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Firehall #1, Manson's Landing, back view
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The Whaletown Post Office, in its original location, across the road from its present position
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Firehall #1, Manson's Landing - back and side
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Quadra Credit Union building, back view
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Cortes Island Museum, back view
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Wharf, with buildings at its head (ID)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a wharf, with two buildings on the shore to the left, and one on the wharf. (ID)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.1005
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a wharf, with two buildings on the shore to the left, and one on the wharf. (ID)
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
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Materials for building the new ferry dock
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1967-1968]
Scope and Content
Slide of a barge loaded with gravel and a pile driver beside the Whaletown wharf. Johnny Weiler is seated on the edge of the wharf.
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Cedar stump with a cedar tree growing out of it; a building and a trailer may be seen behind it (ID location)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2602
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Three men rolling the new fuel tank off the Whaletown wharf to its location on the rocks beside the store
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Barge with heavy equipment and gravel for building the new ferry dock at Whaletown wharf
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1967-1968]
Scope and Content
Slide depicts a barge loaded with gravel, a loader and a pile driver next to the Whaletown wharf. The Thompson house across the bay is in the background.
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Aerial view of Teakerne Arm, W. Redonda, with log booms and Cassel Falls visible at its head
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Mr. and Mrs Beasley, standing in a fenced garden and field (woman in middle is unknown).
Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Part Of
Brooks family fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.021
Item Number
2019.021.005
Item Number Range
2019.021.005
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1942]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 6 x 9cm
Storage Location
Photo box 5
Storage Range
Photo box 5
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Moving freight at the Surge Narrows wharf
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1944-1954]
Scope and Content
Photograph of boxes of freight suspended by cables being lifted onto the wharf. A group of people is in the background.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0637
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1944-1954]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 17 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of boxes of freight suspended by cables being lifted onto the wharf. A group of people is in the background.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
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The Whaletown post office in its original location
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0728
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 13 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Whaletown post office, in its original location
Part Of
Doreen Thompson fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2006.001
Date Range
[196-]
Scope and Content
The post office was built in this location (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road next to the parking area of the Whaletown store.
Likely originally from the collection of the Weiler family.
Part Of
Doreen Thompson fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2006.001
Series Number
4
Item Number
2006.001.006
Accession Number
2006.001
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[196-]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour ; 9 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
The post office was built in this location (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road next to the parking area of the Whaletown store.
Likely originally from the collection of the Weiler family.
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Quadra Credit Union, back view
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View of the small island next to the house at Channel Rock and the bay between them
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1949]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the small island next to the house at Channel Rock and the bay between them, which Gilean Douglas called "Endahwin Bay".
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0258
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1949]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the small island next to the house at Channel Rock and the bay between them, which Gilean Douglas called "Endahwin Bay".
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The second Whaletown school in its clearing, outhouse to the right
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. late 1940s-early1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the second Whaletown school, which was located by the gravel pit on the road to Coulter Bay.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0814
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. late 1940s-early1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 19 x 11.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the second Whaletown school, which was located by the gravel pit on the road to Coulter Bay.
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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"The Parsons home at Wyatt Bay with its welcoming chimney smoke."
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1944-1954]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Parsons home on Quadra Island, with a typed caption taped to the bottom of the small print.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0643
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1944-1954]
Physical Description
2 photograph prints: b&w; 6.5 x 9 cm and 12,. x 17 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Parsons home on Quadra Island, with a typed caption taped to the bottom of the small print.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
Geographic Access
Quadra Island
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The cabin at Channel Rock perched on its rock beside the water
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Scope and Content
Photograph of the cabin at Channel Rock taken from the water.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.2212
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the cabin at Channel Rock taken from the water.
Storage Location
Slide box 1
Subject Access
Channel Rock
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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