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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

1

File Number

18

Date Range

2009

Scope and Content

Files relating to the Art in the Garden Series, 2009. Contains an email, posters from event, post in Marketer, and a sign from the event

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

42

Date Range

1900-2017

Scope and Content

Articles, maps, emails and other written info on Coast Salish clam farming history, terminology, archaeology. Scanned photographs of clam gardens and Indigenous clam farmers, 1900-2005. Scanned photographs from June Cameron of early settlers harvesting and processing clams and fish, 1934-1941. Drawings of clams by Judith Williams. Excerpts from Kwakiutl Texts by Boas and Hunt and Clam Gardens by Judith Williams. Shellfish recipes from various sources. Open letters to Judith Williams and Mr. Harper from Christian Grounau regarding terracing effects of glacial runoffs, 2007 and 2008. Info from a talk Judith Williams gave on clam gardens at the Klahoose Hall, 2008.

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

43

Scope and Content

Emails, photographs, maps, emails and written info on clam gardens relating to the clam garden display; labels from display; several copies of shellfish recipes; memo from Judith William's publishers.

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

2

File Number

43

Date Range

1996-2020

Scope and Content

Inner Coast Nursery, Mail Order Catalogue, 1996. CIMAS Heritage Garden pamphlet. Greeting cards with printed photographs of flowers from garden

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.005

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Students gardening at the Manson's Landing school, doing spring work and planting.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.006

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Garden at the Manson's Landing school showing a border of flowers against the picket fence

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.007

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Rows of corn in the vegetable patch at the Manson's Landing school garden

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.009

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

1917

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Flower border along the road side of the log school house, Manson's Landing

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.013

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Students standing among the bean poles in the Manson's Landing school garden. Miss Lettice's sister (visiting) is in the background by the corner of the school.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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May Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2004.002

Series Number

2

Item Number

2004.002.014

Material Type

graphic material

Responsibility

Katherine Lettice

Date Range

[1914-1918]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Miss Lettice's sister and Bernadette Petznick standing in the doorway of the Manson's Landing log schoolhouse.

Storage Location

Photograph box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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Jalmar Olson collection

Description Level

Fonds

Fonds Number

2013.001

Accession Number

2013.001

Material Type

graphic material

textual records

Date Range

1940-1952

Physical Description

7 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm 3 photographs : colour ; 15 x 10 cm 1 file of textual records

History / Biographical

Jalmar Olson (Apr 30, 1869-Feb 29, 1964) was born in Sweden. He emigrated to Canada in 1906 and moved to Cortes in the 1930s. He had a house and garden in Gorge Harbour at what is now 509 Whaletown Rd. Olson was a Weather Observer for Transport Canada until 1949, when he moved off-island for health reasons.

Custodial History

Donated to CIMAS by Judy Alderson Gerwing, the grand-daughter of Jalmar Olson, Sept. 27, 2013.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of photographs of Jalmar Olson, his house and garden in Gorge Harbour, and Whaletown. Textual records include a hand-written account of J. Olson by his grand-daughter, Judy (Alderson) Gerwing, and a photocopy of a letter to J. Olson from the Meteorological Division of the Dept. of Transport (Small fonds box 1-18).

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3 Small fonds box

Storage Range

Photograph Box 3 Small fonds box 1-18

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Jalmar Olson collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2013.001

Item Number

2013.001.001

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1940]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph shows an end view of Jalmar Olson's house on Gorge Harbour, with a fence and rock-edged path in the foreground.

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Jalmar Olson collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2013.001

Item Number

2013.001.003

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1946]

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph shows Judy Alderson standing bside the hand pump of J. Olson's well.

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Jalmar Olson collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2013.001

Item Number

2013.001.004

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca.1940]

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph shows Jalmar Olson standing in front of his house and garden; Gorge Harbour is in the background.

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Jalmar Olson collection

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Item

Fonds Number

2013.001

Item Number

2013.001.007

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Physical Description

1 photograph : colour ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph, taken from the water, shows J. Olson's house and outbuildings on the shore of Gorge Harbour, several years after he had moved away.

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CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.049

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1977

Physical Description

1 photographic slide : colour ; 3.5 x 2.25 cm

Custodial History

Donated by Ian Disney.

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.052

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1977

Physical Description

1 photographic slide : colour ; 3.5 x 2.25 cm

Custodial History

Donated by Ian Disney.

Storage Location

Slide box 2

Geographic Access

Whaletown

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CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.107

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[193-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : b&w ; 30 x 14 cm 1 photograph postcard : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm

Custodial History

Was in envelope stating: Mrs. Daniels for Museum Seaford from Nellie Jeffery? Found in bookshelf by Lynne Jordan

Scope and Content

One of a group of photos from an envelope labeled "Mrs. Daniels, Seaford, for museum."

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

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CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.119

Accession Number

2014.003

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1952

Physical Description

1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm

Custodial History

Photos came from Judy Gerwing, via Leila Campbell, in 2014.

Scope and Content

Photo by Doug Alderson

Storage Location

Photograph Box 3

Geographic Access

Manson's Landing

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CIMAS photograph collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2019.003

Item Number

2019.003.150

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1980]

Physical Description

1 photograph print : colour ; 20 x 25.5 cm

Storage Location

Oversize photographs box

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