Emma and Dot Yeatman, Quadra Island

Emma Yeatman listening to her daughter play the piano in the family home.
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Clarence Keeling and Ivy Murray of Read Island

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CPR Steamship, Beatrice, at Quathiaski Cove

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Dot Yeatman on the front steps of the family home, Quadra Island

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"May 28, 1924” from August Schnarr's album

The Schnarr floathouse pulled up on the beach. This is likely Schnarr's first floathouse which later sank when he was moving it to his new homestead up Bute Inlet.
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Granite Bay residents skating on the frozen Granite Bay Harbour

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The Schnarr girls with their pet cougars

Left to right: Pearl, Pansy and Marion Scharr with their pet cougars, Girlie & Leo. Photograph was taken near the Schnarr family home at Owen Bay.
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The Fearings and Barrows Jackson Bay, Topaz Harbour.

Amy Barrow on far left and Francis Barrow on far left.
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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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View of the Grassy Bay, Loughborough Inlet, Toketie in background

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Commercial fishing boats tied up in front of Quathiaski Cannery, Quadra Island

The building on the left is the home of the Anderson family, who owned and operated the cannery.
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School picnic on beach at Stuart Island

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Wood, Armitage, and Toby the dog at Refuge Cove, West Redonda Island

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Pansy Schnarr and Mrs. Godkin with baby cougars

Photograph taken near the Schnarr homestead at Owen Bay, Sonora Island. Mrs. Godkin looked after the Schnarr girls for a while. The Schnarr girls named the baby cougars Leo, Cleo and Gilmore.
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The Yeatman Family at Drew Harbour, 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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Two young ladies in a car at Sunny Side Farm, Quadra Island

The young woman driving may be Mae Anderson. Sunny Side Farm was the home of the Yeatman Family on Quadra Island.
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Joy Walker and friend on Mrs. McPherson's horse

Mrs. McPherson was the local school teacher.
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View of the Tipton home at Read Island

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Tipton's house at Surge Narrows, Read Island

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Schnarr family house at homestead up Bute Inlet Inlet, Schnarr Landing

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Bridge over the creek at Grassy Bay, Loughborough Inlet

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Beach in front of Cape Mudge Lighthouse and Fog Station, Quadra Island

The Lighthouse station was established in 1898. Cape Mudge Beacon was built in 1915.
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Woman with dead bear at Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island

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Likely a view of the cannery at Blind Channel, West Thurlow Island

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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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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