Diary of life in England (1901-1943); typescripts entitled "Parallel Lines," "Was Charles Dickens a Reformer?," and "Words and Their Glory;" notes on mid-Eastern sites; sketch maps of Baghdad; commission and certificate. Photographs in Visual Records accession 197901-14. Books in B.C. Archives Library and Dept. of Education Library.

Received from Crease and Company, Victoria, 1978.

Personal diary, September - December 1927, of a young school teacher teaching at Orange Valley school, a small rural school at Lejac, British Columbia on Fraser Lake. Includes 2 letters (3 sheets) from school trustee re construction of new school building. Photographs (18 plus 2 postcards) transferred to Visual Records accession.

Presented by the producer, Mrs. Mildred Haas, Courtenay, 1981.

The item is a copy of "Me and my family", reminiscences of childhood and adult life in Victoria, Vancouver and the Gulf Islands by Mildred Irene Seymour, a Sidney teacher. Mrs. Seymour narrates many of her experiences as a teacher (teaching degree in Music) at Fanny Bay, Gabriola Island, Chemainus and Vancouver, describes her work with choirs and recounts her vacation travels through British Columbia, Canada and the western United States.

Minute book, November 4, 1878 - August 4, 1880, of Royal City Temple number 4 of the Janisarries of Light, a benevolent organization in New Westminster whose founding members included J.K. Suter. Volume also contains the personal diary of Florence E. Dingle, November 18, 1948 - December 31, 1949.

Biographical material, correspondence, unpublished memoirs (1960) which give an account of Munro's life and include his experiences as a customs and revenue officer in Revelstoke, WW 1 Army officer in Russia and furrier and big game guide who, after 1929, was based in Vancouver until his retirement to Emerson, Manitoba in 1956. Photographs of Munro, big game and other subjects have been transferred to Visual Records accession, 98404-1.

Presented by Mr. Munro, Penticton, 1970.

The item consists of a photocopy of "My first seventy-five years (1891-1966)"; reminiscences of Henry Forbes Angus, concerning his family life, education in Canada and at Oxford, military service, 1914-1918, and career at University of British Columbia, 1919-1956. Dean Angus served on the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1937-1940, and the Public Utilities Commission, 1955-1965.

Presented by H.F. Angus, Vancouver, 1977.

The item is a photocopy of "My Life Story" by Belle Delia Watt of Calgary, a machine operator and real estate agent. It is an account of Watt's family and early days in Terrace, along with brief reminiscences of Port Essington and Prince Rupert.

Series consists of a typsecript of the diary, written from the author's sick-bed, chronicling daily activities of author's family and activities of Mennonite community in Winkler, Manitoba and Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Diary also contains commentary on European War and reflections on contemporary world politics; explanatory notes, poems, and additional reminiscences by author's kinsman, J.V. Neufeld, are included.

The file consists of a photocopied typescript of the reminiscences of Frank Boucher, written ca. 1973 and titled "No Englishman need apply." It details Boucher's emigration to Canada and move to Victoria, British Columbia. It goes on to his marriage and various jobs including time with the B.C. Electric Railway, a fish plant at Shingle Bay as well as farming, gardening and running a rooming house.

The Wilson family, Alexander and Mary, were early arrivals in Victoria. Alexander Wilson operated the A. and W. Wilson hardware store and was involved in establishment of Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital, First Presbyterian Church and the Victoria, Saanich and New Westminster Railway. John A. Heritage was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and served as an engineer on the Empress of India before joining the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service. He served on most Canadian Pacific Railway vessels and was chief engineer of the Princess Marguerite at the time of his retirement. Olive Heritage, the daughter of John and Mary Heritage, was born in Victoria on April 5, 1905. She attended the Vancouver Normal School and began teaching at North Saanich primary school. She subsequently received a BA from the University of British Columbia. She served as principal of a four-room school at Langley Prairie and later taught at North Ward School in Victoria before becoming principal of Girls' Central School in 1931. Girls' Central was amalgamated with Boys' Central and the senior classes of George Jay School in 1937 to become the first junior high school on Vancouver Island. Miss Heritage was appointed as vice-principal of the new institution and served in that capacity until 1962, when she was appointed principal. She was the first woman to be appointed as principal of a secondary school in British Columbia and she served in that position until her retirement in 1969. Miss Heritage did post-graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Washington. Contains records related to the Alexander and Mary Wilson and John and Olive Heritage families of Victoria, British Columbia. Records include: correspondence relating to Olive Heritage's career as an educator, including her appointment as the province's first woman secondary school principal; correspondence, children's books and notes from the arrival in Victoria of Alexander Wilson in 1865; papers relating to John Heritage's employment as an engineer with Canadian Pacific Steamships; and a diary kept by Mary Wilson of a voyage around Vancouver Island in 1879. Several of the letters Mary Heritage received upon her appointment and later, upon her retirement, refer to a perceived systematic exclusion of women from senior administrative positions in the education field in British Columbia.

Robert George Joy was born in Margate, Kent, England, in 1873. He came to Canada in 1892 staying first in Nepawa, Manitoba for a year and then moving on to Revelstoke where he booked steamboat passage to Robson. He found employment as a cook for a construction camp on the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway. He later ran a bakery in Rossland and Nelson, and next operated a grocery store in Nelson. In his later years he worked as a meter reader for the City of Nelson electric service. Joy's interest in the history of the Kootenays led him to write a regular column for the Nelson Daily News entitled "From an Old Timer's Notebook." He was also the historian for the Nelson and District Old Timers' Association and the unofficial historian of Nelson. R.G. Joy died in 1958.

The collection consists of correspondence, accounts, clippings and papers of individuals and associations connected with the development of the Kootenays collected by R.G. Joy. Printed materials have been deposited with the British Columbia Archives Library and the Legislative Library.

Pemberton family items owned by Mab Aherne Pemberton Harvey, niece of Sophie Pemberton. Collection includes (1) Miller, J.R. "Dr. Miller's Year Book" (New York: Thomas Crowell and Company, 1895) a book of daily scripture readings inscribed "Sophie T. Pemberton December 13, 1904, with annotations by Sophie Pemberton ca. 1906-1914 as well as notes referring to family events dating to 1871. (2) Pemberton, Joseph D., Dairy (1885) which contains references to business and family affairs. (3) [Pemberton, J.D.] register of conveyance of land to private individuals and churches in the Anglican Diocese of Columbia (Alberni, Comox, Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo and Victoria, 1858-1866).

"Memoirs". Genealogical account of the Burkitt family and reminiscences of author's boyhood in London, England; account of author's apprenticeship at Salvation Army's Hadleigh training farm and of his emigration to Vancouver Island in 1911. Reminiscences of his career as farmer, dairyman, and horticulturist at Westholme (1911-1914), Saltspring Island (1919-1949), and Sooke (1950s). MS includes account of Burkitt's tenure as director of Saltspring and Gulf Islands Agricultural Association (1921-ca. 1938) and work with Canadian Corps of Commissionaires in Victoria (ca. 1960-1977). Also, reminiscences of author's military service (1914-1918) first as member of 67th Battalion (Western Scots) and later as pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Xerox photos of author and family also included.

Series consists of a prospecting diary kept in Nevada and Alberta (1914-1916); diary of a trip eastward across the northern United States from Washington to Wisconsin, May to September 1933; one photograph showing Loreen Weberg and father at The Pas, Manitoba ready to start a trip by dog team to Chicago, 1933; receipts of A.D. Wooler.

This series contains ranger patrol diaries. The series includes the diaries of D. Wallace, whose ranger district was probably the Nicola valley and adjacent parts of the Railway Belt.

Four diaries and certificate of discharge, 1919.

Presented by the United Church, British Columbia Conference Archives, Vancouver, 1976.

Reminiscences of Haegert's boyhood in Victoria, ca. 1910-1916, and of his experiences aboard whaling supply ships. Also contemporary accounts of his travels around the world as a wireless operator aboard freighters and trans-oceanic passenger ships, and accounts of his wartime experience aboard supply ships and troopships. Mr. Haegert's oral reminiscences on audio cassette tapes and a transcript of the tapes, made ca. 1985, transferred to SMID, as was a 1998 videotaped interview with Mr. Haegert recorded for Veteran's Affairs Canada.

Reminiscences and diary. The author moved from Ontario to Alberta, where she taught school, then travelled through British Columbia, resided in Washington state, and taught in Saskatchewan.

Presented by Mrs.O.C. Douglas, Victoria, 1977.

The item consists of a photocopy of a typescript of reminiscences, 1923 to 1925, of George Barkley Barnes, a Lieutenant on the first crew of the mine sweeper HMCS Armentieres.

The file contains reminiscences of life and business activities in Comox, Nanaimo, Cape Mudge, and Cortes Island by Michael Manson, a merchant and politician.

The file consists of the reminiscences of Phil Kelly. He worked as a pipe fitter and engineer in various mills in B.C. and in Ottawa and Edmonton. He was at Woodfibre from 1915-1920, on the coast in the vicinity of Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet, and at Port Mellon. He was at Southbank from 1945 to 1948, at Honeymoon Bay from 1948 to 1954, and in Victoria at the Crowe Gonnason Mill from 1954 to 1958, and worked for the federal civil service in Ottawa and Edmonton before retiring.

The item is a photocopy of reminiscences concerning Bodington's boyhood in England, voyage to New York, and travels in Montana and Oregon (1884-1887). Reminiscences of Vancouver and of Bodington's career as farmer on Sea Island, in New Westminster, and in Vernon (1887-1906). Account of homesteading near Macklin, Saskatchewan (1907-1932) and author's later years in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1932-1935). Ms also concerns author's relationship with his father, Dr. George Fowler Bodington, Superintendent of British Columbia Insane Asylum (1893-1902).

Correspondence (1905-1909), lecture notes, accounts and newspaper clippings dealing with the British suffragette movement.

The file is called "The Far Land" and contains reminiscences of Deborah Eve MacLean's early life in Ontario and as a minister's wife in Hazelton, 1911-1914.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. This recording consists of readings from a the diary of a young girl in Oregon thought to be a descendant of the King of France.

This recording was previously identified as "part 2." Part 1 [see: T4303:0100] consists of poems for voices by the Nanaimo poet Kevin Roberts, based on the life of painter Paul Gaugin in Tahiti.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. This recording consists of poems for voices by the Nanaimo poet Kevin Roberts, based on the life of painter Paul Gaugin in Tahiti.

This recording was previously identified as "part 1." Part 2 [see: T4303:0078] consists of readings from a the diary of a young girl in Oregon thought to be a descendant of the King of France.

The file consists of a photocopy of "The Miner's Boy in the Lardeau Gold Rush" [reminiscences of life in the Lardeau, and in Stewart and Anyox] told by Fred Lade and written by Ina B. Rawson Lade.

The file consists of the reminiscences of Stewart Robert Forrest titled "The unicorn farm". Forrest emigrated from England to the United States in 1919, was in the real estate business in North Vancouver, served in the Canadian army on the Queen Charlotte Islands, and in the air force at Smithers during World War II, then practiced law in North Vancouver.