Read Island residents gathered for a Victoria Day Picnic

A Victoria Day picnic held on May 24th at the Jones' Place. Late 1910s-1920s.
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Dot Yeatman on the front steps of the family home, Quadra Island

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Pansy Schnarr wearing a rosehip necklace with dog

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Group of Stuart Island residents, 1940's

From left: Mrs. Mary Brimacombe, Shirley Muirhead (teacher who married Jack Innes), Will Muehle (namesake Muehles Mt.), Mrs. Bertha Muehle (formerly Mrs. Asman), Dorothy Vogel, Mrs. Willoughby. Front: Mrs. Sandy Prichard, Margaret Parrish, little girl; Frances Prichard. "Mrs. Muehle was known...
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View of Port Neville, B.C.

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View of either the Homathko or the Southgate River

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Emma Yeatman on front porch of her Quadra Island home

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On the Anderson family porch, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

Nellie Whipple seated. Mrs. Anderson with Peggy in her arms and Valerie at left.
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View of the Quathiaski Canning Co. operations, 1914.

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May Day Quadra Island 1989

May Day parade car "Queen Asia"
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Group in wooden boat at the head of Knight Inlet

Looks like this maybe Jim and Laurette Stanton ( Jim in stern of boat)
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MacDonald and Hill in one of August Schnarr's river boats

Wardy MacDonald, on left was the storekeeper at Shoal Bay with Teddy Hill on right the forest ranger from Thurston Bay. Photograph was taken either in the Homathko or Southgate Rivers, Bute Inlet.
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Members of the Beech and Hall families, Quadra Island

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Blind Channel Cannery under construction

The Blind Channel cannery was built in 1916 by W.E. Anderson who also owned the cannery at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island.
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Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands with string of sausages

Captain Nixon reared, slaughtered, and made sausages of the pigs. Mrs. Nixon made the pork pies. See also photograph no. 5920.
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Members of the Forrest family in canoe at Heydon Lake

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Laurette Staton with a dog

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Members of the Marlatt family

"Leaving Whaletown" at Cortes Island, B.C. is written on back of the photograph. The Marlatt family homesteaded on Mary Island.
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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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Stenfors farm house at their ranch at Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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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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Zaida Schnarr and daughters at Stuart Island.

From left: Pansy, Pearl, Marion Schnarr with their mother Zaida. In the background is a view of the Arran Rapids.
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Group of school children at the Mansons Landing school on Cortes Island

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Navy boats tied up at dock at Stuart Island

Waiting tide at the Landing, Stuart Island. Photo taken in the 1940s.
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Stapleton on the front steps of his cabin, Toba Inlet

im Stapleton was one of the early settlers in the Toba Inlet area, 1936.
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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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