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This series consists of financial records and correspondence created by the commissariat department of the Royal Engineers Columbia Detachment from 1858-1864. This department was the responsible for the supply of food and equipment. The records relate to the establishment of the Columbia detachment, the projects they completed in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and the auction of assets when the detachment was disbanded.

The financial records document monies received and spent by the civil and military Commissariat department. Expenses include supplies, salaries, the use of office space, the hiring of survey parties, etc. Correspondence relates to survey parties, survey field notes, construction work, supply management, including food and construction supplies and other expenses.

The fonds consists of minutes, resolutions and volunteer roll of the Bute Inlet Massacre Committee.

Series consists of one bench book and minute book for Colony of Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice civil cases heard before Chief Justice David Cameron between 18 October 1863 and 9 May 1864.

The fonds consists of M'Alister's daybook.

The series consists of three registers that document registration of half yearly mining licences and mining claims, transfers, and forfeitures by the office of the Acting Gold Commissioner in 1864.

One volume, labeled Acting Gold Commissioner Record Register 1864, documents mining records registered with the gold commissioner. Two volumes document the registration of mining licences: one volume is labeled Acting Gold Commissioner Register of Licences 1864; the other is not. The handwriting in the unlabeled volume differs from the script in the other two registers in this series. However, the volume is a near duplicate of the labeled register.

These registers are organized into a tabular form (pursuant to Gold Fields Act, Section VI) and provide the following information: number, name, and amount (all registers); date of issue and expiration of license and remarks (licence register); and date [of entry?], amount, date of transfer and forfeiture, to whom transferred, page of entry in transfer book, and number of license (record register).

The fonds consists of a day book and ledger kept during the construction of Cariboo Road between Boston Bar and Chapman Bar.

This series consists of financial journals used by the Colony of Vancouver Island treasury from 1859-1864. Journals are a type of financial record used in double entry book keeping to separate transactions into debits or credits. They are an intermediary record used to reorganize the chronological entries in rough day books or waste books into specific accounts, before they are ultimately copied into a ledger book. Information is entered under the following headings: amount, associated ledger folio number, associated waste book page, date, a description of the transaction, and if the transaction was a debit or credit. The end of each year includes a sheet summarizing the balances for various accounts.

This series consists of two volumes of indexes recording correspondence inward to the Colony of British Columbia Department of Lands and Works. The indexes were used to track the receipt of incoming correspondence and reports.

Volume 1 is titled "Index to letters received" and covers the years 1858 to 1864. The index is arranged by the sender, then chronologically. This includes sections for miscellaneous correspondence and reports and correspondence from Boards of Survey, Courts of Enquiry, the Governor, the Attorney-General, the Assistant Commissioners of Lands and Works, Gold Commissioners, and to letters from the Royal Engineers or Military. Some sections are missing: Military (p. 26-33), Captain J.M. Grant R.E. (p. 37-44), Captain R.M. Parsons (p. 45-50), Boards of Survey (p. 51-52), and Courts of Enquiry (p. 52-54).

Volume 2 indexes letters received by the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and covers 1858-1863. Items in this volume are also arranged by sender, then chronologically. However they only include sections for: the Governor; Captain Gosset of the Royal Engineers; Treasurer; Chartres Brew, Acting Treasurer; and HPP Crease, Attorney General. Most of the entries in volume 2 duplicate the contents of volume 1. Thus, this partial volume may have been used as a reference copy.

This series contains letterbook copies of despatches from Governor Douglas to the Senior Naval Officer of Esquimalt during the period 6 July 1863 to 15 February 1864. Most of the correspondence herewith concerns measures taken against possible attacks from indigenous populations on Vancouver Island.

This series contains a schedule of despatches from Secretary of State for the Colonies to Governor Douglas, 1858-1864.

Draft resolution of the Legislative Assembly, urging the establishment of a nonsectarian public school system for the Colony of Vancouver Island; also a petition from a committee of citizens of Victoria, advocating a central location for the city's common school. These documents are undated, but likely relate to the introduction of the colony's Common School Act of 1865.

The fonds consists of a packers account book.

The fonds consists of a day book and diary kept by Fitzgerald while he was a member of W.G. Cox's Alexandria Expedition in pursuit of the perpetrators of the Bute Inlet massacre. [Also available on microfilm.]

This series contains messages to the Governor from the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, with draft replies, 1864. It includes a draft of an Act to Prohibit Sale of Alcohol to Indians, 1854.

The fonds consists of letter book copies of letters John Evans wrote to H.B. Jackson, who financed the group of Welsh miners Evans brought to British Columbia. Also includes letters that Evans wrote to his children.

This series consists of one volume of a Colony of British Columbia Supreme Court of Civil Justice record book of cases heard at Yale, Lytton, Lillooet, Quesnel Forks, Antler Creek, Beaver Lake, Hope, Douglas, and New Westminster, from 1861-1863.

The series consists of letter book copies of outward correspondence and cash book entries written by William George Cox, Gold Commissioner, Rock Creek, June 1861 - Nov. 1862 (and Jan. 26 and March 4, 1863).

The fonds consists of James Willison Nelles' diary of his journey to the Cariboo gold fields and some letters. [Also available on microfilm.]

This series consists of land records from the Colony of British Columbia Lands and Works Department, 1858-1863. Most records are related to the sale of town lots at Langley, 1858-1859, and New Westminster, 1860-1862, including records of exchanges of lots at Langley for lots at New Westminster. The series also include various other land records related to New Westminster, Douglas, Hope, Yale, Lytton and Lillooet, including pre-emptions, lot registers, accounts for sales of town and suburban lots, and lists of deeds issued.

The fonds consists of Bishop's diary.

The fonds consists of Harvey's diaries.

List of Title Deed Books, etc. in the Land Office handed over by the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works to C. Brew, Esq., J.P., November 10, 1863.

Judge's inscribed copy of Herbert Broom and Leonard Shelford, The Practice of the County Court (London, England, 1858). The volume contains inscriptions in the handwriting of P.J. O'Reilly and W.G. Cox, as well as artwork by Cox. The inscriptions say: "Government of British Columbia Magistrate at Fort Hope" and "Government of British Columbia, Cariboo East, 1863". The volume is bound with an animal skin spine.

The fonds consists of the personal records of B.W. Pearse and Sarah Jane Pearse, including photographs and textual records.

The fonds consists of an account book, letters, notes inward and outward and a Free Miner's certificate.

Draft of receipt form for shipments of gold by the B.C. Gold Escort, Richfield, B.C., 1863. (1 page).

The fonds consists of an indexed letter press book as well as invoices and receipts created between 1860 and 1863 by the wholesale firm Edgar & Aime in Victoria, B.C.

The fonds consists of letters inward regarding Hudson's Bay Company interests in B.C. and on the prairies and a scrapbook containing clippings and sketchbook, journals, and a log book from a voyage to California from Mexico.

The fonds consists of Doggett's diary, correspondence and receipts.