The item is a b&w photograph of the team from the mine rescue station at Fernie, the 1st B.C. team in the international contest held at Nanaimo on September 1, 1919.
The series consists of a bill of quantities for a new court house building, Nanaimo, B.C. in 1895.
A complete bill of-quantities (tender) consists of the following sub-contract sections: excavator, mason, and bricklayer, carpenter and joiner's work, slater's work, plasterer's work, plumber's work - heating and electric light, coppersmith's work and painter's work. A summary of the sub-contracts for each complete tender was also submitted. The collection consists of a list of tenders and eight completed tenders.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works. Works Branch
The item consists of a surveyor's sketch book including drawings with elevations, etc. of the Victoria area (Mt. Tolmie, Christmas Hill) and a survey of Nanaimo.
The series consists of orders and reasons for judgement concerning family law cases heard in the Nanaimo Supreme Court between 1984 and 1997. The records are arranged by case file number and are in roughly chronological order. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court, whereas reasons for judgement provide the explanation for the order. Reasons for judgement are given at the conclusion of a court hearing. Family law records include those relating to divorces, child custody, and family maintenance.
The records are covered by secondary 51450-25 of the Court Services Operational Records Classification Schedule (schedule 100152).
RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-12-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: James Sharp; Rebecca Sharp Sanders; John Sanders; Sarah Barlow Sharp; Wellin;gton; boarding house; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Chelsea Cornish; Port Alberni coal mine; immigration; Vera Aidenhead Maffeo; Five Acres; Extension; Jingle Pot Road; mine accident; Wellington Hotel; Welli;ngton school; Ladysmith; Extension-to-Ladysmith railroad; Saunders anglicized. TRACK 2: Extension/Ladysmith railroad; Wellington; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Grand Templar's Lodge; John Waddington Hilbert; Black woman; fashion; Emily and John Johns; Sunday school; Simon Leiser; Wellington Hotel.;
RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-17 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Early Nanaimo ancestors; Joshua Martell; Barbara Campbell Hoy Martell; loss ;of diaries; Martell children; Captain John Freeman; Freeman family travels to Nanaimo; manager Bowen; Harry Neville Freeman; Jingle Pot Mine; 1912-1914 strike; Suquash; Fort Rupert problems; Vancouver;-Nanaimo Coal Company; Von Alvensleben. TRACK 2: Jingle Pot Mine; Suquash; Harry Neville Freeman; Von Alvensleben; Nanoose breakwater; historical society; pioneer society; birth; schooling; WWII; nur;se's training; museum artifacts (coal); fish oil lamps; Chinese.;
RECORDED: Wellington (B.C.), 1984-05-11 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Dunsmuir's Old Slope mine; ventilation shaft; Douglas pit mine; hoists; disa;ppearing house; No. 5 mine; "Robbing Pillars"; Wellington railroad; Old Incline; Wellington; Ladysmith; Extension; currency; Wellington merchants; E & N machine shop; Noah's ark; Gilfillan mine; couga;r; Departure Bay; Rock City; 1912-14 strike; Chinese; 1890-91 strike; United Mine Workers; blacklisting. TRACK 2: Blacklisting; dispute in No. 1 mine; Departure Bay; Incline; coal wharves; Wellington; railroad; sailing ships; No. 1 shaft; No. 5 mine; Blacks.;
CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;
CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];
RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-05-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Immigrants; 1890-91 strike; Occidental Hotel; Nanaimo, 1890s; Five Acres; Du;rham; Pennsylvania; Sam Robins; company houses; company farm; Cunninghams; skating on Buttertubs marsh; Jingle Pot Road; winters; horses and mules; strawberry patch; McRae Brothers; Lantzville mine; L;antzville; car accident; Storey family; Spencer family; Wellington; boys in mine; Daisy Waugh; effects of husband's illness; women's work. TRACK 2: Storey family; Harewood; Calverley family; company ;farm; Haliburton Street; cows; Albert Street; Cunninghams; strawberries; Harewood Road; Chinatown; Chinese school; manager Bowen; women's work; Chinese.;
The fonds consists of the wastebook [accounts book] of Fort Nanaimo, 1854-1861,reflecting the various activities of the HBC in the Nanaimo area. It also includes a transcript copy of Fort Nanaimo correspondence between Joseph W. McKay and James Dougas, 1852 to 1853, and a transcript copy of the Fort Nanaimo journal, 1855 to 1857.
The item is a black and white photographs of Camp Nanaimo, Vancouver Island probably taken in 1943. The photograph shows some military barracks with some vehicles in the foreground.
