Cortes Island History

Dalias – Heritage Garden
Dalias – Living History — The Heritage Garden at the Cortes Island Museum The Heritage...
Orcas in Von Donop Lagoon, ca. 1949 – by Lynne Jordan
Like a number of families in the 1940s, the Herrewigs were a logging family living...
Peony – Heritage Garden
Peony – Living History – The Heritage Garden at the Cortes Island Museum Early summer...
Refuge Cove: Moving with the Tide
Our new exhibit Refuge Cove: Moving with the Tide celebrated its opening on June 24th,...
Nature Notes – by George Sirk
Hi to everyone who is interested in the arrivals of different species to our area....
A Song Inside a Seed
Dancing Wolf A Song Inside a Seed Spring tickles our island ground despite Winter’s late embrace...
The Biggest Moon of All – by Christian Gronau
(All photographs are the author’s unless indicated otherwise.) We all have seen and marvelled: Lewis’...
Beverly Anne Mathews
On the morning of February 4th, Beverly Anne Mathews (nee Horrex) 86, peacefully passed away...
Mary Weiler’s Cortes
GLIMPSES OF OLD FRIENDS & AN ERA GONE BY–Mary Weiler, artist & photographer, documented life...