Portrait of James and Ann Forrest's children

Clockwise from left: Peggy, Ann, Charlie, and Nara in front. The Forrest family lived at Shoal Bay Thurlow Island, B.C.
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Reverend Alan Greene and his wife Gertrude at their home on Quadra Island

Reverend Greene of the Columbia Coast Mission was assigned the district which included Quadra Island in 1919. He and his wife took up residence at Quathiaski Cove.
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Welcome Figures at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

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Margaret Tipton of Read Island

Photograph of Margaret Tipton, taken in the 1920s.
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Beach in front of Cape Mudge Lighthouse and Fog Station, Quadra Island

The Lighthouse station was established in 1898. Cape Mudge Beacon was built in 1915.
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Jack Parrish's Sawmill at Woodside Bay, Stuart Island

Jack Parrish's Sawmill at Woodside Bay, Stuart Island Man on left; Stan Larson, on right; Jack Parrish. The sawmill was set up beside Parrish's machine shop. Jack Parrish moved to Stuart Island 1928. He bought some property in Woodside Bay from either the Murans or the Squires. "We...
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Group of Stuart Island residents having a picnic

From left: Mrs. Lidy Ines, Mrs. Wilby, behind Mrs Wilby; Will Muehle, Mary Brimacombe (holding rectangular cake), Mandy Bell, man behind Happy Ines, ?, man with sunglasses Bob Bell (Bell's Bold Point Ranch, Quadra), Kitty Slicker(?), Margaret Parrish. Holding salad bowl; Hazel Summer, man on...
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Agnes Twidle in her garden at Granite Bay

Written on the back of the photograph by Agnes: "Taken unaware while counting the buds on my lilac bush." Henry and Agnes Twidle were early settlers at Granite Bay.
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Inside the Marlatt family home, Mary Island

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Francis and Amy Barrow with a group of residents

From left: Francis and Amy Barrow, Bill Horth, Frank Norris, Frank Shepheard, and Percy Belson.
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Captain James A. Nixon of Twin Islands, B.C.

Photograph taken circa 1915.
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Edward McAllister with his mother Mae McAllister (nee Anderson)

Photograph was taken on the verandah of the Anderson family home. This was his first year at Quathiaski Cove.
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Unloading a catch of salmon to a packer

Quathiaski Canning Co. boats in operation in the waters adjacent to Quadra Island.
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Rob Yeatman of Quadra Island in an American Uniform

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Moving house, Heriot Bay, Quadra Island

Small raft with cargo truck on back, carrying several items including a motorcycle described as "Quadra Island, Heriot Bay Teacher House"
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Group on the porch of the Anderson home, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

From left: Mae Anderson, Margaret Anderson, and Velma Anderson.
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Francis Barrow in his youth

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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Agnes and her husband Henry settled in Granite Bay in 1911.
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Plowing the fields at the Yeatman family farm (Sunny Side) on Quadra Island

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Johnny and Jenny Macamoose on the Nimpkish River

The Macamoose's in their canoe. One of Jenny's baskets can be seen beside her in the canoe.
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Hauling cables off at Davis Raft at logging operations at Teakerne Arm

Powell River Co. was logging in that area at ths time.
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Early Stuart Island settlers

From left: Sara Madsen, Margaret Parrish, Gerd Holm, Bertha Meuhle, and Bill Meuhle.
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Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands with slaughtered pigs

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Mother Goose Day event at the Walkers' Place, Quadra Island

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Yeatman brothers with their rifles at Sunny Side Farm, Quadra Island

Frank and Rob Yeatman at rifle practice, Sunnyside Farm.
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August Schnarr & Family

August Schnarr was a well known coastal settler who lived and worked as a trapper and hand logger for many years in the Bute Inlet area. In early 1926 August, his wife Zaida (nee Lansall) and three children Pansy, Pearl and Marion settled at a homestead up Bute Inlet, which would become known as Schnarr's Landing.
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Quadra Island - Granite Bay

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Port Neville

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Knight Inlet & Area

This remote inlet was for many years the home of Jim and Laurette Stanton. The Stantons and their experience of living in this area are the subject of the book "Grizzlies in their Backyard" by Beth Day.
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Francis & Amy Barrow Fonds

Every summer from 1933 to 1941, Francis and Amy Barrow, along with their two black cocker spaniels traveled the coast of British Columbia on board their boat the Toketie. Exploring the islands, inlets and harbours of east Vancouver Island they made many frequent stops to visit area residents.
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