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The item consists of one album of approximately 150 photographs depicting landscapes, architecture, and people in Malta, South Africa (Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay, and Simon’s Bay), Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Victoria), and British Columbia (Hope, Yale, and the Fraser River). Photographs of British Columbia taken by Francis George Claudet.

All photographs have been captioned by the album creator. A paper bookplate has been adhered to the inside front cover depicting a heraldic badge containing the motto “forte scutum salus ducum” ("A Strong Shield is the Salvation of Leaders”, the motto of the Earl Fortescue peerage) with the name “Carlingford” beneath. It is probable that the album was created by or for Hugh Fortescue (16 April 1854-29 October 1932), the 4th Earl Fortescue.

One booklet of British Columbia colonial government salary vouchers (blank forms).

Draft letter from the Colony of British Columbia Dept. of Lands and Works to the Governor regarding the appointment of Will Franklyn to auction land at Hope, Douglas and Yale.

Three pages of certificates from the Attorney General acknowledging the (unidentified) maker of a document or form.

One page of notes relating to salaries of printers employed by the Queen's Printer.

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).

The file consists of two b&w photographs identified as members of the Taylor family taken ca. 189-? and 1 photograph identified as Mr. and Mrs. Deans taken ca. 1865.

The item is a timber cruiser's logbook, apparently owned by Donald Alexander McPhee. The book contains sketch maps of Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company lots in the Cowichan and other South Vancouver Island districts with timber types noted.

The item consists of an illustrated description of a journey made by automobile from Calgary to Victoria via Spokane and Seattle. Contains photographs and postcards glued into the volume. While it is described as being by "the undersigned", there is no signature and the description of the trip breaks off abruptly on page 41.

The item is a letter written by John Tompson, possibly during the Great Depression, describing a trip by train from Vancouver to Alberta.

File consists of 8 colour postcards depicting Tranquille Sanatorium near Kamloops. Seven of the postcards are published by The Camera Products Company in Vancouver and one is published by Gowen, Sutton Company in Vancouver. All photographs were likely taken by Joseph Frederick Spalding, a photographer based in Vancouver who initially worked for Gowen, Sutton before establishing The Camera Products Company.

The file contains "Adventures of a farm girl in Canada in 1925", by Joan Simpson, with a forward by her god-daughter, June Knowles. It consists of four reminiscences about life on a cattle ranch and in a fruit growing area of British Columbia by a young English woman who spent a year or two in British Columbia in the early 1930s. Although both personal and geographical names have been changed, the ranch on which Miss Simpson worked was undoubtedly the Church Ranch at Big Creek in the Chilcotin district.

The file contains photocopies of some excerpts from manuscript "7000 Deadlines" by William David Stovel, and copies of newspaper clippings.

The file consists of 15 black and white photos taken in Prince Rupert and Nanaimo in the 1940s. They appear to have been taken by a few different unknown photographers, though one photograph was taken by William Walker Wrathall, a Prince Rupert photographer. Some of the photographs have titles handwritten in French, while others are printed in English.