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The collection consists of single items, reports, photocopies, photographs and other small collections donated and loaned to the BC Archives which document all aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the province. There are private records produced by individuals, businesses and organizations and acquired by the Archives over many years from all areas of the Province and varying widely in subject matter. They consist of account books and journals, letters and diaries of gold seekers, pioneers, missionaries, and school teachers, literary manuscripts, photographs, the papers of natural historians and students and the personal and family papers of notable settlers and residents of the province.
There are also some provincial and federal government records which either came to the Archives as single items or files or were removed from other series.

The series consists primarily of records relating to Hilda Hesson's service as Alderman with the City of Winnipeg. Hilda Hesson was born in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1883. The family moved to Winnipeg in 1901 and Hilda served on the Winnipeg City Council from 1940-1947 and then moved to Victoria, British Columbia, around 1954. She died on 22 March 1968.

The records include: certificate of life membership presented to John Rennie Mackie to the Burns Club of Victoria, 1932 (connection to Hilda Hesson is not known); one group photograph of Winnipeg Public Parks Board, featuring Hilda Hesson, 1942; letter and photograph from City Clerk of City of Winnipeg to Hilda Hesson regarding her retirement, 1947; certificate of life membership presented to Ruth Hesson to the Woman's Ancillary to the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, Victoria Branch, 1963; City of Winnipeg Community Service Award presented to Hilda Hesson, 1967.

Series consists of black and white negatives and prints produced by the Provincial Fisheries Department from about 1906 to 1923. They depict fishways, fishing activities, and construction projects, mostly in the area of the Naas river. Other areas depicted are the Meziadin river, Bulkeley river, Bowser lake, Adams lake, and other locations. Records often depict the fishing activities of local First Nations.

Records have been arranged in the order they were found. In some cases the arrangement reflects the original order and in some cases it does not. In many instances negatives were filed with prints in the original developer's envelopes. In these cases the archivist assigned file numbers with a whole number for the negatives and a ".1" following the corresponding whole number for the prints. For example, file 11 contains the negatives and file 11.1 contains the prints that were originally housed with it. In many cases the prints and negatives appear to have been removed from their original container and mixed with other items.

SUMMARY: A 13-episode CBC radio series about First nations cultures in Canada. For content details, see T3888:0001 - 0013.;

Series consists of posters created by various B.C. government ministries. Topics and events include, but are not limited to, centennial and bicentennial celebrations, travel within the province, Expo 86, venereal disease prevention, drinking-driving counterattacks, trades' skill profiles, birds, animals, and environmental protection.

The file consists of a small handwritten diary that was written by Lea Gillard, a United Church minister who worked about a coastal missionary boat, the Sky Pilot, in the 1930s and 1940s. The diary starts in 1935 and ends in 1939. The diary captures life aboard the boat that operated up and down the eastern coast of Vancouver Island. Gillard records day-to-day activities on the boat, such as ministering to the communities along the coast, dealing with repairs and maintenance of the boat, the weather, social events and family life.

Alongside the diary is a typed transcript that was done by the donor in 2022. This not only is a typed version of the diary, but also includes additional notes about Reverend Gillard as well as some photos.

Item is a single letter from Queen Elizabeth II to British Columbia written in 1996 to celebrate British Columbia's 125th year anniversary of confederation with Canada.

Item is a wooden mallet with an inscribed metal plaque. The plaque reads "This mallet was used by H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught K.G. on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the British Columbia Building on Regent Street on the 16th day of July, 1914. J.H. Turner, Agent General. Alfred Burr F.R.I.B.A. Architect."

File consists of the script for a slide show on streambank management on Vancouver Island and a course on streambank management prepared for British Columbia Forest Service research station on Mesachie Lake.

The file is from the Victoria County Court and is case file number 439/50 regarding H.R. MacMillan Export Co. Ltd., 1950. Civil case files may contain the notice of claim or notice of petition, writs and affidavits, orders and a final judgment.

The file consists of a civil case file from the British Columbia Supreme Court (Victoria). It is numbered A 374/55. The action was James Audain vs Robin James Dunsmuir re: damages for slander of plaintiff's book "From Coalmine to Castle". The file includes a transcript.

The file contains a petition from Father Charles Marchal, O.M.I., New Westminster to the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. It concerns an Indigenous man named Peter.

The file contains a photocopy of a petition from residents of Village of Granville and vicinity requesting incorporation under the name "The City of Vancouver".

The file contains a Memorandum of Co-operation between the Province of British Columbia and the State of Washington "pertaining to the resolution of mutual problems of oil pollution."

The file consists of a photocopy of reasons for judgement in the case (43319/75) of Donald Moses et al (other members of the Lower Nicola Indian Band) versus Canada and British Columbia, May 5, 1977.

The oversized file consists of statistical returns and draft of statistical tables as appended to 1877 annual report of the Minister of Mines.

The file consists of a 12 page memorandum created by Special Officer G.H. Ward for the Dept. of the Provincial Secretary in 1941. The memo concerns the B.C. general election held on October 9, 10, 11, 1941 and the B.C. Active Service Vote in the United Kingdom with explanatory notes re active service voting regulations.

The file consists of a memorandum on the history of the coat of arms of the province of British Columbia prepared by the staff of the Provincial Archives in 1966

The file consists of a signed agreement from 1928 between the Province represented by the Minister of Public Works and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR). The agreement sets out compensation to be paid by the CPR for each level crossing on the Old Cariboo Road between Haig and Spences Bridge that would be eliminated by the construction of the new provincial highway.

The agreement is accompanied by a photocopied letter from 1963 from the Office of the Attorney-General to the Chief Engineer of the Dept. of Highways instructing them to keep the agreement in their active files.

The consists of a photocopy of a report to the Hon. T. M. Waterland, Minister of Forests, from Donald T. Grant, R.P.F., Regional Manager, Vancouver Forest District, regarding charges by forest companies of inaccuracies in log scaling at the Shoal Island Dry Land Sort facility, near Crofton. The report contains a chronological history of the inquiry, a full discussion of the conflict, supporting statistician reports, final submissions, and conclusions and recommendations.

Parties involved included Dougan Logging; G.W. Cox and Sons Logging; John Reid and Associates; Kyoquot Logging; Traer and Mahood Contractors; White and Davidson Logging.

The file contains a photocopy of a typescript of an article by Home Economics Branch director, Jessie L. McLenaghen, giving brief survey of the development of Home Economics in B.C. schools from 1895 to 1941. The article was intended for publication in "The School".

The file consists of an interim, unrevised report on "The Administration of Mothers' Pensions in British Columbia, 1920-21 to 1930-31. It includes a summary of findings and recommendations with statistical tables appended.

The file contains a report of a Grand Jury from May 1906. The report is submitted by Henry Pim to Chief Justice Hunter and reports on an inspection of various facilities including City Jail and Police Court, offices, the Chinese hospital, the new General Hospital, the Alexandra Orphanage, the new Industrial School at Greer's Beach and the bridges over False Creek.

This file consists of a annual report of Government Agencies for the period April 11, 1976 - March 31, 1977.

The file consists of a brief submitted to the Honourable Eileen Dailly, Minister of Education, Dept. of Education, Victoria, B.C., by School District no. 24 (Kamloops) in 1973. The brief is in regard to the Mission Flats Entomological Research Station.

The item is a certificate presented to the Dept. of Mines for the department's exhibit at the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901.

The file contains mounted copies of an illuminated address sent to H.M. King Edward VII expressing the legislature's deepest sorrow at the death of Queen Victoria, February 25, 1901.

The file consists of a script of play called "The Curse of Chirra-Poonge" by Llewelyn Bullock-Webster, Director of the Dept. of Education's School and Community Drama Branch. The accompanying note from the Provincial Drama Advisor said it was performed at Government House in the early 1930's.

File consists of a black and white photographic print, presumably of Nellie Isabel Gosnell as a young woman and a two page typewritten history of the Chapman, Burnham, and Gosnell families. It provides family trees and recounts the movements of these families as they settled and became established in Cobble Hill and Victoria in the late 19th and early twentieth century. The history was written by Nellie Gosnell's daughter, Margaret (Gosnell) Taylor.