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Aerial view of Hague Lake and Manson's Lagoon

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [198-?]

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.702

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [198-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 25 x 25 cm

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Aftermath of steam donkey explosion on Hague Lake

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1923

Scope and Content: "One man (operator) was killed. One piece of donkey went through the air and landed on other side of lake (near where Bert Hansen now lives)." (Item #2007.001.234 is a duplicate.)

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.697

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1923

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 13 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: "One man (operator) was killed. One piece of donkey went through the air and landed on other side of lake (near where Bert Hansen now lives)." (Item #2007.001.234 is a duplicate.)

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Subject Access: Logging

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Aldrich family

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [ca. 1908]

Scope and Content: Herb Aldrich, Cyrus Aldrich, Ed Wiley, Jesse Aldrich, Wallace Aldrich, Mary Aldrich with son Earl, Ruth Aldruch

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.692

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [ca. 1908]

Physical Description: 1 digital print: b&w; 12.5 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Herb Aldrich, Cyrus Aldrich, Ed Wiley, Jesse Aldrich, Wallace Aldrich, Mary Aldrich with son Earl, Ruth Aldruch

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Children playing at Smelt Bay in a dugout (ID)

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.698

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 13 x 8 cm

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Clippings - Cortes Island

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1943-1963

Scope and Content: File contains an ad for the Peter Police homestead in Carrington Bay (1943) and a picture of Manson's Hall, (1963?).

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: File

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 12

File Number: 1

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1943-1963

Scope and Content: File contains an ad for the Peter Police homestead in Carrington Bay (1943) and a picture of Manson's Hall, (1963?).

Storage Location: 8-47

Storage Range: 8-47

Geographic Access: Carrington Bay

Cortes Island parks - Carrington Bay; Von Donop

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Part Of: Ralph Nursall fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual records

Accession Number: 2008.001

Date Range: 1986-1992

Part Of: Ralph Nursall fonds

Description Level: File

Fonds Number: 2008.001

Series Number: 1.5

File Number: 29

Accession Number: 2008.001

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1986-1992

Storage Range: 2-23

Geographic Access: Carrington Bay

Cortes Local Advisory Committee binder: Section 5 (LAC/Klahoose Table)

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Part Of: Ralph Nursall fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual records

Accession Number: 2008.001

Date Range: 1996-1997

Scope and Content: File contains minutes, agendas and other material relating to meetings of the Klahoose Table, attended by members of CILAC, Klahoose First Nations and government negotiators. It includes material relating to a proposed park at Carrington Bay.

Part Of: Ralph Nursall fonds

Description Level: File

Fonds Number: 2008.001

Series Number: 3

File Number: 10

Accession Number: 2008.001

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1996-1997

Scope and Content: File contains minutes, agendas and other material relating to meetings of the Klahoose Table, attended by members of CILAC, Klahoose First Nations and government negotiators. It includes material relating to a proposed park at Carrington Bay.

Storage Range: 3-44

Geographic Access: Carrington Bay

Couple (ID)

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.674

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 5.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Dorothy Beesley

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.671

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Dorothy Beesley

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.676

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [192-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 7 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Dorothy Beesley and husband Bernard K. St. Dennis

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1920

Scope and Content: Inscribed "To Miss Rose Manson, not to be stolen". Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.683

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1920

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content: Inscribed "To Miss Rose Manson, not to be stolen". Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Dorothy Beesley and mother Anna Beesley

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1917

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.685

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1917

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 12.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Dorothy St. Dennis (daughter), Mr. Beesley (father), Walter Beesley (son)

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1942

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.669

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Edward Beesley & daughter Dorothy

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1942

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.680

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Family in front of house (ID)

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.696

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [191-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 11 x 7 cm

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

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Graves of Mrs. Anna Beesley & Mrs. Margaret Manson, Manson's Landing cemetery

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [193-?]

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

1 image

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.687

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: [193-?]

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

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John Manson records

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1909-1954

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by John Manson of Sunny Brae farm, including legal documents, financial records, correspondence and ephemera.

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Series

Creator: Manson, John

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 6

Material Type: textual records

Date Range: 1909-1954

Physical Description: 16 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: John Manson (1868-1959) was born in the Shetland Islands and migrated to British Columbia in 1887, where he joined his brother Michael Manson on Cortes Island. He married Margaret Ellen Smith in 1894 and they had four children: Jack (born 1896), Anna (1898), Rose (1900) and Nicol (1906). The family lived at Sunny Brae Farm, on the south-east side of Cortes, across from Twin Islands.

Custodial History: Most of the files in this series were in an old wooden box when transferred to the archives, suggesting that they were collected from John Manson's house as a unit.

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by John Manson of Sunny Brae farm, including legal documents, financial records, correspondence and ephemera.

Storage Range: 6-8 to 6-36

Name Access: Manson, John

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Twin Islands; Mittlenatch Island

Love from Dorothy Beesley

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1936

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.681

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1936

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

"Majorie Pickles' wedding party group"

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1930

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people at the wedding of Marjorie Pickles to Murray Kennedy.

2 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.695

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1930

Physical Description: 1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people at the wedding of Marjorie Pickles to Murray Kennedy.

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island

Images

Manson's Landing fire hall construction

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Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1993

Scope and Content: Numbered series of photographs of the construction of the Manson's Landing fire hall, many with extensive captions on verso.

12 images

Part Of: May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds

Description Level: Item

Fonds Number: 2007.001

Series Number: 13

Item Number: 2007.001.664

Material Type: graphic material

Date Range: 1993

Physical Description: 17 photographic prints: colour; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Numbered series of photographs of the construction of the Manson's Landing fire hall, many with extensive captions on verso.

Storage Location: Photograph Box 4

Geographic Access: Cortes Island; Manson's Landing

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