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The series consists of (Volume 1) tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria in 1865 via the barque "Maria", receipts, account books, medicine books; and (Volume 2) letters written by a son in China to his father in B.C. in the 1870s relating to crops, family news, and information regarding the investment of remittances (Volume 2).

Includes 1 black and white group portrait (with identification), ca. 1912, of workers at BCER; 9 plans of BCER lines, proposed routes including Victoria and Sidney Railway and Victoria Terminal.

The item is a copy of a thesis by Lillian Cope titled "Colonel Moody and the Royal Engineers in British Columbia." Volume 2, index - compiled by B. Tanaka, New Westminster Public Library, 1975. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia. Bibliography: pp. 222-233.

The item consists of one diary written by William McColl between September 26 and November 23, 1861. The diary also includes a rough tally of daily expenses as well a list of the cost of provisions. In the diary, McColl documents his trip with the Royal Engineers from New Westminster to Yale for the purpose of marking out a road from Boston Bar to Hells Gates [sic]. McColl includes a rough copy of a report on the route of the proposed road. The diary also includes entries on McColl's work exploring a road between Yale to Chapman's Bar, and from Chapman's Bar to Boston Bar.

The file contains a photocopy of a journal kept by Axel Bentzon (in Danish with English summary by author), and an I.O.O.F. certificate. Bentzon worked in the Pacific Northwest from 1910-1915, as a labourer, driver, carpenter, etc.

The series consists of miscellaneous family trees, originally created between 1951 and 1970, some with updated notes.
MS-3508.1: Dunsmuir, Robert family tree. - 1951-1952. - 1 page and 1 mylar copy.
MS-3508.2: Dallas, A.G. family tree. - 1953. - 1 page
MS-3508.3: Robson, A. family tree / compiled by I. Andak. - 1970. - 1 page.
MS-3508.4: Thomson, Wm. family tree. - 1953, 2009. - 1 page + accompanying material.
MS-3508.5: Work, John family tree. - 1952. - 1 page.
MS-3508.6: Dougas, James family tree / compiled by Margaret Jane MacIntosh. - 1952, 2016. - 1 page + accompanying material.
MS-3508.7: Anderson, A.C. family tree. - [ca. 1950]. - 1 page.
MS-3508.8: Hart, John family tree. -1958. - 1 page.

William Davis came to Canada, aged 18, in 1934 under the agricultural workers scheme. On leaving his assigned farm, he was unable to find employment. Later, he settled in Victoria and operated the Window Shade Shop.

The file includes three certificates of termination of employment, Dept. of National Defense Projects, Unemployed Relief Camps, Mara Lake (1934), Spuzzum (1936), and Pender Harbour (1935). List of clothing on loan from the Unemployment Relief Project.

The file also contains eight photographs of Davis and other labourers at "Floods camp" at mile 59 on the Big Bend Highway.

The file consists of two letters and one note written to Ellen Bonney of Ocean Falls from Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth:
Letter from Emily Carr dated January 10, 1941 [may actually have been written January 1942] re Klee Wyck and Book of Small.
Letter, with envelope, from Ira Dilworth dated January 22, 1942 re Klee Wyck and Book of Small.
Note, with envelope, from Emily Carr dated December 8, sent from Mayfair Nursing Home, Victoria.

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.

Daybook of an unidentified store.

Daybooks of an unidentified Victoria merchant recording sales of groceries. Entries include description of items sold, date of sale, price and name of purchaser.

Video souvenir. Slide/tape presentation consisting of narration and historic photographs depicting the Klondike gold rush.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfilm by John Willis Christian, entitled "The Kootenay gold rush: the placer decade, 1863-1872." v, 193 leaves: maps. Thesis (Ph.D.), Washington State University, 1967. Bibliography: leaves 180-191.

Notice of a special meeting of shareholders to consider liquidator's report. Financial statement (summary), May 1914 - January 1932.

The item is a paper by Rossland Engineer Frederic Messenger Ethridge titled "Gold at Waneta, B.C."

The item is a copy of a thesis by Allan Stanley Trueman titled "Placer gold mining in northern British Columbia, 1860-1880." vi, 207 leaves, figs., maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1935. Bibliography: leaves 166-174.

The consists of a letter written by Thomas Robert Mitchell to his parents in 1862, outlining journey to and from the Cariboo gold fields. File includes a typescript copy which was made in 1993 by R.C. Harris. Also a map has been added.