Part Of

CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.008

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. Topics covered include how Elmer came to the island and met May; logging experiences; Cortes roads and telephone system; and living at Von Donop Inlet. Several humorous stories are related. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.009

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. May traces her family history and then talks about her childhood on Cortes and Hernando Islands; meeting and marrying Elmer; living in a float house at logging camps in Loughborough Inlet, Phillips Arm and Von Donop Inlet; and moving the house to Hague Lake in 1952. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Hentschel, Diane

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.027

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[ca.2003]

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Dianne Hentschel.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Abelson,Martha

Milton, Jill

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.028

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

2003

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Martha Abelson and Jill Milton. Topics covered include Manson family history; May's reminiscences about her childhood on Cortes; schools.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

2

Item Number

2006.002.009

Accession Number

2006.002

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1992

Physical Description

1 DVD

Custodial History

Donated by Howie Roman.

Scope and Content

DVD of performances at a Variety Night held at the Gorge Hall.

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

36

Date Range

2013

Scope and Content

Email with photos from Green Mountain, 2013

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.015

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.016

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

51

Scope and Content

Note about clay with healing properties that Bob painted his whole house with, undated

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

61.1

Date Range

2021

Scope and Content

Memoir written by Bob Milton about growing up in Cortes Bay in the 1950s; email about the memoir.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.1

Sub-series Number

1.1

File Number

20

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1952]

Scope and Content

Poems from envelope marked by Douglas "from 'Now the Green Word'"

Storage Location

1-20

Storage Range

1-20

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

10

File Number

45

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[1922?]

Scope and Content

Typed copy of the memoirs of an early settler in B.C.

Storage Location

5-32

Storage Range

5-32

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

10

File Number

7

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1969

Scope and Content

Notes on Bob Langdon of Island Airlines of Campbell River, manuscript of an article written by Douglas, and an Island Air schedule

Storage Location

4-43

Storage Range

4-43

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

Langdon, Bob

Subject Access

Air transport

Transportation

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0053

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 10

Scope and Content

Photograph of Bob MacGregor

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0054

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1925-1935]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 3 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Bob MacGregor

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0086

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of spring bulbs blooming in one of the rockery beds, with Marina Island visible in the background.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0090

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of people in the rowboat "Alan Greene". (Needs ID)

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0115

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1958]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 11.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Canon Alan Greene and his wife.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0116

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1958]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 11.5

Scope and Content

Photograph of Canon and Mrs. Alan Greene.

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Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0135

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Bob MacGregor at Channel Rock.

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