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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

23

Date Range

1922-2016

Scope and Content

Emails, posts in tideline, brainstorming ideas and notes for the Big Tree exhibit; posts about the medicinal and endangered agarikon mushroom and Paul Stamets; receipts and donations related to the exhibit; Big Tree postcards; contest tickets; exhibit activity book. Historical context for oldgrowth, Douglas Fir, and logging: scans from Whaletown album, 1922-1930; article on tree diseases in Forest and Mill, 1948; article about Douglas Fir in Maclean's Magazine, 1958

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

38

Date Range

1994-2015

Scope and Content

Excerpt from Seven-Knot Summers by Beth Hills about Channel Rock, 1994; email from Bonnie MacDonald re Pamela Millar's proposed documentary about Channel Rock, 1999; Channel Rock listing on tideline, 2015; email about property listing, 2015; Channel Rock Village map, undated ; letter from Pinchot & Company, new owner of Gilean Douglas property

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Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

39

Date Range

1920s-2017

Scope and Content

Christmas memories from Cortes and surrounding areas, 1920s-2000s. Sub-folder labelled "Etta Byers etc" containing more Christmas memories from Cortes and surrounding areas, 1920s-1980s (and additional files). Handout from "Memories of Christmas Past" by CIMAS, 2004; Campbell River Mirror Holiday Song Book, 2017. Some keywords: Columbia Coast Mission; Squirrel Cove Church, the Rendezvous, Reverend M Boas, BA Skipper, Von Donop Inlet, Redonda Island; Hernando Island; Reverend Alan Greene; Gilean Douglas

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Drawer 1

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

2

Item Number

2007.004.002

Accession Number

2007.004

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1985

Physical Description

1 DVD, copied from an original VHS tape

Custodial History

Copied from George Sirk's VHS tapes with his permission to use the contents for display and research purposes.

Scope and Content

One DVD with footage shot by George Sirk of performances by the Cortes Theatre Society and the Cortes Singing Society, and the Gorge Hall Christmas Party, filmed by George Sirk. Copyright George Sirk; to be used for display and research purposes only.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

2

Item Number

2007.004.006

Accession Number

2007.004

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1990

Physical Description

1 DVD, copied from an original VHS tape

Custodial History

Copied from George Sirk's VHS tapes with his permission to use the contents for display and research purposes.

Scope and Content

DVD with footage shot by George Sirk of the OAP Christmas party, 1990. Copyright George Sirk; to be used for display and research purposes only.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

2

Item Number

2007.004.007

Accession Number

2007.004

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1986-1987

Physical Description

1 DVD, copied from an original VHS tape

Custodial History

Copied from George Sirk's VHS tapes with his permission to use the contents for display and research purposes.

Scope and Content

DVD is a documentary shot by George Sirk of Gary and Velma Bergman's store, Carlberg General Merchants in Whaletown (Dec. 1986), and the Bergmans' retirement party (May 1987). Copyright George Sirk; to be used for display and research purposes only.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

Whaletown

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Guthrie, David

Series Number

2

Item Number

2019.013.006

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

[200?]

Physical Description

1 CD

Scope and Content

CD of a map of early Cortes property owners; a copy of the map is in the map cabinet.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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File

Series Number

2

File Number

1

Date Range

2001

Scope and Content

Design sketches from David Rousseau of museum, Von Donop tool shed, and heritage garden, 2001

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.007

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1990

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

A VHS tape of an Old Age Pensioner's Christmas party filmed by George Sirk and donated to the OAP.

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Sirk, George

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.008

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

1996

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

A VHS tape of an Old Age Pensioner's Christmas party filmed by George Sirk and donated to the OAP.

Name Access

Sirk, George

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

6

Scope and Content

Family trees of Cortes residents throughout history. Filing note: if a file exists for the person, put their family tree there rather than the general file

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

10

Date Range

1983

Scope and Content

Article from Musings, "Ripple Rock: Blasted 25 years ago," 1983

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Sub-series

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1952-1991

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of printed copies and some carbon copies of Douglas's annual Christmas Letter, a two to four page letter sent yearly to over 200 friends and correspondents. The letters contain details of life at Channel Rock with observations of natural history and the garden; accounts of Douglas's community and political activities; records of her travels and philosophical musings.

Storage Range

2-3 - 2-7

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

File Number

69

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1952-1959

Scope and Content

Letters for the years 1952 (2 letters), 1953, January 1953, 1954-1959

Storage Location

2-3

Storage Range

2-3

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

File Number

70

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1960-1969

Scope and Content

Letters for the years 1960-1969

Storage Location

2-4

Storage Range

2-4

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

File Number

71

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1970-1979

Scope and Content

Letters for the years 1970-1979; printing invoice from 1976

Storage Location

2-5

Storage Range

2-5

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

File Number

72

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1980-1989

Scope and Content

Letters for the years 1980; 1983-1989

Storage Location

2-6

Storage Range

2-6

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

1.4

Sub-series Number

1.4

File Number

73

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1991

Scope and Content

Letter for 1991

Storage Location

2-7

Storage Range

2-7

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

10

File Number

18

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1970]

Scope and Content

Unattributed handwritten notes with biographical information about David Allen Robertson and the early history of Whaletown

Storage Location

5-5

Storage Range

5-5

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

Robertson, David Alan

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

10

File Number

21

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1967-1979]

Scope and Content

Handwritten notes by Douglas and correspondence to Douglas about Channel Rock

Storage Location

5-8

Storage Range

5-8

Name Access

Douglas, Gilean

Channel Rock

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