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Papers relating to Chinese people in British Columbia

The series consists of (Volume 1) tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria in 1865 via the barque "Maria", receipts, account books, medicine books; and (Volume 2) letters written by a son in China to his father in B.C. in the 1870s relating to crops, family news, and information regarding the investment of remittances (Volume 2).

Hamilton Smith photographs

The series consists of photographs of the Smith family businesses and employees, their friends and homes, and places in Victoria between the mid-1870s and 1928. Most photographs were taken in Victoria, though M.R. Smith & Co. exhibition displays were likely taken at the New Westminster Fair over several years. The postcards are from places such as Tacoma, Washington and Nice, France.

Photographs were found within the collection and no original order was evident. They have been arranged according to themes by the BC Archives. Captions and titles were retained where available. See Item List for details.

Smith, Hamilton

Mrs. Richard Woods

The item is a b&w cabinet card portrait of Mrs. Richard Woods (Anne Woods), mounted on a Spencer & Hastings card. "S.A. Spencer, return to" is written on the back of the photograph. The original photograph may be have been taken by Stephen Spencer as early as 1861 and reprinted at some point in the 1880's by Spencer & Hastings.

Taylor family photographs

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.

Photographs

The series is a photograph album created or acquired by Herbert Carmichael, sometime between 1897 and the early 1900s. It contains photographs of Victoria and area, particularly photos of Beacon Hill Park, Victoria Harbour and sailboats. There are also Vancouver Island photographs, including images of the Cowichan and Alberni areas and images taken on the mainland including Kootenays and coastal areas. There are a few photographs taken in Northern Island, Sault Ste. Marie and England. Most of the photographs have either stamped or penciled captions.

Jane (Branks) Powell oversized commemorative certificates

Series consists of two oversized certificates presented to Jane (Branks) Powell: (1) by the Freemasons on the occasion of their semi-centennial anniversary and in commemoration of her late-husband, Israel W. Powell, who presided over the First Communication and was the lodge's first Grand Master; and (2) by the Alexandra Club upon her life membership. Both certificates have been decoratively hand written and embellished with colour and gilt.

David Scholes fonds

  • PR-0192
  • Fonds
  • [193-]-1943, 1960-1987

The fonds consists of Scholes' photographs of Victoria buildings and panoramas and three framed of the Victoria Short Wave Club. The fonds also includes Scholes' membership card for the Victoria and Island Gliding and Soaring Club from ca. 1943 as well as 15 black and white photographic prints and the matching 15 black and white negatives showing the construction of gliders at Lansdowne Field, 1943 to 1944.

Scholes, David

Nellie Isabel (Burnham) Gosnell family history

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.

Essays and accounts

The series consists of microfilmed transcripts of short essays on various subjects, including the transport and mining industries in B.C., the history of B.C., descriptions of Victoria and other B.C. cities by Cariboo grocer Leonard A. Coton. Also includes accounts of car trips taken by L.A. Coton to the Okanagan, the Cariboo and on Vancouver Island in the 1950s.

Edward Cridge and George Hills : doctrinal conflict, 1872-1874, and the founding of Church of Our Lord in Victoria, British Columbia, 1875 / Susan Dickinson

The item is a typescript copy of a B.A. essay by Susan Dickinson titled "Edward Cridge and George Hills: doctrinal conflict, 1872-1874, and the founding of Church of Our Lord in Victoria, British Columbia, 1875". iii, 146 leaves. Essay (B.A.). Bibliography: Leaves 129-139.

O'Reilly family records

The fonds consists of the diaries, correspondence, notebooks, survey field books, accounts, business and personal papers, photographs, watercolours, maps, and ephemera created by members of the O'Reilly family between 1830 and 1992. These records reflect the family's role as part of the inner circle of administrators during the colonial period and as part of Victoria's upper middle class, until the death of Peter O'Reilly in 1905. They also document the everyday activities and events in the life of the family. These records were previously catalogued at the item level in the Old Catalogue, primarily using classification A/E/OR3, and as MS-0412 O'Reilly family, MS-0248 O'Reilly family and MS-2086 Caroline O'Reilly. In 2001 the records were rearranged into a single fonds in preparation for a microfilming project. Records which belonged to the Trutch family (MS-2897), Edgar Dewdney (MS-2898), Weir family (MS-2896) and the William Curtis Ward (MS-2899) were removed from these collections and described separately.

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