The fonds consists of Sabben's logbook. Profusely illustrated with pencil and watercolour sketches of various Pacific Coast and British harbours, including Victoria harbour and Nanaimo harbour. The view of Victoria harbour includes the Songhees village site.
The fonds consists of a journal of a trip to the Klondyke from Victoria in 1897 by John Charles McGregor in which he describes his experiences while travelling and mining for gold in the Yukon. On this journey, McGregor was accompanied by R. Gibson, William Grey and A. McGregor.
The fonds consists of Christies' diary describing the voyage from England to Victoria and life in Victoria and Nanaimo. Fonds includes rough farm accounts to 1876. Fonds also includes a typescript of the diary and farm account notes created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia.
The fonds consists of files containing correspondence, clippings and reports, as well as manuscripts relating to local Similkameen history and individuals associated with the Similkameen district or the Presbyterian church. The fonds also includes a small accession of 7 graphic items (4 prints, 2 postcards, 1 negative). Three of these items have been described online.
The fonds consists of consists of correspondence and papers relating to mining and real estate in Rossland and real estate in Victoria. Included also, as Dean acted as an arbitrator, are papers dealing with land expropriation by the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) for its Saanich Suburban Inter-urban Railway and papers concerning the Victoria (B.C.) Shipowners Limited dispute. The fonds also contains Dean's personal diaries, his diary as Mayor of Rossland for 1903, two account books, a copy of a Victoria city census ca. 1900-1901, certificates appointing John Dean Justice of the Peace for various counties, photographs and nine maps.
The fonds consists of personal correspondence, general subject files, typescripts of material, journalism lecture notes, committee files, photographs, films and sound recordings.
The fonds consists of John Duncan MacLean's personal correspondence chiefly concerning the Liberal party (B.C. Liberal Association) in the 1928 provincial elections, private memos and reports.
The fonds consists of correspondence and business records of Onward Ranch located at 150 Mile House, B.C. from 1904-1914, as well as account books, cash accounts and a journal.
The fonds consists of: audio recordings of John Emerson's radio, nightclub, stage and television performances and rehearsals; oral history interviews about John Emerson; Emerson's papers; a collection of theatrical, publicity, and family photographs; and a kinescope of the CBC Vancouver television musical variety program, "John Emerson Presents" (1959).
The fonds consists of letter book copies of letters John Evans wrote to H.B. Jackson, who financed the group of Welsh miners Evans brought to British Columbia. Also includes letters that Evans wrote to his children.
The fonds consists of Orton's records relating to the South Pender Electrification Committee, the South Pender Residents Association, and the Gulf Islands Improvement Bureau.
The fonds consists of the political correspondence of John H. Turner, private correspondence received while Minister of Finance, a register of letters inward and a memorial.
The fonds consists of three photo albums created by John Irvine between 1894 and 1910. Many of the photographs are of railway survey campsites and features in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and California but some of the earlier photographs are city views of buildings in Ottawa, including the Parliament buildings after the fire in February 1897. The albums are uniform in size and appearance: black, pebbled covers with the "Photographs" embossed in gold on the top left front. The pages, which are stiff gray cardboard, are bound with red cord. The albums measure 18 by 30 cm. The mounted prints vary in size and tone from 7 x 12 cm to 19 x 15 cm, and from b&w to sepia. Nearly all of the photographs have a double white line border drawn around them and almost all are captioned in white ink. Several of the photographs are identified with "Yours truly Jno Irvine" and may be portraits of Irvine himself.
