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Item consists of 1 vinyl sound disc comprised of re-election campaign recordings of Herb Capozzi and Evan Wolfe, two Social Credit MLAs for Vancouver Centre. The recording covers each candidates electoral platform for the 1969 election and was circulated to constituents. The recordings are introduced by broadcaster Jim MacDonald.

The file consists of typescript copies of the minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association, from 1936-1939. The minutes include essays written by members. The pages are numbered and start at page 18 and got to page 115 with gaps. The contents start on the pages as follows:
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association May 20th, 1936 - page 18.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association July 1, 1938 - page 20a.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association July 14, 1936 - page 21.
Essay on the steamer "Scuzzy" / W.H. Holmes - page 31.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association November 27, 1936 - page 38.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association May 14, 1937 - page 42.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association July 2, 1937 - page 62.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association October 26, 1937 - page 65.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association January 19, 1938 - page 68.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association June 13, 1938 - page 73.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association July 4, 1938 - page 77.
St. George's Church of England Residential School, it's introduction & development / Rev. A.R. Lett - page 80.
Rev. A.F. Sheward's notes on the development of the St. Bartholomew's Hospital at Lytton - page 84.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association October 26, 1938 - page 87.
From "Old tales & gold trails of B.C." / Charles Clowes - page 90.
Minutes of the Fraser Canyon Historical Association January 30, 1939 - page 99.
Excerpts from "A Sportsman's Eden" / Clive Phillipps-Wolley - page 103.

The fonds consists of 161 35 mm colour slides and four large slides predominantly depicting logging camps and equipment in British Columbia, between 1969-1987. The logging camps and locations captured in the slides are: Port McNeill, Rayonier Logging Camp; Jeune Landing, Port Alice; Denham Bay Logging Camp; and Nimpkish Logging Camp.

There are also slides depicting Vancouver, the construction of BC Place in 1982-1983, and Ladysmith.

The fonds consists of an illustrated diary written in a school exercise book of William Law Ogilby's experience as a chainman on a survey of a portion of the western boundary of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Belt on Vancouver Island in 1892. A photograph, presumed to have been taken on the survey, depicts Ogilby and two other men at their camp at an unidentified location.

Item is a Hudson's Bay Company letterbook dated from 1851 to 1852 containing inward and outward correspondence. It is most frequently dated at Fort Chipewyan, but is also dated at Norway House, Grand Rapid, Portage la Loche, and Fort Simpson. It includes correspondence with James Anderson, John Bell, George Deschambault, Francois Boucher, William McMurray, and William McTavish.

The item is a single page from the Fort Chipewyan post journal, kept between May 28th and June 4th 1829. It may have been written by Chief Factor Alexander Stewart. The journal entries document a journey from Fort Chipewyan to Slave Lake.

The fonds consists of Lew's letterbook, containing correspondence of his firm and of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.

The fonds consists of Graham's correspondence regarding the history of the Kootenay region, including letters from Reverend Nicolas Coccola.

The fonds consists of correspondence received by Matilda John in Victoria from Harold Penn Wilson between 1899 and 1900. Wilson, a bank clerk from Victoria, moved to Bennett in 1899, and Atlin in 1900. In the letters, he described the journey north and what it was like to live and work there.

The fonds consists of letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence and inward correspondence of Robert Beaven, including records pertaining to his estate.

The fonds consists of photographic extracts from a log kept by Midshipman James Ferris Prowse whilst aboard the H.M.S. Thetis under Captain Augustus L. Kuper. There are 90 negatives (2 negatives per page) and 42 print copies.

The printed extracts are those which have any mention of any place or point near Vancouver Island or Queen Charlotte's Island (Haida Gwaii), or of any item which might be of interest. These items are marked in red pen on the right hard edge of the photographic prints. The period covered is from the arrival of the ship outside the straits of San Juan de Fuca on May 22, 1852 to the time it sailed from Esquimalt Harbour for England on January 22, 1853.

The fonds consists of Sutton's photographs of views of scenery on Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the interior of B.C.

The item is a painting done by Captain Edwin Augustus Porcher (1824-1878). The watercolour depicts the new Anglican mission to the Tsimshian at Metlakatla, British Columbia. The foreground shows canoes and Indigenous figures, the middle ground depicts the new settlement, and a ship and mountains are shown in the background. The back of the painting is inscribed with a description, "British Columbia - The Mission house on the South Side of the Christian settlement / of Metlakatla. May 21, 1866 / Published in the Bishop's Report for 1866." Porcher painted the piece whilst serving on the HMS Sparrowhawk whilst exploring the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1868.

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

One hand-formed clay pot and lid attributed to Emily Carr based on provenance.

Item consists of one album containing 41 diagram-style sketches in crayon and ink created by David Henry Norcross. Norcross was born in Granite Siding (or Granite) near Nelson, BC, and began his mining career at age 16. The drawings document his memories and history of mining and mining technology in British Columbia, particularly within the Kootenay district.

Item consists of one piece of paper with two separate artworks on recto and verso. One side features a pencil sketch of a man pulling a water barrel in Victoria and the other side is a watercolour of people in a canoe with Mt. Baker in the background. Both pieces have been assigned the same PDP number. The artist(s) is unknown.

The item is a bound, typescript copy of "History of medicine in British Columbia" by Theodore Frelinghuysen Rose of Victoria. In 28 chapters, from "Genesis" to "Pre-paid medicine", Rose gives an anecdotal account of the development of medicine in British Columbia.

This volume predates Rose's self published book "From Shaman to Modern Medicine: A History of the Healing Arts in B.C." (Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1972) and may contain much of the same material.

The item is a volume titled land office blotter. Blotters were used to record detailed trading activity. Only one page has been used. The page describes two financial transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first transaction relates to 200 pound sterling received from James Cooper, Master of the Hudson's Bay Company ship Columbia, as a deposit on a land purchase in September 1849.

The next relates to the trade of 535 blankets on the 6th of May, 1850. The blankets were paid to several Indigenous groups "for purchase of their lands as per details in Register of Land Purchases", also known as the Douglas Treaties. The names, transcribed directly from the blotter, are: Tee-chamitsa, Kosampsom, Swenghung, Chilcowitch, Whyomilth, Checonein, Kakyaakan, Chewhaytsun, and Soak.

This record was likely created by James Douglas, as it appears to be written in his handwriting [see Wilson Duff, "The Fort Victoria Treaties", BC Studies No. 3 (Fall 1969): 8].

File consists of textual records including licenses to sell liquor, free miners certificates, receipts for goods purchased, telegraph messages, Royal Engineers discharge papers, a will, correspondence, a list of persons entitled to vote in electoral district of Cariboo, and other records created between 1863 and 1885. They are generally related to the Cariboo region, especially Richfield, Barkerville, Quesnel, William Creek, and Yale.

File consists of two photographs at least one of which was taken by Hannah Maynard for her photography business in Victoria. This image is a group photograph of sailors, possibly the gun room officers of a Royal Navy ship docked at Esquimalt. The names of the sailors are listed on the verso.
The other photograph is of a family in front of a house. Possibly Hannah and Richard Maynard seated in a garden with a young man (their son Albert Hatherley Maynard?) behind them. Two women, a man (Harry Maynard?), three children, and a dog, are positioned in a stairway nearby.

Includes:
J-08135
J-08144

The file consists of three black and white photographs of the 2nd Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, taken at Willows camp, Victoria, in 1915, likely photographed by Ernest Crocker. The photographs consist of large group portrait of the battalion and two postcards. One postcard shows the battalion on parade at Willows Camp. Another is a group photograph of soldiers performing camp duties.

Items include:
J-08131
J-08142
J-08143

The file consists of three photographs of the V-J Day parade in Victoria B.C. on August 15, 1945. One photograph shows the Victoria Girls' Drill Team, another shows the Chinese float, and another shows several female Chinese-Canadian participants.

Includes:
J-08130
J-08140
J-08141

The fonds consists of 677 colour slides taken by Hugh MacCallum between 1968 and 1992. The slides consist of photographs of British Columbia landscapes, predominantly Vancouver Island and the south and central coast of the province. Many of the photos are aerial photos taken from when Hugh was flying around the southern third of British Columbia's coast.

The item consists of one sheet marked "Copy - The London Gazette Extraordinary." The sheet was published at Whitehall on August 5, 1790. The sheet includes a translation of a declaration by the Comte de Florida Blanca regarding the capture of certain vessels belonging to his subjects in the Port of Nootka.

Item is the second volume of Walter Draycott's postage albums entitled Canada Historical. This volume was compiled in 1936 and exhibited at the Pacific International Philatelic Exhibition in 1938.

Item is one of two volumes of postage stamp albums created by Walter Draycott entitled Canada Historical. This album, volume 1 contains Canada postage stamps dating from 1870-1908, however it may have been compiled by Draycott in 1936 or 1937. It was exhibited at the Canadian National Philatelic Exhibition in 1937.

Item is a postage stamp album made by Walter Draycott. It contains postage stamps of the British Empire and celebrates the 25th anniversary (May 6, 1910) of King George V and Queen Mary.

The file consists of correspondence written by Emily Carr to William and Irene Clarke. The file also includes typed carbon copies of letters ('flimsies') written by the Clarkes to Carr. There are also typed transcripts of many of Carr's letters.

The file consists of correspondence written by Emily Carr to William and Irene Clarke. The file also includes typed carbon copies of letters ('flimsies') written by the Clarkes to Carr. There are also typed transcripts of many of Carr's letters.