Picnic gathering on Quadra Island

Gathering includes members of the W.E. Anderson Family. Mrs. Anderson is second woman on the right.
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Mr. and Mrs. Grace

Photograph of the Graces taken at Beaver Lake, Loughborough Inlet
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Members of the Forrest family in canoe at Heydon Lake

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Steamship at the Wharf on Mary Island

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Manson Family gathering, Cortes Island

Back, third from left: Hazel, Jean, Wilf, and Ervin McKay; Front, second from left: Mary Hayes, fourth from left Art Hayes, others unknown.
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Group of Cortes Island settlers

From left: Jack Manson, Anna Manson, Beatrice Hawkins, Margaret Robertson, Mabel Hawkins. Taken at the Hawkins beach by the boat shed.
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View of Hans Hansen's Ranch at Port Neville, B.C.

Taken between 1936-1938.
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Read Island residents gathered for a Victoria Day Picnic

A Victoria Day picnic held on May 24th at the Jones' Place. Late 1910s-1920s.
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Amy Barrow with a group of residents

From left: Amy Barrow, Bill Horth, Frank Norris, Frank Shepheard, and Percy Belson.
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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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W.E. Anderson, owner operator of the Quathiaski Canning Company, at his home in Vancouver

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Jim Stanton's hunting cabin, Knight Inlet area

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Quadra Island May Day, 1958

Back row from left: Glen Fair, Jack Grafton, Dennis Brendeland, and Sandy Billy. Front row from right: Shirley Basset, Carolyn Grafton, Christine Ogren, and Vicki Assu.
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Portrait of Heriot Bay teacher, Katie Walker

Katie Walker Clarke was the first teacher of the Heriot Bay school on Quadra Island.
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View of the Cape Mudge lighthouse in the winter

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Three carved welcome figures at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

These welcome figures were located near the burial grounds at the Cape Mudge Village.
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A treed cougar

Cougar was presumably treed by bounty hunter August Schnarr in the Bute Inlet area.
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Looking up Knight Inlet from Glendale Cove

Amy Barrow in rowboat with the Barrows boat the Toketie in the background.
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View from Jim and Laurette Stanton's apartment in Seattle

Presumably this is where the Stanton's lived before relocating to their home at Knight Inlet, B.C.
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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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Portrait of Henry Twidle

Henry Twidle and his wife Agnes settled at Granite Bay, Quadra Island in 1911.
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Group of children at Cortes Island

Rose Manson (McKay) is second from left.
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Columbia Coast Mission ship crew

Jim Stanton, on bottom left in sweater with crew of one of the Columbia Coast Mission Boats. Likley taken at the dock at the Stantons' home at Knight Inlet.
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Amy Barrow (nee Bradford)

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May Day Celebrations on Quadra 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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