Letters to Edward Burdett Garrard, his wife, Eleanor (Watson) Garrard, and their three children, E.F.A. (Ted), Joyce (Garrard) Redford and Saville, 1904-1940, mainly from each other; two diaries kept by Eleanor Garrard, one in the Lake District, 1892, and one on a Journey to Europe, 1936, which included attendance at the dedication of the Vimy memorial; scrapbook kept by Walter Redford; correspondence, 1868-1890, of Dr. Alfred M. Watson; various certificates, memorabilia; short stories by Helen M. Hill, Port Alberni.

Diary of survey of west coast of Vancouver Island (1926), with transcript and elaboration by the author (1970); identification cards. Photos transferred to Visual Records. Pamphlets transferred to BC Archives Library.

Personal diaries of A.M. Hilton for years 1908, 1916-1921 and 1930.

Loaned for copying by Mrs. J.W. Henderson (daughter), Courtenay, 1977.

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.

"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.