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archival descriptions
Fonds · 1911-1985

The fonds consists of correspondence, cashbooks, employment ledgers, legal records, log load ledgers, timebooks, meteorological registers, fire danger records, reports, photographs and reference material. Fonds includes records (including photographs) accumulated and used by Crown Forest Coast Wood Products of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd., which purchased the Comox Logging and Railway Company in 1954.

Comox Logging and Railway Company
Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1993

The collection consists of photographs, glass negatives, negatives and slides depicting people, events, and development of the Comox Valley area. The collection contains photographs depicting business and industry, logging, First Peoples, and schools.

Fonds · 1947-1950?

The fonds consists of one record book, containing rules and regulations, minutes of orchestra (1947-195-?), and list of musicians and their addresses as well as instruments played. Fonds includes loose sheets, correspondence with orchestra, and ephemera.

Courtenay Concert Orchestra
Fonds · 1946-1988

The fonds consists of minutes (1946-1978), scrapbooks (1947-1988), annual general meeting guest book (1975-1978), annual reports and photographs of Association activities.

Courtenay Recreational Association
Courtenay School Board fonds
Fonds · 1943-1946

The fonds consists of minutes (1943-1946) of the Courtenay School Board.

Courtenay School Board
P. Leo Anderton fonds
Fonds · 1932-1943

The fonds consists of a ledger recording land sales in the Comox Valley (1932-1943) and an accounts ledger (1932-1937).

Anderton, P. Leo
Fonds · 1889-1918

The fonds consists of accounts ledgers (1889-1918) for the general merchandise operation.

J.B. Holmes, General Merchant
Fonds · 1937-2011

Slips of paper signed by climbers who reached summit. Occasionally mention weather or flowers seen there.
Mt. Allan Brooks is part of the Forbidden Plateau.

Silver Synchros Fonds
Fonds · 1987-2000

The Silver Synchros were a synchronized swimming club in the Comox Valley. They were a group of senior aged females that competed in several British Columbia Seniors Games as well as performing demonstration routines. The club was formed through the CRA Evergreen Seniors group in co-operation with the Comox Valley Sports Centre pool. The club officially dissolved in 1998.

Allan Pritchard Collection
Collection · 1791 - 1950

This collection consists of photocopied documents, mainly from the colonial period, relating to Comox District history. Dr. Pritchard organized the material into ten groupings and prefaced each with an introduction and remarks on the historical value of the documents.
The ten groupings are: 1) Records of Exploration 1791-1860, 2) Naval Records 1846-65, 3) Colonial Government Records 1862-71, 4) Anglican Records 1862-91, 5) Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition: Unpublished Journals 1864, 6) Euclataws, Settlers and the Navy 1863-65, 7) Liquor Traffic 1863-65, 8) Comox Natives: Some Reports and Descriptions 1860-90, 9) Province of British Columbia: Sessional Papers 1871-1910, 1918, 10) H M Laing: Comox Writings 1927-c. 1950.
Copies are from original manuscripts at various institutions including the British Columbia Archives, the British National Archives at Kew, the Hudson Bay Company Archives, and the Library at the University of Toronto.