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10:15 talks : Canon Alan Greene : [talk no. 2]

SUMMARY: One of nine original tapes from a series of talks for the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks". The programs, also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", feature Canon Alan Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson on the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s. TRACK 2: Original tape #2 (recorded 1963-11-14). This second talk consists of stories about people Greene met during the mis;sion's early days, as follows: (1) Oscar Soderman and his wife Sadie Soderman; (2) two women who quarreled but later became friends; ( 3) two men, George and Patty, on Redonda Island; and (4) Mr. Harwood and Mr. Black of Cortes Island.

10:15 talks : Canon Alan Greene : [talk no. 6]

SUMMARY: One of nine original tapes from a series of talks for the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks". The programs, also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", feature Canon Alan Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson in the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s. TRACK 2: Original tape #6. This sixth talk consists of: (1) a story called "A Gentleman Adventurer", about an Italian man's mail-order-type marriage on Cortes Island; (2) a story about a misunderstanding in a ship to shore conversation; and (3) "A Treasury of Synonyms and Antonyms" which is a collection of amusing puns.

Allan Robertson interview

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Allan Robertson describes his family history leading up to their arrival on Cortes Island between 1889 and 1905. He describes his education with John Manson's family; how eggs were the ;main industry; the first settlers of Cortes from 1870 to 1890; Whaletown; Mansons Landing; the growth of Cortes, including the fluctuations and flow of settlers from 1908 to 1920; the climate on the island; more on the development of Cortes; a description of John and Mike Manson; and Allan describes his early life, supporting his family and beginning to log. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson describes his ;mother as a midwife; and the hospitals of Powell River and Vancouver and Campbell River. He then describes the conditions; clothes; steamship travel; and drinking in logging camps. He then discusses; the Columbia Coast Mission and ministers Alan Greene and John Antle.

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson talks about logging: horse logging; skid roads; steam donkey logging between 1905 and 1910; judging and preparing logs for riding skid roads; getting logs into the water; Gilchrist Jack; hand logging; the employment of oxen and horses; more on steam donkeys; log booms; the use of tow boats; the type of person a logger back then was; cork boots and typical logging clothes. ;TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson continues with more on logging: food in the logging camps; the Union Steamships; logging jargon; origin of "haywire"; different axes; more logging terms; his first job at a log;ging camp in 1911; his early years on Cortes Island and his introduction to logging; the authority of a camp foreman; wages; risks taken and compared to present; and an anecdote about drinking.

CALL NUMBER: T0963:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson discusses growing up on Cortes Island; beginning his career as a logger at the age of thirteen; his experience enlisting in WWI; and his various occupations between the World Wars, including his work for the Crown Zellerbach Company. Mr. Robertson then recalls the history of the pulp and paper industry through the history of the Crown Zellerbach, including the reason for t;he odor produced by pulp mills; and he describes the process of paper making. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson continues with more on the paper making process: the effects of waste on the environment; and reforestation. Then Mr. Robertson discusses commercial and sport salmon fishing; the origins of the name Cortes Island; more on growing up there including a description of the area; canneries on Blind Channel; his own education; and a comparison between kids yesterday and today.

Amy and R. McKenzie interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kenzie: Moved to B.C. 1930. Went fishing at Stuart Island; then to Cortes Island and Malaspina Inlet. To Seaford on Cortes in 1937. Cooperative logging; first logging truck on Cortes. Vondona Creek, 1939-1956. Average of 5-7 men at camp. Schooling and teachers; school closed 1952. School at Mansons Landing. Community spirit; building roads. Stuart Island fishing. Mrs. McKenzie: Came to Cortes 1916 via Union Steamship. Grandparents were at Seaford. The school there; teacher, students. Moved to Squirrel Cove. Teachers. Went cooking in logging camp at age 18; met husband, who logged with her father. Her aunt, Mrs. Ed Wiley, had only hotel on Read Island. Grandparent came to Read Island in early 1800s. [?] Father was logger from horse logging to trucks. Logging camp at Redonda Bay. Entertainment; orchestras, dances. Her family came from South Africa, 1907. Moved to Campbell River, 1970. Her daughter. [TRACK 2: blank?]

Consciousness west

SUMMARY: "Ideas" is a CBC Radio series that presents in-depth talks and discussions on a range of historical and contemporary subjects. The series evolved from an FM program entitled "The Best Ideas You'll Hea;r Tonight" that was first broadcast in the fall of 1965, in response to an interest in adult education. This episode consists of interviews and sounds from and about the "Human Growth Movement", recor;ded at the Cold Mountain Institute on Cortes Island. People go there to change their life patterns, through an intensive, life-changing therapy.;

Diaries

Diaries, 1903 and 1905; log of his yacht "Toketie," 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931-1940; diaries of summer cruises, 1933, 1934-1936, 1938-1940, 1941; archaeological catalogue. Mr. Barrow emigrated to Canada at the turn of the century, and looked for land in the Kootenays and lived on the Gulf Islands (initially on Brethour Island) before settling near Sidney. He and his wife spent many summers cruising the coast and his diaries contain notes on people they met, Indian villages, pictographs, petroglyphs, and many photographs. A selection of the photographs has been copied by Historic Photographs.

Barrow, Francis, 1876-1944

Duncan Robertson interview

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Duncan Robertson comments on the people who live on Cortes Island today. Then he tells a story about an islander named August Schnaar, before discussing taxes and management of the island. He then discusses his own refusal to be tied to a clock, working in a logging camp, the price structure of timber, big business versus the little man, and logging 'arches'. TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts;on continues his talk about logging arches and then discusses the early years of his life in Vancouver and on Cortes, more on logging, characters including John Manson and Ellingston Jacks and his brother Gilchrist Jacks, an account of a 1966 flood, climate in the area of Bute Inlet, and general subsistence on the island.

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson continues with anecdotes about eccentric settlers: and an Italian settler and an ice skating party, an onion crop, wolves, university men, and a story about a man and a yacht. ; Then he discusses the lure of the island for settlers, the peak period for settlers from 1912 to 1914, changes since WWII, Ed Dolby stories. and Shoal Bay is described. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson offer;s anecdotes from August Schnaar concerning: kidnapping the Kaiser, a Luger pistol, raccoons, and wolves. Then he recalls growing up on the island including hunting, swimming, fishing and chores. Then he recalls his working life including work on the railroad and sounds of the woods.

Elmer and May Ellingsen interview

CALL NUMBER: T0967:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Elmer Ellingsen begins with anecdotes about a "flying log" at a logging camp, and salmon fishing. Then he discusses in great detail the many incidents surrounding the community dances [on Cortes Island?] in the 1930s including the music; loggers and liquor; and changes on the island. TRACK 2: May Ellingsen recalls her early life on Hernando Island; then later; Cortes Island, including details about the Union Steamship service. Then Elmer recalls his first experience on Cortes Island in 1935; and describes the floating homes and logging camps.;

CALL NUMBER: T0967:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: May discusses the pronunciation of the name "Cortes"; and the grapevine telephone service. Then she discusses the 1946 shipwreck of "Gulfstream"; and the development of hydro power for the island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

George Griffen interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-04-18 SUMMARY: George Griffen, who came to Cortes island in 1920, discusses the island's history, its settlers and inhabitants. Those discussed include the Lambert, Jeffery, Norris, Paulson and PIckles families, and Mike and John Manson.

Henry Taylor interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Henry Taylor discusses how his life was influenced by the "decentralist movement" and a book called "Climate Makes the Man" which in turn influenced his decision to move to the northwest; from Washington; D.C. Then discusses his experiences in Europe in the late 1930s before discussing his involvement in an Antarctic expedition with Admiral Byrd in 1946 and his arrival in Vancouver in 1947. TRACK 2: Mr. Taylor comments on modern civilization; his arrival on Cortes Island in 1950; more on the decentralist movement; comments on west-coast people and life.

Herbert Joyce interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joyce recalls his family's early settlement and farming life on Quadra Island. His father; Alfred Joyce; settled in 1888. Mr. Joyce describes local communities and interesting characters including Shoal Bay; Heriot Bay; Cortes Island; Lund; John "Daddy" Bryant; and Granite Bay. He recalls mining; logging; fishing on Quadra; conscription; schooling; and Mitlenatch Island. [TRACK 2:; blank.]

Levi Wildgrube interview

CALL NUMBER: T0778:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wildgrube recounts his family's early life and experiences at Lund, Cortes Island and Read Island. He talks about lumber camps; Don Messer; fiddlers and dancing; entertainment; the first phonograph; his father's musical career and performances in Vancouver; his father's logging career; speaking in Chinook; the family homestead at Enderby Hill; Surrey and the journey to the homestead;. TRACK 2: Mr. Wildgrube continues with the journey to the homestead from New Westminster; settling in at the homestead; other residents; anecdotes about John Oliver; the community of Brownsville; Colonel Morgan.

CALL NUMBER: T0778:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wildgrube continues with recollections about Colonel Morgan; Strawberry Hill; Brownsville; South Westminster; Johnny Wise and his hotels; the Cline family; local incidents; logging experiences. TRACK 2: Mr. Wildgrube recalls incidents about Fred Clark; logging and mills; Green Timbers; Pat Davoy; BC Electric; bridges.

Lower Coast : south from Port Hardy

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of B.C.'s Lower Coast, including parts of the South Coast and Lower Mainland regions (and several coastal islands), from the 1890s to the 1950s, including some material up to 1968.

Mary and Otto Weiler interview

CALL NUMBER: T0968:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Otto Weiler, who is a justice of the peace, discusses the connections between the outside world and Cortes Island including mail boats, planes and roads. Then he discusses his reasons for coming to Cortes; his impressions upon arrival; fishing in the area; oyster and salal gathering; timber salvage; the community spirit of the islanders; social life, including a New Years' dance; an;d adventures of living on Cortes, including a discussion of the helpfulness of the people. TRACK 2: Mr. Weiler continues by discussing the friendliness of Cortes people; the self-governing type of l;aw and order on the Island; activity among the islanders; and media on Cortes. Then Mary Weiler recalls her work as a nurse with the Columbia Coast Mission and then later at a clinic; Christmas celeb;rations; religion on the Island; and pros and cons of living on the island.;

CALL NUMBER: T0968:0002 SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this tape.]

Meg Shaw interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Meg Shaw recalls her family's arrival in Vancouver in the 1890s, and the eventual move to Burnside, later known as Whaletown, on Cortes Island. She then discusses her father, David Robertson, and her mother; their reasons for moving to Cortes; transportation on the island; leaving the island and coming back in 1947; living on the island, including what life was like; a description o;f traveling aboard a Union Steamship; and miscellaneous comments concerning everyday life and community spirit. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Mike Gark interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1917; moved to the Sayward valley in 1919; blew whistles for his father in the logging camp at Sayward when he was twelve; moved to Helmcken Island around 1920;/21; in 1932 at the age of fifteen, his parents moved to Vancouver, but he went to a logging camp at Palmer Bay working for Parker and Palmer; describes Palmer's camp and the bunkhouse; laundry facilities in the early logging camps; food in the camps; wages and job conditions; entertainment; black man by the name of Mitchell, played the violin; Otto Petersen's family; Cliff Palmer's family; story about the cook winning the BC Electric sweepstake; logging equipment and methods; steam donkeys; topping trees; Gilford Island; accident while rigging a tree; topped trees on Cortes Island for Oscar Neemy; jumping spar trees; using hand fiddles; camp at Neemy's; fallers and their wages; the Depression; worked for Billy DeMills and Curly Miller at Miner's Bay on Thurlow Island; bought a fishing boat in 1936; Billygoat Hansen's daughter; boat sinking at Stuart Island wharf; John Oswald of Herriot Bay; Matt Gerard at the Stuart Bay store; Billy DeMills. TRACK 2: Beaver Cove, father and sons formed company; worked for Sidney Soderman; trapping at Bute, Southgate River; Angus Schnarr homestead at Bute; Merle Hadley; Call Inlet, own logging camp; sold to Bill Campbell; moved to Campbell River in 1958; working as a faller; gypo loggers; in 1957, 95% of the gypos disappeared; poker games and Union boats in the early '40s; Ma Scott ran a logging camp; Angus Schnarr and his daughters all did hand logging in Bute; Jack houses ashore; Jack Shabler; boring boomsticks.

Mrs. George Francis interview

CALL NUMBER: T1833:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in London, Ontario; father was working with the Grand Trunk; came to Saskatoon in 1904; travel by train; homesteading in Saskatchewan; parents came to the coast in 1913; met husband on the prairies; Americans coming to Canada; maiden name Flanigan; husband was a commercial traveler; train fares and other prices; show people and minstrels; house in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver; the Depression; sons worked at the ball park; Redonda Island; opening of Mallard's cannery at Redonda; the Olmstead family at Redonda; school; teachers; Mrs. Ballentyne, a teacher at Redonda; resort at Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island; Savary Island was a popular summer place; Pat, Robert and Dunc Robertson; Union Steamships; teacher's pay and conditions of the school at Redonda Island; the Hanson family and the Rongron family; Indians allowed in the school; Christmas concerts and other entertainment; Mr. Jerody bought the sawmill; earthquake at Redonda Island in 1946. TRACK 2: Came to Campbell River in 1918, Mr. Francis worked as a bookkeeper for the Thulin's; logging camps; the Peterson and Fitzgerald families in Campbell River; the other settlement across the river, the Perkins, MacDonalds and Vanstones; Elm School; came from the Peace River area; the Thulin's had the only store; supplies brought in by boat; Thulin's had a boat for towing and bringing supplies in, the boat was cut in half by an American yacht; means of travel, taxi service between Campbell River and Courtenay; Frank Lalond owns cars; Union boats arrived regularly; mail service; wages; entertainment; Thulin dance hall 'Lilelana'; DeBow bought the hotel and then sold it; moved from Campbell River to Vancouver for the boys' schooling; moved from Vancouver to Lake Cowichan; MacDonald-Murphy Logging Co. originated in Campbell River; Mr. Francis went there as a bookkeeper for them; hiring, wages and conditions of teachers; Campbell River and the dam and mill being built; Quadra had its own store and cannery. CALL NUMBER: T1833:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Redonda Bay sawmill owned by Olmstead and description of her home at the camp; the store at Redonda and contents; sternwheeler boat engine used for steam; water wheel to power lights; comparison of their store to modern stores; Olmstead made a trip every month to Vancouver on his sixty foot boat named the "Rowno"; never saw any wild animals in the wilderness; very little hunting or fishing done by the people in the camp; vegetable garden at Redonda and discussion of Union boats coming to Redonda; traveling on steam ships, conditions and crowding on the boats; had a window fall on her; aboard a Union boat; many fake accidents were claimed aboard the boats; comparisons of Christmas then and now; philosophy of life; entertainment now pretty much the same as before; feelings on getting older; her childhood, her mother's discipline and chores; thoughts on youth today and the youth of her day. [TRACK 2: blank?]

People in landscape : Cortes Island people

SUMMARY: In this program, some of the people who grew up on Cortes Island recall how the settlement began, and discuss the quality of life there -- as it is today, and as it used to be. Voices heard include: Otto and Mary Weiler, Elmer and May Ellingsen, Rose (Manson) MacKay, Allan Robertson, and Duncan Robertson.

Plane journey from Campbell River : North Island II

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This airplane journey includes the sounds of an Island Airlines flight (by floatplane) out of Campbell River at the spit; traveling to the [change in tape speed] islands east of Campbell River. Imbert Orchard describes the scenery viewed from the plane and freight stops along the way, including Gorge Harbour and Mansons Landing, both on Cortes Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Rose MacKay and George Griffen interview : [Ackroyd & Einarson, 1976]

CALL NUMBER: T1822:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sheep on Mitlenatch Island; mother from the Shetland Isles; how her father (George Manson) came to Cortes Island; Mr. Hughes of Comox and the mouse that drowned in milk; Cape Mudge and the Euclataw Indians trying to do battle; Michael Manson; dealing with belligerent Smelt Bay Indians; story of "Old Sick George"; birthdates of the Manson children; more on Mitlenatch and the sheep; Michael Manson buys Hernando Island; Canadian Navy wanted Mitlenatch for target practice in WWII; living on Mitlenatch; trips to Bute Inlet; John Manson's job as caretaker of timber claims; first school on Cortes Island --children brought from Knight Inlet to make up enough students; how the Manson wool was sold; story of father buying his first horse; the Sniders from Lund; Robertsons, Tieburs, Hagues, Hawkins, the canoe in the local museum; the school and Miss Bonas; Union Bay; taffy pulling; special occasions (Christmas, birthdays); music, religion, education; John Antle of the Columbia Coast Mission. Rose went to Vancouver in 1920 to work in telegraph office, then to St. Paul's for nurses training; religion and tough times; the 1920 tornado; Mr. Forrest the socialist. TRACK 2: CALL NUMBER: T1822:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Pepper, teacher in 1912; the sinking of the SS "Cheslakee" and Miss Pepper's tragic death; twin islands and Dan McDonald and his relations with Indians, and other stories; road building in 1909; H.H.C. Nixon, the minister, and his credentials, life and times; he bought the McDonald place; his jaw was shot off; his invention for cooking rock cod; his second son James A.; his first wife died; he joined the navy and later remarried; the St. Dennis family and their arrival by rowboat; how Bernard's wife Dorothy had Rose trick him into moving to Vancouver while Rose was in training at St. Paul's hospital in 1921; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen; the "Titanic"; Heriot Bay storekeeper; cougars and Cougar Smith; Ervin McKay, father of Etta Byers; Mrs. Hanson; Douglas Forrest, Herbert Morrison; discussion of picnic photo; Marjory Nichols wedding in 1922; Petznick, O'Donnell, Elsie Morrison; Murray, Mrs. Jefferies; Betty Hayes; Etta and Haysee; the Campbell soup kids; Heaveners; Dorothy Macaulay who bought the Nixon's place; Alan Greene; 'Bud" the mentally deficient lad she cared for; do's and don'ts of loading hay; Bert Frowde, his life and times; Bess Ashby; teacher and gardener Miss Lettice; Veronica Teiber, Mabel Hawkins, Wilena Smith, daughter of Mrs. Piper and half sister of Mrs. Armstrong of Quadra Island; Etta and Hazel's mother; Mrs. Ken Hanson; Mrs. Gwen Campbell, youngest daughter of Mike Hanson's family; Alice Marquette. TRACK 2: The strange tale of Polish logger Harry B. Sandwik, and his demise; various photos briefly described; the Petznicks, and the story of the betrothal and arrival of Bernadette; John Manson; Joe O'Donnell -- his life, death and times. CALL NUMBER: T1822:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussing the merits of George Griffin tape on the history of Cortes; why William Manson changed his name to Wm. J. Manson and the relationship of Skeen Willy; how Rose was taught not to be a sissy; troubles on Cortes with wolves and dogs; how Mr. Tieber came to change his name; the two Smith families; Marion Smith and the other family, Bob and Him; the Aldritch story; they were both doctors; onion poultices; Dada Hawkins; Uncle Lawrence's two uses of the fire insurance policy; Chief Assu; Mike Manson's strange arrival in San Francisco; Henry and Rose arrive in Campbell River in April 1948; Major Matthews' visit; Tom Leask and Uncle Mike lead the posse and apprehend a law breaker; memory of a visit in 1917 to Uncle Willy at the Nanaimo town site. TRACK 2: Mary Wyler; the Nixons; Professor David R. Levity; Michael Herriwigs mother; Robina, Wilfred; Ethel, Hazel in 1900; the children of Michael and Jane Manson; Henry's diary; 1906, Mike moves back to Cortez Island from Union; Bay and the story of Shep and how he rescued Flo and Floss, the children from his first marriage, from certain death; Mr. Mountain, a Cortez Island resident and college pal of composer Jean Sibelius; his visit to Jack Manson's casket wood pile and his remark about his dead wife, "She's got to go down before she can go up."; the Paulsen's arrival, their life and times and his plans for a park; they built the house on Cold Mountain; Mrs. Nakasuey, his life and times; Japanese baby care; his English lessons from Mrs. Petznick; Harry Daniels. CALL NUMBER: T1822:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Griffin describes the early whaling operations at Whaletown in 1867; Reef or Sutil Point area; Smelt Bay; Rose describes the smelt at their beach and recipes for their use; Griffin mentions the Conlin family and Rose corrects his impressions and mentions the Pagets, the Bursons and Mrs. Tell; Mrs. Burson's, a.k.a. Mrs. Conlin, children, Michael, Parnell Phillip; and Patrick; their lives and times; the story of the mysterious gurgling suitcase; hardtack and syrup; Hartley and Mamie Cullon, their children, Carroll, Hartley and Mamie; the story of Carol's birth and medicinal moss. [TRACK 2: blank?]; CALL NUMBER: T1822:0005 - 0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for these two tapes.]

Rose MacKay interview : [Orchard, 1968]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rose McKay describes her family (the Manson family) coming to Vancouver and then settling on Cortes Island in 1875. She recalls how the Mansons acquired Mitlenatch Island, and describes the island and its wildlife and vegetation. She discusses the raising of sheep on Mitlenatch Island, and how the island got its name. She continues by describing her family's trading post on Cortes Island, her family, and other early settlers. TRACK 2: Mrs. McKay discusses the Manson family settlement on Cortes Island. An anecdote about raccoons. Life on Cortes Island. Her father John Manson, and his ability to look after himself. Her uncle Michael Manson, who was an MLA. Her father's death in 1957, and details about his funeral.

Ruth Byers interview

RECORDED: Courtenay (B.C.), 1976-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mrs. Ruth Byers recalls aspects life of life on Cortes Island, where she lived from until about 1965. She came there with her husband and children from Langley Prairie in 1916. She also discusses Read Island and the earthquake there.

Sayward Land District land register

  • GR-2636
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  • 1882-1915

This series consists of a Sayward Land District land register for lots 1-843 on Vancouver Island. This register is a summary of pertinent land information from 1882-1915. The register lists lots in numerical order, and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, lease number, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. Hernando Island and Cortez Island each have their own pages. No index is available.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

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