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Fernie Supreme Court civil cause books
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1905-1977 (Creation)
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- British Columbia. Supreme Court (Fernie)
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34 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
In 1905 the British Columbia government established a Supreme Court registry at Fernie, effective 1905 April 1. It was approved and ordered by Order-in-Council 0123-1905, dated 1905 March 7. (Source: Orders-in-Council; British Columbia Gazette 1905, p. 429).
The order also appointed the current Registrar of the County Court to be District Registrar of the Supreme Court.
From June to August 2002, Fernie operated as a temporary circuit court of Cranbrook. It closed again but reopened as a permanent circuit court of Cranbrook on 27 February 2003 with sitting days starting 1 June 2003. The Cranbrook registry is the successor to the Fernie registry.
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Scope and content
Series consists of cause books from the Fernie Supreme Court for civil cases between 1905-1977. Cause books provide the framework for Supreme Court civil action cases and may include the names of parties and their solicitors; the dates when proceedings occurred, including the issuing of orders; and fees charged. They are often the only source of information for divorces that were not finalized since no final order would have been granted and case files are destroyed.
The records are arranged chronologically by the date a case was initiated. Case file numbers were then assigned sequentially and include the last two digits of the year (e.g., 1/24 for the first case initiated in 1924). The records were scheduled for retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 53200-20.
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Transferred from the Fernie Court Registry in March 1990.
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These records are restricted. Contact the BC Archives for information about access. Access to adoption records cannot be provided by the BC Archives. Adoption records must be requested from the BC Vital Statistics Agency as a Freedom of Information request or by submitting an ‘Application for Service Pertaining to an Adopted Person or Birth Parent’.
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Finding aids
Associated materials
See GR-4267 for Fernie Supreme Court cause book indexes (1905-1974).
See GR-2182 for Fernie Supreme Court orders (1907-1917).
See GR-2521 for associated Fernie Supreme Court civil case files (1905-1954).
Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): 83-0996 (G90-055, G90-188)
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Only sporadic entries after February 1978 provide volume and folio numbers for locating orders.
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A single page, "Record of Writs of Execution and Sheriff's Returns" (Sept 1954-Feb 1955), was found in the back cover of volume 2.
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- British Columbia. Supreme Court (Fernie) (Subject)