Emma and Dot Yeatman, Quadra Island

Emma Yeatman listening to her daughter play the piano in the family home.
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MacDonald and Hill in one of August Schnarr's river boats

Wardy MacDonald, on left was the storekeeper at Shoal Bay with Teddy Hill on right the forest ranger from Thurston Bay. Photograph was taken either in the Homathko or Southgate Rivers, Bute Inlet.
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Hauling in the seine nets by hand

One of the Quathiaski Canning Company fishermen hauling in the seine net.
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August and Zaida Schnarr with their two daughters

August is holding Pearl and Pansy is standing. The photograph was taken at Chameleon Harbour, Sonora Island which is where Zaida's family the Lansall's lived.
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View of buildings at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island sometime after 1910

From left: Gas storage, store, Anderson family house, caskhouse(?), tast(?) house. The Anderson family owned and operated the Quathiaski Canning Co. and the house in the center is where they would live when the cannery was operating.
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May Day on Quadra Island, 1950

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Thomas and Maggie Leask, Quadra Island

Parents of Mrs. Lewis Joyce.
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Group of Quadra Island settlers at first community picnic at Drew Harbour

Back row from left: Alfred Joyce, unknown, Mrs. H. Bull, Walter Joyce, Aleen Hughes, Mary Hughes, Sarah Hughes, William Hughes, Robert Grant Sr - M.L.A., Charlie De Neine. Seated: Johnny Hughes, Harold Hood, Roy Hood, Mr. H. Bull and baby Cecil, Sam West, Mrs. Hughes, and Weaver Jones. Robert Grant...
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Animal skins at Mr. Chapman's house, Stuart Island

Mr. Chapman shown beside skins drying in front of his home at Stuart Island. Skins include cougars, wolves, mink, martin, and bear skins. One cougar was shot six feet from his house.
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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters in front of cages

Left to right; Marion, Pearl, Pansy. This photograph was taken at the Schnarr family homestead at Bute Inlet. The girls are standing in front of the marten and mink cages.
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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters at their homestead

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New Year's Eve at the Yeatman home, Quadra Island

The Yeatmans playing cards in their parlour, 1916.
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James and Ann Forrest's wedding portrait

Ann "Tottie" Barker Forrest and James McKelvie(?) Forrest Wedding Portrait taken in Victoria, BC. The Forrest family settled in Shoal Bay, Thurlow 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 Blind Channel, West Thurlow Island

This photograph was likely taken in 1916 when the Blind Channel Cannery was under construction.
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Children in front of school at Cape Mudge village, Quadra Island

This school was built by the Federal Government at the We Wai Kai's village at Cape Mudge.
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Lucky Jim Mine operations, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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Boats tied up at the wharf at the Landing, Stuart Island

Coast Missionary boat an be seen behind the shed. Boat on the far right is "Eva W." George Parson's boat."Klakweet", Jack Fisher's boat. He drowned off of it. Lower right, "Tidal Wave" Bill Jago's boat. "John Antle" of the Columbia Coast...
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View of Quathiaski Cove Cannery and new net loft, Quadra Island

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A boat under construction in August Schnarr's boat shed

This photograph is likely taken of the boat shed that August had at his home at Owen Bay.
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Aerial view of Big Bay, Stuart Island

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Twidle's Boat "The Illini" tied up a dock at Granite Bay

The "Illini" belonged the Henry and Agnes Twidle who were early Granite Bay settlers.
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W.E. Anderson and his wife Margaret on board the "Quathiaski 10"

The Andersons owned and operated the Quathiaski Canning Company and the Quathiaski 10 was used as their pleasure craft. In the background are the cannery buildings.
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View of Blind Channel, West Thurlow Island showing the cannery

The Blind Channel cannery was built in 1916 by W.E. Anderson who also owned the cannery at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island. The cannery closed in 1925- 1926.
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Quadra Island Residents

From left: Mr. And Mrs. Noble, Annie Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton, unknown, and possibly Rob Yeatman. Photo taken April 28, 1929.
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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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