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Three watercolours mounted on single paper stock with printed titles below.

The record consists of a presentation album made on or around April 4, 1911 by an unknown creator. The album has a cedar bark cover and contains 18 black and white photographs mounted on paper. There are no captions or page numbers but there is a hand lettered title page which provides the album title.

This unbound portfolio "Sketches for Tommy Darling", contains covers and 7 ink and graphite cartoons.

This series consists of records of the Commission on Victoria Police Commissioners, 1910. Commissioner Peter S. Lampman was appointed March 24, 1910 to inquire into the actions of the Victoria Police commissioners in response to allegations of corruption. The investigation centered on the actions of the Police Commissioners in regard to bawdy houses and gambling establishments in the Chinatown area.

One illustrated journal or "funny book" titled "Sister and I From Victoria to London Memoirs of Ods and Ends" by Emily Carr covering her trip from Victoria B.C. to London, England en-route to art studies in France. The images depict humorous events as the sisters travel by rail across Canada to Quebec City where they board The Empress of Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool, and then on to London. Places in Canada include Victoria, Vancouver, Sicamous, Glacier House, Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Winnipeg, Montreal, Quebec City.

One formerly string-bound calendar comprised of 12 pages depicting and describing the months of the year from the perspective of Billie, Carr's sheepdog.

Series consists of receipts for water rights and mining licenses.

Series consists of one chronological record book from the Nanaimo coroner's office, 1866-1905, recording inquests and showing the name of the deceased; cause of death; date of death; date of inquest; name of the coroner; names of the jurors; and the name of the medical officer. Accidental or unusual deaths, some of which may have been the subject of inquiries, are also listed. There is also a loose list of accidental deaths in Nanaimo district prior to 1866.

The series consists of 180 photographs, some loose and most mounted in an album, created from 1896 to 1904. The photographs were taken by A. J. Stone and A. E. Stanfield and include images of hunting activities in Alaska, Cassiar, Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake and River, Liard River, and Stikine River. There are also many images of Indigenous people in those areas. The album is accompanied by a list of the photographs that has been annotated by Archives staff over the years.

One sketchbook with 21 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings include figure studies, cartoon drawings and document activities in 1902 at art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. They do not include her 1901 sojourn in Bushey. Some cartoon sketches may convey domestic incidents while boarding in private homes and include incidents concerning her landladies. One sequence appears to date from after her return to Victoria, 1904. There are also a number of poems written by Carr, notes and text that provide context for these and other sketches in the Carr fonds. The sketches include cartoon drafts for other finished works.

One sketchbook with 130 drawings by Emily Carr, several pages of written text including lists, poems and commentary. This book appears to primarily document her time in St. Ives in Cornwall, outside the hours of her formal art schooling there.

The series consists of a bound letterpress book created by the Dept. of the Provincial Secretary between 1889 and 1902. The book is indexed alphabetically by name of correspondent and includes copies of the Provincial Secretary's statements and correspondence. The subjects covered include statements of revenue collectors, statements of bonds deposited, permits to gather or kill game, immigration matters, lists of stipendiary magistrates, exhumation orders and other subjects that fell under the responsibility of the Provincial Secretary.

On triptych titled A Study in Evolution-Bushey.

The London Student Sojourn contains 21 illustrations depicting boarding house life at Mrs Dodd's, 4 Bulstrode Street, London, England. The illustrations are painted directly onto the right hand pages and accompany detailed verses typed on paper glued to the left hand pages. The verses and illustrations describing the boarders, aspects of communal living, commeraderie as well as personal or situational discord. Two typed pages of the preface and the 21 left hand pages are not

MS-3326 consists of one funny book, created by Emily Carr in 1901. The funny book is comprised of seven pairs of works, which consist of graphite and ink drawings with accompanying hand-written verse. The work details the shared adventure of Carr and her friend, Hannah Kendall, as they attempted to view the funeral procession of Queen Victoria in London, February 2, 1901.

Each pair of works has been described at the item level.

One diptych with captions. Carr has depicted in both as the centre figure alongside two women with whom she must try to get along. This probably dates from her time in England.

One painting depicting Carr and others.

Letterbook copies of private correspondence outward, 1889 and 1893-1900.

One cartoon in sequence of three, includes Carr and sheepdog Billie and parrot.

The series consists of a typescript diaries of Tom Wilson's trip into the Yukon, March to May 1897 and September to November 1897 (detailing the terrors of a winter trip) as well as his diary for April - September, 1898. It also includes the autobiography of Wilson as dictated to his niece, with five postcards and clippings.

The series consists of a letterbook created by C.M. Tate between 1889 and 1898. The entries of his outward correspondence from 1889 to 1893 were written while he was in Chilliwack at the Coqualeetza Home and School. Entries from 1894 to 1898 are written from Victoria.

Letterbook of correspondence outward from Official Administrator, J.C. Prevost, 1890-1895.

The series consists of correspondence and contracts between Surveyor General W.S. Gore, on behalf of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, with various contractors regarding three public works projects. The projects are the building of the Victoria Law Courts, correspondence and contracts from February to June 1887; Kamloops bridge, correspondence and contracts from March 1887 to February 1888; and Lillooet Bridge, correspondence and contracts from August 1887 to March 1888.

Business records of Kwong Lee and Co., and Hopkee and Co., including shares of British Columbia companies and agreement to transport Chinese to Victoria.

Presented by W.E. Knowlton, Kamloops, 1977.

Series consists of a minute book of the WCTU of British Columbia. Includes list of members, resolutions adopted, and other business conducted by WCTU chapter in Victoria.

The series consists of a photograph album, possibly created by either photographer Edward Dossetter or Dr. I.W. Powell (Superintendent of Indian Affairs for British Columbia) in 1881-1882. The album contains 52 photographs, six illustrations apparently cut from a magazine or book and one postcard of an engraving.

The first 35 photographs were taken by Dossetter during the inspection of coastal Indian Reserves by Powell, on their 1881 trip on the HMS Rocket. The photographs are of First Nations people and villages. The album also contains a photograph of the Gorge in Victoria, seven photographs of celebration arches, four photographs of Esquimalt Harbour and two of Lytton, taken in 1882. These photographs may have been taken by Richard Maynard.

In addition there are six illustrations, mostly religious artworks, three photographs of Cornwall, England and a postcard engraving of a cannery.

The series consists of a photograph album, known as the Indian Commission album, but possibly created by or for Dr. I.W. Powell (Superintendent of Indian Affairs for British Columbia) or A.C. Anderson (Commission and Fisheries Inspector) after 1881. It contains 100 photographs from Powell and Anderson's visits to First Nations communities on the British Columbia coast in 1879 and 1881. The photographs were taken by various photographers who accompanied Powell on his trips, including O.C. Hastings and Edward Dossetter. They are of the First Nations villages and people, the ship HMS Rocket and its crew, and landscapes encountered.

The series is a photograph album of 130 pages containing 100 images, two loose prints, and one small painting. The photographs are predominantly albumen, with two salted paper prints. Many images have pencil annotations, some photographs have been cut into geometric shapes for presentation. The photographs are pasted onto scrap album paper, the album is sewn cardboard covered in faux leather.

The one hundred images contained in this scrap album are a disparate collection documenting Col. Moody's professional travels as an officer of the British colonial empire, and his personal travels and family life as a 19th century British patrician. Many photos have penciled captions in Mary Moody's handwriting. The album begins with a series of purchased images documenting the Moody family's European grand tour. Common for the era, images depict the Loire Valley and Brittany; Belgium and Northern Italy. Four images depict scenes from mid-century, colonial British Columbia reflecting his private life and professional duties as Commander of the Columbia Department of the Royal Engineers for the Crown colony of British Columbia. Of note are two photographs depicting unidentified First Nations' men thought to be photographed near New Westminster; among the earliest photographs of indigenous peoples in the colonial northwest of North America. The album also contains purchased images of Japan; photos taken across mid-19th century England and Scotland; and portraits of friends and associates. The album also contains a pencil sketch by Sarah Crease of the Moody home in New Westminster dated 1863 and a cutting from the London Illustrated News.

This series consists of Volume I of the Journal of Proceedings of the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (JIRC) and documents the daily work of the three commissioners (Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Archibald McKinlay, and Gilbert Malcom Sproat) from November 1876 to June 1877 on the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. In addition to the text of the journal, there are also several ink and colour drawings of reserves.

Within the journal are several loose correspondence and drafts of documents, many of which are addressed to A.C. Anderson. These loose documents have been retained within the pages of the volume.

The JIRC was formed in 1876 to settle disputes between the federal and provincial governments regarding allotment of reserves in British Columbia. The JIRC operated until 1878, when it was replaced by the Indian Reserve Commission, for which Sproat remained the commissioner.

An attached document (see the finding aid note section of this description) provides a paginated listing of locations visited by the commissioners.

Series consists of an indexed volume of applications to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works from individuals who have applied for pre-emptions or for the transfer of Crown land in British Columbia. Each application for a government survey has the name of the applicant, the date, the description of the property and usually includes a sketch map of the property.