Part Of

CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

1

Item Number

2023.007.001

Accession Number

2023.007

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

2023

Physical Description

1 .mp3 file : 36.2 MB

Custodial History

Recorded by Lisa Gibbons on her iPhone, July 15, 2023

Scope and Content

Recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences at Refuge Cove, recorded by Lisa Gibbons during a museum-sponsored trip to Refuge Cove on the "Misty Isles". See also the digitized photographs from Norm Gibbons' album which illustrate many of the stories in the recording. (Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds, Series 5, File 2)

Name Access

Gibbons, Norm

Gibbons, Lisa

Geographic Access

Refuge Cove

Show less information

Part Of

CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

28

Date Range

1921-2017

Scope and Content

Info on George Eward and Emma Jane Ewart, 1921 census, medical certificate of death, George Ewart, 1946. Info on marriage registration of Frank George Barnard and Blanche Madeline Dennis, 1938 (Ewart's son). Info on medical certificate of death and cemetery query, Josephine Skerton, 1968. Emails associated with all information from 2017. Notes with photographs on Eward family research, 2017

Storage Range

Drawer 3

Show less information

Part Of

CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

30

Date Range

1908-1927

Scope and Content

Photocopies: Fire Insurance receipt, 1908; letters from PO Inspector to David Forrest, 1915; Public Schools Act Assessment letters, 1915; notary and registry papers, Wallis Walter Lefeaux, W. Lawrence Forrest, Joseph Edward Mellor last will and testament, 1927; pharmacy receipts, undated; letters, undated

Storage Range

Drawer 3

Show less information

Part Of

CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

31

Date Range

early 1900s-present

Scope and Content

Notes, emails, clippings, maps, scanned photographs, and written info on Squirrel Cove, including local businesses and people, early 1900s-present. Squirrel Cove store receipts, 1952-1953. Envelope of files titled "Squirrel Cove - early days - info from Ron Forrest, Nov 2014." Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, and Chalkdust & Outhouses, Barbara Ann Lambert. Keywords: Nichols, Squirrel Cove General Store, The Cove Restaurant, Flying Squirrel Take Out, Union Steamship "Cheakamus," Squirrel Cove Church.

Storage Range

Drawer 4

Show less information

Part Of

CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

6

Date Range

1979-2018

Scope and Content

Clippings and emails with info on Refuge Cove and its inhabitants over the years, 1979-2018. "Hope's Refuge," Doris Hope, 1992. "Memories of Refuge Cove," June Cameron, 1997. Photographs, undated. Posting for Refuge Cove Coastal Kitchen for sale at CIMAS

Storage Range

Drawer 4

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0006

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1905]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Gilean Douglas standing beside a fence in her yard.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0063

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a boat anchored in front of Channel Rock. Gilean Douglas' weather station is in the foreground.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0068

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the station for collecting weather data in front of the house at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0084

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the small ornamental pond, in a natural depression in the rocky outcrop on which the house at Channel Rock stood.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0087

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of poppies blooming in one of the rockery beds in front Gilean Douglas' house.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0103

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the forsythia bush blooming in front of the barn in the big garden at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0104

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of David Edwards in front of Gilean Douglas' cabin at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0111

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1958]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Al Taylor (of Read Island) in front of the woodshed which was behind the house at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0121

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman standing in front of a house.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0127

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Madeleine Emanuelson, wife of Aaron Emanuelson, is at the left; Meg Shaw is far right. The woman and child in the middle are possibly Hazel McCoy and her daughter Barbie (need to corroborate ID).

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0140

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of freshly turned beds beside the barn in the garden at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0146

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of people in front of the house at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0147

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of two women in front of the house at Channel Rock; Shark Spit in the background.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0152

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[1950s]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of the fence and the barn, at the entrance to the big garden at Channel Rock.

Show less information

Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0162

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1960s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a fishing boat in front of Channel Rock.

Subject Access

Fishing

Show less information