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The fonds consists of tax and water records (1958-1963), assessment notices (1971-1973), tax notices (1971-1975), voters lists (1984-1991), mineral claims maps for Hedley and area, list of firefighters (1958), and assessment roll (1984).

The fonds consists of research files on various people and government officials, including E. Davie Fulton; Swainson's typescript of "International Development of the Columbia River"; U.S. Committee minutes; Canadian Committee minutes; and file card notes.

The fonds contain maps, blueprints and posters. Maps include B.C Department of Lands, mining, sedimentary and volcanic maps, parks, forestry, climatic forest types, pre-emption maps, topographical maps, railway and Provincial Cadastral Surveys.;Blueprints include Courtenay water supply and pipe routes, city of Courtenay and District. Posters include salt water and food chains, common mosses, BC shellfish and Pacific Salmon. Fonds also includes The Theed Pearse Collection. Pearse was a naturalist, ornithologist and author. The Theed Pearse Collection consists of 209 photographs and 417 slides depicting scenery and natural history of Comox Valley as well as travel photos of California and Europe. Collection includes some Pearse family photographs.

The fonds consists of briefs presented to the Royal Commission on Forest Resources in British Columbia. The Commission received 194 briefs from a wide range of interested societies, firms, professional associations, local governments, labour groups, and other organizations, as well as individuals. The fonds also includes briefs from both the Forest Policy Advisory Committee (1977) which invited submissions reacting to Pearse's final report and from the Select Standing Committee on Forestry and Fisheries (1973). There is also a small collection of speeches by others pertaining to the forest industry (1955-1971).

The collection consists of cartographic and architectural material relating to the Cowichan Lake and Cowichan Valley areas including geological and topographic maps, forestry, logging and timber claim maps, timber licence plans, road maps, recreation maps, townsite and subdivision plans, and fire insurance plans for mills on Cowichan Lake. Maps and plans are of Lake Cowichan, Honeymoon Bay, Gordon river, Meade Creek, Riverside, and the Port Renfrew area. Collection includes forestry maps and plans for mills of Western Forest Industries at Honeymoon Bay.

The collection consists of fire insurance maps of Kimberley, Chapman Camp, Marysville, and the Sullivan Mine and townsite; townsite plan of Marysville; geological survey maps; and, other maps of Kimberley and district. Collection includes maps of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada's Sullivan Mine operation.

The collection consists of topographic maps, mineral and land claims maps, townsite and subdivision plans, and architectural drawings pertaining to Revelstoke and locations in the Columbia basin and of structures constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in the Revelstoke District.

The fonds consists of photographic black and white images chronologically depicting the British Columbia Forest Service practical procedures in road construction, land clearing; reconnaissance; reproduction; settlement; burn over lands and stands; waterways; water power; utilization and waste; types and stands; cut over land and stands; growth and yields; game; grazing; mills: portable; pulp; saw; and shingle.

The fonds consists of correspondence to Ruth Shumaker from John Noble, Forest Ranger, in 1970. Includes a report on the 'Burtot' Forest fire south of Lytton, which started Aug. 5, 1970.

Fonds consists of the textual records of William Carlin relating to his business ventures, in particular, Carlin and Durick, General Merchants (later known as the Fort Steele Trading Company), Carlin and Doyle Logging, the Invicta Gold Mine (Wild Horse Creek), and Kootenay (Perry Creek) Gold Mines. Includes correspondence and financial records. Fonds arranged in the following sous-fonds: 1) Carlin & Durick, 1893-1929; 2) Carlin & Doyle Logging; 3) Invicta Gold Mine; 4) Perry Creek Gold Mine.