Printed: 2013-05-23
Subjects - Exploration, discovery and travel
A. Thomas fonds
The fonds consists of Thomas' diary describing his trip across Canada to Halifax and his first few months in Halifax, 1918. Photographs are of ships and shipmates stationed in Halifax and of HM and HMC ships.
Reference code
CA MMB L1137;P470;P3171-78;P4677
Date(s)
- 1895-1918 (Creation) Thomas, A.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
A.G. McDonald fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, bills of sale, accounts, certificates, and wills of McDonald, and records of Croft and Ashby Company of Vancouver, and of the Truth Mining Company.
Reference code
CA KMA 0.456
Date(s)
- 1896-1927 (Creation) McDonald, Angus George
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Agnes Deans Cameron fonds
The fonds consists of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. Some Canadian photographs were...
Reference code
CA UVICARCH AR023
Date(s)
- 1908-1911 (Creation) Cameron, Agnes Deans
Level of description
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Repository
Amy Barrow fonds
The fonds consists of drawings produced by Amy Barrow during travels through the interior of B.C. in 1932.
Reference code
CA SID A988.5
Date(s)
- 1932 (Creation) Barrow, Amy
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Atlee Bridges fonds
The fonds consist of textual records and graphic material. The materials are a leather bound album containing photographs, postcards, maps, typed notes, and handwritten notes and comprising a diary of two trips: one trip to Forbidden Plateau in St...
Reference code
CA CMX 03.12
Date(s)
- 1948-1949 (Creation) Bridges, Atlee
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Canadian Pacific Railway Company Nanaimo Station Agent fonds
The fonds consists of a volume recording tickets sold at Nanaimo, with Canadian and international embarkations and destinations. Names of the ticket holders were recorded during one period in 1898.
Reference code
CA NCAI
Date(s)
- 1897-1903 (Creation) Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Nanaimo Station Agent
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Cominco Limited fonds
The fonds consists of land survey field notes, mining notes, reports (including a chronological record of outstanding events in the history of the company), correspondence relating to ceremonies and celebrations Cominco sponsored or participated i...
Reference code
CA TCA 86.1;91.9;1997-4
Date(s)
- 1896-1981 (Creation) Cominco
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Duncan B. Jennings fonds
Fonds consist of records describing the hardships which Duncan B. Jennings and his brother, Dave, endured. They also tell of events and people in the history of the early settlement of the Bulkley Valley. The records are arranged in chronological ...
Reference code
CA BVM 1971 42
Date(s)
- 1910-1937 (Creation) Jennings, Duncan B.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
E.A. Morris fonds
The fonds consists of a diary detailing Morris' departure from England, voyage across the Atlantic, meeting his brother in New York, the train trip across the continent, the voyage on the SS Otter from Victoria up the coast and his journey to Cass...
Reference code
CA MMB L2532
Date(s)
- 1877-1892 (Creation) Morris, E.A.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Emery family fonds
The fonds consists of family photographs and certificates and records of Samuel Emery and William A. Emery. Fonds includes copies of Common Prayer Book containing Emery family history and the diary of Samuel Emery's trip (1893) across the Atlantic...
Reference code
CA EMA 989-20;994-45-1;V989-34
Date(s)
- 1770-[ca. 1980] (Creation) Emery (family)
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Ernest F. Keir fonds
The fonds consists of Keir's photographs depicting mining in the Yukon and scenes of Dawson City and the Chilkoot Pass.
Reference code
CA VPL
Date(s)
- [ca. 1900] (Creation) Keir, Ernest F.
Level of description
Fonds
George H. Inskip fonds
The fonds consists of Inskip's diaries, one detailing voyage in the HMS Rattlesnake during a survey of the Australian coastline (1846-1848) and the other detailing a voyage to Siam (1856-1859).
Reference code
CA MMB L1957;L1958
Date(s)
- 1846-1859 (Creation) Inskip, George Hastings
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
George T. Allan fonds
The fonds consists of Allan's correspondence and journals written at Fort Vancouver (Washington State) in 1841.
Reference code
CA LCM MSS 22
Date(s)
- 1841 (Creation) Allan, George T.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Gerrard Burke Nagle fonds
Fonds consists of correspondence relating to activities as a surveyor and timber cruiser in the Revelstoke area.
Reference code
CA RMA
Date(s)
- 1894-1908 (Creation) Nagle, Gerrard Burke
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Hans Blakstad fonds
The fonds consists of the log of Hans Blakstad detailing the voyage of the sealing schooner City of San Diego (July, 1899 to October, 1899) from Victoria, B.C., to the North Pacific and return.
Reference code
CA MMB L752
Date(s)
- 1899 (Creation) Blakstad, Hans
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Herbert Frederick Winnington-Ingram fonds
The fonds consists of Winnington-Ingram's log of the proceedings of HMS Talbot (1838-1840) on a journey from England to Malta.
Reference code
CA MMB L556
Date(s)
- 1838-1840 (Creation) Winnington-Ingram, Herbert Frederick
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
James C. Peters fonds
The fonds consists of diaries, journals, notes and log books, all written by Peters except the log of the vessel Earl Grey. The voyages of the Sarah and the Queen of the Seas are detailed. One notebook is of correspondence from Peters on the Esk t...
Reference code
CA MMB
Date(s)
- 1852-1879 (Creation) Peters, James Carter
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Jewish Historical Society of B.C. oral history collection
The collection consists of sound recordings of Jewish pioneer and community figures relating to travel to and life in British Columbia and the Yukon from the Gold Rush era to the present. The memories chronicle Jewish life, community and organizat...
Reference code
CA JHS
Date(s)
- 1960-1992 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
John Crosse fonds
Fonds consists of Crosse's research notes, journals and annotated photocopies regarding the marine history of British Columbia. This material was primarily generated by Crosse in the course of his research activities from 1985-2006, but the fonds ...
Reference code
CA UBCSP RBSC-ARC-1150
Date(s)
- 1985-2006 (Creation) Crosse, John
Level of description
Fonds
Mabel E. Jordon fonds
Fonds consists of the textual records of Mabel Jordon from 1929, 1947-1969. Includes correspondence, publications, research materials, certificate, notes, filmstrip, clippings, ephemera, maps, and photographs (H.T. Nation, Mabel Jordon, and ot...
Reference code
CA FTST MS 48
Date(s)
- 1929, 1947-1969 (Creation) Jordon, Mabel E., 1908-1993
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Maritime Museum of British Columbia photograph collection
The collection consists of photographic prints and negatives of maritime activity (predominantly vessels and ships crews) occurring in North America, the largest percentage relating to the West Coast. The collection includes photographs of maritim...
Reference code
CA MMB
Date(s)
- [ca. 1890]-1995 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Noel Humphreys fonds
The fonds consists of eight newspaper clippings: seven being a series of articles on the findings of the expedition, and the eighth being a photograph of the expedition's winter quarters in Etah, Greenland. The articles were written by Noel Humphr...
Reference code
CA UNBC
Date(s)
- 1934-1935 (Creation) Humphreys, Noel
Level of description
Fonds
Pullen family fonds
The fonds consists of log book of W.J.S. Pullen on the HMS Falcon (1855) and Cyclops (1856-57), with an extract from the Master Attendant and Conservator of the Port [Bombay] to the Commissioner of Salt and Opium (1860). Fonds includes photographs...
Reference code
CA MMB
Date(s)
- 1827-1955 (Creation) Pullen (family)
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
R.A. Donnelly fonds
The fonds consists of a diary entitled "Rough log of the Grilse" (1915-1918) written by R.A. Donnelly detailing activities at sea. Fonds includes memorandum regarding the commissioning of the HMCS Grilse and photographs of the Grilse and the HMCS ...
Reference code
CA MMB L3502a-b;P4835;P4836
Date(s)
- 1915-1918 (Creation) Donnelly, R.A.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
R.E. Cape fonds
The fonds consists of a daily diary of events on the voyage of the ship Barfillan from Antwerp to Antofagasta.
Reference code
CA MMB L231
Date(s)
- 1904-1905 (Creation) Cape, R.E.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
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