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Correspondence relating mainly to Simon Fraser and an atlas produced by Denton; notes and a typed manuscript relating to Simon Fraser, plus several copies of Fraser's 1806 and 1808 journals and letters 1806-1807. There are notes on the fur trade, early Vancouver Island, the Cariboo gold rush, Sir James Douglas, confederation and the Canadian Pacific Railway; and on Louis Riel and the Metis rebellions.

Shows streets and surveyed lots.

Shows streets and surveyed lots. Locations of buildings, etc., noted in ms., with a key in Archer Martin's handwriting. Canadian Pacific Railway emblem in upper left corner.

Diaries, 1890-1914, 1917, 1919-1922, 1924-1926, 1928-1952 (entries from April 16, 1913 - February 27, 1914 made by Mrs. Pack); scrapbooks, 1897-1918 (4 vols.), containing tickets, programmes, etc., connected with trip to Europe in 1911; sheet music and programmes from religious concerts, tags from World War I tag days, chocolate and tobacco cards; summons for jury duty, 1912.

George Pack was a house decorator who lived in Victoria.

Records include diaries, with some entries made by Mrs. Pack; scrapbooks, 1897-1918 (4 vols.), containing tickets, programmes, etc., connected with trip to Europe in 1911, sheet music and programmes from religious concerts, tags from World War I tag days, chocolate and tobacco cards; and summons for jury duty, 1912.

Source: MS Finding Aids

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Travelogue. Travel film of sights from a train trip across Canada, including footage of Nova Scotia, St. John, St Andrew's, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Georgian Bay, a Great Lakes steamboat, Fort William, Kenora, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Bassano Dam, Calgary, Edmonton, Banff, and Lake Louise. B.C. footage includes: the Spiral Tunnels at Field (with train passing through); Field; open-topped railway observation car with sightseeing passengers; Glacier; Mt. Sir Donald; Albert Canyon; train en route in Fraser Canyon; Vancouver (street scenes, Hotel Vancouver, Stanley Park, English Bay bathers); CPR steamers en route to and at Victoria; Legislative Buildings; Empress Hotel.

The item is a video copy of a travelogue film from around 1946. It shows a scenic tour across Canada featuring tourist attractions, provincial capitals, and CP hotel facilities. BC scenes: across the Great Divide to Lake O'Hara; Field; Takakkaw Falls; Emerald Lake; Kicking Horse River; Vancouver (skyline, streets, Lion's Gate Bridge, English Bay, harbour, CP Princess ship departing), and Victoria (aerial view, ship arriving, harbour view).

CALL NUMBER: T1291:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-29 & 31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Walter Engelhardt talks about May 24 celebrations in Victoria; the sham battle at Queen Victoria's Jubilee 1887; the Point Ellice Bridge disaster in 1896; regattas and incidents involving the Royal Navy; building the Parliament Buildings. TRACK 2: Mr. Engelhardt speaks about the Bird Cages and Birdcage Walk; mud flats and the building of the Empress Hotel; the condition of the streets; butcher shops and grocery stores; the smallpox epidemic; the garbage dump in the mud flats; the Pendray Soap Works; the Songhees Indian reserve; stories about Herman the Magician; the Victoria Theatre and the Pantages Theatre.

CALL NUMBER: T1291:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-29 & 31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Engelhardt continues with his recollections about the Victoria Theatre; performances of the play "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; theatre life in Victoria; prostitutes; Victoria's families; the Macdonald family; the Dunsmuirs; the Pembertons; the Pearse estate; the Hudson's Bay Company's land policy in British Columbia; subdivision of the Crease estate; the land boom of 1910 to 1912; a Hugo Ross anecdote; Dunsmuir Castle. TRACK 2: Mr. Engelhardt talks about his recollections about the sham battle of the May 24; his job at the City of Victoria collecting water rates; arrival of his mother and grandfather, Captain John Mount Thain, in Victoria in 1862; his father's arrival in 1862, and work as a steamship agent; his father's origins in Austria; Walter Engelhardt's experiences at the canneries at the mouth of the Skeena in 1892; Cunningham; Victoria businessmen; stores in Victoria; Chinese opium manufacturing and trade 1880 to 1890.

CALL NUMBER: T1291:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-29 & 31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Englehardt recalls the Klondike gold rush; Victoria as a "wide-open town"; his work in the assay office; effects of the "wide-open" policy on Victoria; the "gay nineties" in Victoria; Victoria's boom from 1900 to 1915; wealthy retired people in Victoria; comments about Vancouver and the CPR. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-06-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Pinder (nee Irving) recalls the early planting of broom on Vancouver Island. She talks about her grandfather, W.O. Hamley, his brother, Sir Edward Hamley; Dr. J.S. Helmcken; the Pemberton family; riding and driving horses; Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie; her father, Judge Irving; horse racing in Victoria; paper chases; and old houses and families. TRACK 2: Mrs. Pinder talks about the Pooley family; the Royal Navy; early Vancouver and the Dunsmuir family. Mr. Pinder talks about his great uncle, Sir Joseph Trutch, his father was an engineer with the C.P.R.; his father's work for Dunsmuir, and his bringing out the Confederation papers in 1871; the Fairfield estate; Point Ellice Bridge disaster; his father's survey of Port Moody; recreation in Victoria and early Vancouver. Mrs. Pinder continues with recollections about sports in Victoria; gardens; walking; winters; and Foul Bay.

SUMMARY: "Tales of Two Cities", number 6 in the series, is a program contrasting the early years, development, and characteristics of Victoria and Vancouver, prior to the First World War. Voices heard include: Kathleen Agnew, Isabel Sweeney, Nellie Hood, Madge Muskett, Maisie Hurley, Stanley Meadows, Roger Monteith, William Wallace, Russell Walker and B.C. Hilliam.