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Documentary. This film depicts a trip from Seattle to Victoria on the S.S. Princess Marguerite, and profiles the history of the ship -- and of her namesake, an earlier B.C. coastal steamship that was sunk during World War II while serving as a troop transport.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood in Victoria from 1908; railways; horse transportation; fire service; BC Electric Railway construction; railway competition; advent of the motor car/bus, 1919-1920; apprenticeship to; coach-builders; John Meston [?]; whaling equipment; building commercial vehicles; streetcars; winter of 1916; street lighting; World War I; shipping in Victoria harbour; Empress Hotel; BC Electric st;ation and freight yards; the ice man. TRACK 2: Victoria's water supply; rail trips via BC Electric and CN; trip to Deerholme; wagon teams; coal and wood deliveries; career at Metsons and bus building; the Depression, ca. 1930; enters teaching profession; his own school days; WWII -- war effort, shipyard work and civil defence; the E&N railway; Victoria's brickyards; industries of the Inner Harbou;r and their decline; the Gorge amusement park.;

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0001 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christian Sivertz (father) and his background in Iceland; emigration to America; settling in Winnipeg, 1883, and life and work there; move west to Victoria, 1890; impressions; work on the B.C;. Electric railway. TRACK 2: Icelandic community in Victoria; grocery store enterprise; farming in Point Roberts; return to Victoria; joins post office; political activity; unionization of letter car;riers; trade-union activity and its effect on the family.;

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0002 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-03-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Life in the Sivertz household, Victoria, early 1900s; social life -- the Victoria Icelandic community and its culture; organization of the household; school days in Victoria; trade union acti;vities of Christian Sivertz; James Watters; formation of B.C. Federation of Labour, 1910; Christian Sivertz as BCFL president; political activities of Christian Sivertz and views on a labour party; at;titude to J.S. Woodsworth and the CCF. [TRACK 2: blank.];

The file consists of an unpublished photocopy of Robert Jewsbury's history of the Victoria shortwave club, probably written in the 1980's.

News footage. Footage of the Coast Guard vessels "Camsell" (at dock) and "Canmar Explorer" (in drydock). Includes aerial shots of Esquimalt dockyard, Esquimalt and Greater Victoria.

Special event coverage. A CHEK News special program on the re-opening of the Empress Hotel after a major restoration and renovation.

The series consists of cause books and case record cards for divorces at the Victoria Supreme Court between 1968 and 1989. Cause books and case records cards can be used to find a volume and folio number, which can then be used to obtain a copy of the final divorce order. Cause books and case record cards are also often the only source of information for divorce cases that were dropped and never completed, as no final order would have been granted, and case files would have been destroyed.

Cause books were generally used until the mid 1970s. They were replaced by case cards, which were used until the courts turned to digital systems in the 1990s. The records are organized by case file number and provide a list of actions in a case.

Minute books, November 1980 - October 1989.

The fonds consists of the records generated by the Asian Art Society of Victoria between 1977 and 1988 in the course of its meetings, social events, volunteer and fund-raising activities, tours, classes, sponsored lectures and art exhibitions in Victoria, British Columbia. The fonds consists of the constitution and by-laws, agendas and minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, membership applications and lists, lists of Board members, committee members and honorary patrons, copies of speeches, invitations, notices, grant applications, correspondence, information from lectures, guest lists, news clippings (some about Hilda L. Hale), photographs and a scrapbook (the “Social Record Book”) of the Asian Art Society of Victoria. The fonds also includes newsletters (1980-1988) and annual reports (1980-1985) of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as well as some newsletters, bulletins and annual reports of the Canadian Society for Asian Arts (1978-1982).

Special event coverage. Communications Day activities at the Royal British Columbia Museum on 16-Jun-1988.

The item is a video recording of the opening speech of the Honourable Robert G. Rogers, Lieutenant-Governor, opening the Second session of the 34th Parliament of the Province of British Columbia.

Series consists of records created by the Victoria Plywood and Sawmill division and pertains to management of the British Columbia Forest Products sawmill and plywood plant in Victoria. The series consists of project files, topical files, equipment manuals, technical drawings and site plans from the Manager's Office.

The series consists of two sets of records: A. Project files concerning the upgrading and maintenance of facilities and equipment and the facilities, from ca.1950 to 1985; and, B. Topical files pertaining to all aspects of plant operations including products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. The topical files sub-series consists of two alphabetical sets of files, ca.1950 to 1970 and 1970 to 1988, as well as catalogues, manuals and reports from the 1950s to 1970s. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained and reconstructed for these records.

Documentary. A history of British Columbia's Legislative Buildings. Includes a lengthy interview with architect Alan Jones about the 1973 restoration. Includes still images and recently filmed material.

The item is a documentary video showing the legislative process; the history of the British Columbia Legislature; the role of the Speaker and the other officers of the Legislature.

The file consists of photocopies of Croft family information includes two letters to Edmund Croft from his brother, Henry Croft (Victoria, B.C.) 1916 and 1917, and two letters from Henry's widow, Mary Jean (Dunsmuir) Croft, 1917 as well as information on the Croft family compiled by the donor.

The fonds consists of the constitution, minutes and correspondence of the Victoria Short Wave Club from its earliest days in 1929 through to 1969. The fonds also includes some miscellanous material added to the records ca. 1988, an original photograph from 1937 and various negatives, copy negatives and prints which show the activities of the club.

The series consists of indexes to Victoria probate files and to probated wills in the Central registry.

The index serves two purposes because the Victoria court registry was responsible for maintaining the Victoria probate files and - until the late 1980s - kept the Central Will Registry for the Department of the Attorney General. The Victoria probate numbers (for files which are in GR-1304, GR-2083 and GR-3016) appear in the left-hand column under "papers". The will numbers (for wills found in GR-1052, GR-1574 and GR-2009) appear in the right-hand column of the indexes under remarks.

Users should note that index cards for the period 1982 to 1988 cover estates probated across the province, and provide the probate number, the registry where the estate was probated, and the central will registry number.

Notes regarding the Central Will Registry :

Until July 1986, all wills in BC were kept in a separate, central location, maintained by the Victoria Court Registry. When a person died, leaving a will, the will was submitted to a court registry for probate. Staff in that registry forwarded the original will to Victoria, where it was assigned a number in a sequence that included wills from all registries in the province. Copies of the wills were often kept in the probate files for working purposes. In some cases, however, wills were sometimes returned to the custody of the respective court registries. Researchers should keep this in mind if searching for an original will.

In July 1986, Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Chilliwack, Penticton, Vernon, Kamloops, Prince George and Kelowna began to track their own original probated wills. All other registries continued to send their original probated wills to the Central Wills Registry in Victoria.

As of August 1998 each registry is responsible for their own wills.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1987-1988 SUMMARY: Eleven oral history interviews on the work of B.C. government agents; Victoria, B.C. provincial police administration; and personalities in the public service.;

Fonds consists of administrative and operating records of British Columbia Forest Products Limited in British Columbia between 1946 and 1986, pertaining particularly to plywood production, 1952-1986. Incorporated are records of predecessor companies including Industrial Timber Mills of Cowichan Lake and Douglas Plywood of Vancouver. The fonds illustrates the operating data and composition of working documentation for single plant operations that formed part of a multi-plant company. The fonds is comprised of the records of two of the corporate divisions involved in plywood production: Victoria Plywood and Sawmill and Delta Plywood. Topical files, financial statements, working files, equipment documentation, ledgers and registers, technical drawings and cartographic material predominate. Content pertains to all aspects of division and plant operations including, but not limited to, products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. Records from the Victoria Plywood and Sawmill division pertain to operations at Victoria, BC. They were created between 1942 and 1988 and are in three series: 1. Manager's Office files, ca.1950 to 1988, ca. 3.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office files, 1942 to 1987, ca. 4 metres, and; 3. Cowichan District plans and drawings, ca.1950 to ca.1975, ca. 120 items. The Cowichan Division operated an affiliated veneer plant and sawmill at Youbou on Cowichan Lake, BC. Records from the Delta Plywood division consist of operating files for the plant at New Westminster, BC and pertain to administration and finance. Series are: 1. Administration,1970-1985, ca. 1.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office, 1972-1985, ca. 3 metres and 3. Douglas plywood project financial files. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained and reconstructed. The fonds also contains a scrapbook of construction photographs.

The item is a video of BC budget footage. Includes:
The 1988 budget speech for the Province of BC, delivered in the Legislative Assembly on March 24, 1988 by the Hon. Mel Couvelier, Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations (and MLA for Saanich and the Islands).
Reply to the 1988-1989 budget by Nanaimo MLA David D. Stupich, BC New Democrat finance critic.

The item is a video of news items. (1) News item covering fire in Bastion Square restaurant; danger to Emily Carr Gallery. (00:03:10) (2) News spot on damage from fire. (00:02:04) (3) Interview with Leni Hoover; discussion about new gallery exhibit, "From Northern Villages II". (00:14:00)

The fonds consists of Scholes' photographs of Victoria buildings and panoramas and three framed of the Victoria Short Wave Club. The fonds also includes Scholes' membership card for the Victoria and Island Gliding and Soaring Club from ca. 1943 as well as 15 black and white photographic prints and the matching 15 black and white negatives showing the construction of gliders at Lansdowne Field, 1943 to 1944.

CALL NUMBER: T4277:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marion Crossley : family history RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1987-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marion Crossley was born Marion Lee in 1907, and she discusses her ancestors coming to Victoria around 1850. TRACK 2: Early history of Ucluelet settlers. Marion's life, including two years spent teaching in Ghana, Africa.

CALL NUMBER: T4277:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marion Crossley : family history RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1987-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marion Crossley continues discussion of teaching in Ghana. Her memories of George Fraser, pioneer Ucluelet settler and worldwide-known plantsman and nurseryman. TRACK 2: Short section of Marion playing one of George Fraser's favourite songs, "Road to the Isles" on her piano.

The item is a copy of "Me and my family", reminiscences of childhood and adult life in Victoria, Vancouver and the Gulf Islands by Mildred Irene Seymour, a Sidney teacher. Mrs. Seymour narrates many of her experiences as a teacher (teaching degree in Music) at Fanny Bay, Gabriola Island, Chemainus and Vancouver, describes her work with choirs and recounts her vacation travels through British Columbia, Canada and the western United States.

Series consists of records created by the Victoria Plywood and Sawmill division and pertains to financial operations at the British Columbia Forest Products (BCFP) sawmill and plywood plant in Victoria. The series consists of topical files and financial files and volumes from the Accountant's Office.

The series consists of three sets of records: A. Topical files pertaining to all aspects of plant operations including products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources; B. Working files and statements in three sets, 1952 to 1986; and, C. Ledgers and registers, 1942-1987, including 3 volumes from the BCFP Point Ellice Division, 1964-1970. The Point Ellice Division, also at Victoria, closed in 1971. Working files sets are statements of accounts, 1952-1953, sawmill and plywood mill statements, 1971-1974, and statements and working papers, 1983-1986.

Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained and reconstructed for these records.