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This item is a copy of an 1825 convention between Great Britain and Russia regarding the northwest coast of British North America.

This files includes death sentences for two Indigenous individuals accused of murder. The first document is dated 2 November 1860 for Hotch-k. The second is dated 2 December 1862 for Ja'ack, with a duplicate copy stating the execution was carried out on 6 January 1863. Both documents authorize High Sheriff Peter O'Reilly to carry out the executions and are approved by James Douglas, Governor of British Columbia.

SUMMARY: In an interview with Thomas Koch, two anonymous women discuss the unsolved murder of nursemaid Janet Smith in Vancouver in 1924. The murder left many unanswered questions, and these two women give their opinions on the matter and their conclusions about who committed the crime. Both women lived near the F.L. Baker residence in Shaughnessy Heights at the time of the murder.

On side 2 of the same reel is an interview with Martin Starret.

The item is a conditional pardon issued by the Governor General of Canada, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood in 1872. The pardon is in favour of Sabassa and Thraket, two Indigenous men convicted of piracy and attempted murder near Metlakatla, 1862.