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Correspondence outward, 1900, and covering letters.

Gift of R.G. Cairns, Victoria, 1975.

Item consists of a British Columbia, Dept. of Lands and Work's map of the Province of British Columbia with annotations showing Mining Recording Districts.

Item is a large wall map of British Columbia compiled and drawn by the British Columbia Department of Lands and Works and published in 1903. The map has been annotated or overprinted in colour to show Land Recording Districts.

Item is a large wall map of British Columbia compiled and drawn in the British Columbia Department of Lands and Works and published in 1895. The map has been annotated to show counties according the Counties Definition Act of 1895.

Item is a British Columbia Department of Lands and Work's map of British Columbia published in 1903. It is a large wall map.

Item consists of a large wall map of British Columbia published in 1895. The map appears to have been annotated in colour to show mining divisions. The words "Mining Divisions" have been added in ms at the head of the title.

Item is a large map of British Columbia published in 1895. The map is annotated in red to show rail lines.

Shows the electoral districts specified in the Constitution Amendment Act, 1890. Signed "D.W. Higgins, Speaker; Jno Robson, Provincial Secretary."

Item consists of a large wall map of the south western part of British Columbia published in 1892. The map is annotated as follows: "Map referred to in the Legislative Electorates and Elections Act. 1894." The map is signed by James Baker, Provincial Secretary and D.W. Higgins, Speaker, March 21st 1894.

Item is a large map by the Department of Lands and Works map annotated with coloured ink showing British Columbia electoral districts of 1902

The series consists of correspondence and applications made to the Colonial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1859-1871, and its successor agency, the Provincial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1871-1874 regarding land pre-emptions in the Lytton district.

This series contains a sale book of rural lands entitled: October 5th, 1859, Records of lands sold to Sgt. Wm. McColl and Sgt. Major George Cann of the Royal Engineers and a Capt. MacLean, Charles Good and Governor James Douglas (Manson Island lands).

Series contains pre-emption records, Omineca District, signed by Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works. (Only seven pre-emption record forms are completed; the remainder are blank).

Series contains account records of the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works Lytton. Account of H.M. Ball with Lands and Works Department, 1862-1863; list of horses purchased for the Lytton district by the government, 1860; list of permanent stores of the Lytton department, 1859-1860.

This series includes notes on various inward letters in Lands Dept. vaults, 1883-1885. Contains a brief synopsis of contents of selected letters.

Store Book, Boston Bar Waggon (sic) Road, July 1862- November 1862, Rocky Camp (1 vol.). Merchandise accounts and sales register.

Indentures of Conveyance of church lands by the Bishop of British Columbia to Charles Thomas Wood, Archdeacon of Columbia, Henry P. Wright, Archdeacon of Vancouver, and John Foster McCreight; includes lands and church sites at Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich, Cowichan, Comox, and New Westminster.

This series contains records relating to pre-emptions, subdivisions, Crown Grants, and town sites in Similkameen District. Consists of five registers, including Register of Town Lots, Tulameen, B.C.

This series contains the records of the Assistant Land Commissioner, New Westminster, relating to pre-emptions. It includes pre-emption certificates Nos. 1-100, 967-1063, New Westminster District, (2 vols.) Nominal index.

Contains land records file relating to the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Acts, 1903 and 1904. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal briefs and sketches pertaining to land disputes between settlers and the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company. File 145321/12, 1912 Series.

Series contains a letter inward to Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, Attorney-General, from Andrew Onderdonk, 24 September 1886, presenting bill for lease of building at Port Moody for use as provincial jail. The letter contains 2 pages.

This series includes registers relating to Crown Grants, Similkameen Division and Osoyoos Division, Yale District (2 vols.) Volume 1 is a register of Crown Grant applications forwarded to Victoria and includes date and disposition of application, name and address of applicant, legal description of land, Crown Grant number. Volume 2 is a register of Crown Grants and includes date of notice, number of grant, legal description of land, payment schedule, disposition and Grown Grant number. The registers are arranged chronologically.

Series contains lists relating to water projects. List of Certificates of Approval for water works, diversions, dams, spillways, etc. issued between 1898 and 1911; includes grantee, date of approval, purpose and nature of grant. List of power, light and water companies, registered or licenced in the province of British Columbia, including those under statute, those with grants of water rights, and those with Certificates of Approval pursuant to the Water Clauses Consolidation Act (1897) and the Water Act (1909).