Kootenay District 17 May 1902 signed Mining Claim Grant
Kootenay District 17 May 1902 signed Mining Claim Grant Lot 104 in our auction Saturday 1st April...
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Kootenay District 17 May 1902 signed Mining Claim Grant Lot 104 in our auction Saturday 1st April...
Read MoreOne of four known diaries from the 1858 Fraser River Gold Rush – and the only one written by...
Read MoreRealized $701 Jeffray’s Fraser River Express, Victoria oval 1861 Unu Cvr, ex Wellburn Lot 72...
Read MoreKootenay District 28 Nov 1902 Lt-Gov-signed Mineral Act Document Lot 84 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreOne of four known Fraser River Gold Rush diaries. The only one written by a Canadian and the only...
Read MoreAlaska Highway Map 1944 Whitehorse Letter Sheet w/ message Lot 1 in our auction Saturday 23rd July...
Read MoreVictoria, Vancouver’s Island 1859 7.5×12.5″ Power of Attorney document Lot 98 in...
Read MoreRealized $451, Waterloo, B.C. 22 Jy 1898 RF E-1 3c CDS on piece, ex Thurlow Fraser Lot 95 in our...
Read MoreCoutlee, B.C. 1910 Shuttleworth Letter on Cleasby Invoice Lot 93 in our auction Saturday 16th...
Read MoreCopper River, B.C. 1930 12c Registered Chinese Daily News Cover Lot 92 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreVictoria, V.I. Nov 1862 P.O. Paid Oval Stampless Cover, ex Wellburn Lot 74 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 27 Sep 1881 4-pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 70 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreSouth Hazelton, B.C. 3 Jun 1938 3c Cover & interesting contents Lot 81 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 28 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 65 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 4 Aug 1898 1c Provincial Fair Advertising Cover Lot 94 in our auction...
Read MoreSold for $605, Port Moody, B.C. 26 June 1881 Marcus Smith 3-page letter to his wife
“The surveys are fairly commenced and I have been forced to do some very hard work- owing to the incompetency of the assistant Ailyn who has had very little experience and is naturally very dull & stupid- Gamsby is very little better. He has hitherto got on by always having good assistants but knows nothing himself- has no brains but for old woman’s gossip- has no instruments, never had any in his life nor does he care about the work- ..”
“There will be a glorious out crop of this state of things- and in the muddle- no one will be responsible. ..Trutch I find is very unpopular – here as he is ostentatious and haughty, and considered as a spy, and a disturber instead of a peace maker between the Dominion and Provincial Govt. And will cause trouble to the former. This however is none of my business but I forsee that the time will come when he must cease to muddle with engineering matters-
Read MoreFort Ellice, NWT 16 Aug 1880 1.5pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 24 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreWinnipeg 6 June 1880 Marcus Smith 4 page letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 28th...
Read MoreMarcus > “.. I have positively refused to take instructions from Mr. Schreiber or Report to him the result may be that I shall be recalled and return home next week, or if not I shall simply go on with my work and ignore Schreiber altogether”
Read MoreC.P. Hotel Winnipeg 25 May 1880 2pg Marcus Smith Letter to Brophy Lot 41 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreC.P.R. Manitoba District 8 July 1879 Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 35 in our auction...
Read MoreFort Ellice 16 July 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 31 in our auction Saturday 31st July...
Read MoreElbows of the Little Sask. 9 Sp 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 25 in our auction...
Read MoreFort Carleton, Sk. 10 Au 1879 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 17th...
Read MoreRealized $605 in our auction 10th July 2021, Marcus Smith 1878 to his wife “..any motive to act dishonestly or underhand in a great national question- he [Fleming] took the sneaking course of finding out what the Govt. wanted and acted accordingly- ignoring me altogether, and keeping me in the dark as to what he was reporting even up to the last moment both in regard to the work to be done and the assistants to be appointed &.c-..”
Read MoreMarcus Smith, Prince Arthur’s landing Lake Superior July 28th1878, “My dear Wife…..Love to all the children”
Read MorePrincess Louise 24 Apr 1905 signed 5×7″ 4pg Cumberland Lodge letter Lot 1 in our...
Read MoreRealized $526 in our auction Saturday 19th June 2021 Blackwater 45 miles N.W. of Quesnelle-Sept. 23rd,1875 “My Dear Wife…yourself and children would be far better in Victoria then anywhere in Canada and the climate is far superior- and living is always getting cheaper and so will all conveniences when the work commences as there will be a large influx of people of all condition..”
Read MoreParker’s Market Victoria, B.C. 31 De 1874 Butcher’s invoice, ex Wellburn Lot 74 in our...
Read MoreCANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY SURVEY.
Salmon House Dean River Sept 4th. 1875,
My dear wife, I have just walked from the head of the Dean channel, through the Cascade mountains to this point where horses have been sent to meet us- I am in excellent health. This last walk has done me as much good as that in the spring did me harm- The weather is fine and cool
C.P.R. Survey Western Division Victoria 22 Au 1875 4 pg Smith Letter Lot 87 in our auction...
Read More“Camp near Tatla Lake, Sunday July 4th, 1875 My dear Wife, I start tomorrow early and...
Read MoreSold for $2,600 Lot 82 in our auction Saturday 15th May 2021 1875 Marcus Smith letter to wife Anne from Soda Creek B.C. describes the start of journey to survey route across Coast mountains to Bute. Inlet, on Canadian Pacific Railway Survey headed notepaper
Read MoreVictoria, B.C. 18 No 1871 Sproat Coal invoice, ex Wellburn Lot 81 in our auction Saturday 15th May...
Read MoreCANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAYOFFICE OF THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEFFeb 1st(4pm) 1875My dear WifeI sent a...
Read MoreVictoria, V.I. 1 Au 1861 James Bell Mining Tools invoice, ex Wellburn Lot 81 in our auction...
Read MoreB.C. Amos Card Youmans circa 1800 uniface 25 Cents Copper Token Realized $825 Lot 188 in our...
Read MoreOttawa Jan. 8th, 1875 “I had the honor of dining with the Premier and Mrs. Mackenzie yesterday evening…”
Read MoreRoderick Finlayson was born in Scotland and came to Vancouver’s Island with the HBC. He worked under Charles Ross in the building of Fort Victoria in 1843–1844. By 1859 he was the HBC Chief Factor in Victoria.
Read More“Upon BC entering Confederation in 1871, Begbie became its first chief justice. He guided the judicial system of the province to an era of considerable sophistication, displaying characteristics unexpected of a Victorian judge: espousal of the rights of Chinese and native people; a lifelong interest in progressive law reforms and a tendency to take the side of the “little man.”
Read MoreI could get through easily and give a decided Report if I were Chief Engineer-but with Mr. Flemings perpetual alterations and non committals combined with the political forces in the back ground I expect to have a hard time of it- I have a good mind to give in my Report pure and simple and not submit to any alterations and let them suppress it altogether if they think fit…I am weary weary and long for rest. I have been travelling every day and many nights since I left you in May..So excuse my writing more, it is late and I am tired travelled 60 miles today in an open wagon- thermometer to zero.
Read MoreI got back from my long trip north and within the limits of civilization a few days ago and received a great pile of letters, among others, yours of sept. 25th (with Tom’s and Eloise’s likeness enclosed) in which you tell me you have got them both to school- I am glad Eloise went to Miss Dupont’s I think she will do well-
Read MoreThe hard work on this vast [BC] line is wearing me down and I shall get no thanks for it- these cussed policies are a disgrace and will bring ruin to the country- I only wish I were at the Cape now-They have found gold in large nuggets everybody is leaving Capetown
Read MoreFort George, on the Upper Fraser Oct 7th,1874
My dear wife
I have come down by canoe from Francois lake about 140 miles west of this and am so far on my way back to Victoria. I intended to go down the Fraser by canoe to Quesnelle about 100 miles below this which I should have made in two days…
New Westminster, B.C. 15 Nov 1937 Patullo Bridge Opening First Day Cover ex Wellburn Lot 95 in our...
Read MoreVictoria, B.C. 11 May 1874 2.5 pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 83 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreMurdo Mckenzie 1872 3c Oregon Postal Stationery to San Juan Island Lot 71 in our milestone 1300th...
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