RBCM Archives

Nanaimo

I-55455
Item
[190-?]

Part of Bureau of Mines photograph albums

The item is a b&w photograph of the coal docks at Nanaimo.

Nanaimo

I-55456
Item
[190-?]

Part of Bureau of Mines photograph albums

The item is a b&w photograph of the coal docks at Nanaimo.

New fan, No. 1, Nanaimo

I-55583
Item
[191-?]

Part of Bureau of Mines photograph albums

The item is a b&w photograph of the new fan at the No. 1 mine in Nanaimo.

No. 1 Nanaimo

I-55585
Item
[191-?]

Part of Bureau of Mines photograph albums

The item is a b&w photograph of generating equipment a the No. 1 Mine in Nanaimo.

Photos of Prince Rupert and Nanaimo

MS-3489
File
[ca. 194-]

Part of Archives discrete item collection

The file consists of 15 black and white photos taken in Prince Rupert and Nanaimo in the 1940s. They appear to have been taken by a few different unknown photographers, though one photograph was taken by William Walker Wrathall, a Prince Rupert photographer. Some of the photographs have titles handwritten in French, while others are printed in English.

John Shaw central bldg. (jr. high) main hallway, lower floor

I-31665
Item
[195-?]

Part of Photographs of B.C. schools

The item is a b&w photograph of the main hallway on the lower floor of the John Shaw junior high school central building in Nanaimo.

Sketch at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

[Departure Bay]

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Nanaimo.

E-09223
Item
[185-]

Part of Archives visual records collection

An early Nanaimo home

B-03612
Item
[185-]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Claudet, Francis George, 1837-1906

Rough Sketch of Commercial Inlet from the Entrance of Nanaimo Harbour

PDP01527
Item
Oct 1853

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Joseph Coubert; came to Nanaimo in 1854 on the "Princess Royal"; served one term as alderman.

G-09014
Item
[ca. 1854]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Indenture and contract of service

MS-1338
Item
1854

Part of Archives discrete item collection

The item is a Hudson's Bay Company indenture and contract of service made with John Thompson, Brickmoor, County of Stafford, May 10, 1854, binding him to serve the HBC on Vancouver Island as a working collier, miner, sinker or labourer for five years. The indenture describes work Thompson is expected to do, both on the voyage out and on Vancouver Island, hours of work and method of payment.

Surveyor's sketch book

GR-1069.I.134
Item
1852-1854

Part of Herald Street collection

The item consists of a surveyor's sketch book including drawings with elevations, etc. of the Victoria area (Mt. Tolmie, Christmas Hill) and a survey of Nanaimo.

Hudson's Bay Company

Nanaimo.

NA-40446
Item
1855

Part of Archives visual records collection

Nanaimo Bastion.

I-79420
Item
[ca. 1855]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice bench book

GR-2032
Series
1853-1856

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.

Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice