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Account book of the Whaletown Church Hall Building Fund committee

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Part Of
Whaletown Church Hall fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1919-1920
Scope and Content
File consists of a small leather-bound account book for the Whaletown Church Hall Building Fund, kept by Bernie Allen and certified correct by John Pool.
Part Of
Whaletown Church Hall fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2017.008
File Number
2
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1919-1920
Scope and Content
File consists of a small leather-bound account book for the Whaletown Church Hall Building Fund, kept by Bernie Allen and certified correct by John Pool.
Storage Range
1-56
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Al Murray’s cement power boat in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay

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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.003
Item Number Range
JP.003
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
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
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Al Murray’s cement power boat under a plastic structure in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay.

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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.017
Item Number Range
JP.017
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
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
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Annual report of Cortes Island School

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1913-1915
Scope and Content
File contains an over-size sheet containing the Annual Report of the Cortes Island School, filled out by Miss Lettice, and a letter to the Supt. of Education from Robert Froud. [check]
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
24
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1913-1915
Scope and Content
File contains an over-size sheet containing the Annual Report of the Cortes Island School, filled out by Miss Lettice, and a letter to the Supt. of Education from Robert Froud. [check]
Storage Location
5-24
Storage Range
5-24
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Argosy Sea Farms application for a Licence of Occupation for a commercial geoduck operation in Squirrel Cove

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Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2019.015
Date Range
2006
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence (including copies of emails and faxes), maps, an Argosy Sea Farms management plan, APC minutes, Director's reports, print-outs of articles from Tideline (www.cortesisland.com), two Discovery Islander magazines (#370 and #371), one Cortes Community flyer and one Cove Notes flyer.
Part Of
Regional Director of Area I (Cortes Island) fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2002.001.4
Series Number
1
File Number
9
Accession Number
2019.015
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
2006
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence (including copies of emails and faxes), maps, an Argosy Sea Farms management plan, APC minutes, Director's reports, print-outs of articles from Tideline (www.cortesisland.com), two Discovery Islander magazines (#370 and #371), one Cortes Community flyer and one Cove Notes flyer.
Storage Location
7-24
Storage Range
7-24
Name Access
Hiebert, Jeanette
Hiebert, Jenny
Subject Access
Regional District
Local governments
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Squirrel Cove
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Betty Gibbons and Norm, Lisa & Michael Gibbons in front of their woodshed 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
1975
Scope and Content
Betty (Elizabeth) Gibbons is Norm's mother.
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.040
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1975
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Betty (Elizabeth) Gibbons is Norm's mother.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Bonnie MacDonald holding her baby daughter Lucy, Refuge Cove

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1979
Scope and Content
Bonnie MacDonald holding Lucy, who is a few months old. Note the quilt, made by the women of Refuge Cove as a gift.
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.024
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1979
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Bonnie MacDonald holding Lucy, who is a few months old. Note the quilt, made by the women of Refuge Cove as a gift.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Book - "Useful Household Helps"

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Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. early 1900s]
Scope and Content
File contains a book titled "Useful Household Helps" which was owned by Duncan Robertson.
Part Of
CIMAS ephemera collection
Description Level
File
File Number
2
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. early 1900s]
Physical Description
1 book
Custodial History
Originally owned by Duncan Robertson; donated to CIMAS by Renee Friedman Oct. 7, 2004
Scope and Content
File contains a book titled "Useful Household Helps" which was owned by Duncan Robertson.
Storage Location
Ephemera box 1-2
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"Brochure" - Senior's Building Complex

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Part Of
Cortes Island Seniors' Building Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
graphic material
Accession Number
2013.005
Date Range
[ca. 1995]
Scope and Content
File contains a draft, with edits, of a brochure for the Seniors' Building Complex. Also contains two (2) b&w photographic prints and one (1) ink drawing.
Part Of
Cortes Island Seniors' Building Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Cortes Island Seniors' Building Society
Fonds Number
2013.005
Series Number
2
File Number
2
Accession Number
2013.005
Material Type
textual records
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1995]
Scope and Content
File contains a draft, with edits, of a brochure for the Seniors' Building Complex. Also contains two (2) b&w photographic prints and one (1) ink drawing.
Storage Location
1-7
Storage Range
1-7
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Manson's Landing
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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
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Building code: materials related to the imposition of the building code on Cortes Island

https://collections.cortesmuseum.com/en/permalink/descriptions7338
Part Of
Cortes Island Ratepayers Association fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1973-1976
Part Of
Cortes Island Ratepayers Association fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2000.003
Series Number
7
File Number
35
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1973-1976
Storage Location
3-35
Storage Range
3-35
Name Access
Cortes Island Ratepayers Association
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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
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Building supplies catalogs

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
File contains two building supplies catalogs.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Ellingsen, Elmer
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
11
File Number
12
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1954
Scope and Content
File contains two building supplies catalogs.
Storage Location
8-12
Storage Range
8-12
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Chicken plucking party 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. 1978]
Scope and Content
Plucking some of the 50 chickens raised for meat before dinner and a dance, "Chicken Pluckers' Stomp". L to R: (ID), (ID), Michael Gibbons (mostly hidden), Judy White in blue, (ID), Mark Mellieux (sp?), Lisa Gibbons
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.030
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1978]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Plucking some of the 50 chickens raised for meat before dinner and a dance, "Chicken Pluckers' Stomp". L to R: (ID), (ID), Michael Gibbons (mostly hidden), Judy White in blue, (ID), Mark Mellieux (sp?), Lisa Gibbons
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Child standing beside the bear shot by Norm Gibbons 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
1979
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.043
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1979
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
Images
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Clipping - about Powell River ferry promotion; many photographs of Cortes residents

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1963
Scope and Content
File contains a page from the Powell River News.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
12
File Number
3
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1963
Scope and Content
File contains a page from the Powell River News.
Storage Location
8-49
Storage Range
8-49
Subject Access
Ferries
Transportation
Water transport
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Clippings - Cortes Island school

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Part Of
Information files
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1970-1982
Scope and Content
File contains newspaper clippings of articles about the Cortes Island school, including features about the Read Island school and Ernie Guthrie's retirement as school bus driver.
Part Of
Information files
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Material Type
textual records
Responsibility
Clippings - to information files
Date Range
1970-1982
Scope and Content
File contains newspaper clippings of articles about the Cortes Island school, including features about the Read Island school and Ernie Guthrie's retirement as school bus driver.
Storage Range
3-44
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Clippings - Herrewig anniversary; Linnaea school

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Part Of
Information files
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1987-1988
Scope and Content
File contains
Part Of
Information files
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Material Type
textual records
Responsibility
Clippings - to information files
Date Range
1987-1988
Scope and Content
File contains
Storage Range
5-19
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Community Planning and Land Use (Advisory Planning Commission)

https://collections.cortesmuseum.com/en/permalink/descriptions7143
Part Of
Cortes Island Ratepayers Association fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1965-1984
Scope and Content
Series consists of materials related to community planning and land use on Cortes Island, including materials relating to the formation and duties of the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona (RDCS) and the Cortes Island APC, proposals related to Cortes Island becoming part of the Islands Trust, RDCS planning study of Cortes Island, the Cortes Island land use questionnaire and final report, reports of CIRA planning committees, Cortes Island Community Plan drafts and draft revision, Cortes Island Official Settlement Plan and by-law, Subdivision Control by-law and Subdivision policy, zoning by-laws, drafts and amendments, proposed Siting by-law, and proposed application of the building code on Cortes Island.
Part Of
Cortes Island Ratepayers Association fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
2000.003
Series Number
7
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1965-1984
Physical Description
27 cm. of textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of materials related to community planning and land use on Cortes Island, including materials relating to the formation and duties of the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona (RDCS) and the Cortes Island APC, proposals related to Cortes Island becoming part of the Islands Trust, RDCS planning study of Cortes Island, the Cortes Island land use questionnaire and final report, reports of CIRA planning committees, Cortes Island Community Plan drafts and draft revision, Cortes Island Official Settlement Plan and by-law, Subdivision Control by-law and Subdivision policy, zoning by-laws, drafts and amendments, proposed Siting by-law, and proposed application of the building code on Cortes Island.
Storage Range
3-1 - 3-37
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Correspondence and ephemera re a new Cortes Island school

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1974-1977
Scope and Content
File contains a letter from George Gardener, principal of the Cortes Island school, and a letter and flyer about the proposed new school.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
8
File Number
34
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1974-1977
Scope and Content
File contains a letter from George Gardener, principal of the Cortes Island school, and a letter and flyer about the proposed new school.
Storage Location
7-34
Storage Range
7-34
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