Young members of the Junior Women's Association

Young members of the Junior Women's Association at the Walker home (later known as Camp Holmwood): Front row, from left: unknown, Mina Stanley, unknown, Lorraine Yeatman. Back row, from left: Sophie Wiseman, Ida Callow, Margery Greene, Barbara Greene, unknown, Tuko Noagama, unknown, and Doreen...
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Black bear probably shot by August Schnarr in Bute Inlet

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View of Kalokwis Village, Turnor Island

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August Schnarr and Mrs. Williams with cougar shot by Schnarr

Photograph was taken in the late late 1930s or 40s.
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Reverend Alan Greene and his wife Gertrude at their home on Quadra Island

Reverend Greene of the Columbia Coast Mission was assigned the district which included Quadra Island in 1919. He and his wife took up residence at Quathiaski Cove.
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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Joyce

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The Schnarr girls with their pet cougars

From left: Bernice Betton, with Pearl, Pansy and Marion Schnarr. Taken near the Schnarr family home at Owen Bay, Sonora Island.
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Paul and Roy Marlatt in a wooden rowboat

The Marlatt family homesteaded on Mary Island
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Group on board the Quathiaski No. 10

From left: Frank Yeatman, Helen Joyce, Jorpis Berg, Grandpa Yeatman, Mrs. John Berg, and Ethel Joyce.
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Members of the Hansen family at their home at Port Neville

Left to right: Karen Hansen, unknown child on lap, unidentified person, Edith (Hansen) Bendickson; from far right Arthur Hansen, unidentified person, Oly Hansen (rear), Lilly Randall; others unidentified – this may be a tea party or birthday.
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Rob and Dot Yeatman in the front room, Quadra Island

Rob Yeatman notes that this photograph was taken with a "flashlight".
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Group of children on field at the Cape Mudge Village, Quadra Island

The man on the far left is Mr. Pettingell, a missionary. In the background is the Church and the mission house on the right.
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Stapleton's place at Stuart Island

Stapleton alongside his boom of logs.
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Mary Island homestead covered in snow

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Mrs. Johnson and Zaida Schnarr with bear pelt

Mrs. (Einar) Beryl Johnson on left. Her husband operated a logging camp in Bute Inlet, c. 1930.
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View of Blind Channel, West Thurlow Island

This photograph was likely taken in 1916 when the Blind Channel Cannery was under construction.
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Cortes Island settlers at May 24th picnic at Hague Lake

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Quadra Island May Day, 1956

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Logging at the Schnarr place, Bute Inlet

View of the logging slash behind August Schnarr's homestead at Bute Inlet.
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Stenfors farm house at their ranch at Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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Picnic at Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island

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Marshall's orchard after 1946 eathquake, Read Island

This earthquake took place on June 5, 1946 and measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale.
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Thomas and Maggie Leask, Quadra Island

Parents of Mrs. Lewis Joyce.
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Quadra Island May Day, 1956

May pole dance celebrations held at Rebecca Spit, Quadra Island.
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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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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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