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Menagerie and Museum. Victoria

Account book for menagerie, museum and saloon operating in Victoria, 1876-1882. Household expenses for the family operating the establishment are also included. The museum and menagerie may have been the one opened by Mr. Bristol on Government Street in 1872. The collection includes feather and preserved snakeskin samples. The account book itself was a former ship's logbook and has records from the Trafalgar, 1857-1859 and the Anglesey, 1860-1861.

Menagerie and Museum (Victoria, B.C.)

Miscellaneous letters relating to Cridge family

The file contains a photocopy of a letter from Mary Cridge to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth, written from the Marquis of Bute ca. 1855 (including a transcript copy); a photocopy of a letter from Harold W.H. Helby to Emily Carr, June 1944, in which he describes being in Victoria as a midshipman in 1882 and visiting the Cridge family and a photocopy of an Archives pioneer form for Bishop Cridge filled out by Maude Cridge.

Cridge Family (Edward Cridge, 1817-1913). Victoria

Photograph album of the Maynard family

Photograph album of the Maynard family

File is a large family photograph album with a light brown leather cover and a metal clasp containing 121 photographic prints, the bulk of which are card-mounted studio portraits that document several generations of the Maynard family. Many of the photographs are attributed to photographer Hannah Maynard but there are also works of other commercial photographers including those identified as “H Thorn” (Bude Haven), “E.W. Burnham Photo” (Cannington, Ontario), “Bradley & Ruloeson” and “J. Hawke” (Plymouth). The album includes popular Maynard family images that appear in other Maynard family albums, including photographs of Hannah and Richard Maynard and their children (George, Albert Hatherly, Emma, Zela and Laura Lillian Maynard) and grandchildren (including John Ridgemen and Richard James Maynard) who are depicted in individual and group portraits.

Photograph album of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery

Photograph album of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery

File consists of one studio photographic album with a black leather cover containing 122 photographic prints, the bulk of which are a selection of sample studio portraits and less conventional works and is attributed to Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery. The album presents a portfolio of 19th century infant, baby, child and youth studio portraiture featuring a range of commercial options from the Maynard Studio. Photographic subjects include clients identified as being from the Harris, Redfern, Wallis and Gambie families, along with children of other families. Members of the Maynard family including Hannah Maynard, George Maynard (son of Hannah and Richard Maynard), Richard James Maynard (son of Albert H. Maynard), Harry and Maynard MacDonald (grandchildren of Hannah and Richard Maynard and children of daughter Emma Maynard) are also depicted in individual and group portraits.

Studio portrait album

File consists of one velvet-covered album containing 62 studio portrait photographs. The majority of the photographs are taken by Hannah Maynard and she is likewise depicted in some of the photographs. Other portrait photographs are taken by other professional photographers. Some of these individuals are identified.

Maynard family album

The file consists of one photograph album containing 167 photographs both loose and affixed to pages. The majority of the photographs are not identified, but many of those that are identified are inscribed as members of the Maynard family. The photographs depict family gatherings and activities in and around Victoria.

The album is embossed with a generic album title, "Impressions of places and people." A note in pencil is inscribed on the inside front cover: "Newcombe? Prob. Maynard"

Studio portrait album

File consists of one leather album containing 43 studio portraits of individuals taken by Hannah Maynard. Nearly all photographs include Hannah Maynard's studio stamp on the reverse. The majority of the individuals are identified in the album, and many are members of the Maynard family.

Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery

Photograph album of the A.H. Maynard family

Photograph album of the A.H. Maynard family

The file is a family photograph album with a black leather cover with a metal clasp containing 32 card mounted photographic prints, the bulk of which are a selection of individual and group portraits depicting several generations of the Maynard family, in particular the Albert H. Maynard and Adelaide M. Maynard (nee Graham) family. Many of the prints feature portraits of infants, children, youth and adult members of the Maynard family including Albert H. Maynard, his mother Hannah Maynard and his siblings Zela Maynard, Laura Lillian Maynard and Emma Maynard, as well as his wife Adelaide. Laura Lillian Maynard and baby Richard James Maynard appear frequently throughout the album, either in individual portraits or group portraits together or with mother and grandmother Hannah Maynard. The majority of the photographs are attributed to photographer Hannah Maynard of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery but there are also works of other commercial photographers including Washington based “Peiser” (Seattle) represented here. The album includes popular Maynard family images that appear in other Maynard family albums.

Photograph album of the Maynard family

Photograph album of the Maynard family

File is a large family photograph album with a yellow-green velour cover containing 69 card mounted photographic prints, the bulk of which are studio portraits that document numerous individuals and families, some of whom are members of the Maynard family. Many of the photographs are attributed to photographer Hannah Maynard of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery, but there are also works of other commercial photographers and photographic studios including those identified as Washington based “Roberts & Kautz” and “Peiser’s Art Studio”/“Theo E. Peiser”(Seattle), as well as “A L. Jackson” (Tacoma). There are also works from photographers: “[Will] A. Peek” (Yaquina, Oregon), “Taber” (San Francisco) and photographic businesses “R. & H. O’Hara Photographers, BookSellers, Insurance Agents & c.,” (Bowmanville, Ontario). The album includes popular Maynard family images that appear in other Maynard family albums.

Photograph album of Mrs. A. H. Maynard, 1872 - 1892

Photograph album of Mrs. A. H. Maynard, 1872 - 1892

File is a family carte de visite album with a brown leather cover and metal clasps containing photographic prints, the bulk of which are card-mounted studio portraits that document the Maynard family, in particular the Albert Hatherly Maynard and Adelaide Maynard (nee Graham) family. The album is attributed to Adelaide Maynard, and appears to have been a gift to Adelaide Graham (1859-1892) from Albert Maynard (1857-1934). Photographs depict Adelaide Maynard’s domestic life before and after her marriage through primarily portraits, as well as a few snapshots and other materials that document her circle of family and friends of her and her husband, her role as a wife and a mother, and the domestic life of a Victorian family. The bulk of the photographs are credited to photographer Mrs. R. Maynard (1834-1918) but there are also works of other commercial photographers including Ontario based W.A. Cooper and JAS. Egan’s New Photographic & Portrait Gallery. The album includes popular Maynard family images that appear in other Maynard family albums.

The family album consists of 100 photographic prints, including sepia toned albumen carte de visites, plus other portrait forms such as tintype miniature portraits inserted in twenty-five pages. There are annotations found on some album pages and also on the verso of prints. Information largely consists of names and occasionally the age of the subject or the price of the print. There does not appear to be dates or associated photograph numbers for the original negatives present on album pages or prints. Mounted cards, carte de visites, often contain imprints on the verso noting the name and studio location. On nine of the pages prints appear to have been removed. There are also several prints housed loose within the album. Other materials include a few hand-painted photographs, a business card and several seasonal greeting cards which do not contain photographs.

A.H. Maynard family members are represented in individual and group studio photographs. The album includes individual and group portraits of Albert Hatherly and Adelaide Maynard, several mother and child portraits of Mrs. A. Maynard and child, as well as individual portraits of their infant children including John Ridgemen Maynard (b.1879). The album also includes portraits containing the following names in their associated captions: "Bob Liddell," "Mary Vipond," "Jack Kirkup," "G Anderson," "Frank Graham," and "J. Carter." Some of these captions refer to photographs which are missing from the album.

Likenesses of Albert Maynard’s mother (Hannah Maynard) and his siblings including Emma Maynard (1859 or 1860-1893), Zela Maynard (1854-1913), and Laura Lillian “Lillie” Maynard (1867-1883) are also featured frequently in individual and group portraits sometimes depicting domestic scenes and activities. Arthur S. Rappertie (1854?-1923) who worked for the Maynards in the 1870s to early 1900s is also present here. There are a number of unidentified prints of infants, babies, children and adults, including a number of male sitters, which may or may not relate to the Maynard family. There are several non-studio images, family photographs taken on excursions at the beach, at a group picnic, and outside a residence.

Portrait styles reflected in the album include headshots, side profiles, as well as mid and full-length likenesses that employ a variety of studio props. Several portraits of the Maynard children depict Mrs. R. Maynard’s use of side lighting techniques. Child and baby portraits, as well as those of toy dolls present in the album, are similar portrayals than those featured in Hannah Maynard’s annual “Gems of British Columbia" series of portrait montages of the 1880s and 1890s.

There are also portraits of other individuals and objects. These include commercial cartes of “Effie German,” as well as a number of portraits of children’s dolls including a tintype with the annotation “Mifs M.A. Morton” on the verso of the print. There is a business card of James F. Macdonald, the husband of Emma Maynard. The album concludes with two New Year's greeting cards: one addressed to A. H. Maynard and the other Mrs. Albert H. Maynard.

Maynard, Adelaide M.

Photographic View Album by R. Maynard, Artist

Photographic View Album by R. Maynard, Artist

File consists of one album containing 62 albumen photographic prints mounted on 31 pages. Images depict landscape views that document the coast and interior of British Columbia, as well as Banff, Alberta. Each page contains a title and photographer’s name, but no date. Photographs were likely produced during photographic tours that Richard and Hannah Maynard conducted to document the construction of the transcontinental railway, including the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) during the early-to-late 1880s. Images include views of railroad stations, bridge and trestle construction, pathways and routes, field portraits, and settlements including Songhees, Victoria, Esquimalt, Nanaimo, Vancouver, New Westminster, Kamloops, and Banff, Alberta. Landscape views include the Salmon, Harrison, Fraser, Thompson, Columbia, “Illcillewait” and Bow Rivers; Stoney Creek; Devil Lake Creek; Summit Lake; Eagle Pass; Syndicate Peak; “Mount Caroulle”; Kicking Horse Pass; Mount Stephen; Mount Castle; Mount Edith; the Cascade Mountains; Tunnel Mountain; Devil Lake Canon; and the Three Sisters. Several geographical formations such as “Lady Franklin Rock, Fraser River” are identified as well as a number of parks, including Harrison River Hot Springs and Hot Springs at the National Park (Banff). There is one image identified as the coal mining district of Anthracite, Banff. The Maynards commercially sold their C.P.R.-related photographic views to the public. They were available for order or purchase at Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery and other commercial operations in Victoria and elsewhere in BC.

Maynard, Richard

My Automobile Trips / Lillian E Maynard

File consists of one family album containing a black leather cover with gold embossing on the cover and 91 photographic prints of various sizes adhered to forty-nine black album pages. Lillian E. Maynard’s life, family, and friends are documented through portrait and landscape photographs as well as newspaper clippings. Members of the Maynard family are depicted including Lillian’s brother Richard James Maynard; Katie Adelaide and her sons Albert, Robert, and Jack Walker; and unidentified infants, babies, children and adults. Landscapes include views of Saanich (Saanich Inlet, Island Highway Saanich Road, Little Cadboro Bay), Oak Bay (McNeill Bay, Willows Beach), Elk Lake, Jordon River, Cameron Lake, Colwood, Courtney, Sooke (Inner Sooke Harbour “Saseenos”) and Mount Baker. The album features a small number of Victoria tourist views including Belmont House at the Parliament buildings, Dunsmuir Castle, Butchart Gardens, Victoria Harbour, and the C.P.R. docks (1927). Near the end of the album are three of Hannah and Richard Maynard’s photographs, including Richard's award-winning landscape view, "The Arm", and two of Hannah’s annual “Gems of British Columbia" composite photographs. The album concludes with a newspaper article "Carry a Camera It Pays, says Fair Motorist" from The Daily Colonist, April 1919. It contains news coverage of a car crash involving Lillian and Richard and features images of the crash, Lillian, and her Kodak camera. In the article, she is credited for documenting the incident and later using the photographic evidence in court.

Maynard, Lillian Elizabeth

The Victoria album

File consists of one album entitled "The Victoria Album". The album contains 36 black and white portraits featuring teens, young children, babies, three adult women (one of Hannah Maynard standing with a sculpture of a child), two adult men, a dog, dolls, and a group posed with a horse-led stagecoach. Several photographs have been hand coloured. The verso of some photographs can be viewed through openings in a preceding page and are printed with: "Mrs. R. Maynard, photographic artist and dealer in all kinds of photographic materials. Stereoscopic and large views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for sale. Corner of Douglas and Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C."

The album has an embossed, brown leather cover and metal (brass?) clasp. Page edges and embossed turn-ins are gilded. The inside cover page and intermittent additional pages within the album feature polychrome floral decoration. Several unused openings have also been decorated with hand-drawn, multi-coloured flowers.

Construction of Government House photographs

The file consists of two b&w photographs taken in 1958 during the construction of Government House in Victoria, B.C. Government House is the official home of the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. This building replaced the previous one on the same site that had burned down in 1956.

Journal of M.R. Smith and Co. deliveries and letter outward from Philip R. Smith

The file consists of one journal documenting daily deliveries for M.R. Smith & Co. between January 8, 1863 and June 30, 1864. Deliveries are predominantly to naval ships in Esquimalt and entries include the name of the ship or customer and the quantity of loaves of bread or other baked goods being delivered.

The file also consists of one-page letter to William Smith in Bedfordshire England from his son, Philip R. Smith, in Douglas, B.C., dated April 1860.

Annotated script of play "Blue Beard"

Born in India, William Tayler was a retired army officer who came to Victoria early in the 20th century and became active in local theatrical productions. This item, a heavily annotated script of the traditional play "Blue Beard", is accompanied by a note written by Bullock-Webster, 30 Sept. 1946, which reads: "[this play is] an interesting example of the early work of Major Tayler...".

Archibald McKinlay Diary Part 1

Archibald McKinlay Diary Part 1

File consists of one diary of Archibald McKinlay, the first of two. The diary spans November 3, 1876 to February 9, 1877 and documents McKinlay's travels to reserves as reserve commissioner and includes copies of correspondence, basic census information for Indigenous communities, and translations of Indigenous languages.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Postcards from the Pandemic

The file consists of 540 individual postcards that were created by the artist collective BOXCARSIX in the Victoria region during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021.

Postcards from the Pandemic is a collaborative mail art project of over 900 postcards that were created by artists in and around Victoria, BC in the depths of social lockdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was begun in March 2020 by members of BOXCARSIX Artist Collective to stay connected during lockdown. Each artist initiated a series of postcards leaving space in each one for another person to add and respond to. Each card was then mailed on to another artist to add to and potentially complete the postcard.

Each postcard has been assigned its own unique PDP number and is stored in its own folder. See finding aid for container descriptions.

Reminiscences of Mary Isabella Rogers

The file consists of a photocopy of Mary Isabella Roger's reminiscences of her journey to Victoria from England in 1885, and visits to Vancouver from Victoria including one made to see the arrival of the first transcontinental train.

Records removed from probate files

The file consists of records that were found in collection at the BC Archives. They were located in November 2021 in a box of miscellaneous court records. The majority of these records had been pulled from files in GR-1304 (Victoria Supreme Court probate files) during the microfilming of those records in the 1980s. While the majority of the records in that box were reunited with their original files, the records in this file remain loose. Archives staff cannot be sure that they were all pulled from GR-1304 and they may belong to records in another series.

The file consists of 3 leather pocket books and several small scraps of paper. The file includes a receipt dated 1864 between an Edward Finch (?) and a P. Uhart (?).a receipt dated June 21 1864 at Victoria for payment between Peter McQuade and the Schooner North Star (master William McCulloch), a receipt dated at Victoria June 11, 1864 between Samuel Smith and Peter McQuade, a receipt dated at Kamloops July 31, 1873 mentioning an Alexander Smith, Joseph Bushie, and Edward [Chund?], a reciept dated at New Westminster February 4 [no date] regarding Sir Patrick Killey and William Farson (?), and a receipt written in French on 13 February 1865 between a Rene Sazet and a Pierre (?) Bonaparte. There is also a receipt dated November 2 1892 that mentions the estate of Morris Moss, as well as an M. Manson and an Alex McLean. The file also consists of material pulled out of GR-1304 file 1726 (Thomas Smith, d. 1892). These items are marked in the file but include an empty leather pocketbook, a copy of a poem entitled "When the Rye Come Hame," a receipt dated at Victoria on December 31, 1861 and a letter written by a James Smith in Charlotteville, January 2 1885. These records do not appear to relate to the Thomas Smith file and were removed in the 1980s.

Of the two remaining pocketbooks, one contains a Pacific Diary for the Year 1872 published in San Francisco. The diary itself is blank. The other notebooks is in very fragile condition and has various notes that have been crossed out. These include notes on Metlakakklah (sic), Fort Simpson, Skeena, Wrangel, Victoria. It also includes various assorted other notes.

Manuscript magazine, The Leisure Hour

"The Leisure Hour": manuscript magazine produced for students at Victoria High School, April 1887, "Edited" by J. Boyd and Cary Pope. The magazine consists of vignettes of school life, reports of social events in Victoria, B.C. Also includes a 4 page supplement containing humorous and moral anecdotes as well as riddles - presented to "Editress of the girls' paper as a momento of her school-life" and marginalia and annotations by Kenneth Drury, 1908.

Victoria High School (Victoria, B.C.)

Manuscript magazine, Boys Own Gazette

"Boys Own Gazette": manuscript magazine produced by students at Victoria High School, 1884. "Edited" by Edwin C. Smith and illustrated by T. Gore and T.G. Fox. The magazine consists of vignettes of school life, humorous anecdotes and cartoons. Also includes a water colour painting of the "Old High School" (i.e. Victoria Common School, 1851) and an ink drawing of "new" Victoria High School. Transferred to Visual Records accession 199205-009.

Victoria High School (Victoria, B.C.)

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