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The fonds consists of records of the Victoria Office of the British Columbia Electric Railway created between 1861 and 1967 and includes financial records, correspondence, photographs, maps and films.

Fonds includes financial records of the Victoria Gas Company (1861-1904), the Victoria Illuminating Company (1887-1890), and the National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company (1889-1944) as well as business records of the Vancouver Island Power Company (1910-1944). It also includes an engineer's report on relay protection of the high tension transmission systems of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company prepared by Westinghouse (1923), various maps and plans and twelve historical films created for the 1958 Centennial.

The fonds consists of Picken's photographs of family, friends, and B.C. Electric operations.

The fonds consists of consists of correspondence and papers relating to mining and real estate in Rossland and real estate in Victoria. Included also, as Dean acted as an arbitrator, are papers dealing with land expropriation by the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) for its Saanich Suburban Inter-urban Railway and papers concerning the Victoria (B.C.) Shipowners Limited dispute. The fonds also contains Dean's personal diaries, his diary as Mayor of Rossland for 1903, two account books, a copy of a Victoria city census ca. 1900-1901, certificates appointing John Dean Justice of the Peace for various counties, photographs and nine maps.

The fonds consists of Kenneth A. Hodgson's amateur films created around 1950, showing B.C. Electric's Fraser Valley passenger and interurban rail service, and the special streetcar used for sightseeing tours in Vancouver. An accompanying videotape made in 1990 includes both these and other films of rail transportation in the Lower Mainland, supplemented with voice-over narration.