Certificates and letters relating to appointments that James Laidlaw (1847-1913) received as British vice consul and British consul. Laidlaw was a Scottish businessman who moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1871, and who served as British vice consul for Oregon from 1874 to 1895, and as British consul for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho from 1895 until his death.

Oral history interview with Sir James McDonald conducted by Marian W. Kolisch on February 6, 1986. McDonald immigrated to the United States from Scotland in the 1920s and became the British Consul for Oregon in 1938.