Fonds consists of records relating to the proposed Gordon Head Airport from 1945 to 1949. Fonds includes correspondence, legal documents, petitions, maps, and news clippings.
Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, accounts and contracts relating to the Royal Oak War Agricultural Committee, later the Saanich Peninsula Farm Labour Committee. Collection includes four rubber stamps.
Fonds consists of correspondence, reports, minutes and other material documenting the operation and activities of the Administration Department of Saanich from 1956 to 1983. Includes records relating to such topics as budgets and finance, special events, land disposition, capital projects and engineering, by-laws, school boards and libraries, recreation and recycling.
Fonds consists of contracts and documents relating to the construction of roads, purchase of lands, oaths, regulations governing soldiers’ home sites, and expropriation notices. Includes contracts for Shelbourne Street, Saanich Road, East Saanich Road, Burnside Road, Douglas Street, Carey Road, Gorge Road, North Quadra Street, and Lake Road and the purchase of land from James Pim in 1907, site of the first municipal hall.
Collection consists of textual records and a small number of maps and plans and includes correspondence between members of the Engineering Department staff and the public, interdepartmental and intradepartmental reports, proposals and petitions.
Collection consists of photographs of various heritage structures in Saanich including the Ellison Feed Building on Culduthel Road, the Lindsay log cabin at 4420 Wilkinson Road, the Dodd House, the Goward house, the stone wall at Wilkinson Road Jail, and St. Mark’s Church. Collection also includes 1 certificate of an award of merit. The collection includes pre-demolition photographs of buildings removed from the Saanich Heritage Register. Collection inlcudes 166 photographs, 22 digital photographs, 25 slides, and 59 negatives.
Fonds consists of files created by the Saanich Mayor’s Office from 1915 to 1984. Fonds includes correspondence, committee minutes, reports, proposals and studies generated or acquired during the course of daily operations. Also included are invitations to community functions, directives to staff, and replies to residents’ letters. Records are primarily from the administrations of Stanley Murphy (1962-1964), Hugh Austin Curtis (1965-1973), Edward Fook Lui Lum (1974-1977) and Municipal Administrator William Tremayne (1973-1985). Also included are various Police Commission records from 1915 to 1984.
Fonds consists of petitions submitted by Saanich residents appealing to the municipal government in respect of various causes such as road improvements, animal control, sidewalks, street lighting, water supply, and drainage. Fonds includes a ledger book recording petitions received by the District of Saanich. The petitions are thought to have been received between 1912 and 1940, although about 2/3 of the petitions are undated.
