Plowing the fields at the Yeatman family farm (Sunny Side) on Quadra Island

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Percy Belsons float camp near Dent Island

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Phil Lavigne at his homestead, Prideaux Haven

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Hauling in the seine nets by hand

One of the Quathiaski Canning Company fishermen hauling in the seine net.
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Bert Middleton home at Whaletown, Cortes Island

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Group of ladies at Stuart Island

Back row from left: Sandra Pritchard, Margaret Parrish. Middle row from left: Mrs. 'Biff' Marshall, Mrs. Roberta Aucoin, Margaret Bogel, Gerd Evans. Front row from left: Mrs. Dyck (nurse), her daughter Mary, Gayleen Evans, Frances Pritchard Anderson, Marilyn Marshall, Billy Dyck.
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Blind Channel Cannery Crew

Crew members from the Blind Channel Cannery. The man with the moustache is Wiley Whittington.
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Bringing in the hay at the Hansen farm, Port Neville, B.C.

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Herbert Pidcock with dog and dead cougar

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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters having a bath

From right: Pearl, Pansy and Marion Schnarr in bathtub at their home at Bute Inlet in the 1920s.
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Amy Barrow taken when she was young woman in England

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Henry Twidle in his garden at Granite Bay

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Group Reading the Newspaper at Mansons Landing

Group sitting on the clothesline stand, reading the newspaper (the steamship had delivered its weekly mail run). Back row, from left: George Freeman, Henry (Hank) Herrewig, Hazel Herrewig, Doris Hawkins, May Spence (teacher), and Wilfred Manson. In front, from left: Violet Herrewig (married July...
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Probably Twidle House and Orchard, Granite Bay

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Black bear probably shot by August Schnarr in Bute Inlet

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Visitors on the boardwalk at Cape Mudge Lighthouse, Quadra Island

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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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View of the Courthouse at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

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August Schnarr’s rabbit and marten cages, Bute Inlet homestead

August Schnarr's three children Pansy, Pear and Marion looking into the cages.
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The Falks' Place, August 1913

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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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The Union Steamship, Cheakamus

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August Schnarr with two of his children

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May Day celebration on Quadra Island, 1922

Queen of this year's May Day was Elza Johnson (tallest blonde girl), 1922.
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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay

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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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