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1917-1922 (Creation)
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- British Columbia. Railway Dept.
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6.5 cm of textual records
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The Railway Department was established in 1911 with the enactment of the Railway Department Act (SBC 1911, c. 45). The mandate of the Railway Dept. was to regulate all railways falling under the jurisdiction of British Columbia Railway Act (SBC 1911, c. 44). This included the regulation and inspection of industrial railways (logging and mining) and electric street-car and interurban systems, as well as improvements to terminals and to combined railway and highway bridges. Railways which operated under federal charter came under federal regulation.
In 1959, the Railway Department Act was repealed and the functions of the Railway Dept. were transferred to the newly created Dept. of Commercial Transport (SBC 1959, c.12).
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This series contains departmental general correspondence files, 1917-1922, pertaining to Songhees land in Victoria. Files, which had been alienated from the Railway Dept. filing system (also see GR-0817) and transferred to the Dept. of Lands, include Railway file 53.3 "Songhees industrial leases", 53.4 "Foundation Company--Imperial Munitions Board" and parts of 53.5 "Johnson Street Bridge". The series also contains two agreements (1917, 1919) involving the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway.
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Transferred from Survey and Lands Records Branch, Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing, 1983.
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Accession number(s): G83-047
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Location note: These records are stored onsite at the BC Archives. Please request them from the retrievals desk in the Archives reference room.
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- British Columbia. Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (Subject)
- Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company (Subject)
- British Columbia. Railway Dept. (Subject)