School year end picnic at Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island

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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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Quadra Island May Day, 1956

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Agnes Twidle and Miss Reader enjoying tea

Agnes, on left and her husband Henry settled in Granite Bay in 1911. Presumably this photograph was taken in their yard.
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James Forrest with his daughter Ann

James Forrest and family lived at Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island.
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Union Steamship, Cassiar, at Heriot Bay

Union Steamship, Cassiar, docked at the Heriot Bay wharf.
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Group gathered at Camp Homewood on Quadra Island, May 1955

Gathering held to mark Reverend J. Walker's 90th birthday. Written on back of photograph: "Dad's 90th". Back row from left: Ethel Stecens, unknown, unknown, Dewey Vaughan, unknown. Second row from left: Joy (Walker) Huntley, unknown, unknown, Katie (Walker) Clarke, Mrs. Walker...
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Angus Kerr hauling in his gillnet

Angus Kerr gillnet fishing at Toba Inlet.
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May Day Quadra Island 1989

May Day parade car "Queen Asia"
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Billie and Hans Hansen of Port Neville, B.C.

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Union Steamship SS Chelohsin at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

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August Schnarr's trapping cabin at the head of Bute Inlet

One of Schnarr's cabins located up Homathko River Canyon, Bute Inlet
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Columbia Coast Mission ship crew

Jim Stanton, on bottom left in sweater with crew of one of the Columbia Coast Mission Boats. Likley taken at the dock at the Stantons' home at Knight Inlet.
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View of either the Homathko or the Southgate River

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Marion Schnarr at the Schnarr homestead at Bute Inlet

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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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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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Totem Pole in Kalokwis Village, Turner Island

This pole belonged to the Smith family, who sold it to B.C. Packers. Pole later stood at Alert Bay (see MCR photo catalog no. 8152) with new beak and crests supplied by Doug Crammer. See also MCR photo catalog no 6779 for another view of pole.
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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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Four loggers at Powell River Company boom at Teakerne Arm

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Unidentified man with dead bear

Photograph taken by August Schnarr who likely trapped this bear
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Moving house, Heriot Bay, Quadra Island

Small raft with cargo truck on back, carrying several items including a motorcycle described as "Quadra Island, Heriot Bay Teacher House"
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Successful deer hunt at August Schnarr’s place, Bute Inlet

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Luoma family stump ranch in Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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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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