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Land records related to leases

  • GR-0385
  • Series
  • 1865-1955

This series consists of records of the Department of Lands and Forests, Lands Service, primarily relating to leases of Crown land for various purposes. Records include cancelled or expired leases for oyster beds (including leases by the Government of Canada), hay meadow, summer resort, stone quarry, mill, coal mining, grazing, agriculture, cattle ranching, and pastoral purposes. This series also includes final agreements for sale and purchase under Soldier's Better Housing Scheme for City of Victoria lots (includes rebate applications and discharge certificates) and licences of occupation.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests. Lands Service

Legal opinions offered by Attorney General

  • GR-1459
  • Series
  • 1864-1879

This series contains legal opinions offered by Attorney General on a wide range of subjects. For more information on the subjects covered, please consult the attached finding aid.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Attorney-General

Records relating to marine resources

  • GR-1118
  • Series
  • 1907-1979

The series contains records of the Dept. of Fisheries (1907-1957), the Commercial Fisheries Branch (1957-1973), and the Marine Resources Branch (1973-1979). These records relate to commercial fisheries, the regulation, development and conservation of marine resources, and the administration of the B.C. Fisheries Act. Included are orders-in-council, copies of correspondence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of the Dept. of Recreation and Conservation and of the Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries, central subject files of the Branch, oyster licence and permit records, annual returns of salmon canning plants and sport-caught fish canneries, a licence receipt book, files relating to motor vessels operated by the Branch, and biological research materials. The subject files contain correspondence relating to the Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers, Federal-Provincial B.C. Fisheries Committee, Strait of Georgia Task Force, the Fishermen Loan Board, the Fisheries Association of British Columbia, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and the International North Pacific Fisheries Committee.

British Columbia. Marine Resources Branch