Wood and Armitage beside their boat at Refuge Cove

Wood and Armitage beside their boat at Refuge Cove
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James Forrest with his daughter Ann

James Forrest and family lived at Shoal Bay, Thurlow 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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May Day on Quadra Island 1982

May Pole Dancing at Rebecca Spit Park
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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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The Tugboat "Active" in Bull Passage

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Miss Strange of Whaletown, Cortes Island

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Dot and Emma Yeatman on their porch, Quadra Island

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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands

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Children with the chickens at farm at Whaletown, Cortes Island

A large clutch of chickens being fed.
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One of Schnarr's flat botton river boats

Unidentified man standing beside one boat either taken in the Homathko or Southgate River.
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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters wearing rose hip necklaces

Pearl on the left, Pansy on the right, likely taken when the family lived at Bute Inlet.
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Welcome Figures at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

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Angus Kerr hauling in his gillnet at Toba Inlet

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Velma and Mae Anderson on verandah of their home at Quathiaski Cove

Both are wearing "middy suits" which were popular for school, sports, and everyday wear in the late 1910s and 1920s.
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View of the Courthouse at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

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Handliner's fishing in the rapids near Stuart Island

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August Schnarr's homestead at Bute Inlet

View of logging slash on hill side behind the Schnarr homestead, Bute Inlet.
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Charles Neuberg, "Old Dutchie" at Stenfors place, Granite Bay

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Agnes Twidle with a team of horses

Agnes and her husband Henry settled in Granite Bay in 1911.
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Seine Boat at Quathiaski Cove

Seine boat, the Quathiaski #5, at Quathiaski Cove.
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Wylie's Hotel at Burdwood Bay on Read Island

On porch from left: Unknown, Unknown, Effie with baby (Mrs. Long's daughter), Mr. and Mrs. Yelvington (storekeeper at Heriot Bay), Mary Aldrich, Mrs. Long and child (Ed Wylie's cook and housekeeper); Mrs. Long's daughter Blanche; three persons unknown; Mr. and Mrs. A. Joyce with...
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The The new elementary school on Quadra Island shortly after construction

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August Schnarr’s float house on beach either at Phillips or Frederick’s Arm

At this time August was hand logging in the area.
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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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