Series consists of correspondence and papers regarding consolidation of the provincial debt on the London bond market, 1889-1892; private correspondence received while Minister of Finance, 1900-1901; memorial received as Agent-General, 1911; newspaper clippings received from England while Minister of Finance. Also includes one oversized copy of a certificate presented to Turner in recognition of his ten years of service as Agent-General for British Columbia, London, 1911.

This series contains correspondence concerning the Dominion-Provincial premiers' conference of 1910. The records include the minutes of the meeting of provincial delegates, 29 March 1910.

This series contains letters inward to the Department of the Provincial Secretary, 1892-1917. During the period covered by GR-1330 (1892-1917) the Provincial Secretary was variously responsible for the departments of Mines, Education and Immigration. Within these departments he was responsible for the Legislative Library and Archives, the Queen's Printer, the Bureau of Statistics, the Civil Service Commission, and various agencies concerned with health and social welfare. The multiplicity of his duties accounts for the range and diversity of the records in GR-1330.

Among the records are correspondence to, and from, the Lieutenant-Governor and the Executive Council, correspondence from Dominion officials concerning colonization and settlement, applications from organizations wishing to register under the Benevolent Societies Act, memoranda of association from businesses seeking to be incorporated under the provincial Companies Act, petitions from community groups requesting schools and improved municipal services, plus letters from private persons applying for appointments in the civil service. Also included are records arising from the administration of the provincial elections, hospitals, and asylums.

Series consists of letters inward to the lieutenant governors of British Columbia, enclosing copies of speeches made by the lieutenant governors of diverse provinces re: opening or closing legislative assemblies, or acknowledging receipt of same.

This series contains correspondence of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly [J. Roland Hett] from the period 12 November 1873 to 14 January 1875. The records are presented as letterbook copies in 1 volume.

Twenty-three letters to W. J. Bowser, Secretary of the Conservative Leadership Committee, regarding the leadership of the Conservative party of British Columbia.

Notes and correspondence from provincial electors to Leader of the Opposition (Barrett) re: such matters as education, health care, highways, and automobile insurance.

Series consists of a photocopy of unpublished short story, "The Right Time of Day"; carbon copy of unpublished autobiography "Sixty-five Years in a Tort Factory"; correspondence, 1911-1967; scrapbooks, 1933-1969 containing clippings concerning his legal career, photographs, correspondence, and other material; speeches connected with his campaign for a seat in the Legislative Assembly, Victoria riding, 1933; personal legal papers; material concerning legal cases; material related to the Saltire Society of Victoria, B.C.

The item is a copy of Dan Campbell's reminiscences, 1954-1979, of his experiences as a Social Credit party member, Member of the Legislative Assembly, and campaign worker. The untitled volume is "Dedicated to my friends in the car: W.A.C. Bennett, Uncle Bill Dale, Grace McCarthy". The dedication refers to Campbell's travels throughout the province from 1972-1975 on behalf of the Social Credit party. He states in the preface "I have based this review of history on my good friends' recollections of history as we toured the Province in the sackcloth and ashes period of 1972-1975. Most of the conversations recorded are quotes from W.A.C. or others in the cars".

In 1968, David Anderson was elected to the House of Commons as Liberal MP for Esquimalt-Saanich; he held his seat until 1972 when he left Ottawa to lead the Liberal party of British Columbia. In August 1972, he was elected as Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Victoria and served until his defeat in 1975. David Anderson was educated in Victoria and Hong Kong. Upon receiving his law degree from University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1962, he entered the Foreign Service. He began his political career in 1968 when he was elected to the House of Commons as Liberal member for the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich. Anderson left Federal politics in 1972 to take on the leadership of the Liberal Party of British Columbia; he was elected MLA for the Victoria City riding in August 1972 and served until his defeat in 1975. Anderson returned to politics briefly in 1978 and won the Liberal nomination for the federal riding of Cowichan Malahat-The Islands; however, he was defeated in the 1979 election by the Progressive Conservative candidate Don Taylor. Upon leaving politics, Anderson became a full time environmentalist acting as intervenor on behalf of the BC Wildlife Federation at hearings into a proposed oil pipeline from Kitimat to Edmonton; studying the proposed oil tanker routes through waters adjacent to the coast of B.C., etc. He also accepted a teaching position in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. In 1984 he was appointed to the bench of the Immigration Appeal Board Court in Vancouver. His MP files consist of general office files and outgoing correspondence. The general office files contain correspondence, reports, and clippings on a wide range of subjects. The outgoing correspondence files consist of additional copies of outgoing letters filed by month and year. Anderson's files as MLA for Victoria contain, correspondence, speeches and press releases on subjects of interest to his constituents.

SUMMARY: Audio clips from a debate on the funding of the Downtown Eastside Residents' Association, with comments from Vancouver aldermen Fritz Bowers and Darlene Marzari and DERA president Bruce Eriksen.;

The series consists of the diaries of C.F. Cornwall, kept May 1862 - July 1864, November 1866 - June 1869, July 1869 - December 1871, and 1872 - 15 July 1873 (in diary for 1865) recording life at Ashcroft Manor, a sojourn at Wild Horse Creek in the summer of 1865, and in Ottawa as a senator in the spring of 1872. Also includes "The story of the coyote hounds", 1868-1888.

The series consists of a microfilm copy of an incomplete diary kept by Robert Colson, Governor's Anthony Musgrave's private messenger, in 1870. Blank pages were not filmed.

This series contains draft proclamations (1859-1864) and messages to the Legislative Council (1865-66; 1868-1869; 1871).

SUMMARY: "Early Vancouver Reminiscences" includes recollections of the following: the origins of the Salishan people, the coming of the "white people", the smallpox epidemic, and Indigenous villages in Stanley Park and the Vancouver area (described by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mrs.George); descriptions of Vancouver after the 1886 fire, the arrival of the first trains, road building, eviction of native people from Stanley Park, and the dedication of the park (by Sam Walker, Captain Canessa, Chief Khahtsahlano, and Carl Timms); dredging and construction work on False Creek, Granville Island, and various bridges over False Creek (by Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton); 1912 politics, IWW competing with Salvation Army for streetcorner audience, Mayor Findlay, labour meetings, descriptions of bars and ;saloons (by [Reuben Hamilton? and Captain Canessa); local characters "Lazy George","Pacific Slope", and Tommy Roberts (by Sam Walker); the Kitsilano district and the Greer land dispute (by Chief Khahtsahlano); the "Komagata Maru" incident, World War One, conscription, post-war strikes, and construction of the old Second Narrows Bridge (by Captain Canessa and Carl Timms); Gerry McGeer as a youth and as a politician, and his opponent Lyle Telford (by Reuben Hamilton).

SUMMARY: A documentary sound program about Dr. J. Lyle Telford, radio populist and CCF politician, including excerpts from Telford's radio addresses and interviews with Harold Winch and others. The program was produced by Emmanuel Ronse.

Correspondence, speeches, notes, clippings and miscellaneous items relating primarily to E.T. Kenney's career as Minister of Lands and Forests, 1944-1952.

CALL NUMBER: T3588:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Effie Jones : The Housewives' League RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Effie Jones was born in England and spent years of her youth in Wales, where she came into contact with the miners' struggles of the early 20th century. She came to Canada in 1919 and married, settling with her husband in Vancouver. Mr. Jones worked for BC Telephone. The Jones' home was the only one in the neighbourhood with a telephone during the Depression, and became a centre for people looking for work. They also had a vegetable garden and many chickens, as well as steady work, and helped to support many of their less fortunate friends and neighbours. Mrs. Jones began her political work with the CCF as a local executive member. Her experience with the CCF left her disillusioned and she left the CCF for the more active Communist Party. She worked in the Housewives' League, transforming it from a Liberal club into an organisation with branches across Canada. TRACK 2: The League worked on support for the Post Office occupation in 1938 -- the defense of the men arrested in the occupation, fighting evictions, and mobilizing to put people's belongings back into their homes. CALL NUMBER: T3588:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: When the war began, the Housewives League fought for soldiers' wives to receive an adequate and regular allowance. Effie Jones almost won the mayoral race in 1947. She ran for civic positions in later elections as well. She celebrated her 90th birthday in 1979. [TRACK 2: blank?]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-29 SUMMARY: Effie Jones discusses Vancouver civic politics and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

This series consists of poll-books, voters' lists, and correspondence relating to two landmark elections in British Columbia: the election of 1871 of representatives to the provincial legislature, and the election of 1872, called to elect provincial members to the Dominion House of Commons - respectively the first provincial election and the first federal election held in B.C. These records document B.C.'s last "open voting" elections (i.e. a secret ballot was not used). Compiled by A.F. Pemberton, Chief Returning Officer for Victoria, the records pertain to Victoria City, Victoria District, Esquimalt and Metchosin.

The election of 1871 was held in various parts of the province between October and December. It was conducted in accordance with the Colonial Election Regulation Act [34 Vic., No. 13, a statute which affirmed the practice of open voting (as opposed to the secret ballot). Thus, the poll books in this collection show the names of electors and the candidates for whom each elector voted. Voter's qualifications were determined by the colonial Qualification and Registration of Voters' Act [34 Vic., No. 156]. To qualify for the franchise, a voter had to be male, a loyal British subject, over twenty-one years of age, literate (at least able to write his name), and a resident in B.C. for no less than six months. In addition, qualified electors had to meet one of the following criteria: occupy premises with an annual rent of $40 or more; own freehold property having an assessed value of at least $250; have a pre-emption claim of 100 acres or more; possess a free-miners' license.

The Dominion election of 1872 was held under the authority of two federal statutes: the Interim Parliamentary Election Act of 1871 [34 Vic., c.20] and the Act to Re-adjust the Representation in the House of Commons, 1872 [35 Vic., c.13]. The first statute made provisions for holding a federal election in B.C.; the second confirmed the number of MPs to be elected from B.C. [6] and established federal electoral boundaries. 2 MPs were elected from the district of Victoria; 1 MP from the district of Vancouver (i.e. Vancouver Island north of Victoria and adjacent to the Gulf Islands); 1 MP for each of the districts of New Westminster, Yale, and Cariboo. Section 5 of the Interim Parliamentary Elections Act declared that the laws already in force in B.C. would apply to the election of 1872. Accordingly, polling for the province's first federal election was carried out under colonial legislation noted above. The Dominion election was also carried out in accordance with B.C.'s Corrupt Practices Prevention Act [34 Vic., No. 158], a colonial statute which stipulated that candidates had to declare all expenses incurred during their campaign. Hence the documents in Box 1, files 6 & 7 of this collection.

The records in GR-1667 relate solely to the Victoria electoral district. For elections to the provincial legislature, the riding included areas within the city's limits. Federally, however, the electoral district of Victoria embraced the City of Victoria and adjacent areas of Saanich (Victoria District), Esquimalt and Metchosin. A.F. Pemberton was the district's chief Returning Officer in both elections. In the provincial election -- held on 16 October 1871 -- Pemberton established the district polling station at the Police Barracks in Bastion Square. In the Dominion election -- held on 2 September 1872 -- he established six polling stations. The polls were open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Three candidates contested the two Victoria seats: Amor DeCosmos, Henry Nathan and Robert Beavan. DeCosmos, and Nathan were elected. The results of the election, and returns from each of the polling stations, were published in the Victoria Daily Colonist (3 Sep 1872).

This series contains copies of official engagement sheets and itineraries of His Honour Lieutenant Governor J.R. Nicholson from the period 1970-1973.

This series contains minutes of Executive Council meetings, Colony of Vancouver Island. The series contains 2 volumes each of which cover the periods 26 March 1864 - 27 June 1865 and 18 July 1865 - 19 November 1866.

This series contains the minute book of the Executive Council for the period 29 November 1916 to 19 January 1917.

This series consists of records of the Executive Council, 1859-1913. Records include minutes of Colonial and Provincial Executive Council, ministerial reports, State Books, orders-in-council, registers, and indices (1859-1913), along with petitions, dispatches, and correspondence inward to Lieutenant- Governor in Council (1871-1909).

The Executive Council papers are among the most important of the early provincial government records held by the B.C. Archives. The value of the papers stems from the fact that the Council itself is the most important and influential level of government in the province. It is at the Executive Council level that government policies and regulations are discussed, formulated, and implemented; it is at this level that decisions are made regarding the overall running of the province. During the the period covered by GR-0444, it was also the responsibility of the Executive Council to handle the many contentious issues which affected Dominion-Provincial and Imperial-Provincial relations.

The Executive Council received and considered virtually all of the dispatches sent to the Lieutenant-Governor from Ottawa or London. Most of the petitions and memorials submitted by individuals or groups in the province to the Lieutenant-Governor were considered by the Council, too. In addition, the Executive Council dealt with correspondence from private citizens, as well as reports emanating from government ministries, departments, and agencies. In short, the Executive Council dealt with a myriad of issues - as is evidenced by the volume, range, and diversity of the papers in this record group.

Since the cabinet is the executive arm of the government, it has the authority to enact regulations, as defined by the Regulations Act (RS 1979 c. 361), Regulations, so defined, include rules, orders, proclamations, and bylaws of a legislative nature, made under or by the authority of any act passed by the legislative assembly. Among the regulations are Orders-in-Council which are formally described as "official documents promulgating Government decisions concerned with the day-to-day operation of the Province. Researchers consulting GR-0444 should note that Orders-in-Council are made under the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor or, more precisely, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. The latter implies the Lieutenant Governor acting by and with the advice of, or by and with the advice and consent or in conjunction with, the Executive Council" (Interpretation Act, RS 1979, c.206). Thus, the term "Lieutenant-Governor in Council" occurs frequently with reference to business conducted by what is otherwise known as the Executive Council, or cabinet.

This series contains transcripts of appeals brought before cabinet, 26 July 1976 - 2 July 1981. Appeals herein initiated under authority of British Columbia: Dentistry Act, Pollution Control Act, Private Investigators' Licensing Act, Motor Carrier Act, and Water Act.

Cabinet appeals 1976-1981

Tape recordings of appeals herein transferred to PABC Sound and Moving Image Division (Acc. # 3912:1-81).

The item is a typescript copy of a thesis of Dennis Michael Churchill entitled "False Creek Development: a study of the actions and interactions of the three levels of government as they affected public and private development of the waterway and its land basin." ix, 234 leaves: maps. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1953. Bibliography: Leaves 231-234.

Documentary. A history of the New Democratic Party in British Columbia. Includes interviews with Grace MacInnis, May Campbell, Claire McAllister, Phil Fawcett, Margaret Hobbs, David Reimer, and Bill Hartley.

Interview. Interview with former NDP Minister of Public Works Bill Hartley.

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