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The Martin house under tow

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1948
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.020
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1948
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 8 x 8 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Spar tree in a logged area with yarded logs at its base (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.501
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Log being loaded onto a logging truck using the frame on a spar tree (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.502
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Heavily-loaded logging truck on the main road (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.025)
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.503
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1952
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.025)
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Truck parked to the side of the road at Clinic Hill in Whaletown; a large first-growth fir has fallen across the road and a section of the log has been cut out to clear the road

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.484
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Three men rolling the new fuel tank off the Whaletown wharf to its location on the rocks beside the store

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.487
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Andy Robertson and Fred Reedel, cutting a log on Weiler's beach in Whaletown

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.449
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Photographic essay from the North Island News, July 26, 1960 about the celebration for the opening of the Gorge Road connecting Whaletown and Manson's Landing

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
ephemera
Date Range
1960
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
4
File Number
1
Material Type
ephemera
Date Range
1960
Storage Location
Small Box 1
Storage Range
1-28
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Looking up at the wires attached to a spar tree for high-lead logging

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1963
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.507
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1963
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 9 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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The log dump in Gorge Harbour

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1986
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.437
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1986
Physical Description
1 photograph: colour; 13 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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The log dump in Gorge Harbour

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1986
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.438
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1986
Physical Description
1 photograph: colour; 13 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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George Hawkins posing by logging equipment, a truck with a wooden arch on the back

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Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Scope and Content
Photo of George Hawkins. Bill and George Hawkins were hired by Fred Brooks Sr. when he was logging.
Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.021
Item Number
2019.021.008
Item Number Range
2019.021.008
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 7 x 5 cm
Scope and Content
Photo of George Hawkins. Bill and George Hawkins were hired by Fred Brooks Sr. when he was logging.
Storage Location
Photo box 5
Storage Range
Photo box 5
Subject Access
Logging
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Bill Hawkins standing on a section of beach-combed logs off Manson's Landing

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Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.021
Item Number
2019.021.012
Item Number Range
2019.021.012
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 6 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo box 5
Storage Range
Photo box 5
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Fred Brooks Sr. standing on a section of beach-combed logs off Manson's Landing

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Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.021
Item Number
2019.021.015
Item Number Range
2019.021.015
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 6 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo box 5
Storage Range
Photo box 5
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Emergency Services: Fire Department

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1987-2016
Scope and Content
Info on: wildfire emergency preparedness; Cortes Volunteer Fire Department and Fire Fighting Association; firehalls; fire trucks; by-laws and funding initiatives concerning fire services on Cortes; helipad and expansion of FD services to handle medical emergencies; fire protection equipement at Klahoose FN; fundraising; and posts relating to local fires and fire fighting responses, 1987-2016
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
11
Date Range
1987-2016
Scope and Content
Info on: wildfire emergency preparedness; Cortes Volunteer Fire Department and Fire Fighting Association; firehalls; fire trucks; by-laws and funding initiatives concerning fire services on Cortes; helipad and expansion of FD services to handle medical emergencies; fire protection equipement at Klahoose FN; fundraising; and posts relating to local fires and fire fighting responses, 1987-2016
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Forestry: Forest Fires on Cortes

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1910-2018
Scope and Content
Mentions of forest fires from Alice Robertson's diary, and Charles I. Allen's diary, both dated from 1910. Info on historic ignitions with chart, 1950-2000. Emails with info on local fires, 2009-2013. Notice of fire ban in effect from Discovery Islander, 2015. Info from Coastal Fire Centre, 2018
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
27
Date Range
1910-2018
Scope and Content
Mentions of forest fires from Alice Robertson's diary, and Charles I. Allen's diary, both dated from 1910. Info on historic ignitions with chart, 1950-2000. Emails with info on local fires, 2009-2013. Notice of fire ban in effect from Discovery Islander, 2015. Info from Coastal Fire Centre, 2018
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Forestry: Logging/General

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
late 1800s-2016
Scope and Content
Historical info on local forestry and early logging practices from as early as the late 1800s. Signed agreement between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson, 1948. Invoices and other business documents, including handwritten notes "bills paid to Finning Tractor," for Ernel Logging Company, 1949-1952. West Coast Ballads sheet music written by Victor Couture from poems by Robert E. Swanson (BC Truck Loggers Association), 1969. Clippings and emails with info on historical logging practices and camps, local forestry, accidents, political influence, tourism, protests and controversies, 1958-2020. Excerpt from Goosegrass and Buttercups, D.C. Kirk, undated. Additional keywords: Ripple Rock; tug towed booms from Teakerne Arm; Carrington Lagoon; Squirrel Cove; MTV; the Ellingsen Jack; Forbes Bay; Von Donop; Island Timberlands; Tony Fhunka; Truck Loggers Association; Wildstands/Wild We Stand
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
29
Date Range
late 1800s-2016
Scope and Content
Historical info on local forestry and early logging practices from as early as the late 1800s. Signed agreement between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson, 1948. Invoices and other business documents, including handwritten notes "bills paid to Finning Tractor," for Ernel Logging Company, 1949-1952. West Coast Ballads sheet music written by Victor Couture from poems by Robert E. Swanson (BC Truck Loggers Association), 1969. Clippings and emails with info on historical logging practices and camps, local forestry, accidents, political influence, tourism, protests and controversies, 1958-2020. Excerpt from Goosegrass and Buttercups, D.C. Kirk, undated. Additional keywords: Ripple Rock; tug towed booms from Teakerne Arm; Carrington Lagoon; Squirrel Cove; MTV; the Ellingsen Jack; Forbes Bay; Von Donop; Island Timberlands; Tony Fhunka; Truck Loggers Association; Wildstands/Wild We Stand
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Log being loaded onto a logging truck using a donkey winch and spar tree (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.021)
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.504
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.021)
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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High-lead logging: view of a spar tree in the middle of a logging clear-cut (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.505
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Logger standing on a load of large fir logs underneath the loading frame of a spar tree (ID)

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Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.023)
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.506
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[195?]
Physical Description
1 photograph: b&w; 15 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
(Possible duplicate: 2019.023.023)
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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