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The series consists of correspondence and subject files generated by Gerald Smedley Andrews in the course of his personal, wartime, professional and volunteer activities in Victoria and other parts of British Columbia, and to a lesser extent, in other parts of Canada and overseas. The records date between about 1903 and 2013. The series consists of correspondence (letters, cards, telegrams and postcards and the wartime correspondence between G.S. and J.E. Andrews); research notes; lists; pamphlets and brochures; journal articles; newspaper articles and clippings; newsletters; minutes; financial reports; receipts; legal documents; tax assessments; membership cards; membership directories; nominal rolls; photographs and negatives; lists of slides; texts of speeches; questionnaires; memoranda; ; correspondence registers; annual reports; invitations; resumes; graphs; diagrams; calculations; manuals; invoices; programmes; a small watercolour painting, essays; draft manuscripts; expense claims; grant applications; job applications; by-laws, certificates and orders-of-service. The series includes some records bearing government stamps and file numbers from Andrews' files as Surveyor General and Director of Surveys and Mapping and other government positions. These include personal correspondence interspersed throughout the records, as well as one discrete file (container 953721-0002, folder 21) of selected correspondence, memoranda and confidential records. The records reflect Andrews' broad range of interests and activities. They are a rich source of historical, geographical and biographical information, particularly about British Columbia and British Columbians, about surveying and surveyors, and about aerial survey photography, mapping and photogrammetry. The records also reflect Andrews' involvement with the town of Atlin, British Columbia and its pioneer resident Thomas Frederick Harper Reed (for whom Andrews acted as executor and whose estate and cabin Andrews inherited). Andrews organized the records into files or envelopes by correspondent or subject, then filed alphabetically.

Series consists of one Provincial Police Court record book showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".

Records of the Official Administrator. Estate records handled by the Official Administrator in Atlin.

Probate/estate records maintained by the Official Administrator. There is an alpha series by name of deceased, 1911-1978 and pages from an oversized "Administration Act" cash book, 1945-1970 and "Administration Act" estates record book, 1945-1967.

The item is a composite print of a travelogue, made 1978-1979. It is a portrait of the historic gold rush town of Atlin in the northwestern corner of BC. Includes shots of abandoned mining sites and the old sternwheeler "Tarahne".

Out-takes. Selected outs from the film ATLIN. These outs are primarily shots of man-made structures and activities in Atlin and the surrounding area.

The fonds consists of William Bilsland's research notes, and a draft on the history of Atlin. Also included in this file is an unpublished, typescript draft (2 copies) of an earlier (1952) history of Revelstoke prepared by the author for publication by the Department of Education in the British Columbia Heritage Series and a copy of a his thesis called "A history of Revelstoke and the Big Bend." 1955.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews about the history of British Columbia's northwestern regions, including four interviews about the Portland Canal region (Alice Arm and Anyox), 1910-1950s, and one about the Atlin-Wrangell area, 1895-1915.

Series consists of one mechanics' liens register from the Atlin County Court between 1899 and 1969. Arranged alphabetically.

Series consists of one registrar's record book, with several loose pages from 1905. It includes cases heard in Chambers, naturalizations, appeals, minutes, etc.

Thomas Frederic Harper Reed (1878-1965) was a surveyor, Indian Agent and telegraph operator in Telegraph Creek, Atlin and Victoria.

Records include correspondence clippings and scrapbooks, regarding proposed construction of highways and railroads through Northern British Columbia to Alaska (box 1); personal papers and autobiographical material (box 2, file 1-7), ; British passport; legal papers; private correspondence (box 2, file 8-21); notes, notebooks (box 3, file 1-6) , miscellany (box 3, files 7-10), and annotated publications in boxes 3 and 4. Maps transferred to the Maps Division, listed in box 1, file 12, map call number L/602a/R324as.

Series consists of one cash book arranged chronologically with columns showing date, plaintiff, defendant, amount of claim, judgment, fees paid and remarks.