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This collection consists of photocopied documents, mainly from the colonial period, relating to Comox District history. Dr. Pritchard organized the material into ten groupings and prefaced each with an introduction and remarks on the historical value of the documents.
The ten groupings are: 1) Records of Exploration 1791-1860, 2) Naval Records 1846-65, 3) Colonial Government Records 1862-71, 4) Anglican Records 1862-91, 5) Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition: Unpublished Journals 1864, 6) Euclataws, Settlers and the Navy 1863-65, 7) Liquor Traffic 1863-65, 8) Comox Natives: Some Reports and Descriptions 1860-90, 9) Province of British Columbia: Sessional Papers 1871-1910, 1918, 10) H M Laing: Comox Writings 1927-c. 1950.
Copies are from original manuscripts at various institutions including the British Columbia Archives, the British National Archives at Kew, the Hudson Bay Company Archives, and the Library at the University of Toronto.

The fonds consist of textual records and ephemera relating to Ron Blacks activities with Comox Council, the civic marina and writing for the Comox District Free Press. The material consists of copies of administrative records and correspondence; newspaper clippings; maps; and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of articles written for the Free Press. The fonds is arranged in six series: 1) Administrative Records; 2) Correspondence; 3) Ephemera; 4) Maps; 5) Scrapbook.