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File

Series Number

1

File Number

13

Date Range

1978-2018

Scope and Content

Articles, newspaper clippings, and brochures relating to fish farming and wild fish stocks from 1978-2018. Full issue of Salmonid containing bundle of newspaper clippings on fish farming, 1984-1985; Full issue of Fish Farming International Magazine, 1988; Fish Farms in Area B Regional Directors Report, 2009; Poster entitled The Get Out Migration by Salmon Are Sacred, undated. Some notable keywords: Wilderness Committee; David Suzuki Foundation; Farmed and Dangerous; Salmon Are Sacred organization; sea lice; Sea Shepherd Society

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Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

2

File Number

57

Date Range

early 1900s-2014

Scope and Content

Historical info from the early 1900s. Info on the Linnaea Farm Society, Linnaea Farm Fest, Linnaea Harvest Festival, Linnaea Farm agricultural programs, Linnaea school history, programs, activities and plays,book launches, public disk golf course, and the Community Land Trust (CLT), 1973-2014. Linnaea Farm purchase receipt from Mansons Landing, 1993. Cortes Island phone book, 1990. Linnaea School Productions play itineraries, 2006-2008. Additional keywords: Donna Bracewell; Ken Hansen; Streamkeepers; raw milk

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File

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3

File Number

28

Date Range

1921-2017

Scope and Content

Info on George Eward and Emma Jane Ewart, 1921 census, medical certificate of death, George Ewart, 1946. Info on marriage registration of Frank George Barnard and Blanche Madeline Dennis, 1938 (Ewart's son). Info on medical certificate of death and cemetery query, Josephine Skerton, 1968. Emails associated with all information from 2017. Notes with photographs on Eward family research, 2017

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

30

Date Range

1908-1927

Scope and Content

Photocopies: Fire Insurance receipt, 1908; letters from PO Inspector to David Forrest, 1915; Public Schools Act Assessment letters, 1915; notary and registry papers, Wallis Walter Lefeaux, W. Lawrence Forrest, Joseph Edward Mellor last will and testament, 1927; pharmacy receipts, undated; letters, undated

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

54

Date Range

early 1900s-2020

Scope and Content

Blog posts from Mike Manson, Sunnybrae, 2016-2020. Historical info on Sunnybrae, early 1900s. Maps and Sunnybrae site plan. Crown Grant for Sunnybrae, 1893.

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

77

Date Range

1954-1955

Scope and Content

Invoices from BC Airlines Limited, 1954-1955. Keywords: Ernel Logging Ltd, Mansons Landing, Ellingsen, Anderson

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File

Series Number

4

File Number

31

Date Range

early 1900s-present

Scope and Content

Notes, emails, clippings, maps, scanned photographs, and written info on Squirrel Cove, including local businesses and people, early 1900s-present. Squirrel Cove store receipts, 1952-1953. Envelope of files titled "Squirrel Cove - early days - info from Ron Forrest, Nov 2014." Excerpts from Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, and Chalkdust & Outhouses, Barbara Ann Lambert. Keywords: Nichols, Squirrel Cove General Store, The Cove Restaurant, Flying Squirrel Take Out, Union Steamship "Cheakamus," Squirrel Cove Church.

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

4

File Number

6

Date Range

1979-2018

Scope and Content

Clippings and emails with info on Refuge Cove and its inhabitants over the years, 1979-2018. "Hope's Refuge," Doris Hope, 1992. "Memories of Refuge Cove," June Cameron, 1997. Photographs, undated. Posting for Refuge Cove Coastal Kitchen for sale at CIMAS

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Drawer 4

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.002

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1957

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 12.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Note the oil barrels on the walkway to the wharf. Originally from the collection of Gilean Douglas.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Doreen Thompson fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.003

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 9.5 x 15

Scope and Content

Likely, originally from the collection of the Weiler family.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Doreen Thompson fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.008

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[198-]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : colour ; 9 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content

Likely from the Weiler family collection.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Doreen Thompson fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.019

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 13.5 x 8 cm

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.029

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[196?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

(From a group of photographs labelled "Frank Tooker photos").

Subject Access

Fishing

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.031

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[198?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : col. ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

(From a group of photographs labelled "Frank Tooker photos").

Subject Access

Fishing

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Doreen Thompson fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

4

Item Number

2006.001.033

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[197?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : col. ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

(From a group of photographs labelled "Frank Tooker photos").

Subject Access

Fishing

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Cortes Ecoforestry Society fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2017.011

Series Number

12

File Number

5

Item Number

2017.011.004

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1999

Physical Description

1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm

Storage Location

Photo box 3

Geographic Access

Squirrel Cove

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Donald Palmer fonds

Description Level

Fonds

Creator

Palmer, Donald

Fonds Number

2020.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1927-1984

Physical Description

9 photographs : b&w 1 map : 188 x 92 cm 5 pages of textual records

History / Biographical

Donald Palmer went to school on Cortes Island in the 1960s. His father, James Palmer, was born in 1927 to Elizabeth (Lizzie) and Cliff Palmer, who lived on the homestead of Lizzie's parents, Agnes and James Gibson, in Squirrel Cove. Their large property was on the uphill side of the road across from Tork Road.

Custodial History

Donated to CIMAS in July, 2020, by Donald Palmer

Scope and Content

Fonds contains nine photographs depicting members of the Gibson and Palmer families who lived in Squirrel Cove; one large map (6 x 3 feet) showing the preemptions and homesteads of early Cortes settlers; and an account written by Etta (McKay) Byers of her Christmas in 1927.

Storage Location

Photo box 3

Small fonds box

Name Access

Palmer, Donald

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

Squirrel Cove

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Donald Palmer fonds

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Item

Creator

Palmer, Donald

Fonds Number

2020.002

Item Number

2020.002.001

Accession Number

2020.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1927

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w, 6 x 9 cm

Storage Location

Photo box 3

Name Access

Palmer, Donald

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

Squirrel Cove

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Donald Palmer fonds

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Item

Creator

Palmer, Donald

Fonds Number

2020.002

Item Number

2020.002.002

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1927

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 6 x 11 cm

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Donald Palmer fonds

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Item

Creator

Palmer, Donald

Fonds Number

2020.002

Item Number

2020.002.003

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1927]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 6 x 11 cm

Geographic Access

Squirrel Cove

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