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Part Of
Ballantyne family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
sound recording (electronic)
Date Range
1929-[ca. 1950s?]
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs of the Gorge Harbour Lodge and Lodge activities, the Corneille and Ballantyne families, and Gladys Ballantyne's house, Gypsy Hill.
Part Of
Ballantyne family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds Number
2020.006
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
sound recording (electronic)
Date Range
1929-[ca. 1950s?]
Physical Description
24 photographs (jpeg)
1 audio interview (mp4)
History / Biographical
Bobby (Elizabeth) Corneille Ballantyne (1914-2009) was born in Vancouver and moved to Cortes Island as a young child. She was 4 years old when her father died suddenly on Marina Island in 1919; she remembers that they had to wait 3 days for a Union Steamship to get the body. Her mother Tena (Sarah Christena) Corneille (1877-1949) bought a tourist lodge at the east end of Gorge Harbour in 1929, and ran it until 1936 with the help of her two teen-age daughters. Gorge Harbour Lodge offered accommodations in the main building or in tents, tennis and badminton courts, and excellent boating, bathing and fishing. Vacationers came up from Vancouver on the Union Steamships for a round-trip ticket price of $6.65. The annual Regatta was the main social event of the season, with people arriving by boat from Cortes and the surrounding islands. It featured boat and swimming races, and a dance in the evening. Gladys Georgeson Ballantyne (1882-1964), first came to Cortes in about 1910. In about 1920 she bought a property in Whaletown (now 640 Whaletown Rd.) that she called "Gypsy Hill". She was one of the original members of the Whaletown Friendly Circle, later the Whaletown Women's Institute. Gladys, her son Bill, daughter Valerie and her fiance were all on Cortes building a summer cottage when the Depression suddenly hit. Their off-island jobs fell through, and they remained at "Gypsy Hill" for the duration. Bill Ballantyne (1908-1993) was in the Merchant Marine from 1924-1929. When he was unable to find work on ships during the Depression, he took whatever jobs he could find hand-logging and fishing. Bill and Bobby Corneille were married in 1937. They and other young Whaletown residents formed the Gorge Harbour Dramatic Society to help raise funds to build a community hall, and Bill was the work boss of the building crew for the Gorge Hall. In 1941 they moved to Victoria, and after the war settled in Courtenay with their two sons Peter and Ross. In the late 1950s they returned to Whaletown on Cortes Island where they fished for many years on the gulf troller “Viking”. During that time many young “deckhands” spent time aboard during summer vacations. On retirement, Campbell River became their home.
Custodial History
Electronic records were downloaded in 2012 from an internet address provided by Peter Ballantyne. One photograph was scanned from a photograph temporarily loaned by John and De Clarke.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs of the Gorge Harbour Lodge and Lodge activities, the Corneille and Ballantyne families, and Gladys Ballantyne's house, Gypsy Hill.
Name Access
Ballantyne, Peter
Ballantyne, Gladys
Ballantyne, Bill
Ballantyne, Bobby
Corneille, Sarah
Subject Access
Logging
Union Steamship Company
Fishing
Transportation
Water transport
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Building a cedar fence, Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978
Scope and Content
Verso of photo: "Pigs arriving any minute - get that fence built!"
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.029
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Verso of photo: "Pigs arriving any minute - get that fence built!"
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Buildings at Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school. The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.001
Item Number Range
NG.001
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school. The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
graphic material
graphic material (electronic)
Scope and Content
This fonds contains textual records, photographs and other archival material relating to the history and functions of the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society. It includes material created for exhibits and research on Cortes social and natural history.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds Number
2021.001
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
graphic material
graphic material (electronic)
Scope and Content
This fonds contains textual records, photographs and other archival material relating to the history and functions of the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society. It includes material created for exhibits and research on Cortes social and natural history.
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Part Of
George Sirk fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
moving images (electronic)
graphic material (electronic)
sound recording (electronic)
Date Range
1975-1981
Scope and Content
Fonds contains film works of George Sirk, with accompanying music and stills taken from the movies.
Part Of
George Sirk fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Creator
Sirk, George
Fonds Number
2022.010
Material Type
moving images (electronic)
graphic material (electronic)
sound recording (electronic)
Date Range
1975-1981
Physical Description
9 moving images (electronic)
20 images (electronic)
9 sound recordings (electronic)
Scope and Content
Fonds contains film works of George Sirk, with accompanying music and stills taken from the movies.
Storage Location
WD 5TB drive "CIMAS"
Name Access
Sirk, George
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Group photo of Refuge Cove residents, in front of the building used for a school

https://collections.cortesmuseum.com/en/permalink/descriptions15388
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Scope and Content
Back row, L to R: Pat Lovell, Max Beck, Norm and Denise Gibbons, Sherry Hall, Ann and Ken Ferguson with infant Andrew, Bruce Stevenson Middle, L to R: Lisa Gibbons holding her pet rock, (unidentified), Monty Hall, Stuart Arsenault, (woman in green unidentified), Glynne Evans, Mike Lovell, (person at end unidentified). Front, L to R: Laurie Lovell, Mark Melul, Kris Hall, Tracy Lovell, Lisa Hall, Michael Gibbons, Dean Lovell (pulling a hat over Michael's face), Ann Melul (Ann was a teacher)
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.027
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Back row, L to R: Pat Lovell, Max Beck, Norm and Denise Gibbons, Sherry Hall, Ann and Ken Ferguson with infant Andrew, Bruce Stevenson Middle, L to R: Lisa Gibbons holding her pet rock, (unidentified), Monty Hall, Stuart Arsenault, (woman in green unidentified), Glynne Evans, Mike Lovell, (person at end unidentified). Front, L to R: Laurie Lovell, Mark Melul, Kris Hall, Tracy Lovell, Lisa Hall, Michael Gibbons, Dean Lovell (pulling a hat over Michael's face), Ann Melul (Ann was a teacher)
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Jim Palmer's photographs of Carrington Bay

https://collections.cortesmuseum.com/en/permalink/descriptions15293
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
File contains scanned copies of photographs donated by Jim Palmer for the Carrington Bay exhibit in 2009, depicting the community living in Carrington Bay in the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Palmer and Jan Gemmel lived in a house on the west side of the log jam between Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay. Jim built the house at the property of John and Anna Gregg in Manson's Landing and relocated it onto pilings in Carrington Bay. Jim and Jan later fabricated steel pontoons for it. In 1985 the house was moved onto the floats and towed into Gorge Harbour by Bob Thompson with his boat "Sutil Chief".
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
33 photographs (.jpg) : b&w and col.
Scope and Content
File contains scanned copies of photographs donated by Jim Palmer for the Carrington Bay exhibit in 2009, depicting the community living in Carrington Bay in the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Palmer and Jan Gemmel lived in a house on the west side of the log jam between Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay. Jim built the house at the property of John and Anna Gregg in Manson's Landing and relocated it onto pilings in Carrington Bay. Jim and Jan later fabricated steel pontoons for it. In 1985 the house was moved onto the floats and towed into Gorge Harbour by Bob Thompson with his boat "Sutil Chief".
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Isolated communities
Housing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Looking north from Green Mountain over Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay (tidal falls in between) across 5 miles of water to Read Island, with a slew of islands to the north.

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.033
Item Number Range
JP.033
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Responsibility
Photographer: Frank Mathers ??
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
Images
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View of buildings and docks at Refuge Cove, taken from the bluff above

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1960-1968]
Scope and Content
Photo shows the old store, with docks in a U formation and a new government dock.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.003
Item Number Range
NG.003
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1960-1968]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Photo shows the old store, with docks in a U formation and a new government dock.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Whaletown wharf and buildings

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Kirmmse, Paul
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
3
Item Number
PK_004
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1975]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Name Access
Kirmmse, Paul
Geographic Access
Whaletown
Images
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