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Memoir of Captain Frederic Vernon Vosper, 1935-2016

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2017
Scope and Content
This memoir, written by Captain Frederic (Fred) Vosper, contains family history, photographs, clippings and stories of Vosper's life on Cortes and in coastal British Columbia. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Patricia Vosper.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
3
File Number
1
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2017
Physical Description
1 coil-bound book : 168 pages 1 file: .pdf
History / Biographical
Frederic (Fred) Vernon Vosper (1935-2016) was born in Vancouver BC and grew up on the coast, always around boats and water. Occupations included tug boat captain and owner, hard-hat salvage diver, and hand logger. Fred married Patricia in 1956, and they had six children. The Vospers lived in Cortes Bay from 1975 to 1982, and returned to Cortes in 1990, after Fred retired.
Custodial History
A copy of the book was donated to CIMAS in 2021 by Patricia Vosper, who gave permission for the book to be scanned and made available online.
Scope and Content
This memoir, written by Captain Frederic (Fred) Vosper, contains family history, photographs, clippings and stories of Vosper's life on Cortes and in coastal British Columbia. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Patricia Vosper.
Subject Access
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Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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"Granite and Fossils: Cortes Island’s unlikely petrifacts"

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2002
Scope and Content
"Granite and Fossils" is a compilation of informatioin about Cortes Island fossils created by Christian Gronau for the Cortes Island Museum in 2002 and updated in 2016 and 2023. It has been digitized as Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Gronau, Christian
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
3
File Number
2
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2002
Physical Description
1 binder : ca 215 pages 2 files: .pdf
History / Biographical
Christian Gronau studied palaeontology and geology in Germany. He came to Canada in 1972 and worked in the mining sector in the N.W.T. (among other places), where he met Aileen. Christian and Aileen (C&A) moved together to Cortes Island in 1978, where they lived for 34 years on a water-access-only property, without hydro or telephone (Swamp’s Edge), supporting themselves as beach- only shellfish farmers (Last Farm Oysters). Throughout, C&A have been avid naturalists, continuing this tradition from their present home at the south-end of Cortes Island (Tanglebank).
Scope and Content
"Granite and Fossils" is a compilation of informatioin about Cortes Island fossils created by Christian Gronau for the Cortes Island Museum in 2002 and updated in 2016 and 2023. It has been digitized as Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Name Access
Gronau, Christian
Subject Access
Geology
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Documents

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"A History of Cortes Island Shellfish"

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2009
Scope and Content
"A History of Cortes Island Shellfish" was created by Marcel Creurer and reviewed by Kathy Francis, Oct. 30, 2009.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Creurer, Marcel
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
3
File Number
3
Material Type
textual records
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2009
Physical Description
1 binder : 22 pages 1 file: .pdf
Scope and Content
"A History of Cortes Island Shellfish" was created by Marcel Creurer and reviewed by Kathy Francis, Oct. 30, 2009.
Name Access
Creuer, Marcel
Francis, Kathy
Subject Access
Aquaculture
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Cortes Island Information Books

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
2009-2019
Scope and Content
Series of 12 spiral-bound booklets containing information about activities, businesses, events, services and articles about various aspects of island life. There are two copies of 2015.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
3
File Number
4
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
2009-2019
Physical Description
12 spiral-bound booklets, 8.5 x 11 inches
History / Biographical
Cortes Island Information Books were initiated by Carol London, who wanted a handbook to give to guests at Tai Li Lodge. The first issues were created by Carina Verhoeve, and after 2012, by Gina Trzesicka.
Scope and Content
Series of 12 spiral-bound booklets containing information about activities, businesses, events, services and articles about various aspects of island life. There are two copies of 2015.
Storage Range
Drawer 4
Documents

Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2012.pdf

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Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2014.pdf

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Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2015.pdf

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Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2016.pdf

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Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2017.pdf

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Cortes_Island_Information_Book_2018.pdf

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Cortes Family Trees Project

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2022
Scope and Content
Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
4
Material Type
textual records (electronic)
Date Range
2022
Custodial History
Family trees were researched by Bernice McGowan (1387 Bodington Rd, Whaletown, BC) in 2022. The Manson family tree was provided to CIMAS by Greg Johnson (2837 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1X2; phone # 604 897 5925) in 2022.
Scope and Content
Series consists of family trees of Cortes Island settler families, with notes on related people and events. These trees are intended to help identify links between families on Cortes. Sources include online databases (e.g. Family Search.org, Ancestry.com and Canada Archives), CIMAS Archives and Information files, interviews and correspondence with family members. Families researched include: Aldrich; Barrett; Borden; Byers; Cafferata; Froud; Hawkins; Hayes, Ashford and Griffin; Heay; Manson; Marquette; Middleton; Nichols; Percival and Saunders; Petznick; Pickles; Smith; (Carr) Smith& Marflett; Tiber; Tooker; Valley.The family trees and notes are kept in a binder labelled "Cortes Family Trees Project", located above the public access computer in the May Ellingsen Archives Room. Files are not available online due to privacy concerns. We acknowledge that these trees are of white settler families and reflect colonization of ancestral homelands and displacement of the Indigenous Peoples who have thrived here for generations. We would welcome the opportunity to add those families to our records.
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
Series contains scanned images shared with the Cortes Island Museum & Archives. The donor retains the originals and the copyright.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
Series contains scanned images shared with the Cortes Island Museum & Archives. The donor retains the originals and the copyright.
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer's photographs of Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
File contains scanned copies of photographs donated by Jim Palmer for the Carrington Bay exhibit in 2009, depicting the community living in Carrington Bay in the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Palmer and Jan Gemmel lived in a house on the west side of the log jam between Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay. Jim built the house at the property of John and Anna Gregg in Manson's Landing and relocated it onto pilings in Carrington Bay. Jim and Jan later fabricated steel pontoons for it. In 1985 the house was moved onto the floats and towed into Gorge Harbour by Bob Thompson with his boat "Sutil Chief".
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
33 photographs (.jpg) : b&w and col.
Scope and Content
File contains scanned copies of photographs donated by Jim Palmer for the Carrington Bay exhibit in 2009, depicting the community living in Carrington Bay in the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Palmer and Jan Gemmel lived in a house on the west side of the log jam between Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay. Jim built the house at the property of John and Anna Gregg in Manson's Landing and relocated it onto pilings in Carrington Bay. Jim and Jan later fabricated steel pontoons for it. In 1985 the house was moved onto the floats and towed into Gorge Harbour by Bob Thompson with his boat "Sutil Chief".
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Isolated communities
Housing
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Looking north from the log jam at Carrington Lagoon, Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house on left

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Series
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.001
Item Number Range
JP.001
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house in winter

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.002
Item Number Range
JP.002
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Al Murray’s cement power boat in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.003
Item Number Range
JP.003
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Al Murray & Linda (surname?)'s tipi and 16’ canvas tent with wood floor and walls, on the east side of the log jam

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1983-1984]
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.004
Item Number Range
JP.004
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1983-1984]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house in the winter

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.005
Item Number Range
JP.005
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jan Gemmel in the speed boat beside her float house in Carrington Bay, winter

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.006
Item Number Range
JP.006
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer’s old dory on the beach at Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.007
Item Number Range
JP.007
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Linda (surname?), visiting Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s floathouse, from across the log jam

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.008
Item Number Range
JP.008
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jan Gemmel standing in their first welding shop in Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.009
Item Number Range
JP.009
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Working on a stove in Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s welding shop in Carrington

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.010
Item Number Range
JP.010
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Jan Gemmel welding a stove, Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.011
Item Number Range
JP.011
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Stove passing the “pancake test” – Jan Gemmel in the float house at Carrington Bay

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.012
Item Number Range
JP.012
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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Al Murray doing something creative with an outboard motor

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Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Palmer, Jim
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
1
Item Number
JP.013
Item Number Range
JP.013
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : b&w
Name Access
Palmer, Jim
Subject Access
Historical research
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Carrington Bay
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