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

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 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.

The item is a typescript by Edwin G. Lucas titled "In the footsteps of an Irish immigrant," containing an account of his life from childhood in Ireland. The Lucas family emigrated to Victoria, B.C. in 1913. Lucas worked as a laborer on PGE construction crews, and as an accountant for Clayoquot Sound Canning Co. at Kennedy Falls. He later worked for the Royal Bank of Canada in Victoria, Port Alberni, Hazelton, Vancouver and Coalmont.

The item is a typescript copy of the reminiscences of Archibald Stewart Kerr titled "Lumberjack, 1912-1972". Mr. Kerr emigrated with his family from England to Northern Alberta in 1912 and began to work in the woods in 1920; he settled in B.C. in 1925 and worked in various logging camps on Vancouver Island, he was a forester with B.C. Pulp and Paper, Port Alice, Moore Whittington, Victoria, and the B.C. Electric Railway; from 1953-1972 he was in private practice as a consulting forester.

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.

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.

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 consists of an essay by Leonard Humphreys in 1978 titled "A note on Port Haney and Webster's Corners, period 1912 to 1915." The essay contains a sketch map of the area and is illustrated with 13 photographs taken between 1913 and 1914, a handbill from the 1915 Maple Ridge annual exhibition and the customs declaration from a welfare parcel received by Leonard Humphreys in 1916 when he was at the Somme.

Manuscript biography of Geoffrey Murray Downton comprising Part I, birth to 1915 (author's narrative interposed with lengthy extracts from his diaries and letters); and Part III, reminiscences by Downton of period, 1918-1960. Essay describing Downton's life in Lillooet.

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 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.

The file consists of photocopied information including a biography, 1980, of Eleanor Armour Jamieson Postill, early Okanagan Valley settler and mother of Mary Barnes; and reminiscences about Elizabeth Jamieson, grandmother of Mary Barnes, entitled "The lady of New Westminster's first Presbyterian manse".

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.

RECORDED: Abbotsford (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: Mr. Nightscales was an English seafarer. He tells stories about his friends and escapades all over the world.;

Epistolary essay from Percy Witherby to Lionel Curtis, 1943- 1944; typescript entitled "Features of my Life and Views", Parts 1-3, including description of his experiences in British Columbia, 1910-1911, and ca. 1939-1945.

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.

Diaries, documents and research notes concerning the family of Annie Margaret Angus, especially her father Major William James Anderson. Materials consist mostly of diaries (1885-1924) of Major Anderson, and his wife Laura, which cover his career in the British Army and the family's efforts in establishing a fruit orchard in the Kettle Valley/Rock Creek district of British Columbia. They also include papers regarding W.J. Anderson's military career, family history, Annie M. Angus' correspondence and research notes regarding here family's history, and her annotations and notes on her father's diaries. Also included are two family photograph albums which have been transferred to Visual Records.

Annie Margaret Angus was the eldest daughter of Major William James Anderson and his wife Laura. Born in Turkey, she was raised in Scotland and India before her family emigrated to the Rock Creek valley of British Columbia in 1909. There they worked at establishing a fruit ranch until her father's death in 1915 and the abandonment of the orchard for Vancouver in 1919. Annie Anderson attended the University of British Columbia from 1919-1923 and married Dr. Henry Angus in 1924. Following his retirement from the faculty of the University of B.C. in 1956, where he served as the dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Angus was appointed Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. Mrs. Angus was active in community affairs, serving as a member of the Vancouver School Board from 1952-1958, and on the Senate of the University of British Columbia from 1957 to the mid-1960s. She was also active in child welfare agencies in Vancouver and at the national level.

Major William James Anderson, 1860-1915, the father of Annie Margaret Angus, was the son of Colonel John Cumming Anderson of the Royal Engineers in India. As a young officer J.C. Anderson had been in charge of the defences of Lucknow during the Sepoy Mutiny. W.J. Anderson was also first cousin (on his father's side) to Alexander Caulfield Anderson, a chief factor with the Hudson's Bay Company in British Columbia. W.J. Anderson was raised in India and England and was commissioned in the British Army in 1882. He was posted in India, Crete and Turkey, where he served as a military consul from 1899 to 1903. In 1900 he married Laura Elsworth who was born in Wisconsin in 1870, and taught at an American missionary school for girls in Turkey where she and William Anderson met. With the rank of Major, William Anderson retired from the army in 1909. The family then emigrated to British Columbia to establish a fruit ranch in the Kettle Valley/Rock Creek district on land purchased from the "Kettle Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Company". In 1915 Major Anderson was recalled to active duty and was killed while serving at Gallipoli on October 19, 1915. Laura Anderson was forced to abandon the orchard in 1919 and to move to Vancouver.

Diary of George Alfred Bradt Jackson, September 1927 - January 1929, recording life at Long Beach and work as telegraph lineman; guest book kept by his daughter, Gertrude Jackson, 1928-1935. Photograph of G.A.B. Jackson inside front cover.

Presented by Mr. Jackson's daughter, Miss Gertrude Jackson, Victoria, 1980.

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.

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.

Series consists of an account of part of a journey from North Dakota to Atlin [translated from the original Finnish]. With a group of investors from North Dakota who had formed the Alaska Mercantile and Mining Co. in 1897, Tervo set out for the Klondike, travelling to Ashcroft by train and then north via Quesnel and Hazelton. The account ends a few days north of Hazelton.

Series consists of literary and personal papers, including journals, scrapbooks and manuscript novels, plays, short stories, essays, poetry and screenplays.

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.

Four diaries and certificate of discharge, 1919.

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

". . . an account of my trip on the 'Vancouver Belle' on a sealing venture in the year 1891: diary of Stanley Henderson born in Kingston, Ontario, living most of his life in Vancouver", June 13 - July 25th, 1891.

Presented by Mrs. George Henley, Vancouver, 1957, per Admiral's Secretary, H.M.C. Dockyard, Esquimalt.

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.