Historical info including Coast Salish placenames, ecosystems, early settlement, 1800s-early 1900s. Photocopies of historical photos with info: Hague Lake from Stuart Lambert collection, 1910; Hague Lake from Bert Froud collection, 1917; Mr. Hague in boat on Hague Lake from Mabel Christensen collection, 1930s; Gunflint Lake Ranch from Flo McKay collection, 1930s-1940s. Emails, clipping, and pamplet with info on Hague and Gunflint Lake algae blooms, FOCI, 2014. Postcards, undated
Historical info including Coast Salish placenames, ecosystems, early settlement, 1800s-early 1900s. Photocopies of historical photos with info: Hague Lake from Stuart Lambert collection, 1910; Hague Lake from Bert Froud collection, 1917; Mr. Hague in boat on Hague Lake from Mabel Christensen collection, 1930s; Gunflint Lake Ranch from Flo McKay collection, 1930s-1940s. Emails, clipping, and pamplet with info on Hague and Gunflint Lake algae blooms, FOCI, 2014. Postcards, undated
Autobiography of Henry Hague and photographs of family and home at Manson's Landing, 1859-1960s. Info on Eve Rickenbacker (nee Hague) and Dewey Rickenbacker. Notes for talk on Hague family history by Yvonne Kipp. Photograph of Padgett's goats in Smelt Bay, early 1900s. Info on Cortes post offices, 1894-present. Letter from CIMAS to Mrs Florence Campbell about restoration work on Hague family. Ruth Zwickel's Memories of Mabel Christensen and the Hague Family (in conversation with Dianne Hentschel), undated. Info on early logging, early 1900s. Photographs of Henry Hague as Postmaster at Manson's Landing Post Office, 1940; and of Hague House, 2007
Autobiography of Henry Hague and photographs of family and home at Manson's Landing, 1859-1960s. Info on Eve Rickenbacker (nee Hague) and Dewey Rickenbacker. Notes for talk on Hague family history by Yvonne Kipp. Photograph of Padgett's goats in Smelt Bay, early 1900s. Info on Cortes post offices, 1894-present. Letter from CIMAS to Mrs Florence Campbell about restoration work on Hague family. Ruth Zwickel's Memories of Mabel Christensen and the Hague Family (in conversation with Dianne Hentschel), undated. Info on early logging, early 1900s. Photographs of Henry Hague as Postmaster at Manson's Landing Post Office, 1940; and of Hague House, 2007
"Four generation portrait. (L to R) Mrs. Hague (grandmother), Frances Lowe (daughter), Mrs. Heay (great grandmother), Mabel Lowe (mother). Mrs. Heay came to Cortes Island in the early 1890s and lived with her son Horace Heay (brother of Mrs. Hague) in the home he built at the mouth of Manson's Lagoon. In 1895 Mrs. Hague brought her daughters and stayed there too for a time until the Hague home was built on Manson's Lagoon." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection: Album 2, p. 19). There is also another copy of this photo (2007.001.562) which has been digitized.
"Four generation portrait. (L to R) Mrs. Hague (grandmother), Frances Lowe (daughter), Mrs. Heay (great grandmother), Mabel Lowe (mother). Mrs. Heay came to Cortes Island in the early 1890s and lived with her son Horace Heay (brother of Mrs. Hague) in the home he built at the mouth of Manson's Lagoon. In 1895 Mrs. Hague brought her daughters and stayed there too for a time until the Hague home was built on Manson's Lagoon." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection: Album 2, p. 19). There is also another copy of this photo (2007.001.562) which has been digitized.
"This shows the main road between Hague Lake and the Hague home property. Walking along the road are Mabel Lowe (L) and grandmother Mrs. Hague. The road had just been put in where there was only a trail before." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photographs: Album 2, p. 17) (Also in collection as 2007.001.723; digitized.)
"This shows the main road between Hague Lake and the Hague home property. Walking along the road are Mabel Lowe (L) and grandmother Mrs. Hague. The road had just been put in where there was only a trail before." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photographs: Album 2, p. 17) (Also in collection as 2007.001.723; digitized.)
Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.
The Maclean family (parents Don and Doris, and children Janice, Heather and Ian) lived in Whaletown from 1961 to 1973.
Don Maclean's parents, John and Edna Maclean, lived for many years in Edmonton, Alberta. When their son came home from the war they bought property near Coulter Bay and moved to Cortes Island. Don Maclean became a fisherman, eventually living on his fishing boat.
Doris Lancaster Maclean was born and raised in Victoria, B.C. In the late 1940s she answered a call from the Anglican Church to come and do Vacation Bible School with the Columbia Coast Mission on Cortes and nearby islands.
Doris and Don married in 1954. They moved to Cortes Island in 1961 when Don was hired to operate the Columbia Coast Mission boat, the "Alan Greene". They lived in the Mission house in Whaletown, next to the church. Don Maclean acted as a Lay Reader for the Columbia Coast Mission in the 1960s when no clergymen were available, holding services in the three Anglican churches on the island.
In 1967 the Diocese sold the "Alan Greene" and the Macleans were required to move out of the mission house. Maclean built a house on the beach of what used to be called Jardine’s property, although by this time it was owned by a cousin of Doris Maclean. He was hired as the Industrial First Aid man on site for the building of the Whaletown Ferry dock and after that worked as a clam digger.
The Maclean family left Cortes in 1973 and moved to Regina, SK. The house that Don built was rented for a couple of years and then sold and moved to a new location; it burned down a few years later.
Custodial History
Twenty-seven photographs and 15 slides were mailed to CIMAS by Janice Maclean Kerr in 2019; two more photos were mailed in Apr. 2021; 16 slides were mailed in Sept. 2021
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.