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Two manuscript histories of Canada produced for the Dominion History Competition, which was possibly held for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The histories are by "Canadienne" and "Fleur de lis, Beaver".

Invitation to a luncheon commemorating Victoria's 100th birthday.

Annual report.

Copied from G/V66/V66r.

The file consists of an indenture drawn up between James Douglas, Montague William Tyrwhitt Drake, William A.G. Young, Charles Good and Alice Good regarding the marriage settlement of property to Alice Good nee Douglas. The original indenture is dated 1862 and has various attachments and modifications that go up to 1900.

Clippings, performance announcements, and photocopies of photographs pertaining to the musical career of Eva Hart. Original photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-28.

Presented by Mr. Gillan, London, England 1978.

2 fabric pennants, luncheon menus, railway orders, seating plan, invitations and correspondence forwarded "to the Premier of the province of British Columbia".

The file consists of two b&w photographs identified as members of the Taylor family taken ca. 189-? and 1 photograph identified as Mr. and Mrs. Deans taken ca. 1865.

The item consists of a photograph album that belonged to B.W. Pearse. The front page is inscribed "B.W. Pearse, Fernwood, Victoria, British Columbia, 1860.” The album contains 55 b&w photographs collected by Pearse that primarily depict Yale, the Fraser River, areas around the Thompson River, and views of Victoria. Several of the photographs are by Frederick Dally. Pages are numbered and nearly every photograph has a caption.

"Beautiful British Columbia's birthplace": a history of James Bay community.

Presented by Mrs. L. Iverson, Historical Committee, James Bay New Horizons, 1975.

The item consists of a hardbound “order book” that appears to have been created in about 1914. There is no date written in the volume, but searches in the vital statistics index have turned up records that indicate it was created after April 1914 and prior to November 1914. The volume lists the names and addresses of women, and in many cases, it also lists what goods and services they could supply. Goods include embroidery, fine tatting, knitted garments, crochet hats, china riveting, tortoise shell products, dinner mats, children’s whitewear, and foodstuffs.

The volume may have been created by a local Women’s Institute, and may list women available to assist with fundraising or early war work. The majority of individuals listed lived in the Greater Victoria area, although several lived in the Cowichan Valley and Salt Spring Island.

The file consists of an unpublished photocopy of Robert Jewsbury's history of the Victoria shortwave club, probably written in the 1980's.

The file consists of one letter from Catherine Penrice in England (1866) enquiring about friends in Victoria. It also contains 12 pages of poetry of a religious nature written or transcribed by Mrs. Blinkhorn (1840).

Letter from Lord Wenlock thanking the Manager of the Mount Baker Hotel on behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall for his excellent arrangements, October 2, 1901; typed list of names (guest list) headed by the "T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York"; luncheon menu.

The file consists of photocopies of Croft family information includes two letters to Edmund Croft from his brother, Henry Croft (Victoria, B.C.) 1916 and 1917, and two letters from Henry's widow, Mary Jean (Dunsmuir) Croft, 1917 as well as information on the Croft family compiled by the donor.

The file is an autograph book of Madelon Cruickshank (nee Derdinger) who emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine to Victoria ca. 1875. Her Aunt Sarah, Mrs. David Oppenheimer, gave her this book. Madelon later lived in Yale, B.C. and San Francisco before returning to Victoria and marrying George Cruickshank. The signatures in the book are from people in Victoria, Yale and San Francisco, 1880-1883.

The file contains a set of four diazo prints of floor and electrical plans created by Wells Electrical Designs in Victoria in 1983 for renovations to the Victoria General Hospital located between Fairfield Road and Humboldt Street. The file consists of three floor and electrical plans of the first floor (Plan E1), third floor (Plan E4) and fourth floor (Plan E5) of the hospital's B, C and D wings. It also includes a plan of power riser and code loads for the B, C and X wings of the hospital (Plan E6). Plans E1, E4 and E5 also include key plans.

Daily journals (6 vol) 1913-1918 chronicling the Point Ellice's service as a steam dredge tender for the Dept. of Public Works.

The file consists of a typescript copy of the reminiscences of Gerald Ross Hunter titled "Are we at the crossroads?" Mr. Hunter was born in England, emigrated to Wynyard, Saskatchewan, moved to British Columbia in 1937 where he and his wife operated a motel on Kingsway in Vancouver, and then lived in the Fraser Valley and in Victoria.

The file consists of newsletters, course information and forms from Central Junior Secondary School, Victoria, 1977-1978.

The file consists of copies of essays by Martin Adolphus Kroeger. "My Memories" and "My voyage to South America on the MS 'Caliche', July 1929." Mr. Kroeger emigrated with his family from England to Edson, Alberta, in 1911 and subsequently lived in California and Victoria (where he was involved with the motion picture business), Vancouver, and South Africa, before returning to Victoria in 1965.