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Maynard prints

File consists of 268 black and white photographs, negatives, and postcards. They were commercially produced by Hannah, Richard, or Albert Maynard and purchased by the Newcombe family, typically via Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Gallery. Images depict the Gorge, Victoria beach scenes, Esquimalt, Beacon Hill Park, studio portraits, houses, and other miscellaneous scenes. The original order of the photographs has been maintained.

Victoria School Board minutes and other material

  • GR-1465
  • Series
  • 1869-1887

This series contains a bound volume of minutes of meetings of the Victoria School Board, along with receipts of payments made by the Board. The series includes minutes of meetings of school board electors (showing votes cast by individual electors for particular candidates) and contains copies of provincial government circulars relating to education and copies of schools-related bills, by-laws, rules and regulations.

Victoria School District. Board of School Trustees

Land office blotter

The item is a volume titled land office blotter. Blotters were used to record detailed trading activity. Only one page has been used. The page describes two financial transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first transaction relates to 200 pound sterling received from James Cooper, Master of the Hudson's Bay Company ship Columbia, as a deposit on a land purchase in September 1849.

The next relates to the trade of 535 blankets on the 6th of May, 1850. The blankets were paid to several Indigenous groups "for purchase of their lands as per details in Register of Land Purchases", also known as the Douglas Treaties. The names, transcribed directly from the blotter, are: Tee-chamitsa, Kosampsom, Swenghung, Chilcowitch, Whyomilth, Checonein, Kakyaakan, Chewhaytsun, and Soak.

This record was likely created by James Douglas, as it appears to be written in his handwriting [see Wilson Duff, "The Fort Victoria Treaties", BC Studies No. 3 (Fall 1969): 8].

Frederick W. Hodson papers

Diaries, 1917-1939 (11 volumes), also contains loose material; correspondence, 1913-1968, literary manuscripts; newspaper and magazine articles; reminiscences, 1915-1929 (preliminary and final drafts). Numerous photographs removed to Visual Records. Microfilm of diaries, 1917-1929 [Reel A00232], microfilm of reminiscences (final draft), omitting chapters 1-3 [Reel A00233].

Gift of Mrs. F.W. Hodson, Shawnigan Lake, 1967 and 1974.

Finding aid: reel/file list.

[Ainslie Helmcken -- City of Victoria archivist -- reel 3/part 3]

News item. In a four-part interview, archivist Ainslie Helmcken reviews events at Victoria City Hall in the 19th century. In part 3, Mr. Helmcken explains how the first councils were organized as the new city hall was being completed in the latter part of the 1880's.

[Heritage buildings ; Lai at Immigration Building]

Television stock shots. The reel begins with brief sequences on the Sooke Region Museum and on Helmcken House. The balance of the reel (shot 06-Dec-1977) deals with the old Immigration Building at the corner of Dallas Road and Ontario Street in Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood. The building is in the process of being demolished. In the years 1908-1923, it was used as a detention centre for processing and confining Chinese immigrants. Dr. David Lai tours the building, talks about Chinese immigration and the head tax, and transcribes some of the old Chinese writing from the walls of the cells, which comprise messages and poems written by the immigrants confined there.

[Ainslie Helmcken -- City of Victoria archivist -- reel 4/part 4]

News item. In a four-part interview, archivist Ainslie Helmcken reviews events at Victoria City Hall in the 19th century. In part 4, Mr. Helmcken talks about the construction of the City Hall's final addition, and the clock tower. The clock was made by a Mr. Redfern, a local jeweller (and mayor at the time), who completed it in 1891 at a cost of $5,000. Following this discussion are some close-up shots of the clock's movement.

[Ainslie Helmcken -- City of Victoria archivist -- reel 2/part 2]

News item. In a four-part interview, archivist Ainslie Helmcken reviews events at Victoria City Hall in the 19th century. In part 2, Mr. Helmcken describes how the sherrif was instructed to seize all assets of Victoria City Council for non-payment of a $700 legal bill.

[Ainslie Helmcken -- City of Victoria archivist -- reel 1/part 1]

News item. In a four-part interview, archivist Ainslie Helmcken reviews events at Victoria City Hall in the 19th century. In part 1, Mr. Helmcken describes the incorporation of the City of Victoria (1862) and the establishment of the first city council.

[Helmcken on archives]

News item. Victoria's city archivist, Ainslie Helmcken, talks about improvements to the city archives. These include: (1) access to much more material; (2) a larger storage area; (3) encouragement for more public input; and (4) access to additional education grants. Helmcken states that the city archives "can become, to a degree, an educational institute." He is shown at work, perusing old ledger books, charts and photographs.

Naturalization applications and oaths of allegiance

  • GR-1554
  • Series
  • 1859-1917, 1926

The series consists of naturalization applications and oaths of allegiance issued by the Victoria County Court between 1859 and 1917; 1926. They are arranged numerically by file number from 1 to 4118 and include oaths of allegiance from 1859 to 1865 and applications and oaths from 1871 to 1917; 1926. The files may also include oath of residence and certificates of naturalization.

British Columbia. County Court (Victoria)

The Canadian Defence Service voting regulations, [1948] : book of key maps

Item consists of one bound atlas measuring 46 x 40.5 cm. It contains 69 electoral district maps arranged from east to west for the cities of Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Hamilton, Windsor, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria-Nanaimo, and St. John's. Maps vary in scale and include the districts' population as of the 1941 census. Each map includes an electoral district definition as defined in the Representation Act of 1947. Depending on their scale, maps depict railway lines, bodies of water, ferry routes, street names, and/or house numbers. Electoral district, and some municipal, boundaries are in red.

Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

The Canadian War Service voting regulations, 1944 : book of key maps [annotated]

Item consists of one bound atlas measuring 45 x 38 cm. It contains 63 electoral district maps arranged from east to west for the cities of Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Hamilton, Windsor, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria. Maps vary in scale and include the districts' population as of the 1931 census. Each map includes an electoral district definition as defined in the Representation Act of 1933. Depending on their scale, maps depict railway lines, bodies of water, ferry routes, street names, and/or house numbers. The table of contents and many of the maps are annotated in graphite, red, or blue pencil. Maps 52 and 53 for Edmonton east and west (respectively) are missing.

Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

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.

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