Chief Billy Assu of Cape Mudge

Photograph appears to have been taken at some sort of a presentation.
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Quathiaski Canning Company fishermen brailing salmon

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Captain and Mrs. James A. Nixon of Twin Islands

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Rob and Frank Yeatman having a snow ball fight, Quadra Island

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Katie Walker with her first dog

Katie Walker at age 25 with her first dog.
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Believe to be the Lansall family home in Chameleon Harbour

August married Zaida Lansall in 1922. The Lansall family homesteaded at Cameleon Harbour, Sonora Island.
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Angus Kerr hauling in his gillnet while fishing in Toba Inlet

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Yeatman brothers with their rifles at Sunny Side Farm, Quadra Island

Frank and Rob Yeatman at rifle practice, Sunnyside Farm.
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Joyce Family at Haying Time

Anna Joyce on the far right with hay rake.
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Agnes Twidle in her garden, Granite Bay

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Group gathered at Camp Homewood on Quadra Island, May 1955

Gathering held to mark Reverend J. Walker's 90th birthday. Written on back of photograph: "Dad's 90th". Back row from left: Ethel Stecens, unknown, unknown, Dewey Vaughan, unknown. Second row from left: Joy (Walker) Huntley, unknown, unknown, Katie (Walker) Clarke, Mrs. Walker...
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Crowning the May Day Queen at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island

From left: Jean Richards of Cape Mudge, Violet Ralph of Quathiaski Cove, and Rosalind Law of Heriot Bay.
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Union Steamship, Cheakamus, at Heriot Bay

The S.S. Cheakamus at the Heriot Bay wharf, 1914.
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View looking down the wharf at Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island

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Homathko Canyon

Site of a Schnarr trapline in the 1920s and 30s. Three iron pins are visible (circled in pen) from Waddington’s trail.
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Members of the Forrest family at Shoal Bay

Clockwise from left: Ann "Tottie" holding Ann, James Forrest, and Ann Barber "Grannie" Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island. James and Ann Forrest were early settlers at Shoal Bay, Thurlow Island.
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The second Heriot Bay Hotel, Quadra Island

The second Heriot Bay Hotel, was built by Hosea Bull, This building burned shortly after completion. It opened December 27, 1911 and burned May 11, 1912. A replacement was built shortly thereafter.
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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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Beach in front of Cape Mudge Lighthouse and Fog Station, Quadra Island

The Lighthouse station was established in 1898. Cape Mudge Beacon was built in 1915.
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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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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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Rob and Dot Yeatman in the garden, Quadra Island

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Bridesmaids at Hardwicke Island

Two of the Hansen sisters in their bridesmaid dresses at Hardwicke Island, Edith (at left, later married into Bendickson family) and Lilly (right, married into the Randal family).
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Pearl Schnarr with pet cougar, Girlie

Photograph taken near the Schnarr homestead at Owen Bay, Sonora Island.
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View of glacier at the head of Bute Inlet

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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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