Jim and Laurette Stanton's first home at Knight Inlet

From left: Jim Stanton, Laurette Stanton, and the two Hall brothers. Photograph taken at the Stantons' first home in the Knight Inlet area - likely at Kwalate Point.
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View of Granite Bay in winter, taken from the front door of the Twidle home

Written on back of photograph; "Granite Bay, B.C. Taken directly from front of our house. H.T."
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Group of students in front of their school at Mansons Landing, Cortes Island

Arthur Hayes, Jack Hayes, Marjorie Hayes, Anna Manson, Rose Manson, Miss Katherine Lettice, Alice Marquette, Nicol Manson, Darrel Thompson, Florence Hayes, Willena Smith, George The students are identified as : Marquette, Betty Hayes, Arthur Pickles, Marjorie Pickles, Helen Marquette, Unknown,...
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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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Union Steamship, the Cardena

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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters having a bath

From right; Pearl, Pansy and Marion Schnarr in bathtub at their home at Bute Inlet in the 1920s.
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The wharf at Port Neville

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May Day on Quadra Island, 1950

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View of Hans Hansen's Ranch at Port Neville, B.C.

Taken between 1936-1938.
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Floathouses tied up a wharf at Shoal Bay

Floathouse tied up a wharf at Shoal Bay August and Zaida Schnarr's float house tied up at Shoal Bay. They lived at Shoal Bay after they were married in 1922.
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Portrait of R.J. Walker, Quadra Island's first teacher

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Mrs. Reynolds and Amy Barrow

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Flo McKay mowing hay around Gunflint Lake, Cortes Island

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Inside the Marlatt family home, Mary Island

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Lucky Jim Mine operations, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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The Yeatman Family at Drew Harbour, Quadra Island

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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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Beach front and lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

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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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May Day celebrations at Port Neville

May Day gathering at Port Neville. A stamp on back indicates that this was 1937.
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View of lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

Photo dated September 26, 1966.
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Mr. and Mrs. Grace

Photograph of the Graces taken at Beaver Lake, Loughborough Inlet
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Either the Homathko or the Southgate River, head of Bute Inlet

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Group Reading the Newspaper at Mansons Landing

Group sitting on the clothesline stand, reading the newspaper (the steamship had delivered its weekly mail run). Back row, from left: George Freeman, Henry (Hank) Herrewig, Hazel Herrewig, Doris Hawkins, May Spence (teacher), and Wilfred Manson. In front, from left: Violet Herrewig (married July...
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Dot Yeatman on the front steps of the family home, 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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