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The fonds consists of business and family records created by the Richter and Tweddle families between 1890 and 1962. The fonds includes family correspondence, account books, cancelled cheques, receipts, mail order correspondence, legal documents including probate records, maps and photographs and books.

The fonds consists of correspondence and letterbooks of R.P. Rithet, Elizabeth (Munro) Rithet, John Rithet, W.J. Munro, 1868-1915; notebooks and papers of various members of the Rithet family; ledgers and cashbooks of Welch, Rithet and Company, 1863-1879 with sundry time sheets, 1944; indentures, 1860-1897; sealing captains' assignments with R.P. Rithet and Company concerning indebtedness and bills of sale of various schooners.

Also includes various paintings and drawings.

This series consists of a variety of records created by various provincial mental health institutions from 1872 to 2008. Records relate to the administration and operation of Riverview Hospital and related mental health facilities at the Essondale site in Coquitlam, as well as other facilities across the province. These mental health institutions include: Victoria Asylum, New Westminster Provincial Asylum (later Public Hospital for the Insane or Provincial Hospital for the Insane), Home for the Aged Coquitlam (later Valleyview), Home for the Aged Terrace (later Skeenaview), Home for the Aged Vernon (later Dellview), Crease Clinic, Colony Farm, Colquitz, Woodlands School, Tranquille and other medical facilities.

The names and administrative structure of these institutions changed over time. Mental health functions were originally part of the Provincial Secretary’s mandate; they were transferred to Mental Health Services when it was created in 1950.

These government records were collected by the Riverview Historical Society and include a wide variety of subject matter and media. This includes subjects such as: early development of the Essondale lands and Colony Farm; the construction and expansion of the facility; admissions, transfers, and discharges of patients; administration of patient care; administration of therapy programs; patient and staff recreation; staff and nurse training; operation of the audiovisual department; library services; research into new medical and therapeutic practices; research by staff regarding mental health practices at Riverview and further afield; community involvement; volunteer activity; policy development; the redevelopment of the Riverview lands; general administration; and, administration of other services at the site such as postal, food, laundry, banking, transportation and safety services.

The collection has been arranged into the following series based on record types:

GR-3924 - record books
GR-3925 - operational records
GR-3926 - newsletters
GR-3927 - photographs and other graphic material
GR-3928 - films and videos

Classified as 20000-20 in Operational Records Classification System (ORCS) schedule 144007.

This series contains a road log for the Alaska Highway issued by the office of the Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in North West Canada.

The fonds consists of Robert A. Brett's personal correspondence regarding finances.

The fonds consists of letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence and inward correspondence of Robert Beaven, including records pertaining to his estate.

The fonds consists of journals and catalogues compiled by Brown as a botanist on exploring expeditions. There are also minutes, correspondence, applications, bills, and receipts of the Vancouver Island Exploration Committee and personal correspondence. [Also available on microfilm.]

The fonds consists of Robert Browne-Clayton's minute books, scrapbook and photographs.

The fonds consists of a family bible, an address concerning the removal of a streetlamp, letterbook correspondence, diaries, notes for lectures on physics and electricity, and records relating to the commissioning of a Justice of the Peace. [Diary also available on microfilm.]

The fonds consists of Fortune's television productions, including documentaries on air pollution and industrial films pertaining to plywood, the forest industry, the Port Mann Bridge and the Granduc Mine.

The fonds consists of 524 audio tape reels, the majority of which (484 reels) contain radio programs produced by Robert Chesterman at CBC Vancouver. The remaining 40 recordings were produced by various CBC producers during the mid-to-late-1960s, and were retained by Chesterman for "historical" purposes.

The fonds consists of records, diaries and registers pertaining to the United Church of Canada missionary work in British Columbia including a daybook, an account book, marriage and baptismal register, account book and ledger and logbooks of coastal mission vessels.

The fonds consists of a microfilmed copy of Colston's diary.

The fonds consists of Henderson's correspondence and an affidavit.

The fonds consists of correspondence, clippings, invitations and photographs.
Photographs include images of the Bantams training in Beacon Hill Park in front of their newly constructed barracks, a group of Bantams in front of a recruiting office in Vancouver and No. 1 Company, 143 Battalion posed in front of the Legislative Buildings.

The fonds consists of Firth's diary.

The fonds consists of Foster's diaries, notebooks and journals containing engine room notes and job notes. Fonds includes log notes of SS Beaver (1880) and the steam tug Pilot (1881).

The fonds consists of Cunningham's diaries.

The fonds consists of correspondence, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of R.G. Joy and of records of individuals and associations connected with the development of the Kootenays collected by Joy.

The fonds consists of various nominal lists of the 54th Battalion and the 75th Battalion retained by Robert Green as paymaster.

Fonds consists of the artwork and collected notes and materials of Robert Savery.

The fonds consists of Wood's letterbook, including references to his work at the Golden Cache Mine near Lillooet.

The fonds consists of Haswell's journal (1787-1789) of his voyage around the world and a photocopy of Hasell's logbook (1791-1793) of the ship Columbia.

The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, personal and business records, maps, architectural plans and photographs.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of letters to Robert Cromie relating to the presentation to the National Press Gallery in Washington, D.C., of a painting commemorating President Harding's visit to B.C.

The fonds consists of personal diaries, farm diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, letter registers, account books and sermons of Reverend Robert James Roberts. Includes one account book of Percy Elliot Roberts, his son; log of the sloop H.L. Tibbals; and, a register of baptisms and marriages performed by Roberts. The fonds also includes a photocopy of a visitor register book kept by Rev. Robert James Robert at his home on Kuper Island

The fonds consists of Jamieson's journal of his travels to the interior of B.C.

The fonds consists of diaries and temperature logbooks as well as miscellaneous correspondence and poems.

The fonds consists of personal and political papers, as well as family correspondence, diaries, CCF essays and reports, letters from constituents, other correspondence and official records.

The fonds consists of Melrose's diary relating to work at Craigflower Farm.