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Penticton letters probate (Form A) List for Volume 33 is missing.

The series consists of John Corfield's recordings including documents regarding his apprenticeship in San Francisco; army service in Palestine, 1917-1919; a letter from Robert Service, 1940; a letter to his brother Herbert from A.E. Robinson regarding the Corfield Athletic Club; and a Corfield farm ledger, 1883-1884.

The fonds consists of records created or acquired by John Frederick Corfield. It includes documents relating to his apprenticeship in San Francisco, letters, a farm ledger from Corfield farm. The fonds also includes several photograph albums and ca. 500 loose prints showing vacations, trips, expeditions, jobs, and family members.

This series consists of records of the Victoria school, building and grounds administered by the Sisters of St. Ann and of students who attended.

The series is comprised of eleven subseries: A. First school subseries; B. St. Ann’s Academy subseries; C. Commercial Class subseries; D. St. Ann’s Kindergarten subseries; E. Financial subseries; F. Building and grounds subseries; G. Closing subseries; H. Convent subseries; I. Museum subseries; J. Photographs and Audio/Visual subseries; K. Restoration subseries.

Subseries A primarily contains records related to the earliest years of the first log cabin school, and the first school building itself which was transferred to the Royal BC Museum in the 1970s.

Subseries B, C and D contain histories of the schools, prospectuses, curriculum, school newspapers and yearbooks, records related to the various sodalities, event programs and commencement exercises, student registers and statistics, diplomas, report books, promotion lists and grades, student accounts, reference books and correspondence. Subseries B contains the majority of records related to students, while Subseries C documents the commercial class which was attended not just by St. Ann’s students but also former students, public school students and the general public, and Subseries D contains records from St. Ann’s Kindergarten which was operated physically out of the View Street Convent and existed from 1889 to 1947.

Subseries E contains tuition accounts for boarders and day students, commercial, art and music class accounts, receipts and expenses, invoices, loans, gifts, financial reports and statistics. Information about students can be found in financial records related to them.

Subseries F contains records related to the maintenance of the grounds, and includes construction contracts and receipts, permits, correspondence, documentation of the property and resources, inventories and information on the cemetery.

Subseries G relates to the closure and sale of the Academy, and includes a 1972 report on the building, correspondence, sales of equipment and furnishing and commemorative events.

Subseries H contains records relating to the administration of the convent associated with the school, where the Sisters lived their religious life. Records consist of chronicles, official visitation reports, local council minutes and sacramental records. As the Provincial Superior worked out of the convent associated with St. Ann’s Academy Victoria, the chronicles and similar records often describe work pertaining to other SSA operations throughout St. Joseph’s Province.

Subseries I documents St. Ann’s Museum, opened in 1910 and closed in 1973. The records consist of accession registers, inventories, conservation actions, visitor’s books, donations, correspondence, catalogues and a list of materials transferred to the Royal BC Museum’s Ethnology department from 1984.

Subseries J contains photographs, albums and audio/visual records that pertain to the school buildings and grounds, students, teachers and events.

Subseries K contains records related to the restoration of St. Ann's Academy, primarily dating from 1980s to early 2000s. The records consist of reports, chronologies, minutes, policies and ephemera that had been retained or created by Sisters in their work related to the Academy in collaboration with the Provincial Capital Commission and other associated organizations.