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Alexander Caulfield Anderson fonds

  • PR-1052
  • Fonds
  • 1834-1884

The fonds consists of journals, certificates, notes and correspondence. Fonds includes Anderson's journal of an expedition to explore the interior of B.C.

Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884

Alexander Grant Dallas fonds

  • PR-1379
  • Fonds
  • 1859-1863

The fonds consists of letters inward regarding Hudson's Bay Company interests in B.C. and on the prairies and a scrapbook containing clippings and sketchbook, journals, and a log book from a voyage to California from Mexico.

Dallas, Alexander Grant

Andrew Muir fonds

  • PR-1553
  • Fonds
  • 1848-1850

The fonds consists of Muir's diary starting in December 1848 as he prepared to leave Scotland for Vancouver Island and continuing until June 5th, 1850. Diary provides details of his voyage to and experiences on Vancouver Island.

Muir, Andrew

Archer Martin fonds

  • PR-0677
  • Fonds
  • 1808-1928

The fonds consists of correspondence, collected documents, and research notes used on the preparation of Martin's volume on Hudson's Bay Company land tenures. The fonds also consists of general correspondence files, letterbooks, and judgment books concerning court cases and legal matters; Martin's notebook containing planting notes, correspondence and clippings regarding his garden and gardening on Vancouver Island; other correspondence and a library catalogue.

Martin, Archer, 1865-1941

Beaver fonds

  • PR-1960
  • Fonds
  • 1861-1870 [Microfilmed 196-]

The fonds consists of logbooks of the Beaver.

Beaver (Ship)

Crown land grants

  • GR-3139
  • Series
  • 1851-1878

The Crown land grants in this series have been recorded in registers covering particular districts or towns. Those registered after 1869 overlap with a centrally registered series of Crown land grants (GR-3097,1869-1930). Included in this series is an indexed volume of Hudson's Bay Company deeds to lands on southern Vancouver Island granted between 1851 and 1858.

Records from 1860-1878 have been indexed in the Historic Crown Grants database (http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/gator/crowngrantsearchrequest.do). Unlike the records in GR-3097, no volume or grant number is provided, only a reel number.

Crown land grants in this series are documented with a land grant registration form and, in many cases, related records. Most of the forms originally consisted of "a" and "b" parts; the latter was given to the grantee, and the former (a long, narrow "counterfoil" ) was kept by the government. These counterfoil records describe the sale or transfer of specific parcels of Crown land; some also describe the terms and conditions governing these transactions. Some counterfoils contain very little information. Registration forms generally document the following: registration number; grantee name; location, acreage, and lot number of the land; and the amount paid. Registration dates are in most cases distinguished on the forms from the dates land was initially acquired; this reflects the fact that purchase of land may not have been finalized until months or years afterwards, when all required improvements had been made. In rare cases, no registration or acquisition date is recorded. Attachments (usually glued to the relevant counterfoil) include sketches of land, applications for Crown grants, receipts, certificates of purchase and title, conveyances recording sale of granted land to other persons, state of title forms, court documents, and related correspondence and other documentation.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Donald Ross fonds

  • PR-0303
  • Fonds
  • 1816-1877

The fonds consists of correspondence, and diverse papers relating to the Hudson's Bay Company including invoices, reports, memoranda and accounts. [Also available on microfilm.]

Ross, Donald, 1797? - 1852

Edward Ermatinger fonds

  • PR-0947
  • Fonds
  • 1818-1874 [Microfilmed ca. 1990]

The fonds consists of letters received from friends and associates. Fonds includes Ermatinger's correspondence inward from Archibald McDonald, William Todd and John Work.

Ermatinger, Edward, 1797-1876

Fort Victoria fonds

  • PR-1683
  • Fonds
  • 1844-1860, 1877-1895

The fonds consists of correspondence, account books, a land office blotter, letterbooks, and fur tariffs of Fort Victoria and the Victoria Land Office of the Hudson's Bay Company. Fonds include a register of land purchased from Indians near Fort Victoria and a record of agreements with Indians at Fort Rupert, Nanaimo, Barkley Sound and Port Alberni.

Hudson's Bay Company. Fort Victoria

Frank Beaton fonds

  • PR-1100
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1944

The fonds consists of diaries, account books, letter books, a record of place claims 1916-1936, mining receipts and miscellaneous correspondence. The fonds also consists of journals kept while at Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope containing records of trading, supplies, company servants, outside traders, and casual employees. [Also available on microfilm.]

Beaton, Frank, 1865-1945

George Simpson McTavish fonds

  • PR-0584
  • Fonds
  • 1872, 1890-1941

The fonds consists of correspondence, text of a speech, journal of a trip from Winnipeg to McDame Post in 1890, a reminiscence entitled "Not Forgotten" and a speech delivered to the BC Historical Association entitled "Fifty years ago in the canning industry."

McTavish, George Simpson, 1863-1943

Hudson's Bay Company and James Douglas correspondence collection

  • PR-2206
  • Collection
  • 1841-1858

The collection consists of six letters by James Douglas to James Yale or Donald Manson, three agreements between the Hudson 's Bay Company and four employees, and a bill of lading for the Hudson's Bay Company ship Cadboro.

Douglas, James, Sir, 1803-1877

Isaac Burpee fonds

  • PR-1623
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1944

The fonds consists of Burpee's correspondence, mainly from descendants of John Work of the Hudson's Bay Company, pertaining to the editing of Work's journals.

Burpee, Isaac

James Anderson fonds

  • PR-1498
  • Fonds
  • 1832-1868 [Photocopied 1942]

The fonds consists of the journals, correspondence, and letterbooks of James Anderson. The majority of the records are photostats of original records. The originals are believed to belong to the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. The records deal with a variety of matters and were originally created between 1832 and 1858 during Anderson's employment with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Anderson, James, 1812-1867

James Bissett fonds

  • PR-1193
  • Fonds
  • 1854-1914 [Microfilmed 1984]

The fonds consists of diaries covering Bissett's travels, notes and letters.

Bissett, James, 1831-1900

James Douglas family fonds

  • PR-1428
  • Fonds
  • 1827-1900

The fonds consists of notebooks, letterbooks, account books, and the death certificate of James Douglas. Fonds includes several diaries kept by James Douglas and one diary kept by Martha Douglas, various official papers to do with the governing of the west coast, correspondence between members of the Douglas family, household calling cards, a book owned by Cecilia Douglas, and Lady Amelia Douglas’ bible.

Douglas family (James Douglas)

John McLeod fonds

  • PR-0569
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1849 [Microfilmed ca. 1990]

The fonds consists of letters received from friends and associates, a report on occurrences at Kamloops in 1822 and a rough journal of a trip from Kamloops to Edmonton in 1826.

McLeod, John, 1788-1849

John Stuart fonds

  • PR-1504
  • Fonds
  • 1805-1806, 1826 [Photocopied 1928]

The fonds consists of John Stuart's journal 1805-1806, and a transcript of outward correspondence, originally from 1826.

The fonds also includes a copy of an 1826 letter from Stuart to James M. Yale.

Stuart, John

John Work fonds

  • PR-1506
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1851, [ca. 1945]

The fonds consists of 15 journals, one notebook, and correspondence written by John Work. The notebook was written in 1834, and the journals extend from 1823-1835 when Work was traveling as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company in the western US and western Canada area. These journals are arranged by date. There is an inventory of the journals and an original note by Work written in 1831.
The fonds also contains a 1945 transcription of Work's 13 May - 26 May, 1851 journal which was written while Work was looking for gold in the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Work, John

Joseph William McKay fonds

  • PR-0560
  • Fonds
  • 1837-1899 [Microfilmed ca. 1990]

The fonds consists of records relating to Joseph William McKay's career as a chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company including correspondence, a journal, notes regarding ceremonies and traditional beliefs of Indigenous people of BC, and his recollections as Chief Trader.

McKay, Joseph William, 1829-1900

Labouchere fonds

  • PR-1666
  • Fonds
  • 1859-1861 [Microfilmed 1942]

The fonds consists of the fur trade journal of the steamer Labouchere. [Also available on microfilm.]

Labouchere (Ship)

Land sale vouchers

  • GR-1170
  • Series
  • 1858-1859

This series includes miscellaneous land sale vouchers, issued at Victoria, B.C. by Joseph D. Pemberton, Colonial Surveyor. It includes vouchers pursuant to the sale of fur trade lands of the Hudson's Bay Company and vouchers signed by various Vancouver Island treasury clerks.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Office of the Surveyor General

Legal opinions offered by Attorney General

  • GR-1459
  • Series
  • 1864-1879

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.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Attorney-General

Roderick Finlayson fonds

  • PR-1496
  • Fonds
  • 1844-1936

The fonds consists of Finlayson's autobiography, certificates of appointment to Chief Trader and Chief Factor, several pieces of outward correspondence, and receipts and notes. The fonds also includes material compiled after Finlayson's death, including a copy of his probate, newspaper clippings, and notes related to his 1878 work "The History of Vancouver Island and the Northwest Coast."

Finlayson, Roderick, 1818-1892

Samuel Black fonds

  • PR-1196
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1835

The fonds consists of diaries, a will and a letter.

Black, Samuel

W.H. McNeill fonds

  • PR-1821
  • Fonds
  • 1819-1844

The fonds consists of McNeill's log books for the Burton, Llama, Beaver, Golden Farmer, Paragon, Convoy, Tally Ho, Una and Cowlitz.

McNeill, William Henry, 1801-1875

William Fraser Tolmie fonds

  • PR-0124
  • Fonds
  • 1830 - 1883

The fonds consists of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, commissions, notes and memoranda, some records relating to his service with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Tolmie, William Fraser, 1812-1886

William Kernaghan fonds

  • PR-1547
  • Fonds
  • 1865

The fonds consists of Kernaghan's notes and correspondence pertaining to his protest over the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly.

Kernaghan, William