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Colonial Office correspondence with Hudson's Bay Co. with regard to Vancouver Island
Part of Archives research collection
This series consists of transcripts of correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company relating to the conveyance, settlement, and reconveyance of Vancouver Island. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.Volumes:Volume 1: 1822-1851Volume 2: ...
Great Britain. Colonial Office
Bill of lading and land receipt
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 lan...
Correspondence relating to the Colony of Vancouver Island
Part of Archives research collection
Series consists of Colonial Office correspondence relating to the Colony of Vancouver Island. Correspondence is arranged chronologically in bound volumes.
Great Britain. Colonial Office
"Victoria by the Grace of God..."; Charter of Grant of Vancouver Island to Hudson's Bay Company
Photograph of document.
Baptismal, marriage and burial church registers
The series consists of copies of British Columbia baptism, marriage and death registers created by churches that conducted the ceremonies. Currently only records (baptisms 1849-1899; marriages 1864-1903) of St. Andrews Cathedral, Victoria , are av...
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency
Part of Joseph Despard Pemberton fonds
The series consists of a surveying notebook (cover labelled "Trigonometl. Memda."). It contains 51 pages of sketches, instructions, notes, drafts of letters, etc. covering Victoria, Esquimalt, Nanaimo and Metchosin districts.
Pemberton, Joseph Despard, 1821-1893
The fonds consists of photographic extracts from a log kept by Midshipman James Ferris Prowse whilst aboard the H.M.S. Thetis under Captain Augustus L. Kuper. There are 90 negatives (2 negatives per page) and 42 print copies.The printed extracts ...
Prowse, J.F.
GR-1372 is an artificial series, created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s from records of the governments of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1849-1866), the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866) and the United...
Provincial Archives of British Columbia
Bright, Cedar, Cranberry, Mountain, Nanoose, Nanaimo, and Wellington Land Districts, all on Vancouver Island, land registers, superceded 1928 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1928). The registers list the land in numerical order, usually b...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Part of Archives research collection
Proclamation authorizing formation of Courts in the colony of Vancouver Island, April 4, 1856. Typescript available.
Great Britain. Privy Council
This index covers most - but not all - files from 1 to 1212a (A - Na) in GR-1372 - correspondence inward to Vancouver Island and British Columbia colonial government officials. The indexing was done on cards, by name of sender, recipient and subje...
Vancouver Island Supreme Court cause book
Cause book, Oct 1858 - Oct 1861. 1 vol. with plaintiff index.
Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice
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 Cus...
Vancouver Island. Customs Dept.
This series consists of civil cause books from the Supreme Court of Vancouver Island, 1858-1870 and Supreme Court of British Columbia (Victoria), 1870-1882. All volumes are indexed. From 29 October 1866 fees relating to these cases are entered i...
Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice
Goldstream and Highland Land Districts, Vancouver Island, land registers. Section XXIII, Rows 1-26, and R I W Section I to R III W, Section 26, (Goldstream), and R IV W, Sections 1-23, and Sections 1-94, in two sub volumes of the Highland (V.I.)....
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Comiaken Land District, Vancouver Island, land register, Range 1, Section 1 to Range 3, Section 19. The information in this volume has been copied from another source and pre-dates the information in the Comiaken section of GR-0625. The register...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
The gold commissioner's camp; forks of the Sooke and Leech Rivers.
Miscellaneous papers referring to pre-emptions on Vancouver Island
This series consist of miscellaneous papers referring to pre-emptions on Vancouver Island (mainly letters inward), 1861-1873.
Vancouver Island. Dept. of Lands and Works
Indigenous studio portraits of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery
Part of Maynard family collection
This series consists of 67 nineteenth century photographs of First Nations and Indigenous individuals and groups taken between the early 1860s and the late 1880s to early 1890s. The bulk of the photographs are attributed to English photographers F...
Maynard, Hannah (Hatherly)
The collection consists of a number of private records created by the Maynard family, the selected business records of Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Gallery and a portion of the professional records of well-known British Columbian photograph...
Maynard (family)
The diary documents the journey of miner John Waddell (1818-1870) to Vancouver Island in 1862 in search of gold during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Also included are notes on his journey to San Francisco in early 1862 aboard the California steamer Nort...
Comox Land District, Vancouver Island, land registers, Sections 1-113 and lots 1251, superceded 1933 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1933). The land is listed numerically within the sections or lots and records the alienation of land fro...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Bench book for Chancery cases heard by David Cameron, January 1863 - August 1865.
Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice
Blue books of the Colony of Vancouver Island
Part of Archives research collection
Series consists of ~blue books~ containing a compilation of statistical information, public accounts and general information about the Colony of Vancouver Island. Each volume includes a table of contents and includes the following sections: 1) T...
Great Britain. Colonial Office
Mainguy, Daniel Wishart, 1842-1906. Chemainus; Farmer.
Part of Daniel Wishart Mainguy fonds
Journals (4 vols.) describing his voyage from England around Cape Horn to Vancouver Island (last entry made at 9 deg. S. lat.), Jan - April 1863, his life at Chemainus and a visit to Victoria, Jan 1-14, 1869, his departure from Victoria and return...
Mainguy, Daniel Wishart
This series consists of a requisition book from the Colony of Vancouver Island Police and Prisons Department.
Vancouver Island. Police and Prisons Dept.
This series consists of certificates of improvement nos. 1-276, Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Missing certificates are listed.Certificates from before 1868 are created by the Colony of Vancouver Island Department of Lands and Works.Certi...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Bench book and minute book for civil cases heard by Judge David Cameron, October 18, 1863 - May 9, 1864.
Vancouver Island. Supreme Court of Civil Justice