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The item consists of a microfilm copy of an account of the discovery of a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean by Captain James Magee in the ship Margaret of Boston extracted from his logbook, 1793.

The photographs consist of collected miscellaneous photographs. A file list is available with a complete listing. Broadly, the photographs depict scenes in Victoria, Esquimalt, and Saanich, pioneer groups and families, and shipping. There are a few photographs of the Chinese cemetery and Chinese missionaries. A number of the ship photographs are identified as being created by Jones and Company (or Jones Brothers). Some of the photographs were originally packaged in boxes and envelopes labeled with “A.H. Maynard.” The eighth box was stamped "F.V. Longstaff - Major Longstaff" and some of the negatives appear to feature Longstaff's handwriting.

The item is a 1802 grant to Thomas Castleman, settler and British soldier, of one hundred acres of land in Osnabruck Township.

The item consists of a letter signed by Admiral St. Vincent regarding a request made by David Scott's son.

Unidentified ship's punishment log, August 4, 1806 to May 10, 1809.

Anonymous holographic vocabulary of English and Tsimshian nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs, compiled ca. 1807.

The file consists of genealogical material regarding the family of Charles William Barkley and Mrs. Frances Hornby (Trevor) Barkley.

The item is a memorandum of agreement for employment between the Hudson's Bay Company and Michael Boyle dated 1 June 1812.

The item is a draft on a bank by Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of Wales, for the amount of £8700.

"Fresh meat suppd. canoes, Spring 1820" written over [across] description of the Indian method of hunting buffalo which has Sir James Douglas' name at bottom.

The item is a photocopy of an 1824 letter to Marey Campbell from her father Malcolm Campbell containing family news.

This item is a copy of an 1825 convention between Great Britain and Russia regarding the northwest coast of British North America.

The item is a typescript copy of a letter from Francis N. Annance to Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer (Governor in Chief of Canada), dated 20 March 1831 requesting a grant from the government to colonize the territory between the Fraser and Columbia rivers.

The file consists of certificates of baptism, marriage, and death; a newspaper clipping and 1 photograph.

Three letters: memorandum for Mr. Work, signed D. Finlayson, Fort Simpson, July 27, 1836, issuing instructions for ship Lama; letter (copy) to John Work from James Douglas, Fort Tako, July 13, 1840, re ship Vancouver; letter (copy) to Captain Duncan from John McLoughlin, Fort Vancouver, March 28, 1844, with instructions for the ship Beaver.

Sent anonymously to Mr. Nesbitt, who presented them to the archives, 1978.

The file is a transcript copy of "Journeys of James Butterfield, 1836-1898," being the reminiscences of his early life in Maine, travels to and life in California and Hawaii, and trip to New Westminster, to take a job building a railroad from the Stikine River to Teslin Lake. Contains short biographical sketch of Jessie (Holt) Butterfield of New Westminster.

Notes on the geographical observations made by David Douglas on the Pacific Coast of North America.

Presented by the City Archives, Vancouver.

The item is an agreement from April 2, 1838 which dissolves a partnership between James Rixon Oliver, James Dear and Thomas Watson (draper in London, England).

The file consists of one letter from Catherine Penrice in England (1866) enquiring about friends in Victoria. It also contains 12 pages of poetry of a religious nature written or transcribed by Mrs. Blinkhorn (1840).

The file consists of two items: a bill of lading for the steamer Beaver, under Captain William Brotchie, to ship goods from Fort Nisqually to Camosun, dated 20 June 1843 and a receipt from the Vancouver Island Colonial Surveyor for 98 acres of land in Cowichan district, 1858.

List of articles forwarded to Fort Kilmaurs, Babine Lake, November 19, 1844, signed by D. Manson.

The file consists of a biography and documents relating to George Robinson, the first mine manager at the Hudson's Bay Company coal and brick works at Nanaimo. Also includes a lock of his first wife's hair.

The file consists of letters to William Davis, a San Francisco businessman. The file contains two letters from George Abernethy (1847) of Oregon City regarding timber sales; one receipted invoice, Hudson's Bay Company, Honolulu (1847); one letter of thanks from James Alexander Forbes, Santa Clara (1846); one letter from James McKinlay, Montreal, Monterey, regarding transmission of money (1845).

The file consists of manuscript of sections of the Philology part of Horatio Emmons Hale's, Ethnology and Philology with "Directions for printing", additional instructions and minor corrections throughout the manuscript, and a section (p 67-155) marked "Not to be printed: these pages contain only some of the notes from which the part beginning at page 219 ("The languages of North-Western America") has been written". Sections included are "The languages of North-Western America" (part); Sahaptin grammar; the Waiilaptu, Tshinuk and S. Kalapuya families; Synopsis; Jargon, Patagonia; Southern Africa; and Kamilarai, Wiradurei, English sentences from the Australian section. A list of the different sections of manuscript is filmed at start of microfilm.

Family bible with genealogical information.

Presented by Dorothy Ramsay, Victoria, 1978.

Letter inward, unsigned, dated Oregon City, July 12, 1847, refusing to accept additional stock.

The item is a copy of a bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the Chinook jargon by Samuel Johnson.