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The item consists of a handwritten journal kept by James MacMillan and Archibald McDonald between 1827 and 1830. The journal describes the voyage from Fort Vancouver to the Fraser River and the establishment of Fort Langley

The item is a photocopy of an 1856 list of servants at Fort Langley. Some names have comments written next to them regarding their rate of pay or other particulars.

The item is a volume registering applications for mineral claims. The volume is arranged alphabetically by name of the mineral claim and by date and includes a description of the claim and the name of the applicant.

The series consists of a volume registering applications for mineral claims. It is arranged by the name of the mineral claim and by date and includes a description of the claim and the name of the applicant.

The item is a register book containing applications for crown grants. The volume is arranged alphabetically and includes the name of the person or company requesting the grant, the description and location of the lot, the date and the name of the person applying for the grant (either the requestor or someone acting on their behalf).

The item is a register book listing the sale of town lots in the Lytton district. Each entry lists the block, the lot, the price, the name of the purchaser and whether the land was forfeited or paid in full.

The item consists of a photograph of several dead bodies, partially covered by sheets. The men were killed in a mining accident in May 1887. Several other men are gathered around the bodies. The photograph is nearly identical to J-08001.

The item consists of a photograph of victims of a Nanaimo mine disaster in May 1887.

The item consists of a photograph of several dead bodies, partially covered by sheets. The men were killed in a mining accident in May 1887. Several other men are gathered around the bodies. The photograph is nearly identical to J-08002.

The item is a volume titled land office blotter. Blotters were used to record detailed trading activity. Only one page has been used. The page describes two financial transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first transaction relates to 200 pound sterling received from James Cooper, Master of the Hudson's Bay Company ship Columbia, as a deposit on a land purchase in September 1849.

The next relates to the trade of 535 blankets on the 6th of May, 1850. The blankets were paid to several Indigenous groups "for purchase of their lands as per details in Register of Land Purchases", also known as the Douglas Treaties. The names, transcribed directly from the blotter, are: Tee-chamitsa, Kosampsom, Swenghung, Chilcowitch, Whyomilth, Checonein, Kakyaakan, Chewhaytsun, and Soak.

This record was likely created by James Douglas, as it appears to be written in his handwriting [see Wilson Duff, "The Fort Victoria Treaties", BC Studies No. 3 (Fall 1969): 8].

Series consists of two items. One is a 1911 letter from Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Victoria businessman Li Bang Lim, regarding fund-raising for Nationalist China. The letter is written in Chinese. The second is a medal presented to Li Bang Lim by Hon. Li Hong Chong on the occasion of his visit to Victoria.

Item is a black and white photograph showing 62 BC Ministry of Forests staff including Deputy Minister Mike Apsey, Assistant Deputy Minister Ralpa Robbins, Chief Forester Bill Young, and others, likely in 1979. A numbered silhouette on the verso names each individual in the photograph.

This record is a plan of the cemetery at the New Westminster Mental Hospital. It lists the names of individuals, date of death and location of their burial plots with a corresponding diagram. Names were added to the list between 1920 and 1958. In 1950 the New Westminster Mental Hospital was renamed Woodlands School.

McKinlay to Elliott, [n.d.], re administration of Indian affairs in B. C., and commenting on the expropriation of land from Mr. O'Keefe at the head of Okanagan Lake, the pre-emption of Mr. Walker on the South Fork of the Thompson River, Indians between Yale and Spences Bridge, Indians at Williams Lake and the Chilcotin tribes.

Elliott to McKinlay, 18 Mar. 1878, informing McKinlay of dissolution of Indian Reserve Commission.

Copy of telegram, D. Mills, [Minister of the Interior] to Lt. Gov. of B. C., 15 Mar. 1878.

[McKinlay] to Elliott, Victoria, 8 March 1878, offering further remarks on Indian Reserves. [draft of letter found in GR 394, file 59, pp. 566-577].

Anderson to McKinlay, Osooyoos, 10 Nov. 1877, giving his assessment of the needs of Okanagan Indians and asking McKinlay for proposals on the part of Prov. Gov't.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., South end of Okanagan Lake, 27 Oct. 1877, enclosing two letters sent to Minister of the Interior on the subject of Indian Departmental organization in B. C. [enclosures missing.]

McKinlay to Sproat, Camp, Okanagan Lake, 28 Sep. 1877, re Sproat's concerns in his letter of 21 Sep. 1877.

Sproat to McKinlay, Head of Okanagan Lake, 21 Sep. 1877, discussing question of Commissioners' communicating with outsiders.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., Head of Okanagan Lake, 2 Sep. 1877, enclosing letter of 3 Aug. 1 [1877] from Minister of the Interior. [See pp. 22-29.] and discussing the question of Indian title to land.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., Head of Okanagan Lake, 28 Aug. 1877, enclosing letter sent to Minister of the Interior.

David Mills, Minister of the Interior, to Sproat, 3 Aug. 1877, re state of Indian affairs in B. C.

Copies of telegram received by Anderson and Sproat [from Secretarv of State], 23 Jul. 1877, and telegram sent to Secretary of State by Anderson and Sproat, 23 Jul. 1877.

Anderson and Sproat to Secretary of State, Kamloops, '27 July 1877, re Indian situation in the interior of the province. [copy ]

Anderson and Sproat to Lieutenant Governor, Kamloops, 27 July 1877, enclosing copy of letter to the Secretary of State for Canada. [See pp. 18-20.]

Anderson and Sproat to the Minister of the Interior, Kamloops 13 July 1877, re gravity of Indian situation. [Copy of telegram]