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The file consists of a civil case file from the British Columbia Supreme Court (Victoria). It is numbered A 374/55. The action was James Audain vs Robin James Dunsmuir re: damages for slander of plaintiff's book "From Coalmine to Castle". The file includes a transcript.

File consists of a black and white photographic print, presumably of Nellie Isabel Gosnell as a young woman and a two page typewritten history of the Chapman, Burnham, and Gosnell families. It provides family trees and recounts the movements of these families as they settled and became established in Cobble Hill and Victoria in the late 19th and early twentieth century. The history was written by Nellie Gosnell's daughter, Margaret (Gosnell) Taylor.

Documentary. This film depicts a trip from Seattle to Victoria on the S.S. Princess Marguerite, and profiles the history of the ship -- and of her namesake, an earlier B.C. coastal steamship that was sunk during World War II while serving as a troop transport.

"Memoirs". Genealogical account of the Burkitt family and reminiscences of author's boyhood in London, England; account of author's apprenticeship at Salvation Army's Hadleigh training farm and of his emigration to Vancouver Island in 1911. Reminiscences of his career as farmer, dairyman, and horticulturist at Westholme (1911-1914), Saltspring Island (1919-1949), and Sooke (1950s). MS includes account of Burkitt's tenure as director of Saltspring and Gulf Islands Agricultural Association (1921-ca. 1938) and work with Canadian Corps of Commissionaires in Victoria (ca. 1960-1977). Also, reminiscences of author's military service (1914-1918) first as member of 67th Battalion (Western Scots) and later as pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Xerox photos of author and family also included.

Series consists of a collection book for section MR 19, kept by James Frain from May to December 1864. It lists names and amounts collected.

The item is a "Book of Reference" notebook which lists the owners and occupiers of land in Esquimalt district and Victoria West.

The series consists of microfilmed transcripts of short essays on various subjects, including the transport and mining industries in B.C., the history of B.C., descriptions of Victoria and other B.C. cities by Cariboo grocer Leonard A. Coton. Also includes accounts of car trips taken by L.A. Coton to the Okanagan, the Cariboo and on Vancouver Island in the 1950s.

The series consists of (Volume 1) tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria in 1865 via the barque "Maria", receipts, account books, medicine books; and (Volume 2) letters written by a son in China to his father in B.C. in the 1870s relating to crops, family news, and information regarding the investment of remittances (Volume 2).

Daybook of an unidentified store.

Daybooks of an unidentified Victoria merchant recording sales of groceries. Entries include description of items sold, date of sale, price and name of purchaser.

CALL NUMBER: T2602:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Metchosin memories : the Helgesen family PERIOD COVERED: 1861-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Christian Helgesen tells the story of his father, Hans Helgesen, who settled in Metchosin, B.C., in 1861.;

CALL NUMBER: T2602:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Miracle of the sea : a sealing tale PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Christian Helgesen tells the story of Hans Helgesen's adventures on a sealing schooner that overturned in a storm.;

Ledger of a general merchant showing accounts with individuals, businesses and organizations with payments received by cash or goods.

CALL NUMBER: T1660:[0006? - 0009?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson (cont'd) RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974 & 1975 SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses his memories of the First World War; memories of Vancouver; and the history of Hopkins Landing. [NOTE: Not transcribed.]

CALL NUMBER: T1660:0001 - [0005?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974-07-30 & -08-01, etc. SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses: a 1902 trip up the Skeena with his father, James Thomson, of the Hudson's Bay Company; a 1911 trip up the Stikine; and his recollections of growing up in Victoria, 1896-1904.

The file is a typescript copy of Les francophones dans l'histoire de Victoria avec un apercu general sur la colonisation francaise de l'Ouest by David Le Gallant de Mont-Carnel of Victoria.

Public school certificates presented to two of the children of John Patmore Walls and Fanny Georgina Orlebar Walls: Nina E. Walls, High School Entrance Certificate 1899, Orlebar Charles Walls, Roll of Honour 1903.

Charter.

Presented by Kenneth Miller, Sidney, 1979.

The file consists of three letters relating to municipal elections in the City of Victoria, written by City Clerk William Leigh. The first, 25 January 1872, is to the Registrar of the Supreme Court (Richard Woods) to notify him of the election of Richard Lewis as mayor; the second, 29 January 1872 (also to Woods) notifies him of the election of James D. Robinson as councilor for James Bay Ward; and the third, 29 January 1872, is to the Chief Justice regarding oaths of office for Lewis and Robinson.

The file contains a collection of pharmaceutical ephemera including diplomas awarded to John Cochrane, Cyrus Harbert Bowes, Joseph H. Emery, and Thomas Shotbolt; posters commemorating pharmacists Thomas Shotbolt and Thomas M. Henderson and a bottle label from Shotbolt's Drug Store.

The settlement of the Victoria region, British Columbia. iv, 121 leaves: figs., illus., maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), McGill University 1956. Bibliography: leaves 117-121

Cash book of Victoria merchant, 1872-1876.

Account book of goods received and sold by unidentified Victoria merchant.

Ledger.

Ledger of Victoria merchant, 1863.

Account book of unidentified Victoria lawyer, 1871.

Account book (indexed) of an unidentified Victoria firm, 1863-1867.

The file consists of a receipt and invoices from 1877.

Account book for menagerie, museum and saloon operating in Victoria, 1876-1882. Household expenses for the family operating the establishment are also included. The museum and menagerie may have been the one opened by Mr. Bristol on Government Street in 1872. The collection includes feather and preserved snakeskin samples. The account book itself was a former ship's logbook and has records from the Trafalgar, 1857-1859 and the Anglesey, 1860-1861.