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Buildings at Refuge Cove
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school.
The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Gibbons, Norm
Fonds Number
2021.001
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Item Number
NG.001
Item Number Range
NG.001
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca.1955]
Physical Description
1 image (electronic) : col
Scope and Content
Buildings, from L to R: Norm and Doris Hope's house, far left; small house where the store keeper lived; the old store; fuel tanks with house to their right; teacher's cottage and school building at far right. In front are several fish boats; the dock with a freight shed; a barge for ice storage and fish-buying; float houses near the school.
The Hope's house is the only one of these buildings still there (2023). The old store burned down in 1968.
Name Access
Gibbons, Norm
Geographic Access
Refuge Cove
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Carcass of a bear shot by Norm Gibbons hanging beside their house
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1979
Scope and Content
For the story of how the bear was shot, see the transcript of Norm and Lisa Gibbons talking about Refuge Cove.
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Chicken plucking party at Refuge Cove
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
[ca. 1978]
Scope and Content
Plucking some of the 50 chickens raised for meat before dinner and a dance, "Chicken Pluckers' Stomp".
L to R: (ID), (ID), Michael Gibbons (mostly hidden), Judy White in blue, (ID), Mark Mellieux (sp?), Lisa Gibbons
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Child standing beside the bear shot by Norm Gibbons at Refuge Cove
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Church at Squirrel Cove (?) (ID)
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.078
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1979
Physical Description
1 photographic slide : colour ; 4 x 2.5 cm
Custodial History
From Ian Disney.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
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Claude Borden and Jim Palmer, holding lunch pails, machine shed and logging slash in the background
Part Of
Donald Palmer fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1945]
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Corner of the fuel shed, Velma Bergman's garden and the Whaletown wharf during replacement of the floating dock
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1969]
Scope and Content
Slide of the Whaletown wharf and surroundings during replacement of the floating dock.
Part Of
Mary and Otto Weiler fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Weiler, Mary
Fonds Number
2003.002
Series Number
1
Item Number
2003.002.128
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1969]
Physical Description
1 colour slide, 5 x 5 cm
Scope and Content
Slide of the Whaletown wharf and surroundings during replacement of the floating dock.
Storage Location
Slide box 2
Name Access
Weiler, Mary
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Whaletown
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Correspondence regarding Klahoose First Nation concerns over logging in Squirrel Cove
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
cartographic material
Accession Number
2017.003
Date Range
1987-1989
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence and a map of Smelt Bay Park.
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Correspondence re Robert Johnston's rezoning application at Boulder Point in Squirrel Cove
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A cove at Channel Rock
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1949]
Scope and Content
Photograph of a cove at Channel Rock.
Part Of
Gilean Douglas fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
1999.001
Series Number
18
Item Number
1999.001.0253
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 a cove at Channel Rock.
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Cowan homestead, Squirrel Cove, Cortes Island
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2018.002
Date Range
[19--]
Scope and Content
Mrs. Cowan holding Jimmy Cowan, Norah Cowan, Fred Cowan, Jack Cowan, Isla Cowan, Mrs. Daniels
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.601
Accession Number
2018.002
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[19--]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 17.5 x 11 cm
Scope and Content
Mrs. Cowan holding Jimmy Cowan, Norah Cowan, Fred Cowan, Jack Cowan, Isla Cowan, Mrs. Daniels
Storage Location
Photo box 4
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
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"Dave & Myself, Squirrel Cove, 1918"
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1918
Scope and Content
Photograph of Dorothy Huck and Dave (probably David Barrett) getting into a wooden skiff in Squirrel Cove.
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Whalley, Dorothy Huck
Fonds Number
2011.001
Series Number
1
Item Number
2011.001.133
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1918
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 10 x 8 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Dorothy Huck and Dave (probably David Barrett) getting into a wooden skiff in Squirrel Cove.
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
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David Edwards with a duffel bag standing beside the back shed at Channel Rock
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Denise and Norm Gibbons with Willa and Dennis Gibbons, on the dock at Refuge Cove
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Denise Gibbons, playing the piano in her log home, Refuge Cove
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Department of Highways first maintenance shed, Sutil Point Rd.
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1957]
Scope and Content
"Sutil Pt road Dept of Highways first maintenance shed. The fence next to it was repaired with old grader blades. Gordon Fretwell, foreman, property about 1957."
Part Of
CIMAS photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.003
Item Number
2019.003.124
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1957]
Physical Description
1 photograph print : colour ; 15 x 10 cm
Custodial History
From Shirley (Guthrie) Beaulieu
Scope and Content
"Sutil Pt road Dept of Highways first maintenance shed. The fence next to it was repaired with old grader blades. Gordon Fretwell, foreman, property about 1957."
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
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Doris Hope (R) and another woman (ID) with a tub of red snappers, on the dock at Refuge Cove
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Dorothy Huck, Squirrel Cove
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1918]
Scope and Content
Photograph of Dorothy Huck seated on the gunwale of a wooden boat in Squirrel Cove (untitled - duplicate of 2011.001.134)
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Creator
Whalley, Dorothy Huck
Fonds Number
2011.001
Series Number
1
Item Number
2011.001.149
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1918]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 10 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Dorothy Huck seated on the gunwale of a wooden boat in Squirrel Cove (untitled - duplicate of 2011.001.134)
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
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Ellen Middleton, Squirrel Cove
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930's]
Scope and Content
Ellen Middleton, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Middleton, standing behind their house at Squirrel Cove.
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
1
File Number
10
Item Number
2004.003.064
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1930's]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 11.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Ellen Middleton, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Middleton, standing behind their house at Squirrel Cove.
Storage Location
Photo Box 3
Geographic Access
Squirrel Cove
Location - Copy
Vol. 9, p. 41a
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Ephemera - schedule of logging camp pay rates (1965) and Squirrel Cove store receipts (1952)