Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.
The Maclean family (parents Don and Doris, and children Janice, Heather and Ian) lived in Whaletown from 1961 to 1973.
Don Maclean's parents, John and Edna Maclean, lived for many years in Edmonton, Alberta. When their son came home from the war they bought property near Coulter Bay and moved to Cortes Island. Don Maclean became a fisherman, eventually living on his fishing boat.
Doris Lancaster Maclean was born and raised in Victoria, B.C. In the late 1940s she answered a call from the Anglican Church to come and do Vacation Bible School with the Columbia Coast Mission on Cortes and nearby islands.
Doris and Don married in 1954. They moved to Cortes Island in 1961 when Don was hired to operate the Columbia Coast Mission boat, the "Alan Greene". They lived in the Mission house in Whaletown, next to the church. Don Maclean acted as a Lay Reader for the Columbia Coast Mission in the 1960s when no clergymen were available, holding services in the three Anglican churches on the island.
In 1967 the Diocese sold the "Alan Greene" and the Macleans were required to move out of the mission house. Maclean built a house on the beach of what used to be called Jardine’s property, although by this time it was owned by a cousin of Doris Maclean. He was hired as the Industrial First Aid man on site for the building of the Whaletown Ferry dock and after that worked as a clam digger.
The Maclean family left Cortes in 1973 and moved to Regina, SK. The house that Don built was rented for a couple of years and then sold and moved to a new location; it burned down a few years later.
Custodial History
Twenty-seven photographs and 15 slides were mailed to CIMAS by Janice Maclean Kerr in 2019; two more photos were mailed in Apr. 2021; 16 slides were mailed in Sept. 2021
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of sixty prints and slides dating from 1951 to 1971. It includes scenes of of Cortes Island school students, logging, and the Union Steamship. Most photographs are from the Whaletown area. There are 16 slides of a logging camp at the Quatam River in Ramsey Arm, BC.
File contains digitized copies of photographs from Norm Gibbons' photograph album of Refuge Cove. For the stories behind the photos, see 2003.007.001, a recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences living at Refuge Cove.
File contains digitized copies of photographs from Norm Gibbons' photograph album of Refuge Cove. For the stories behind the photos, see 2003.007.001, a recording of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about their experiences living at Refuge Cove.
Photograph of Michael Gibbons, taken beside Alice's house at the end of the board walk at Refuge Cove. Alice was the cook at the Hope's logging camp and stayed on after the camp closed.
Photograph of Michael Gibbons, taken beside Alice's house at the end of the board walk at Refuge Cove. Alice was the cook at the Hope's logging camp and stayed on after the camp closed.
View of the new store, still sitting on its barge but the barge is no longer floating; it is now inter-tidal. Skip Frucktinick's (sp?) ferro-cement sailboat is leaning against it.
View of the new store, still sitting on its barge but the barge is no longer floating; it is now inter-tidal. Skip Frucktinick's (sp?) ferro-cement sailboat is leaning against it.
Photograph of Doris Hope's house at left, and the new store that MacMillan Bloedel barged in to replace the old one that had burned down. The tug that towed it in is beside it.
Photograph of Doris Hope's house at left, and the new store that MacMillan Bloedel barged in to replace the old one that had burned down. The tug that towed it in is beside it.
The Hopes are standing beside the cook house at their logging camp in Lewis Channel. Their water spaniel Stinky once swam home to Refuge Cove from Squirrel Cove, a distance of 3.7 miles.
The Hopes are standing beside the cook house at their logging camp in Lewis Channel. Their water spaniel Stinky once swam home to Refuge Cove from Squirrel Cove, a distance of 3.7 miles.
Norm Gibbons holding a salmon caught while fishing with Bud Jarvis. Bud Jarvis married Rene Hope's daughter Joan and they were at Refuge Cove for their honeymoon.
Norm Gibbons holding a salmon caught while fishing with Bud Jarvis. Bud Jarvis married Rene Hope's daughter Joan and they were at Refuge Cove for their honeymoon.
The man on the left is a guest, Peter Kuyt, who kayaked up from Lasqueti Island. He built a cabin by the lagoon at Refuge Cove, but drowned while kayaking back to Lasqueti. Barry Ketchison was a co-op member.
The man on the left is a guest, Peter Kuyt, who kayaked up from Lasqueti Island. He built a cabin by the lagoon at Refuge Cove, but drowned while kayaking back to Lasqueti. Barry Ketchison was a co-op member.
Photograph of the original store at Refuge Cove, taken from the head of the ramp by Norman and Doris Hope's house. To the right of the store is a fuel tank and a shed used for storing the tools needed for the tanks, drums of oil, etc. The store burned down in 1968.
Photograph of the original store at Refuge Cove, taken from the head of the ramp by Norman and Doris Hope's house. To the right of the store is a fuel tank and a shed used for storing the tools needed for the tanks, drums of oil, etc. The store burned down in 1968.
