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This series consists of accounts ledger of the Nanaimo Ranger Station, for car running costs, launch running costs, tire distribution and telephone accounts. The book also contains an office diary for 1939 and an undated inventory of equipment on hand.

Administrative record books kept by the Official Administrator, Mr. McAloney (to 1908) and Frederick L. Leighton (after 1908). Volume 1 begins as a Nanaimo City Police record book and has the pages prior to July 1908 glued together at the top.

Minutes, 1885-1906; beneficiary fund account book, 1899-1905; beneficiary fund accounts, application, and memorial notice, 1899-1906.

This series consists of architectural proposals and consultants reports on topics connected with the construction of public buildings, urban development, siting, traffic patterns, and design requirements. Reports have been created for the Department of Public Works by various sources, including Arthur Erikson Architects, The Environmental Analysis Group (TEAG), UBC School of Architecture, BCIT, Vancouver City Planning Department, and other various architects and engineers.

Criminal assize calendars for Victoria. Also includes criminal assize calendars for Yale, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Clinton, Richfield, Kamloops, Quesnellemouth, Cassiar, Laketon, Glenora and Lytton, 1870s.

Series consists of 382 photographs produced primarily by Hannah or Richard Maynard. Other photographers may also be identified on some negatives. Images depict locations around Victoria, including downtown, Beacon Hill, Esquimalt, and the Gorge, as well as other places within British Columbia that could not be otherwise attributed to the Maynard's field photography. Scenes include Victoria street scenes, churches, the Inner Harbour, regattas, farming, and forests.

Business papers consisting of correspondence with Thomas W. Glaholm, 1888, Elijah Ganner, 1887, various attorneys, 1885-1892, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, 1889; various indentures and agreements (mainly relating to land), 1871-1910; purchase of shares in the Barbara Boscowitz )steamer) and Annie E. Paint (sealing schooner), 1883-1895; miscellaneous land sales and purchases, 1884-1889; land purchases in Port Angeles, 1889; share certificates, 1890-1899; memos regarding the North Pacific Canning Company, 1891-1899; powers of attorney granted to Johnson, 1887- 1894; his appointment and resignation as Nanaimo Police Commissioner 1896-1898 telegrams, 1886-1887; and various receipts and bills, 1882-1889. This unit contains the private receipts of Robert Pool 1871-1874.

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (Victoria Branch) minute books, 1890-1920; Nanaimo Branch minute book, 1912-1915; Victoria District Council of Carpenters minute book, 1920-1923; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (Shipwrights, etc.) Local 1598 [Victoria] minute book, 1920-1926, and correspondence, 1919-1926. Joint Trades Council of Carpenters and Joiners, Victoria, minute books, 1911-1914, and papers, 1905-1952; Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers' Union of America, Local 634 [Victoria], charter, 1920.

Series is divided into the following themes: Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (Box 1) ; Victoria District Council of Carpenters (Box 2 File 1) ; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local 1598 Shipwrights (Box 2 File 2-3) ; Joint Trades Council of Carpenters and Joiners Victoria (Box 2 File 4-6) ; Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers' Union of America, Local Union No. 634, Victoria (Box 2 File 7.

Series consists of four case files from the Nanaimo Supreme Court relating to Brother Twelve (aka Edward Arthur Wilson and Amiel de Valdez). Two are criminal case files involving theft of funds which, amongst other documents, include transcripts of preliminary hearings before the Police Magistrate. Two are civil suits: one brought against Wilson by Alfred Barley (one of his employees) and the other by Mary Connolly (a benefactor to the Aquarian Foundation).

Chambers applications.

Chambers applications.

Series consists of record books created by the Nanaimo Police Court between 21 Sep 1948 and 12 Dec 1950. Records relate to a variety of Nanaimo city matters including: by-law related offenses, license plate violations, theft, public and/or intoxication disturbances, etc. Entries can include details such as: date, name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge(s), costs, arresting officer, order or conviction fine amount, date fine paid, receipt number, signature of magistrate, and additional remarks such as plea.

This series consists of the records of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Accident in the Number One Slope of South Wellington Coal Mines, 1915. Commission records consist of correspondence, transcripts of evidence presented at the hearings, and original signed report which includes a history of the mine.

This series consists of records of the Commission on the Beban Mine Disaster,1937. Commission records consist of transcripts of hearings and report.

The series consists of a bill of quantities for a new court house building, Nanaimo, B.C. in 1895.

A complete bill of-quantities (tender) consists of the following sub-contract sections: excavator, mason, and bricklayer, carpenter and joiner's work, slater's work, plasterer's work, plumber's work - heating and electric light, coppersmith's work and painter's work.
A summary of the sub-contracts for each complete tender was also submitted. The collection consists of a list of tenders and eight completed tenders.

Contracts, indentures, bonds, notes and mining licences relating to the Dunsmuir family mining and railroad activities.

Cornelius Bryant emigrated from England in 1856. He taught school in Nanaimo from 1857 to 1870, and then became a Methodist minister, serving in that capacity at Nanaimo, at several places in the Lower Mainland and Lower Fraser Valley, and at Bella Bella, before retiring in 1893. Records consist of correspondence, 1859-1895, including letters of introduction, letters inward concerning family matters and expenses, letters outward concerning the New Westminster congregation and mission work among Natives in the Nanaimo area, and a letterbook, 1870-1895; diaries, 19 August 1856 - 1 February 1857, 1 January 1857 - 6 January 1860 [A01745] and 1 June 1895 - 31 December 1902 (in letterbook, 1870-1895); sermon notes; scrapbook.

The series consists of correspondence and account books of the Central Coal Company, Ltd., 1951-1963.

The series consists of three volumes of alphabetical indexes to records created by the Nanaimo County Court between 1974 and 1990. The indexes are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the plaintiff. The index lists the plaintiff, the defendant and the file number. This number corresponds to case numbers in the plaint and procedure books (GR-2129) and case cards (GR-3613).

Record book for Judge's Criminal Court and Speedy Trials (with attachments).

The series consists of 214 photographs, mostly glass lantern slides and glass negatives, created or collected by the Dept. of Agriculture sometime between 1900 and 1915.

The lantern slides contain images of fruit trees, orchards, farms, packing boxes, greenhouses, crops and other agricultural activity. A few have descriptive labels which indicate that they were taken in Victoria, Kelowna, Nanaimo and Summerland, and some have photographers identified (D.J. Dwyer, J. Howard A. Chapman and Edgar Fleming). These photographs may have been used for a variety of purposes including public lectures and as illustrations for reports. Some of the slides have been hand coloured. These slides are from accession 198012-018.

The glass negatives from this accession consist of two files. The first file contains 13 negatives identified as being from Atkinson's mushrooms; images of mushrooms and fungi from book on same and appear to have been photographed directly from George F. Atkinson's 1901 books called "Studies of American Fungi". The second file consists of 24 negatives identified as Morris Middleton pruning lecture. Middleton was an assistant horticulturalist for the Dept. of Agriculture and gave pruning workshops and lectures.

The 27 glass negatives from accession 198410-027 show farms and farm buildings, fruit and berry growing as well as fruit packing and pruning classes in Creston, B.C. in 1914 (F.B. Turner photographer) and photos of apple growing medals presented to the Government of British Columbia in 1909.

This series contains certified copies of the Grand and Petit Jury Lists for Nanaimo district, 1900.

Grand and Petit Jury Register for Nanaimo; alphabetical lists giving name, occupation and address.

This series consists of informations, warrants and convictions from the Nanaimo district. Records may be from the Nanaimo County Court, Supreme Court or Magistrate's Court. Informations are forms in which a witness submits evidence against someone accused of a crime. It includes a summary of the information and personal information of the witness and accused. Several different kinds of warrants are included, such as warrants to apprehend a suspect, warrants to commit someone to gaol and search warrants.

Records from 1872-1889 were grouped together in several volumes beginning with a cardboard name tag; these have been broken into multiple files for preservation. They are arranged mostly chronologically and all include a mixture of different types of records. Some records relate to the Comox District. Files 9 to 16 are not arranged chronologically and include a range of dates that overlap with other volumes.

Most records from 1900-1916 are signed by Stipendiary Magistrate, J.H. Simpson. These forms were removed from a Shannon file where the order of filing was broadly (not strictly) chronological.

Records of the Commission.

By order-in-council dated 20 August 1992 the Inquiry into Safety of Loading Procedures within the British Columbia Ferries was established to inquire into and report on the safety of loading procedures for vessels within the British Columbia Ferry Corporation fleet; to inquire and report on the incidents at the British Columbia Ferry Corporation Nanaimo Ferry Terminal on or about 13 August 1992 insofar as these incidents disclose flaws or faults in the loading procedure from the safety standpoint; and to recommend improvements to the loading procedures, or the maintenance of current practices, from the safety standpoint. Its report was submitted on 11 September 1992.

Fonds consists of proceedings, exhibits (including a videotape presentation and photographs), a commission registrar's file, an administrative file, a general correspondence file, and a copy of the final report.

This series contains legal opinions offered by Attorney General on a wide range of subjects. For more information on the subjects covered, please consult the attached finding aid.

The London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company (LCFIC) was incorporated by statute in British Columbia in 1890 as a general fire insurance business. Most of the original investors were shareholders or officials of the British Columbia Land and Investment Agency. The head office of LCFIC was located in Victoria with agencies in various British Columbia centres such as Vancouver, Nanaimo and Vernon. Because of its limited resources the company entered into a number of reinsurance treaties mainly with English and Scottish insurance companies. The LCFIC became inactive in 1898, was wound up in 1905 and liquidated in 1906. Most policies were replaced by Phoenix Assurance Company policies between 1898 and about 1900. Fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, insurance policies, registers and records of reinsurance treaties. For related records see MS-2880, British Columbia Land and Investment Agency fonds, series 23, 25-26, 84-91.

A metal seal embosser for the London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company was transferred to the BC Archives from the City of Victoria Archives in 2021. This is housed in container number 002340-2784.

Ledgers, 1885-1940; daily records of sales, 1912-1919, and 1947-1955; records including lists of goods supplied in account with Dept. of Indian Affairs, 1954-1956; treasurer's book, Ebenezer Methodist Church (Nanaimo), 1882-1920; minute books, Nanaimo and Cedar Farmers' Institute, 1916-1923.

Purchased from William Hoffer, Bookseller, Vancouver, 1977.

Finding aid: volume list.

Mechanic's lien register.