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The file consists of two items: a bill of lading for the steamer Beaver, under Captain William Brotchie, to ship goods from Fort Nisqually to Camosun, dated 20 June 1843 and a receipt from the Vancouver Island Colonial Surveyor for 98 acres of land in Cowichan district, 1858.

The file consists of a receipt and invoices from 1877.

Notes on the geographical observations made by David Douglas on the Pacific Coast of North America.

Presented by the City Archives, Vancouver.

The item is a certificate of membership in the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, issued to Eric C. Clarkson on December 9, 1929.

List of active members (1932) and balance sheet (1933).

Presented by Allan Klenman, Victoria, 1976.

The item is a photocopy of reminiscences of emigration of Norwegian settlers from Crookston, Minnesota to Bella Coola Valley in 1894, by Viken Torliev. Translated from Norrena, Vol. 41, Nos. 22, 23 and 25.

The file contains letters from Alfred H. Cadoux (1879) and Catherine/Kattie Lillico (1881) to miner John Gowans.

Negroes, Finns, Sikhs: Education and Community Experience in British Columbia. Unpublished paper presented to Inter-University Committee on Canadian Slavs, Ottawa, 1971.

Presented by C.P. Czartoryski, Vancouver, 1976.

Order-in-council, report of expenditure, correspondence regarding organization and operations of the Authority.

The file consists of correspondence inward (2 letters) pertaining to Francis Grattan's appointment to the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and to the guest appearance of G. Huntley Green with the orchestra; music programmes of the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and photocopies of photographs and newspaper clippings.

"A history of Yoho National Park, Field, B.C."

Loaned for copying by F.M. Woodward, Special Collections, University of British Columbia, 1976.

The file consists of a photocopy of Silakka Ja Leippa made in 1977. It contains the reminiscences (in Finnish) of John Anderson, a boat builder in Sointula.

The file contains reminiscences of the lives of David and Hannah Evans (father-in-law and mother-in-law of author Mary Evans) on the West Coast of Vancouver Island (Tofino, Alberni, Port Renfrew), ca. 1882-1904.

The file contains photocopies of biographies of Charles and Jane Evans, early British Columbians (Victoria, Yale, Chilliwack) written by Mildred Evans Hall in 1976.

Nine letters from the Duke of Argyll concerning Macdonald's army career, friends in Victoria, etc.; one letter from the Maharajah of Cooch Behar; program of the Royal Procession to St. Paul's Cathedral, June 22, 1897 (printed).

Presented by the Macdonald family through his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond, Victoria, 1977.

The item is a photocopy of the reminiscences of Ernest Hubert Allcock. Allcock emigrated from England to Alberta in 1909 and worked on farms and on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1914 he homesteaded near White's Landing, north of Quesnel. He was highway foreman in Quesnel, and from 1941 to 1952 in Lillooet.

"Fresh meat suppd. canoes, Spring 1820" written over [across] description of the Indian method of hunting buffalo which has Sir James Douglas' name at bottom.

Historical study of Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive 42, Emory ("Old Curly").

Invoice (blank) for lumber delivery order.

Family history with personal reminiscences entitled "Ramblings Down Memory Lane."

Presented for copying by Beatrice Williscroft, Vancouver, 1976.

The item is a copy of "The Wella Board": reminiscences of life in Fernie and the Kootenay district by Sydney Hutcheson.

Notes (authorship undetermined) on various political issues concerning British Columbia and its relations with the federal government, and with various provincial inquiries.

The file consists of reminiscences entitled "A Tale of Northern B.C. from Cariboo to Cassiar" by Martha Boss, a telegrapher at Trail

The item consists of a photocopy of "My first seventy-five years (1891-1966)"; reminiscences of Henry Forbes Angus, concerning his family life, education in Canada and at Oxford, military service, 1914-1918, and career at University of British Columbia, 1919-1956. Dean Angus served on the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1937-1940, and the Public Utilities Commission, 1955-1965.

Presented by H.F. Angus, Vancouver, 1977.

The file consists of certificates, 1899-1910, awarded to Jessie, Daisy and Katherine McCallum for achievement in public school.

Presented by Mrs. D.J.McCallum, Vancouver, 1974.

List of persons holding shares in British Columbia Packers' Association.

Presented by H.K. Ralston, Dept. of History, University of British Columbia, 1973.

The file is a history of the Kitsumkalum Farmers' Institute by Frank Floyd, a Terrace dairy farmer.

The file contains the reminiscences of William W. Phillip's travels in the U.K.and Europe, of his journey with the overlanders of 1862 to the Cariboo, and of his life and travels in the United States (1862-1916); notes on family and early days. Reminiscences have been transcribed.

The file consists of photocopied manuscript accounts of the life of Eva Marie Sweeney's father, Captain Victor Jacobson and of his career in the sealing industry including "The true life story of Victor Jacobson" and "Saga of a fur seal hunter" (two versions, one with photos). The manuscripts were originally submitted to the Islander Magazine, Victoria Daily Colonist, 1969-1970.