Father Guinard spent 60 years from 1901 in Fiji as a priest of the Roman Catholic Mission. Forty-two years of his service were spent at Namosi. See also PMB MS 432.
The 'Histoires de Mission, pour enfants', written in a 250-page minute book, relate events in Father Guinard's career and observations on many aspects of life in Fiji. A typewritten version of Father Guinard's manuscript appears at the end of the microfilm.
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Constitution and Rules for the Government of the Catholic Young Mens' Society of Fiji, 15 February 1923 and correspondence with Bishop C.J. Nicolas, SM, 1923-29.
See PMB MS 432. Documents relating to the Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Correspondence with government. Includes letters regarding the depopulation of Pacific islands following European colonisation, with particular reference to Fiji (1891-92). See also PMB MS 434/435
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
The papers are:
Papers of Father L. Soubeyran, SM (a) What the Catholic missionaries and Church have done to evangelise the Indians in Fiji (1970) (b) The Fathers in the Past (1970) (c) Sixty Years in the Missions of Fiji and Rotuma (1965) (d) Translation of a paper on Rotuman Games written by Father J.B. Chevreuil, SM. (With the original version) (1967).
The Catholic Church in the Fiji Islands (c.1970)
History of Loreto (c.1970)
History of the Catholic Mission at Wairiki (1964)
Le Reverend Pere Jules Delahaye
The Seventh-day Adventists, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM, (1955)
Rapport sur le terrain Na Somo Levu, Ile Vuaki, Yasawa, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM (1926)
Rapport sur 'l'Histoire Religieuse de Fiji' par Mgr Blanc (author unknown)
Le Rev. Pere Pierre Marie Jouny, SM, l'Apotre des Niua
Marist Fathers who have worked in Fiji (several lists)
Historique de la Stations de Tunuloa
'An Unusual Priest' (Father Claudius Lurkhur), by Father Denis Fitzpatrick
Archibald Taylor was a magistrate on Taveuni Island, Fiji. In lending Taylor's diaries to the Bureau for microfilming, Mr Thompson said in a letter dated 5 May 1972: 'I am sorry for the state of the diaries; they are as I received them for safekeeping from Harry Taylor, eldest son of J.G. Taylor, only son of Archibald Taylor. There must have been a great deal of records of this kind in the past, but through nobody taking care of them this is all that remains that I know of ...' The fragment of diary for 1877 is particularly dilapidated. It should be noted that the second date given in this fragment, Thursday, 1 October 1877, appears to be an error for Thursday, 1 November 1877.
Diaries for 31 October 1877 - 15 November 1877, and 1 May 1884 - 30 December 1884.
Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war 'Vincennes', the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes.
The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert (Kiribati), Ellice (Tuvalu) and Marshall Islands. See also PMB MS 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7.
A compilation of extracts on the sugar industry of Fiji, culled from The Fiji Times from 1869 to 1886. The notes were gathered for a paper on the early history of Fiji's sugar industry, which was published in the Transactions of the Fiji Society, 1959, Vol.7, No.2, pp.104-130.
