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Correspondence, birth certificates, school reports, newspaper clippings and historical sketches of John (1827-1906), Jessie, Christina and Margaret Irvine; scrapbook of transcribed poems of Christina Irvine; reminiscences of John (Jack "Long Gun") Irvine (1861-1948) and transcript.

Part 1 loaned to PABC for copying by Barbara Brown, Victoria.

Pemberton family items owned by Mab Aherne Pemberton Harvey, niece of Sophie Pemberton. Collection includes (1) Miller, J.R. "Dr. Miller's Year Book" (New York: Thomas Crowell and Company, 1895) a book of daily scripture readings inscribed "Sophie T. Pemberton December 13, 1904, with annotations by Sophie Pemberton ca. 1906-1914 as well as notes referring to family events dating to 1871. (2) Pemberton, Joseph D., Dairy (1885) which contains references to business and family affairs. (3) [Pemberton, J.D.] register of conveyance of land to private individuals and churches in the Anglican Diocese of Columbia (Alberni, Comox, Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo and Victoria, 1858-1866).

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.

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.

The series consists of a copy of Jeanie Lucinda's diary including an account of her marriage to Colony of British Columbia Governor Anthony Musgrave, in San Francisco in June and her return to the colony.

The series reflects the development and activities of the Vernon Preparatory School for boys and the lives of its proprietors, Augustine (1879-1965) and Hugh (1882-1971) Mackie.

The records include a list of pupils, a copy of the school register, sample pupil reports, an account book, clipping books, and miscellaneous notebooks. It also includes numerous notebooks filled with sermons and talks to the boys by Augustine Mackie. Some of the sermons were from his period as a priest in England prior to emigrating to Canada. School materials include complete runs of the Old Boys' News Letter (1951-1961) and the Chronicle of the Vernon Preparatory School (1918-1950). There is also considerable private material relating to Mackie family members, both those in Canada and in England. This includes correspondence, genealogical material, a marriage contract (1871), diaries, journals, scrapbooks and clipping books. Augustine was a devoted conservationist and fish and game enthusiast and there are copies of several articles written by him on the topic.

The file contains reminiscences of life and business activities in Comox, Nanaimo, Cape Mudge, and Cortes Island by Michael Manson, a merchant and politician.

Diary of John Forin, Belleville, Ont., 1897. Diaries of John Andrew Forin, 1882-1940; diplomas, appointments, personal documents, etc., 1875-1942; transcript of 1885 diary which describes service during Riel Rebellion copied from original at Queen's Own Rifles Museum in Calgary. Certificates, diplomas, etc., of Peter McLaren Forin, 1885-1914. John Forin, an architect, lived in Belleville, Ontario. His son, John Andrew Forin, was born in Belleville, Ontario on July 20, 1861. He went to high school in Belleville and then attended Albert University and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1885 and practiced law in Belleville until 1889. He was a member of the volunteer militia and served with the Queen's Own Rifles during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. He moved to British Columbia where he was admitted to the bar in 1890. From 1891 to 1895 he practiced law in New Westminster. In 1896, he was appointed County Court judge for the Kootenay/West Kootenay District. He served as a judge until 1928 when he retired from the bench. He then moved to Vancouver where he lived on Granville St. in a home known as "The Bunkers". He died on September 14, 1957. John Andrew Forin married Mary Dunn in 1896. Mary Dunn was born in Kincardine, Ontario and lived in Vancouver. She moved with her husband, first to Rossland, then to Nelson, BC, and finally to Vancouver. The couple had two sons and three daughters, Isabel, Jean, Mollie, Douglas and Peter. Mary Forin died in 1955. Peter McLaren Forin, brother of John Andrew, attended the University of Toronto. He graduated in 1891 and then clerked with John Andrew Forin in New Westminster. He was admitted to the bar in British Columbia in 1895. He was also active in the volunteer militia and served in several companies including: the 15th Battalion Argyle Light Infantry (1884-1885), Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (1886-1888), 5th Regiment Canadian Artillery (1896) and the 34th Battery C. F. A. (ca 1914). He returned to Ontario where he was entered on the Solicitors' Roll in 1908. He died on April 19, 1915. Records include diaries of John Andrew Forin, 1882-1940, diplomas, appointments, personal documents, etc. , 1875-1942, and a transcript of an 1885 diary which describes service during the Riel Rebellion. The original diary is included on microfilm [A00878]. There is one diary of John Forin 1897, John Andrew's father. Also includes certificates, diplomas, etc. , of Peter McLaren Forin, 1885-1914.

Minute book, November 4, 1878 - August 4, 1880, of Royal City Temple number 4 of the Janisarries of Light, a benevolent organization in New Westminster whose founding members included J.K. Suter. Volume also contains the personal diary of Florence E. Dingle, November 18, 1948 - December 31, 1949.

Diaries, documents and research notes concerning the family of Annie Margaret Angus, especially her father Major William James Anderson. Materials consist mostly of diaries (1885-1924) of Major Anderson, and his wife Laura, which cover his career in the British Army and the family's efforts in establishing a fruit orchard in the Kettle Valley/Rock Creek district of British Columbia. They also include papers regarding W.J. Anderson's military career, family history, Annie M. Angus' correspondence and research notes regarding here family's history, and her annotations and notes on her father's diaries. Also included are two family photograph albums which have been transferred to Visual Records.

Annie Margaret Angus was the eldest daughter of Major William James Anderson and his wife Laura. Born in Turkey, she was raised in Scotland and India before her family emigrated to the Rock Creek valley of British Columbia in 1909. There they worked at establishing a fruit ranch until her father's death in 1915 and the abandonment of the orchard for Vancouver in 1919. Annie Anderson attended the University of British Columbia from 1919-1923 and married Dr. Henry Angus in 1924. Following his retirement from the faculty of the University of B.C. in 1956, where he served as the dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Angus was appointed Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. Mrs. Angus was active in community affairs, serving as a member of the Vancouver School Board from 1952-1958, and on the Senate of the University of British Columbia from 1957 to the mid-1960s. She was also active in child welfare agencies in Vancouver and at the national level.

Major William James Anderson, 1860-1915, the father of Annie Margaret Angus, was the son of Colonel John Cumming Anderson of the Royal Engineers in India. As a young officer J.C. Anderson had been in charge of the defences of Lucknow during the Sepoy Mutiny. W.J. Anderson was also first cousin (on his father's side) to Alexander Caulfield Anderson, a chief factor with the Hudson's Bay Company in British Columbia. W.J. Anderson was raised in India and England and was commissioned in the British Army in 1882. He was posted in India, Crete and Turkey, where he served as a military consul from 1899 to 1903. In 1900 he married Laura Elsworth who was born in Wisconsin in 1870, and taught at an American missionary school for girls in Turkey where she and William Anderson met. With the rank of Major, William Anderson retired from the army in 1909. The family then emigrated to British Columbia to establish a fruit ranch in the Kettle Valley/Rock Creek district on land purchased from the "Kettle Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Company". In 1915 Major Anderson was recalled to active duty and was killed while serving at Gallipoli on October 19, 1915. Laura Anderson was forced to abandon the orchard in 1919 and to move to Vancouver.

". . . an account of my trip on the 'Vancouver Belle' on a sealing venture in the year 1891: diary of Stanley Henderson born in Kingston, Ontario, living most of his life in Vancouver", June 13 - July 25th, 1891.

Presented by Mrs. George Henley, Vancouver, 1957, per Admiral's Secretary, H.M.C. Dockyard, Esquimalt.

Robert George Joy was born in Margate, Kent, England, in 1873. He came to Canada in 1892 staying first in Nepawa, Manitoba for a year and then moving on to Revelstoke where he booked steamboat passage to Robson. He found employment as a cook for a construction camp on the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway. He later ran a bakery in Rossland and Nelson, and next operated a grocery store in Nelson. In his later years he worked as a meter reader for the City of Nelson electric service. Joy's interest in the history of the Kootenays led him to write a regular column for the Nelson Daily News entitled "From an Old Timer's Notebook." He was also the historian for the Nelson and District Old Timers' Association and the unofficial historian of Nelson. R.G. Joy died in 1958.

The collection consists of correspondence, accounts, clippings and papers of individuals and associations connected with the development of the Kootenays collected by R.G. Joy. Printed materials have been deposited with the British Columbia Archives Library and the Legislative Library.

Correspondence, including letters to and from Pelham Edgar and E.J. Pratt; diaries of life in Kirkfield, Ont. (1898-1902), High River, Alta. (1914), and Victoria, B.C. (1914-1946, intermittent); manuscripts of articles, short stories and poetry; papers re activities in the Victoria and Islands Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association and the Victoria Natural History Society. M. Eugenie Perry was born in Kirkfield, Ontario, in 1880 or 1881 (she was 77 at the time of her death in 1958). She lived with her family in Dauphin, Manitoba, Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, and High River, Alberta, before moving to Victoria in 1916. She continued to live in Victoria until her death. Miss Perry was a writer and poet who published articles, short stories and poems in British, American and Canadian magazines as well as several volumes of poetry and one of short stories. The collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1 to 5), papers collected in connection with Miss Perry's involvement with the Victoria and Island Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association and the Victoria Natural History Society (box 6), diaries (box 7), scrapbooks (box 8), notebooks and clippings of reviews (box 9), poetry, family papers, articles, plays, typescripts and manuscripts (boxes 10 to 15). The correspondence in and out has been arranged chronologically with the exception of correspondence with E.J. Pratt and Pelham Edgar which is filed under those writers names. Source: MS Finding Aids Finding aid: file list.

Series consists of an account of part of a journey from North Dakota to Atlin [translated from the original Finnish]. With a group of investors from North Dakota who had formed the Alaska Mercantile and Mining Co. in 1897, Tervo set out for the Klondike, travelling to Ashcroft by train and then north via Quesnel and Hazelton. The account ends a few days north of Hazelton.

Diary of life in England (1901-1943); typescripts entitled "Parallel Lines," "Was Charles Dickens a Reformer?," and "Words and Their Glory;" notes on mid-Eastern sites; sketch maps of Baghdad; commission and certificate. Photographs in Visual Records accession 197901-14. Books in B.C. Archives Library and Dept. of Education Library.

Received from Crease and Company, Victoria, 1978.

The file consists of a photocopy of "The Miner's Boy in the Lardeau Gold Rush" [reminiscences of life in the Lardeau, and in Stewart and Anyox] told by Fred Lade and written by Ina B. Rawson Lade.

Diary (1903-1923) of Aird Flavelle; correspondence of Guy Flavelle to his parents in 1920 during his trip by train from Ontario to Vancouver; letter (transcript) of Sir Joseph Flavelle, 18 Jan 1927; eulogy delivered at funeral of Aird Flavelle, 6 March 1973. Photographs transferred to Visual Records.

The Flavelle family were residents of Port Moody, BC.

The records consist of the diary (1903-1923) of Aird Flavelle; correspondence of Guy Flavelle to his parents in 1920 during his trip by train from Ontario to Vancouver; letter (transcript) of Sir Joseph Flavelle, 18 Jan 1927 and a eulogy delivered at funeral of Aird Flavelle, 6 March 1973.

Photographs transferred to Visual Records, accession 198201-78.

Related records in MS-0666, MS-0495, MS-0875 and 197810-5.

Diaries, February 28, 1904 - March 10, 1905, and August 11 - December 22, 1909. The diaries describe Gelsthorpe's journey from Malta to Esquimalt, where he was employed at Dockyard; his life there from April 19, 1904 to February 28, 1905; his return to England across the U.S.A.; a visit to Victoria from August 11 - August 15, 1909; and his return to England via the C.P.R. and ship.

Reminiscences and diary. The author moved from Ontario to Alberta, where she taught school, then travelled through British Columbia, resided in Washington state, and taught in Saskatchewan.

Presented by Mrs.O.C. Douglas, Victoria, 1977.

Correspondence (1905-1909), lecture notes, accounts and newspaper clippings dealing with the British suffragette movement.

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

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

Four diaries and certificate of discharge, 1919.

Presented by the United Church, British Columbia Conference Archives, Vancouver, 1976.

Series consists of literary and personal papers, including journals, scrapbooks and manuscript novels, plays, short stories, essays, poetry and screenplays.

Horticultural dictionary-cum-diary, 1912-1929; account book and work schedules pertaining to construction of Griffith's Victoria home "Fort Garry" [afterwards known as "Spencer Castle"], 1912-1914; garden plans and architectural drawings; newspaper clippings and genealogical notes concerning author.

Series consists of diaries of Alberta - British Columbia boundary surveys, 1916, 1917, 1919 and 1920 (also one entry for Aug. 29, 1913); transcript of diary kept by Arthur 0. Wheeler during the Alpine Club of Canada expedition to Jasper Park, Yellowhead Pass and Mt. Robson region, July to September 1911 (vol. 4).

The item consists of an essay by Leonard Humphreys in 1978 titled "A note on Port Haney and Webster's Corners, period 1912 to 1915." The essay contains a sketch map of the area and is illustrated with 13 photographs taken between 1913 and 1914, a handbill from the 1915 Maple Ridge annual exhibition and the customs declaration from a welfare parcel received by Leonard Humphreys in 1916 when he was at the Somme.

Series consists of a prospecting diary kept in Nevada and Alberta (1914-1916); diary of a trip eastward across the northern United States from Washington to Wisconsin, May to September 1933; one photograph showing Loreen Weberg and father at The Pas, Manitoba ready to start a trip by dog team to Chicago, 1933; receipts of A.D. Wooler.

This series contains ranger patrol diaries. The series includes the diaries of D. Wallace, whose ranger district was probably the Nicola valley and adjacent parts of the Railway Belt.

Series consists of a typsecript of the diary, written from the author's sick-bed, chronicling daily activities of author's family and activities of Mennonite community in Winkler, Manitoba and Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Diary also contains commentary on European War and reflections on contemporary world politics; explanatory notes, poems, and additional reminiscences by author's kinsman, J.V. Neufeld, are included.

The item consists of a photocopy of a typescript of reminiscences, 1923 to 1925, of George Barkley Barnes, a Lieutenant on the first crew of the mine sweeper HMCS Armentieres.