Gathering at Alfred Joyce's, Quadra Island

Left to right: Anna Joyce, Lussier (?), Grace Yeatman, Emma Yeatman, Dot Yeatman, Vivian, Helen Joyce, teacher, Joe Bigold, Chappie the dog, and Arthur Joyce. Remaining three unidentified.
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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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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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Group on board the Quathiaski No. 10

From left: Frank Yeatman, Helen Joyce, Jorpis Berg, Grandpa Yeatman, Mrs. John Berg, and Ethel Joyce.
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View of the Cape Mudge lighthouse in the winter

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View of Quathiaski Cove, 1964

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Interior of Schnarr house, early 1920’s Bute Inlet

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Group of early Quadra Island residents on board a boat in Quathiaski Cove

L to R: Frank Yeatman, Helen Joyce, child Jorpis Berg, Grandma Yeatman, Mrs John Berg, Ethel Joyce
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Portrait of W.E. Anderson

W. E. Anderson owned and operated the Quathiaski Canning Company, Quadra Island.
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Quathiaski No. 10 coming in to dock with a load of passengers

The Quathiaski No. 10 was the Anderson family's personal launch.
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View of either the Homathko or the Southgate River

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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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A bobcat hunted by August Schnarr in Bute Inlet

This bobcat was probably hunted by August Schnarr on his trapline in the Bute Inlet area.
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The Barrows launch "Toketie" at Twin Island

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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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Welcome Figures, 1947

Welcome figures at Cape Mudge village, 1947.
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Gillnetter's catch at dock at Stuart Island

In the background is the store. This photograph was taken at The Landing, Stuart Island.
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Members of the Manson family visiting at Twin Islands

Back from left: Jack Manson, Manson's Mother, Captain and Mrs. Nixon, Bert Froud. Front from left: Anna Maria Bruce Wingate Manson, Nicol Manson, and Rose Manson.
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August and Zaida Schnarr's daughters at their homestead

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Agnes Twidle on deck of a boat with friends

Agnes Twidle second from right. She and her husband Henry were early Granite Bay settlers.
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Roy Marlatt's house on Mary Island

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Schnarr’s rabbit cages, Bute Inlet 1920’s

August Schnarr earned a living as a trapper and presumably these rabbits were raised for their pelts.
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Early Stuart Island settlers

From left: Sara Madsen, Margaret Parrish, Gerd Holm, Bertha Meuhle, and Bill Meuhle.
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Interior of the Marlatt home on Mary Island

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A day's catch on the floor of the Quathiaski Cannery at Quadra Island

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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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