Photo Gallery on the Times Colonist
Showing Real estate firm's gift sheds light on Victoria's early days
It's all there, 85 linear metres of letters, photos, subdivision plans, journals and much more. It reaches back to 1887, when a father and son joined forces to form a real-estate company, one whose trove of records holds a mirror up to the history of Victoria and the province.
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A few of the thousands of business record dockets that were part of the Pemberton Holmes donation to the B.C. Archives.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam, Times Colonist
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B.C. Archives' manager of archive collections Don Bourdon reviews some of the real estate ads from Pemberton Holmes' first years.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam, Times Colonist
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Archivist Ann ten Cate examines binders full of mortgage records.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Early photos of the Pemberton Holmes offices on Government Street.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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An article in the Daily Colonist identifies the firm's founders.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Colourful for-sale signs date as far back as the early 1900s.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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This map from 1907 shows the property lines of the day. Note the large undeveloped tracts in Oak Bay and Saanich.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Manager of archive collections Don Bourdon finds a selection of old portraits among the donated records from the Pemberton Holmes real estate firm.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Portraits of founders Joseph D. Pemberton, Frederick B. Pemberton and Maj. H. Cuthbert Holmes were among the donated items.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Some of the business record dockets, c. 1919.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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A selection of photos showing various properties and projects undertaken by Pemberton Holmes.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
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Kathryn Bridge, B.C. Archives' manager of centralized access, flips through a letter press book containing the firm's outgoing correspondence.
Photograph by: Adrian Lam ,Times Colonist
