Marion Schnarr at the Schnarr homestead at Bute Inlet

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Union Steamship, the Cardena

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Portrait of Jeanie D. Forrester, Quadra Island

Miss Forrester was an early Quadra Island teacher and daughter of Anna Joyce.
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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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View from Jim and Laurette Stanton's apartment in Seattle

Presumably this is where the Stanton's lived before relocating to their home at Knight Inlet, B.C.
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The Marlatt family

Clockwise from left: Charles, Egerton, Elizabeth, Roy, Samuel with Mary, Paul, and Winonah. Members of the Marlatt family homesteaded on Mary Island.
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Alfred Luoma Family, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Left to right: Silvia, Alfred, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mrs. Luoma, Elma.
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W.E. Anderson with his grandson Edward McAllister

W.E. Anderson was the owner operator of the Quathiaski Canning Company, Quadra Island. This photograph was taking in ther back garden of his Vancouver home at 1499 Angus Drive, Vancouver.
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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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The Barrows and Sticklands

From left: Francis Barrow, Mrs. Stickland, Amy Barrow, George Stickland
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School picnic on Stuart Island

Sarah Madsen in middle, possibly her brother in front.
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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters wearing rosehip necklaces

Pearl on the left, Pansy on the right, likely taken when the family lived at Bute Inlet.
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Rose Manson and Jean "Bubs" Robinson

Rose Manson and Jean "Bubs" Robinson on Cortes Island. Jean's mother was lost on the steamship SS Sophia in 1925.
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Catch of fish in Bute Inlet area

Unidentified man with catch of fish
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The first school and teach on Valdez (Quadra) Island

First teacher Kate Smith with her horse in front of the log building that was used as the first school on Quadra. It was located in the Heriot Bay area.
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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay

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A day's catch on the floor of the Quathiaski Cannery at Quadra Island

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Group of school children at Cortes Island

Children may be standing in the school yard adjacent to the Mansons Landing School.
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Heriot Bay and Rebecca Spit

View overlooking Heriot Bay and Rebecca Spit, 1915.
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Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Walker of Quadra Island

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Portrait of Heriot Bay teacher, Katie Walker

Katie Walker Clarke was the first teacher of the Heriot Bay school on Quadra Island.
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Phil Lavigne at his homestead at Prideaux Haven

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Roy Marlatt's house on Mary Island

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The Falks' Place, August 1913

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Angus Kerr hauling in his gillnet

Angus Kerr gillnet fishing at Toba Inlet in 1939.
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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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