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Filson Young fonds
UVICSP SC328 · Fonds · 1912 - 1913

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter from Thea Rabe-Staadt to Young requesting permission to translate his "Letters From Solitude" into German; a handwritten letter and a typewritten letter from Young to Mr. Cazenove (literary agent); a typed letter from The Literary Agency of London (Cazenove) to Rabe-Staadt re Filson Young; a handwritten letter from Rabe-Staadt to C.F Cazenove (reply - in German).

Young, Filson, 1876-1938
UVICSP SC426 · Collection · 1881 - 1913

The collection consists of a lithographed facsimile of a letter addressed to the Nurses and Probationers at St. Thomas' Hospital.

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Mecca Tea Rooms fonds
NWMA MSS 024 · Fonds · 1911-1913

The fonds consists of two series: an account book of the Mecca Tea Rooms and a photograph album belonging to one of the owners, Ruth Petter, that documents the Tea Rooms and the lives of its owners.

Mecca Tea Rooms
Fonds · 1897-1913

The fonds consists of property assessment rolls (1897-1910), Rural School District property assessment rolls (1906-1913), and tax arrears roll (1902-1907) of the Comox Assessment District.

Comox Assessment District
CA UNBC 2004.5 · Collection · ca. 1914

The Fort Fraser Historical Photograph Collection consists of 1 photograph album featuring 86 black and white photographs of Fort Fraser and area during the pre World War I era.

Henderson-Roe collection
CA UNBC 2002.17 · Collection · 1912-1914

Collection consists of materials related to Fort George surveying and preemption, including both legal and personal correspondence, legal documents and records, plans of lots, photographs, and a map. Includes records from the Cariboo Investment Company, Ltd., J.B. Henderson-Roe and C.H. Henderson Roe.

Fonds · 1907- 1914

The fonds consists of nitrate negatives and glass negatives that depict the early Prince Rupert town site, pioneers, businesses, scenes, and events. Included is a wedding certificate from 1923 for Ethel Vivian Alabaster and Gus Slane.

J.D. Allen Photographic Company
E. T. Calvert family fonds
CA DMA CR-74 · Fonds · 1914 - [193-]

Fonds consists of family photographs and photographs of the customs office, swimming pool and other places in Boundary Bay and Beach Grove. The fonds also includes the original hand written work leddger, 1914-1921, that E.T. Calvert kept as customs agent at Boundary Bay.

Calvert, E.T.
CA DMA CR-122 · Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1914

Fonds consists of copies of William Henry and Edith Blanche Burr's farm diary for 1903; copies of letters written by Harry Burr between 1903-1914; property records relating to property owned by the Burrs and family photographs of scenes on the farm, the Hunt Club, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burr and other family members and a large matted portrait of Burrvilla.
Fonds is arranged in 4 series:
Correspondance
Memorabilia
Property Records
Photographs

Burr, W.H. and E.B. (family)
Percy Broughton collection
Collection · [189-?] - 1915

Collection consists of one bound journal, reflecting Broughton's day-to-day activities and missionary work in Baffin Island between 1909 and 1915, and one photo album with images of Wycliffe College, ships and their crews, towns, Arctic wildlife, and many of the Inuit community at Lake Harbour [Kimmirut] in Nunavut, Canada.

Broughton, Percy
Unidentified artist fonds
UVICSP SC316 · Fonds · 1915

The fonds consists of a pen and ink cartoon (10 drawings), plus a pen and ink decorated covering card with "Many Happy Returns, 31st January 1915. On the verso of the card is another small cartoon. Two photograph faces have been pasted on figures; one on the front of the card, the other on drawing 5 of the cartoon.

CA FTST MS 22 · Fonds · 1901-1904, 1914-1915

Fonds consists of records of the Fort Steele government agent and assessor. Includes correspondence, financial records, and lists.

British Columbia. Government Agent (Fort Steele, B.C.)
J. M. Barrie collection
UVICSP SC046 · Collection · 1913 - 1915

The collection consists of letters written by J. M. Barrie to Thomas Lennox Gilmour, mainly concerned with his financial affairs.

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Fonds · 1908- 1916

The fonds consists of BC Provincial Police day books from Port Essington, (July to Dec 1908, 1910- 1916) which describe complaints, arrests, and reports, and also includes daily weather and steamship arrival and departures. Includes fishery record ledgers of license holders (1911 - 1912) in the Skeena River District listed by cannery (Balmoral, Claxton, Oceanic, British America, Inverness, Carlise, North Pacific, Cunningham, Dominion, Cassiar, Skeena River Commerical, Alexandria) and includes court cases and cash receipts. The 1908 court records lists convicting judges C.J. South , George B. Baillie, J.T. Williams, and E. Lorenz. Includes a letter book (January 1908 to July 1916) which contains outgoing correspondence concerning police and fishery reports, correspondence to government agents William Manson and J.H. McMullin, chief constables William H. Vickers, T.G. Wynn, W. Owen, and Ernest Gammon, reports to the Commissioner of Fisheries in Victoria by Provincial Fishery Overseers constables Alexander Forsyth and Kenneth F. Birchall, letters to Indian Agents Charles Clifton Perry in Metlakatla, and letters by George A. Shade, Deputy Mining Recorder. Also includes Lett's 1908 Indian & Colonial Almanac with reports, correspondence, and wanted criminals, and includes a police day book at the back. Names of constables include: C. Cullen, G. Fitzgerald, G.S. Flyn, J. Herring, Lewis, McDonald, George Leek, T.G. Wynn, Jones, Whitley, Phillipson, R. Leese, Rodgers, Gay, Carmichael, W. Owen, H. Abley.

British Columbia Provincial Police. Port Essington Office
Fonds · 1898-1916

The fonds consists of a membership list, an invoice for the per capita grant and a statement of intent. The statement establishes a committee to draw out a Farmers' Platform in consultation with every "Institute Agricultural Association, Fruitgrowers' Association, Dairymen's Association and other authorities in B.C."

Kamloops Farmers' Institute
UVICSP SC282 · Collection · 1910 - 1916

The collection consists of a handwritten letter (1910) to Mrs. Edgar (Pelham?) referring to her mother's death and asking " if you could see your way ...to leaving me out of your anthology entirely." Also included is a handwritten "fair copy" of four Pickthall poems ( "Gold Dawn", Song from "Little Hearts", Song from "The Sleeping Fawn", and "Birds at Evening") together with a dealer's description on an envelope

Pickthall, Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie), 1883-1922
CA DMA CR-133 · Collection · 1910-1916

The collection consists of 22 photographs that show in a variety of detail the operation and structures of a shingle mill and logging railroad in North Delta in the early part of the 1900's. The collection includes photographs of the owner, Wesley Thompson, his family, and mill workers. The donor also provided photocopies of clippings and genealogical information about the Thompson family, which are located in the Archives Reference files under Wesley Thompson.

Delta Shingle Mill
Fonds · 1915-1916

Fonds consists of two letters from the British Columbia Deputy Provincial Secretary appointing Frederick William Kerton as 1) a Member of the Board of Licence Commissioners for the City of Courtenay, 28th August, 1915 and 2) a Member of the Board of Commissioners of Police for the City of Courtenay, 5th February, 1916.

Kerton, Frederick William
Fonds · 1900

The fonds consists of one series and includes copies of articles by Helenita Harvey and photocopies of correspondence between Granite Creek Fish Hatchery Superintendent David Salmon Mitchell and Judge F.W. Howay

Granite Creek Fish Hatchery
Walter van Arsdalen fonds
CA FTST MS 20 · Fonds · 1907-1909, 1916

Fonds consists of correspondence from Charles W. Freeman to Walter van Arsdalen, 1907-1909 and 1916.

Van Arsdalen, Walter
CA WVAN 062 · Fonds · 1912-1916

The fonds consists of records relating to the establishment, operation, and dissolution of the West Vancouver Ferry Company. The records include bound meeting minutes, resolutions, employee payroll information, and shareholder information, an accident register, agreements, financial statements, reports, incorporation certificate, and court order.

West Vancouver Ferry Company
Charles Brooks fonds
UVICSP SC163 · Fonds · 1916

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to a fan. A clipping from a newspaper is pasted on the verso- a portrait of the author.

Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen), 1878-1934
Collection · 1911-1917

The collection consists of photographs that were collected by Francis and Lily Brown when they lived in Prince Rupert from 1911 to 1917. Some of the photographs are originals, some are postcards and others are copies of the originals still held by the family. The photographs include scenes such as Crippen Cove, the arrival of the Duke of Connaught on the Princess Alice in September 1912, blasting of areas for expanding the city, 3rd Avenue in 1911 and the arrival of the first train from Winnipeg in 1914.

Brown, F.R.C. (family)
J. A. Ferguson fonds
UVICSP SC248 · Fonds · 1917

The fonds consists of a mimeographed, signed letter from John Lane (publisher), concerning the publication of Ferguson's “Stealthy Terror”. Also included is a clipping from the “Aberdeen Bon-Accord”, referring to Ferguson and his writing.

Ferguson, John Alexander, 1873-1952
Thomas T. McVittie fonds
CA FTST MS 55 · Fonds · 1877-1917

Fonds consists of the textual records of Thomas T. McVittie. Includes field books, index to the field books, notes, and maps.

McVittie, Thomas T., 1855-1918