Series consists of Whaletown Community Club executive membership rosters, constitution, and by-laws. Of note, the certificate of incorporation of the Gorge Harbour Hall Society (1938). Series also includes documents pertaining to the Gorge Hall, including events lists, list of upgrades, history of rental fees, occupant load certificate, and rental agreement. Series was removed from a binder when accessioned.
Series consists of Whaletown Community Club executive membership rosters, constitution, and by-laws. Of note, the certificate of incorporation of the Gorge Harbour Hall Society (1938). Series also includes documents pertaining to the Gorge Hall, including events lists, list of upgrades, history of rental fees, occupant load certificate, and rental agreement. Series was removed from a binder when accessioned.
File contains newsletters, correspondence, annual report, project list, and social activities list. Of note, a letter from Don Maclean about the beginnings of the Whaletown Community Club
File contains newsletters, correspondence, annual report, project list, and social activities list. Of note, a letter from Don Maclean about the beginnings of the Whaletown Community Club
File contains correspondence, project reports, and occupant load certificates. Of note: a letter from the School Board re the sale of the old schoolhouse, 2010.
File contains correspondence, project reports, and occupant load certificates. Of note: a letter from the School Board re the sale of the old schoolhouse, 2010.
File contains correspondence, including correspondence pertaining to the Old Schoolhouse Gallery and to the transfer of title and possible amalgamation into one property of the old and new Whaletown cemeteries.
File contains correspondence, including correspondence pertaining to the Old Schoolhouse Gallery and to the transfer of title and possible amalgamation into one property of the old and new Whaletown cemeteries.
Fonds consists of ten diaries kept by James Layton, covering the years 1948-1981, and a Time Book. (Years 1967-1971 are missing.) Layton made brief daily entries in the diaries, noting the weather, activities, social interactions and, occasionally, notable external events. Typical activities included logging, fishing, working on an oyster lease, digging clams, gardening, visiting, reading and writing letters. Times of planting and harvesting the garden, sightings of wildlife, and names of people living nearby or visiting on boats are recorded.
James (Jimmy) George Layton (1897-1990) was born in Camberwell, England. He fought in World War I, was severely wounded when he flung himself on a grenade which had landed in his foxhole, and received a medal for his bravery. In 1920, Layton emigrated to Canada, where he found work in coastal logging camps. Other members of the family, including his parents and seven of his ten siblings, also moved to Canada. At the time of his father's death in 1939, Layton, his parents and three of his brothers were living on Thurlow Island. In the 1940s he moved to the head of Von Donop Inlet on Cortes Island. His float house was drawn up on the beach next to a little islet that was joined to the shore at low tide, where he cultivated a garden and orchard. Layton found work logging and caretaking for local camps active in Von Donop, and helping his brother on his oyster lease. He moved to Lund in 1972, where he passed away at the age of 92.
Custodial History
Diaries were given to Joan Bevington by her cousin Capt. Harrison Layton, the nephew of James Layton, for donation to CIMAS.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of ten diaries kept by James Layton, covering the years 1948-1981, and a Time Book. (Years 1967-1971 are missing.) Layton made brief daily entries in the diaries, noting the weather, activities, social interactions and, occasionally, notable external events. Typical activities included logging, fishing, working on an oyster lease, digging clams, gardening, visiting, reading and writing letters. Times of planting and harvesting the garden, sightings of wildlife, and names of people living nearby or visiting on boats are recorded.
