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Muriel and William Whiting fonds

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Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1919-[ca. 1960]
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Creator
Whiting, Muriel and William
Fonds Number
2018.003
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1919-[ca. 1960]
Physical Description
12 cm of textual records
Extent
12 cm
History / Biographical
Muriel Horner Whiting (1882-1977) and William Henry Evans Whiting (1853-1927) settled on Cortes in about 1918, having purchased 58 acres of land in Whaletown (present-day 1474 and 1416 Robertson Rd.) from Charles Allen. Their son Basil Evans Whiting was born in 1923. William Whiting was considerably older than Muriel; he died in 1927 and is buried in the old Whaletown cemetery. After his death, Muriel supported herself by raising poultry and eggs for sale and by taking in boarders. Her only son, Basil, joined the Royal Canadian Navy just before the outbreak of World War II. He lost his life at the age of 19, when the destroyer HMCS "Ottawa" was torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 13,1942. His war medals are in the Cortes Island Museum Artifacts Collection. Muriel remained on Cortes until the late 1960s; she died in Whiterock in 1977. Although the Whiting house burned down in 1982, remnants of the homestead remain: a tumble-down barn built of hand-split cedar boards, a few old apple trees and some hardy garden survivors such as japonica, mock orange, and St. Johnswort. The yellow primroses in the Museum garden are descendents of her flowers.
Custodial History
This material was found stored in the barn on the former Whiting property in 1971. It was passed down through several owners of the property before being donated to the museum by Sabina Leader-Mense in 2018.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of records created by Muriel and William Whiting and includes correspondence, official documents, business records, recipes, notes and ephemera. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Documents; and Subject files.
Storage Location
Small Box 3
Storage Range
1-1 - 1-25
Name Access
Whiting, Muriel and William
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
[ca. 1920-1930]
Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2018.003
Series Number
1
File Number
17
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
[ca. 1920-1930]
Storage Range
1-17
Name Access
Whiting, Muriel and William
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1925-1934
Scope and Content
File consists of offers of fuit trees and rose bushes from the BC Nurseries Company and a "Scribbler" notebook with Muriel Whiting's notes on growing fruit trees and bushes, with some newspaper clippings between the pages.
Part Of
Muriel and William Whiting fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2018.003
Series Number
3
File Number
4
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1925-1934
Scope and Content
File consists of offers of fuit trees and rose bushes from the BC Nurseries Company and a "Scribbler" notebook with Muriel Whiting's notes on growing fruit trees and bushes, with some newspaper clippings between the pages.
Storage Range
1-24
Name Access
Whiting, Muriel and William
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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