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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].

This series consists of Provincial Archives records. Records include 3 visitors books, 1918-1944; miscellaneous correspondence, reports, memoranda and accounts removed from central filing system; and drafts of pioneers' stories, 1954. Contains some records and accounts of the Provincial Library.

The series consists of Francis George Claudet's university lecture notebooks, mostly on the subject of chemistry and metallurgy. Several of the notebooks contain sketches. Also included in the series is one German text entitled "Gesetze fur die studirenden des Collegii Carolini"

George Robson Pattullo was born in Caledon Township, Peel County, Ontario in 1845. In 1870 he became editor of the Paris Transcript and then moved to the Woodstock Sentinel. He remained with the latter paper from 1870-1886. In 1896, he was appointed Registrar for Deeds for Oxford County. He was active in public affairs and politics, being at various times a member of the Woodstock Council and President of the School Board. For many years he was First Secretary and General Agent for the Ontario Liberal Party. In the federal election of 1879, he unsuccessfully contested the seat of North Oxford. Pattullo married Mary Rounds in 1868. She died in 1884 and in 1889, Pattullo married Frances Camilla Biggar, daughter of J.L. Biggar, M.P.

The collection consists mainly of letters inward to G.R. Pattullo from his three sons, Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, James Burleigh Pattullo, and George Robson Pattullo, Jr., and from men who were, for the most part, prominent in public affairs and politics in Ontario. The letters from T.D. Pattullo are almost all written from the Klondike, where he went as secretary to the Commissioner of the Yukon between 1897 and 1903. The letters of George Robson Pattullo, Jr. were written between 1902 and 1918 from the U.S., and from France during World War I. Letters from J.B. Pattullo are written between 1896 and 1918, from Dawson, and from France during World War I. As well as the correspondence, there are two groups of papers. The first relates to the affairs of the Pattullo family; the second consists of articles and clippings, most of which refer to the careers of T.D. Pattullo and G.R. Pattullo, Jr.

The series consist of a record book kept by Sargison between 1856 and 1857 for the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist New Connecxion Church in Montreal. It contains minutes of the Church building committee and various financial accounts.

Letters to Harry Bedwell in Australia from his younger brother Edward Parker Bedwell, R.N.: ten were written from England, Europe and Australia, and twelve from British Columbia, 1857-1860, where Bedwell was engaged in the boundary survey on H.M.S. Plumper.

The series consists of books of receipts for sales and sub-sales of land on Vancouver Island. The series includes receipts for land purchased in Victoria, Esquimalt, Metchosin, Lake, Highland, South and North Saanich, and other districts on north Vancouver Island and sub-sale receipts for south Vancouver Island.

Proclamation authorizing formation of Courts in the colony of Vancouver Island, April 4, 1856. Typescript available.

The series consists of registers of land sales in the districts of Cariboo, Cayoosh, Douglas, Hope, Langley, Lillooet, Lytton, New Westminster, Osooyos, Queensborough, Yale. The series includes records of lands sold or auctioned. The lot and section number, name of grantee, number of acres, payee, and dates of payment are recorded. The series also includes an index to land sales in Langley (1859).

This series consists of three volumes of records of the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, Yale District, relating to water rights. Volume 1 contains Irrigation Water Records for Yale and Ashcroft Water Districts, 1873-1885, Book No. 4. Volume 2 is an index to Water Records, 1859 to 1900, Books 1, 2, 3, 4. Volume 3 is a list of Water Records, Yale District, 1857-1906.

The series consists of a letter book of correspondence outward from Hamilton Moffatt to the Hudson's Bay Company Board of Management in Victoria and various other individuals. The book was kept by Moffatt during his time at several forts and contains details of fort activity.

Fort Rupert: March 28, 1857 - July 9, 1859; March 8, 1862 - May 26, 1863.
Fort Simpson: 1859 - April 9,1861; October 26, 1863 - October 24, 1865.
Fort Kamloops: March 30, 1866 - May 13, 1867.

This index covers most - but not all - files from 1 to 1212a (A - Na) in GR-1372 - correspondence inward to Vancouver Island and British Columbia colonial government officials. The indexing was done on cards, by name of sender, recipient and subject. It was never completed. Files 1212b - 1939 (Na-Z), and some correspondence in files 1-1212a have not been indexed.

Each index card provides the file number, and often a secondary number to indicate the specific item within that file e.g. F123 6 The numbers were written in red crayon on the first page of each document. The index also includes cards for records initially meant to be part of a Hudson's Bay Company correspondence collection and are designated as H.B.Co. files. This collection was abandoned and the records made part of separately catalogued records such as the Donald Ross papers.

The original card catalogue is available in the Reference Room.

Schedule of Forms to the Rules of Practice in the Inferior or Summary Court of Civil Justice under the Order of the Supreme Court of Civil Justice. 64 forms.

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

The series consists of a microfilm copy of the papers of John Fall Allison and Susan Louisa Allison, pioneer ranchers in the Similkameen and Okanagan regions. Includes letters from John to his parents, 1857-1869, and manuscripts of stories; "When the river rose", "Scenes from our life in British Columbia on the Okanagan Lake", "What I know of Ogopogo" and "Memoirs of a pioneer of the 60s" and other untitled work. "Memoirs..." appears to a manuscript for a series of articles that were written by Susan L. Allison and published in the Sunday Province in 1931. The other manuscripts are undated and unsigned.

The series consists of records relating to the history of the Henly family, as well as collected historical records on a variety of topics. The majority of the Henly family records focus on J. Gordon Smith, as well as two files of compiled genealogical records. Many of the collected historical records are related to the voyage of the Tilikum; additional records can be found in MS-2228. There is a large collection of graphic items (negatives, prints, and glass negatives), the majority of which are not identified.

The Attorney-General Document series consists mainly of transcripts of depositions and preliminary hearings and trials, forwarded to the Attorney-General and numbered consecutively by year they were filed. Registers and indexes (volumes 879 to 885) are available on microfilm reel B00395.

The series consists of invoices, receipts, and cheques both printed and handwritten, belonging to B.W. Pearse.

The series consists of books (three volumes) used to track documents related to Pemberton & Son and Pemberton, Holmes accounts, and primarily record land sales between 1857 and 1957. They include details on lots purchased, selling price, and lists of related documents, including agreements, conveyances, mortgage transfers, assessments, releases, quit claims, and power of attorney. Entries also include information about related insurance policies, title numbers, and docket file numbers, which appear in the left column of the entries below purchaser names. Names appearing in the column to the right of the entries may belong to lenders or mortgagors.

Each volume includes entries for accounts A-Z. Entries are arranged in rough alphabetical order by client or account name, and index tabs with docket file numbers separate alphabetical sections. Multiple entries appear on each sheet. Section C of volume 2 contains a list of sales in the Watson Clark subdivision. Section T includes lists of tax titles for properties requested in the name of F.B. Pemberton, as well as Saanich tax sale certificates, provincial government tax sale certificates, and Saanich tax sale purchases. In addition to lists of documents related to land sales, volume 3 contains entries listing documents related to estate accounts, including wills, probates and codicils.

Series consists of philatelic records mostly related to British Columbia from 1857 to 1985. Records include postage stamps, first day covers, covers unique to British Columbia history, and a crash cover.

The series consists of surveying observations made by Royal Engineers of the districts of New Westminster and Queensborough. The series includes notebooks of observation by Parish and a notebook identified with P.J. Leech, Royal Engineers, Fort Langley.

Draft of Miner's licence form of [Colony of Victoria], with amendments to suit Colony of British Columbia.

This series consists of a record book from Magistrate's court, 15 Dec 1858 - 28 May 1862. "Jail book, Fort Hope District", 1858-1859 (2 p.) at front of volume.

List of ditch companies on the Fraser River in 1858 and proposed regulations for granting ditch privileges, 20 July 1858 to 25 October 1858.

Suit papers index, 1858-1893; writs index, 1907-1919. (6 vol.)

Certificate of appointment as judge of British Columbia.

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 contains diaries, 1879-1927; notes and correspondence on the Anderson family; the manuscript of his memoirs with notes and correspondence and the typescript entitled "Notes and comments on early days and events in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon..."; the manuscript of his Trees and shrubs: food/medicinal, and poisonous plants of British Columbia; botanical notes; MS. articles on history, natural history, place names, First Nations legends; and accounts of trips to the Queen Charlotte Islands and to Prince Rupert and up the Skeena in 1909.

Pemberton family items owned by Mab Aherne Pemberton Harvey, niece of Sophie Pemberton. Collection includes (1) Miller, J.R. "Dr. Miller's Year Book" (New York: Thomas Crowell and Company, 1895) a book of daily scripture readings inscribed "Sophie T. Pemberton December 13, 1904, with annotations by Sophie Pemberton ca. 1906-1914 as well as notes referring to family events dating to 1871. (2) Pemberton, Joseph D., Dairy (1885) which contains references to business and family affairs. (3) [Pemberton, J.D.] register of conveyance of land to private individuals and churches in the Anglican Diocese of Columbia (Alberni, Comox, Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo and Victoria, 1858-1866).

The series consists of letters written by Mary Susannah Moody to her mother and sister in England. The letters were written from New Westminster, Victoria, and Hope. Includes transcripts.