First school on the Cape Mudge Reserve

This school was built by the Federal Government at the We Wai Kai's village at Cape Mudge.
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Students at Quadra Island School, 1927

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The tugboat Matilda Foss going through Green Point Rapids

The tugboat Matilda Foss was operated by the American company Foss Launch & Tug Company of Tacoma.
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Pansy Schnarr wearing a rosehip necklace with dog

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May Day Quadra Island 1989

May Day parade car "Queen Asia"
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Church at Mansons Landing, Cortes Island

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Horse and cart on dirt road, Quadra Island

Photo taken in the 1920s, near Pete Craddack's Garage.
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Art Stenfors and his goats at his ranch at Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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Dot Yeatman reading a book in her home, Quadra Island

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Earthquake damage on Read Island

Picture showing the damage left by the 1946 earthquake. Marshall's orchard visible in the distance.
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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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Union Steamship, Camosun, at Knox Bay

Union Steamship, Camosun, docked at the wharf at Knox Bay where P.B. Anderson's logging operation was located.
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View of the Wharf at Quathiaski Cove

Anderson's house and store on the wharf in Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island.
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Portrait of Edgar Wilmer Wylie

Mr. Wylie lived on Read Island. He was born in 1848 and died in 1910.
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View of Port Neville, B.C.

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Orphanage Picnic at the first Heriot Bay Hotel

Picnic group assembled on beach in front of the first Heriot Bay Hotel which was built about 1905 by Hosea A. Bull. This group of orphans is from Vancouver. The second Mrs. Bull (wife of Hosea) is at right rear (in hat), Frank Gagne is at the front, Billy St. Denis is on extreme left, and possibly...
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August Schnarr and other's caging a cougar

This cougar is probably the cougar treed in photograph no. 14437 which was treed by cougar bounty hunter August Schnarr.
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Probably Twidle Garden, Granite Bay

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Mrs. Johnson and Zaida Schnarr with bear hide

Mrs. (Einar) Beryl Johnson on left. Her husband operated a logging camp in Bute Inlet.
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Either the Homathko or the Southgate River, head of Bute Inlet

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Portrait of Alfred Joyce Aylsham

This photograph was taken on March 5, 1880.
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Agnes Twidle and Miss Reader enjoying tea

Agnes, on left and her husband Henry settled in Granite Bay in 1911. Presumably this photograph was taken in their yard.
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Group standing beside the Lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

This lighthouse was built in the 1920s.
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Mrs. Reynolds and Amy Barrow

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Pearl Schnarr with pet cougar, Girlie

Photograph taken near the Schnarr homestead at Owen Bay, Sonora Island.
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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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