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Cause book, Oct 1858 - Oct 1861. 1 vol. with plaintiff index.

This series contains two journals documenting Incidents brought before the police court whether by officers or individuals. The journals appear to have been used as account books and each trial listed in the journal also notes arrest fees, fines, bail or other associated costs that needed to be paid to the courts or the plaintiff. Journals list the following information arranged in columns: date, names of people involved in the incident, the crime, the sentence and/or amount of the fine (s) or other fees, followed by a sum of total costs to collect.

This series consist of voters lists and poll books for the Vancouver Island House of Assembly elections, 1860-1866. Includes electoral districts of Nanaimo (1865), Esquimalt (1865), Victoria District and Victoria Town (1865, 1866) and Sooke (1866).

The fonds consists of correspondence and accounts of the Swan River District.

The fonds consists of the diary of Richard Charles Mayne.

The fonds consists of letter, newspaper clippings, maps (some annotated) and watercolours of Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock.

The fonds consists of Heaton's diary regarding activities in the Sheriff's Office.

This series consists of one financial waste book volume used by the Colony of Vancouver Island treasury from 1859-1860. Waste books are rough account book in which transactions are recorded as they occur. Waste book entries are often transferred to day books prior to summary in journals and ledgers. These transactions are entered chronologically by date and are arranged under various accounts. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, head or service or a description of the transaction, amount and total.

The fonds consists of receipts, crew lists, and passenger lists of the barque Joven Guipuzcoana.

This series includes miscellaneous land sale vouchers, issued at Victoria, B.C. by Joseph D. Pemberton, Colonial Surveyor. It includes vouchers pursuant to the sale of fur trade lands of the Hudson's Bay Company and vouchers signed by various Vancouver Island treasury clerks.

Volume 1. Receipts and expenditures, April - December 1859. Volume 2. Receipts and payments, September 1899 - September 1904. Volume 3. Record of taxes collected, 1873-1881. Volume 4. Record of road tolls collected, 1876-1884. For related records see GR-0252, volumes 32-36.

This series contains the correspondence inward to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Colonel R.C. Moody. The records consists largely of letters from Governor James Douglas and the Colonial Secretary pertaining to town lots, other lands, trails and roads, and other public works in the vicinity of New Westminster. The series includes letters on the Harrison River road and pack trail.

The fonds consists of Simpson's travel diary.

This series consists of miscellaneous Governor James Douglas correspondence regarding the selection of site for capital and claim of land near Fort Hope, 1859.

This series contains a sale book of rural lands entitled: October 5th, 1859, Records of lands sold to Sgt. Wm. McColl and Sgt. Major George Cann of the Royal Engineers and a Capt. MacLean, Charles Good and Governor James Douglas (Manson Island lands).

Draft of Miner's licence form of [Colony of Victoria], with amendments to suit Colony of British Columbia.

List of ditch companies on the Fraser River in 1858 and proposed regulations for granting ditch privileges, 20 July 1858 to 25 October 1858.

The collection consists of six letters by James Douglas to James Yale or Donald Manson, three agreements between the Hudson 's Bay Company and four employees, and a bill of lading for the Hudson's Bay Company ship Cadboro.

This series contains a notebook of tables for the observation and recording of meteorological records, kept by Corporal Alfred R. Howse. It includes a table of corrections to reduce barometric readings to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, a table of factors for computing the dew point, a table of the elastic force of vapour below zero, corrections to barometers for capillary action, etc.

The fonds consists of outward correspondence of James Lowe.

The series consists of copies of correspondence between Queen Victoria and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton on the naming of British Columbia, 24 June to 26 July 1858. The copy, made in 1971, was a gift of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, on the centenary of the province, 1871-1971.

The fonds consists of the log and letterbook of Wallace Houstoun, Captain of the HMS Trincomalee.

Schedule of Forms to the Rules of Practice in the Inferior or Summary Court of Civil Justice under the Order of the Supreme Court of Civil Justice. 64 forms.

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

The fonds consists of Peers' diary of a trip from Fort Langley to Thomsons River and Peers' appointment to Chief Trader. There is one piece of correspondence (accession 74A-595) from W.W. Miller to H.N. Peers (1857) requesting an account of all public property regarding the Company of Cowlitz Rangers, 1st Regiment W.T. Volunteers.

Series consists of one bench book for Colony of Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice civil and criminal cases heard by Judge David Cameron at Fort Victoria from November 1853 to January 1856 and one criminal case at Nanaimo in May 1854. It also includes civil cases heard at Victoria in the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1856. The volume additionally served as a criminal record book for 1853, a cause book for 1856, and a Registrar's record book for 1853. It opens with a notation that Judge Cameron's commission was read and that he took his seat on 6 October 1853. The Registrar also notes that he received the court seal from Judge Cameron.

The fonds consists of Ella's diary.

The fonds consists of Allen's diary and notebook.

The fonds consists of correspondence written during service with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean and off the coast of South America.