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Transaction Registers for ships registered at Victoria 1867-1908 and Vancouver 1891-1898 and 1917-1945. The reels also contain Registers for various Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports 1841-1950. Among details to be found are where and when ship was built; owners; builders; number of decks, masts, details of rigging etc.; length, breadth, depth; tonnage; details of engines; changes of ownership and final fate of ship (i.e. reason for being taken off Registry). Some Victoria volumes are indexed.

Reel B08475 (NAC reel C-1214, Vol. 147) Victoria 1897-1908
Reel B08476 (NAC reel C-3184) Quebec, Ontario, Victoria
Reel B08477 (NAC reel C-3185) Weymouth, Annapolis, Victoria
Reel B08478 (NAC reel C-3188)

Transaction registers for ships registered at the Port of New Westminster, 1880-1889 (reel B09868), and 1889-1913 (reel B09869). The reels also contain Registers for various ports in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes, and for Aklavik in the N.W.T. Among details to be found are where and when the ship was built, owners, builders, number of decks, masts, details of rigging, etc., length, breadth, tonnage, details of engines, transactions relating to ownership and reason for being taken off registry. The Registers record transactions up to ca. 1950. (National Archives of Canada, RG 12, A 1, vols. 364 and 445).

Received from the National Archives of Canada under the 1990-1991 Diffusion Programme.

Ships - Registration and transfer - British Columbia

Central Registry records: index and correspondence registers, 1883-1915, 5 vols. (National Archives of Canada, RG 23/B/1/b). These five volumes are a set of contemporary indexes to GR-2908, Dept. of Marine and Fisheries, Central Registry Records. Volumes 1-3 contain entries arranged by name, volume 4, entries arranged by locality, and volume 5, entries arranged by subject. These volumes should be used in conjunction with the finding aid to GR-2908 which is a reel list of files relating to British Columbia.

Acquired from the National Archives of Canada under the 1992-1993 Diffusion Program.

Transcript of evidence (522 pages) taken at the official inquiry into the loss of the Princess Sophia.

This series contains an index and correspondence registers for the Department of Marine and Fisheries. The records are arranged alphabetically by correspondent's ma,e. The correspondence to which these indexes refer is available at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

The series consists of Central Registry records, ca. 1895-1914, relating to British Columbia (part of National Archives of Canada RG 23/B/1. The collection consists of files from the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries Central Registry records held by the NAC filmed for the University of B.C. library and contains material relating to the development and administration of fisheries in British Columbia.

Received from the National Archives of Canada under the 1991-1992 Diffusion Program.

Finding aid: reel list prepared by Ira M. Chaikin for the University of British Columbia Library.