The fonds consists of writing notebooks, manuscripts of stories, poems in various drafts and formats (holograph and typescript) by Susan Allison, correspondence and household documents of Susan Allison, and correspondence of her husband John Fall Allison. The fonds also includes correspondence and documents by three descendants, Georgina Maisonville, Elvie Sisson and Alice O.A. Wright, who preserved the records, protected their mother's intellectual property, and assisted historian and biographer Margaret A. Ormsby with her book A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison (University of British Columbia Press, 1976).
Fonds includes a register of baptisms (1849-1871); marriages and baptisms (1864-1879); marriages (1871-1903); deaths (1871-1899; 1899-1934); marriages (1859-1866). Includes entries for Victoria, Fort Langley and Nanaimo.
The fonds consists of journals and catalogues compiled by Brown as a botanist on exploring expeditions. There are also minutes, correspondence, applications, bills, and receipts of the Vancouver Island Exploration Committee and personal correspondence. [Also available on microfilm.]
The fonds consists of correspondence to and from various members of the Moyle family, including Theresa Moyle. Fonds includes a war diary, passport and financial papers of John Moyle and notes and correspondence relating to Moyle family genealogy. Fonds includes photographs depicting Pemberton family events.
The fonds consists of real estate investment records, records of William Edgar Oliver's career at the University of Edinburgh, research notes, photographs and other material relating to the Oliver family.
The fonds consists of correspondence (E/B/P36) and papers (E/B/P36.9) pertaining to appointed positions of Joseph Despard Pemberton; a surveying notebook from 1851 to 1858 (MS-1978) containing sketches, instructions, notes and drafts of letters; miscellaneous papers relating to his household (E/C/P36.9); and correspondence to Pemberton regarding his investment in the ship Western Slope (J/G/W52M).
The fonds also includes an unprocessed accession (94-4448) consisting of miscellaneous receipts, invoices, envelopes and correspondence relating to J.D. Pemberton's personal life and career as a surveyor and public servant.
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 fonds consists of photographic extracts from a log kept by Midshipman James Ferris Prowse whilst aboard the H.M.S. Thetis under Captain Augustus L. Kuper. There are 90 negatives (2 negatives per page) and 42 print copies.
The printed extracts are those which have any mention of any place or point near Vancouver Island or Queen Charlotte's Island (Haida Gwaii), or of any item which might be of interest. These items are marked in red pen on the right hard edge of the photographic prints. The period covered is from the arrival of the ship outside the straits of San Juan de Fuca on May 22, 1852 to the time it sailed from Esquimalt Harbour for England on January 22, 1853.
The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries (1857-1910), letterbook, addresses to, autobiography, sermon and lecture notes of Reverend Ebenezer Robson. Includes extensive correspondence inward (see finding aid for names of correspondents).
The fonds consists of military certificates, letters of recommendation and clippings of Edward Hammond King and other records and ephemera of the King family.
The fonds consists of the notebook of Antoine Claudet pertaining to collodion; university notebooks, correspondence, scrapbook, notebooks and diaries of Francis George Claudet, including reports about coal and silver mining; diaries and correspondence of Frederick George Claudet; family history written by Henry Hayman Claudet; and, diary of Fanny Claudet. Fonds includes photographs of Frederick George Claudet.
