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The fonds consists of 122 photographs (glass plate negatives) of the Frewing family, depicting family life in Croydon, England, the Prairie provinces, and Vancouver Island ca. 1900 through the 1920s. Information on photographers, dates and locations is lacking. Locations include the Gorge Inlet, the Craigflower area and other Victoria locations. Subjects include family members (including group photos and portraits), residences, land clearing, house construction, hunting, threshing and other farming activities, the Gorge Regatta (Victoria, B.C.), picnics and other family outings.

The fonds consists of photographs and lecture notes for slide shows, which document the history of hydro-electric power, irrigation and agriculture, spanning all areas of the province, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. Clark appears to have collected the photographs from diverse sources; many appear to relate to his activities with the South Okanagan Irrigation Project, and work for the Department of Lands, Water Rights Branch. For the most part, photographers are not identified. Clark may have been the photographer for some, but a large number appear to have been taken by other government employees or other professional photographers. Some photographs are attributed to the Royal Canadian Air Force and to numerous commercial photographers including: L. Stocks, George A. Meeres, C. Peel Nelson and Harry Bullen. Some photographs have annotations labeling them as “Water Rights Branch” photos or slides. In indexing his collection, Clark also indicated some of the photos have a relationship to the “Forest Branch.” The fonds also consists of an inventory of the slides, with slide show notes. These include: “Useful Notes for Lecture Work on B.C Water Powers” (October 1931), and “Illustrated Lecture on the South Okanagan Irrigation Project, featuring the Engineering” (December 1928), and “Lecture notes for slide show on Hydro-Electric development in BC” (April to June 1931), annotated with “JW Clark, Water Rights Branch.” Subjects include the South Okanagan Irrigation Project and other irrigation projects around BC, dams and hydro-electric generating plants, waterfalls and water pumps, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, bridges, canals and locks, agriculture, agricultural experiment stations, gardens and horticulture, ranches and ranch life, farm buildings, farm life, fruit orchards, tobacco and other crops. Subjects also include: forestry, logging, silviculture, pulp and paper mills and manufacturing, landscapes, parks, railroad tracks, buildings and bridges. In particular, there are photographs relating to the West Kootenay Power and Light Company and of water power projects including Bonnington Falls, Stave River, Buntzen River, Britannia Creek, Powell River, Link River, the Ruskin dam and power development, and of hydro-electric power installations in other Canadian provinces.

The fonds consists of videotapes of New Democratic Party events, mainly in Nanaimo. It includes speeches by Tommy Douglas (as well as a 1976 tribute to Tommy and Irma Douglas), Dave Barrett (including a 1976 convention speech), Les Benjamin and David Stupich.

Additional NDP events are documented on 1/2-inch open reel videotapes, including a dinner speech by Dave Barrett during the 1975 election campaign, and speeches by David Stupich and Tommy Douglas. If these reels are intact, they will have to be digitized before their content can be made accessible.

The fonds consists of original and archival photographs showing Indian village churches and other heritage structures in British Columbia. Most of the photos were taken by John Veillette in the years 1969-1974. These images depict buildings at Alkali Lake, Barkerville, Bonaparte, Copper Creek, Hagensborg, Hagwilget, Hazelton, Kitseguecla, Merritt, Nicola, 150 Mile House, Quick, Red Bluff (near Quesnel), Savona, Skookumchuck (near Mt. Currie), Smithers, St. Mary's Reserve (near Cranbrook), and Telkwa.

The fonds also includes older photos of churches and other buildings at Atlin, Kitwanga, Prince Rupert and area, Saanich, Seal Cove, Smithers, Vancouver Island, and Victoria. These photos were copied from source images at the Diocese of Caledonia Archives and from other (unnamed) sources. One photo (from the 1930s) shows the Art Deco styled Vancouver Art Gallery building.

Some of the church photos were featured in the book "Early Indian Village Churches" (1977).

The collection consists of photographs taken by an unidentified B.C. photographer, possibly based in Vancouver. The photographs depict Vancouver (including buildings, ships etc.), Bowen Island, and automobile trips to the Cariboo, the Arrow Lakes, and Bellingham (Wash.). A number of the Vancouver scenes are photographed (or copied) through arch-shaped mattes.

Several envelope titles (on a content list with the negatives) refer to place names in the vicinity of Stewart (B.C.) and the Portland Canal Region. Related images depict a steamship trip to Stewart; a local celebration and parade there; and surveying (or mountaineering?) parties at locations such as Marmot River, Salmon Glacier, and Whitewater Mountain.

Other locations mentioned include Bear Lake, Bridge River, Likely, Salmon River and Takla.

The fonds mainly consists of printing elements, prints, and video copies of four 16 mm documentary films made by Dick Harvey: "Indian Food Fishing on the Fraser River" (1982); "Roderick Haig-Brown Conservation Area" (1982), and two versions [long and short] of "Living River: An Ecological Study of a Pacific Slope River" (1973). There is also a print of a fifth title, "Big Qualicum River Development Project", produced by Harvey for Environment Canada in 1974; it was retained as a further example of his work.

The fonds consists of photographs and other records from 1908 to ca. 1995, created or collected by Jim Ryan in the course of his career as a photographer. There are approximately 105,738 photographs, mostly black and white and colour negatives, but also including prints, slides and glass slides. The fonds also includes textual records consisting of news stories, copies of Ryan's publications, a few letters and other such material. The majority of the photographs were taken in the Victoria area and include images of the harbour, the city, buildings, events and parks. There are many photographs of British Columbia politicians, notably W.A.C. Bennett, as well as distinguished visitors, federal and local politicians. There are also photographs of local characters, children and ordinary people. Although most of the photographs were taken in the Victoria area, there are occasional images taken in other areas of Vancouver Island as well as some of Ryan's travel photographs. Some of the earliest material relates to World War I and may be Ryan family photographs or items that Ryan collected out of interest.

The fonds also includes motion picture film material, including completed films, production elements, news stories shot for television, and selected reels of footage.

Fonds consists of a store ledger. Includes a list of accounts by name of client. The beginning of the volume includes an index.

Fonds consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings kept while a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and a 1955 certificate and diploma awarded by the Academic Council and Senate of the American International Academy.

Fonds consists of records from the auditor's office of the White Pass and Yukon Railway Company. Includes draft annual report forms prepared for the Dept. of Railways and Canals in Ottawa. Fonds also includes correspondence of the auditor. The annual report forms document the financial affairs of the British Yukon Railway Company and the British Columbia Yukon Railway Co.

Correspondence of the Chairman of the Western Forest Pest Committee, a committee sponsored by the Western Forestry and Conservation Association. The purpose of the committee was to coordinate public and private pest control activities in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Fonds consists of masters' journals of the the ship M.V. Uchuck III. The journals document daily operations of the vessel plying the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Gold River to Zeballos. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings, poems, tariffs, and time-tables pertaining to vessel.

Fonds consists of five volumes of scrapbooks, 1925-1950, containing postcards, photographs, hotel and motel brochures, menus, tickets, time tables, place mats and other memorabilia collected by Scott and Ada Graham on vacations in Ontario, the United States (mainly New York, Washington, D.C., and Washington State), British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. The scrapbooks also contain theatre programmes, Anglican Church leaflets and Council of Women and Women's Canadian Church meeting notices and other activities.

Minutes, 1921-1953; attendance registers, 1921-1937; accounts, 1921-1950; and correspondence, 1922-1956. Publicity materials relating to Book Week in Canada, ca. 1930-1954 and materials relating to various association activities such as reports, contest entries and clippings. Fonds also includes the a typescript entitled "The Island Writers' Christmas Book."

The fonds consists of Joseph Haegert's reminiscences of his boyhood in Victoria, ca. 1910-1916, and of his experiences aboard whaling supply ships. It also includes contemporary accounts of his travels around the world as a wireless operator aboard freighters and trans-oceanic passenger ships, and accounts of his wartime experience aboard supply ships and troopships. The written material is complemented by Haegert's tape-recorded reminiscences (ca. 1985), and by a videotape interview recorded in 1998.

The fonds consists of minutes of the first branch meeting, the branch charter, certificates and letters of commendation. Also, minutes of the executive (1940-1990), reports, and scrapbooks containing clippings and campaign literature (1938-1973).

Fonds consists of administrative and operational records of the Ocean Falls General Hospital. Includes incorporation, constitution and by-laws, agenda and minutes of the Northwest Hospital Society, accounts, statistics, government forms, staffing, facilities and equipment, correspondence files, and hospital admission files (1978-1980) and out-patient records (1980). The records after 1981 pertain to the closure of the hospital.

Fonds contains unpublished reports and submissions relating to history, heritage conservation funding and urban planning in British Columbia.

Consists of a collection of unidentified account books from hotels, businesses and mining companies in the Cariboo district. The records have been acquired by the archives over a number of years and placed into this collection.

Fonds consists of scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings documenting Nicholson's term as Lieutenant Governor.

The fonds consists of prints and/or printing elements of motion picture films that were distributed by the Canadian Plywood Association (CPA) or its predecessors, the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia (COFI) and the Plywood Manufacturers Association of British Columbia (PMA). Most of the films were produced between 1955 and 1989 for the COFI or the PMA by three BC companies: Canawest Film Productions, Kelly Duncan Productions, or Lew Parry Film Productions. The films deal with with the harvesting of trees, the manufacture of wood and wood products (including plywood, shakes, shingles, etc.), and the use of these products in the construction industry.

The fonds consists of a typescript of McRae's M.B.A. thesis, as well as photographs and film footage documenting some of the company towns he visited as part of his research.

The fonds consists of records generated by the British Public Schools Club in Victoria. The fonds includes a financial ledger (January 1927-January 1935), membership lists (ca. 1933-1938) and membership register cards (ca. 1927-1940).

The fonds consists of the records of the Civil Service Literary and Debating Club and includes the club minute book (1923-1934); correspondence (1923-1937); and financial records (1924-1933)

The fonds consists of administrative files created by the Victoria office of the Community Care Services Society between 1971 and 1981. The fonds includes: agendas and minutes from the meetings of the board of directors; correspondence relating to the litigation case against the society; financial records; and files relating to employee positions. The special care services files which originally formed part of these records were destroyed by the BC Archives and Records Service upon transfer. Operational files of the society which governed community care activities may have been absorbed by the government departments which took over the functions and staff in 1980.

The fonds consists of the records of David H. Flaherty created throughout his professional and private life. They include project research files relating to his work with Canadian and international privacy issues during his time at the University of Western Ontario from 1972 to 1987; teaching and lecture files on early American history, and American and Canadian legal and constitutional history from his time at Princeton, the University of Virginia and the University of Western Ontario from 1963 to 1991; and his personal files including diaries, correspondence, photographs and subject files from 1949 to 2017, including those from his time as the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia. Within each series, the files are arranged roughly by date. The personal files have been divided by Flaherty into open and restricted files.

The fonds consists of the records created by Gretchen Brewin in her capacity as MLA including her time as Deputy Speaker, Speaker and Minister for Children and Families. The fonds consists of the following series: political workbooks, 1992-2001; day timers, 1993-2001 and general office files, 1991-2001.

The fonds consists of watercolour sketches and one drawing of beehive burners created in the field by Lou J. Englehart as the basis for a series of oil paintings. As the original source of the oil paintings, the watercolours document the state of beehive burners within a four-year period after they were outlawed in 1970. The fonds also includes 1 oil painting of the Mazur Lumber Co., Elko, sawmill and burner, 1974. It is based on the watercolour sketch PDP10033 from May 1974

The fonds consists of the records of Dr. Richard Foulkes, including reports, articles, correspondence and speeches, 1960-1981. The fonds also includes copies of reports, working papers, audio recordings and his private journal relating to his work on the Health Security Program Project, 1972 - 1976.

The collection consists of records generated by Donald (interviewer) and Glen Treilhard (photographer) during their oral history project in 1983. Both were post-secondary students at the time and received grants from the Canada Council and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. The Treilhards interviewed and photographed 39 Canadian miners in British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. The collection includes 60 audio cassette tapes of interviews with the miners, a duo tang with project details, an index, an itinerary and interviewee list, photo and tape release forms from the interviewees and transcripts of the interviews. Audio tapes are arranged by geographical location and by date. There is also a small notebook listing the slides which are itemized by geographical location, roll number, slide number and subject. There are approximately 820 colour slides of the interviewees, their places of work and scenic views of the geographical regions through which the Treilhards travelled. There appear to be some slides listed in the index that are not in the slide binders, as well as some slides that are in the binders and that are not listed in the index. There is also a list stapled to the inside cover of the small notebook indicating which slides the Treilhards used in their project.