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CIMAS information files

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File

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1

File Number

27

Date Range

1868-2019

Scope and Content

Excerpt from Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1868; A Trapper's Journal, Charlie Rasmussen, 1929; excerpt from The Last Great Sea mentioning Bute Wax, 2000; Bute Inlet history and the Glacier Museum Project, Judith Williams, 2010; BC Arts Capacity and Sustainability Grant draft application, 2011; emails and webpage printouts, 2010, 2011, 2015. Newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating to Bute Inlet, 2010-2019, subjects mentioned include: George Vancouver, Cougar Companions, Disposition of Crown Land and Allocation of Water, Plutonic Power, fishing, Homalco history and culture, Tsilqot'in, Glen Macklin, National Geographic. CIMAS promotional material for the Bute Inlet boat trip and exhibit; photographs and post cards

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Drawer 1

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File

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1

File Number

28

Date Range

2010

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Article about the Inlet, date unknown; trip advertisement in Cortes Marketer; promotional posters; hand written notes working out cost of trip, invoices, fees paid, cost per person, and profit; emails regarding taxi and charter quote, tour guide, estimated cost per person, dates, coordinations, advertisements, and invoices; write up for press release; handwritten note noting how much they enjoyed the trip

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File

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1

File Number

29

Date Range

2009-2011

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Newspaper clippings and articles re: Bute Inlet hydro project; Plutonic Power; run-of-river projects; Friends of Bute; Bute history; exhibition; But Inlet boat tour. Emails re: art; grants; curation of exhibit; critique of Rob Wood and CIMAS by Klahoose member Ken Hanuse; request for Open Meadows Project song performance by Klahoose member Brenda Hansen; display cabinets; exhibit fees. Review of exhibit by Marcel Creurer; project proposal sent to the Vancouver Foundation; handwritten notes by Lynne Jordan and Judy WIlliams; invoices; records of financial contributions; promotional material; photographs

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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

4

File Number

35

Date Range

1908

Scope and Content

Copies of Mink Gets the Tides from "A Tlawitsis Story" in Kwakiutl Texts by Franz Boas and George Hunt, Volume 10 of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1908

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4

File Number

42

Date Range

1949-2010

Scope and Content

Excerpts from The Log of the Columbia with info on Toba inlet, 1949-1950; more recent clippings with info on Toba Inlet, 2009-2010

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File

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4

File Number

54

Date Range

1920-2013

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Clippings with info on floathouses, the hermit of Von Donop Channel, the landslide at Spences Bridge, Von Donop Marine Park, Klahoose First Nation, and Doreen Thompson, 1920-2017, and clippings from WNE, 1987-1989. Transcript with info on the Ellingsens in Von Donop Creek, 1946-1950, from interview with May, Elmer, Andy, and Bruce Ellginsen, 2001. Info on logging in Von Donop Creek, 1920s-1960, from a logging meeting in 2001. Info from Von Donop Creek Research and Display for CIMAS, 2001. An envelope with info from Bev Mathews, donated in 2013.

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.006

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. early 1900s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of John Manson, holding a hammer, beside a two-story structure which is under construction.

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Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.007

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. early 1900s]

Physical Description

2 photograph prints: b&w; 11.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph John Manson, standing on second floor of a two-story building which is under construction.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.104

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1923

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 7 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a scene along the shore in Toba Inlet.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.731

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

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

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

20

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1892

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File contains

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5-20

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5-20

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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File

Creator

Ellingsen, May

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

67

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

2001

Scope and Content

File contains Shirley (Ellingsen) Cole's reminiscences of life in Von Donop; notes from a meeting about logging in Von Donop; and interviews with May, Elmer, Bruce and Andy Ellingsen and with Norah Cowan Thompson.

Storage Location

5-67

Storage Range

5-67

Subject Access

Logging

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

77

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1975

Scope and Content

File contains correspondence with May Ellingsen and the Sliammon council, and a dictionary of the Chinook language.

Storage Location

5-77

Storage Range

5-77

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

5.2

File Number

78

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1964-1971

Scope and Content

File contains two publications: "BC Indian Language Project" (60 pages, 1964) and "How to Write the Comox Language" 911 pages, 1971).

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5-78

Storage Range

5-78

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

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File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

9

File Number

12

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

[ca. 1990s]

Scope and Content

File contains

Storage Location

7-60

Storage Range

7-60

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