Footage. Painting of St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, ca. 1950s - circular shot of Victoria from roof, sign "J.T. Devlin & Co., General Painting Contractors" superimposed on view of St. Ann's. Beacon Hill Park - flowers and ducks. California trip including Sacramento, Donner Pass, ca. 1953 (theatre sign for "Shane", which was released that year), Oregon, picnic scenes, truck with sign "Ed Widmer/Vancouver, B.C." Moscow City Limits. Sign "entering Creston" (shows main street); Kootenay Flats (sign "last reclamation in 1952"; classroom, girls doing copper work, boys doing industrial arts? (building model planes); playing field scenes; road sign "International View Point" Oroville/Osoyoos; Anarchist Mountain; truck with water bags; orchard; family eating meal outside; brief fishing/coast scene.

The item is a typescript titled "The history of Lucius S. Edelblute, his life and adventurez in calaforn[i]a & return and brit[is]h columbia and alazka and muntana...", written by Edelblute about his adventures between 1849 and 1873.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfilm by Albert Bertrand Elasser titled "The archaeology of the north coast of California." ii, 304 leaves: fig., illus., maps. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of California (Berkeley), 1965. Bibliography: leaves 251-279. University Microfilms, 65-13475.

The item is a microfilm copy of a thesis by Ralph Edward Shaffer titled "Radicalism in California, 1869-1929." x, 400 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of California, 1962. Bibliography: leaves 392-400. University Microfilms, 63-6045.

The item is a promotional film promoting post-secondary technical training, focusing on the programs offered by "National Schools," a technical training facility in Los Angeles. Includes sequences on radio and television broadcasting, possibly filmed at Cinematone Studios in Los Angeles.

The item is a video showing Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell, recorded in concert September 1979 at the County Bowl in Santa Barbara, California.

The item consists of a travelogue on four film reels. It shows an automobile trip to California and back, beginning at Port Angeles and ending in Victoria. The film is believed to have been made by an unidentified Victoria citizen.

The item consists of a video copy of R.F.H. Reed's ca.1932 amateur film showing a rum-running expedition from Victoria to "Rum Row" off the California coast. The video depicts details of the run made by the ship M.V. "Malahat". The tender M.V. "Hickey" is shown transferring cases of liquor to American vessels and avoiding US Navy cutters. At San Martin Island, Mexico, the "Hickey" puts in for repairs. The film was shot by Richard Francis Heurtley Reed while he was serving as an engineer on the rum-running vessel M.V. "Hickey".

The item is a reel of promotional film containing highlights of the 1939 world exposition in San Francisco.

The item is a print of a promotional film from ca. 1965. Newton Phillips Steacy, Commissioner at BC House in San Francisco, California, is shown around and about the city promoting British Columbia.

Steacy proposed a promotional film about the work of the Commissioner and British Columbia House in San Francisco. He was to write the script, and some black & white footage was shot. The film was never completed. This reel (a copy?) has been supplemented with miscellaneous colour footage from various BC productions, to provide opening and closing titles.

The item is a reel of film footage. Newton Phillips Steacy, Commissioner of BC House in San Francisco, California, is shown around and about the city promoting British Columbia. Steacy had proposed a promotional film about the work of the Commissioner and British Columbia House in San Francisco. He was to write the script, and some black & white footage was shot, but the film was never completed.

The series consists of 24 microfilm reels, acquired by Freeman Tovell in the course of his research. The reels contain copies of documents concerning Spanish exploration, settlement, and missionary work from San Blas in Mexico to Alaska.

One reel [A01773] duplicates records in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, 1595-1818, including journals of Francisco Antonio Mourelle, 1779, and Jose Maria Narvaez, 1788.

The other 23 reels [A01774-A001795] are copies of microfilm made by the Bancroft Library of records in the Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico City, 1773-1818. They include documents relating to settlements in California and Nootka Sound, and explorations by Juan Perez, Estevan Martinez, Bodega y Quadra, Ignacio Arteaga y Bazan, Manuel Quimper, Francisco de Eliza, Jacinto Caamano, and others. While a great many of these records concern the port of San Blas and what is now California, this material is also significant for the large number of documents concerning the exploration of the coast of British Columbia and the Spanish settlement at Nootka.

Series consists of some family memorabilia, and records relating to the career of J.M. Robinson as a school teacher, MLA and newspaper proprietor (Brandon Times and the Portage La Prairie Printing and Publishing Co.) in Manitoba. Several notebooks and a diary relate to his interest in prospecting in B.C. (area between Rossland and Okanagan) and to his interest in spiritualism, including its use in prospecting.

The bulk of the series consists of minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records relating to Robinson's various development companies: Okanagan Securities, Canadian Irrigated Orchards, Okanagan Realty, Naramata Supply Co., Hotel Naramata, Hotel Summerland and Crescent Beach Co.

The series also contains letters inward to the Headmistress of Naramata School for Girls, 1942-1946 and photographs of school activities, Visual Records accession 198504-16. Microfilm (neg.) 1879, 1897, 1929-1931 35 mm 6 reels [A01438-A01443] John Moore Robinson (1855-1934) moved to the Okanagan in 1898 and acquired and developed property at Peachland, Summerland and Naramata. He also had a career as a school teacher, MLA and newspaper proprietor (Brandon Times and the Portage La Prairie Printing and Publishing Company) in Manitoba. He had an interest in prospecting in British Columbia (area between Rossland and Okanagan) and spiritualism, including its use in prospecting. His business interests included the Summerland Trust Company, incorporated in 1907. The company name changed to Okanagan Trust Company Limited, on September 12, 1911, and finally to Okanagan Securities Limited on August 28, 1915. He was also involved with the Naramata Development Company (incorporated in 1907) which became Canadian Irrigated Orchards Limited in October 5, 1926. The bulk of the records consist of minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records relating to Robinson's companies: Okanagan Securities, Canadian Irrigated Orchards, Okanagan Realty, Naramata Supply Company, Hotel Naramata, Hotel Summerland and Crescent Beach Company. There are several notebooks and a diary related to prospecting and spiritualism. Also included is some family memorabilia and letters inward to the Headmistress of Naramata School for Girls, 1942-1946. Maps transferred to Map accession 19419.

Letters from Thomas McWatters to his father and sisters near Prescott, Ontario, written from New York and San Francisco and from Cameronton, where he worked as a miner. Photograph transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-9.

Purchased from C.M. Boyer, Kelowna, 1976.

Diary of his travels through the interior of British Columbia, and from Victoria to Oregon and California.

Presented by Jean E. Burchell, North Vancouver, 1946.

Letters, 1901, 1903-1904, written to his mother and sister in Duncan, from California, Arizona, Texas, the St. Louis Worlds Fair, Toronto and Winnipeg; diary, 1904, of work in Arizona, and trip to St. Louis and across Canada to Duncan. Prevost worked as a mine labourer, and on a dredge in San Pedro.