Showing 6431 results

The series consists of photographs and postcards of Forbidden Plateau Lodge and the surrounding area in the 1940s and 1950s. Subjects include: guests, wildlife, building interiors and exteriors, and lodge activities such as horseback riding with packhorses and skiing. The series also consists of family photographs, with pets, and traveling in California, and possibly the southern interior of B.C., from the late 1920s and 1930s.

Correspondence, minutes of special meeting, financial records.

Typewritten extracts from the diary of Duncan B. Jennings, February 1910 - March 1925, re life in the Bulkley Valley.

Diary of E.P. Lee (1871?-1960), 1899, 1903-1913 (intermittent entries); day book, 1898-1906, and fur list, 1900-1906; Bank of Montreal accounts, 1919-1960; fur list, 1943-1945.

Will.

Correspondence outward (17 letters) written during his service with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean and off the east coast of South America; one incomplete letter dated 2 June 1850 from an unidentified correspondent.

Accounts, drug price list.

Poems relating to Anyox, B.C.; ethnographic notes on the Nishga Indians; copy of trial transcript of Port Simpson Indian charged with witchcraft; newspaper clippings re Marian K. Gould; water colours, ink and water drawings, and pencil drawings of Indian motifs. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198012-014; map of Indian reserves near Anyox (1920) transferred to Map accession CM/A/16519.

Received from the Official Administrator, Prince Rupert.

Diary, May 2, 1898 - Jan 22, 1899, describing journey from Malheur City, Oregon, to Ashcroft; cattle drive from Ashcroft to Atlin, and life in Atlin.

Presented by Clare Chapman, Cottage Grove, Oregon, 1980.

Historical notes regarding Kaslo; submission concerning road through Earl Grey Pass.

The series consists of photographs relating to George F. Lowe's construction work on the B.C. coast from 1935 to 1951, and also the leisure activities of the Lowe family on Vancouver Island and other B.C. coast locations. His daughter, Margaret Lowe (Peggy), was part of these leisure activities; she may have played a role in creating the family photographs.

Subjects include: the Estevan Point wireless office, Hesquiat village and the road to Hesquiat, dead whales, Pachena Point, Clo-oose, Alert Bay and the Indian residential school at Alert Bay. Photographs attributed to “Royal Canadian Air Force Photographs” depict: Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) locations including Skidegate Mission, the plank highway at Tlell River. Other photographs depict the St. Roch refit (1938), Sidney Island (1941), Digby Island (1947), Bull Harbour and Prince Rupert. Jack Wrathall is identified as a photographer.

Minute book and correspondence relating to formation and early operation of the Exchange.

Cadet's log-book of trans-Atlantic voyages on training ship, USS Enterprise, Jun - Sep 1902.

The series consists of correspondence inward and outward of the Ministere des affaires etrangeres, the office Direction des consulates et affaires commerciales and the French consulate at San Francisco. The majority of the correspondence relates to the Colony of British Columbia.

The series consists of 26 graphic records. They are a mix of photographs (either purchased copies or originals) and postcards. Many include annotations made by O'Kelly on the verso. They have been used in an article or presentation, as they include numbered and typed descriptions attached to the image. One image has been touched up for use in a newspaper. Two photographs are identified as Lomen Bros. images and were likely purchased by O'Kelly. Some may duplicate images already included in the Gladys O'Kelly fonds. The photographs were collected by O'Kelly either during her journey or shortly after to commemorate it. They represent people and places that she saw during her travels.

Receiver's cash book, ledger, and journal.

Notebook containing remarks regarding legal cases of interest to him as a young lawyer. Hunter later became Chief Justice of the B.C. Supreme Court.

Diary of life in England (1901-1943); typescripts entitled "Parallel Lines," "Was Charles Dickens a Reformer?," and "Words and Their Glory;" notes on mid-Eastern sites; sketch maps of Baghdad; commission and certificate. Photographs in Visual Records accession 197901-14. Books in B.C. Archives Library and Dept. of Education Library.

Received from Crease and Company, Victoria, 1978.

Meteorological registers at Princeton, March 1, 1902 - June 22, 1942. A list of Meteorological Service of Canada international symbols for the designation of weather phenomena is filed at front of collection.

Indentures, mortgages and conveyances relating to land owned by James Rogers and Walter Ruthven Gilley. This unit also contains an invitation to J.R Gilley to attend the opening of the Parliament Buildings on 10 February 1898.

Fur trade returns.

Minute books.

Minute book, August 1919 - April 1921; account book, 1919-1924.

Minute book.

Two letters concerning his application for position as church organist, Centennial Methodist Church; programme, Centennial Methodist Church.

Minutes, 1897-1940; account books, 1911-1933.

Papers re British Columbia coast: Union Steamships Ltd. sailing guide, 1956; Broughton Island and Simoom Sound Conservative Association letter-head; letters inward to people in logging camps at Kwatsi Bay, Sullivan Bay and Cartwright Bay from Union Steamships, Easthope Brothers Ltd., grocers, and other suppliers, 1928-1958. Logging Donkey Engineer and other certificates, George Henry Darke.

Scrapbooks kept by Jean Cleveland (nee Bogardus) while completing a law degree at the University of British Columbia and during the early years of her marriage to Howard Douglas Cleveland. The scrapbooks contain clippings, telegrams, letters, photographs, cards, invitations, poems, thank-you notes, etc.

Account book kept by James Cran, manager of the Ashcroft branch of the Bank of British North America 1905-1908.

Diary, consisting of a register of mail sent, 1905-1907, a record of temperatures, 1935-1939, and memoirs; short sketch of life; reminiscences, 1891-1908; speech to Chamber of Mines, Smithers, 1931; memo book. Kirby was a provincial police constable at Port Essington, 1893-1900, and at Hazelton 1900-1908. He was a mining recorder at Hazelton from 1908-1918 and at Smithers until 1931.