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This series consists of records related to the construction and maintenance of the Leech River ditch, flume and dam, also known as the Leach ditch from 1866-1867. The majority of the records are correspondence to and from BW Pearse, Acting Surveyor General for the Colony of Vancouver Island. Other records include contracts, reports, and financial records.

The fonds consists of accounts and correspondence outward from Fort Nisqually from 1841 to 1866. The records are a mixture of original copies and transcript copies and include a letter book and a memorandum by W.H. McNeill, correspondence outward of Dr. W.F. Tolmie and correspondence outward of Edward Huggins.

This series consists of Colony of Vancouver Island Police Sergeant's report book, Jan. 20, 1863 April 3, 1865, and April 8, 1865 - Oct. 25, 1866.

Acts of the House of Assembly of Vancouver Island, 1866.

This series contains minutes of Executive Council meetings, Colony of Vancouver Island. The series contains 2 volumes each of which cover the periods 26 March 1864 - 27 June 1865 and 18 July 1865 - 19 November 1866.

This series contains election writs, voters' lists, poll books and related correspondence dating from 1856-1866. Poll books give electors' names and indicate the candidates for whom each elector voted. This unit should be used in conjunction with GR-0484 [Voters' Lists, 1865-1866] and GR-1666 [Voters' Lists and Poll Books, 1862-1866].

The fonds consists of correspondence, accounts, receipts, contracts and agreements, pocket notebooks, and notes. Some records relate to the Rail Road House and to activities conducted in partnership with Arthur Churton.

This series consists of cash books used by the Colony of Vancouver Island treasury from 1859-1866. Cash books list receipts and payments in date order and are used to determine total assets at any given time. transactions are divided into receipts (debits) and payments (credits). Information is entered under the following headings: date of receipt or payment, number of voucher; from who received; name of the person or department making or receiving the payment; description of the receipt item or service; amount received or paid; and the waste book page number.

Proclamations and acts of the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island, 1859-1866.

This series consists of proclamations collected from various published and unpublished sources issued by the Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, 1859-1866.

The fonds consists of Kelley's correspondence regarding land in Oregon he intended to convey to New York City College.

Series consists of five inquisitions held in 1864 before Peter O'Reilly, Coroner of Cariboo East (for Jonus Grunland alias Charles Robinson, William Crawford, Josepheus Reed and William F. Davidson), and in 1866 before W.G. Cox, Justice of the Peace in Cariboo East (for Hugh McLeod). Inquisitions (inquests) are investigations in which a coroners’ jury rules on the cause of death. Inquisition files often contain witness statements, transcripts, autopsy reports, and findings.

The fonds consists of a personal log book relating to Francis Blackwood's service in the Royal Navy.

The fonds consists of a minute and transfer book of the North Pacific Coal Company.

The fonds consists of Louis Des Mariseque's English-Kalispel dictionary compiled between January and February, 1866.

The fonds consists of Firth's diary.

This series includes records of the Colony of Vancouver Island Police. Volume one is a charge book, 1862-1866; this volume also includes complaints of the Victoria Police Office, July - September 1866, and a census of householders in Victoria by street, 1871. Volume 2 is a daily report book, April 26, 1863-Dec. 23, 1864.

This series consists of a register of correspondence inward from the Colonial Secretary, 1864-1866.

This series consists of a variety of records created or used by the colony of Vancouver Island Legislative Assembly from 1858-1866. Records include draft bills, draft ordinances, draft Acts, draft proclamations, committee reports, committee minutes, correspondence, messages from the Speaker of the House to the Governor and addresses to or from the Legislative Assembly.

Committee records include the Committee on Crown Lands with land use statistics on the number of acres sold, pre-empted and reserved (including Indian Reserves) in each land district.

The fonds consists of John Brough's transcript of a diary, family letters and local parish census records from Comrie, Scotland.

This series contains voters' lists for the Colony of Vancouver Island, 1862 and 1866. The series also includes poll books for Saltspring Island and Chemainus District (1863), for Victoria District (1863) and Victoria City (1863-1866). This unit should be used in conjunction with GR-0484 [Voters' lists, 1865-1866] and GR-1714 [Voters' lists and poll books, 1856-1866].

Presentments of the Grand Jurors in and for the District of Cariboo East, July 1867. The report is submitted by J.H. Todd (foreman) to Chief Justice Begbie and reports on the Jury's inspection of the hospital, jail, court house, sidewalks and roads, fire hazards in town particularly the need for an explosives storehouse, the need for better trails to outlying creeks and the annoyance caused by an unnecessary number of dogs. Chief Justice Begbie responds to each of these points in his covering letter forwarding the presentments to the Colonial Secretary.

This series contains the following notes of proceedings: "Chief Justice Needham's record of Special Cariboo Circuit - Canada Co. v Grouse Flume Co. and other cases". This handwritten volume contains notes from September 16, 1867 to October 4, 1867.

The fonds consists of instructions and additional instructions to Governor Seymour.

The fonds consists of Cowley's diary.

Plaint and procedure books. Volume 1 contains a guide for several court orders.

The series consists of records created by the Vancouver Island courts of civil justice between approximately 1866 and 1867. The index records in this series appear to be drafts of an index to civil suits, and cases mentioned in this rough index appear in volume 3 of GR-2716 (plaint and procedure books from the Vancouver Island Inferior Court of Civil Justice). The index is not complete.

Several of the index pages were written on the back of records belonging to the probate file of Emilia Fedaro (also spelled Fidaro), who died in 1867 or 1868. The probate pages include the granting of letters of administration to Robert Newell, as well as what appears to be a draft of a covering page to the probate file.

This series consists of one receipt stub book for liquor licenses sold by the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1867. The stubs list the number of the licence, date, name of the applicant, and the amount paid. Only a portion of the book has been used.

This series consists of Legislative Council standing orders, 1864 and 1867.