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The file contains a set of four diazo prints of floor and electrical plans created by Wells Electrical Designs in Victoria in 1983 for renovations to the Victoria General Hospital located between Fairfield Road and Humboldt Street. The file consists of three floor and electrical plans of the first floor (Plan E1), third floor (Plan E4) and fourth floor (Plan E5) of the hospital's B, C and D wings. It also includes a plan of power riser and code loads for the B, C and X wings of the hospital (Plan E6). Plans E1, E4 and E5 also include key plans.

The file consists of one journal documenting daily deliveries for M.R. Smith & Co. between January 8, 1863 and June 30, 1864. Deliveries are predominantly to naval ships in Esquimalt and entries include the name of the ship or customer and the quantity of loaves of bread or other baked goods being delivered.

The file also consists of one-page letter to William Smith in Bedfordshire England from his son, Philip R. Smith, in Douglas, B.C., dated April 1860.

The file consists of several typed pages and an excerpt of a handwritten letter by J.T. Walbran to an unknown correspondent with the initials WPQ. The letter indicates that "before leaving the Quadra, Mr. Keefer asked [Walbran] to give...a short account of the early history of Victoria, Nanaimo [and] Vancouver to embody in a report of his on the seaports of this coast which he has been asked to prepare by his Department at Ottawa."

The file consists of a civil case file from the British Columbia Supreme Court (Victoria). It is numbered A 374/55. The action was James Audain vs Robin James Dunsmuir re: damages for slander of plaintiff's book "From Coalmine to Castle". The file includes a transcript.

The file consists of records that were found in collection at the BC Archives. They were located in November 2021 in a box of miscellaneous court records. The majority of these records had been pulled from files in GR-1304 (Victoria Supreme Court probate files) during the microfilming of those records in the 1980s. While the majority of the records in that box were reunited with their original files, the records in this file remain loose. Archives staff cannot be sure that they were all pulled from GR-1304 and they may belong to records in another series.

The file consists of 3 leather pocket books and several small scraps of paper. The file includes a receipt dated 1864 between an Edward Finch (?) and a P. Uhart (?).a receipt dated June 21 1864 at Victoria for payment between Peter McQuade and the Schooner North Star (master William McCulloch), a receipt dated at Victoria June 11, 1864 between Samuel Smith and Peter McQuade, a receipt dated at Kamloops July 31, 1873 mentioning an Alexander Smith, Joseph Bushie, and Edward [Chund?], a reciept dated at New Westminster February 4 [no date] regarding Sir Patrick Killey and William Farson (?), and a receipt written in French on 13 February 1865 between a Rene Sazet and a Pierre (?) Bonaparte. There is also a receipt dated November 2 1892 that mentions the estate of Morris Moss, as well as an M. Manson and an Alex McLean. The file also consists of material pulled out of GR-1304 file 1726 (Thomas Smith, d. 1892). These items are marked in the file but include an empty leather pocketbook, a copy of a poem entitled "When the Rye Come Hame," a receipt dated at Victoria on December 31, 1861 and a letter written by a James Smith in Charlotteville, January 2 1885. These records do not appear to relate to the Thomas Smith file and were removed in the 1980s.

Of the two remaining pocketbooks, one contains a Pacific Diary for the Year 1872 published in San Francisco. The diary itself is blank. The other notebooks is in very fragile condition and has various notes that have been crossed out. These include notes on Metlakakklah (sic), Fort Simpson, Skeena, Wrangel, Victoria. It also includes various assorted other notes.

Ledger.

Milk company tickets and receipt. Bread company tickets.

Presented by Don Lewis, Victoria, 1975.

"Beautiful British Columbia's birthplace": a history of James Bay community.

Presented by Mrs. L. Iverson, Historical Committee, James Bay New Horizons, 1975.

Invitation to a luncheon commemorating Victoria's 100th birthday.

Petition of the City of Victoria to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia requesting legislation to authorize alteration of the "City of Victoria Official Map Act 1880."

The file consists of one letter from Catherine Penrice in England (1866) enquiring about friends in Victoria. It also contains 12 pages of poetry of a religious nature written or transcribed by Mrs. Blinkhorn (1840).

The file consists of a receipt and invoices from 1877.

The file consists of correspondence inward (2 letters) pertaining to Francis Grattan's appointment to the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and to the guest appearance of G. Huntley Green with the orchestra; music programmes of the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and photocopies of photographs and newspaper clippings.

Clippings, performance announcements, and photocopies of photographs pertaining to the musical career of Eva Hart. Original photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-28.

Presented by Mr. Gillan, London, England 1978.

Charter.

Presented by Kenneth Miller, Sidney, 1979.

The file consists of newsletters, course information and forms from Central Junior Secondary School, Victoria, 1977-1978.

The file contains calling cards of Victoria residents.

Daily journals (6 vol) 1913-1918 chronicling the Point Ellice's service as a steam dredge tender for the Dept. of Public Works.

The file consists of copies of essays by Martin Adolphus Kroeger. "My Memories" and "My voyage to South America on the MS 'Caliche', July 1929." Mr. Kroeger emigrated with his family from England to Edson, Alberta, in 1911 and subsequently lived in California and Victoria (where he was involved with the motion picture business), Vancouver, and South Africa, before returning to Victoria in 1965.