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.
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.
Fonds consists of six piano scores of operas autographed "Miss Helmcken 1873," who is believed to be Catherine Amelia Helmcken (later McTavish), Also included is a photograph of Mrs. Harry Helmcken in a limousine in Beacon Hill Park.
Fonds consists of photographs of horses and a delivery wagon belonging to West End Grocery Co. and Dixi H. Ross and Co., as well as interior and exterior views of the latter's store.
Fonds consists of photographs showing the construction of the Johnson Street Bridge, 1921-1923, and Eileen Allwood's reminiscences of the Pantages Theatre, 1919-1927.
Fonds consists of photographs of relatives and friends of Hudson Blake's father William Alfred Blake. Group photos include classes at Oaklands School, lacrosse teams and Canadian Army units (World War I).
Fonds consists of mainly of diaries, letters, bills and cancelled cheques documenting Harris's career as a surveyor. Also included are family photographs and a map of Victoria Harbour.
Fonds consists mostly of certificates, books, pamphlets, photographs, and a report related to Muriel Evans's work as a fingerprint expert, and her first aid and civil defence work during World War II.
Fonds consists of photographs of the farms of Harold and Gerald Payne and the Bradley-Dyne family on Saturna Island as well as scenes of North Saanich.