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60th anniversary certificate from office of P.M. Chretien

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Accession Number
2019.002
Date Range
1996
Scope and Content
Contains certificate and related correspondence.
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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
1
File Number
59
Accession Number
2019.002
Date Range
1996
Scope and Content
Contains certificate and related correspondence.
Storage Range
1-58
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1963 work calendar

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2019.002
Date Range
1963
Scope and Content
File contains a calendar, apparently used by Elmer Ellingsen to track information related to his gravel and/or backhoe business. Calendar reads "Cortez Lodge Store" and is hunting themed.
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
58.1
Accession Number
2019.002
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1963
Scope and Content
File contains a calendar, apparently used by Elmer Ellingsen to track information related to his gravel and/or backhoe business. Calendar reads "Cortez Lodge Store" and is hunting themed.
Storage Location
Ellingsen oversized
Storage Range
Ellingsen oversized
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A. Bonar Balfour catalogs and speech on peony culture

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1925-1926
Scope and Content
A. Bonar Balfour peony and gladioli catalogs and price list (1926) and typewritten report given by Gladys Ballantyne to the Whaletown Women's Institute, 1925. These items probably came into Douglas's possession with the Whaletown Women's Institute papers which she was using while writing a history of the Women's Institutes and, because of personal interest, were subsequently kept by her with her gardening information.
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
9
File Number
20
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1925-1926
Scope and Content
A. Bonar Balfour peony and gladioli catalogs and price list (1926) and typewritten report given by Gladys Ballantyne to the Whaletown Women's Institute, 1925. These items probably came into Douglas's possession with the Whaletown Women's Institute papers which she was using while writing a history of the Women's Institutes and, because of personal interest, were subsequently kept by her with her gardening information.
Storage Location
4-20
Storage Range
4-20
Name Access
Whaletown Women's Institute
Ballantyne, Gladys
Douglas, Gilean
Subject Access
Women's Institute
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Account book for Ellingsen's house

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1936-1939
Scope and Content
File contains an account book which includes expenses for building and furnishing the Ellingsen's house.
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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Ellingsen, May and Elmer
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.5
File Number
73
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1936-1939
Scope and Content
File contains an account book which includes expenses for building and furnishing the Ellingsen's house.
Storage Location
4-15
Storage Range
4-15
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"A Cortes Island History of the Huck Family and of the NE 1/4 Section 40, Green Valley"

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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2017.003
Date Range
1999
Scope and Content
Written by Doreen Thompson.
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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
99
Accession Number
2017.003
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1999
Scope and Content
Written by Doreen Thompson.
Storage Location
6-7.2
Storage Range
6-7.2
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Ada Page's scrapbook

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1904-1915
Scope and Content
Scrapbook compiled by Ada Page, housekeeper during Douglas's childhood and her primary care-giver after the death of her mother in 1906. The scrapbook contains clippings of menus, recipes and household hints.
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Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
17
File Number
1
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1904-1915
Scope and Content
Scrapbook compiled by Ada Page, housekeeper during Douglas's childhood and her primary care-giver after the death of her mother in 1906. The scrapbook contains clippings of menus, recipes and household hints.
Storage Location
7-1
Storage Range
7-1
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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"A Dream Takes Shape in the Woods of Cortes Island"

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Part Of
Cortes Ecoforestry Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2017.011
Date Range
1999
Scope and Content
File contains an article by Bruce Ellingsen, published in the Vancouver Sun.
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Part Of
Cortes Ecoforestry Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Cortes Ecoforestry Society
Fonds Number
2017.011
Series Number
3
File Number
3
Accession Number
2017.011
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1999
Scope and Content
File contains an article by Bruce Ellingsen, published in the Vancouver Sun.
Storage Location
1-14
Storage Range
1-14
Name Access
Cortes Ecoforestry Society
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Advisory Planning Commission questionnaire

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1975
Scope and Content
Questionnaire undertaken by the APC as part of the preparation of the first Official Settlement Plan
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
4
File Number
8
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1975
Scope and Content
Questionnaire undertaken by the APC as part of the preparation of the first Official Settlement Plan
Storage Location
3-23
Storage Range
3-23
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
Subject Access
Advisory Planning Commission
Regional District
Zoning
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Agenda books

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1982-1983
Scope and Content
File contains agenda books with Elmer Ellingsen's business schedules. [check]
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
54
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1982-1983
Scope and Content
File contains agenda books with Elmer Ellingsen's business schedules. [check]
Storage Location
3-22
Storage Range
3-22
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Agenda books

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1987-1988
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
56
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1987-1988
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
Storage Location
3-24
Storage Range
3-24
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Agenda books

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1984-1986
Scope and Content
File contains three agenda books with Elmer Ellingsen's business schedules. [check]
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
55
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1984-1986
Scope and Content
File contains three agenda books with Elmer Ellingsen's business schedules. [check]
Storage Location
3-23
Storage Range
3-23
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Agenda books

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1989-90
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
57
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1989-90
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
Storage Location
3-25
Storage Range
3-25
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Agenda books

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1991-1993
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.3
File Number
58
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1991-1993
Scope and Content
File contains Elmer Ellingsen's agenda books with work schedules for his businesses.
Storage Location
3-26
Storage Range
3-26
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Agreement between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1948
Scope and Content
File contains an agreement to form a logging partnership between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson.
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
3.1
File Number
4
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1948
Scope and Content
File contains an agreement to form a logging partnership between Elmer Ellingsen and Ernest Anderson.
Storage Location
2-22
Storage Range
2-22
Subject Access
Logging
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Alan Becque - typed essays and poems

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1960]
Scope and Content
File contains two typed essays and two typed poems, from a folder labeled "Alan Becque". Alan Becque lived at Cortes Bay; he left ca. 1960.
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
38
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1960]
Scope and Content
File contains two typed essays and two typed poems, from a folder labeled "Alan Becque". Alan Becque lived at Cortes Bay; he left ca. 1960.
Storage Location
5-38
Storage Range
5-38
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Aldrich family history

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1979-1986
Scope and Content
File contains a history of the Aldrich family (written by Etta Byers, 1979; typed out by May Ellingsen, 1986).
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May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
33
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1979-1986
Scope and Content
File contains a history of the Aldrich family (written by Etta Byers, 1979; typed out by May Ellingsen, 1986).
Storage Location
5-33
Storage Range
5-33
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Allen, Bernie and family

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[197-?]
Scope and Content
Notes on Bernie Allen and family history of the Allen family, early settlers in the Whaletown area.
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
10
File Number
1
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[197-?]
Scope and Content
Notes on Bernie Allen and family history of the Allen family, early settlers in the Whaletown area.
Storage Location
4-38
Storage Range
4-38
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
Allen, Bernie
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Ancient map of Canada

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
cartographic material
Date Range
[197?; orig. 1550]
Scope and Content
A reproduction of a map made by Pierre Desceliers, a cartographer-artist working near Dieppe, after Jacques Cartier's explorations.
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
16
File Number
12
Material Type
cartographic material
Date Range
[197?; orig. 1550]
Physical Description
1 map : 21.75 x 17.25 inches
Scope and Content
A reproduction of a map made by Pierre Desceliers, a cartographer-artist working near Dieppe, after Jacques Cartier's explorations.
Storage Location
Map box
Storage Range
Map box
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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Annie Cowan Hammond memoir; poem by Florence Hayes

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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1980-2000]
Scope and Content
File contains material written by Cortes Island old-timers: a memoir by Annie Cowan Hammond and a poem by Florence Hayes
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Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
5.2
File Number
49
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1980-2000]
Scope and Content
File contains material written by Cortes Island old-timers: a memoir by Annie Cowan Hammond and a poem by Florence Hayes
Storage Location
5-49
Storage Range
5-49
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Annotated Cortes Island map

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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
cartographic material
Date Range
1969
Scope and Content
The base map is a zoning map produced by the Regional District of Comox- Strathcona for the Cortes Island Land Use Project (Aug 1969). Edwards used coloured pencil to show land and foreshore zones, and transferred information about early preemptions and old roads and trails from an earlier map (see Donald Palmer fonds, 2020.002.011, map of Cortes Island, Sayward District, ca. 1915).
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Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
16
File Number
8
Material Type
cartographic material
Date Range
1969
Physical Description
42 x 67 inches (107 x 170 cm)
Scope and Content
The base map is a zoning map produced by the Regional District of Comox- Strathcona for the Cortes Island Land Use Project (Aug 1969). Edwards used coloured pencil to show land and foreshore zones, and transferred information about early preemptions and old roads and trails from an earlier map (see Donald Palmer fonds, 2020.002.011, map of Cortes Island, Sayward District, ca. 1915).
Storage Location
Map box
Storage Range
Map box
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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