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The things that keep Cortes Island Museum going

“I feel that the museum should reflect the community.  It helps to strengthen our identity and strengthen our sense of not only ourselves,  but what we can do for one another,” said Melanie Boyle, Managing Director of the Cortes Island Museum and Archives.

One of the  mottos of the museum is ‘Reflect, Celebrate, Imagine.’  

Boyle explained, “I’d like to think of it as reflect on the past, imagine the future and celebrate what we have today.”

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Managing director transition at Cortes Museum

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

After four years of running the Cortes Island Museum and Archives as managing director, Jane Newman is currently training her successor, Melanie Boyle.

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Cortes Island stores celebrate Canada Day

CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Cortes Island stores celebrated Canada Day, but not because of the nation’s Confederation 154 years ago. 

British Columbia began step three of its restart plan. Face masks are no longer mandatory. People can gather in larger numbers and go to restaurants.

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History, Rivers & Oceans

Paul Kirmmse remembers Cortes Island in 1971

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Born in New York, he chose Canada. Another two years passed before he arrived on a remote island off the West Coast. Paul Kirmmse remembers Cortes Island in 1971.

“I originally came here in January of ’71, looking for land. A guy gave me a job for the summer, beginning in April, serving coffee to the fishers and the loggers. There was a little cafe just above Mansons Lagoon, across from what used to be the Barton store – which I understand is now the Cortes Island Museum. It was dragged up the road and put in place to become the museum,” he says.  

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