Court orders for civil and criminal cases fixed into a scrapbook. Includes some letters of administration from after 1921.

The series consists of an index to free miners certificates arranged alphabetically by year, created by the Greenwood Gold Commissioner between 1901 and 1926.

Probate orders, including Letters Probate and Letters of Administration, 1901-1921.

The item is a video compilation of footage from eight unedited film items from the Alfred E. Booth collection.

1. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936: includes ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), river ferry, etc.
2. B.C. interior scenes, ca. 1937-1945: includes buses, beer parlour interior, Kamloops Indian Residential School, fire trucks, steam train.
3. Kelowna Regatta, ca. 1939: water sports, lifesaving class, "Ogopogo" replica, Okanagan scenery.
4. Greenwood, ca. 1939: visiting baseball team on street with locals, mining scenes, old-timers, artist at work, scenery.
5. Edgewood and Arrow Lakes area, ca. 1938: townsfolk, street scenes, etc.
6. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936 or 1939: guest ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), orchard, trail riding (or pack train?) scenes. 7. New Denver area scenes, ca. 1938-1939: ore refining [?], town scenes, fire hall, etc.
7. Pier D fire, Vancouver, 27 July 1938: the fire (various angles), crowd of onlookers, fire crews and fireboats at work.

CALL NUMBER: T0352:0001 - 0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Samuel Bombini came from Calabria, Italy in 1900, and came to BC for rich mining prospects. Bombini describes the life and people of the Boundary region and how gold mining served to build the community. Then Mrs. Bombini speaks about her life, how she came to Phoenix in 1909 when she was fourteen, and her trip there by train from Halifax. She moved to Greenwood and married Samuel; in 1912. She speaks about the community of Greenwood.

CALL NUMBER: T0352:0002 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. Bombini couple talk about the Italian community, their daughters, and a fire.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mildred Roylance begins this interview by singing "Home on the Range" and she tells the story of Colin Scott McRae, a young man from Ontario who wrote the song and came to Boundary in 1887 or 1888. He was a taxidermist and became partners with Mrs. Roylance's father and opened a ranch called "McLaren and McRae" in Deadwood. She outlines her father's life as a surveyor including his life in the South Pacific, San Francisco, and Vancouver Island, and finally to a ranch where she was born. Mrs. Roylance describes the location of Carson where her father lived for one year before coming to Deadwood. Her father and McRae were the first people to settle Greenwood, incorporated as a city in 1897. Mrs. Roylance talks about her father's relationship with the Indians and the "crazy" Volcanic Brown and recounts many stories about their celebrations and friendships together.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Roylance discusses a dance that Brown did at an Indian party. Mrs. Roylance's mother was the postmistress in Deadwood and she describes life in Deadwood before the mines closed and the town was deserted. The BC Security Commission moved the Japanese from the coast in 1942; 1,200 came into Greenwood and were accepted and assimilated into the town. Many names of pioneers are mentioned, including: Jack Lucie, Johnny Meyers, who was a butcher, Jim Pogie, an Italian from the Cantalito family who came to mine in 1850 in Rock Creek, and Bob Johnson, a teacher. Then she discusses the earliest days of Grand Forks, Deadwood and Greenwood. Dr. McLean, who lived in the area from 1912 to 1920, became the Premier of B.C. She then tells the story of Boundary Falls and the discovery of gold below Norwegian Creek.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kathleen Dewdney discusses how she and her father, John Robert Ferguson; came to Trail in the Kootenays in 1894, but left upon deciding that the smelter was bad for their health. He decided to move the family to Midway in the Okanagan [actually in the Boundary Region] to have an orchard. She describes the town of Midway as it was when he arrived, including the people there and the ;irrigation system which was in place. She discusses what happened to Midway when the irrigation stopped; the wooden irrigation system and why it failed. Then she describes Trail as a beautiful town,; until the smelter was established in 1896; her father's store in Trail; a Chinese man who lived in Trail and how he dressed and lived; how the smoke from the smelter killed all of the vegetation; the; journey by stage from Trail through the US to Midway the year before the CPR arrived there; what their orchard grew and its success; how they would sell their produce at Greenwood to the workers in t;he smelter; incidents at Midway involving bandits who came from the US to rob people; her memories of Father Pat, including his physical description and manners, and a story of him at Midway, and another of him visiting a sick miner; her job as a teacher in Midway, and incidents there. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Correspondence relating to an application for settlers' free use permit for cutting cordwood in the vicinity of Greenwood (0.2 cm). From file 031642.

Footage. Shows various communities and activities in southeastern B.C. Several shots of a hydro-electric dam (possibly Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay River). Nakusp lakefront, with the retired sternwheeler "Bonnington" at dock; local residents, streets and buildings (Arrow Lake Hotel, Arrow Lakes Hospital); a sawmill. Brief shot of sternwheeler "Minto" approaching dock. Edgewood General Store. Lake fishing; resort. Parade and sports day in Salmo (joint Dominion Day and Independence Day celebration?), with long sequence showing a performance by a uniformed girls' drill team. Main street of Greenwood, where a baseball team warms up and poses with locals. A nearby mining community (probably Phoenix), with mining operation and many dilapidated buildings; residents and a bearded old timer pose for the camera. Scenery with river and waterfall (possibly Cascade Falls on the Kettle River?). New Denver Fire Hall.

Travelogue. From Osoyoos to Trail and Nelson by the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. Footage includes: Cominco smelter; the sternwheeler "Minto" on the Arrow Lakes and at Castlegar; Kootenay River power station; lumbering scenes; car ferry on Kootenay Lake; and Nelson scenes (including the Curling Bonspiel parade).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: Mr. Bryan speaks of how he came from Liverpool to the Boundary region in 1909, just after the copper mine closed in 1907. The price of copper dropped and a new smelter opened in Greenwood. Bryan describes what the region was like when he arrived, the saloons, his first job at the smelter, and his job as a clerk for the grocery store, which started in 1913 and served 33 families. Bryan tells stories of several people who lived in the area.

Firm declaration book (indexed) includes partnerships from Greenwood, Midway and Phoenix.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: Mr. George "Romey" Kingsley came from Washington with his father in 1899 and landed in Midway. He went to Anarchist Mountain, then known as Rock Mountain, though people called it One-Eyed Mountain. He speaks about life in Caldville [i.e., Colville, Washington]; mining, hunting, lack of borders, farmers and prospectors. He discusses the history of Bridesville in great detail and then Greenwood; mining stories, surrounding farms and several people who lived there. Then he discusses the Dewdney Trail which ran from Creston to Salmo and the stagecoach routes of the time. Kingsley describes Salmo in great detail with dates of good crop years and bad crop years, prices for crops, what the town consisted of and stories of the settlers.

CALL NUMBER: T0357:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Randolph F. Sandner begins this interview by telling the story of his father who was from Chicago and came to Rossland in 1896 to stake a gold mine, but ended up taking the Dewdney Trail to Christina Lake. Mr. Sandner discusses history and Indian stories of Christina Lake and Kettle River. He speaks of Ranald MacDonald who was the first white man to teach in Japan and made a fortune in the BC gold rush. He goes on to speak more about his father's life and then the hotels in Cascade which prospered from the overflow from Rossland. He mentions a fire in 1902 which destroyed Cascade, how the town never recovered and the remnants headed to Christina Lake.

TRACK 2: He describes where people lived in Christina Lake prior to WWI, and a person named Jack Wardrow who owned a cigar store. He also discusses the English settlers in the area in great detail and mentions a few by name: Angus Stewart, newspaper reporter for the Grand Forks Gazette, and a remittance man named George Charles Archibald Brown, who built the Alpine Inn but was a terrible business man. He mentions a Vancouver company named Airline Chocolates. Mr. Sandner speaks of the difficulty of finding a school teacher and his poor educational background because of it. He was taught to live with nature and how to track deer. The track ends with a story of a girl on a freight train with a baby.

CALL NUMBER: T0357:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The story about the freight train is continued and "young fellows must never help a woman!" is disclosed. Mr. Sandner says that he was raised in the woods and speaks about his mother's job of working in the mill and the family's hotel business, the North End Lodge. His father was wrongfully arrested for stealing a cable and he tells the story in detail. Mr. Sandner describes his childhood by speaking of the hotel, his mother's role, what life was like, and the family car. He tells the story of the Alice L. Mine in Paulson which was mined for gold and silver. Then he tells the story of Aaron Chandler, the man who founded Greenwood along with George Stocker and Alphonse Bertoius. These men called themselves the Canadian Consolidated Company, as they owned the smelter in Grand Forks.

TRACK 2: Mr. Sandner speaks of the two railroads in Grand Forks and how they relate to the smelters. He begins to discuss the history of Cascade, which had two newspapers. Cascade Power and; Light Company was bought out by West Kootenay Power and Light Company. He describes mining and Scott McRae who was the first man in Grand Forks, "a true pioneer". Mentions Mrs. Roylance and says that she will discuss McRae further. Then he speaks of Jack Coryell, another miner.

This series consists of a Supreme Court record of cases heard at Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland, Greenwood, and Victoria, 1905-1907.

The series includes probate files from Greenwood Supreme Court and County Court from 1897 to 1949. There is a file list for individual probate files covering 1927-1949. Various filing methods were used by the creator from 1897-1926. These earlier files were grouped together in Shannon files by the creator. Some files are arranged alphabetically and the rest by file number. This order has been maintained. Earlier files are divided into groups of probate files, intestate probate files, and probate files with will annexed. Some files may contain Supreme Court and County Court files mixed together.

The series also includes grants of letters probate and grants of letters of administration from 1899-1949 from the Supreme Court and County Court, including letters for intestate files and letters of administration from the Official Administrator. Some letters are labelled with file numbers that correspond to a probate file.