"Children's Day" A Garden Party, Heriot Bay, B.C.

Post Card dated August 11, 1909. From left: Mrs. Maxwell, Mrs. Horner, Mrs. Bagot holding Esther, behind them; Billy Glennan. Back row from left: Frank Bagot, Mrs. Bryant, Daisy Bryant, Mr. Tester, Jack Hanager, Phil Horner, to the bottom right of Phil; Dick Cobb, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, in...
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Portrait of Mary Marlatt

Mary Marlatt was a settler on Mary Island.
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View of Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island showing several of the cannery buildings.

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Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands

Mrs. Nixon among the blossoms of the fruit trees that Mr. Don McDonald planted many years before.
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Children at the Mother Goose Day event held at Walker's place, Quadra Island

R.J. Walker's home was located at Gowlland Harbour, Quadra Island.
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Jack McPhee and Ed Atkins at Bute Inlet with wolf skin

Presumably McPhee and Atkins were hunting with August Schnarr when they shot this wolf in the Southgate River area.
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School picnic on Stuart Island

Sarah Madsen in middle, possibly her brother in front.
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Union Steamship SS Chelohsin at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

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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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Seine boats tied up at Quathiaski Canning Co. wharf, Quadra Island

See also photograph no. 9086 which was taken at the same time but from a slightly different angle.
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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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Francis and Amy Barrow

From left: Francis Barrow, Amy Barrow, unknown man
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Interior of Schnarr house, early 1920’s Bute Inlet

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Group of Quadra ladies and their children on the beach, Quadra Island

Group includes members of the Anderson family. From left: Unknown, Unknown, Winnie Walker; in front of Winnie; Mae Anderson, Unknown, Velma Anderson, Elva Anderson, and Unknown. (Ursula identifies Elva and Mae as twins, perhaps fraternal?). Taken froma pPostcard dated August 11, 1909 at Heriot...
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Black bear probably shot by August Schnarr in Bute Inlet

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Anderson family car on road in the winter, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

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Catch of fish in Bute Inlet area

Unidentified man with catch of fish
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August Schnarr on left with Teddy Hill

August and Teddy with a catch of trout. One of August's flat bottom river boats in the foreground.
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Schnarr family floathouse on the beach

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View of remains at Cheslakees village, Nimpkish River

Village known by name of "WHULGU" - information from original catalog.
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May Day celebrations on Quadra Island, 1922

Queen of the May Day (centre) is Elza Johnson. Dorothy McKenzie (Maid of Honour) and Doris Kilgour also pictured.
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Stenfors homestead, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Stenfors stump ranch, Granite Bay.
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Quathiaski Canning Company seine boat

The crew is hauling in the seine by hand.
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The Marlatt homstead on Mary Island

Possibly Doris Marlatt of Mary Island.
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View of the Courthouse at Quathiaski Cove, 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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