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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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David Edwards, carrying at mail sack
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Scope and Content
Photograph of David Edwards at Channel Rock, carrying a mail sack.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0576
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1972
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 12.5 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of David Edwards at Channel Rock, carrying a mail sack.
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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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Petrie's Trading Post in Whaletown
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1946
Scope and Content
Photograph of the store in Whaletown, Petrie's Trading Post at the time. There is an ad for cigars on the building; a man smoking a pipe, and people are waving at the the "Rendezvous" leaving Whaletown Bay.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0830
Material Type
graphic material
Responsibility
National Film Board
Date Range
1946
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; ??oversize
Scope and Content
Photograph of the store in Whaletown, Petrie's Trading Post at the time. There is an ad for cigars on the building; a man smoking a pipe, and people are waving at the the "Rendezvous" leaving Whaletown Bay.
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Corner posts and beams of a long house in a coastal First Nations village
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s-1950s]
Scope and Content
Photograph of the frame of a longhouse, with the supporting posts and round beams. Boards are lying on the ground beside it.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0971
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1920s-1950s]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the frame of a longhouse, with the supporting posts and round beams. Boards are lying on the ground beside it.
Subject Access
Columbia Coast Mission
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Fence beside the garden of the Whaletown Trading Post
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1953
Scope and Content
Photograph of the fence and garden at the Whaletown Trading Post. There is writing on the back.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0234
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1953
Physical Description
1 photograph print: colour; 11.5 x 8 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the fence and garden at the Whaletown Trading Post. There is writing on the back.
Geographic Access
Whaletown
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1948-1959
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1960-1969
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1970-1978
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1980-1989
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1990-1993
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
Prob. 1950s
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1960s]
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[197-?]
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1980s]
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - incoming
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1990-1993]
Scope and Content
Incoming correspondence
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Correspondence - outgoing
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1952-1991
Scope and Content
Outgoing correspondence
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Correspondence from Harold Cox
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1958
Scope and Content
Correspondence from Harold Cox, author of a book about Cortes "Greenhorns in Blue Pastures" (Smith and Durrell, 1945)
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
2
File Number
12
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1958
Scope and Content
Correspondence from Harold Cox, author of a book about Cortes "Greenhorns in Blue Pastures" (Smith and Durrell, 1945)
Storage Location
2-32
Storage Range
2-32
Name Access
Douglas, Gilean
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Correspondence from Alan Greene
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1959-1970]
Scope and Content
Correspondence from Alan Greene, head of the Columbia Coast Mission from
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Correspondence from Joe Gregson
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
[ca. 1950-1970]
Scope and Content
Correspondence from Joe Gregson, who lived in Coulter Bay (Whaletown) during the 1950s.
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