This series contains selected inward Department of the Attorney-General correspondence from 1872 to 1950, although most of the items date from 1872 to 1937. Records cover all aspects of work conducted by the Attorney General and discuss a wide variety of subject matter.

The department used several numbering and filling systems during this time period. From 1872 to 1911 letters were assigned a number as they were received, and then filed in numerical order by year. From 1911 to 1917 a subject file drawer system was used, and thereafter correspondence was coded and filed according to the Act which applied to the issue under discussion in the correspondence.

See the file list for descriptions of files or individual folios within the files.

The series is arranged into the following subseries:

-- Correspondence inward, 1872-1911
-- Reports on coal miners’ strike, 1912-1913
-- Memos and correspondence, 1899, 1912-1933, 1950
-- Correspondence regarding unemployment administration and communist activity (Attorney General Department file number L-125), 1930-1937

SUMMARY: From a series of "informative talks on timely topics": an anti-Communist talk by R.J. Templeton.;

SUMMARY: "Ideas" is a CBC Radio series that presents in-depth talks and discussions on a range of historical and contemporary subjects. The series evolved from an FM program entitled "The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight" that was first broadcast in the fall of 1965, in response to an interest in adult education. "Witch Hunt" appears to have been a four-part sub-series dealing with religious, intellectual and political persecution from the Middle Ages through to the present. No content summary is available, but this episode presumably dealt with the Stalinist purges in Soviet Russia and the trials of suspected Soviet spy Alger Hiss.;

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Patrick George Hill titled "A failure of unity: Communist party - CCF relations in British Columbia, 1935-1939." 1977. iv, 130 leaves. Thesis (M.A.), University of Victoria, 1977. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 127-130. Canadian theses on microfiche, 34111.