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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Portrait of R.J. Walker, Quadra Island's first teacher

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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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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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Group on the front steps of the second Heriot Bay Hotel, Quadra Island

Left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Bull (owners of the hotel) , Peter Jorgensen, Reverend and Mrs. Scofield, Mrs. Dick, Mrs. Letson (seated), Jenny and Mae Miller (maids at the hotel), Mae and Velma Anderson, Eliz Law, Reverend Fred Comley, Mrs. Law, Unknown, Miss Theodora Spencer (Walker), behind...
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August Schnarr with two of his children

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Members of the Robertson and Middleton Family, Cortes Island

From left: Margaret Robertson, Margaret Middleton (daughter of Bert Middleton and niece of Harry M.), Anna Manson (visiting Mrs. David Robertson), Duncan Robertson, and Alan Robertson. Photo taken July, 1916 in Whaletown on Cortes Island.
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The Marquette Family on Cortes Island

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The first school and teach on Valdez (Quadra) Island

First teacher Kate Smith with her horse in front of the log building that was used as the first school on Quadra. It was located in the Heriot Bay area.
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“August 19, 1925. Children against wall, on float." from August Schnarr's album

At back from left: Pansy, Pearl with the youngest Schnarr daughter Marion in the front.
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Bridge over the creek at Grassy Bay, Loughborough Inlet

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Karen Hansen daughter of early Port Neville, settler Hans Hansen.

Karen Hansen is the oldest daughter of Hans and Kathinka Hanseon and was born April 28, 1904.
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August Schnar and Ed Atkins with dead wolf

Schnarr is on the left and Atkins is on the right. Photograph taken somewhere in the Bute Inlet area.
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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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Quadra Island May Day, 1956

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Cortes Island residents on beach in front of the McKay house, Gunflint Lake

From left: unknown, Wilfred Manson, Mary Hayes, Hazel (McKay) Hansen, Bert and Judy Hansen, Dorcas Essen, Frank Hayes
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School year end picnic at Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island

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The Yeatmans in front of their log cabin at Sunnyside Farm, Quadra Island

From left: Robert Ernest Yeatman (on "Maud" the horse, born January, 1896), Thomas Charles Yeatman (born July 20, 1886), Samuel George Yeatman (born July 27, 1892) Fredrick Charles Yeatman (born April 17, 1858), Fredrick Cook Yeatman (January 7, 1894), James Kayson Yeatman (born February...
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Students at Quadra Island School, possibly working on a garden

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Portrait of Sonny Marlatt

Father of Roy Marlatt, who bought Mary Island.
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The Yeatman Family at Drew Harbour, Quadra Island

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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters at their homestead

From left to right: Marion, Pansy and Pearl Schnarr with McPhee's puppies at their Bute Inlet homestead.
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Quadra Island May Day, 1955

Stage at May Day celebrations.
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Three ladies at Cortes Island

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Damaged ground after 1946 earthquake, Read Island

This earthquake took place on June 5, 1946 and measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale.
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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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