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Wynne Shaw fonds
PR-0250 · Fonds · [193-?]

Fonds consists of photographs of Wynne Shaw and Russian Ballet School students and productions.

Shaw, Wynne, d. 1985
PR-0266 · Fonds · 1909-1995

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

Women's Canadian Club
Winnifred A. Donaldson fonds
PR-0147 · Fonds · [ca. 1950-1952]

Fonds consists of photographs and postcards depicting various Victoria streets, scenes, and buildings.

Donaldson, Winnifred A.
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.
Wilson Billingsley fonds
PR-0161 · Fonds · 1932

Fonds consists of photographs depicting a storm at Ross Bay and George Straith Jr. standing on the beach at Ross Bay.

Billingsley, Wilson
William Wilson fonds
PR-0063 · Fonds · 1860-1922 (predominantly 1880-1922)

Fonds includes financial records, correspondence, and records of businesses such as the Belmont Tannery and Capital City Canning and Packing. Also included are records relating to executor activities, loans, real estate and property, mining and mineral claims, estates, clubs, and family.

Wilson, William, 1838-1922
William W. Cook collection
PR-0097 · Collection · [ca. 1912-1920]

Collection consists of an album of postcards taken by the photographer Howard Chapman.

Cook, William W.
William Penman fonds
PR-0019 · Fonds · 1904-1962

Fonds consists of photographs, picture postcards, diaries, scrapbooks and miscellaneous printed material. The photographs include views of Manitoba, and Victoria and Vancouver Island; travels in North America, and Canadian military aircrew training during World War I. Also includes a scrapbook compiled by Alexander Cowie of Langford during World War I.

Penman, William, 1878-1962
William Otto Clunk fonds
PR-0040 · Fonds · [Copied 1978]

Fonds consists of photographs of Girls' Central School and Victoria West School groups.

Clunk, William Otto, 1903-1988
PR-0105 · Collection · [ca. 1906-1910]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Meed family home and activities.

Meed, William (family)
William J. Gower fonds
PR-0094 · Fonds · [ca. 1900-1920]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Gower family and family residence, the Ladysmith area, and of the businesses where William J. Gower worked.

Gower, William J.
William Grimm fonds
PR-0156 · Fonds · [ca. 1885-1900]

Fonds consists of photographs of the interior and exterior of William Grimm's Carriage factory.

Grimm, William
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
William E. Gardner fonds
PR-0036 · Fonds · 1894-1946

Fonds consists of photographs showing Captain William Gardner and various ships.

Gardner, William Edward, 1870-1947
William Andrew Mulcahy fonds
PR-0286 · Fonds · [ca. 1867-1929]

Fonds consists of glass plate negatives of unidentified adults and children (presumably members of the extended Mulcahy family), William Mulcahy during his employment with the B.C. Electric Railway, streetcars, street scenes, and buildings. Also includes a scrapbook of clippings pertaining to the City of Victoria council that belonged to Frank Campbell, a tobacconist.

Mulcahy, William Andrew, 1883-1955
PR-0271 · Fonds · 1911-1956

Fonds consists of architectural plans of private residences, commercial buildings, and institutional buildings in Greater Victoria designed or altered mainly by Percy Leonard James and Hubert Savage.

Warner James Johnson (Firm)
Walter Englehardt fonds
PR-0233 · Fonds · 1875-1962

Fonds consists of records relating to Englehardt's term as a City employee, as well as his memberships in the James Bay Athletic Association and Vancouver Island Philatelic Society.

Englehardt, Walter
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)
W. Allan Fraser fonds
PR-0260 · Fonds · [ca. 1906-1925]

Fonds consists of family photographs and images of a doctors' picnic.

Fraser, William Allen
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
Virginia Ferguson collection
PR-0218 · Collection · [ca. 1900-1980]

Collection consists of records of Lim Yat, records of Honoria Mary Lefevre, photographs of Spring Ridge Housing Co-operative employees, photographs of demolished buildings, a pharmacist's journal, business cards, miscellaneous photographs, and other material.

Ferguson, Virginia
Violet Folbigg fonds
PR-0179 · Fonds · [1919?]

Fonds consists of correspondence between Norman Folbigg and his fiancee, Violet.

Folbigg, Violet
PR-0217 · Fonds · 1929-1969

Fonds consists of records of the Victoria West Lawn Bowling Association and the Victoria West Brotherhood.

Victoria West Lawn Bowling Club
PR-0090 · Collection · [191-]

Fonds consists of photographs of the interior and exteriors of the company building, its employees, automobiles, and mascot.

Victoria Motor Company
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)
Victoria Iron Works fonds
PR-0221 · Fonds · 1894-1896

Fonds consists of outward correspondence.

Victoria Iron Works
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-0100 · Fonds · 1938-1965

Fonds consists mainly of photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings of the Victoria Girls Drill Team.

Victoria Girls Drill Team
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
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-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
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-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-0230 · Fonds · 1964-1988

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

Victoria African Violet Club
Victor Edward Mitchell fonds
PR-0227 · Fonds · [ca. 1910-1965]

Fonds consists of family photographs depicting homes, friends, vacations, theatre productions, and places of employment.

Mitchell, Victor Edward
Vernon Nixon collection
PR-0162 · Collection · [194-]

Collection consists of photographic prints and postcards of tourist attractions in the Greater Victoria region.

Nixon, Vernon
Trio Studio fonds
PR-0129 · Fonds · [ca. 1918]

Fonds consists mostly of postcards depicting views of Vancouver Island, troop debarkations to Europe during the First World War, and children at the Willows Fairgrounds.

Trio Photography Co.
Toyo Takata fonds
PR-0043 · Fonds · [Copied 1978]

Fonds consists of photographs of the Japanese Tea Garden in Gorge Park.

Takata, Toyo, 1920-2002
Tourist Auto Camp fonds
PR-0256 · Fonds · [ca. 1922]

Fonds consists of a visitor register and photograph of the Auto Camp.

Tourist Auto Camp
Todd Family collection
PR-0115 · Collection · 1909-1980

Fonds consists mainly photographs documenting Albert Todd's 1910 automobile trip, as well as research material pertaining to his life and career.

Todd, Albert Edward, 1878-1928 (family)
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
PR-0255 · Fonds · [ca. 1895-1965]

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

McPherson, Thomas Shanks, 1873-1962
Thomas Rodney Cusack fonds
PR-0016 · Fonds · [ca. 1893-1920]

Fonds consists of photographs showing Thomas Cusack and others in early automobiling scenes as well as Victoria people, businesses, and ceremonies.

Cusack, Thomas Rodney, 1869-1925
Thomas Henderson Horne fonds
PR-0197 · Fonds · [ca. 1906]-1917

Fonds consists of mainly of correspondence relating to Horne's work for the Provincial liquor stores and to his investments, as well as agreements and receipts relating to his personal and business investments.

Horne, Thomas Henderson, 1865-1952
Thomas Charles Sorby fonds
PR-0109 · Fonds · 1885-1906

Fonds consists mainly of scrapbooks documenting Sorby's proposals regarding the development of the Inner Harbour and James Bay Seawalls.

Sorby, Thomas Charles, 1836-1924
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
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)