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This series contains correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous documents regarding financial grants to the City of Victoria Centennial Celebrations (1962), British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (1968-1973), and the Vancouver Indian Centre Society (1963-1969).

This series consists of correspondence and other records from the Department of Lands and Works, and its successor, the Department of Public Works. Records include correspondence inward and tenders for Victoria Court House, 1900-1904, Government House, 1900-1904, and Parliament Buildings, 1900; specifications for Victoria Graving Dock; specifications and agreement for Lytton highway bridge, 1913; and weekly building progress reports, Government House, 1957 (reports 30-75 only).

Series includes correspondence and notes on a variety of subjects: a receipt for a bank transfer to Chiang Kai Shek (leader of the Republic of China), 1942; notes in Chinese; letters in English from lawyers re business dealing; list of dental expenses; Victoria road and poll tax receipt for inhabitants of 534 Fisgard. Permits to import fireworks and licenses for magazines. Brokerage firm records re items, mainly food, imported by Yee Lun Ark Kee.

A description of the collection by G. Keddie is filed with the collection.

Correspondence, annual reports, minutes and financial papers; research files, reports, briefs and surveys produced by the association and dealing with alcohol and the community; published reports collected as reference materials.

The Greater Victoria Association on Alcoholism (GVAA) was established to educate members and initiate programs relating to alcoholism.

The records consist of correspondence, annual reports, minutes and financial records, research files, reports, briefs and surveys created and received by the Greater Victoria Association on Alcoholism.

The series consists of cards, invitations, programs, etc. which reflect a variety of social functions in Victoria. It also includes correspondence, graphologists character analysis, diary/appointment book, certificates and clippings.

Correspondence regarding bankruptcy between the Official Receiver and the Deputy Minister of Justice, 1924-1930; the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, 1933-1937; and inward from the Canadian Credit Men's Trust Association (Trustees in Bankruptcy), 1924-1932. Also, Circular Memoranda to Trustees Nos. 1-3, 5-11 from the Superintendent of Bankruptcy (Ottawa); miscellaneous forms and bankruptcy statistics.

Correspondence and private business papers of Charles Todd (uncle of Mrs. A.J. Dallain), Indian Agent, Northwest Coast Agency, re property holdings at Kitimat and mining ventures, Skeena district; correspondence and private business papers of Mrs. C. Todd and the Dallain family in Victoria; master's certificate and minute book, Victoria Citizen's Committee on Improvements, Streets and Bridges, 1898, of A.J. Dallain; fragment of C.P.R. last spike. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198106-8.

Correspondence inward to the Victoria Court Registry, A-M.

The series consists of one bound volume of correspondence inward to the Canadian Department of Customs, Victoria, between 1897-1899.

The series consists of correspondence inward created by the Victoria Supreme Court registry between 1889 and 1925. The correspondence is arranged by date and sorted alphabetically within each year by the name of the correspondent. The files include letters from the Attorney-General and government offices, law firms, Police Departments and other individuals and businesses. The files contain letters, government circulars, requests for information, statistics, judgements and other records.

Correspondence relating to compensation for privately owned lots on Bird Cage Walk required for the Parliament Buildings. From Lands and Work files 4155/1892, 4457/1892 and 41/1893.

This series contains correspondence relating to roads in the Victoria district. It includes a request for new road construction from the Victoria Driving Club and the Victoria Tourist Association, and correspondence about cows wandering at large in Oak Bay. Also includes a small sketch. Reverse of sketch not on microfilm.

The series consists of records created and collected by William Henry Clarke, his wife Irene, and their son William (Bill), who managed Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., a publishing house in Toronto that was established in 1930. The records were created and collected in both a business and personal capacity between 1930 and 1979.

The collection consists of 120 original Emily Carr letters sent to both William and Irene Clarke between 1941 and 1945. Alongside nearly all these letters are typed transcripts of the letter, as well as the 'flimsies' of the Clarke letters sent to Carr. Also included in the collection are two folders of correspondence between William Clarke and Ira Dilworth between 1944 and 1957, which are related to the publishing of Emily Carr's manuscripts. There are additional folders containing correspondence from William and Irene Clarke, Ira Dilworth, Oxford University Press, Lawren Harris, and other lawyers, solicitors, publishers, amongst others. The collection also includes Emily Carr's probate as well as agreement between Emily Carr, Clarke Irwin & Co. Ltd, and Oxford University Press. Also included are drafts of manuscripts, including 'Pause', 'The Heart of a Peacock', and 'Wild Flowers', and other manuscripts from both Emily Carr and Doris Shadbolt. The collection also includes publicity material, such as book reviews of 'The Book of Small', Carr's posthumous art exhibitions, two photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, as well as copies of speeches given by Emily Carr, Professor Garnett Sedgewick and others. Finally, there are photocopies of some correspondence from Emily Carr to Carol Pearson and Alice Carr from 1942 to 1945.

Some of the contents contain historical language and content that some may consider offensive.

The series consists of a microfilm copy of letters of Samuel Beeman to his brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Sarah Beeman, Cranbrook, Kent, England; one letter (copy) from Thomas to Samuel, 1868. Beeman discusses contemporary events in Victoria and British Columbia and his wish to return to England to marry. The collection contains a sketch map of Victoria, May 1864, and a plan of his house and garden in Victoria.

Office diary, 1862 [two handwriting styles]. Inside front cover signed by both Charles Evans and William Culverwell.

The series consists of a letter book created by the Collector of Customs in the Vancouver Island Customs Dept. between 1858 and 1871 and the Canada Customs Department between 1871 and 1876. It contains copies of correspondence outward from the Customs Houses in Victoria and New Westminster. There is an index to the volume.
The Collector of Customs was based as follows:
A.C. Anderson, Victoria, July 1858 - April 1859
W. Hamley, Victoria, April 1859 - June 1859
W. Hamley, Queensborough, New Westminster, June 1859 - December 1868
W. Hamley, Victoria, January 1869 - June 1876

Name changes by deed poll. Documents arranged alphabetically and indexed by present name from previous name.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1987-1988 SUMMARY: Eleven oral history interviews on the work of B.C. government agents; Victoria, B.C. provincial police administration; and personalities in the public service.;

The series consists of 214 photographs, mostly glass lantern slides and glass negatives, created or collected by the Dept. of Agriculture sometime between 1900 and 1915.

The lantern slides contain images of fruit trees, orchards, farms, packing boxes, greenhouses, crops and other agricultural activity. A few have descriptive labels which indicate that they were taken in Victoria, Kelowna, Nanaimo and Summerland, and some have photographers identified (D.J. Dwyer, J. Howard A. Chapman and Edgar Fleming). These photographs may have been used for a variety of purposes including public lectures and as illustrations for reports. Some of the slides have been hand coloured. These slides are from accession 198012-018.

The glass negatives from this accession consist of two files. The first file contains 13 negatives identified as being from Atkinson's mushrooms; images of mushrooms and fungi from book on same and appear to have been photographed directly from George F. Atkinson's 1901 books called "Studies of American Fungi". The second file consists of 24 negatives identified as Morris Middleton pruning lecture. Middleton was an assistant horticulturalist for the Dept. of Agriculture and gave pruning workshops and lectures.

The 27 glass negatives from accession 198410-027 show farms and farm buildings, fruit and berry growing as well as fruit packing and pruning classes in Creston, B.C. in 1914 (F.B. Turner photographer) and photos of apple growing medals presented to the Government of British Columbia in 1909.

The series consists of diaries chronicling Parfitt's life and activity in the construction business in Victoria from his arrival in Victoria as an immigrant in 1908 until his death in 1961.

Diaries, February 28, 1904 - March 10, 1905, and August 11 - December 22, 1909. The diaries describe Gelsthorpe's journey from Malta to Esquimalt, where he was employed at Dockyard; his life there from April 19, 1904 to February 28, 1905; his return to England across the U.S.A.; a visit to Victoria from August 11 - August 15, 1909; and his return to England via the C.P.R. and ship.

Diaries of Mary Crease, 1867-1868; birthday books of Mary Crease, Susan Reynolds Crease and William Arthur Ward.

The series consists of diaries of George Lovatt, kept from October 1903 to September 1905, while he lived in Sandon and worked as a sawmill operator and timber and liquor dealer. There are also diaries from his retirement in Victoria, from January 1920 to May 1924.
The series also includes account books, from 1900 to 1906, of Lovatt's son-in-law Harry Nash, who was a plumber and tinsmith and operated a hardware store in Sandon.

Diaries (1854-1883), covering travels from Lachine to Red River (1854-1855), Lachine to Honolulu (1859), the voyage to Victoria (1860), travel in British Columbia (1864, 1867, 1868, 1870), journeys to Europe (1865 and 1880), travel from Montreal, where he was Chief Factor (1872, 1875, 1877, 1879), and a journey to Japan and China (1882-1883). The British Columbia diaries cover travel on the North West Coast (1870) to the Kootenays via the Dewdney Trail (1868) and to French Creek, McCullough Creek, Kamloops, Clearwater River, etc. (1867), and life in Victoria (1864). Letters and notes, including one letter written by his son Edwin to his mother, 7 June 1914, Winnipeg, describing his visit to Victoria and Vancouver.

Diary describing passage through Kingston, Ontario to Victoria, B.C., via New York and Isthmus of Panama, and work in Victoria as commission agent.

Diary, 1939, with a few entries from later years. Photographs (mostly of Panama, Mexico, Ghent, and groups on decks of ships) transferred to Visual Records (accession 197902-2).

Series consists of daily diary, 1913-1938, noting weather, national and sporting events; certificates, Victoria and District gardeners' Association; school report cards, Ethel Tatham, Quadra School, ca. 1910-1915, and Laura Tatham, Tolmie School, ca. 1930-1938.

Diplomatic despatches from U.S. Consuls in Victoria, Canada. National Archives microcopy T-130.

Drug order book 31 May 1898 - 14 December 1909 of Victoria chemist. The originals have been torn out of the book, the carbon copies remain.