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CIMAS information files

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

24

Date Range

1912-1993

Scope and Content

Excerpt from Goosegrass and Buttercups by Doris C. Kirk, 1912; article in North Island News "Ice Cream! 'Boat Day' was major event for the coastal urchins of yesteryear," 1993

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

25

Date Range

2000

Scope and Content

"BC Aboriginal People: Communities in Transition" report by Patrick Kelly, 2000

Storage Range

Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

1

File Number

28

Date Range

2010

Scope and Content

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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Drawer 1

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

6

Scope and Content

Family trees of Cortes residents throughout history. Filing note: if a file exists for the person, put their family tree there rather than the general file

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Drawer 3

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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

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Drawer 3

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File

Series Number

3

File Number

8

Scope and Content

Two folders containing obituaries of Cortes residents. Filing note: if a file exists for the person, put their obituary post there rather than the general file

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Drawer 3

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File

Series Number

4

File Number

37

Date Range

1946-2007

Scope and Content

Info on the Sylva Jane, as well as the model of the boat in the museum's collection, 1946-2007

Storage Range

Drawer 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

11

File Number

2

Material Type

textual records

ephemera

Date Range

1912

Scope and Content

File contains a small booklet published by Burpee Seed Company.

Storage Location

8-2

Storage Range

8-2

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File

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

12

File Number

7

Material Type

textual records

Date Range

1960-1997

Scope and Content

File contains articles about Mile Manson; Veronica Dowling; whaling and the Whaletown church by Maud Emery; the opening of the new road between Manson's Landing and Whaletown, Cortes Day Barbecue; the Glad Bag at the Gorge Hall; Chief Billy Mitchell; island life by Holly Arntzen; Cortes Island Day; Gertrude Lambert; Manson's Hall expansion; Gorge Hall expansion; Gilean Douglas.

Storage Location

8-53

Storage Range

8-53

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Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.004

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 a white horse harnessed to a farm wagon. One youth is seated on the horse's rump; the other is standing on it's back.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.005

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 and two other men beside the house at Sunny Brae. Note the surveyor's tripod, and the picket fence in the background.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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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.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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Item

Fonds Number

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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Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.014

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1960s-1970s]

Physical Description

2 photograph prints: b&w: 8 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photographs showing people seated on big logs (at Smelt Bay? Manson's Spit?)

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.015

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

Photograph of a group of people at Smelt Bay.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.018

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. early 1960s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 11.5 x 8

Scope and Content

Photograph of a group of women, three of them holding infants. (Needs ID)

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.027

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1929]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 12.5 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman with a rowboat, on a beach at low tide. May Ellingsen's note on the back says "Mrs. Conant? Where?"

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.032

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 8.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a Boat with group of men on board, the "Duck Hunting Special", owned by John Gibbons

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

Subject Access

Hunting

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

2007.001

Series Number

13

Item Number

2007.001.042

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1933

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w: 14 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a dock with fishing boats, Alert Bay.

Storage Location

Photograph Box 4

Subject Access

Fishing

Geographic Access

Alert Bay

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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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