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The fonds consists of 20,860 feet of colour and black and white 16 mm film, comprising outtakes, footage and some completed films. With the exception of a few prints, the collection consists of camera original (reversal) film. This is the largest surviving collection of Booth's films. The material was shot between 1931 and 1957. When the collection was acquired it was in a disorganized and neglected state. It consisted of 254 reels and rolls of film piled into boxes in no apparent order and with no reliable identification or titles. All the reels were standard 100 and 50 foot camera reels containing sections of film that varied in length from 5 to 110 feet. Subsequent research indicated these were either random footage or they were outs from original Booth compilations. Many of these reels consisted of sections spliced together, suggesting they were once part of a compilation that had been cannibalized for subsequent compilations. In addition, many sections spliced together bore no relation to each other and some were spliced together backwards or upside-down, perhaps due to a hurried attempt to attain physical neatness. Only 13 of the 254 items were longer rolls and reels of coherent subject matter that indicated original Booth compilations. Internal evidence plus dating indicate that the majority of these reels relate to the films Booth made on his own rather than those he made for sponsors. The majority were shot in the 1930s. Although information is lacking, especially as regards the sponsored films, it appears that this collection, though sizeable, accounts for only about a third of Booth's total output. Booth's films have been described by one film historian as "one of the most important collections of amateur film from British Columbia ...its real strength is ...depicting rural and small town life in the British Columbia interior in the 1930s and 1940s." This assessment is largely born out by the contents of Booth's surviving films. The films primarily feature the communities and livelihoods, as well as the natural landscape , along the highways and waterways of the province's south central interior. Communities are presented in considerable detail; a town, for example, is portrayed by its main street businesses and merchants, residential streets, local mills and plants, transportation systems and nearby recreational opportunities. Ranches or mining operations are also presented in similar detail. Whether Booth's films should be regarded as amateur or professional (in a limited genre), however, remains open to question. Booth's films also reveal that, through personal contacts and familiarity with the communities, he was able to film on a more intimate level than, say, a professional film crew. This is evident in the many close-ups of people in everyday life, earning livelihoods, demonstrating special skills, or at leisure. Given Booth's freedom to film what he wanted, many shots reflect a personal interest -- as though he filmed subjects only for the purpose of making a film record, or to capture a dramatic incident that he chanced upon in his travels. This is suggested by the significant amount of the surviving footage that appears to have no identifiable market purpose.

The fonds consists of records generated by Ernest Baynes Cale in Burnaby from 1911-1935 in the course of his activities as a breeder and exhibitor of poultry, as manager and editor of the magazine Successful Poultryman, as a member of the BC Poultry Association and as an employee of the firm McLellan and McCarter, Ltd. The fonds includes contest lists, draft advertisements, graphic designs (some by Frank Eastman), correspondence, certificates, a list of ingredients and a nutritional analysis of animal feed, chick records, invoices, blank stationery for Successful Poultryman, certified copies of poultry pedigrees, a booklet by McLellan & McCarter Ltd., an invitation, two “BC Poultry Association Egg Record and Account Books” and a photograph of the “Yesterlaid” poultry ranch in Nanaimo.

The fonds also includes 13 drawings of poultry drawn in 1914 by Frank Eastman as illustrations for Successful Poultryman. Also included are plans to accompany “An open-air poultry home” by Dale R. Van Horn of Milton, Wisconsin; 2 maps of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta (1917); 1 map of Northern Alberta (1917); 1 map of Burnaby Municipality [19--]; 1 map of the BC Railway Belt (1907) and 1 map of a portion of Osoyoos District (1891).

The fonds consists of 53 letters by Emily Carr, nearly all written in pencil, to Kate and Dick Mather between 1936 and 1944, as well as letters from Alice Carr, Peter Colgrove, Ira Dilworth, and Lawren Harris to Kate Mather written between 1940 and 1960.

The fonds consists of two series: films and videos produced for the Government of British Columbia under Ken Jubenvill's company JEM Productions, and films and videos produced for private clients. Among the private productions are several titles made for Canawest Film Productions, which exist in no other known format, and a film for EXPO 85 in Tsukuba, Japan. Sponsors of the Canawest films include the BC Telephone Company, the Red Cedar Shingle and Shake Bureau, the Workers Compensation Board of BC, and Global Television. Also among the Canawest Film Productions is the pilot episode for a TV series called "The X Factor" narrated by William Shatner. Under his JEM Productions identity, Jubenvill contracted for some of the EXPO 86 film documentation, including visits by Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. JEM Productions also recorded construction of the Coquihalla Highway, and other publicly funded transportation initiatives such as the Seabus and Skytrain.

The fonds consists of records created by Vancouver Island Coach Lines Limited between 1924 and 1976 and includes material which documents the coach line industry such as ticket sample books, brochures and time tables, photographs of buses and bus depots, a run of Clarke's handy guide to Victoria from 1924 to 1935 and a publicity scrapbook containing clippings from the 1930's. The fonds also includes ticket stubs and brochures created by Pacific Coach Lines Ltd. between 1979 and 1988 and miscellaneous brochures from associated tour operators British Columbia Parlour Car Tours Limited, Pacific Stage Lines, and Gray Line Tours, 1965-1985.

The fonds consists of the financial records of the Spring Vale Water Company and its predecessor body the Spring Ridge Water Works Company Ltd. The fonds includes minute books, a subscription book, company account journals, receipt books and a cash book.

The fonds consists of the records of the Masters and Chief Engineers Association of the British Columbia Ferries from 1970 to 1983. Records include those which document the regular business of the association such as the constitution and by-laws, minute book, membership books, account books and other financial records, and general correspondence .

The fonds consist of the records created in the daily operation of the Occidental Hotel including financial records from 1897 to 1915; daybooks from 1904 to 1913 and registers from 1899 to 1916.

The fonds consists of the records generated by the Beresford Women's Institute in the course of its regular meetings and includes 9 minute books which cover the period 1933 to 1964 and 2 cash books which cover the periods 1930-1933 and 1943-1946.

The fonds consists of photographs, maps and technical drawings that document the railway line building activities of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway in British Columbia. The seven photograph albums consist of black and white photographs taken between 1911 and 1913 of the construction of the railway line from Port Mann in the Lower Fraser division to mile 421 near Valemount. The albums are arranged by division and mile number and most have captions. The first four albums also contain small copies of blueprint maps showing the extent of the division. These maps are glued into the back page of the albums. The fonds also includes a gatefold technical drawing in a leather case. This drawing is a progress profile created by the construction department for the building of the Patricia Bay rail line on Vancouver Island. The drawing goes from mile 1.2 at North Quadra Street to mile 8 at Martindale Road and was probably drawn by Lawrence P. Macrae, engineer ca. 1913. In 2021 three technical drawings were added to the fonds. These are sheets that contain both profile plans and surveys of the CNPR line on both Vancouver Island and on the mainland. Number 24925E shows the extra width right of way from mile 210 to mile 212.50 (east from New Westminster Bridge), 1913. Number 24926E shows a proposed level crossing at mile 23.6 at West Sooke Road on Vancouver Island, 1911. Number 24927E shows a proposed connection with New Westminster Southern Railway at Port Kells, mile 82.77 west from Yale, 1911.

The fonds consists of correspondence and telegram messages created by the Telegraph Creek telegraph office agents from 1949 to 1962. From 1949 to 1954 the Telegraph Creek office was run by the Government Telegraph and Telephone Service. From 1954 to 1961, the office was managed from the Vancouver office of the North-west Telephone Company. When North-west joined the British Columbia Telephone Company in 1961, the running of the exchange was managed by the British Columbia Telephone Company. The first file contains correspondence (1949-1956) between the Telegraph Creek agent and the supervisor either of the Government Telegraph and Telephone Service or the North-west Telephone Company regarding office facilities, supplies, payment, work duties etc. The rest of the files are arranged by month and year (1958-1962) and consist of telegram messages sent out and messages received in at the Telegraph Creek office.

The fonds consists of an ore record book used by the Consolidated White Bear Mining Co. Ltd. in Rossland, BC. between February 1904 and October 1907. The record book contains lot entries arranged by date, of ore shipped to Northport, Granby and Trail smelters. Information such as the value and weight of each lot is included. The volume also contains some loose sheets issued by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada, Limited (COMINCO) confirming arrival, weight and value of lots.

The fonds consists of general office files of Nelsons Laundries Limited. They were probably created by the Personnel Advisor Dave Davies in the course of his everyday work. The fonds includes company history, minutes of NELCO (Nelsons Lower Mainland Consultative Committee, a labour relations organization), some personnel records, main plant bulletins and other administrative records.

The fonds consists of four volumes which detail the operations of the Gordon Head Fruit Growers' Association. The fonds includes the minute book of the association from 1914 to 1921; two account books; one from 1924 to 1925 and the other from 1945 to 1955, and a ledger from 1948 to 1954.

The fonds consists of a financial ledger used to document sales of groceries and merchandise at James Campbell's store. Entries are handwritten and listed in date order. Each entry lists what appears to be the account number of the person or agency making the purchase; the name of the person or agency making the purchase, details of each purchase and the amount of the purchase. The ledger lists transactions from April 18, 1877 to April 29, 1878. In addition, a newspaper article dated May 1971 has been glued onto pages 189 and 190. The newspaper article gives some details about the contents of the ledger and the Cache Creek area.

The fonds consists of the records generated by the 1997 North American Indigenous Games in the course of managing the sport and cultural events that took place in Victoria, BC in August 1997. The fonds includes two series: the management files of Alex Nelson, Executive Director and Rick Brant, General Manager and marketing files. The management files are arranged by subject and include correspondence with the Aboriginal Sports and Recreation Association of BC (ASRA) and other records relating to the management, administration and financial aspects of the games. The management files also include policy and procedure files, briefing materials, reports and minutes from meetings. The marketing files are arranged alphabetically by subject and consist of general files regarding all aspects of marketing the sport and culture events of the games. The marketing files also include a poster, examples of bronze, silver and gold medals and three videocassettes.

The fonds consists of the records generated by the Royal Oak Women's Institute in the course of its regular meetings and includes the minute books from 1921 to 1995 with the following gaps: 1936-1942; 1947-1952 and 1983. A note in the accession file states that the missing volumes were destroyed due to improper storage. The fonds also includes a folder of information regarding the formation of the Queen Alexandra solarium, 1925-1927; a book listing donations for the Queen Alexandra solarium, 1934-1936 and a membership book from 1967.

The fonds consist of the personal and business papers of Charles Victor Brennan. The papers document the man's family, professional and social life in great depth. While success in his profession and his family life is evident through the papers he left, he was a hopelessly inefficient record keeper. It appears that he rarely discarded anything he received through the mail or any notes he scribbled on any scrap of paper available, but his efforts at organization were infrequent and soon sabotaged. The papers purchased by the Archives show family papers and correspondence thoroughly mixed with official Britannia materials, family financial papers and personal investment records. It is possible that the papers had become disordered during his later life or after his death, but that seems to be an unlikely or, at least, unimportant cause for their state. In so many instances, papers have been dropped one on top of another much in the manner of a kitchen midden. Subsequent handling may, however, be one cause for the almost total absence of papers after 1952. There are other possible explanations for this lack - Brennan's growing infirmity or a change in his wife's activity as semi-official secretary. The C.V. Brennan papers will be useful in documenting the life of a middle class professional who reached the upper executive ranks of a major British Columbia mining and milling company. His activities for Britannia Mining and Smelting are revealed in the extensive company records he retained. His exploration records for Britannia and the parent Howe Sound Company should prove especially useful as they document the long and difficult process of examining and evaluating ore bodies and bringing promising ones into productions. Even the health consequences of his professional life can be traced here. Researchers should also find the personal financial records of use. The records of domestic finances and personal investments to support his family's lifestyle are quite full, though not always complete. As a professional in a sometimes precarious industry, Brennan assumed a great deal of individual responsibility for maintaining his family's continued prosperity. The extensive correspondence found in these papers also document family relations: between spouses; between father and children; between son and mother; and between brother and siblings. The papers have been divided into a number of groups. C.V. Brennan's own group makes up the major part of the unit, but papers created or received by other family members make up other small groups.

The fonds conists of 1 colour and 46 black and white photographs taken or acquired by Cecil Wynne Davies between ca. 1940 and 1963. 45 of the photographs depict courthouses around the province, which included offices for government agents, and two photographs depict a staff party which includes Cecil W. Davies among the guests. The records also include a list of the courthouses and their construction dates.

The fonds consists of Kunst family records and contain the following: Memoir of Milton Kunst; photographs, both negatives and prints, taken or acquired by Milton Kunst and biographical information about Dr. Johan Jurriaan Kunst and his family.

The collection consists of six letters by James Douglas to James Yale or Donald Manson, three agreements between the Hudson 's Bay Company and four employees, and a bill of lading for the Hudson's Bay Company ship Cadboro.

The fonds consists of 81 glass negatives and 1 negative taken or copied by A.C. Hirschfeld between 1894 and 1910. The photographs include images of the Golden Gate Midwinter fair in San Francisco in 1894; photographs of Alaska, Atlin and Dawson City as well as interior and exterior shots taken ca. 1910 of the Hirschfeld home in Vancouver. The fonds also includes 10 copy negatives and 10 prints showing the Klondike Gold rush. Some show gold rush people on their way through a unknown pass to the gold fields, some Dawson City and the mines circa 1898. Other pictures show "The Scales," and the horse train.

The fonds consists of the records generated by the Asian Art Society of Victoria between 1977 and 1988 in the course of its meetings, social events, volunteer and fund-raising activities, tours, classes, sponsored lectures and art exhibitions in Victoria, British Columbia. The fonds consists of the constitution and by-laws, agendas and minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, membership applications and lists, lists of Board members, committee members and honorary patrons, copies of speeches, invitations, notices, grant applications, correspondence, information from lectures, guest lists, news clippings (some about Hilda L. Hale), photographs and a scrapbook (the “Social Record Book”) of the Asian Art Society of Victoria. The fonds also includes newsletters (1980-1988) and annual reports (1980-1985) of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as well as some newsletters, bulletins and annual reports of the Canadian Society for Asian Arts (1978-1982).

The fonds consists of photographic negatives and a photograph album dating between the 1890s and late 1930s. The fonds also includes a scrapbook of chiefly World War One newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings and memorabilia assembled by Margaret Millicent Shepherd; diaries and notebooks kept by Francis Holden Shepherd between 1916-1919; a few newspaper clippings and school report cards; and an issue of the Nanaimo Free Press dated 14 Apr 1880 with the marriage notice for F.H. Shepherd and Jane (Jennie) Holden.

The account provides primary evidence of the life and death of Fredrick Seymour, second Governor of the Colony of British Columbia from 1864 to 1866, and the first governor of the union of the two colonies, also named the Colony of British Columbia from 1866 to 1869. Semour's final journey as Governor was to the Nass Valley to settle a dispute amongst First Nations tribes. He died of dysentery at Bella Coola on the return trip.

The records were created by another passenger on the H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, the ship used by Seymour to travel to the Nass Valley. The "journal" was created after Seymour's death as a primary account of Seymour's life and death, the main focus being the final journey to the Nass and Seymour's eventual demise. It is likely that the account was written by D.C. Maunsell, Seymour's private secretary. Maunsell was on the Sparrowhawk at the time, and of the known passengers seems the most plausible figure to write a personal and sympathetic description of Seymour.

A typed transcript of the record is included.

The fonds consists of personal annual diaries or journals kept by Norman Charles Stewart and a transcript created by Joan Dakers. The original diaries are for the years 1910, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1952 (2 v.), 1953 and 1954. These records supplement the official surveyor field books he would have maintained as a BC Land Surveyor working for or with the Surveyor General's department. The transcript includes detailed copies and summaries of diaries from 1910 to 1951. Not all the supplemental information in the original diaries was transcribed.

The fonds consists of eight items: folder 1, a marriage license (1855 ), folder 2, transcript from a marriage register (1857), folder 3, a Masonic lodge certificate (1865), folder 4, a certificate of competency as a ship's master (1853), folder 5, an indenture certificate (1840), folder 6, a certificate of character and discharge (1853), folder 7, an empty linen document envelope with "H.B. Ella" on one side and a partial original of Martha Ella's diary. The 1855 marriage license was signed by Governor James Douglas, while the 1857 license was signed by Bishop Edward Cridge.

The Hedley Sterling Gold Mine Company records consist of three share registries (one containing original shares) and one minute book. The minute book includes original documents including crown grants, insurance policies, and the certificate of incorporation, in addition to the minutes of meetings covering the duration of the company's existence and annual reports.

The Ore Mountain Mining Company, Limited records consist of one register containing a list of directors, details about shareholders, and information about transfers of shares. It is related to an item in the BC Archives library holdings: NWp 971.35.066 “Prospectus,” printed in 1924 by the Colonial Press.