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This series consists of central registry system files from the Department of Indian Affairs, 1879-1956. Records include miscellaneous files relating to Indian affairs in British Columbia. Includes files regarding Indian schools, game laws, trapping, fur conservation, fisheries and fishing regulations, the contributions of Indigenous people during World War I, lists of Indigenous people enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II, war funds, and Indigenous veterans' pensions.

The item is a photocopy of an essay by Walter Draycott titled "Christmas, 1914, with the P.P.C.L. Infantry and their first entry into the trenches in Flanders, Jan. 4, 1915."

"Memoirs". Genealogical account of the Burkitt family and reminiscences of author's boyhood in London, England; account of author's apprenticeship at Salvation Army's Hadleigh training farm and of his emigration to Vancouver Island in 1911. Reminiscences of his career as farmer, dairyman, and horticulturist at Westholme (1911-1914), Saltspring Island (1919-1949), and Sooke (1950s). MS includes account of Burkitt's tenure as director of Saltspring and Gulf Islands Agricultural Association (1921-ca. 1938) and work with Canadian Corps of Commissionaires in Victoria (ca. 1960-1977). Also, reminiscences of author's military service (1914-1918) first as member of 67th Battalion (Western Scots) and later as pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Xerox photos of author and family also included.

The Lieutenant Colonel Lorne Ross D.S.O. fonds consists of photographs, pamphlets, clippings, journals, correspondence, and other materials related to Ross' career in the Canadian Militia. The fonds largely related to his service as commanding officer of the 67th Battalion Western Scots during the First World War, both overseas in England and France, and at Willows Camp in Victoria B.C.
Records were arranged and described at BC Archives according to type or subject at the item or file level. Issues of the Western Scot donated with the materials were catalogued in the BC Archives library. Records consist of:
Post cards from France : 23 postcards
Lens 11 Edition 2 France : 1 map
Lieut Colonel Lorne Ross and Mrs K H Ross joint account in account with Cox & Co. : 1 volume
Journal : 1 volume
Souvenir Valcartier Camp, Canada : 1 volume
Correspondence : 1 cm textual records
Wounded : 1 cm textual records
50th Highlanders administrative records : 1 cm textual records
Some personal reminiscences of the Great War 1914-8 : 1 cm textual records
Condolences : 1 cm textual records
4th Canadian Division administration : 1 cm textual records
Clippings and ephemera : 1 cm textual records
Certificate of Service and Distinguished Service Order : 1 cm textual records
30th Session Older Boys' Parliament of British Columbia : 1 cm textual records
Photographs : 32 b&w prints
Commissioning scripts : 1 cm textual records

The series consists of records created by the Provincial Secretary between 1916 and 1920, in his capacity as chairman of the British Columbia Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission. Appointed by Order-in-Council on 29 Nov 1915, the Commission was established to help with the resettlement of soldiers, sailors, and airmen who had served in the First World War.

The records include daily orders issued by Col. J.S. Harvey, Commander of Unit "J", Military Hospitals, No. XI District Depot Casualty Company and Hospital Section (Victoria, B.C. and Hastings Park, Vancouver, B.C.). The series also includes lists of B.C. men who served in the armed forces of Canada and Great Britain during the First World War. The lists are arranged by servicemen's former civilian occupation.

The records are arranged into two subseries:
A. Daily orders
B. Lists

The series consists of correspondence, journals describing Blanchet’s work in the Northwest Territories and with Canol, drafts of "Search in the North" and an autobiography which was never published, and of manuscripts of articles, short stories and poetry. There are also clippings, mainly on the search for the MacAlpine party, various notebooks, and published articles written or owned by Blanchet.

A large collection of photographs, negatives, postcards and thirteen photo albums have been transferred to Visual Records accession 197901-004. The albums are annotated and relate to the north and the Peace River District.

Biographical material, correspondence, unpublished memoirs (1960) which give an account of Munro's life and include his experiences as a customs and revenue officer in Revelstoke, WW 1 Army officer in Russia and furrier and big game guide who, after 1929, was based in Vancouver until his retirement to Emerson, Manitoba in 1956. Photographs of Munro, big game and other subjects have been transferred to Visual Records accession, 98404-1.

Presented by Mr. Munro, Penticton, 1970.

The item is a certificate of appreciation by the City of Victoria presented to Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. David Donald in recognition of his services with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during the Great War.

Scrapbooks (2 vols.) containing clippings, photographs, programmes, invitations, etc. Military certificates (10) in oversize.

Vol. 2 purchased from Mrs. R.S. Gray, Victoria, 1980.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-09-09 SUMMARY: Adelaide Treasure was born in 1896 in McGregor, Manitoba, the youngest of 10 children. She discusses the family's move to Kelowna when she was about 2 years old. Her eldest sister Gertrude had moved to Kelowna to work for the wealthy Stirling family there, and married a foreman named Henry Birch. Her father found work as a carpenter building homes in Kelowna. At about age 6 her family moved to Calgary in expectation of a economic boom. After a year of no gains and a cold winter the family returned to Peachland. She discusses the first Christmas tree the family had when she was about 8 or 9 years old, and hanging stocking over the fireplace. Wrapping a bone for a present for their terrier and putting it on the tree. Spending Christmas with other little girls on the Miller's ranch way up in the mountains. An appearance by Santa Claus with horses wearing antlers and a sleigh with bells. Her father's injuries and move near Penticton. Being married in Vancouver at age 18 in 1915. Her brother Frank leaving for the First World War, being wounded and living a long life. Her brother Arthur dying in WWI from a sniper shot to the spine. Spanish influenza infecting the family, her husband Peter almost succumbing to it, her son Dick having it at age three and neighbours who helped them survive. Separating from her husband about 1930, and moving to a big house and renting rooms so she could take care of her three children. Christmas during the Depression; always had a tree; Dick bringing home a puppy. Never going on relief. Finding ways to ensure her children never went without.

Item consists of one oversized, illustrated and hand-coloured First World War roll of honour for Wesley Methodist Church, Victoria. It lists 69 names and includes a depiction of the church exterior as well as additional memorial or architectural decorative details. It is signed by B.B. Temple.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Maitland Harrison RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1979-01 SUMMARY: Maitland Harrison was born in India in 1890, and returned to England as a child when his parents died. Arranged to come to West Kootenay in 1908 and had a guardian appointed. Worked at a dairy for two years at Pilot Bay. Bought land at Shutty Bench, north of Kaslo, in 1909. Cleared property for orchard, but left for the First World War before the trees were planted. Served in France and India, returning to Shutty Bench in 1922. Things changed dramatically, so he headed for the Lardeau and joined T.J. Ainsworth in a logging venture. Detailed explanation of logging for cedar poles and pine and spruce for the mill in Nelson. Trapping up Glacier Creek. Hunting on the Upper Duncan. Haley's Landing. Prospecting on the Upper Duncan. Life in the lower Lardeau Valley-Lardeau-Argenta area. Lived at Howser.

Series consists of personal and family records created and assembled by Jean Donald Gow in her career as an illustrator, artist, and wife of a Canadian naval officer while stationed in Victoria and elsewhere from the 1920s to the 1950s. The series also includes records relating to her father, Dr. David Donald, and research notes on Emily Carr, the Esquimalt Group of artists (with whom Gow was associated while living in Victoria in the 1920s), and the Maritime Museum. The series contains over 600 b&w photographs, the majority of which are housed in two albums: one which focuses on World War I and another which is a personal family album. There are loose photographs interfiled throughout (these are indicated in the file list). There is also one oversized exhibition record for "Jean Donald" from the Royal Drawing Society, which lists her awards obtained in 1921-1922, and 1924. A final line dated 1926 has been added in pencil.

The series consists of 10 audio copy recordings containing interviews with Dr. Gordon Merritt Shrum about his life and career as a soldier, physicist and public administrator. The interviews were a joint effort of Simon Fraser University, the Public Archives of Canada, and the Parliamentary Library.

This series contains records from the Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission. It includes documents of the provincial government agency established in 1919 to assist with the resettlement of Canadian and Imperial war veterans. Papers include correspondence with various ex-servicemen's associations, reports on military hospitals, and accounts regarding war services gratuity payments.
The RSAC papers consisted principally of three large files:
"25F" series - files pertaining to veterans of the Canadian armed forces
"35I" series - files dealing with veterans of the Imperial armed forces resident in British Columbia
"50" series - files pertaining to local branches of the Provincial Returned Soldiers' Commission and other veterans' associations
The papers also include records pertaining to War Services Gratuity payments, account books, cancelled cheques, reports, and correspondence concerning veterans' training, employment, and land settlement schemes.
The RSAC papers were microfilmed by the Provincial Secretary's Department in 1956. The microfilms were transferred from the Central Microfilm Bureau to the Provincial Archives of British Columbia in 1983.
Originally, the RSAC papers also included documents which were designated "R" series files. These files have yet to be identified. Although a card index to the files was included when the papers were filmed in 1956, the documents themselves appear to have been destroyed.

Thomas Frederic Harper Reed (1878-1965) was a surveyor, Indian Agent and telegraph operator in Telegraph Creek, Atlin and Victoria.

Records include correspondence clippings and scrapbooks, regarding proposed construction of highways and railroads through Northern British Columbia to Alaska (box 1); personal papers and autobiographical material (box 2, file 1-7), ; British passport; legal papers; private correspondence (box 2, file 8-21); notes, notebooks (box 3, file 1-6) , miscellany (box 3, files 7-10), and annotated publications in boxes 3 and 4. Maps transferred to the Maps Division, listed in box 1, file 12, map call number L/602a/R324as.

The file consists of the reminiscences of Arthur Shelford, a Wistaria farmer. Mr. Shelford emigrated to Canada in 1908 and settled at Ootsa Lake. He served overseas in World War I and then returned to his farm at Ootsa Lake where he remained until he retired to Victoria in 1966. Vol. 2 is a corrected and expanded version.

The file contains a post card and a Christmas card from overseas by soldier and nurse's aide to Victoria; soldier's ration book; and assorted tags from war-related tag days.

Diary of R.G. Grey, 1879-1881, giving account of two voyages from London to Melbourne, typescript extracts from diary, 1906-1913, diary 1923-1932, papers on family history, re Josephine Butler (aunt), drafts of essays and letters to editors on world affairs, socialism; reminiscences of Winnifred Grey, 1895-1946, mainly re life on South Pender and Samuel Islands, school exercise books; letter to Evelyn (Grey) Smith, 1917, from army officer.

Letters from the Reverend Eber Crummy, Methodist minister in Vancouver, Red Deer, and Carberry, Manitoba, to his wife and his daughter Margaret; memorabilia of his son William's career at Wesley College, Winnipeg, and letters of sympathy on his death in action in France in 1916; letters from his son Richard, a school teacher in Vancouver, to Margaret Crummy.

Reminiscences of Haegert's boyhood in Victoria, ca. 1910-1916, and of his experiences aboard whaling supply ships. Also contemporary accounts of his travels around the world as a wireless operator aboard freighters and trans-oceanic passenger ships, and accounts of his wartime experience aboard supply ships and troopships. Mr. Haegert's oral reminiscences on audio cassette tapes and a transcript of the tapes, made ca. 1985, transferred to SMID, as was a 1998 videotaped interview with Mr. Haegert recorded for Veteran's Affairs Canada.

The item consists of two form letters signed by King George V thanking J. McKenzie for his services during World War I.

Letters to Edward Burdett Garrard, his wife, Eleanor (Watson) Garrard, and their three children, E.F.A. (Ted), Joyce (Garrard) Redford and Saville, 1904-1940, mainly from each other; two diaries kept by Eleanor Garrard, one in the Lake District, 1892, and one on a Journey to Europe, 1936, which included attendance at the dedication of the Vimy memorial; scrapbook kept by Walter Redford; correspondence, 1868-1890, of Dr. Alfred M. Watson; various certificates, memorabilia; short stories by Helen M. Hill, Port Alberni.

Certificate of honorary auditors and list of subscribers, Nov. 12, 1914.

Autobiographical notes of James Edward Kingsley Sr. covering the period 1893-1987; and his diary of service as commander of No. 32 Company, Pacific Coast Militia Rangers during World War II, 9 March 1942 - 11 February 1946. Also included in this unit are the minutes of the Parksville and District Community Society 1923-1938. A History of Mount Arrowsmith Branch of 49 Royal Canadian Legion by James Kingsley Sr. and Walter Avery has been transferred to the B.C. Archives Library. Microfilm (neg.) 1893-1987 35 mm [A01500(5)] Photocopies 1893-1987 5 cm James Edward Kingsley Senior, was born on 23 October 1893 in Victoria, one of the three children of Jack Edward Kingsley (born New South Wales) and Mary Kingsley (nee Mills, born Ontario 1871). His father was a streetcar motorman in Victoria, but in 1897 the gold rush drew him to the Yukon. The remainder of the family moved to Parksville in 1901 to live with Mrs. Kingsley's father William Mills. Here Jim continued his schooling and in 1903 the family went to the Yukon. His parents bought the Bonanza Clothing Store at Grand Forks, where Jim worked in the store and did a variety of other jobs including hauling water by dog-sled and selling newspapers. He also started grade 4 and went to school part time. In 1907 his mother died and he returned to Victoria for schooling, but quit after six months. In 1908 he went to stay with his grandfather in Parksville where he did farm work and other assorted jobs before becoming an apprentice carpenter building houses and bridges for the government. In early 1916 he joined the 103rd Battalion. At age 22 he was promoted to the rank of corporal and was ordered to England. Within a year he became the youngest ever quartermaster sergeant in Canadian army records. However, as he had come to fight, at his own request he reverted to the rank of private and was sent to France. He fought at Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele (where he was promoted to corporal) and at the Cambrai Battle near Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded and invalided home. After spending time in various hospitals he was finally checked into a convalescent home in Qualicum Beach. Here he met Alice Golding, whom he married on 20 January 1921. Following his recovery Jim took a shoe repair course in Vancouver and then began a shoe repair business in Parksville in 1921, later adding clothing, fishing and sporting goods. His son, James, was born in 1923 and his daughter Mary in 1926. On 9 March 1942 Kingsley was summoned to Victoria to discuss the formation of a Civil Defence Corps, to be known as the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. At a meeting in Parksville on 3 April, Kingsley was chosen as commander. On 11 April he received confirmation of his appointment as Captain commanding the 32nd Company of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Kingsley held this post for the remainder of the war, finally receiving his discharge on 11 February 1946. Kingsley had sold his business in 1943. After the war he traveled for a time, then went into the real estate business, working for Butcher, McLennan and Lenhart of Nanaimo. In 1956 he bought out Parksville Realty but, due to the boom in real estate, the strain proved too much, so he sold out the business in 1959. He then worked with Dudley Wickett for a short time, then retired permanently and continued his travels, eventually visiting Africa, Europe, South America, Australia and the United States. Kingsley has has held many positions in the community, including a number of terms as a Parksville alderman. Kingsley and his wife were charter members of the local legion and he has held all the offices in the local legion including honorary president. He has also served for five years in the Great War Veteran's Association. MS-2516 comprises Mr. Kingsley's autobiographical notes; his diary of his time in No. 32 Company, Pacific Coast Militia Rangers; and the minutes of the Parksville and District Community Society 1923-1938. The material written by Mr. Kingsley is not to be quoted for publication without the permission of the donor's family. The records which constitute MS-2516 were loaned to the PABC for copying by J.E. Kingsley Senior. A History of Mount Arrowsmith Branch 49 Royal Canadian Legion by James Kingsley Senior and Walter Avery has been transferred to the BC Archives Library. Source: MS Finding Aids Loaned for copying by J.E. Kingsley Sr., Parksville, 1988. Finding aid: reel/volume list.

Notes and typescript re: organization and activities of Royal Navy and Canadian Naval Service on Pacific coast, 1914-1918. Includes details of vessels in Esquimalt, submarines constructed in B.C., naval hospital, signalling school, Prince Rupert drydock, and Royal Naval College. Transcripts of Admiralty telegrams and casualty reports also included, along with photographs and plans of defences at Seymour Narrows. Notes apparently prepared by Naval Service staff, ca. 1919.