Wedding at Cape Mudge

The wedding of Leila Roberts and Ronnie Assu. From left: Chief Billy Assu, unknown, Ronnie Assu, Leila Roberts, and Bud Recalma (of Qualicum).
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One of the Quathiaski Canning Company's seine boats

Hauling in the seine net with block.
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August Schnarr's trapping cabin at the head of Bute Inlet

One of Schnarr's cabins located up Homathko River Canyon, Bute Inlet 1920’s.
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Charles Neuberg, "Old Dutchie" at Stenfors place, Granite Bay, Quadra Island

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View of the Cape Mudge lighthouse in the winter

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View of Whaletown, Cortes Island

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Mary Island homestead covered in snow

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Man moving into a farm, Blind Channel

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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.
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Interior of Schnarr house, early 1920’s Bute Inlet

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Harvesting time at the Yeatmans' Sunny Side Farm, Quadra Island

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Chief Billy Assu of Cape Mudge

Photograph appears to have been taken at some sort of a presentation.
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Group on the porch of the Anderson home, Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

From left: Mae Anderson, Margaret Anderson, and Velma Anderson.
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Thomas Leask at his family's first cabin

Thomas Leask, father of Mary Joyce, at his family's cabin in Hyacinthe Bay, Quadra Island.
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View of Granite Bay in winter, taken from the front door of the Twidle home

Written on back of photograph; "Granite Bay, B.C. Taken directly from front of our house. H.T."
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Paula and Frank Culbard, Read Island

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Paul and Roy Marlatt in a wooden rowboat

The Marlatt family homesteaded on Mary Island
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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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Members of the Anderson family on their boat the Quathiaski No. 10

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Float at Simoon Sound

The Dunsmiths and friends on the float at Simoon Sound. Tied up the float is the store, post office, and school.
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Group standing beside the Lighthouse at Cape Mudge, Quadra Island

This lighthouse was built in the 1920s.
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Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands

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Whaletown, Cortes Island

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Mrs. James A. Nixon in her bedroom at Twin Islands

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Emma Yeatman on front porch of her Quadra Island home

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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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