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Archival description
William E. John fonds
PR-0059 · Fonds · 1932-1993 (predominantly 1966-1971)

Fonds consists of photographs taken mainly during John's career as a freelance photographer for Victoria Press, covering a wide variety of topics relating to everyday life and special events, mainly in Victoria.

John, William E., 1924-2000
W & J Wilson Limited fonds
PR-0062 · Fonds · 1859-1987

Fonds includes correspondence and financial, building, and employment records. There are also advertisements and notices to customers, orders, shipping lists, stock inventories, catalogues and price lists. Also included are a variety of clippings, broadcasts, photographs, and artifacts.

W & J Wilson
Flumerfelt family fonds
PR-0064 · Fonds · [190-?]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Flumerfelt family and their home on Pemberton Road.

Flumerfelt, Alfred Cornelius, 1856-1930 (family)
Kathleen M. Paulin fonds
PR-0070 · Fonds · [ca. 1910-1925]

Fonds consists of photographs of Paulin family and friends.

Paulin, Kathleen M.
PR-0074 · Fonds · 1986-1995

Fonds consists mainly of textual records, photographs, and videos of the 1994 Commonwealth Games documenting the planning and hosting of the Games.

Victoria Commonwealth Games Society
Cridge-Laundy family fonds
PR-0076 · Fonds · 1859-1976

Fonds consists of records created primarily by Bishop Edward Cridge, his daughter Ellen Laundy, and her daughter Helen Forbes documenting the activities of the Cridge-Laundy family, and their contributions to the Church of Our Lord, Protestant Orphan's Home, Female Infirmary and Royal Jubilee Hospital.

Laundy, Thomas Herbert, 1865-1957 (family)
Walls family fonds
PR-0028 · Fonds · [ca. 1890-1945]

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Victoria and Vancouver Island scenes, the Walls family, World War I soldiers, and travels in California and England.

Walls, John Patmore, 1842-1925 (family)
Robert Taylor Williams fonds
PR-0032 · Fonds · 1824-1954 (predominantly 1882-1934)

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of the Williams family, views of Victoria, and group portraits of City Council. Also includes material about the Williams directory of British Columbia, as well as miscellaneous family documents.

Williams, Robert Taylor, 1849-1934 (family)
Fletcher family fonds
PR-0033 · Fonds · [188-?]-1983

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of the Fletcher Bros. music store as well as Victoria businesses, homes, and people.

Fletcher, Thomas W., d. 1927
Rattenbury family fonds
PR-0035 · Fonds · 1879-1982

Fonds consists of photographic prints (some in albums), negatives, correspondence, legal documents, newspaper clippings, books, and other material relating to the Rattenbury family. Photographs include images of members of the Rattenbury family and their home Iechineel in Oak Bay; Victoria homes and other buildings.

Rattenbury, Francis Mawson, 1867-1935 (family)
Victoria E. Lemmax fonds
PR-0037 · Fonds · 1897-1927

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of the Lemmax family and school-related photos and certificates.

Lemmax, Victoria Eleuthera, 1898-1991
Noel F. Lang fonds
PR-0038 · Fonds · [Copied 1978]

Fonds consists of textual records relating to Noel Lang and Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway station names, as well as family photographs.

Lang, Noel Frederick, 1889-1967
Peter Steele family fonds
PR-0045 · Fonds · 1835-[195-?] (predominantly 1870-1950)

Fonds consists primarily of photographs of the Steele family. Also included is the autograph album of Minnie Rex (later Steele), as well as photographs of the Alexander (Sandy) Roberts family, and one page of minutes of the Beaux Arts society.

Steele, Peter, Sr., 1845-1902 (family)
Dorothy Wilson fonds
PR-0047 · Fonds · [1936-1979]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Russian Ballet School and programmes.

Wilson, Dorothy
Gwen Hall fonds
PR-0050 · Fonds · 1915-1949

Fonds consists of photographs of Gwen Hall and friends.

Hall, Gwen
Dave Hutchison fonds
PR-0051 · Fonds · [Copied 1979]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Victoria Oddfellows Hall, Fernwood Road, and coal scows in the Inner Harbour.

Hutchison, Dave
Barry Larsen fonds
PR-0053 · Fonds · [ca. 1885-1900]

Fonds consists of photographs of Richardson Street, Craigdarroch Castle, and a paddlewheeler in the Inner Harbour.

Larsen, Barry
Winnett A. Brand fonds
PR-0054 · Fonds · 1913-1945

Fonds consists of photographs showing a class at Girls' Central School, classes of Chinese students at Kings Road School, and the second kindergarten class in Victoria, 1945.

Brand, Winnett A.
PR-0057 · Fonds · 1863-1995

Fonds includes minutes, scrapbooks, financial records, reports, bylaws, photographs and publications.
Also included are minutes and cashbook of the British Columbia Board of Trade Building Association, an organization established in 1892 to fund construction of the Board of Trade building in Bastion Square.

Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce
George Harvey fonds
PR-0011 · Fonds · [1863-1968]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Harvey home, family, servants, and First Nations burial cairns.

Harvey, George John, 1859-1937
PR-0255 · Fonds · [ca. 1895-1965]

Fonds consists mainly of family photographs and a copy of McPherson's will.

McPherson, Thomas Shanks, 1873-1962
A.O. Noel Wilkinson fonds
PR-0258 · Fonds · [ca. 1919-1945]

Fonds consists of First World War certificates and air raid defence records.

Wilkinson, A.O. Noel
Ruth Veda Collis fonds
PR-0265 · Fonds · [ca. 188-]-1998 (predominantly 1918-1970)

The fonds consist of personal and family records, real estate, financial, and legal records, photographs, and artwork.

Collis, Ruth Veda, 1918-1999
Helmcken family fonds
PR-0272 · Fonds · [ca. 1865]-1975

Fonds consists primarily of correspondence and photographs of three generations of the Helmcken family. The fonds also includes a scrapbook, certificates, family tree, and other material relating to the family’s private and professional activities.

Helmcken, John Sebastian, 1824-1920
Mouat family fonds
PR-0275 · Fonds · 1852-1932

Fonds consists primarily of personal records of the family, including correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, a school exercise book, and published material. The fonds also includes William Alexander Mouat’s business records.

Mouat, William Alexander, Capt., 1821-1871
PR-0163 · Fonds · 1896-[ca. 1920]

Fonds consists of family photographs and other material.

Chungranes, Constantine Demetrius, b. 1891
Douglas Shepherd fonds
PR-0176 · Fonds · 1974-1975

Fonds consists of news reports and research compiled during the 1975 municipal employee strike.

Shepherd, Douglas G.
Alfred J. Ferguson fonds
PR-0177 · Fonds · [ca. 1896-1939]

Fonds consists mainly of family photographs and other material relating to Royal visits.

Ferguson, Alfred J.
Reginald Hincks fonds
PR-0182 · Fonds · [ca. 1916-1949]

Fonds consists of photographs and other material relating to theatre productions written or produced by Reginald Hincks.

Hincks, Reginald N.
Gladys Cook fonds
PR-0189 · Fonds · 1938-1988

Fonds consists of a scrapbook and other material pertaining to the Victoria Girls Drill Team.

Cook, Gladys, d. 1987
PR-0192 · Fonds · [ca. 1917-1966]

Fonds consists of correspondence and photographs of headstones.

Stewart Monumental Works
PR-0206 · Fonds · 1977-1989

Fonds includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and a videotape of a ceremony held in remembrance of Jean Ewen in China.

Victoria Canada-China Friendship Association
Robert Matheson fonds
PR-0207 · Fonds · 1988

Fonds consists of photographs of buildings in Victoria and Nanaimo.

Matheson, Robert
Thomas Ardies Johnston fonds
PR-0216 · Fonds · 1907-1923

Fonds consists of records relating mainly to the Grand Trunk Pacific Transfer Company and a match factory in Victoria.

Johnston, Thomas Ardies
Victoria Iron Works fonds
PR-0221 · Fonds · 1894-1896

Fonds consists of outward correspondence.

Victoria Iron Works
Elsie B. Richards fonds
PR-0222 · Fonds · 1947

Fonds consists of correspondence.

Richards, Elsie B.
PR-0224 · Fonds · 1929-1972

Fonds consists mainly of a cash journal, and business photographs.

Gillespie, Hart & Company
PR-0225 · Fonds · 1911-1913

Fonds consists of a monthly summary of accounts.

Hinton Electric Company
PR-0230 · Fonds · 1964-1988

Fonds consists of photographs, meeting minutes, show and exhibition records, and other material.

Victoria African Violet Club
PR-0234 · Fonds · [ca. 1878-1900]

Fonds consists of photographs of Elizabeth Kezia Sehl and a published volume of pictures of Victoria.

Sehl, Francis Thomas Styles
Fleming Bros. fonds
PR-0238 · Fonds · [ca. 1890-1930]

Fonds consists of photographs depicting buildings, people and scenery around Victoria and Vancouver Island.

Fleming Bros. (Firm)
Beaumont Boggs fonds
PR-0239 · Fonds · [ca. 1885-1925]

Fonds consists mainly of family photographs.

Boggs, Beaumont Thomas Frederick William, 1864-1943 (family)
Fair family fonds
PR-0241 · Fonds · [ca. 1890-1910]

Fonds consists of family photographs.

Fair, David, Sr., d. 1936 (family)
Lillian S. Smith fonds
PR-0245 · Fonds · 1896-1935

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of soldiers boarding ships for Europe and 1916 snow scenes in Victoria.

Smith, Lillian S.
Frances Ann Brown fonds
PR-0246 · Fonds · [ca. 1880]-1967

Fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, teaching records, and other material.

Brown, Frances Ann, 1876-1967
Ross Hocking fonds
PR-0079 · Fonds · 1924-1953 (predominantly 1924-1933)

Fonds consists mainly of photographs and newspaper clippings documenting Hocking's athletic endeavors as a tennis player, lawn bowler and basketball player.

Hocking, Ross V., 1906-2003
Robert C. King fonds
PR-0080 · Fonds · 1979-1980

Fonds consists mainly of photographs documenting royal visits, Chinatown, the Temple Emmanuel, a Freedom of the City Ceremony, and the ferry Princess Marguerite.

King, Robert C.
Frances Armour fonds
PR-0081 · Fonds · [ca. 1910-1945]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Cadboro Beach Hotel and the Old Charming Inn.

Armour, Frances
PR-0085 · Fonds · [1910?]-1931

Fonds consists of photographs depicting the Victoria Chemical Works at the Inner Harbour, construction of the Canadian Explosives plant on James Island, employees of the Chemical Works, and family scenes on James Island.

Victoria Chemical Company Limited