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The fonds consists of records generated by Gerald Smedley Andrews in Victoria and other parts of British Columbia and Canada, and overseas, in pursuit of his personal, wartime, professional and volunteer activities from about 1903 to 2005.

These activities include those of teacher; lecturer; researcher; author; historian; geographer; traveler; artist; photographer; genealogist; linguist; surveyor; engineer; forester; expert in aerial survey photography, mapping and photogrammetry and member of numerous amateur and professional associations and organizations.

The fonds consists predominantly of personal records but also includes records from Andrews' positions with the British Columbia government, including Chief Engineer of the Air Surveys Division, and Surveyor General and Director of the Surveys and Mapping Branch. The records cover a wide range of subjects but particularly relate to surveying (including aerial survey photography, mapping and photogrammetry) and surveyors, and the history and geography of British Columbia. The fonds include correspondence, research notes, lists, publications, newspaper articles and clippings, over 14,000 photographs, financial records, legal documents, tax assessments, membership cards, membership directories, nominal rolls, newsletters, minutes, financial reports, by-laws, annual reports, texts of speeches, questionnaires, memoranda, a patent application, invitations, resumes, graphs, diagrams, calculations, manuals, technical information, programmes, essays, manuscript drafts, grant applications, job applications, orders of service, texts of speeches, essays, drawings and other artwork.

The fonds also includes three videotaped cable television interviews with Andrews (1982-1985). a home video interview with Andrews and over 300 maps and plans.

"Edouard Gaston Daniel Deville; 'father' of Canadian photogrammetric mapping"; text of speech read at dedication of historic sites monument to Deville, Yoho Park, September 30, 1975.

Correspondence, newspaper clipping and surveyors' reports regarding Storehouse 1, 2, and 3 built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Portland Canal in 1896.

Essays entitled "The Boundary Surveys, (British Columbia)," 1976 and "Survey Notes for Docents" [prepared for the Provincial Museum survey instruments display]; "Orientation of inclined air survey photographs", 1945; "Beyond these rugged mountains"and "Soliders of the soil".

Copy of "the Land Surveying Profession in British Columbia," 4th edition.

The series consists of correspondence and subject files generated by Gerald Smedley Andrews in the course of his personal, wartime, professional and volunteer activities in Victoria and other parts of British Columbia, and to a lesser extent, in other parts of Canada and overseas. The records date between about 1903 and 2013. The series consists of correspondence (letters, cards, telegrams and postcards and the wartime correspondence between G.S. and J.E. Andrews); research notes; lists; pamphlets and brochures; journal articles; newspaper articles and clippings; newsletters; minutes; financial reports; receipts; legal documents; tax assessments; membership cards; membership directories; nominal rolls; photographs and negatives; lists of slides; texts of speeches; questionnaires; memoranda; ; correspondence registers; annual reports; invitations; resumes; graphs; diagrams; calculations; manuals; invoices; programmes; a small watercolour painting, essays; draft manuscripts; expense claims; grant applications; job applications; by-laws, certificates and orders-of-service. The series includes some records bearing government stamps and file numbers from Andrews' files as Surveyor General and Director of Surveys and Mapping and other government positions. These include personal correspondence interspersed throughout the records, as well as one discrete file (container 953721-0002, folder 21) of selected correspondence, memoranda and confidential records. The records reflect Andrews' broad range of interests and activities. They are a rich source of historical, geographical and biographical information, particularly about British Columbia and British Columbians, about surveying and surveyors, and about aerial survey photography, mapping and photogrammetry. The records also reflect Andrews' involvement with the town of Atlin, British Columbia and its pioneer resident Thomas Frederick Harper Reed (for whom Andrews acted as executor and whose estate and cabin Andrews inherited). Andrews organized the records into files or envelopes by correspondent or subject, then filed alphabetically.

The series consists of diaries and notebooks kept by G.S. Andrews between 1923 and ca. 1997 and include diaries and field books of survey trips; financial notebooks, car logs, address books, war diaries and notebooks and other pocket notes. Some of the field books have photographs and maps glued in. The series also includes his alpha file notebooks kept between about 1971 and 1997 in which Andrews recorded telephone calls, meetings and other interactions with his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

The series consists of reports and publications created or acquired by Gerry Andrews between ca. 1920 and 2003. The series includes Andrews' university notebooks, articles and handbooks written or collected by Andrews on a variety of topics, various reports on aerial photography and other survey and mapping publications. The series also includes a set of interim and final reports on flood control in the Fraser River basin printed between 1956 and 1963. Included in this series is the printed memorial of Andrews' life from 2006.

The series consists of maps and plans apparently collected by Gerald Smedley Andrews throughout his personal and professional life. The records date from about the 1870's to 1988. The series includes maps or plans relating to tourism and travel; to Andrews' interests in geography, surveying and surveyors; to his work with the Surveys Branch, Air Surveys Division, as Surveyor General and as Director of the Surveys and Mapping Branch, and possibly to his contract work with the Canadian Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. The maps and plans are predominantly of British Columbia but there are also maps and plans of other parts of Canada and the world. The series includes road, highway and street maps; maps by the Cartographic Division of National Geographic Magazine; plans of the Victoria and Lake Districts of Vancouver island (1871-1911); prints of survey maps and plans by F.C. Swannell; Air Division interim series maps of British Columbia; maps (including photogrammetric maps) of glaciers in the arctic; aeronautical charts by the Canadian Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys; National Topographic Series maps, predominantly of British Columbia, including those by the British Columbia Surveys and Mapping Branch, and the Canadian Army Survey Establishment and other miscellaneous maps and plans.

Washington,U.S.A.

Washington, U.S.A. : Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane

Washington, U.S.A.

Washington,U.S.A. : northwest Washington,Juan de Fuca,Southern Vancouver Island

Washington,U.S.A. : southwestern Washington

Washington,U.S.A. : northeastern Washington

Washington,U.S.A. : southeastern Washington

Washington,U.S.A.

Washington,U.S.A. : Mt. Rainier National Park

United States

Oregon, U.S.A.

Oregon, U.S.A. : Portland

Oregon, U.S.A.

Oregon, U.S.A. : northwestern Oregon

Oregon, U.S.A. : southwestern Oregon

Oregon, U.S.A. : northeastern Oregon

Oregon, U.S.A. : southeastern Oregon

Oregon, U.S.A.

Oregon, U.S.A. : Crater Lake National Park

United States

California, U.S.A.