Announcing the Cortes Island Museum & Archives 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

• Manson's Hall, Saturday, May 6, 2023
• Doors open at 12:30 for new memberships, renewals, and raffle tickets sales
• Meeting starts at 1 p.m.
• Misty Isles raffle following the presentation

Following the brief AGM business meeting, we invite everyone to stay for a special presentation by historian and author Jeanette Taylor. Jeanette will share some of the amazing stories and images featured in her newly published book, Sheltering in the Backrush: A History of Twin Islands.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase ($24.95). Book signing by Jeanette will follow her presentation.

AGM documents (Agenda, Financial Statement, Annual Report, Minutes from the last AGM to be approved at the meeting) are available on our website www.cortesmuseum.com/annual-general-meeting.

Refreshments will be available. Everyone welcome!

Membership
Membership is required for voting.
If you have not yet renewed your membership, you can sign up:

• online – at our website www.cortesmuseum.ca
• in person – by visiting the Museum on Friday and Saturday, noon to 4 pm, or
• at the door, prior to the meeting.

Membership is by donation of time or money.

Misty Isles Cruise Raffle
Buy your ticket for a 2023 Misty Isles cruise raffle! In addition to the amazing Misty Isles Captain and crew, each of these historical trips features a Cortesian as your local guide. Get your tickets before the AGM to avoid the crowds by visiting the Museum on Friday and Saturday, from noon to 4 pm

Draw date – May 6, following the Cortes Island Museum’s AGM.
The winner can reserve one of these trips before May 15.

• Low Tide Cruise with George Sirk, July 13, from Cortes Bay, 9am–4pm
• Refuge Cove Cruise with Norm Gibbons & Lisa Weyler-Gibbons, July 27, from Cortes Bay, 10am–5pm
• Háthayim/Von Donop Inlet Cruise with Bruce Ellingsen, August 13, from Mansons Landing, 10am–5pm

One ticket is for $5 or three tickets for $10.
All proceeds go to Cortes Island Museum & Archives programs

A little bit about Jeanette Taylor…
Jeanette Taylor has four non-fiction books, currently in print, on the history of the British Columbia coast. A writing instructor and coach, Jeanette also regales passengers aboard historic cruises with coastal tales. She lives on Quadra Island, writing from her 120-year-old log house that overlooks orchards, gardens, fields and the sea.

About the new book...
Twin Islands is a small place with a big history and an intriguing cast of characters, from its earliest Indigenous residents; to an irascible, one-legged Scotsman; Irish nobleman whose murder was never solved; Americans fleeing their expat home in Japan on the cusp of WWII; German nobility; Queen Elizabeth and family; spies and espionage; and an heiress who saved the island from logging.

Jeanette Taylor pulled the islands' engrossing history together for current owner Mark Torrance and the resulting book has just been released this spring by Harbour Publishing. Jeanette will give us a slide presentation, sharing some choice selections of photographs gathered during her research to illustrate some highlights from the new book.

"Taylor's passion for history and ability to tease out a good story seamlessly carries the reader from past to present, making this book a delight to read." - Sandra Parrish, Executive Director of the Museum at Campbell River