett with Billie Huck on her lap. They are seated on a low deck which extends from the doorway of a house; two outbuildings may be seen in the background. Doreen Thompson has identified this photograph as "visiting at Barrett's".
Photograph of four boys including Harry, Jack and Bill Huck. They are barefoot and in overalls, playing with home-made bows and arrows, in front of the unfinished log Huck house at Hell's Half Acre. Dated to 1916 by Doreen Huck.
Photograph of four boys including Harry, Jack and Bill Huck. They are barefoot and in overalls, playing with home-made bows and arrows, in front of the unfinished log Huck house at Hell's Half Acre. Dated to 1916 by Doreen Huck.
