Nellie Jeffery Collection of First Nation Artifacts
This collection of First Nation artifacts was donated to the Museum in 2008. It is housed in a hand-crafted cabinet built by Walter Grundmann specifically to display the collection. Nellie Jeffery lived her whole life on Cortes – mostly in Smelt Bay. Nellie found the first of the artifacts while digging the basement of her home in the 1930s. This awakened her lifelong passion for finding and collecting local First Nation artifacts.
We respectfully acknowledge the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin) and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations upon whose territories the programs and activities of the Cortes Island Museum & Archives take place.
Main Gallery
Mid-June to September 30
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm
(Closed Mondays)
October 1 to mid-June
Friday and Saturday, noon to 4 pm
Wild Cortes
Mid-June to September 15
Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 4 pm
(Closed Sundays and Mondays)
September 15 to mid-June
Friday and Saturday, noon to 4 pm
Main Gallery
Located in “downtown” Manson’s Landing, one block up Beasley Road next to the No. 1 Firehall.
Box 422, 957 Beasley Road
Mansons Landing BC V0P 1K0
250-935-6340
Wild Cortes
Cortes Island Museum’s Natural History Centre is located at Linnaea Education Centre, website ~ wildcortes.ca
1255 Seaford Road
Mansons Landing BC V0P 1K0
250-935-6340 wildcortes@cortesmuseum.com
Maps and some brochures are always available on the covered porch at the Museum.
More detailed trail maps, brochures, local information, suggestions and directions are available during Museum open hours.
Online information about Cortes Island is available at
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