Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Correspondence index to lands files
General material designation
- textual record
- microform
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on contents of the series.
Level of description
Series
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1980 (Creation)
- Creator
- British Columbia. Surveys and Land Records Branch
Physical description area
Physical description
13 cm of textual records [photocopy] and 1 microfilm reel [B14423]
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Formed in 1979 by amalgamating the records-keeping functions of the Legal Surveys Branch and the Land Management Branch.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The series consists of indexes to correspondence files relating to the administration of Crown lands and natural resources. The records were created in 1980 from a computer print-out of various departmental indexes and includes references to files created by various branches of the Dept. of Lands and Works (1872-1908), the Dept. of Lands (1908-1945), the Dept. of Lands and Forests (1945-1962), the Dept. of Lands, Forest and Water Resources (1962-1975) and the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing. It provides access to active, microfilmed and obsolete O series files and pre-1918 files.
The records consist of one subject index and two lists which can be used to identify and locate Lands Correspondence files. They are not comprehensive, as they do not cover all the correspondence files created between 1871 and 1986.
The index and lists may be used to locate a file number for a subject area of interest, or to determine the subject of a file when only the number of the file is known.
Note that a listing in these documents does not necessarily mean that the file is held at the BC Archives. Many active files remain with the Crown Land Registry.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Transferred from the Land Records Section, 1981.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
The records were microfilmed by the BC Archives and are available on microfilm reel B14423.
Restrictions on access
There are no access restrictions.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Finding aid with subject index attached: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Document/Finding_Aids_AtoM/GR-0501_to_GR-1000/GR-0993.pdf
Associated materials
See GR-1441 for microfilmed O files, 1918-1985. See GR-1440 for microfilmed files 1872-1918. These series contain most but not all the files noted in the index.
For related lists see GR-0991 and GR-1225.
Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): GR-0993
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests (Subject)
- British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works (Subject)
- British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (Subject)
- British Columbia. Dept. of Lands (Subject)
- British Columbia. Forest Branch (Subject)
- British Columbia. Forest Service (Subject)
- British Columbia. Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (Subject)
- British Columbia. Water Rights Branch (Subject)