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CIMAS information files

Description Level

File

Series Number

2

File Number

47

Date Range

1887-?

Scope and Content

Typed info on early settlers, 1887-1916. How to Remodel an Old Home, booklet, 1949. Clippings with info on early settlers, 1982-?

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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File

File Number

30

Date Range

1905

Custodial History

Donated by Dianne Hansen, May 2015

Scope and Content

File contains a cookbook published by the Blue Ribbon Co., with hand-written recipes in the back.

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

Storage Range

1-30

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Description Level

File

Series Number

3

File Number

102

Date Range

1907-?

Scope and Content

Assortment of local historic prints of photographs, 1907-?. Some keywords: Redonda, Von Donop Inlet, Nichols, Thompson, Gorge Harbour, Gunn, Slater, Huck, Summers, Smith, Calwell, killer whales, Manson's Landing, Manson's Lagoon, Whaletown Wharf, Whaletown Store, Jordan, Squirrel Cove, Kendel, Cortes Bay, Smelt Bay, Copeland, Stoney, Cunliffe, Selen, Herrewig, Ballantyne, Hansen

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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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

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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File

File Number

22

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1916

Scope and Content

File contains newspaper pages from "Everywoman's World" with an article on the founder of the Women's Institutes, Adelaide Hoodless. The article has been photocopied; the original is deteriorating.

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

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Description Level

File

File Number

17

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1926

Scope and Content

File contains oversize newspaper pages (18 inches x 22.5 inches) with an article about Cortes Island. John Manson is mentioned in the article

Name Access

Southern Cortes Community Association

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

5

File Number

1

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1932

Scope and Content

File contains a book which was in the Whaletown School Library.

Storage Location

1-33

Storage Range

1-33

Name Access

Thompson, Doreen

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

5

File Number

9

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1947

Scope and Content

File contains page from a scrapbook with newspaper clippings pasted onto it.

Storage Location

Oversize box

Storage Range

Oversize box

Name Access

Thompson, Doreen

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Description Level

File

Series Number

4

File Number

55

Date Range

1949

Scope and Content

Info on the pod of orcas that were trapped and shot at in Von Donop Lagoon, 1949

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

97

Date Range

1949

Scope and Content

Five part article about life and crime of Herbert Wilson, "king of the safecrackers," who lived in Cortes Bay in the 1940s.

Storage Range

Drawer 3

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Description Level

File

File Number

1

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1952

Physical Description

File contains a printed catalog from Woodward's department store.

Storage Location

Ephemera Box 1-1

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

5

File Number

5

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1952

Scope and Content

File includes a book inscribed "Awarded to Anita, for proficiency in Von Donop Creek School 1951/1952", and a stamp from the Whaletown Library.

Storage Location

1-37

Storage Range

1-37

Name Access

Thompson, Doreen

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

5

File Number

2

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1958

Scope and Content

File contains song sheets; "Tari Tooker" is written in the lower corner. File also includes a photocopy of same.

Storage Location

1-34

Storage Range

1-34

Name Access

Thompson, Doreen

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Description Level

File

File Number

24

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1959

Custodial History

Donated by Ian Disney in 2012.

Scope and Content

File consists of master pages of a fund-raising cookbook produced by the Whaletown Women's Institute. Typed recipes are pasted onto construction paper sheets; sheets are crumbling. Complete copies of the cookbook may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds and the Island Women's Club fonds.

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

Name Access

Whaletown Women's Institute

Subject Access

Women's Institute

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Doreen Thompson fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2006.001

Series Number

5

File Number

4

Accession Number

2006.001

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1960

Scope and Content

Marked "Teacher Nancy" (Nancy Jenkins).

Storage Location

1-36

Storage Range

1-36

Name Access

Thompson, Doreen

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Description Level

File

File Number

28

Date Range

1966

Custodial History

Unknown

Scope and Content

File contains a hand-drawn map of Hernando Island showing original pre-emptions, with information about settlement, schools and changes of title written on it.

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

Storage Range

1-28

Geographic Access

Hernando Island

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Description Level

File

File Number

20

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1967

Scope and Content

File contains Land Series Bulletin #11, published by the Province of BC, 48 pages with a fold-out map.

Storage Location

Ephemera - Box 1

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Description Level

File

File Number

4

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1969

Physical Description

6 enclosure cards

Custodial History

Donated to CIMAS by Lorena Teames in 2009. The cards were given to her as a gift from Bobby Ballantyne when Lorena Teames moved to Cortes Island in 1969.

Scope and Content

File contains six enclosure cards with pressed flowers, made by Elizabeth (Bobby) Ballantyne.

Storage Location

Ephemera box 1-4

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File

Series Number

2

File Number

80

Date Range

1969

Scope and Content

Clipping, "Murder on Read Island," The Daily Colonist, 1969

Storage Range

Drawer 2

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Description Level

File

File Number

38

Material Type

ephemera

Date Range

1972

Physical Description

1 file of textual records

Custodial History

Donated by Kate Maddigan, Aug. 23 2021. Receipts were found in the attic of the house she bought from Nigel Pickard.

Scope and Content

File contains a group of receipts made out to Nigel Pickard from (likely) the Manson's Landing store.

Storage Location

Ephemera box

Storage Range

Ephemera box

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