RBCM Archives

GR-1733
Series
1858-1876

The series consists of a letter book created by the Collector of Customs in the Vancouver Island Customs Dept. between 1858 and 1871 and the Canada Customs Department between 1871 and 1876. It contains copies of correspondence outward from the Customs Houses in Victoria and New Westminster. There is an index to the volume.
The Collector of Customs was based as follows:
A.C. Anderson, Victoria, July 1858 - April 1859
W. Hamley, Victoria, April 1859 - June 1859
W. Hamley, Queensborough, New Westminster, June 1859 - December 1868
W. Hamley, Victoria, January 1869 - June 1876

Vancouver Island (Colony). Customs Dept.

Fort And Town Of Victoria, Vancouvers Island....

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

View Of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, British America.

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Michael Costin Brown of the Adelphi Saloon at Yates and Government Streets, Victoria.

G-08370
Item
[1858]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Mary Maberly Crease, aged 4, and her sister Susan Reynolds Crease, aged 2 1/2.

F-08808
Item
Jun 1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Hudsons Bay Company warehouses and stockade, Wharf Street, Fort Victoria

A-04100
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Part of panoramic view of Victoria from Wharf Street.

Union Hook and Ladder Company building and Fort Victoria (right)

F-06691
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Part of panoramic view of Victoria from Wharf Street. Courthouse/gaol building on the left.

James Carswell, of Hibben and Company.

G-05397
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

James Larman.

G-05730
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Edward Coady Johnson.

G-05644
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Christian Kammerer of the firm Hibben and Carswell.

G-05590
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Accounting day books

AAAA1397
Series
1858-1862

Part of Herald Street collection

The series consists of accounting day books recording the sale of country lands in Victoria District. Series includes names, receipt numbers, amount paid, and amount owing.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Office of the Surveyor General

Driard House, Victoria; formerly the St. George Hotel, the forerunner of the Driard Hotel.

C-03854
Item
[ca. 1858]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Charge books

GR-0848
Series
1858-1860, 1862-1871

This series consist of Vancouver Island Police and Prisons Department charge books. Volumes also contain magistrate's sentence and gaoler's reports. Volumes 6 and 7 are indexes.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Police and Prisons Dept.

Receipt for tuition

MS-2769
Item
1858

Part of Archives discrete item collection

The item is a receipt for tuition for Miss Edith Cameron (daughter of Chief Justice David Cameron) from J. Silversmith's "Select Day School," December 10, 1858.

Cameron, David, 1804-1872

David Spencer Limited fonds

PR-1385
Fonds
1858-1945

The fonds consists of a minute book, a memorandum, and Articles of Association, agreements, indentures, mortgages, and deeds of David Spencer Limited.

David Spencer Limited

Early photo of Victoria, Fort Victoria in the distance.

E-09925
Item
[ca. 1858]

Part of Alexander Grant Dallas fonds

Business records

MS-1053
Series
1858-1887

Part of Kwong Lee and Company fonds

Business records of Kwong Lee and Co., and Hopkee and Co., including shares of British Columbia companies and agreement to transport Chinese to Victoria.

Presented by W.E. Knowlton, Kamloops, 1977.