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The records were created in an attempt to retain summary information regarding notable cases of both civil and criminal matters across BC. The copies appear to have been made by the head of Information Services at the BC Courthouse Library Society for the BC Archives. As the Library did not have access to the case files themselves, many of the records are copies of reasons for judgment or entries in the Dominion Law Reports or Western Weekly Reports. Many original case files relating to post-1950 matters have been destroyed. The series contains records relating to cases heard between 1950 and 2003, and the copies appear to have been created around 2003.

The records are arranged by case year. Some years span several files.

The series consists of Supreme Court case files created in 1922. There is evidence that at least one file (1/1922) was originally created in Ashcroft before being transferred to Clinton, and records related to the case can be found in GR-1954 (Ashcroft Supreme Court civil case files). The records consist of various court forms and correspondence and are arranged by case number. The series is covered by ORCS 51100-20 in the Court Services schedule 100152

The series consists of one volume of the Supreme Court criminal case calendar. The records typically provide the name of the prisoner(s), the court date, name of the judge, plea, verdict, sentence and date of verdict and sentencing.

Minute book of cases heard under the Bankruptcy Act before Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, Sept 1920 - June 1922. (Cases indexed in index to vol. 1 of GR-1944.)

Minute book of cases heard before Mr. Justice Alexander Ingram Fisher, 1929-1931, with index.

The series consists of five volumes of minute books of cases heard in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, 1912-1931.

The series consists of six volumes of minute books of cases heard in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Aulay MacAulay Morrison from 1912 to 1934.

Supreme Court of British Columbia Rules, 1971, including the following: Supreme Court rules, 1961; Court of Appeal rules, 1959; Probate rules, 1961; Divorce rules, 1971; criminal rules, 1961; criminal appeal rules, 1959; and Patient's Estate Act rules, n.d. (indexed). 1 binder.

This series consists of a Supreme Court record of cases heard at Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland, Greenwood, and Victoria, 1905-1907.

Series consists of original decrees nisi, decrees absolute, and divorce-related orders created between 1974 and 1983 by the Supreme Court Unified Family Court at Surrey. Between 1968 and 1985, a judgement by way of decree nisi required a three-month waiting period before a judgement by way of decree absolute could be applied for. During this time, a divorce was not legally in effect without a decree absolute. Some adoption orders are interfiled with the divorce records.

The records are arranged by volume and folio numbers, as assigned by the Court Registry. Not all volume numbers were assigned, but there are no gaps in the records. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51440-25.

Letterpress copies of correspondence outward from the Surveyor-General. Many of the volumes contain nominal indexes of correspondents. Volumes 26 - 31 have been water damaged and are partly illegible.

The series consists primarily of small, hard-cover notebooks used for recording data in the field during hydrographic survey projects. It also consists of envelopes containing various textual and cartographic records. The purpose of the records was to document information recorded by Water Management Branch field surveyors when they completed hydrographic surveys. Information was used as reference material in preparation of topographical maps. Also recorded was information relating to projects completed by the Water Branch (such as irrigation projects). Also recorded was information of the time regarding claims and claimants to water rights. The records may have a high degree of long-range research value.

Many of the field books contain data for so many different geographic locations, it was impossible to list or reflect each location in the file titles.

Relevant information is to be found in many Dept. of Lands, Water Rights Branch annual reports, where the background and execution of the hydrographic surveys around the province are discussed. See for example the Sessional Papers of British Columbia, Session 1913, pgs. D 107 to D 222.

The series consists of Director's files created by the Surveys and Mapping Branch between 1949 and 1976. The files are a mixture of operational and administrative files and include correspondence, memos, maps and some photographs. They are arranged by the file code system created by G.S. Andrews, director from 1951 to 1968. A list of the file codes and headings is in the first file, 0581/1.1.

The files cover all aspects of land surveys and mapping including the organization and administration of the branch, policy, associations with professional bodies, correspondence with the Federal Government, equipment and supplies and historical files created under directors G.S. Andrews (1951-1968), A.H. Ralfs (1968-1975) and E.R. McMinn (1876-1982). The series also includes one unnumbered file dated 1982 about the Alberta mapping branch.

Although there are many maps interfiled within the regular files, the last box contains only copies of published maps accumulated by Andrews between 1941 and 1972, although some of the maps are copied from earlier ones. This box was reaccessioned as M856122 and transferred to the Archives Map division in 1985 but has been reunited with the series.

The series consists of general files created by the Surveys and Mapping Branch between 1935 and 1974. The files are in no particular order but may have been kept in the office of A.G. Slocomb, Chief of the Topographic Division. The files are arranged by subject and include general office files as well as specific files relating to surveyors and survey projects (E.R. McMinn), Air Division files (G.S. Andrews) and a correspondence file from 1935 to 1938 regarding the creation of Tweedsmuir Park (G.G. Aitken)

The series consists of glass plate photographic negatives generated by the Surveys Branch's topographical surveying parties operating in various parts of British Columbia between 1914 and 1929. These survey parties used photographs as a means of collecting data for topographical mapping done by the Geographic Division of the branch. The photographs were usually taken from the summits of hills and mountains and depict surrounding landscape.

The series is arranged into 31 sub-series, each comprised of the photographs generated by one survey party. Within each sub-series, the survey party's arrangement and original numbering of items has been retained. This arrangement and numbering is based on the original packaging of the photographs into small boxes of plates. The name of the surveyor heading each party is noted in the description of each individual sub-series.

This series contains a table of average log prices, 1937-1938, and a historical review of provincial timber royalties, 1914-1937.

The series consists of a slide show called talking business created by the Ministry of Industry and Small Business Development around 1982. The slides show small business opportunities in British Columbia.

These records consist of correspondence and working papers of the Task Force on Crown Timber Disposal, 1974.

This series consists of records of the Task Force on the Community College, 1974 under Chairperson, Hazel L'Estrange. Records include reports, memos, agendas, minutes, public submissions, briefs, and hearing records. The series includes submissions from Academic Board of British Columbia, Douglas College, Capliano College, Cariboo College, Okanagan College, Vancouver City College, Camosun College, and others. It also includes a sound recording of a submission from Malaspina College.

This series contains submissions to the 3 member Task Force to Review Labour Laws (Noel Hall, James Matkin and D.E. McTaggart)

Tax assessment rolls for South Westminster, Sumas, Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Matsqui, Chilliwack, Nicomen Island, and Nicomen Dyking Districts, 1898-1976; general expenditure journals, voucher records, receipts, and financial statements, 1917-1974.

The series consists of two volumes of tax sale registers created by the Surveyor of Taxes between 1902 and 1925. The volumes were created for the Assessment District of Comox in order to register forfeiture procedures on lands with taxes owing.

The registers are indexed by name of person assessed and are organized by parcel or folio number. Each entry may list the following information: name of person, description of property, unpaid taxes and costs; name of purchaser and dates of various notices, letters and deeds.

Volume 1 includes index, tax sale register for the years 1902 to 1913, folios 1-798 and 1917 to 1919, folios 1-447. It also includes tax sale of crown granted mineral claims, 1910-1913 and a 1918 tax sale list.
Volume 2 includes index, tax sale register for the years 1917 to 1918, folios 519-791, tax sale of crown grant mineral claims, 1919-1925 and index to 1925 tax sale.
Each volume contains two loose pages of miscellaneous tax forms tucked into the index.

The records have been classified as 45400-05 under the Property Taxation Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).

The series consists of four folders of summaries and statements created by the Taxation Branch and its predecessor body the Surveyor of Taxes between 1906 and 1973.

Folder 1 contains compiled statements of ownership and assessment of timbered parcels on Vancouver Island and some adjacent islands, 1930.
Folder 2 contains miscellaneous tax statements showing revenue and estimates of tax on certain types of properties between 1900 and 1930, compiled around 1931.
Folder 3 contains particulars of taxation of timberland class from 1943 to 1969, compiled between 1950 and 1973.
Folder 4 contains an assessment roll of the Fruitland Rural School District from 1906.

This series is comprised of School District Information forms distributed by the Teachers Bureau to rural school teachers in 1923 and 1928 to be filled out and returned to the Bureau. The forms are questionnaires for the purpose of obtaining information about teachers’ living conditions in rural school districts. There is no record of similar forms being sent in other years.

Not every rural and assisted school is represented in this collection. Of the 684 rural and assisted schools in BC for the year ending June 1923, there are forms for 651. For the year ending June 1928, there are forms for 711 of the 728 schools.

The series consists of records created by the Technical and Vocational Education Branch between 1961 and 1979. The records include reports, briefs and surveys on technical and vocational schools, 1961-1964; technical and vocational agreements and reports, 1967-1974; a folder containing prospectus for vocational training opportunities, 1976 and a report on training programs from 1979.

This series contains a technical manual on how to prepare forest inventory reports. It includes species keys, charts, color codes for class numbers, grids, collecting area designations, interpolation of codes, collecting areas, filing instructions, and other related information.

This series contains translations of technical reports relating to reforestation, forest fires, silviculture, yield, growth, soil, and other scientific studies of forest biology.

The series consists of John Robson’s correspondence and telegrams created and received in 1888, the year Robson was Provincial Secretary, Minister of Mines, acting Premier, and MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) for New Westminster. Robson was acting Premier during Premier Alexander Edmund Batson Davie’s long illness and upon his death in 1889, Robson became Premier. The series documents the functions and activities of a senior government official who occupied many roles. Noteworthy topics include a report of small pox among Indigenous people in Squamish and correspondence from Robson to the mayor of Vancouver, David Oppenheimer, emphasizing federal jurisdiction over Indigenous health; correspondence regarding small pox outbreaks south of the river on the mainland and Dr. Richard Bentley’s appointment as health officer; correspondence to and from Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to the Premier of BC regarding the Alaska boundary issue; construction of a railway in the Kootenays; correspondence from Robson to Mayor Oppenheimer regarding the storage of dynamite within city limits, and the response from the Mayor promising its removal to a magazine near Dead Man’s Island.

The series is arranged chronologically from Jan 1888 to Dec 1888. The records consist of correspondence files and telegrams. They were preserved by the Office of the Premier and were found in museum storage in 1980. These records were transferred to the BC Archives without a schedule.

The series consists of copies of telegrams sent by the British Columbia Provincial Police in 1913 and from 1941 to 1945.