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The series consists of records created by the B.C. Electric Railway Company between 1894 and 1917. The series includes correspondence and newspaper clippings with the City of Victoria concerning the operation of jitneys, disposition of the Company's assets, and labour problems; correspondence with the provincial government re land purchases in Prince Rupert by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway; operating statements of the Company 1914-1916; evidence given by Victoria City before Dr. Adam Shortt, Commissioner into the affairs of the B.C. Electric Railway and newspaper clipping books.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): James Flynn recounts his life in Northern B.C. from 1910 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: James Flynn talks about his experiences in northern B.C. from 1910. He was born in Newfoundland in 1888. He offers his reasons for leaving Newfoundland in 1903, coming out west in 1907; arri;vied in Prince Rupert in 1910, working for the Grand Trunk Railroad and Prince Rupert Waterworks. He describes Price Rupert as it was in 1910, going to Stewart in 1911, working on the telegraph to the; Nass country in 1910-1911, prospecting, starting a farm on Porcher Island, fishing on the Skeena in 1914, logging near Port Clements on the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1914, working on a pile driver and an accident is described in detail, an incident while working on a logging camp, harvest in Alberta, trapping on Nass River. One incident of burning down a telegraph cabin by accident is recalled. TRACK 2: Flynn continues with the incident: rebuilding the cabin, getting injured on the trap line, farming in the Nass, settlement on Porcher Island, settlers at Alice Arm, Captain John Irving's place there, the "Esperanza", life as a prospector near Alice Arm from the mid 1940s to the date of the interview and miscellaneous rambling comments about Alice Arm.

This series consists of records of the Railway Department, 1904-1952. Records include agreements regarding running rights over Fraser River bridge at New Westminster; certificate regarding the amalgamation of the Howe Sound and Northern Railway and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway; contract for PGER locomotives; and leases for land and equipment.

The file is a photograph album, compiled in 1905 by gluing photographs into an album. It contains 285 photographs showing mines, mining equipment and workers as well as mining landscapes including towns and valleys. Most of the photographs have captions and other information. Many of the photographs have been glued together to form panoramic prints.

From pages 1 to 44 each photograph has been numbered from 286 to 477, following directly on from the previous album. Photographs used in Dept. of Mines annual reports are indicated with the report date and page number. The photographs from pages 47 to 58 do not follow this numbering sequence and are on different cardboard. It looks like they may have been inserted later. These photographs, mostly without any caption information, appear to be photographs taken on the Provincial Mineralogist's inspection trip through the Northern interior of the province between July and October 1905, along the route of the proposed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

The series consists of records related to Grand Trunk Pacific Railway town lots purchased by Frederick B. Pemberton in the town of Rivers (Manitoba), Melville, Watrous and Biggar (Saskatchewan), and Wainwright, Tofield and Edson (Alberta). The series includes: correspondence, tax notices and receipts, property payment notices and receipts, newspaper clippings, lists of lots purchased, certificates of title, and an Assignment of Agreements. The series also consists of a regional map of the Prairie provinces, with the townsites noted. There are also townsite maps of Tofield, Edson, Biggar and Rivers.

The Pemberton correspondence is with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Land Department and the Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company, Limited, in Winnipeg. It appears the latter also uses the name the Grand Trunk Pacific Town and Development Company, Limited. The correspondence relates to the purchase of lots, and tax and property payments due and received. There is also correspondence between Frederick B. Pemberton (or Pemberton & Son Ltd. on behalf of Frederick B. Pemberton) and various agents, brokers, and notary publics regarding the listing, sale and rental of townsite properties. The records include a Victoria, B.C. newspaper clipping which consists of a large advertisement for the sale of the Grand Trunk Pacific lots.

The fonds consists of photographs primarily of the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.