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CIMAS information files

Description Level

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

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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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

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Drawer 3

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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

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Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

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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

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Drawer 4

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File

Series Number

4

File Number

10

Date Range

1983

Scope and Content

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

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Drawer 4

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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.

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Drawer 4

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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

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0291

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a float camp with buildings being towed past the channel marker in front of Channel Rock.

Subject Access

Logging

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Gilean Douglas fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0294

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1955]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of cats eating a whole rock fish behind the cabin at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0295

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1955]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of flowering trees in front of the bar in the garden at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0296

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1955]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of a buck with horns beside a rock cliff.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0298

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1962

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the garden and barn, taken from outside the gate.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0299

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1962

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of tulips in the garden at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0300

Material Type

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the garden gate and fence at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0301

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1962

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the berry fences in the garden at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0302

Material Type

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 11 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the barn in the garden at Channel Rock in the snow.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0304

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the interior of the cabin at Channel Rock, showing the door into the kitchen.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0305

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the interior of the cabin at Channel Rock, showing the writing nook with the typewriter table.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0306

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the interior of the cabin at Channel Rock, showing a corner of the living room with book shelves.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0307

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 12 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a cat sitting on a chair in the living room at Channel Rock.

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