This series contains the records of the office of the Government Agent, Greenwood and Grand Forks. This series consists of records created by these agencies and reflects the diverse functions and responsibilities of officials in their capacity as Gold Commissioner, Mining Recorder, Sub-Agent, Deputy Sheriff, Chief Constable, Registrar of the County Court, Stipendiary Magistrate, District Registrar of the Supreme Court, Weather Observer (Dominion Meteorological Service), and Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Included are general correspondence files and letterbooks, applications for Certificates of Improvement, applications for crown grants of mining leases and mineral claims, records of free miners' certificates, declarations of mineral claims, certificates of work relating to mineral claims, circular letters from the Dept. of Mines to Gold Commissioner, records of mining locations, registers of mining claim conveyances, register of applications for water licences, records of trading licences and revenue tax collections, monthly reports of police constables, circulars, bulletins, and orders to the Government Agent, County Court findings related to the Kettle River Mining Division, bills of sale and chattel mortgages, by-laws of the cities of Greenwood, Columbia, Phoenix, and Grand Forks, stock ledgers, lists of summons and injunctions, registered shareholders of Bertha Consolidated Gold Mining Company, and journal and cash books of the Grand Forks Hotel.
British Columbia. Government Agent (Grand Forks)