Historical info from emails, notes, letters, articles, clippings, photographs, etc, on post offices, "postmasters" and "postmisstresses" servicing Cortes Island from 1893 to the present day.
Historical info from emails, notes, letters, articles, clippings, photographs, etc, on post offices, "postmasters" and "postmisstresses" servicing Cortes Island from 1893 to the present day.
Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
File contains two copies of a draft of the Cortes Official Community Plan prepared by Planistics Management Inc. in conjunction with the Cortes Island Advisory Planning Commission: one clean copy with a cover letter, and one copy with annotations.
File contains two copies of a draft of the Cortes Official Community Plan prepared by Planistics Management Inc. in conjunction with the Cortes Island Advisory Planning Commission: one clean copy with a cover letter, and one copy with annotations.
The post office was built in this location (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road next to the parking area of the Whaletown store.
Likely originally from the collection of the Weiler family.
The post office was built in this location (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road next to the parking area of the Whaletown store.
Likely originally from the collection of the Weiler family.
Photograph of a wood shingled house at the Robertson homestead, Burnside. The house is surrounded by bushes and vines. Two men and a boy are standing to the left; a person dressed all in white is lying on the ground.
Photograph of a wood shingled house at the Robertson homestead, Burnside. The house is surrounded by bushes and vines. Two men and a boy are standing to the left; a person dressed all in white is lying on the ground.
