Journals of service with the Boundary Commission, 20 April, 1858 - 17 July 1862 containing many water colour sketches (PDP3187-PDP3213).

Map to accompany the journals was transferred to the map collection (CM/B442).

Series consists of two letters to Richard Wolfenden and one to Madge (Wolfenden) Hamilton, 1904, 1908, 1958, containing reminiscences of early British Columbia by Francis Brook Gregory and John Connell and reminiscences of the family of R.C. Moody by R.A.C. Lowndes (great grandson); one invoice of Robert Porter and Sons.

Day book and diary, believed to be of W.H. Fitzgerald, while he was a member of W.G. Cox's Alexandria Expedition in pursuit of the perpetrators of the Bute Inlet massacre.

The series consists of the diaries of C.F. Cornwall, kept May 1862 - July 1864, November 1866 - June 1869, July 1869 - December 1871, and 1872 - 15 July 1873 (in diary for 1865) recording life at Ashcroft Manor, a sojourn at Wild Horse Creek in the summer of 1865, and in Ottawa as a senator in the spring of 1872. Also includes "The story of the coyote hounds", 1868-1888.

Diaries of Mary Crease, 1867-1868; birthday books of Mary Crease, Susan Reynolds Crease and William Arthur Ward.

The series consists of transcript and microfilm copies of H.P. Cornwall's diary, from December 10, 1864 to June 13 1865 describing life on the farm at Ashcroft Manor.

The series consists of microfilmed copies of Bishop Hills' diaries (1838-1895), synod notes (1860-1865) and memoranda.

Diary describing passage through Kingston, Ontario to Victoria, B.C., via New York and Isthmus of Panama, and work in Victoria as commission agent.

Reminiscences: diaries and notebooks, 1846-1858, 1862-1896 (22 vols.); sketchbook and diary, August - October 1859; account books; printed notice re night school, 1877; papers accumulated as collector of road taxes, including correspondence, minute books, Victoria road district, 1861-1874, assessment rolls, Victoria, Esquimalt, Metchosin and Sooke road districts, various tenders, reports, bills; correspondence with Dept. of Militia and Defence as Paymaster, no 11 Military district, 1874-1879.

Finding aid: file list.

The file contains essays and other material created by C. F. Morison. It includes "Reminiscences of British Columbia from 1862 by a pioneer of the North West Coast," written by Charles Morison in 1920; "A brief narrative history of early British Columbia, 1862-1876", which includes revisions by his son, J.W. Morison, 1966; letter to the Reverend A.C. Pound, 1926, re history of Hazelton; pioneer form, C.F. Morison, ca. 1920s.

The fonds consists of Sargison's diaries, notebooks, and letterbook. Fonds includes minute book of the Building Committee of the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion Church of Montreal, of which Sargison was a member, and minutes of the Blue Ribbon Club of Victoria, B.C.

The fonds consists of a photocopy of George Blair's diary describing the voyage from New York to New Westminster via the Panama Canal 1862-1863 , as well as his experiences in the Cariboo Gold Rush. Fonds also includes a transcript of the diary created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and an incomplete version of the diary arranged by Jane F. Yemen and published in the Daily Colonist, April 5-26, 1936.

Journal of a trip to Wild Horse Creek and back, August to October, 1864.

Journal of Columbia River Exploring Party, 1865 (original: printed version in Library NW 971.1Ko B868 1869); 2. Diary kept as a transit man with CPR survey party “S”, January 1872 to October 1873 (original); 3. and 4. Diary kept as a transit man with CPR survey part “S”, January 1872 to October 1873 (transcript and copy); 5. Notice of election as warden, Corporation of North Cowichan and oath of office; 6. Diary of a survey of Saltspring Island, June to November 1874 (original); 7. Diary of a survey of Saltspring Island, June to November 1874 (transcript).

The file is a transcript copy of "Journeys of James Butterfield, 1836-1898," being the reminiscences of his early life in Maine, travels to and life in California and Hawaii, and trip to New Westminster, to take a job building a railroad from the Stikine River to Teslin Lake. Contains short biographical sketch of Jessie (Holt) Butterfield of New Westminster.

The file consists of a typed transcript of a diary of a voyage around Cape Horn to Esquimalt kept by George Styles in 1863 and a Styles family tree.

The series consists of personal correspondence (1851-1912) including papers and correspondence relating to Christ Church Cathedral (1855-1874) and the Reformed Episcopal Church (1874-1909); appointments, testimonials, certificates, accounts, newspaper clippings, sermon notes, diaries, notebooks, a sketchbook and photographs.

The sermons which were numbered by Cridge, are filed in number order, and the registers of sermons in Box 8, Files 1 and 5 may be used to determine the date on which they were first preached. Some of the Cridge sermons are not numbered or dated, and this is noted in the finding aid. Most are in booklet form, but others consist only of loose notes.

Series consists of a log kept by Thomas Robinson (personal attendant) who traveled with Governor Richard Blanshard to Vancouver Island in 1849; two colour photos of log (open and closed).

The item is a typescript titled "The history of Lucius S. Edelblute, his life and adventurez in calaforn[i]a & return and brit[is]h columbia and alazka and muntana...", written by Edelblute about his adventures between 1849 and 1873.

The series consists of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, commissions, notes and memoranda relating to his work with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Puget Sound Agricultural Company at Fort Nisqually, and later, Victoria. Some published materials from the library of the Tolmie family not related to the history of the northwest have been included in the collection.