One of the Thulin Family operations was a dairy farm known as the Strathcona Dairy. Jack Phillips used to deliver the milk, collect the empty bottles, wash them, milk the cows, and fill the bottles. These had 'Strathcona Dairy' molded into the side of them.
An air base had been proposed at the Tyee Spit, and concerned citizens gathered at the Willows Hotel to discuss the project. At left in plaid shirt is pilot Bob Langdon; at centre facing camera is Roderick Haig-Brown.
Thulin family in car outside their home Thulin Court (later known as Richmond Court). From left: Mary, Lillie, Elin, Anna, Carl, Charles. This was the family's first car, a Ford.
Sam Quatell, born in 1912, was the grandson of Jim Quatell, owner of the largest big house on the Tyee Spit in the early 1940s. The Quatell big house was used to host the McKenna-McBride Commission when it visited Campbell River in 1914. Sam (Yalthklan) and his wife Amy had 19 children. He passed...
