This is a copy of a recording made by Imbert Orchard as part of a "People in Landscape" series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In this program, some of the people who grew up on Cortes Island recall how the settlement began, and discuss the quality of life there -- as it is today, and as it used to be. Voices heard include: Otto and Mary Weiler, Elmer and May Ellingsen, Rose (Manson) MacKay, Allen Robertson, and Duncan Robertson.
Tape was found at the Cortes Island Recycling Center and donated to the museum by Gail Ringwood on Oct. 3, 2004. Original owner is unknown.
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This is a copy of a recording made by Imbert Orchard as part of a "People in Landscape" series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In this program, some of the people who grew up on Cortes Island recall how the settlement began, and discuss the quality of life there -- as it is today, and as it used to be. Voices heard include: Otto and Mary Weiler, Elmer and May Ellingsen, Rose (Manson) MacKay, Allen Robertson, and Duncan Robertson.
Photograph of a group of people (L to R: Bruce Ellingsen,Captain of the "Beaver", Eva Freeman, George Griffin, Irene Gardner, Wilf Freeman) standing beside the railing on the Whaletown wharf on the occasion of the visit of SS Beaver.
Photograph of a group of people (L to R: Bruce Ellingsen,Captain of the "Beaver", Eva Freeman, George Griffin, Irene Gardner, Wilf Freeman) standing beside the railing on the Whaletown wharf on the occasion of the visit of SS Beaver.
Photograph of a First Nations coastal village, with houses and outbuildings along the shore. There are fish boats and canoes in the water and pulled up on shore. A long house is in the middle, and a school building is back of the village on a hill, (ID)
Photograph of a First Nations coastal village, with houses and outbuildings along the shore. There are fish boats and canoes in the water and pulled up on shore. A long house is in the middle, and a school building is back of the village on a hill, (ID)
Photograph of a plank-sided, cedar shake roofed long house, seen from the back. There are houses on each side; the view is towards the water, with several small islands close to shore.
Photograph of a plank-sided, cedar shake roofed long house, seen from the back. There are houses on each side; the view is towards the water, with several small islands close to shore.