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Lists

Includes lists of British Columbia men who served in the armed forces of Canada and Great Britain. The lists are organized to show servicemen's former civilian occupations.

Description books

Record and description list of all prisoners received into New Westminster Gaol shows date, name, occupation, age, height, hair, eyes, complexion, religion, nationality, proportions, weight, peculiar marks, read and write, married or single, temperate or intemperate, offence, sentence number of convictions and remarks.

Return of prisoners confined in New Westminster Gaol

The records are arranged by month showing prisoner number and name, offence or charge, date of trial, when received in gaol, where and by whom tried, sentence, religion, nationality, whether can read or write, date of discharge, conduct, occupation in gaol, and remarks.

Quarter section survey files

Files relating to surveys of quarter sections in the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block. These files are arranged in order of their township, range, and meridian numbers, working from east to west. Peace River Block files are placed at the end of the series (boxes 24-27).

The file list shows the files arranged by box number and legal description. For example, box 1 begins with file 26-16-5, i.e. [Township] 26 - [Range] 16 - [West of the 5th Meridian]. Within the collection, the files are ordered first by meridian, then by range, and finally by township.

Homestead grant registers

The five registers in series 3 (reels B14699 to B14700) are arranged by the registry number that was assigned in chronological order by application date. The registers show registry number, date of application, date of first occupancy, date of grant, name of grantee, legal description, acreage, application number, patent reference number, and other information.

Series II: Official correspondence

This series contains official correspondence inward. In most cases a copy of the reply is filed with the letter. If not, the reply may be filed in the letterbooks of correspondence outward. [See Series X, v. 381 - v. 401]

A detailed file list has been prepared for the period February 1883 to December 1910 and can be found in Appendix 2 of the finding aid.. The file list is in two parts, each with a slightly different format. The first (1883-1903), with the exception of Boxes 8 through 12 and Box 14, identifies, in addition to the writer, where the correspondence originated and the date it was written. The second (1903-1910) does not provide either, only a date range, e.g. Jul-Dec 1903, into which the correspondence was grouped.

For Boxes 8-12 containing the official correspondence of two premiers: J.H. Turner until 6 August 1898 and C.A. Semlin thereafter. The file list consists of file numbers and subject headings assigned at the time and written on the original file folders. The list for Box 14 (Semlin correspondence only) consists of the same information but the subject headings were added by Archives staff.

Letters missing from the files (1902-1915) may be on file in the subject files [Series V, v. 134-167].

With the exception of the letters in volumes1, 13 and 18, all letters were filed in a numerical sequence and indexed alphabetically by the name of the correspondent.

Series III: Semi-official correspondence

This series contains semi-official correspondence inward. In most cases, a copy of the reply is filed with the letter. If not, the reply may be found in the letterbooks of correspondence outward. [See Series XI, v.402-403.]

All letters were filed in a consecutive numerical sequence and indexed alphabetically by the name of the correspondent.

British Columbia lands files

This series consists of correspondence files numbered from 1 to 5616988 (with many gaps in the numbering), located in boxes 1 to 394 and on reels B14594 to B14677 as well as applications for patents, located in boxes 395 to 402 and on reel B14678. Oversize material from files 1-3313011 (boxes 1-33) was microfilmed separately and is found on reels B14680 to B14682. Finding aids for the collection are located in boxes 403 to 406 (reel B14679) with copies in the Reference Room.

Files 1 to 104 are concerned mainly with the administration of Dominion lands and contain information on such subjects as Dominion land regulations, water rights, timber berths, grazing leases, the treatment of homesteaders on military service, etc. File 59, volumes 4 to 6, is of particular interest in that it contains Homestead Inspector's reports for New Westminster and Kamloops districts, to which photographs often are attached. Files 107 to 5560376 consist largely of applications for homestead entry. Files 1158768 to 5560376 (boxes 317 to 394, B14668 to B14677) cover land in the Peace River Block. File 5616988 (box 394) contains receipts for files transferred from the federal to the provincial government between 1932 and 1949. Note that in the Department of the Interior filing system, a "volume" is the equivalent of a "part". For example, volume 2 of file 4 means part 2 of file 4.

Series I: Indexes and registers to correspondence inward

A variety of indexes and registers were created in the premier's office between 1895-1933 to provide administrative control of correspondence. These indexes and registers may be used to aid researchers in locating the desired information on file in the Premier's Papers. Researchers should be aware that a listing in one of the indexes or registers is no guarantee that the letter can be found. Letters may have been directed elsewhere, refiled or misfiled, or have gone missing for reasons unknown. In addition, the series of indexes and registers is not complete. The indexes record the number assigned to the letter for filing, the name of the correspondent and a brief account of the subject of the letter. Before 1915, the name of the correspondent or body in whose name the letter was addressed was indexed alphabetically in separate listings for each year. Subject listings were not indexed, but it is possible though time consuming to scan the columns which list subjects. Beginning in late 1915 at the inception of the Bowser administration letters were filed either in a series of numbered subject files, unnumbered subject files or in a series of alphabetical files. A new subject filing system was developed for the period 1930 - 1933. The registers record letters as received, and list the number assigned to the letter for filing, the name of the correspondent and the subject of the letter. Using either an index or a register, once one finds the number or subject file number and year of a letter, the volume number containing that letter may be found by consulting the listing for the appropriate series in this finding aid.

Series IV: Private correspondence

This series contains private correspondence inward of Premier McBride. In some cases, the reply is on file. If not, the letterbooks of private correspondence outward [Series XI, v.406 , v.408], may be searched.

The indexes to this correspondence cover only the period 1903-1906. After 1906, there is simply no way to search the records other than reading the files themselves.

Letters were filed either alphabetically or numerically. Both sorts of letters were indexed alphabetically. Researchers may have to [search both sorts of files to find letters listed in the indexes.]

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