Part Of

CIMAS ephemera collection

Description Level

File

File Number

5

Physical Description

Pamphlets of recipes and newspaper clippings found in the old Hayes house.

Storage Location

Ephemera box 1-5

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CIMAS ephemera collection

Description Level

File

File Number

12

Date Range

[1965-198?]

Scope and Content

Ephemera from the Cortes Island Advisory Planning Committee.

Storage Location

Ephemera box 1-12

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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 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

1

File Number

1

Date Range

2011

Scope and Content

Scan of Cortes Marketer 2011 containing Advisory Planning Commissions (APC) for local land use management; agenda from SRD Electoral Area Services Committee (EASC) meeting; and local advertisements on back

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

1

File Number

47

Date Range

2018-2019

Scope and Content

Poster, pamphlets, posts in Cortes Marketer about the Cortes Community Housing Committee

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

60

Date Range

2018

Scope and Content

Cortes Island Local Economic Action Plan booklet, 2018

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

3

Date Range

2009-2012

Scope and Content

Strathcona Regional District Official Community Plan and open letters to the Cortes Island community, 2011-2012. Additional documents relating to the Official Community plan, 2009-2012.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

4

Date Range

1973-2018

Scope and Content

Clippings and brochures featuring history of building, formation of the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery, and artists and exhibits at the gallery, 1973-2018

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

27

Date Range

1963-2019

Scope and Content

Co-operative Fire and Casualty Company info regarding request to insure a property, Mr and Mrs Ellingsen, 1963. Licensing and insurance papers for E. Ellingsen, 1968-1970. Info on residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and investment real estate, "Growing with Vancouver," featuring Bruce Ellingsen, 1974. Excerpts from The Columbia is Coming!, Doris Andersen, 1982. Receipts from Mansons Landing Store for May and Elmer Ellingsen, 1982-1987. Old notebook cover, Elmer Ellingsen, undated. Info on memorials: Elmer Ellingsen, 2002; May Ellingsen, 2012; and Virginia Hazel Ellingsen, 2019. Letter from Etta to CIMAS, 2012. Invoice for art purchased by CIMAS from David Ellingsen, 2017. Info on The Last Stand, D. Ellingsen, 2019. Info on Cortes Connection, 2019. Photo of Dianne Hentschel, Nellie Jeffrey, May Ellingsen, undated.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

24

Date Range

2018

Scope and Content

Files with info on Cortes Island Seniors Society Community Housing, 2018

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

27.1

Date Range

2002

Scope and Content

Written reminiscences of Elmer Ellingsen by family and community members collected at his memorial.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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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

1

Item Number

1999.004.049

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1981

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is of a sing-along led by Elmer Ellingsen interspersed with reminiscences.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0292

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour, 7.5 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of women standing beside a house with with white siding. (ID)

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0315

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1962]

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of the house at Channel Rock, with at least a foot of snow.

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