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Agriculture today : reel 7, part 1

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Adjusting the branches of fruit trees; apple picking; orchard scenes; pruning young trees to control growth. Irrigation. Old fruit trees supporting fruit-laden branches. Apple bins. Stacking hay bales. Clearing land for orchard on Similkameen River. Growing and stacking hay. Bees. Apple crop. Loading apple-filled bins. Keremeos Grower Co-Operative packing house. ("Modern, 1968.") Asphalting road for dust prevention. Soil erosion.

Alfred Cawston interview

RECORDED: Keremeos (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Cawston's father came to Ontario from northern England in 1831, and came to Osoyoos in 1874. Alfred was born in 1892. After his father tried a few business ventures that did not pan out, Alfred was sent back to Ontario for schooling. Alfred married in 1919 and ran a small fruit farm; in later years, he became a ranger for the BC Forest Service.

Angela McDiarmid interview

CALL NUMBER: T0675:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Angela McDairmid was born in Princeton before it was known as Princeton; she discusses her earliest memories; where the house was; several anecdotes about her mother and her youth; her father; floods; her family history; her father's arrival in Victoria in 1858; the gold rush on the Fraser River; the pack trains; the area around Princeton as she remembers it; more stories. Susan Louise Moir was her mother, and she discusses her life; her parents' early married life; the first settlers in Princeton; gold mining in Granite Creek; John Chance and other prospectors; how Princeton got its name. TRACK 2: Mrs. McDairmid continues by describing the first mines in the area; the Hope Trail; some characters; Chinese workers who worked for her father; stories; some characters whom she remembers.

CALL NUMBER: T0675:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. McDairmid continues with stories about the land around Princeton, some bodies that were found, building a bridge, a shooting among Indians, the Allison town site, Judge Haynes, Indian boat races at the river, potlatches, a shooting, the killing of a Nicola Indian, Merritt as a coal mining town, Dr. Tuttle's hanging, superstition among the Indians. Finally, she discusses her father giving the copyright to his stories to her sister. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Anita Andersen interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Anita Andersen : the Trocadero strike RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1979-[09-03 & 12] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Andersen was born in Princeton, where she and her family experienced the collapse of the Princeton mines (the Granby Mines) and the disastrous economic consequences. She was subsequently orphaned and moved to Vancouver where, as a very young girl, she worked for several families as a domestic; this was one of the few alternatives for working class women who needed a place to live, food and work, and who were basically unskilled. Her sister also worked as a domestic, and they both began to radicalize, due to the influences of the longshoremen's strikes -- and for Mrs. Andersen, her interests in Yugoslavian cultural activities. She came a busgirl and organised for the HREU at the Trocadero Cafe. The Cafe was struck, and a contract was eventually achieved, but the central organisers were fired and blacklisted, including Mrs. Andersen. She continued to work for the union until she moved to the Yukon in the 1940s. TRACK 2: Returning to BC, she worked for the Jubilee Summer Camp; as a cultural organiser the Yugoslavian community; and with consumer organisations.

Assignments

  • GR-2806
  • Series
  • 1903-1923

Assignments (indexed).

British Columbia. County Court (Grand Forks)

Atlas : Doukhobor lands: soil classification and land classification maps and land utilization mosaics

Item consists of one bound atlas measuring 43 x 57 cm. It contains one index map and 35 location maps of the lands of the former "Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood" in the Kootenay and Similkameen Land Districts. There are land utilization maps based on 1951 provincial government "vertical air photos" and coloured soil classification maps for the following communities: Champion Creek, Oteshenie, Brilliant, Raspberry, Glade, Shoreacres, Pass Creek, Krestova, Koch Siding, Lebahdo, Winlaw, Claybrick, Perry Siding, Grand Forks (north and south), Gilpin, and Caesar. The atlas accompanies "Doukhobor lands. A report on a study of the condition and value of the Doukhobor lands, 1952" by N.T. Drewry, Assistant Director, Land Utilization Research and Survey.

Bench book

  • GR-2197
  • Series
  • 1964-1984

Bench book (indexed) for Supreme Court and County Court chambers actions. The notes on court proceedings stop in 1975 however, His Honour Judge A.D.C. Washington added notes in 1977, 1978 and 1984 about his years of service

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Princeton)

Boundary Gold Commissioner records

  • GR-0231
  • Series
  • 1890-1922

The series consists of records created by the Boundary Gold Commissioner between 1890 and 1922. It includes correspondence inward, records of claims, certificates of work, conveyances of claims, water record and records of free miners certificates. Records may also relate to the Kettle River and Osoyoos Mining Recorders.

British Columbia. Gold Commissioner (Boundary)

Calendar from the Corporation of the City of Grand Forks

  • GR-3078
  • Series
  • 1903-1928

Calendar from the Corporation of the City of Grand Forks showing date and hour, name, age, place of birth, religion, trade, literacy, use of liquor, charge, office charging, name of officer charging, plea, name of presiding magistrate and details of the sentence (Duration, fine, costs). There are no entries for 1921.

British Columbia. Police Court (Grand Forks)

Calendars for criminals cases

  • GR-2463
  • Series
  • 1935-1953

Calendars for criminals cases heard in Princeton.

British Columbia. County Court (Princeton)

Cash book

  • GR-2455
  • Series
  • 1914-1969

Cash book from Supreme Court, County Court and Small Debts Court including Suitors' Funds.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Princeton)

Correspondence

  • GR-1046
  • Series
  • 1919-1920

Series contains correspondence files relating to water licences and irrigation in the vicinities of Rock Creek and Greenwood, and the southern Okanagan valley.

British Columbia. Water Rights Branch

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-2573
  • Series
  • ca. 1913-1931

Boundary District Provincial Police files, consisting of correspondence, reports, jail calendars, vouchers, etc., from Coalmont, Fairview, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Hedley, Keremeos, Midway, Oliver, Penticton, Phoenix and Princeton, and correspondence with other police districts and with Victoria Headquarters.

These records were copied from originals loaned by the Penticton Museum in 1981. The originals had been transferred to the Penticton Museum and Archives by the Penticton area RCMP detachment. In 2006, the records were transferred to the BC Archives (accession 95-5924).

The numbered files that were microfilmed (40-1113 to 40-3500) appear to be consistent with the transferred originals. However, there are additional records on the microfilm (see the “Correspondence” and “Miscellaneous” sections in the Finding Aid).

British Columbia. Provincial Police Force (Boundary District)

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-2837
  • Series
  • 1903-1953

Correspondence, memos, circulars, audits, returns, ledger sheets and tax forms from the office of the Official Administrator.

British Columbia. Official Administrator (Grand Forks)

Correspondence outward

  • GR-2805
  • Series
  • 1900-1916

Correspondence outward (indexed letterpress volume) from Grand Forks Supreme Court registrar, S.R. Almond.

British Columbia. County Court (Grand Forks)

Country lands : district of Similkameen

The item is a pre-emption register kept for the country lands in the district of Similkameen. The register lists the record number, the name of the pre-emptor, the size and price of lot and payment details and notes about surveys and title deeds.

Day book of Constable H.J. McDougall, Fairview

  • GR-0420
  • Series
  • 1913-1914

This series consists of a day book of Constable H.J. McDougall of Fairview covering 6 December 1913 - 18 December 1914.

British Columbia. Provincial Police Force (Boundary District)

Diaries

Diaries of Mrs. Julia Bullock-Webster, kept during a two year visit with her sons, Edward Walter and William Howard Bullock-Webster, on their ranch near Keremeos, B.C. The author (an elderly English gentlewoman) was accompanied by her two daughters, Evelyn Eliza and Helen Georgina Bullock-Webster, and a young English "farm pupil," William Dalziel Walker. The diaries contain lively descriptions of pioneer life in the Similkameen district; they also include cookery recipes and ink sketches of the Bullock-Webster ranch.

Firm declaration book

  • GR-2804
  • Series
  • 1896-1928

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

British Columbia. County Court (Greenwood)

Gaol or lock-up calendars

  • GR-2782
  • Series
  • 1927

Gaol or lock-up calendars, November 1927.

British Columbia. Provincial Court (Princeton)

Garnet Willis interview

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Garnet E. Willis talks about his father and the people of the Chilliwack and the Similkameen region, 1894 to 1916. He describes how his family farmed near Sardis; what Chilliwack was like in his youth; steamboats on the Fraser; Harrison House; hard work on farms; school days; stories about Bill Miner; stories about John Ryder and his family; the Nelson brothers; how his father hauled freight; his father's background with the fur brigade; a discussion of the brigade route; details of his father's travels in Fort Garry, California and BC; his father's claims in the Cariboo; how his father logged on the present site of Vancouver; and John Beatty. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis continues with a story about an old man; the circumstances by which he came to the Similkameen area with his father in 1914; an anecdote about his father and the farm at Sumas; a comparison of Chilliwack and Similkameen areas; cattle and cattle drives over the Dewdney Trail; several stories about travels on the Hope Trail; a discussion of Herman Grell, known as "Shorty" Dunn; Jack Budd; and train robber Bill Miner.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willis continues with more on Shorty Dunn of Bill Miner's gang; a story about Pat Kennedy of Princeton; Jim Slater; a story about Charlie Rheinhardt; Price Chandler; the beginning of Keremeos; Keremeos centre; the town of Loomis, Washington; a description of Princeton in 1913; Bill Allison; Mr. Willis' own place near Princeton; several stories about August Carlson; a story about Steve Mangat; the Olalla Mine; other mines and drilling. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis offers a story about Duncan Woods of the Hedley Mascot Mine; a discussion of his wife's uncle, a packer named John Worth; Bill Bristol and his stopping house east of Hope; a discussion of "Colonel" Robert Stevenson and his tall stories; a story about tracking lost cattle; more about Stevenson; more about Jack Budd and Bill Miner; and a story about a foot race in Montana.

Giant Mascot

Industrial film. The growth and development of Giant Mascot Mines Ltd. -- especially the Giant Mascot Mine near Hope, which re-opened in 1971 after a serious fire. Includes mine and concentrator operations, lab tests, planning of future work, etc. Also shows the company's geological survey and test drilling operations in the area and in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver scenes include shots inside the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

Giant Mascot : [out-takes]

Out-takes. The growth and development of Giant Mascot Mines Ltd. -- especially the Giant Mascot Mine near Hope, which re-opened in 1971 after a serious fire. Includes mine and concentrator operations, lab tests, planning of future work, etc. Also shows the company's geological survey and test drilling operations in the area and in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver scenes include shots inside the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

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