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John T. E. Gowlland fonds

  • PR-1942
  • Fonds
  • 1853-1869 [Microfilmed 196-]

The fonds consists of a microfilmed copy of John T.E. Gowlland's log books for the Ganges and the Plumper, including one completed during a survey of Vancouver Island in 1859-1860.

Gowlland, John T. E.

Seiriol Llewelyn Williams interview

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.];

The world about us : Lumberjack

The item is a video copy of a documentary film about loggers and logging in British Columbia, in the past and the present. Includes footage of All-Sooke Day logger's sports; logging equipment on display at the PNE; high-tech mechanized logging; road-building with a caterpillar tractor; and interviews with loggers Mackie Pickard, Roger Ennis, and John Dubeck. Historical footage includes horse logging; hand falling and bucking; blasting; logging railroad; spar tree; donkey engine; and railway speeder. Includes historical footage from Gerry Wellburn, Phil Le Mare, and the British Columbia Forest Service.

British Columbia Provincial Fisheries Department footage : reels 1-5

The file consists of five reels of unedited film footage/out-takes. Contains footage of commercial salmon and halibut trolling; purse seining; gill netting; fish ladders (Hells Gate); cannery interiors; tagging salmon; salmon spawning; salmon eggs and fry in laboratory; Adams River salmon run; hatchery scenes. Also includes: aerial views of the B.C. coastline; docks at Zeballos; De Havilland Dragon Rapide passenger plane on floats (registration CF-AYE).
It includes some footage from the film "Commercial salmon trolling off the British Columbia Coast."

Men, mountains and the challenge

The item is a reel of industrial film showing highway construction in BC. Includes planning and surveys; opening of contractors' bids by Highways Minister Gaglardi; clearing of route by heavy equipment; culvert assembly; drilling and blasting rock; road bed preparation; paving. Traffic control and overpass construction are also discussed. Sections of Highways 1 and 1A are shown, and Premier W.A.C. Bennett presides at an official opening.

Men, mountains and the challenge

The item is a composite print of a documentary film made ca. 1957. It shows highway construction in BC. Includes planning and surveys; opening of contractors' bids by Highways Minister Gaglardi; clearing of route by heavy equipment; culvert assembly; drilling and blasting rock; road bed preparation; paving. Traffic control and overpass construction are also discussed. Sections of Highways 1 and 1A are shown, and Premier W.A.C. Bennett presides at an official opening.

William Bolton fonds

  • PR-1208
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1896; 1914

The fonds consists of records created by William Washington Bolton, relating to the Province Exploring Expeditions of 1894 and 1896. The fonds includes journals, a scrapbook with newspaper articles and other material, maps, watercolours sketches and photographs. The fonds also includes Bolton's 1914 reminiscence of his trip to the Yukon and Alaska.

Bolton, William, 1858-1946

John William Laing fonds

  • PR-0617
  • Fonds
  • 1896

The fonds consists of John W. Laing's records created to document the 1896 Vancouver Island exploring expedition. The records include a photograph album, glass slides, photographic prints all taken by expedition photographer Edgar Fleming; and the manuscript of an illustrated lecture Laing gave on the beauties and resources of Vancouver Island.

Laing, John William

Colonial correspondence : correspondence of the Government of the Colony of Vancouver Island, 1849-1866 and of the Government of the Colony of British Columbia, 1858-1871

  • GR-1372
  • Series
  • 1852-1872

GR-1372 is an artificial series, created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s from records of the governments of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1849-1866), the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866) and the United Colony of British Columbia (1866-1871). The records, consisting of correspondence inward to and among officials and departments, were originally organized more or less chronologically as records of the department or agency to which they were sent, e.g. Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Commissioner of Land and Works, etc. Letters when received were logged into a register and assigned sequential numbers with the last two numbers of the year appended, creating the file number, e.g. 105/62. Some of these registers still exist, e.g. GR-0625. The correspondence was often accompanied by enclosures such as reports, sketches and maps which were considered part of the file.

Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, Archives staff undertook to re-organize these records into a single alphabetical series organized primarily by the name of the originating office or sender (road tolls and petitions are notable exceptions). Formerly separate records were intermingled and the original order was lost. The records were indexed using new file numbers assigned for that purpose. These are the F numbers written in red crayon on the records. Starting with the number 1, each folder of records in the new alphabetical sequence was assigned a number as well as the individual files (items) within that folder, e.g. F33/1.

It appears that later insertions into the alpha sequence, after the initial assignment of numbers, were dealt with by using letters (e.g. F85a, F85b), or a number in parentheses (e.g. F79(1), F80a(1)). When an F file required more than one folder, either letters were added to subsequent folders, (e.g. F102, F102a, F102b) or numbers in parentheses were used (e.g. F142b(1), F142b(2)). The F numbers on the documents, however, were not affected by the change in numbering as they formed one continuous sequence (e.g. F102, files 1-9; F102a, files 10-22; F102b, files 23-30b).

Some of the correspondence was transcribed by Archives staff. These typed transcripts are either in the file folders together with the originals or in a separate file folder following the file folder with the originals. Most of the transcripts were not microfilmed and consequently do not appear on the microfilm reels. The records were microfilmed 1978-1980.

See attached finding aid for more information about the history, contents, and indexing of this collection.

Provincial Archives of British Columbia

Patching crew

The item is a training film. Shows patching truck and crew, and depicts procedures used to repair cracked asphalt on the highway.

Estates in bankruptcy

  • GR-1823
  • Series
  • 1866

Estates in bankruptcy, 1861-1866. Prepared in March, 1866, as "A return of Estates in Bankruptcy as required for the Legislative Assembly by Resolution dated Nov. 30, 1866". This volume is indexed and gives the names of estates, dates, and details regarding proceedings involving the estates, 1 vol.

Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice

Official Administrator letterbook

  • GR-1821
  • Series
  • 1890-1895

Letterbook of correspondence outward from Official Administrator, J.C. Prevost, 1890-1895.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Victoria)

CHEK-TV news : forest fire stock shots

The item is a video copy of CTV news footage. Shows stock footage of forest fires and forest fire fighting on Vancouver Island. Includes footage of: airtankers dropping fire retardent; burned-over areas; small towns at risk; testing of fire equipment; number of fires burning in the province; impact of lightning strikes; financial impact of forest fires in the province; rapattack crews in action; etc.

Forest fire aerial footage -- June 22-24, 1982 : flight and commentary

The item consists of a video copy of footage from 1982. Shows aerial footage of various forest fires between Squamish and Whistler, in the Cariboo Region, the Peace River Region, Bulkley Valley, Vancouver Island, and along the BC/Alberta border. Commentary discusses characteristics of the individual fires, their causes, specific problems presented, etc.

The day the Sayward died

The item is a video copy of a documentary film, the story of the Sayward forest on Vancouver Island. Destroyed by fire on 5 July 1938 and subsequently reforested, the Sayward is now a valuable area for outdoor recreation. The film includes archival footage of the fire and the reforestation work, and an original score by folk singer Valdy helps to tell the story.

Nitinat canoe trip

The item is a reel of reversal film footage and an audio reel. It is an untitled film of a canoe trip through the Nitinat Triangle area of southwestern Vancouver Island. Shows a group of canoeists paddling and portaging from road's end (at the head of Nitinat Lake), down Hobiton Lake and/or Tsusiat Lake and the Tsusiat River, to Tsusiat Falls at the edge of the sea. The Nitinat Triangle is now part of the West Coast Trail Unit of Pacific Rim National Park.

Nitinat : a Canadian birthright

The item is a reel of documentary film about the Nitinat Triangle area of southwestern Vancouver Island, and the three-year struggle to have it preserved and protected as part of a national park. Includes additional film elements.

Photographs : album 4

The file contains a black photograph album with 343 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1947 and 1948. The albums contains photographs of holidays in Qualicum Beach, Campbell River and Alberni as well as Victoria scenes and May Day celebrations.

[D.M. Sinclair films]

Amateur film. Travel footage showing places and scenery in British Columbia's southern interior, including the Okanagan, Boundary, Arrow Lakes, Slocan, Shuswap, Nicola and Big Bend regions. Also includes footage showing activities in Zeballos and vicinity during the gold rush there: mining, community celebrations and sports, a flood, and various transport aircraft serving the area. There is also footage showing logging operations, presumably on Vancouver Island.

Phyllis Martin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. John Martin tells of her father, Carl Binns, coming to Ucluelet for the first time in 1895, with William Thompson. She recounts how her father rowed to Ucluelet; he found gold in 1899; worked at placer mining and eventually sold his claim returning to Ireland; he later ran boats along the Alberni Canal; and ran the Big Boy Mine at Herbert Arm. Mrs. Martin recalls her early life; growing up in New York and later moving to Ucluelet in 1914. She describes her impressions of Ucluelet; her family life; her mother; social life; politics; early settlers; pre-emptions; funerals; Frenchy's Cove or Spring Cove; the lifeboat station and the telephone system. TRACK 2: Mrs. Martin continues her recollections of early Ucluelet; Long Beach; roads; road work; settlers; beaches; tidal wave; "Carelmapu" wreck in 1915; Gibson family from Ahousat; transportation; CPR boats; HMCS "Givenchy"; dances; and rum-running.

Of mines and men

Industrial film. A comprehensive look at mining in B.C., made to attract employees to the industry. Shows prospecting, core sampling; mine interiors, including the Sullivan mine (with electric trains); train (with steam locomotives) taking ore to smelter; smelter operations (including lead and zinc refining and production of fertilizer from smelter by-products); Bralorne mine; open-pit coal mine at Corbin; discussion of safety and health care for miners; amenities provided for the comfort of miners in mining camps, and for their families at larger camps.

A.H. Maynard collection

  • PR-1258
  • Collection
  • [between 1896 and 1932]

The collection consists of four discreet collections of photographs, the bulk of which are lantern slides. The majority of the fonds consists of several sets of lantern slides, the bulk of which contain photographic subject matter dating from 1868 to 1930. The photograph collections are attributed to Albert Hatherly Maynard, son of early pioneer photographer Richard Maynard (1832-1907). Within lantern slide collections, slides from creators of other distinct lantern slide collections (likely Charles Frederick Newcombe and William A. Newcombe), appear to be included. A small number of flexible negatives are also included in one of the accessions.

A large number of lantern slides depict scenes of the Fraser River gold rush era of the 1860s, in the regions of Yale to Barkerville, Quesnel and Cottonwood in the interior of British Columbia. Many of the reproductions of photographs featured in the lantern slides in this collection are attributed early pioneer photographer’s works including those created by Richard Maynard during the 1860s and A.H. Maynard’s works produced in the 1920s. It also includes the photographic works of other early B.C. photographers including Frederick Dally (1838-1914), likely Louis A. Blanc who documented similar subjects as the Maynards particularly Barkerville, the Cariboo and the Cariboo Roads in British Columbia during the period before and after the Fraser River gold rush of the 1860s. A small number of photographic works by Frederick Dundas Todd (1858-1926) and F. [Dewitt] Reed are also contained within several of the slide collections.

Accessions 198203-025 and 198203-065 consist of slide compilations that depict a visual narrative of the history of Barkerville, the Cariboo Road and Cariboo region in the B.C. interior during the period of the 1868 Fraser River gold rush era and sixty years later in the 1920s. The bulk of the scenes of the gold mining resource industry, as well as views of transportation roads and routes along the journey to the goldfields. To a lesser extent views of other resources industries (forestry, agriculture, fishing and farming/ranching) are depicted against the nature and lands of the B.C. interior. Mining towns within the Lighting Creek and Williams Creek Districts, including Barkerville (before and after the fire of 1868), Richfield and Cameronton are represented, as well as other scenes representing the following views of gold mining operations: claims sites, posed group portraits and likenesses of miners, equipment and the production activity of early mining technology of associated mining companies, businesses and partnerships in the area. Photographs of mining claims and claims sites and the miners and labourers involved at Mucho Oro, Aurora Gold, Minnehah, Never Sweat; The Rankin Company (Grouse Creek), Ne’er do Weel (Grouse Creek) and the Canadian Grouse Company (Grouse Creek) are included in the sequences. Imagery along and of the Cariboo Road(s) are described as depicting various views, scenes and activities including: freight and trade transportation, transportation methods and transportation routes (ox pack teams, gold escorts; steamer “Reliance” and Fraser River crossings; travelers); views along the Cariboo Road(s) that include the geological terrain of the Fraser River (its river banks and surrounding forested and arid landscapes) at various points along the route to the goldfields including the Fraser Canyon and Lady Franklin Rock; examples of civil engineering as such as bridges; homes and ranches as well as accommodations such as roadhouses and hotels (70, 83, 108 and 150 Mile Houses, Pioneer Hotel, Van Winkel Hotel at Stanley, Colonial Hotel at Soda Creek and the Hastings Hotel) and businesses (Masonic Hall at Barkerville) in colonial service towns and mining communities and settlements. Indigenous communities do not appear to be identified in lantern slide captions, though the geographical regions documented in slides reflect many traditional Indigenous territories in which the Fraser River gold rush traversed and was situated. It appears that traditional Indigenous fishing methods are present in some views, likely in those of the Fraser River. Several photographs of geological specimens (gold nuggets) are included within the set. There appear to be very limited images of regional wildlife. There are a small number of group photographs reflecting the diverse population of gold miners, pioneers and travelers of the Interior B.C. (“Crew of SS "Nechacco"), including women and children. The views from the 1920s, appear to reflect A. H. Maynard’s trips to Barkerville, the Cariboo Road(s) and the Cariboo region. Finally, there are several views described as from the period in between 1868 and the 1920s. These slides depict views including those of the Fraser Valley region by F. Dundas Todd, a surveying team in “East Kootenay” and a few images described as the Okanagan.

A smaller collection of lantern slides (accession 198203-066) feature a random mix of Fraser River gold rush era views, military subjects, theatrical entertainment and other topics. Many slides appear to be images reproduced from works of art, books and other published materials. Documentation of theatrical productions include images of scenes and portraits from Shakespearean plays (Macbeth, Othello, A Winter’s Tale), as well as Anne Hathaway's cottage. It also includes documentation of the destruction of religious institutions during World War I, primarily in Ypres. Some of these slides indicate “mounted by Edgar Fleming, Victoria, B.C.”

Another collection of photographs (accession 198201-068) consist of 107 black and white flexible film negatives depicting Canadian and American views taken between the period of May and June 1914. These include views include of Bowmanville, Toronto and Niagara, Ontario in May 1914; Rochester and New York, New York in May and June, and the "Rio Grande" in Colorado in June of the same year. Photographs of American destinations such as San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlantic City including Freemount Park, Salt Lake and [Ogden], Denver and Washington, DC are here. Several locations on Vancouver Island identified as Victoria, Saanich and Mill Bay also housed in this group of photographs. This unit also includes film negatives described as “C.P.R.y [Railway] 1914”. 25 copy prints were made from these negatives due to deterioration of original film negatives.16 images of Bowmanville and Toronto in May 1914 and 9 images of Vancouver Island including Victoria, Saanich and Mill Bay are available.

Maynard, Albert Hatherly

Remains of an ancient civilization on Vancouver Island

The file consists of a report written by James Deans regarding evidence of early habitation on the southeastern part of Vancouver Island. The last page of the report includes several rough pencil sketches of artifacts found by Deans elsewhere on Vancouver Island in 1870 and 1874. Pages 21, 22, 25 and 26 of the report are missing.

John Waddell diary

The diary documents the journey of miner John Waddell (1818-1870) to Vancouver Island in 1862 in search of gold during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Also included are notes on his journey to San Francisco in early 1862 aboard the California steamer Northern Light. The diary also describes his dealings with George A. Walkem, third Premier of British Columbia.

The transcript, completed by the donor in May 2017, includes and introduction and notes relevant to the diary's content.

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