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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
Photograph Box 3
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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The Whaletown Post Office, in its original location, across the road from its present position
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Whaletown post office
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.047
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1980
Physical Description
1 photographic slide : colour ; 3.5 x 2.25 cm
Custodial History
Donated by Ian Disney.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Whaletown Post Office centennial
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1994
Scope and Content
Photo of Trude (Albright) Sweeny presenting a cake she has made to postmaster Joan Goring for the centennial celebration of the Whaletown post office. Ann Hiatt and Colleen Miller in the background.
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.134
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1994
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm
Scope and Content
Photo of Trude (Albright) Sweeny presenting a cake she has made to postmaster Joan Goring for the centennial celebration of the Whaletown post office. Ann Hiatt and Colleen Miller in the background.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 3
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Receipt with Whaletown post office cancellation
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Margaret Verschuur and Jill Milton in front of the Whaletown post office
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2021.003
Date Range
1988
Scope and Content
Photograph of Margaret Verschuur driving her pony cart with her miniature horse Dusty, and Jill Milton on her horse Teddy.
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.203
Accession Number
2021.003
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1988
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm
Custodial History
Donated by Jill Milton, December 2020
Scope and Content
Photograph of Margaret Verschuur driving her pony cart with her miniature horse Dusty, and Jill Milton on her horse Teddy.
Storage Location
Photo box 3
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Post Office at Manson's Landing
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2018.002
Date Range
[ca. 1926]
Scope and Content
(Also Campbell River Museum #13531)
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.630
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1926]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 14.5 cm
1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 17.5 cm
Scope and Content
(Also Campbell River Museum #13531)
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Cortes Bay post office
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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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Abandoned Manson's Landing post office
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.080
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1980
Physical Description
1 photographic slide : colour ; 4 x 2.5 cm
Custodial History
From Ian Disney.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Manson's Landing, with post office and store
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.087
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1977
Physical Description
1 photographic slide : colour ; 4 x 2.5 cm
Custodial History
From Ian Disney.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Moving the museum: front of the museum, in its new location beside the Firehall, still on the trailer
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic
Date Range
1995
Scope and Content
One of a series of 20 photographs documenting the move of the old Manson's Landing store from its position by the wharf in Mansons Landing Provincial Park to the present Museum site on Beasley Rd. The photographs are from an envelope labelled "Moving Museum, Dec. 1995. Moved by Able Transport. Paid for by Elmer and May Ellingsen."
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.226
Material Type
graphic
Date Range
1995
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm
Custodial History
Found in Information Files folder (Cortes Island Museum & Archives info"), Jan. 2021
Scope and Content
One of a series of 20 photographs documenting the move of the old Manson's Landing store from its position by the wharf in Mansons Landing Provincial Park to the present Museum site on Beasley Rd. The photographs are from an envelope labelled "Moving Museum, Dec. 1995. Moved by Able Transport. Paid for by Elmer and May Ellingsen."
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
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Abandoned Manson's Landing post office at Manson's Spit
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.077
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1980
Physical Description
1 photographic slide : colour ; 4 x 2.5 cm
Custodial History
From Ian Disney.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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Mail being delivered to the Squirrel Cove post office
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Henry Hague, postmaster, standing in the door of the post office in gumboots
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Maurice Dronsfield delivering mail to Manson's Landing post office
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Maurice Dronsfield, postmaster of Manson's Landing, inside the post office
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The original Robertson house at Burnside in Whaletown
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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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Post Offices
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Date Range
1893-present
Scope and Content
Historical info from emails, notes, letters, articles, clippings, photographs, etc, on post offices, "postmasters" and "postmisstresses" servicing Cortes Island from 1893 to the present day.
Part Of
CIMAS information files
Description Level
File
Series Number
3
File Number
104
Date Range
1893-present
Scope and Content
Historical info from emails, notes, letters, articles, clippings, photographs, etc, on post offices, "postmasters" and "postmisstresses" servicing Cortes Island from 1893 to the present day.
Storage Range
Drawer 3
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