Showing 4175 results

Archival description
File With digital objects
Print preview View:

Certificates of claim

The file contains certificates of claim for land in the Colony of British Columbia, numbered from 823 to 1388. Each scrip allows the entitled person to claim 20 acres of land within twelve months of issuance and to exchange it for a certificate of conveyance. The scrips are signed by the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Richard Moody are numbered, dated and made out to a person. They also include provisions to transfer the scrip on the back of the form and notes about the lots exchanged for the scrip. The scrips are made out to William Ross, John Hale, Hugh McRoberts and John Thorne, who may have acted as land agents.

Petition from Chief of Larawe

One petition from Larawe village to Governor Musgrave requesting Reserves be formally set aside and surveyed to protect their village site and cultivated fields from being stolen by settlers. The information on the petitions was recorded by Revered P. Durien in 1870, who then sent it to the Governor. The petition records several names and marks of individuals.

The petition includes annotations and comments added by the Governor and other government representatives, as well as a draft response approving the survey of a Reserve.

Petition from Chiefs of Fort Yale, Tsenes, Tsiam, Stectelen, Showamel, Twaous, Fort Yale, Choualp, Katlatle, Skokem, Skazir, Boston Bar, Spuzzum and Fort Hope

Two petitions from various First Nations to Governor Musgrave requesting Reserves be formally set aside and surveyed to protect their village sites and cultivated fields from being stolen by settlers. The information on the petitions was recorded by Revered P. Durien in 1870, who then sent them to the Governor.

Each petition records each Chief's name and mark for the following First Nations and villages: Fort Yale, Tsenes, Tsiam, Stectelen, Showamel, Twaous, Fort Yale, Choualp, Katlatle, Skokem, Skazir, Boston Bar, Spuzzum and Fort Hope. The petition provides examples of the Burrard Inlet, Shely and Fort Yale First Nations who had their cultivated land taken by settlers.

Each petition includes annotations and comments added by the Governor and other government representatives, as well as a draft response approving the survey of Reserves.

Elliot, A.C., 1863

Cartographic material removed and transferred to map collection:

F514/22 Clinton (Cut Off Valley) August 16th 1862 Robert Watson’s pre-emption [1862], map cat. no. CM/A1825 F514/22 Clinton (Cut Off Valley) Traced by J. Launders RE 15 June 1863, map cat. no. CM/B481

Brew, Chartres, 1861

Original file contents split into two folders. F190a contains F190/1-F190/15 and associated typed transcripts. F190b contains F190/16-F190/40 and associated typed transcripts. Both folders also contain miscellaneous unnumbered (and unindexed?) items. Microfilmed and scanned as one file.

Applications to pre-empt

File consists of applications to pre-empt 1874. Nos. 415/74–433/74. [Correspondence, maps, etc.]; Permission to Enter Upon with Terms of Land Ordinance 1870; printed applications with sketch map of property on back, 1873; letter of application, John Kemp, Dec. 1873 and William Jeffreys 1874; and applications to Pre-empt Land on Texada Island 1873 including sketch maps of property.

Maynard photographs

File consists of two photographs at least one of which was taken by Hannah Maynard for her photography business in Victoria. This image is a group photograph of sailors, possibly the gun room officers of a Royal Navy ship docked at Esquimalt. The names of the sailors are listed on the verso.
The other photograph is of a family in front of a house. Possibly Hannah and Richard Maynard seated in a garden with a young man (their son Albert Hatherley Maynard?) behind them. Two women, a man (Harry Maynard?), three children, and a dog, are positioned in a stairway nearby.

Includes:
J-08135
J-08144

Results 1 to 30 of 4175