Michael Manson’s grandfather came from the Shetland Islands and founded Sunny Brae Farm in the late 1880s. Mike told me the Cortes Island Story, as experienced by one of the first settler families. The Farmer Gene Mike explained, “I think I probably became a farmer in about 1964. My uncle Jack had a bunch of … Continue reading The Manson Family: One of Cortes Island’s First Settler Families