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Item is a map showing Vancouver Island with details showing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Grant and lands proposed to be given to the Dominion Government, Possibly produced in the second decade of the 20th century. The detailed section shows a portion of land between Seymour Narrows and Crown Mountain.

The item is a timber cruiser's logbook, apparently owned by Donald Alexander McPhee. The book contains sketch maps of Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company lots in the Cowichan and other South Vancouver Island districts with timber types noted.

Item is a map of Vancouver Island published by the Vancouver Island Publicity Bureau in the 1970s. It includes ferry schedules and short descriptions of various places on Vancouver Island.

Correspondence relating mainly to Simon Fraser and an atlas produced by Denton; notes and a typed manuscript relating to Simon Fraser, plus several copies of Fraser's 1806 and 1808 journals and letters 1806-1807. There are notes on the fur trade, early Vancouver Island, the Cariboo gold rush, Sir James Douglas, confederation and the Canadian Pacific Railway; and on Louis Riel and the Metis rebellions.

The file consists of two items: a bill of lading for the steamer Beaver, under Captain William Brotchie, to ship goods from Fort Nisqually to Camosun, dated 20 June 1843 and a receipt from the Vancouver Island Colonial Surveyor for 98 acres of land in Cowichan district, 1858.

Insets: Plan of Friendly Cove in Nootka Sound / by Sir Edwd. Belcher -- Victoria District -- [World] -- Continuation of Admiralty Inlet & Puget Sound.

Correspondence with Edward Ellice, Lord John Russsell, Sir George Grey, Baron Panmure, John McDonald, and James Booth on colonial affairs, including trade and militia matters affecting British North America and the HBC fur trade; memorandum concerning Vancouver Island Colony.

Photocopies 1849-1857 91 p

Henry Labouchere, first Baron Taunton was born in 1798, obtained his early education at Winchester and received a B.A. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1821. In 1828 he received his M.A. He was first elected as a liberal Member of Parliament in 1826 and served in a variety of posts including Lord of the Admiralty (1832); Master of the Mint, privy councillor, and Vice-President of the Board of Trade (1835); and Undersecretary of War and the Colonies (1839). He was appointed President of the Board of Trade in Lord Melbourne's cabinet, 1939-1841, and served in the same capacity under Lord John Russell's ministry, 1847-1852. He became Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Palmerston from 1855-1858 and it is to this period of his career that this collection of papers pertains.

Source: MS Finding Aids

Photocopies presented by the Public Archives of Canada, which holds the originals in MG 24, A58, 1975.

Finding aid.

Series consists of one bench book for Colony of Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice civil and criminal cases heard by Judge David Cameron at Fort Victoria from November 1853 to January 1856 and one criminal case at Nanaimo in May 1854. It also includes civil cases heard at Victoria in the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1856. The volume additionally served as a criminal record book for 1853, a cause book for 1856, and a Registrar's record book for 1853. It opens with a notation that Judge Cameron's commission was read and that he took his seat on 6 October 1853. The Registrar also notes that he received the court seal from Judge Cameron.

Proclamation authorizing formation of Courts in the colony of Vancouver Island, April 4, 1856. Typescript available.

The series consists of annual reports of land sales and pre-emption claims on Vancouver Island. Also includes financial statements and records related to land sales by the Land Office.

The series consists of books containing land sales records for Victoria, Esquimalt, Metchosin and Sooke districts. The series may include but is not limited to, land sales registers, land sales records, lists of sections and lots, sums deposited for lands and town lots, and land sales account ledgers. The names of purchases, district, section, payment in sterling and payment dates may be recorded.

The series consists of correspondence and miscellaneous documents relating to land sales on Vancouver Island. Arranged chronologically.

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.

This series consist of voters lists and poll books for the Vancouver Island House of Assembly elections, 1860-1866. Includes electoral districts of Nanaimo (1865), Esquimalt (1865), Victoria District and Victoria Town (1865, 1866) and Sooke (1866).

This series consists of 125 pages of typescript copies of correspondence. The pages are numbered 98-223, and the location of pages 1-97 is unknown. The originals were created between 1858 and 1861. The correspondence is between various members of the British Admiralty, or between the Admiralty and government officials from the colony of Vancouver Island.

The correspondence relates to topics such as: the construction of the Esquimalt navy base, powder magazine and lighthouses on Southern Vancouver Island; the deployment of Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, ships and gun boats to and around Vancouver Island; fights between various First Nations groups and conflicts between Indigenous Peoples and settlers at Victoria, Nanaimo, Fort Rupert [Port Hardy] and Haida Gwaii.

Series consists of one Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice cause book for Oct 1858-Oct 1861. The volumes is indexed by plaintiff.

Shows pre-emptions 155-163 on Namukamis Bay and along the Sarita River.

The series consists of reports to the governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island from the Dept. of Lands and Works regarding land sales on Vancouver Island.

The series consists of four volumes of journals (4 vols.) describing Daniel Mainguy's activities.
Volume 1: voyage from England around Cape Horn to Vancouver Island from January to April 1863. Life at Chemainus and a visit to Victoria, January 1-14, 1869; departure from Victoria and return to England via San Francisco and New York and the first part of a lengthy visit in England, November 1876 to June 1877.
Volumes 2-3: activities in England, July 1877 to August 1878, including visits to the Channel Islands and France, return to Vancouver Island via Halifax and the U.S. from August to November 1878.
Volume 3: work on the CPR in the Fraser Canyon July 1882 to October 1883 and work as a constable at Chemainus from October to November 1884.
Volume 4: contains humorous accounts by others of a visit by Mainguy to Leamington in 1878, a stay in Halifax in 1878, and a trip from Drynoch to Spences Bridge at Christmas 1882.

This series consists of a requisition book from the Colony of Vancouver Island Police and Prisons Department.

Shows pre-emption 693, Section 1, Range 3 East, Cedar District (100 acres) and 100 acres in unsurveyed district immediately south (probably Section 5D, Oyster District). Also shows Joseph Ferguson's claim, pre-emption 693, Section 2, Range 3 East, Cedar District.