Group of people waving from wharf in front of Quathiaski Cannery

Photograph taken in the late 1910s to early 1920s.
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Portrait of Henry Twidle

Henry Twidle and his wife Agnes settled at Granite Bay, Quadra Island in 1911.
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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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The Walker Family Ranch, "Homewood", on Quadra Island

The Letson children, Brud (Gordon) and Ethel, feeding Old Bess the horse.
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A treed cougar

Cougar was presumably treed by bounty hunter August Schnarr in the Bute Inlet area.
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View of Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island B.C.

View of Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island B.C. View showing the wharf at Shoal Bay was likely taken in the early 1900's.
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Johnny and Jenny Macamoose in their canoe

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson Sr. of Quadra Island

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Big house remains at Gwayasdums, Gilford Island

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May Day on Quadra Island, 1950

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Union Steamship Company boat at wharf at Port Neville

“S.S. Venture” at Port Neville with several fishing boats also at dock.
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Union Steamship, Camosun, at Knox Bay

Union Steamship, Camosun, docked at the wharf at Knox Bay where P.B. Anderson's logging operation was located.
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St. Patrick's Day at a school on Stuart Island

Ken Aucoin, Traford Bernard, Terry Brimacombe, Marie, Gary Aucoin, Leonard Sumner, Butch Bernard, Ross Sumner, Nancy, Sarah Madsen, Mary Dyck, Linda, Sally, Susan Bassett, Marilyn Marshall, Linda Pritchard, Bill Dyck, Frances Pritchard.
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View of Quathiaski Cove showing the sawmill (on left) and Cannery (on right)

This photograph was taken a year before the cannery burned in 1909. At this time the Quathiaski Canning Co. was owned and operated by W.E. Anderson.
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Thomas and Maggie Leask, Quadra Island

Parents of Mrs. Lewis Joyce.
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August Schnarr with two of his children

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Group on the Quathiaski No. 10 circa 1920s

Members of the Anderson family on board the Quathiaski 10, which they used for pleasure purposes. The Andersons were the owner operators of the Quathiaski Canning Company, 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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Quathiaski No. 10 fully loaded and tied up at the wharf at Quathiaski

The Quathiaski No. 10 was the Anderson family's personal launch. This photograph was likely taken as the Anderson family were either coming to or leaving Quadra Island for their winter home in Vancouver.
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Rob and Frank Yeatman having a snow ball fight, Quadra Island

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May Day celebrations on Quadra Island, 1922

Queen of the May Day (centre) is Elza Johnson. Dorothy McKenzie (Maid of Honour) and Doris Kilgour also pictured.
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Agnes Twidle, early Granite Bay settler

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Captain and Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands

The Nixons in their small wooden boat in the bay between Twin Islands.
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View of Quathiaski Cove Cannery and new net loft, Quadra Island

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Saulter and Frank in front of box for steaming planks

"This looks like manufacture of hooch, but is nothing worse than a steam box for bending planks for their boat" - note from the original Barrow journal. Saulter and Frank were friends of the Barrows who lived at Prideaux Haven.
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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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