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Series consists of letters of British Columbia men on active service with Canadian and British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918. Includes letters from W.J.H. Holmes and other land surveyors; also letters from former members of Provincial Library and Archives staff. Several letters addressed to Miss Russell, who collected and preserved correspondence as a war memorial.

Series consists of a draft and revised draft of Russell's reminiscences of her career as a librarian in the Provincial Library; correspondence inward (1 item), 1924; certificates of membership (B.C. Library Association, Order of Good Times); historical sketches of early explorers; brief accounts of Indian legends.

The series consists of correspondence inward and outwards, 1925-1943 with gaps; monthly and annual reports and lists of donations received by the Archives Department of the Provincial Library, 1919-1929, 1934. It also includes Provincial Library reports from 1944 to 1949.

Public access. Provincial Archivist John Bovey and actor Rod Beattie are interviewed.

Magazine. Provincial Archives of BC employees Barry Byers and Kerry Dodd discuss the Emily Carr Gallery exhibition, "Emily Carr: A Conservator's Examination". Video master?

The item is a video recording of a magazine program. Christina Johnson-Dean discusses the exhibit, "The Crease Family Archives", currently showing at the Provincial Archives of B.C.

The series consists of copies of maps of various towns and cities in British Columbia, collected by the Map Division of the Provincial Archives. Between 1974 and 1981, the Map Division wrote to town clerks and other municipal officials asking for copies of town maps for reference purposes. The maps sent in range in date and quality and include published street maps, copies of survey maps and other ephemera. The files were arranged in alphabetical order by name of town, village or city and kept in the Archives Map Division filing cabinet.

The series consists of 25 volumes of British Columbia place name information created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia around 1971. The files are arranged alphabetically by place name and each page contains information about the origin of the place name. The first volume also contains a bibliography which details the sources used.

This series consists of a newspaper clipping book containing extracts from the British press relating to British Columbia's centennial celebrations.

GR-1372 is an artificial series, created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s from records of the governments of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1849-1866), the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866) and the United Colony of British Columbia (1866-1871). The records, consisting of correspondence inward to and among officials and departments, were originally organized more or less chronologically as records of the department or agency to which they were sent, e.g. Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Commissioner of Land and Works, etc. Letters when received were logged into a register and assigned sequential numbers with the last two numbers of the year appended, creating the file number, e.g. 105/62. Some of these registers still exist, e.g. GR-0625. The correspondence was often accompanied by enclosures such as reports, sketches and maps which were considered part of the file.

Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, Archives staff undertook to re-organize these records into a single alphabetical series organized primarily by the name of the originating office or sender (road tolls and petitions are notable exceptions). Formerly separate records were intermingled and the original order was lost. The records were indexed using new file numbers assigned for that purpose. These are the F numbers written in red crayon on the records. Starting with the number 1, each folder of records in the new alphabetical sequence was assigned a number as well as the individual files (items) within that folder, e.g. F33/1.

It appears that later insertions into the alpha sequence, after the initial assignment of numbers, were dealt with by using letters (e.g. F85a, F85b), or a number in parentheses (e.g. F79(1), F80a(1)). When an F file required more than one folder, either letters were added to subsequent folders, (e.g. F102, F102a, F102b) or numbers in parentheses were used (e.g. F142b(1), F142b(2)). The F numbers on the documents, however, were not affected by the change in numbering as they formed one continuous sequence (e.g. F102, files 1-9; F102a, files 10-22; F102b, files 23-30b).

Some of the correspondence was transcribed by Archives staff. These typed transcripts are either in the file folders together with the originals or in a separate file folder following the file folder with the originals. Most of the transcripts were not microfilmed and consequently do not appear on the microfilm reels. The records were microfilmed 1978-1980.

See attached finding aid for more information about the history, contents, and indexing of this collection.

The file consists of photocopies of miscellaneous records collected by W.K. Lamb including:
Reminiscences of Provincial Archivists E.O.S. Scholefield and R.E. Gosnell by Alma Russell, who was for many years a member of the staff of the Provincial Archives; letter from R.H. Coats to W.K. Lamb, November 17, 1944, re his collaboration with R.E. Gosnell on "Sir James Douglas"; letter from John Forsyth, June 22, 1945, re the histories of British Columbia written by Gosnell and Scholefield and Howay and Scholefield.

The series consists of a file created by the Provincial Archives in 1933-1934. It contains correspondence inward and outward with copies of memos re gold discoveries on Rock Creek, Wild Horse Creek, Williams Creek; memo re The Cariboo Consolidated Limited; papers pertaining to the title to real estate of placer mining claims "Princess Marie", "San Juan", "Forward", and "Deadwood".

This series contains a descriptive register of Lieutenant Governors' correspondence inward for the years 1871-1879. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-0443 (British Columbia. Lieutenant Governor).

Shows surveyed lots in New Westminster and Burnaby. The original, dated ca. 1859, is in Legal Surveys.

News item. An all-around view of the Emily Carr Gallery. Close-ups of totem poles in Carr's paintings are shown to good advantage by the camera.

The item is a video of news items. (1) News item covering fire in Bastion Square restaurant; danger to Emily Carr Gallery. (00:03:10) (2) News spot on damage from fire. (00:02:04) (3) Interview with Leni Hoover; discussion about new gallery exhibit, "From Northern Villages II". (00:14:00)

The item is a video copy of an Arts Calendar program dealing with the proposed closure of the Emily Carr Gallery. Also, excepts from CHEK, BCTV and CBC coverage of the closure. Items date from February and March, 1991.

Public access. Darlene Churcher, manager of the Emily Carr Gallery, talks about the exhibit "Emily Carr: Story of Small." Includes shots of exhibit items.