Sketchbook (1632) and miscellaneous prints; journals (1837-1840) providing accounts of voyages to Italy, Calcutta (via the Cape of Good Hope), and log book of a voyage from China to California and Mexico (1853-1855); miscellaneous notes and clippings.

The series consists of correspondence; research notes for articles and books; diaries and narratives; financial papers; clippings of articles and reviews; and samples of paper produced by B.C. Paper Manufacturing Company, Alberni, 1894. A narrative of a journey from Ucluelet to Village Island, 1896, is also on microfilm.

SUMMARY: "Audience" was a series about the arts, presented from Vancouver. This episode is about the artists of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This is part 1 of 2.;

SUMMARY: "Audience" was a series about the arts, presented from Vancouver. This episode is about the artists of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This is part 2 of 2.;

Amateur film. Mexico: outdoor dancing, horses, bullfight. Royal visit to Vancouver, May 1939: street scenes, pipe bands, shots of the city (Burrard Street Bridge, etc.); May Day, Queen's Park, New Westminster; beach, afternoon tea (Bowen Island?); Lions Gate Bridge; Stanley Park; King and Queen drive past; royal yacht sailing past Brockton Point, under Lions Gate Bridge; Indian canoes.

The item is a photocopy of a thesis by Malcolm Hall Kenyon titled "Naval construction and repair at San Blas, Mexico, 1767-1797." 1972. xi, 234 p, illustrations, tables. Thesis (MA) - University of New Mexico, 1972. Bibliography: p 231-234.

The item consists of a video copy of R.F.H. Reed's ca.1932 amateur film showing a rum-running expedition from Victoria to "Rum Row" off the California coast. The video depicts details of the run made by the ship M.V. "Malahat". The tender M.V. "Hickey" is shown transferring cases of liquor to American vessels and avoiding US Navy cutters. At San Martin Island, Mexico, the "Hickey" puts in for repairs. The film was shot by Richard Francis Heurtley Reed while he was serving as an engineer on the rum-running vessel M.V. "Hickey".

Television stock shots. Footage of Royal Canadian Sea Cadets aboard the tall ship "Svanen" (a sail training vessel) and sightseeing in La Paz, Mexico.