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Correspondence inward, 1914, 1925; certificates for art instruction, 1883, 1893; Island Arts Club catalogues, 1910, 1911; newspaper clipping book. Maps, photographs, paintings, and books have been deposited with the appropriate units in the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (now B.C. Archives). Also includes one oversized certificate of membership from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, March 1921.

Documentary. One of three or four films produced or sponsored by Home Oil Distributors with the cooperation of the Provincial Archives, this film probably traced the history of B.C. through photographs, maps and other archival materials. The title is an allusion to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", in which the land of "Brobdingnag" is located on the northwest coast of North America (i.e., B.C.). The surviving fragments of the film include shots of an early edition of Gulliver's Travels, of various early maps, and of Nanaimo Harbour, Douglas and Yates Streets in Victoria, and the title and subtitle.

The fonds consists of correspondence, certificates, photographs and paintings of William Middleton. The photographs consist of images of family members, postcards and views of Victoria and British Columbia, views of England, and of a trip to India. The fonds also includes some out-takes or fragments of the film "Out of the Land of Lilliput", a historical documentary produced by Home Oil Distributors Ltd. in 1935.