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Archival description
Arion Male Voice Choir fonds
PR-0056 · Fonds · 1892-2014

Fonds consists of legal and financial records, concert-related materials, operational files, photographs, and history files.

Arion Male Voice Choir
PR-0199 · Fonds · 1921-2011 (predominantly 1921-1994)

Fonds consists of a variety of organizational records, including constitution and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, financial statements, membership records, club bulletins, conference and events records, speeches, and photographs.

Capital City Executives Association
PR-0274 · Fonds · 1913-2007

Fonds consists of 23 series of organizational records, including constitution and bylaws, charter, annual reports, minutes, correspondence, financial statements, membership records, club bulletins, project records, conference and events records, historical files, scrapbooks, photographs, and artifacts.

Rotary Club
PR-0287 · Fonds · 1921-1998

The fonds consists of minutes, membership lists, financial records, subject files, show catalogues and newsletters of the Victoria Horticultural Society and its predecessors, the Victoria and District Cottage Gardeners Mutual Improvement Association and the Victoria and District Gardener's Association.

Victoria Horticultural Society
PR-0269 · Fonds · 1977-1998 (predominantly 1977-1998)

Fonds consists of photographs created by the BC Assessment Authority to assist with the assessment of property values. The photographs are mainly of residential properties located within the boundaries of the City of Victoria.

British Columbia Assessment Authority
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
PR-0266 · Fonds · 1909-1995

Fonds consists of organizational records documenting the structure, membership, finances, and activities of the Club.

Women's Canadian Club
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
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
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
Times-Colonist fonds
PR-0264 · Fonds · 1938-1983

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives and 4x5 and 35mm black and white safety film negatives taken by staff and free lance photographers for the Daily Colonist and the Victoria Daily Times, The Express and the Times-Colonist newspapers. The negatives date from approximately 1938 to 1991.

The negatives relate to the following subjects: news events; scenes of the city and surrounding area including buildings, city streets, and views; some up-island locations including Duncan, Nanaimo and Ladysmith; commercial and industrial activities such as store fronts and interiors, and manufacturing operations; sporting events; military personnel and activities; war effort activities; recreational activities; school and church activities; transportation and shipbuilding as well as individual and group portraits which appeared in the “Society” section. The latter include anniversary, wedding, christening and engagement portraits.

Times-Colonist
Bayliss Sign fonds
PR-0208 · Fonds · [193-]-1990

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of building signs.

Bayliss Sign
PR-0087 · Fonds · 1865-1990

Fonds consists of administrative, financial, operational, and membership records, as well as officers' files.

Native Sons and Daughters of British Columbia
PR-0185 · Fonds · 1887-[198-?]

Fonds consists of photographs and other material relating to the Fairfull, Olive, and Watson families.

Fairfull, Ethel Melinda Trewolla, 1904-1989
PR-0200 · Fonds · 1974-1989

Fonds consists of general office files, minutes, correspondence, financial records, Fernwood News files, and historical research.

Fernwood Community Association
PR-0276 · Fonds · 1921-[198-]

Fonds consists of 19 series of organizational records, including incorporation documents, constitution and bylaws, minutes, annual reports, membership records, conferences and events records, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Victoria Business and Professional Women's Club
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
PR-0268 · Fonds · 1931-1988 (predominantly 1953-1988)

Fonds consists mainly of project files, operational records, photographs, and Jaycee Fair files.

Victoria Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)
Monteith family fonds
PR-0219 · Fonds · [ca. 1898-1988]

Fonds consists mainly of family photographs.

Monteith, William Banks, d. 1958 (family)
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
Robert Matheson fonds
PR-0207 · Fonds · 1988

Fonds consists of photographs of buildings in Victoria and Nanaimo.

Matheson, Robert
PR-0230 · Fonds · 1964-1988

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

Victoria African Violet Club
Lowe family fonds
PR-0023 · Fonds · 1910-1987 (predominantly 1910-1934)

Fonds consists primarily of photographs of Victoria buildings and scenes.

Lowe, George, 1888-1978 (family)
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
David Chuen-yan Lai fonds
PR-0209 · Fonds · 1979-1986

Fonds consists of records documenting Lai's efforts at revitalizing Victoria's Chinatown.

Lai, Chuen-yan David
Donald B. MacPherson fonds
PR-0044 · Fonds · 1894-1986

Fonds consists of reminiscences and photographs of whaling and tugboating.

MacPherson, Donald B., 1899-1985
Spencer's Stores fonds
PR-0068 · Fonds · 1929-1986 (predominantly 1929-1955)

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Spencer's Stores and General Warehouse Ltd. locations, including window and interior displays.

Spencer's Stores Ltd.
Lillian Shandley fonds
PR-0034 · Fonds · 1884-1985

Fonds consists of miscellaneous family records and artifacts relating to Mrs. Shandley and her family.

Shandley, Lillian Rose, 1897-1993
Charles Staples fonds
PR-0194 · Fonds · 1896-1985

Fonds consists of records and other material relating to cycling races.

Staples, Charles, d. 1990
PR-0039 · Fonds · [ca. 1900]-1984

Fonds consists mainly of photographs depicting Victoria streets, parks, buildings, and family members.

Muirhead, Richard Hamilton, d. 1979
Ainslie James Helmcken fonds
PR-0267 · Fonds · 1909-1983 (predominantly 1965-1983)

Fonds consists primarily of material pertaining to Ainslie Helmcken’s interest in researching and promoting Victoria’s history.

Helmcken, Ainslie James, 1900-1987
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
Percival Edward George fonds
PR-0138 · Fonds · 1910-1982

Fonds consists personal and business records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material.

George, Percival Edward, 1890-1983
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)
PR-0125 · Fonds · [ca. 1962-1981]

Fonds consists of photographs of construction sites, newly completed Victoria buildings, and streetscapes.

Siddall Dennis Warner Architects
PR-0169 · Fonds · [ca. 1977-1980]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Legislative Precinct, Menzies Street, and Fort Street.

British Columbia Buildings Corporation
Scott family fonds
PR-0174 · Fonds · 1914-1980

Fonds consists of photographs and other material pertaining to the First World War, the Legion of Frontiersmen, and the Veteran's Hospital.

Scott, John R. (family)
PR-0135 · Fonds · 1959-[ca. 1980]

Fonds consists of photographs and reports used in the calculation of property assessments of buildings.

British Columbia Assessment Authority
Amy K. Moffat fonds
PR-0137 · Fonds · [ca. 1884-1980]

Fonds consists of Moffat and Gilchrist family photographs and personal memoirs.

Moffat, Amy Kennilworth, 1897-1987
John W. King fonds
PR-0213 · Fonds · 1893-1980

Fonds consists of a scrapbook regarding the James Bay Athletic Association.

King, John W.
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.
Muriel Thorne fonds
PR-0049 · Fonds · [Copied 1979]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Ernie Seedhouse family, including the family gas station.

Thorne, Muriel
Stoddart family fonds
PR-0065 · Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1979

Fonds consists mainly of photographs depicting the Stoddart family, their homes, and their businesses.

Stoddart, Robert William Croke (family)
Alexander Roberts fonds
PR-0052 · Fonds · [Copied 1979]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Roberts family, various Victoria scenes, and the Nickel Plate Mine at Hedley.

Roberts, Alexander Cross, d. 1974
Roland Banyard fonds
PR-0025 · Fonds · 1887-[197-?]

Fonds consists of photographs of Vancouver Island coastal scenes and maps of Greater Victoria and southwestern British Columbia.

Banyard, Roland
Dorothy Wilson fonds
PR-0047 · Fonds · [1936-1979]

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

Wilson, Dorothy
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