Rob Yeatman with buck, Quadra Island

MORE

August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters at their homestead

From left to right: Marion, Pansy and Pearl Schnarr with McPhee's puppies at their Bute Inlet homestead.
MORE

Mr. Pettingell with group of children at Cape Mudge Village

Mr. Pettingell was a missionary in that area.
MORE

August Schnarr and Mrs. Williams with cougar shot by Schnarr

Photograph was taken in the late late 1930’s or 40’s.
MORE

Gerrad family members with their pets, Heriot Bay

Members of the Gerrad family, from left: Dorris, Dell, and Mrs. Gerrard.
MORE

Steamship at the Wharf on Mary Island

MORE

Mother Goose Day event at the Walkers' Place, Quadra Island

MORE

View homestead located at Prideaux Haven

This is the location is also known as Flee Village named during the 1792 exploration of the area by Captain Vancouver.
MORE

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.
MORE

August Schnarr and other's caging a cougar

This cougar is probably the cougar treed in photograph no. 14437 which was treed by cougar bounty hunter August Schnarr.
MORE

Quadra Island May Day, 1955

From left: Wendy Barfield, Helen Noble, Lois Haines, and Alberta Wilson.
MORE

Rose Manson (McKay) and "Cougar" Smith (John Cecil Smith)

MORE

Church at Mansons Landing, Cortes Island

MORE

Two hunters with grizzly bear hide at Knight Inlet

One of the hunters is Paul Pojhie.
MORE

Schnarr girls with their pet cougar

Marion Schnarr with cougar, Girlie. Pearl Schnarr is in the background. Photograph taken near the Schnarr homestead at Owen Bay.
MORE

A Western Canada Airways ltd. float plane landed at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

MORE

Alfred Luoma Family, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

Left to right: Silvia, Alfred, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mrs. Luoma, Elma.
MORE

Seine Boat at Quathiaski Cove

Seine boat, the Quathiaski #5, at Quathiaski Cove.
MORE

Reynolds family in front of their float house

The Reynolds float house was located at Watson Island, Tribune Channel
MORE

One of Schnarr's flat botton river boats

Unidentified man standing beside one boat either taken in the Homathko or Southgate River.
MORE

August Schnarr on left with Teddy Hill

August and Teddy with a catch of trout. One of August's flat bottom river boats in the foreground.
MORE

Earthquake damage on Read Island

Earthquake took place on June 5, 1946 and was 7.3 on the Richter Scale.
MORE

Big house remains at Gwayasdums, Gilford Island

MORE

Helen (Joyce) Andrews skating on Quadra Island

MORE

Beach front and lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

MORE

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.
View Gallery »

Quadra Island - Granite Bay

View Gallery »

Port Neville

View Gallery »

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.
View Gallery »

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.
View Gallery »