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File consists of textual records including licenses to sell liquor, free miners certificates, receipts for goods purchased, telegraph messages, Royal Engineers discharge papers, a will, correspondence, a list of persons entitled to vote in electoral district of Cariboo, and other records created between 1863 and 1885. They are generally related to the Cariboo region, especially Richfield, Barkerville, Quesnel, William Creek, and Yale.

The file consists of 21 film reels of unedited footage shot by filmmakers working under an Opportunities For Youth (OFY) grant to document archaeological projects all over British Columbia. These 21 reels record archaeological excavation work during the summer of 1972, in the following areas: F1992:07/010-013: Williams Lake/Riske Creek -- camp scenes, botanical collecting, area scenery, and work at site(s). F1992:07/014-016: Kamloops -- North Kamloops flood scenes, OFY survey team, crew moving camp, OFY camp and activities, excavation site and flooding. More flood scenes, clearing river debris, etc. Labelling and recording artifacts in lab. Kamloops Museum: interview with curator; kids on school tour. F1992:07/017-018: Musqueam -- Salish Park Development, gravehouse, excavation in pit, artifacts, cataloguing, school tour at site, etc. F1992:07/019-022: Libby I -- Travelling to site, area scenery, surveying, digging, camp scenes. F1992:07/023-027: Libby II -- Tipi construction, surveying, areas flooded (by dam construction?), digging and screening, artifacts, travelling by track and canoe, etc. F1992:07/028: Williams Lake/Deep Creek. F1992:07/29-30: Unidentified.

The consists of a letter written by Thomas Robert Mitchell to his parents in 1862, outlining journey to and from the Cariboo gold fields. File includes a typescript copy which was made in 1993 by R.C. Harris. Also a map has been added.

The diary documents the journey of miner John Waddell (1818-1870) to Vancouver Island in 1862 in search of gold during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Also included are notes on his journey to San Francisco in early 1862 aboard the California steamer Northern Light. The diary also describes his dealings with George A. Walkem, third Premier of British Columbia.

The transcript, completed by the donor in May 2017, includes and introduction and notes relevant to the diary's content.

Records of business conducted; accounts of merchandise sold, 1866-1868 (liquor, sardines, cigars, matches), accounts of the Full Rigged Co. including payroll, amount of gold mined and bills paid, 1867-1927.

Some Aspects of Society in Cariboo from its discovery until 1871. viii, 182 leaves: maps, tables. Essay, University of British Columbia, 1932. Bibliography: leaves 174-182.

Account book (unidentified) kept at Williams Creek 17 April - 11 August 1865. Initials W.A.M. on cover (possibly William Andrew Meacham, who was a lumber merchant of Williams Creek at the time).

The file consists of a record book with the title "Statement of accounts" [sic] Barker Co. registered on the front. It has the name stamp of E.L. Kepner on the inside cover. The book runs from 1875 to 1884 and consists of cash account information.

Wages, March to May, 1865; store account book [1874?]-1879

The file consists of a cash day book entitled "receipts, bank drafts W.H. Boyd." It contains daily entries from 1894 to 1896 as well as a promissary note from 1897.

The file consists of a small accounts ledger created in the Quesnel area between 1873 and 1881.

The file consists of a letterpress book from 1900 to 1902 which documents outgoing correspondence of Hofercamp and Johnson.

The file consists of a ledger covering the period 1905 to 1908. It contains cash accounts of Quesnel area individuals.

The file consists of an unidentified ledger from a business in Quesnel that covers the period 1867. It is indexed and gives details of various account including wages, freight and cash. Preprinted forms in the back of the book indicate that the business received goods from the goods steamers Enterprise and Victoria.

The file consists of an account book kept between 1875 and 1876 by James Reid, a Quesnel merchant. The book is arranged by daily accounts and includes the names of individuals and businesses, their account numbers and amounts charged or paid.

The file consists of a ledger account book for the Cornish Co. in Richfield. A name plate for E.L. Kepner is on the inside front cover. The ledger includes various account information for the period 1870 to 1897.

Account book (indexed) of an unidentified Cariboo firm.

Accounts book, Barkerville and Stanley, 1876-1880, with inventory dated February 7, 1880.

Record book showing daily sales, together with income from associated store at Stanley.

The file consists of an unidentified account book (possibly Quesnelle Quartz Mining Co.) from 1879 to 1890. The book contains accounts of Quesnel area individuals and businesses.

The file contains copies of John Tait's recollections of life in the Cariboo district in chapter form, some of them published as newspaper articles.

The item is a photocopy of the reminiscences of Ernest Hubert Allcock. Allcock emigrated from England to Alberta in 1909 and worked on farms and on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1914 he homesteaded near White's Landing, north of Quesnel. He was highway foreman in Quesnel, and from 1941 to 1952 in Lillooet.

The file contains "Adventures of a farm girl in Canada in 1925", by Joan Simpson, with a forward by her god-daughter, June Knowles. It consists of four reminiscences about life on a cattle ranch and in a fruit growing area of British Columbia by a young English woman who spent a year or two in British Columbia in the early 1930s. Although both personal and geographical names have been changed, the ranch on which Miss Simpson worked was undoubtedly the Church Ranch at Big Creek in the Chilcotin district.

The file contains a copy of reminiscences by Annie Elizabeth Greenfield, of a motor trip made in the summer of 1927 from Vancouver to Hazelton via the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Highway, and of the return journey made via Kamloops, the Okanagan, and Washington state.

Bar account book, July - August 1863 listing patrons names and costs of drinks purchased by date.

The file consists of reminiscences entitled "A Tale of Northern B.C. from Cariboo to Cassiar" by Martha Boss, a telegrapher at Trail