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The file contains a collection of pharmaceutical ephemera including diplomas awarded to John Cochrane, Cyrus Harbert Bowes, Joseph H. Emery, and Thomas Shotbolt; posters commemorating pharmacists Thomas Shotbolt and Thomas M. Henderson and a bottle label from Shotbolt's Drug Store.

Born in India, William Tayler was a retired army officer who came to Victoria early in the 20th century and became active in local theatrical productions. This item, a heavily annotated script of the traditional play "Blue Beard", is accompanied by a note written by Bullock-Webster, 30 Sept. 1946, which reads: "[this play is] an interesting example of the early work of Major Tayler...".

Invitation to a luncheon commemorating Victoria's 100th birthday.

2 fabric pennants, luncheon menus, railway orders, seating plan, invitations and correspondence forwarded "to the Premier of the province of British Columbia".

The file consists of correspondence inward (2 letters) pertaining to Francis Grattan's appointment to the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and to the guest appearance of G. Huntley Green with the orchestra; music programmes of the Victoria Little Symphony Orchestra, and photocopies of photographs and newspaper clippings.

Milk company tickets and receipt. Bread company tickets.

Presented by Don Lewis, Victoria, 1975.

File consists of one family album containing a black leather cover with gold embossing on the cover and 91 photographic prints of various sizes adhered to forty-nine black album pages. Lillian E. Maynard’s life, family, and friends are documented through portrait and landscape photographs as well as newspaper clippings. Members of the Maynard family are depicted including Lillian’s brother Richard James Maynard; Katie Adelaide and her sons Albert, Robert, and Jack Walker; and unidentified infants, babies, children and adults. Landscapes include views of Saanich (Saanich Inlet, Island Highway Saanich Road, Little Cadboro Bay), Oak Bay (McNeill Bay, Willows Beach), Elk Lake, Jordon River, Cameron Lake, Colwood, Courtney, Sooke (Inner Sooke Harbour “Saseenos”) and Mount Baker. The album features a small number of Victoria tourist views including Belmont House at the Parliament buildings, Dunsmuir Castle, Butchart Gardens, Victoria Harbour, and the C.P.R. docks (1927). Near the end of the album are three of Hannah and Richard Maynard’s photographs, including Richard's award-winning landscape view, "The Arm", and two of Hannah’s annual “Gems of British Columbia" composite photographs. The album concludes with a newspaper article "Carry a Camera It Pays, says Fair Motorist" from The Daily Colonist, April 1919. It contains news coverage of a car crash involving Lillian and Richard and features images of the crash, Lillian, and her Kodak camera. In the article, she is credited for documenting the incident and later using the photographic evidence in court.

The file consists of drivers licenses issued to Walter Luney, Florence Augusta Luney and George Albert Hood at Victoria on 16 February 1925; these were the first drivers' licenses issued in British Columbia. Also included in this files are a copy of permit number 1, issued under the Motor Vehicle Speed Regulation Act on 29 February 1904, and a notification to attend a driver's examination (no date).

Daily journals (6 vol) 1913-1918 chronicling the Point Ellice's service as a steam dredge tender for the Dept. of Public Works.

File consists of one album entitled "The Victoria Album". The album contains 36 black and white portraits featuring teens, young children, babies, three adult women (one of Hannah Maynard standing with a sculpture of a child), two adult men, a dog, dolls, and a group posed with a horse-led stagecoach. Several photographs have been hand coloured. The verso of some photographs can be viewed through openings in a preceding page and are printed with: "Mrs. R. Maynard, photographic artist and dealer in all kinds of photographic materials. Stereoscopic and large views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for sale. Corner of Douglas and Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C."

The album has an embossed, brown leather cover and metal (brass?) clasp. Page edges and embossed turn-ins are gilded. The inside cover page and intermittent additional pages within the album feature polychrome floral decoration. Several unused openings have also been decorated with hand-drawn, multi-coloured flowers.

The item consists of a hardbound “order book” that appears to have been created in about 1914. There is no date written in the volume, but searches in the vital statistics index have turned up records that indicate it was created after April 1914 and prior to November 1914. The volume lists the names and addresses of women, and in many cases, it also lists what goods and services they could supply. Goods include embroidery, fine tatting, knitted garments, crochet hats, china riveting, tortoise shell products, dinner mats, children’s whitewear, and foodstuffs.

The volume may have been created by a local Women’s Institute, and may list women available to assist with fundraising or early war work. The majority of individuals listed lived in the Greater Victoria area, although several lived in the Cowichan Valley and Salt Spring Island.

The file consists of several typed pages and an excerpt of a handwritten letter by J.T. Walbran to an unknown correspondent with the initials WPQ. The letter indicates that "before leaving the Quadra, Mr. Keefer asked [Walbran] to give...a short account of the early history of Victoria, Nanaimo [and] Vancouver to embody in a report of his on the seaports of this coast which he has been asked to prepare by his Department at Ottawa."

Letter from Lord Wenlock thanking the Manager of the Mount Baker Hotel on behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall for his excellent arrangements, October 2, 1901; typed list of names (guest list) headed by the "T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York"; luncheon menu.

The file consists of an indenture drawn up between James Douglas, Montague William Tyrwhitt Drake, William A.G. Young, Charles Good and Alice Good regarding the marriage settlement of property to Alice Good nee Douglas. The original indenture is dated 1862 and has various attachments and modifications that go up to 1900.

Public school certificates presented to two of the children of John Patmore Walls and Fanny Georgina Orlebar Walls: Nina E. Walls, High School Entrance Certificate 1899, Orlebar Charles Walls, Roll of Honour 1903.

File consists of one leather album containing 43 studio portraits of individuals taken by Hannah Maynard. Nearly all photographs include Hannah Maynard's studio stamp on the reverse. The majority of the individuals are identified in the album, and many are members of the Maynard family.

File consists of one velvet-covered album containing 62 studio portrait photographs. The majority of the photographs are taken by Hannah Maynard and she is likewise depicted in some of the photographs. Other portrait photographs are taken by other professional photographers. Some of these individuals are identified.

The file consists of one photograph album containing 167 photographs both loose and affixed to pages. The majority of the photographs are not identified, but many of those that are identified are inscribed as members of the Maynard family. The photographs depict family gatherings and activities in and around Victoria.

The album is embossed with a generic album title, "Impressions of places and people." A note in pencil is inscribed on the inside front cover: "Newcombe? Prob. Maynard"

Two manuscript histories of Canada produced for the Dominion History Competition, which was possibly held for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The histories are by "Canadienne" and "Fleur de lis, Beaver".

Charter.

Presented by Kenneth Miller, Sidney, 1979.

The file consists of records that were found in collection at the BC Archives. They were located in November 2021 in a box of miscellaneous court records. The majority of these records had been pulled from files in GR-1304 (Victoria Supreme Court probate files) during the microfilming of those records in the 1980s. While the majority of the records in that box were reunited with their original files, the records in this file remain loose. Archives staff cannot be sure that they were all pulled from GR-1304 and they may belong to records in another series.

The file consists of 3 leather pocket books and several small scraps of paper. The file includes a receipt dated 1864 between an Edward Finch (?) and a P. Uhart (?).a receipt dated June 21 1864 at Victoria for payment between Peter McQuade and the Schooner North Star (master William McCulloch), a receipt dated at Victoria June 11, 1864 between Samuel Smith and Peter McQuade, a receipt dated at Kamloops July 31, 1873 mentioning an Alexander Smith, Joseph Bushie, and Edward [Chund?], a reciept dated at New Westminster February 4 [no date] regarding Sir Patrick Killey and William Farson (?), and a receipt written in French on 13 February 1865 between a Rene Sazet and a Pierre (?) Bonaparte. There is also a receipt dated November 2 1892 that mentions the estate of Morris Moss, as well as an M. Manson and an Alex McLean. The file also consists of material pulled out of GR-1304 file 1726 (Thomas Smith, d. 1892). These items are marked in the file but include an empty leather pocketbook, a copy of a poem entitled "When the Rye Come Hame," a receipt dated at Victoria on December 31, 1861 and a letter written by a James Smith in Charlotteville, January 2 1885. These records do not appear to relate to the Thomas Smith file and were removed in the 1980s.

Of the two remaining pocketbooks, one contains a Pacific Diary for the Year 1872 published in San Francisco. The diary itself is blank. The other notebooks is in very fragile condition and has various notes that have been crossed out. These include notes on Metlakakklah (sic), Fort Simpson, Skeena, Wrangel, Victoria. It also includes various assorted other notes.