Series MS-2995 - Business and client records

The series consists of business correspondence and accompanying records, including land sale agreements, property diagrams or lot plans, balance sheets, tax notices, invoices, loan applications, Land Registry Office forms, conveyances, certificates of title, leases, mortgages, auction catalogs, account statements, insurance and other financial records. The series includes business correspondence with Rand Bros., A.W. Ross & Co., Ross & Ceperley, H.A. Jones & Co., the Vancouver Loan, Trust, Savings & Guarantee Co., and the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. The series also consists of statements of a joint account and securities held jointly by J.D. Pemberton and W.C. Ward. The series also consists of records relating to: Cranbrook Estate in Cranbrook, B.C.; coal prospecting at Bamfield/Barclay District (Vancouver Island); Towner Bay Country Club Limited; Superior Syndicate; Carson Land Company; Parksville Syndicate; Bishop's House Syndicate; Anglican Synod of the Diocese of B.C.; Beckley Farm; W.F.L. Paddon; George C. Mesher; John Graham; Fort Street building and architecture; Johnson Furniture Works; Patricia Bay land expropriation; David Lyle; Joseph Robinson; Joseph LaFortune property ( Cowichan Valley); Steamer "Vancouver" collision with steamer "Yosemite;" and Pemberton Meadows. The series also consists of correspondence relating to real estate in the towns of Sehome and New Whatcom, near Bellingham, Washington. It includes a map of the town of New Whatcom (dated 1883) and of the Sehome and Bellingham area (dated 1889). The series also consists of records from the period 1911 to 1922 relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and real estate in the town of Coronation, Alberta. Some of the material was in poor original order, assembled in this series by the archivist, and roughly arranged chronologically.