The series consists of two duplicate cash book for the Douglas collectorate, created by the Treasury between 1861 and 1866. Volume 1: January 1861 to March 1862. Volume 2: January 1862 to March 1866.

The collectorate was managed by the Stipendiary Magistrate (which also also acted as Government Agent) for the Douglas District. In 1866 the Douglas District was merged into the New Westminster District.

This series consists of various financial records created by the Lytton Government Agent and related government employees from 1858-1900. The records include account books, cash books, records of licences, lists of lots, receipts, a list of prisoners and charge book for the Lytton gaol, road tolls collected at Lytton, a store ledger, waste books and collectorate books. Collectorate books record the collection of various fees by the government agent. Such as trade licences, liquor licences, marriage licences, pre-emption records, water records, mining records, fines, deposits and rent. There are also handwritten notes and invoices created by the Government Agent for the Hope-Yale-Lytton District.

These records relate to McKay's career as a chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company including correspondence, a journal, notes regarding ceremonies and traditional beliefs of Indigenous people of BC, and his recollections as Chief Trader.

This series consists of one volume of a Colony of British Columbia Supreme Court of Civil Justice record book of cases heard at Yale, Lytton, Lillooet, Quesnel Forks, Antler Creek, Beaver Lake, Hope, Douglas, and New Westminster, from 1861-1863.

This series contains miscellaneous memoranda from the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works relating to New Westminster streets and bridges, lands pre-empted, sold and leased, bills for drafting supplies, lists of tools at Douglas, B.C., and list of books ordered by the Chief Commissioner.

This series consists of land records from the Colony of British Columbia Lands and Works Department, 1858-1863. Most records are related to the sale of town lots at Langley, 1858-1859, and New Westminster, 1860-1862, including records of exchanges of lots at Langley for lots at New Westminster. The series also include various other land records related to New Westminster, Douglas, Hope, Yale, Lytton and Lillooet, including pre-emptions, lot registers, accounts for sales of town and suburban lots, and lists of deeds issued.

Port Douglas: a case study of decline. 87 p., appendices. Thesis (M.A.), Birbeck College, University of London, 1985. Bibliography: p. 81-85.

Presented by the author, Hove, England, 1985.