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Eagle Lake Henry fonds

  • PR-1769
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930]-1968

The fonds consists of correspondence, certificates and financial records of Eagle Lake Henry.

Henry, Eagle Lake, 1886-1968

James William Jones fonds

  • PR-0743
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1948

The fonds consists of private and official correspondence, papers, notes, speeches, clippings and a blueprint. Fonds includes subject files relating to irrigation, the public debt and the South Okanagan Land Company.

Jones, James William, 1869-1954

Vic Stephens fonds

  • PR-2419
  • Fonds
  • 1974 - 1979

Contains records created between 1975 and 1979 created by Vic Stephens and the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. Records were created by Vic Stephens between 1978 and 1979 in his capacity as a member of the legislative assembly in British Columbia, representing Oak Bay, and serving as the leader of the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. Fonds also includes records from the Office of the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party and its records of its previous leader, Doctor George Scott Wallace.

Records were received in ten labelled boxes containing file folders with labels corresponding to their contents arranged alphabetically. Files contain records related to contemporary issues and events; local, provincial, and federal. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, publications, editorials, reports, briefs, memoranda, and notes.

Records are arranged into series that roughly correspond to box labels. Files within series are arranged in the order in which they were found. In some cases, files were condensed or created to house similar records. Series include:
MS-3552 Gasoline marketing: oil companies and gas station operators 1978
MS-3554 Legislative files
MS-3555 Legislative Library
MS-3556 General files
MS-3557 Additional files A-S

Stephens, Victor

André & Associates Interpretation & Design fonds

  • PR-2383
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 2014

The fonds consists of project files created by Jean Jacques André Consultants Ltd., and André & Associates Interpretation & Design Ltd., a Victoria-based company. Headed by Jean Jacques André (1932-2021) and his wife, Joan André, and later his daughter, Bianca Message, the family company planned and designed exhibits for museums, historical organizations, and cultural and visitor centres across North America and around the world. The fonds cover the period 1967 to 2014.

André & Associates Interpretation and Design Ltd.

Hamilton Laing fonds

  • PR-0616
  • Fonds
  • 1870-1982

The fonds consists of correspondence, notes and manuscripts of articles and books concerning birds, mammals and plants, and notes and correspondence concerning pioneering in rural Manitoba and Comox, B.C. Personal correspondence includes that with his mother, his wife, and other family members. Fonds includes photographs, miscellaneous tax and financial records, maps of North America, and records relating to house construction. In 2024, Laing's field notebooks, journals and diaries were added to the fonds, having been transferred from Natural History at the Royal BC Museum.

Laing, Hamilton Mack, 1883-1982

Fort Victoria fonds

  • PR-1683
  • Fonds
  • 1844-1860, 1877-1895

The fonds consists of correspondence, account books, a land office blotter, letterbooks, and fur tariffs of Fort Victoria and the Victoria Land Office of the Hudson's Bay Company. Fonds include a register of land purchased from Indians near Fort Victoria and a record of agreements with Indians at Fort Rupert, Nanaimo, Barkley Sound and Port Alberni.

Hudson's Bay Company. Fort Victoria

Jurgen Hesse fonds

  • PR-1830
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1984

The fonds consists of radio programs and other sound recordings produced by Hesse, including interviews, speeches and radio programs, primarily for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver.

Hesse, Jurgen Joachim

Joseph Harris fonds

  • PR-0859
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1951

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, letters, essays, articles and lectures.

Harris, Joseph, 1871-1951

Thomas William Parsons fonds

  • PR-0403
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1962

The fonds consists of official and private correspondence, diaries, account and appointment books, photographs, reports, manuscripts of articles on police matters and radio plays. Fonds includes maps of Tweedsmuir Park and northern B.C.

Parsons, Thomas William Stanner

George Hargreaves fonds

  • PR-0857
  • Fonds
  • 1862-1878

The fonds consists of George Hargreaves' diary, survey notes relating to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and photocopies of correspondence and a "sketch" sent to friends in England.

Hargreaves, George, d. 1910

Frederick Dally fonds

  • PR-1380
  • Fonds
  • 1862-1883

The fonds consists of Dally's correspondence and photographs.

Dally, Frederick

Humphrey Toms fonds

  • PR-0163
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1944

The fonds consists of 18 letters written to Humphrey Toms by Emily Carr, as well as 3 photographs taken by Toms.

Toms, Humphrey Nicolas Wolferstan

Crummy family fonds

  • PR-1354
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1972

The fonds consists of letters from Reverend Crummy to his wife and daughter, memorabilia of his son's career at Wesley College and letters of regret on his death in France in action in 1916, and letters from his son, Richard. The fonds includes correspondence from Richard Bunting Crummy to his parents and sister in Victoria, and correspondence to his parents from Alberta where he homesteaded and taught school.

Crummy (family)

Alexander Munroe fonds

  • PR-0515
  • Fonds
  • 1937 - 1947

The fonds consists of a certificate for civil defense and letters received upon retirement. Also includes a commemorative medal and certificate for the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Munroe, Alexander

Raymond Murray Patterson fonds

  • PR-0725
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1984, 2007

The fonds consists of incoming letters from 1934 to 1977 (mainly concerning the Cassiar district, the South Nahanni, Liard and Finlay Rivers, and the Alberta foothills), Raymond Murray Patterson's diaries, notebooks and photographs. [Also available on microfilm.]

The fonds also contains the original manuscript for "The Emperor's Horsemen", Patterson's last book, and a printed copy of it.

Patterson, Raymond Murray, 1898-1984

Kenneth R. Genn fonds

  • PR-0976
  • Fonds
  • 1865-1970

The fonds consists of financial records of many B.C. businesses, sports clubs, hospitals, churches and family estates administered by the firms of William Curtis Sampson, Reginald Genn, and Kenneth R. Genn. Fonds includes financial records relating to the Queen Alexandra Solarium for Crippled Children, Reveller's Inc., Royal Colwood Golf Club, St. Margaret's School Company, British Columbia Cattle Company, Victoria City Baseball Company and Esquimalt Water Works Company, as well as estate records of Joseph Blackburn Greaves, Benjamin William Pearse, Joseph Despard Pemberton, Joseph Austin Sayward, and Roderick Finlayson. Also included are records pertaining to missionary work in the Yukon and civil defence and maps of the B.C. Cattle Company.

Genn, Kenneth Reginald

Admiralty fonds

  • PR-2125
  • Fonds
  • 1788-1955

Fonds consists of records of the Admiralty in carrying out its activities. Records relate to the area of the West Coast of Canada and include reports and dispatches from the Pacific Station at Esquimalt, microfilm copies of correspondence and reports of the Pacific Station, logs of ships that explored the Pacific Northwest between 1788 and 1795, and admiralty charts.

Great Britain. Admiralty

Stuart and Company fonds

  • PR-0282
  • Fonds
  • 1865-1881

The fonds consists of an account ledger, a journal and a grain book. additional found in collection ledger added in 2023.

Stuart and Company

B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society fonds

  • PR-0247
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1983, 1989

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, membership lists, clippings, a scrapbook and printed matter. The records date from the period when the society was known as the Society for the Furtherance of B.C. Indian Arts and Crafts and as the British Columbia Indian Arts and Welfare Society.

B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society

Cominco Ltd. fonds

  • PR-1419
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1884-1985]

The fonds consists of the records of Cominco Ltd., including those created under its previous name, the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited. Most of the records were selected by Cominco from its offices in Vancouver and Trail, B.C.

The fonds includes textual records, approximately 8700 photographs, maps, films and sound recordings which include oral histories with former employees. The records document the industrial activities, personnel, and the social history of the communities where the company was active.

Documentary forms include but are not limited to: correspondence; photographs; annual reports; news clippings and scrapbooks; lab reports; payroll records; journals, ledgers, cash books and other financial records; sound recordings of interviews, oral histories and radio broadcasts; transcripts connected with the Cominco oral history project; films (including those of mining operations); maps; informational publications, pamphlets and brochures about the company; engineering and geological reports; subdivision plans and city plans; property/lot plans; and the president's files.

Subject matter includes topics such as mineral exploration, mining, smelting, fertilizer production, research and development, legal matters, finance, personnel and labour relations, public relations and advertising, company history and environmental pollution.

Topics and locations reflected in the records include but are not limited to: Trail area operations at Warfield and Tadanac; the Sullivan mine at Kimberley; the Bluebell mine and concentrator at Riondel, B.C.; the Con mine in Yellowknife, N.W.T.; the H.B. mine and concentrator at Salmo, B.C.; Calgary facilities for production of ammonia, ammonium nitrate and urea; Benson Lake (Vancouver Island) mine and concentrator; the mercury mine at Pinchi Lake, B.C.; the Box mine at Goldfields (Athabaska Lake) Saskatchewan; Wedge copper mine at Newcastle, New Brunswick; Pacific Coast Terminals Limited operations in warehousing, docking, loading and shipping at New Westminster and Port Moody, B.C.

The records document Cominco’s operations in fields such as zinc die casting through the purchase of National Hardware Specialties Limited and its plant in Dresden, Ontario. The records reflect the continuing research and development carried out at Trail, and, after the mid-1960s, at the new research centre built at Sheridan Park, Ontario.

Records of subsidiaries and affiliates include those of operations in the United States and overseas. These include but are not limited to: Cominco Products, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary created to carry out fertilizer warehousing, liquid fertilizer conversion and product marketing at Spokane, Washington; the development of phosphate rock mining interests in Montana; the Magmont lead mine and concentrator at Bixby, Missouri; Rubiales mine, Lugo Province, Spain; the Black Angel mine and concentrator, Marmorilik Fjord, Greenland; and Cominco Binani Zinc Limited (CBZL) in India.

Photographs and textual records document the important role played by Cominco, beginning in the 1920s, in exploring the northern regions of the four western provinces and the Northwest Territories. The company pioneered aircraft prospecting which led to the discovery of gold, uranium, oil and copper. Exploration by Cominco influenced settlement patterns and laid the foundation for the creation of an aviation service in northern Canada.

The fonds also consists of records of Cominco’s participation in the Manhattan Project's heavy water production program during World War II. Textual records are contained in series MS-2500. Photographs are contained in series MS-3176, consisting of images which include: primary plant and secondary cell plant, (including construction of, starting in November 1942); the oxygen stripper tower, booster room, cooling tower, boiler plant, and evaporator building. See the files referring to Project 9, Heavy Water, No. 9 Project, or P-9 Project.

Other notable records include those concerning the international dispute between Canada and the United States over pollution from the Trail smelter and its effects on the agricultural lands in the U.S. Cominco was involved in an international tribunal in 1932 (Trail smelter dispute) as a consequence of sulphur-bearing smoke damage to crops. See file of negative filmstrips titled Smoke Control – Mathews films Tribunal Case 1932 [photographs]. Among other topics the photographs appear to include images of areas in Idaho and Washington State. They are possibly connected with MS-2500, box 457, file 1, “Survey of agricultural conditions (Mathews) - appendix D8”, dated 1935.

The fonds also consists of records of subsidiaries, affiliates, and predecessor companies, including the West Kootenay Power and Light Company Ltd. and the Canadian North-eastern Railway Company (previously Portland Canal Short Line Railway).

The fonds consists of the following six series: MS-2500 Cominco selected records; MS-3176 Cominco photographs; AAAA1498 Cominco films; AAAA1499 Cominco sound recordings; MS-0888 Summary of the history of Cominco; MS-0015 Cominco papers.

Cominco Ltd.

Juanita fonds

  • PR-1468
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1889

The fonds consists of journals of the sealing schooner Juanita, including one kept by Charles C. Clarke from 1887-1889, and another from an undetermined date. Also includes ledger of Juanita, likely of the same time period.

Juanita (Ship)

Ellanore June Parker fonds

  • PR-0398
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1919-1965]

The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence and photographs.

Parker, Ellanore June

Joe Prokopchuk fonds

  • PR-1749
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1976

The fonds consists of Prokopchuk's diaries and correspondence. The fonds also contains a painting done by Joe Prokopchuk ca. 1963.

Prokopchuk, Joe

Tom Fyles fonds

  • PR-2190
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1980

The fonds consists of records created by Tom Fyles from 1914 to 1980 and particularly document his climbing career. The fonds includes 13 photo albums and one shoe box of negatives organized by album. The albums document climbing trips from 1913 - 1969. Texual records include Fyles' pocket climbing/trip diary which documents trips from 1913 through 1930s recording daily activities, costs per trip, supplies and food, photos taken. The records also include Margaret Gladstone's pocket diary of trip to Mt. Rainier in July 1921 and letters home to parents documenting 1921 trip with BCMC members (including her future husband Tom Fyles) to Selkirk Mountains. Also included are letters of condolence to Fyles' family; letter regarding naming of Mt. Fyles; photocopies of caricature sketches by climber Alec Dalgleish; 15 topographic charts by climber Neal Carter, 9 journals, offprint articles and pamphlets.

Fyles, Tom

John Douglas Leechman fonds

  • PR-0739
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1978

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, general subject files, typescripts of material, journalism lecture notes, committee files, photographs, films and sound recordings.

Leechman, John Douglas, 1890-1980

David Rome fonds

  • PR-0300
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1942

The fonds consists of correspondence of David Rome with Robie Reid and F.W. Howay. Also contains a notebook related to David Rome's book "The First Two Years: A record of the Jewish Pioneers on Canada's Pacific Coast, 1858-1860".

Rome, David, 1910-

Edgar Crow Baker fonds

  • PR-1078
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1920

The fonds consists of logs, journals, notebooks and scrapbooks relating to Baker's naval service; diaries and letters; Baker's Masonic certificates; and two certificates presented upon his resignation as Secretary to the B.C. Board of Trade.

Baker, Edgar Crow, 1845-1920

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate fonds

  • PR-2400
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1828-2018

The fonds consists of records relating to the missionary work of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Most records were created and accumulated by the administrations of various OMI provinces that have operated in British Columbia: St. Peter’s Province, St. Paul’s Vice-Province, St. Paul’s Province, and OMI Lacombe Canada. Additionally, the fonds contains some records created by the administration of the Vice-Province of Whitehorse. Other records pre-date the establishment of OMI provinces in Canada. Materials mostly relate to Oblate missionary work in British Columbia and the Yukon, but the fonds also includes some records pertaining to Oblate work throughout Canada, as well as records pertaining to foreign mission work (such as materials related to the OMI’s Provincial Delegation of Peru).

The fonds is divided into the following series:
● MS-3396 – Mission and school records
● MS-3397 – Personnel records
● MS-3398 – OMI archives files
● MS-3399 – Writing and research
● MS-3400 – Provincial administrative records
● MS-3401 – Indigenous affairs subject files
● MS-3402 – Multi-media [currently being processed]
● MS-3403 – Publications, grey literature, and manuscripts

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Joseph Algernon Pearce collection

  • PR-2153
  • Fonds
  • 1821-1976

The collection consists of textual records, historical notes, newspaper clippings, and research notes. Included in the collection are miscellaneous records acquired from sources including the O'Reilly and Trutch families, Helmcken family, and the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The O'Reilly and Trutch records consist of family correspondence and records relating to Peter O'Reilly's career, particularly his work as the Commissioner of the Indian Reserve Commission. The Helmcken records include correspondence both made and received by John Sebastian Helmcken and James Douglas Helmcken, records relating to J.S. Helmcken's position in the colonial and provincial governments, and estate records. The Supreme Court records include correspondence of Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, trial records, affidavits, bankruptcy files, estate files and other miscellaneous records. There are also miscellaneous records relating to a number of other notable personalities including the Mesher and Pauline families, J.A. McTavish, J.W. Bushby, W.R. Higgins, David McKean, William Manson, and Josephine Crease. Also includes records of organizations including the Victoria Jockey Club. Research notes consist of information relating to a paper presented by Pearce at the British Columbia Historical Society on John Sebastian Helmcken.

Pearce, Joseph Algernon

Fawcett family fonds

  • PR-0886
  • Fonds
  • 1864-1916

The fonds consists of diaries, correspondence, accounts, articles, photograph, and essays of Thomas, Roland and Edgar Fawcett.

Fawcett (family)

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