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This series consists of the files of the Coordinator of Community Resource Boards, Community Programmes Division. Most files are subject files. Box 14, File 9 to Box 16 consist of correspondence, budgets, statistics and minutes relating to community resource boards. Box 17 consists of confidential files, Maeve Hancey and Box 18 consists of one scrapbook.

This series consists of the records of the commission of Inquiry on Property Assessment, 1975-1976, including: exhibits, transcripts of evidence, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, working papers and statistics. Contains photocopies of files on assessment and taxation created by the Select Standing Committee on Municipal Affairs and Housing of the British Columbia Legislature.

This series consists of human resources administrative files of the Office of General Administration (Dept. of Human Resources and predecessor bodies) from 1960-1975 and are related to locations throughout the province.

This series consists of selected correspondence files from the several branches of the Department of Lands and works, and its successor the Department of Lands: Lands, Surveys, Water Rights, and Forests. Records include requests for information concerning the availability of land in British Columbia, Water Rights Branch correspondence concerning various power projects and irrigation, forest fire reports, and files on Forest Branch launches. Note: "WRB" refers to Water Rights Branch.

This series consists of records of the District Horticulturist, Penticton for the years 1952-1973. Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, and data collected during 1964 orchard survey. Files for the years 1953, 1955 and 1971 are missing. The correspondence, reports and memoranda include correspondence with central office in Victoria, general correspondence filed alphabetically, and monthly reports. Box 4 contains data collected during a survey of orchards in 1964 in Penticton, Kaleden and Okanagan Falls.

This series consists of Department of Health and Hospital Insurance executive records including files of the Minister of Health pertaining to hospital programs and hospital insurance service from 1972-1975. Most files are related to a particular hospital in BC.

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

The series consists of correspondence pertaining to reciprocal agreements with other provinces respecting tuberculosis patients; statements of policy and procedure respecting various health facilities; correspondence and memos regarding accounts for various public inquiries.

This series consists of transcripts of correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company relating to the conveyance, settlement, and reconveyance of Vancouver Island. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Volumes:
Volume 1: 1822-1851
Volume 2: 1852-1856.
Volume 3: 1856-1858
Volume 4: 1858-1860
Volume 5: 1860-1863
Volume 6: 1863-1880

This series consists of 14 volumes of transcripts of despatches and reports of foreign missions in the United States of America relating to settlement in the Pacific northwest and Hudson's Bay Company claims to Oregon territory. (P.R.O., F.O.5).

This series consists of records of the Commission on Agriculture from 1912-1914, including, proceedings, record books, transcripts of evidence, tabulated evidence, statistical data, and returns by the assessors of the Province, showing persons assessed as owners of real property amounting to 5,000 acres or more.

This series consists of declarations in support of applications for land formerly within the limits reserved for purposes of the "Sumas Dyking Act, 1878", for the years 1887-1888. Each declaration is related to one individual. Declarations would have been submitted as part of the process of applying to pre-empt land in the Sumas area.

This series consists of records of the Provincial Gaol at Nanaimo mostly between 1911 and 1914. Volumes include a list of prisoners, 1893-1911, charge and sentence book, 1911-1914, prisoners' sentence book, prisoners' description book, prisoners' employment book, prisoners' effects book, list of provisions and stores, Gaoler's testimonials at Nanaimo Gaol, 1911-1914 and at the Saanich Prison Farm 1914-1917, punishment book, prisoners' keep account book, gaoler's diary 1911, food account books, an indexed letterpress book of correspondence outward from the Warden J. Munro and a daily minute book of admissions, discharges, calls, visitors, church services, etc.

This series consists of records of the New Westminster Goal, including prisoner description books, monthly lists of prisoners, and prisoners' effects books, 1875-1917.

Description books are a record and description list of all prisoners received into New Westminster Gaol, showing date, name, occupation, age, height, hair, eyes, complexion, religion, nationality, proportions, weight, peculiar marks, read and write, married or single, temperate or intemperate, offence, sentence number of convictions and remarks.

Return of Prisoners confined in New Westminster Gaol are lists arranged by month showing prisoner number and name, offence or charge, date of trial, when received in gaol, where and by whom tried, sentence, religion, nationality, whether can read or write, date of discharge, conduct, occupation in gaol, and remarks.

Prisoners' effects books show date, name, property, officer, remarks, charge and sentence.

Records are arranged chronologically by type of record.

This series consists of a variety of records related to the administration of the Carmanah Lighthouse from 1891-1965. The series includes 16 volumes of Lightkeeper's diaries; 12 volumes of Lightkeeper's journals; 9 volumes of Diaries of the engineer; 26 volumes of Engine room diaries; 6 volumes of Engine room detailed reports; 4 volumes of Fog signal operating reports; 9 volumes of Quarterly returns of stores; a Notebook containing weather statistics; and a published work on signals by the Great Britain Board of Trade "The international code of signals for the use of all nations" published in London by Spottiswoode and Company Ltd., 1911. Records are arranged chronologically by type of record.

The following government ministries were responsible for the Lighthouse Service during the period that the records were created: Dept. of Marine and Fisheries (1891-1930), Dept. of Marine (1930-1936) and Dept. of Transport (1936-1965).

This series consists of records documenting the admission and discharge of prisoners, their daily activities and medical needs; account books for the running of the gaol; time books for the guards and gaolers; and a letterpress book of correspondence outward from the warden, J. Munro. Volumes 1-5 are statements showing the Employment of Prisoners in Saanich Prison Farm. This is a daily record which shows the date, number and name of prisoner, all are male, all do hard labour, most are under sentence and a few are under capital sentence.

Promotional. Presentation advocating the advanced light rapid transit system (ALRT) as the solution for Vancouver's transportation needs; includes footage of Vancouver traffic, models and artistic conceptions of proposed ARLT.

The file consists of eight audio reels which contain a recording of a 1972 public hearing conducted by the Minister of Municipal Affairs (Hon. Dan Campbell), regarding an application for a land use contract for the proposed Wildwood Estates on Gabriola Island. The application was made by Gabriola Wildwood Estates Ltd. and was recorded on June 24 and July 8, 21 and 22, 1972.

This series includes recordings of public hearings related to an application for land use contract, Gabriola Wildwood Estates Ltd. in 1972.

Fonds consists of the records of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association. Fonds consists of 8 series of records including minutes of the Provincial Council (1938-2002), scrapbook (1920-1996), photo of Canadian Federation Registered Music Teachers National Convention, Empress Hotel, Victoria [ca. 1942], miscellaneous files [ca. 1974-1995], financial statements (1977-1996), home fund for retired music teachers of British Columbia (1934-1962), ledger (1939-1992), proclamation for Canada Music Week (1992-1995). Records include both textual records and photograph intermingled together. Fonds also includes records accumulated while the organization was known as the Vancouver Music Teachers' Association, British Columbia Music Teachers' Federation, and British Columbia Music Teachers Association.

Minutes of the Provincial Council from 1985 to 2002 were donated in 2023.

This series contains administrative and subject files relating to natural resource development and environmental policies. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefs, etc. The records were created by the Environment and Land Use Committee Secretariat, the administrative and support staff assigned to the Committee. The records were created from 1972-1980 and relate to all aspects of business conducted by the Committee, including land use decisions across the province.

This series consists of the records of the Corporation of the City of Sandon from 1898 to 1953. Records include letters, minute books, correspondence, memoranda, by-laws, voters lists, reports, accounting material, and other miscellaneous records.

The series consists of records from the Nelson Gaol, 1989-1961. Volume one includes warrants of commitment to Nelson Gaol, 1898-1899; volume 2 includes correspondence outward from warden, 1898-1905; and volume 3 includes the warden's daily record book, 1956-1961.

This series consists of a memorandum to John Hosie, Provincial Archivist, enclosing a report of the Auditor of Revenue to the Comptroller General concerning an investigation of the Archives, dated 1931.

The series consists of correspondence created by the Provincial Library between 1942 and 1945 and contains requests for information necessary to military intelligence.

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.

The series consists of two volumes of records created by the Provincial Registrar between 1900 and 1942. The volumes contain record of commissions issued under the provisions of the Oaths Act to notaries public, coroners, justices of the peace, stipendiary and police magistrates, Queen's Counsels, and ministers of the crown.

The series consists of records created by the Commission of Inquiry into Redefinition of Electoral Districts (1965), between 1965 and 1966. The records include transcripts of proceedings, exhibits, correspondence, general files and a report. The series also includes a map of the Peace River Reservoir showing the water level at 2200 ft.