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Cooperative Self-Sufficiency for Cortes Island

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Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2013.004
Date Range
1996-1998
Scope and Content
Series consists of newsletters and a directory, published by Sedley Sweeny to work towards "cooperation between like-minded people aimed at local self-sufficiency."
Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Friends of Cortes Island Society
Fonds Number
2013.004
Series Number
8
Accession Number
2013.004
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1996-1998
Scope and Content
Series consists of newsletters and a directory, published by Sedley Sweeny to work towards "cooperation between like-minded people aimed at local self-sufficiency."
Storage Location
1-13 to 1-14
Storage Range
1-13 to 1-14
Name Access
Friends of Cortes Island
FOCI
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Cortes Ecoforestry Youth Initiative

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Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2013.004
Date Range
2000
Scope and Content
Series consists of financial records, reports, and other documents pertaining to projects of the Cortes Ecoforestry Youth Initiative in 2000.
Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Friends of Cortes Island Society
Fonds Number
2013.004
Series Number
1
Accession Number
2013.004
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
2000
Scope and Content
Series consists of financial records, reports, and other documents pertaining to projects of the Cortes Ecoforestry Youth Initiative in 2000.
Storage Location
1-1 to 1-3
Storage Range
1-1 to 1-3
Name Access
Friends of Cortes Island
FOCI
Cortes Ecoforestry Society
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Cortes Family Trees Project

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2022
Scope and Content
Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
4
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2022
Custodial History
Family trees were researched by Bernice McGowan (1387 Bodington Rd, Whaletown, BC) in 2022. The Manson family tree was provided to CIMAS by Greg Johnson (2837 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1X2; phone # 604 897 5925) in 2022.
Scope and Content
Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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FOCI and Cortes Ecoforestry Society

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Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2013.004
Date Range
1998-2001
Scope and Content
Series consists of files pertaining to the relationship between FOCI and CES, including collaboration and mutual aid. See Series 1 of this fonds for documents pertaining to the E-Team Work Crew grant awarded to FOCI and CES.
Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Friends of Cortes Island Society
Fonds Number
2013.004
Series Number
5
Accession Number
2013.004
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1998-2001
Scope and Content
Series consists of files pertaining to the relationship between FOCI and CES, including collaboration and mutual aid. See Series 1 of this fonds for documents pertaining to the E-Team Work Crew grant awarded to FOCI and CES.
Storage Location
1-8 to 1-10
Storage Range
1-8 to 1-10
Name Access
Friends of Cortes Island
FOCI
Cortes Ecoforestry Society
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
electronic records
Scope and Content
This series contains catalogs and other records of Museum exhibits.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
2
Material Type
electronic records
Physical Description
2 files : .pdf
Scope and Content
This series contains catalogs and other records of Museum exhibits.
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Documents

Von Donop Creek, Volume 2.pdf

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Museum reference library

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
electronic records
Scope and Content
This series contains material donated to the Library. It includes memoirs, and research and writings on aspects of Cortes Island social and natural history.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
3
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
electronic records
Scope and Content
This series contains material donated to the Library. It includes memoirs, and research and writings on aspects of Cortes Island social and natural history.
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Regional Director of Cortes Island Electoral Area series

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Part Of
Ralph Nursall fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2008.001
Date Range
1983-1999
Scope and Content
Series consists of records created or collected by Nursall during his term as Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) on the Comox-Strathcona Regional Board. It includes minutes of Advisory Planning Commission, community plans and maps, correspondence, background material and ephemera. Series is arranged in five subseries following Nursall's original ordering: Advisory Planning Commission; Community Plans; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Regional Board; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Committees; and Subject Files - Cortes Affairs.
Part Of
Ralph Nursall fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
2008.001
Series Number
1
Accession Number
2008.001
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1983-1999
Scope and Content
Series consists of records created or collected by Nursall during his term as Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) on the Comox-Strathcona Regional Board. It includes minutes of Advisory Planning Commission, community plans and maps, correspondence, background material and ephemera. Series is arranged in five subseries following Nursall's original ordering: Advisory Planning Commission; Community Plans; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Regional Board; Regional District of Comox-Strathcona: Committees; and Subject Files - Cortes Affairs.
Storage Range
1-1 - 3-3
Related Material
Regional Director of Cortes Island Electoral Area fonds
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Regional Director of Electoral Area I (Cortes Island)

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1968]-1992
Scope and Content
Series consists of material generated and collected by Douglas during her term on the Comox-Strathcona Regional Board. Douglas served as Alternate Director from 1968 to 1973, and as Director from 1973 to 1978. During this time, island residents were actively involved in the formulation of Cortes' first Official Settlement Plan and Zoning By-law. Series includes reports, correspondence, notes, copies of studies, Regional District by-laws and drafts of by-laws, including the Official Settlement Plan. It also contains materials on community organizations generated after her term which she collected because of a continuing interest in local government and community planning, and because, as a former Director, she was often consulted on island issues.
Other Title Info
Title based on contents of the series.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
4
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1968]-1992
Physical Description
9 cm. of textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of material generated and collected by Douglas during her term on the Comox-Strathcona Regional Board. Douglas served as Alternate Director from 1968 to 1973, and as Director from 1973 to 1978. During this time, island residents were actively involved in the formulation of Cortes' first Official Settlement Plan and Zoning By-law. Series includes reports, correspondence, notes, copies of studies, Regional District by-laws and drafts of by-laws, including the Official Settlement Plan. It also contains materials on community organizations generated after her term which she collected because of a continuing interest in local government and community planning, and because, as a former Director, she was often consulted on island issues.
Storage Range
3-16 - 3-36
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
Subject Access
Local governments
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Subject files - Cortes Affairs

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Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2002.002
Date Range
1986-1996
Scope and Content
Series consists of material related to Cortes' Aquaculture by-law, including APC minutes and correspondence, minutes of public meetings, planning notes and background material; correspondence concerning zoning changes made to island property by the RDCS; material about the Cortes Island Forest Committee; licenses for the use of crown land and foreshore on Cortes Island; and copies of a newsletter, the Cortes Electoral Area News by Ralph Nursall, 1994 to 1996.
Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
2002.001.2
Sous Fonds Number
2
Series Number
5
Accession Number
2002.002
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1986-1996
Physical Description
18 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of material related to Cortes' Aquaculture by-law, including APC minutes and correspondence, minutes of public meetings, planning notes and background material; correspondence concerning zoning changes made to island property by the RDCS; material about the Cortes Island Forest Committee; licenses for the use of crown land and foreshore on Cortes Island; and copies of a newsletter, the Cortes Electoral Area News by Ralph Nursall, 1994 to 1996.
Storage Range
2-9 - 2-27
Name Access
Nursall, Ralph
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Subject Files: Cortes Affairs

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Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2004.004
Date Range
1991-2003
Scope and Content
Series consists of reports, correspondence, notes and clippings relating to island issues, which include parks, roads, leases, wharves, water quality of Hague Lake, newts, the RCMP, ferries, forestry, waste management, the fire department, and island organizations. It also includes Regional Director reports by Ralph Nursall and by George Sirk.
Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
2002.001.3
Sous Fonds Number
3
Series Number
6
Accession Number
2004.004
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1991-2003
Physical Description
?? cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of reports, correspondence, notes and clippings relating to island issues, which include parks, roads, leases, wharves, water quality of Hague Lake, newts, the RCMP, ferries, forestry, waste management, the fire department, and island organizations. It also includes Regional Director reports by Ralph Nursall and by George Sirk.
Storage Location
5-23 - 6-30
Storage Range
5-23 - 6-30
Name Access
Sirk, George
Subject Access
Ferries
Transportation
Water transport
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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