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Tibbles-Lavington Fonds
CA QUE 2022.0024 · Fonds · 1883-1994

Fonds consists of the personal records of Margaret and Harold “Dude” Lavington and their daughter Jean Tibbles (née Lavington), including records passed to them by other members of the Lavington family. It also includes records they retained from administrative involvement with local and regional organisations, as well as magazines and newspaper clippings.

Lavington (family)
Maureen Trotter fonds
CA QUE 2022.0035 · Fonds · 1977-2020

Fonds consists of records created or received by Maureen Trotter through her work for the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre, the Amata Transition House Society, the National Action Committee for the Status of Women, and other local advocacy campaigns and community projects. Records include organizational correspondence, lobbying correspondence, meeting minutes, financial statements, operational notes and manuals, internal policies, photocopied journal articles, literature reviews, research notes, grant proposals, government reports, strategic plans, campaign brochures, talking notes, petitions, newsletters, programming schedules, and contact information lists. Interspersed within the records are copies of newspaper and magazine articles documenting each of these organization's achievements.

The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into 6 series.
• Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre records (series 1)
• Amata Transition House Society records (series 2)
• National Action Committee on the Status of Women records (series 3)
• Quesnel child apprehension issue records (series 4)
• Records of other local organizations (series 5)
• Personal records (series 6)

Maureen Trotter
Baker family fonds
CA QUE Fonds 1 · Fonds · 1867-1978

The fonds consists of correspondence (written from Victoria, Quesnel, California, France and England), a manuscript written by Vera Baker Currie on the history of the Baker family (entitled "Susie"), and miscellaneous records.

Baker (family : Quesnel, B.C.)
Carson family fonds
CA QUE Fonds 2 · Fonds · 1892-1934

The fonds consists of correspondence (personal and business), report cards, postcards, invitations, and mining certificates.

Carson (family)
Flora Fuller fonds
CA QUE Fonds 3 · Fonds · 1923-[ca. 1964]

The fonds consists of address books, recipes, and miscellaneous personal records, including identification cards, a commemorative diploma, prescription records, correspondence, receipts, and an application form for Old Age Security.

Fuller, Flora
Dora Homan fonds
CA QUE Fonds 4 · Fonds · 1909-1959

The fonds consists of Homan's diary (1935-1959), correspondence (1910-1957), miscellaneous personal papers (rough notes, newsclippings, tax records), and business records (1916-1954).

Homan, Dora Elizabeth
G.R. Baker fonds
CA QUE Fonds 5 · Fonds · 1912-1964

The fonds consists of patient account ledgers, correspondence (incoming and outgoing), personal bills, influenza records, and miscellaneous documents. In particular, the fonds consists of the financial records of Dr. Baker and his practice.

Baker, Gerald Rumsey
H.J. Gardner fonds
CA QUE Fonds 6 · Fonds · [ca. 1881]-1928

The fonds consists of daybooks/account books from Gardner's businesses in Stanley (1905-1918), Coroner's records (1912-1928), financial records (1906-1916) consisting primarily of cancelled cheques, and miscellaneous personal records. Fonds includes an account book of registered letters (1910-1918) of the Van Winkle Post Office in Van Winkle, B.C.

Gardner, Herbert John
Boyd family fonds
CA QUE Fonds 7 · Fonds · 1862-1953

The fonds consists of business and personal records of John Boyd and the Boyd family. Fonds includes records of Cox, Wade and Morland Ranch (1863-1864), Cold Spring House (1868-1894), and Cottonwood House (1874-1946). Among these roadhouse and business records are: correspondence, daybooks, cashbooks, account books, journals, accounts receivable and payable records, payroll records, and other documents. The farming records consist of miscellaneous records documenting the Boyd family's involvement and interest in farming and a number of records of the Cariboo Agricultural and Horticultural Association (1912-1953). There are also mining records documenting the Boyds' various mining investments, including records of the Big Bonanza Mining Company (1891-1906), and a number of mining maps. The personal textual records include: correspondence (1862-1951); financial, tax and estate records; records of Nam Sing Ranch (1899-1938); and, Bowron records (1869-1903). Fonds includes correspondence pertaining to World War I and of Archibald and Chester Boyd, who both died in the war.

Boyd (family)
Bohanon, Fuller family fonds
CA QUE Fonds 8 · Fonds · 1859-1973

The fonds consists of records of three generations of the Bohanon and Fuller families, including records of James Madison Bohanon, Samuel Hall Bohanon, Flora Fuller, and Clarence Melville Fuller. Included in the fonds are: personal records (1859-1962), business records (1867-1957), mining records (1870-1970), and fur trading records (1933-1973).

Bohanon (family)
CA QUE Fonds 9 · Fonds · 1929-1952

The fonds consists of accounts payable and receivable records and documents recording creamery activities, including quality reports and route records.

Cariboo Farmers' Cooperative Association
Robert McLeese fonds
CA QUE M(59-75).11 · Fonds · 1871-1879

The fonds consists of a ledger book recording passengers and freight delivered by express from September 1871 to March 1872 and 108 pages of business letters written by McLeese between 1873 and 1879.

McLeese, Robert
Edward Wintrip fonds
CA QUE M(59-75).140.1-2 · Fonds · 1872-1897

The fonds consists of a ledger listing accounts of Wintrip's customers (mostly mining companies along Williams Creek) and an incomplete letterbook and account book.

Wintrip, Edward
Quesnel Athletic Club fonds
CA QUE M(59-75).145 · Fonds · 1931-1947

The fonds consists of a record book, which includes minutes of the Quesnel Athletic Club.

Quesnel Athletic Club
Albert J. Wilson fonds
CA QUE M/P 1955.44.0 · Fonds · 1897-1964

The fonds consists of the personal and business records of Albert J. Wilson, including correspondence, general receipts, employment records, travel records from England to Canada, service/war records, prizes from the Cariboo Agricultural and Horticultural Association for art works, musical and poetry records, financial and account books, and two photographs.

Wilson, Albert John
CA QUE M/P2002.15.0 · Fonds · 1973-2001

The fonds consists of records of the Quesnel Girl Guides. The records consist of Division minutes, history of Guides in Quesnel, photographs, and various ephemera, including pamphlets, news clippings, posters, etc.

Girl Guides of Canada. Cariboo Division
Allcock family fonds
CA QUE M/P2003.2.0;M2003.3.1 · Fonds · 1887-1981

The fonds consists of approximately 200 b/w and colour photographs, approximately 400 negatives, ephemera, textual records and Bert's 'memoirs' in book form.

Allcock (family)
CA QUE M/P2003.9.0 · Fonds · [ca. 1950-1999]

The fonds consists of business and personal records of Alexander Vaughan Fraser, letters, newspaper articles, business cards, political posters and other ephemera.

Fraser, Alex
CA QUE M/P2003.9.1-.1252 · Fonds · 1950s-1990s

The collection consists of black and white and colour photographs of Alex and Gertrude Fraser's family, work life, married life, and political life.

Johnston family fonds
CA QUE M1957.618-.619;M1957.621;M1957.628;M1957.634;M1957.636-.639 · Fonds · 1896-1907

The fonds consists of one daybook, documents, magazines, and one certificate.

Johnston, William Albert (family)
CA QUE M1957.77;M1957.78;M1957.79;M1957.80 · Fonds · 1877-1897

The fonds consists of two bound record books, containing minutes of meetings, bills, notices, payments and wages paid to various working members.

Big Bonanza Mining Company
John Fleming fonds
CA QUE M1957.95 · Fonds · 1881-1896

The fonds consists of correspondence, mining records (including records relating to the Big Bonanza Mining Company), grocery lists, miscellaneous daybook entries, a tax receipt, and miscellaneous rough notes.

Fleming, John Thomas
Venture Mining Company fonds
CA QUE M1957.99 · Fonds · 1908-1915

The fonds consists of the company ledger containing names, records of work, expenses, and pay received by claim holders and hired labour.

Venture Mining Company
CA QUE M1959.83 · Fonds · 1886-1889

The fonds consists of a ledger containing lists of shareholders, company policies, minutes, and individual accounts of shareholders.

Steadman Quartz Mining Company
CA QUE M1976.1 · Fonds · 1942-1949

The fonds consists of correspondence (1942) and accounts payable (1947-1949).

G.R. Baker Hospital Auxiliary