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The file consists of several sheets of paper stapled together. They appear to have been removed from a bound volume. The journal documents Lowe's voyage from Fort Vancouver to Walla Walla, Washington between August and September 1849. Lowe subsequently made a note at the end dated San Francisco, 22 March 1853.

The item is a volume registering despatches received by Vancouver Island Governors Blanshard (1849-1851) and Douglas (1851-1863), from the Colonial Office in London. The first 25 pages list the despatches specific to Blanshard and Douglas, arranged chronologically. Pages 29 to 46 list circular despatches (1952-1963) arranged chronologically.

The depatch entries list the date, the despatch number and the subject.

The item is a volume titled land office blotter. Blotters were used to record detailed trading activity. Only one page has been used. The page describes two financial transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first transaction relates to 200 pound sterling received from James Cooper, Master of the Hudson's Bay Company ship Columbia, as a deposit on a land purchase in September 1849.

The next relates to the trade of 535 blankets on the 6th of May, 1850. The blankets were paid to several Indigenous groups "for purchase of their lands as per details in Register of Land Purchases", also known as the Douglas Treaties. The names, transcribed directly from the blotter, are: Tee-chamitsa, Kosampsom, Swenghung, Chilcowitch, Whyomilth, Checonein, Kakyaakan, Chewhaytsun, and Soak.

This record was likely created by James Douglas, as it appears to be written in his handwriting [see Wilson Duff, "The Fort Victoria Treaties", BC Studies No. 3 (Fall 1969): 8].

The file contains a handwritten copy of a 14 page report written by Captain Walter Colquohoun Grant, to James Douglas, Acting Governor at Fort Victoria. The report was written by Grant in his capacity of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor.

The file consists of one letter written by Amelia Taylor to her uncle Horatio Nelson Calder. The letter was written at the Red River Settlement in July 1850. The contents of the letter are largely personal, and include information about her children and sisters.

The item is a four page handwritten list of land claims of the employees of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. The list may have been drawn up around 1850 in order to establish their rights to land that passed from British to American control after the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

The file contains two letters written by Peter Erasmus to his uncle. Although only one letter identifies the recipient, both are presumed to have been written to Horatio Nelson Calder. The letters are personal in nature and were written at the Red River Settlement and at Cumberland Station. Peter signs his name as "young Peter Rasmus" in the 1850 epistle.

The letter writer is most likely the Metis interpreter Peter Erasmus Jr. Erasmus was the son of Catherine Budd, whose probable niece, Nancy Budd, married Michael Wren. Her son, Charles Wren, married Elizabeth Ross, daughter of Charles and Isabella (Mainville) Ross.

The item is a typescript copy of an abstract of valuation of the buildings and other improvements at the Puget Sound Agricultural Company's establishments at Cowlitz and Fort Nisqually. The valuation may have been drawn up around 1850 in order to establish the company's right to compensation for any land and buildings that passed from British to American control after the Oregon Treaty of 1846. The abstract also contains evaluations for buildings and improvements at Fort Vancouver, Fort Colvile, Okanagon and Fort Nez Perce.

The file consists of various documents created at Fort Alexandria in 1850-1852 and 1861. It includes unbound ledger sheets listing the Fort Alexandria outfit returns, book debts, inventory of merchandise, a requisition list and servants private orders. There is also an invoice of sundry merchandise supplied to the fort in 1861.

File consists of inward and outward correspondence of Archibald McKinlay. Original letters as well as typed copies are included.

The series consists of a register of land purchases from Indigenous peoples on Southern Vancouver Island (near Fort Victoria), 1850-1852; record of agreements with Indigenous peoples at Fort Rupert, 1851, and Nanaimo, 1854. These conveyances or agreements are often referred to as the Fort Victoria treaties, Vancouver Island or Douglas treaties.

The following is a list of the signatory tribes and their present-day community names:

Saanich, Victoria, Metchosin and Sooke areas:
Teechamitsa (Songhees)
Kosampson (Esquimalt)
Whyomilth (Esquimalt)
Swengwhung (Songhees)
Chilcowitch (Songhees)
Che-ko-nein (Songhees)
Ka-ky-aakan (Scia'new/Becher Bay)
Chewhaytsum (Scia'newBecher Bay)
Soke (T'Sou-ke/Sooke)
Saanich -South (Tsawout, Tsartlip, Malahat)
Saanich -North (Pauquachin, Tseycum)

Nanaimo area:
Saalequun (Snaw-Na-Was/Nanoose, Snuneymuxw)

Port Hardy area:
Queackar (Kwiakah)
Quakiolth (Kwakiutl)

Included with these records, but not part of the HBC agreements, are two land purchase agreements made between Vancouver Island Government Agent William Banfield and two Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations in 1859 and 1860, as well as a list with the male adult population of tribes of the southwest coast of Vancouver Island compiled by Banfield.

The file consists of one letter written by Tolmie to Charles Wren in 1850. The letter was written at Fort Nisqually and gives written notice to Wren that he is trespassing on the lands of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company.

Charles Wren was the son-in-law of Charles Ross and Isabella Mainville.

The item is a bound letter book containing copies of correspondence outward from the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Simpson between 1851 and 1855. The letters are written by William Henry McNeill, Chief Trader at Fort Simpson. Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Douglas, Chief Factor or the Board of Management, Hudson's Bay Company, at Fort Victoria. There are also some letters addressed to other Hudson's Bay Company officials such as John Work.

There is a two page diary from August 21 to September 1, 1875 in the back of the book written by an unnamed woman, probably McNeill's daughter Rebecca.

The item is a bound journal kept by the employees at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Simpson between 1851 and 1854. It contains daily entries detailing the business of the fort.

Journal consists of James Douglas’ financial records, prayers, list of his deceased children, and copied down letters he sent to his daughter Martha Douglas.

The file consists of Peter Skene Ogden's outward correspondence dating from 1851 to 1852. The file includes both original letters and transcripts that were created in 1952. Not every letter has a corresponding transcription.The letters are addressed to a number of correspondents, including Ogden's son-in-law Archibald McKinlay, William F. Tolmie, and Ogden's daughter, as well as several unnamed individuals. The letters discuss both personal and Hudson's Bay Company business.

The item is a letter to the Commanding Officer at Fort Simpson, dated November 21, 1851 from William Rowland, Master of the Sloop Georgiana, while shipwrecked on Queen Charlotte's Island (Haida Gwaii). It includes a copy of the invoice of goods supplied by the Hudson's Bay Company paid to the Haida for the ransom of the crew and passengers.

The file consists of one letter written by Isaac Lowe Evans Ogden, the nephew of explorer Peter Skene Ogden. The letter was likely written in 1851 in San Francisco and discusses family business and day-to-day events.