This series consists of records of the Commission on the Economic Conditions and Operations of the British Columbia Electric Railway Co. and Subsidiary Companies, 1917. Commission records consist solely of the original signed report.

Correspondence and appeals under the "Electric Power Act".

This series contains the records of the Engineering Department. Included are correspondence, memoranda, reports, appraisals and investigations of the Chief Engineer and the Investigations Auditor. The records relate to applications for public utilities (water, gas, and electric) and their construction, expansion and operation, including applications for rate revisions, extension of natural gas and electric distribution lines, and improvements in sub-station transmission systems and municipal water supplies. There is a 1943 report on rates and service of the B.C. Electric Railway Company and miscellaneous files on cemeteries. This unit includes records relating to the application of B.C. Hydro and Power Authority, Gulf of Georgia Transmission Co., and others for a natural gas pipeline to Vancouver Island and Powell River, consisting of correspondence, briefs and exhibits presented at the 1972 hearings, and supplementary data.

This series contains records related to the Royal Commission in the Matter of the British Columbia Power Commission. The commissioners appointed to this investigation were Gordon M. Shrum (chairman), John Dunsmuir and William H. Anderson. They were appointed to investigate the operation of the British Columbia Power Commission (BCPC) with particular emphasis on: (1) rate structures and proposed rate increases recommended by BCPC, (2) construction contracts - estimates and costs, (3) interest payments for government advances. The BC Hydro and Power Authority was created as a result of this investigation. Records include reports, correspondence, minutes of proceedings, transcripts of proceedings, exhibits, and reference material.

A. Commission reports

B. Minutes of hearings, correspondence

C. Proceedings

D. Exhibits

E. Reference material

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfiche by Audrey Fraggalosch titled "The institutional barriers to public participation in electrical energy planning in British Columbia: the case study of the Cheekeye-Dunsmuir 500 KV transmission line." viii, 168 leaves: figs., tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of Victoria, 1981. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 140-156. Canadian theses on microfiche, 55888.

This series contains utilities regulation files and staff reports of the Public Utilities Commission (1929-1972) pertaining to the regulation of private and municipal gas, water, and electric utilities pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. Includes petroleum regulation subject files of the B.C. Energy Commission, Westcoast Transmission Company's rate hearings and pipeline applications (1977-1979), Kitimat pipeline application (1976), records relating to natural gas pipeline applications (1959-1968) and to water power development projects on the Columbia and Peace Rivers (1953-1963), and records of the Puntledge River inquiry (1962).