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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
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
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
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
Storage Range
Drawer 1
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CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
2006-2017
Scope and Content
Articles in the Cortes Marketer, community flyer, and Discovery Islander regarding geoduck farming controversies, 2006; Post in Island Tides from The Association of Denman Island Marine Stewards re deadline for comments on DFO Draft Geoduck Management Farm, 2014; Article in On the Spot News announcing Klahoose Geoduck Harvest, 2017
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
1
File Number
14
Date Range
2006-2017
Scope and Content
Articles in the Cortes Marketer, community flyer, and Discovery Islander regarding geoduck farming controversies, 2006; Post in Island Tides from The Association of Denman Island Marine Stewards re deadline for comments on DFO Draft Geoduck Management Farm, 2014; Article in On the Spot News announcing Klahoose Geoduck Harvest, 2017
Storage Range
Drawer 1
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Aquaculture: Info from Marcel

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
2006-2007
Scope and Content
Folder labelled Bee Islets Growers Corporation Financial Statement Year Ended December 31, 2007 containing three CD's labelled "A History of Cortes Isl Shellfish," "Misty Isles Oysters," and "Oyster April 06"; printed photographs of shellfish farming; Cortes Women in the Shellfish Industry; laminated photographs from Misty Isles Adventures. And Cortes Island shellfish features printouts from www.cortesshellfish.ca
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
1
File Number
15
Date Range
2006-2007
Scope and Content
Folder labelled Bee Islets Growers Corporation Financial Statement Year Ended December 31, 2007 containing three CD's labelled "A History of Cortes Isl Shellfish," "Misty Isles Oysters," and "Oyster April 06"; printed photographs of shellfish farming; Cortes Women in the Shellfish Industry; laminated photographs from Misty Isles Adventures. And Cortes Island shellfish features printouts from www.cortesshellfish.ca
Storage Range
Drawer 1
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CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1972-2019
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, articles, and posts about shellfish aquaculture, local debates and mechanization, and toxicity warnings--from 1972-2019. Bee Islets Growers Corporation financial statement, 2003; photographic handout of the Deep Water Shellfish Industry in Gorge Harbour, 2003; newspaper clipping about Cooper's Cove Oyster Farm, undated; Lummi Nation Shellfish Hatchery price list, undated (pre-Canadian shellfish hatcheries); photograph, Bee Islets Aquaculture by Mike Moore, undated; Writeup and photographs entitled "Women in the Shellfish Industry" by Foulkes and Rowse-Simmons, undated. Some notable keywords: Vern and Mary Kemp; ocen acidity; SS Minnow; Co-op Oyster Farm; Chief Ken Brown and MLA Claire Trevena; saxitoxin and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP); mechanization in the Gorge Harbour; Cortes Island Shellfish Interpretive Centre; OysterFest; SeaFest; dinophysis
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
1
File Number
16
Date Range
1972-2019
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings, articles, and posts about shellfish aquaculture, local debates and mechanization, and toxicity warnings--from 1972-2019. Bee Islets Growers Corporation financial statement, 2003; photographic handout of the Deep Water Shellfish Industry in Gorge Harbour, 2003; newspaper clipping about Cooper's Cove Oyster Farm, undated; Lummi Nation Shellfish Hatchery price list, undated (pre-Canadian shellfish hatcheries); photograph, Bee Islets Aquaculture by Mike Moore, undated; Writeup and photographs entitled "Women in the Shellfish Industry" by Foulkes and Rowse-Simmons, undated. Some notable keywords: Vern and Mary Kemp; ocen acidity; SS Minnow; Co-op Oyster Farm; Chief Ken Brown and MLA Claire Trevena; saxitoxin and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP); mechanization in the Gorge Harbour; Cortes Island Shellfish Interpretive Centre; OysterFest; SeaFest; dinophysis
Storage Range
Drawer 1
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Cortes Island History (General)

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CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
late 1800s-present
Scope and Content
Files with information on local history, late-1800s-present
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
1
File Number
53
Date Range
late 1800s-present
Scope and Content
Files with information on local history, late-1800s-present
Storage Range
Drawer 1
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Forestry: Logging/General

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
late 1800s-2016
Scope and Content
Historical info on local forestry and early logging practices from as early as the late 1800s. Signed agreement between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson, 1948. Invoices and other business documents, including handwritten notes "bills paid to Finning Tractor," for Ernel Logging Company, 1949-1952. West Coast Ballads sheet music written by Victor Couture from poems by Robert E. Swanson (BC Truck Loggers Association), 1969. Clippings and emails with info on historical logging practices and camps, local forestry, accidents, political influence, tourism, protests and controversies, 1958-2020. Excerpt from Goosegrass and Buttercups, D.C. Kirk, undated. Additional keywords: Ripple Rock; tug towed booms from Teakerne Arm; Carrington Lagoon; Squirrel Cove; MTV; the Ellingsen Jack; Forbes Bay; Von Donop; Island Timberlands; Tony Fhunka; Truck Loggers Association; Wildstands/Wild We Stand
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
29
Date Range
late 1800s-2016
Scope and Content
Historical info on local forestry and early logging practices from as early as the late 1800s. Signed agreement between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson, 1948. Invoices and other business documents, including handwritten notes "bills paid to Finning Tractor," for Ernel Logging Company, 1949-1952. West Coast Ballads sheet music written by Victor Couture from poems by Robert E. Swanson (BC Truck Loggers Association), 1969. Clippings and emails with info on historical logging practices and camps, local forestry, accidents, political influence, tourism, protests and controversies, 1958-2020. Excerpt from Goosegrass and Buttercups, D.C. Kirk, undated. Additional keywords: Ripple Rock; tug towed booms from Teakerne Arm; Carrington Lagoon; Squirrel Cove; MTV; the Ellingsen Jack; Forbes Bay; Von Donop; Island Timberlands; Tony Fhunka; Truck Loggers Association; Wildstands/Wild We Stand
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Manson's Landing (General)

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
2005-2015
Scope and Content
Clippings featuring Manson's Landing, 2005-2015. Info on Manson's Landing sewerage, 2012.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
2
File Number
63
Date Range
2005-2015
Scope and Content
Clippings featuring Manson's Landing, 2005-2015. Info on Manson's Landing sewerage, 2012.
Storage Range
Drawer 2
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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Scope and Content
Clippings, Strathcona Regional Park updates, emails, pamphlets, and postings about Cortes Island Provincial Parks
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
5
Scope and Content
Clippings, Strathcona Regional Park updates, emails, pamphlets, and postings about Cortes Island Provincial Parks
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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Manson, Family (General)

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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
mid 1800s-2017
Scope and Content
Wealth of typed historical information on Manson family dating back to mid 1800s, including excerpt from Chalkdust and Outhouses, by Lambert; and "Cortez History: Manson Family," by Etta Byers. Manson genealogical information, handwritten notes on family trees. Photocopies from CIMAS Photo Albums with photographs and info, 1910-1936. Excerpt of From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska and the United States, Sinclair Thomson Duncan, 1911. Letters to/from Mansons, 1923-2013. Various magazine and newspaper excerpts, 1923-2013. Info on Alexander Malcolm Manson. Info on Shetland Islands. Photographs. Emails, 2005-2017.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
52
Date Range
mid 1800s-2017
Scope and Content
Wealth of typed historical information on Manson family dating back to mid 1800s, including excerpt from Chalkdust and Outhouses, by Lambert; and "Cortez History: Manson Family," by Etta Byers. Manson genealogical information, handwritten notes on family trees. Photocopies from CIMAS Photo Albums with photographs and info, 1910-1936. Excerpt of From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska and the United States, Sinclair Thomson Duncan, 1911. Letters to/from Mansons, 1923-2013. Various magazine and newspaper excerpts, 1923-2013. Info on Alexander Malcolm Manson. Info on Shetland Islands. Photographs. Emails, 2005-2017.
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Scope and Content
General info on local people. Filing note: if a file exists for the person, put their obituary post there rather than the general file
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
7
Scope and Content
General info on local people. Filing note: if a file exists for the person, put their obituary post there rather than the general file
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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Crowd of people standing on the government dock at Manson's Landing

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a crowd of people on the government dock at Manson's Landing, likely waiting for the arrival of a Union Steamship. They are standing in front of a building sided with vertical shake boards, with "Cortes Island" and "Telegraph Office" signs on its side. View is looking along the Spit.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.064
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w: 10 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a crowd of people on the government dock at Manson's Landing, likely waiting for the arrival of a Union Steamship. They are standing in front of a building sided with vertical shake boards, with "Cortes Island" and "Telegraph Office" signs on its side. View is looking along the Spit.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Subject Access
Union Steamship Company
Transportation
Water transport
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Five generations: Eve Rickenbacker, Mabel Christensen, Eleanor Milne, Stephanie Campbell and daughter Leeann

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2018.002
Date Range
[ca. 1980]
Scope and Content
Photo of five women representing five generations descended from Lydia Heay and Henry Hague: Stephanie (Milne) Campbell's parents are Eleanor (Christensen) and Ross Milne; Eleanor's parents are Mabel (Lowe) and "Buster" Christensen; Mabel Lowe Christensen's parents are Mabel Gertrude (Hague) and Delmark Lowe; Eve Rickenbacker's parents are Lydia Heay and Henry Hague. She is the sister of Mabel Gertrude Hague Lowe (d. 1921) and the aunt of Mabel Lowe Christensen.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.561
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1980]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour; 12.5 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photo of five women representing five generations descended from Lydia Heay and Henry Hague: Stephanie (Milne) Campbell's parents are Eleanor (Christensen) and Ross Milne; Eleanor's parents are Mabel (Lowe) and "Buster" Christensen; Mabel Lowe Christensen's parents are Mabel Gertrude (Hague) and Delmark Lowe; Eve Rickenbacker's parents are Lydia Heay and Henry Hague. She is the sister of Mabel Gertrude Hague Lowe (d. 1921) and the aunt of Mabel Lowe Christensen.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
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Government cougar hunters with their cougar hounds

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2018.002
Date Range
[194?]
Scope and Content
Photograph shows government cougar hunters Jimmy Dewar (L) and possibly Skate Haines or Jimmy's brother Percy, kneeling beside their cougar hounds (Joe, Danny, Sammy and Lynn, Lou and Lige) and in front of a large cougar hanging from a pole. (ID of men by Dennis Newsham.) This photo used to hang in Eva Freeman's house.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.747
Item Number Range
2007.001.747
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[194?]
Physical Description
1 framed photograph print: b&w; cm
Scope and Content
Photograph shows government cougar hunters Jimmy Dewar (L) and possibly Skate Haines or Jimmy's brother Percy, kneeling beside their cougar hounds (Joe, Danny, Sammy and Lynn, Lou and Lige) and in front of a large cougar hanging from a pole. (ID of men by Dennis Newsham.) This photo used to hang in Eva Freeman's house.
Subject Access
Hunting
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Ernel Logging government documents and correspondence

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2017.003
Date Range
1952-1953
Scope and Content
File contains documents created by the Province of British Columbia, Canadian Department of National Revenue, Workmen's Compensation Board, and Forest Service.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Ellingsen, May & Elmer
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.1
File Number
37
Accession Number
2017.003
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1952-1953
Scope and Content
File contains documents created by the Province of British Columbia, Canadian Department of National Revenue, Workmen's Compensation Board, and Forest Service.
Storage Location
3-3.2
Storage Range
3-3.2
Subject Access
Logging
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1952-1987
Scope and Content
File contains legal documents, mostly relating to property transfers, and bills of sale. [check E Rickenbacker trailer papers]
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.4
File Number
60
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1952-1987
Scope and Content
File contains legal documents, mostly relating to property transfers, and bills of sale. [check E Rickenbacker trailer papers]
Storage Location
4-2
Storage Range
4-2
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Manson and Hayes family documents and news clippings

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Accession Number
2019.002
Date Range
1896-[ca. 1960]
Scope and Content
File includes Michael Manson & Jane Renwick family tree and John Manson's passport (1937).
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.1
File Number
19.1
Accession Number
2019.002
Date Range
1896-[ca. 1960]
Scope and Content
File includes Michael Manson & Jane Renwick family tree and John Manson's passport (1937).
Storage Location
5-19.1
Storage Range
5-19.1
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Petition for a government wharf at Clytosin signed by Bute Inlet settlers

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1892
Scope and Content
File contains
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
20
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1892
Scope and Content
File contains
Storage Location
5-20
Storage Range
5-20
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Squirrel Cove Store rationing documents

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1944-1945
Scope and Content
File contains forms, coupon books and correspondence relating to war-time rationing.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
28
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1944-1945
Scope and Content
File contains forms, coupon books and correspondence relating to war-time rationing.
Storage Location
5-28
Storage Range
5-28
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
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Gorge Harbour aquaculture expansion

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Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2013.004
Scope and Content
Series consists of correspondence and a map pertaining to a proposed re-zoning of aquaculture in Gorge Harbour.
Part Of
Friends of Cortes Island Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Friends of Cortes Island Society
Fonds Number
2013.004
Series Number
9
Accession Number
2013.004
Material Type
textual records
Scope and Content
Series consists of correspondence and a map pertaining to a proposed re-zoning of aquaculture in Gorge Harbour.
Storage Location
1-15
Storage Range
1-15
Name Access
FOCI
Friends of Cortes Island
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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