Two men poling up the Kleena Kleene River at the head of Knight Inlet

Jim Stanton (standing at stern of boat) with Paul Pojhie headed up the Kleena Kleene River with supplies for bear hunting camp.
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Welcome Figures at We Wai Kai villlage at Cape Mudge

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School picnic on beach at Stuart Island

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Jim Stanton with a bird at their fishing camp

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The First Lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

Written on back: "This is Louie and I on to[p] of the lighthouse. I have marked myself. Lighthouse built c. 1896, it burned down or destroyed somehow and was rebuilt in 1915."
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Beach front at Read Bay, Topaze Harbour

This was the site of a indian village.
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Quadra Island May Day, 1958

Back row from left: Glen Fair, Jack Grafton, Dennis Brendeland, and Sandy Billy. Front row from right: Shirley Basset, Carolyn Grafton, Christine Ogren, and Vicki Assu.
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Herbert Pidcock with dog and dead cougar

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The Stantons in their "Family Car" at the head of Knight Inlet, B.C.

Laurette and Jim Stanton going visiting in their flat bottomed river boat, Knight Inlet.
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School at Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Agnes Twidle on far left standing behind boy in sailor suit. This school was opened in 1911, and was built by the Luoma and Stenfor families.
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View inside the Marlatt family home, Mary Island

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Quadra Picnic at Cape Mudge Lighthouse, circa 1903

Bottom row of children from left: Ray Yeatman, Rob Yeatman, George Yeatman, Grace Hood, Dorothy Yeatman, Alice Bryant, Daisy Bryant, Dick Bryant, and Fred Yeatman. Middle row from left: Tom Yeatman, Mr. Fred Yeatman (Father), Reverend Roy Walker, Mrs. Agnes Walker, Roy Walker Junior, Katie Walker,...
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Flo and Floss Manson of Cortes Island

Flo at right, and Floss on left.
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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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Aerial view of Big Bay, Stuart Island

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Agnes and Henry Twidle at tea, Quadra Island

On back of photo; "These were taken while on a picnic 1/4 of a mile from here." Henry Twidle was a professional photographer who lived at Granite Bay for many years.
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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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Floss (Manson) Kenny of Cortes Island and her son Ralph

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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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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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Agnes Twidle in her home, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Quote: "Merry Christmas to you all from Henry and Agnes" "This was taken last Christmas." The Twidles (Henry and Agnes) moved the Granite Bay in 1911, where they initially took over the operation of a hotel and store. On the walls are a few of pieces of Henry's butterfly...
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View of the Quathiaski Canning Co. operations, 1914.

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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughter on beach

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At the Marlatt house on Mary Island

Mabel Marlatt with her daughter Doris and a friend.
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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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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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