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Wrapping Up “From the Archives”
— Valerie Wernet, Cortes Island Museum   The summer season is coming to a close,...
Peter Police
As someone who has always been fascinated by pioneer life, I have spent much of...
Mrs. Tooker’s Legacy
As I was born and raised on Cortes Island, I am familiar with the now-blue...
Twin Islands
Thank you, Jeanette! All of us at the Cortes Island Museum and Archives want to...
Murray Was Large For His Age – From Gloria Morrisette Family History
Gloria Morrisette née Clemantine Godkin (1908–2013) emigrated to Canada from Tacoma with her parents and siblings...
Fifty Years of Cortes Island Ferry Service
Fifty Years of Cortes Island Ferry Service Population figures on Cortes Island picked up after...
The Schools of Squirrel Cove – by Lynne Jordan
At the beginning of the 1900s, Squirrel Cove on the east side of Cortes Island...
The Rochester Steam Sterilizer
Significance: The copper-lined medical instrument sterilizer was used in the 1950s by Columbia Coast Mission...
Ninety Nine years ago … – by Mike Manson
It was some time before midnight with the moon high in the sky when a...