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The Manson Family: One of Cortes Island’s First Settler Families

May 9, 2025 Roy L Hales 6 Comments

Originally published on April 27, 2017

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.

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