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Property Taxation Branch general office files

  • GR-3880
  • Series
  • 1911-1985

The series consists of general office files created by the Property Taxation Branch and its predecessor, the Surveyor of Taxes, between 1911 and 1985.

The files are arranged by subject, and are primarily regional, village and fire district files. They contain correspondence, boundary maps created for assessment or collection districts, memos regarding taxation policy, tax rate summaries and other records relating to provincial taxation issues. There are also some policy and correspondence files relating to railways, BC Hydro, BC Assessment Authority, federal lands, various applicable acts, mobile homes and home owner grants.

British Columbia. Property Taxation Branch

Property transfer tax court/arbitrator files

  • GR-3843
  • Series
  • 1990-2002

The series consists of property transfer tax court/arbitrator files created by the Taxation Branch between 1990 and 2002. Property transfer tax is a registration tax that was imposed in 1987 under the authority of the Property Purchase Tax Act (SCB 1987, c. 15). It requires all property purchasers to pay the tax when they register transfer at a land title office. The tax rate is based on the property's fair market value. Exemptions are available for some transactions.

If an exemption is denied by the Minister, taxpayers may appeal the decision either in the Supreme Court of British Columbia or by arbitration. The arbitrator's decision is binding and can only be appealed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia if the appeal is on a question of procedure or law. The appeal in Supreme Court is a new hearing that is not limited to the evidence and issues that were before the minister. Decisions of the Supreme Court may be appealed to the BC Court of Appeal.

The records in this series consist of case files containing correspondence, briefing notes, system screen prints and legal documents used to prepare recommendation to the Minister re appeals and to prepare documents for court cases.

The records have been classified as 45800-30 under the Property Taxation Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).

British Columbia. Property Taxation Branch

Pro-Rec programme records

  • GR-0459
  • Series
  • 1935-1953

This series contains records of the Department of Education, Physical Education and Recreation Branch. Correspondence inward and outward regarding the Pro-Rec program and similar programs elsewhere; invoices and vouchers; exercise sheets and schedules; copies of Pro-Rec publications; annual reports of instructors; circulars; and register and attendance record for recreation centres, 1939-1940.

Pro-Rec correspondence includes routine administrative correspondence of Pro-Rec (Provincial Recreation Centres).

British Columbia. Dept. of Education. Physical Education and Recreation Branch

Prosecution policy and procedure files

  • GR-3734
  • Series
  • 1976-1995

The series consists of reports, correspondence, memoranda and records relating to criminal cases and prosecutions. The files were created by the Criminal Justice Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General between 1976 and 1995. Records in this series provide evidence of the decision-making process of the Criminal Justice Branch with regards to policies surrounding prosecutions. Records in this series also relate to Stephen Owen’s “Discretion to Prosecute” inquiry and a review of the Crown Counsel office in Williams Lake in the early 1990s. The Inquiry arose out of a decision by the BC Prosecution Service to not prosecute a provincial Cabinet Minister for alleged criminal wrongdoing.

Records in this series are covered by ORCS 59000-00 of the Criminal Justice Operational Records Classification System (schedule 122360).

British Columbia. Criminal Justice Branch

Prospecting licenses for coal, petroleum, and natural gas

  • GR-0086
  • Series
  • 1883-1946

The series consists of 45 volumes of prospecting licence stubs for coal, petroleum, and natural gas created by the Dept. of Mines, and its predecessor the Bureau of Mines between 1883 and 1946. The licence stubs are arranged in numerical order and include coal prospecting licenses 1-404, coal and petroleum prospecting licenses 405-9500 and coal, petroleum and natural gas prospecting licenses 9501-13000.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Prospector's training camps correspondence, reports and course materials

  • GR-0202
  • Series
  • 1935-1943

The series consists of correspondence, reports and course materials re prospectors training camps set up jointly by the Dept. of Mines and the Dept. of Labour under a federal-provincial unemployment relief scheme.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines. Chief Mining Engineer

Prosperine Gold and Silver Mining Company fonds

  • PR-0450
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1879 [Microfilmed 1981]

The fonds consists of an assessment roll of the Prosperine Gold and Silver Mining Company.

Prosperine Gold and Silver Mining Company

Provincial Analyst And Assayer log books

  • GR-0196
  • Series
  • 1907-1924

The series consists of four volumes of log books of work done by the Provincial Analyst and Assayer between 1907 and 1924.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines. Provincial Analyst and Assayer

Provincial Archives correspondence

  • GR-1738
  • Series
  • ca. 1909-1979

This series contains central correspondence files, ca. 1909-1979 (a few files date from as early as 1899 and a few continue until 1986). The files contain correspondence inward to Provincial Archivists and archives staff from researchers, historical societies, dealers, etc., and their replies, and cover the range of subjects dealt with by the archives, including acquisitions, replying to reference questions and requests for copies, and publishing the British Columbia Historical Quarterly.

The files in Boxes 1-172 are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or by subject. Box 173 contains correspondence registers, Boxes 174-177 J.S. Matthews correspondence, Boxes 178-18, Centennial '71 Committee records, Box 181, Barkerville Restoration Advisory Committee records and Box 182, correspondence files transferred from the Legislative Library in 2007, arranged by correspondent or subject.

Provincial Archives of British Columbia

Provincial Archives correspondence and general office files

  • GR-3889
  • Series
  • 1910-1998

The series consists of general office files created by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia from 1910 to 1989, the British Columbia Records Management Branch from 1982 to 1989, their joint successor the BC Archives and Records Service, between 1989 and 1996 and the British Columbia Archives from 1996 to 1998 The files contain correspondence between the Provincial Archivist and other government bodies as well as correspondence with the public and executive referral correspondence. There are also internal office files regarding Archives and records management policies and acquisitions, staffing and other administrative and operational matters.

British Columbia Archives

Provincial Archives of British Columbia audio interviews, 1974-1992

  • GR-3377
  • Series
  • 1974-1992

The series consists of oral history interviews recorded by staff members and research associates of the Provincial Archives of B.C. Major subject areas include: political history (especially the Coalition era, the W.A.C. Bennett years, and David Barrett's NDP government); ethnic groups (including Chinese- and Japanese-Canadans); frontier and pioneer life; the forest industry; B.C. art and artists; the history of photography, filmmaking and radio broadcasting in the province; and the history of Victoria High School.

The interviewers include: Kathryn Bridge, Janet Cauthers, David Day, Patrick Dunae, Terry Eastwood, Merna Forster, Eric Gee, Frances Gundry, Maya Koizumi, W.J. Langlois, Charles Lillard, Theresa Low, Indiana Matters, David Mattison, Patriick May, David Mitchell, Constantine Nikitiuk, Andrew Petter, Derek Reimer, Allen W. Specht, Loree Stewart, and Reuben Ware.

Provincial Archives records

  • GR-0975
  • Series
  • 1856-1970

This series consists of Provincial Archives records. Records include 3 visitors books, 1918-1944; miscellaneous correspondence, reports, memoranda and accounts removed from central filing system; and drafts of pioneers' stories, 1954. Contains some records and accounts of the Provincial Library.

Provincial Archives of British Columbia

Provincial Archives sheet music collection

  • PR-2375
  • Collection
  • 1899-2018

Collection includes published sheet music, many with lyrics, collected by the Provincial Archives. The majority of the collection includes materials published prior to 1970.

If a piece was assigned a number within a publisher's series, this number has been included in brackets after the statement of responsibility for the piece. The file list also includes information on publisher's series and the statement of responsibility for that series, if applicable.

Provincial Arts and Industrial Institute fonds

  • PR-1726
  • Fonds
  • 1921

The fonds consists of the Institute's constitution, as well as correspondence of its secretary, Charles St. Barbe.

Provincial Arts and Industrial Institute of British Columbia

Provincial balance sheets, with explanatory notes

  • GR-3443
  • Series
  • 1956-1968

Series includes 14 bound volumes of provincial balance sheets, with additional explanatory notes, detailing the financial condition of the province as of March 31st of each year (1956-1968). Cover of each indicates they were for the office of the "Prime Minister" [Premier].

British Columbia. Office of the Premier

Provincial Board of Health glass negatives and slides

  • GR-2192
  • Series
  • 1922-1932; [ca. 1946]

The series consists of glass slides and negatives created by the Provincial Board of Health from 1922 to 1932 and ca. 1946. The photographs were created to document the infectious diseases of leprosy and smallpox, 1922 to 1932, and the slides in particular were used to provide information to health care professionals about infectious diseases. Another set of slides, made ca. 1946, were created to educate people about the steps Civil Defence units would take to provide medical service in the event of an atomic bomb.

British Columbia. Provincial Board of Health

Provincial Board of Horticulture clippings books

  • GR-0408
  • Series
  • 1912-1918

Three volumes of clippings books from the Department of Agriculture, Provincial Board of Horticulture.

British Columbia. Provincial Board of Horticulture

Provincial Board of Horticulture financial records

  • GR-1761
  • Series
  • 1897-1900, 1910

The series consists of financial records of the Provincial Board of Horticulture and includes monthly accounts of fees received, 1897-1900 and vouchers numbered 474-694 for salaries, expenses etc. for the year 1910.

British Columbia. Dept. of Agriculture

Provincial Board of Women's Institutes of British Columbia fonds

  • PR-1129
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1976 [Microfilmed 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982]

The fonds consists of minute books for 1955-1958 and 1971-1976; a log book recording the Superintendent's activities from 1946 to 1958; scrapbooks created between 1954 and 1957; a roll of honour list of life members of the Provincial Board of Women's Institutes of B.C, 1966; a ledger of life members from 1946-1960 and an essay on the Crippled Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

Provincial Board of Women's Institutes of British Columbia

Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board administrative records

  • GR-2674
  • Series
  • 1971-1979

In 1969 the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act replaced the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act in regulating private care facilities in the province. The next year the responsibility for the supervision and administration of the act was transferred from the Department of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement to the Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance, along with the chief inspector and his staff.

The Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board came into being ca. 1976 when the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board split into two boards; adult care and child care boards. Membership on the board included staff of the Department of Health, Department of Human Resources, Department of Education and community representatives.

These records are files of the staff of the Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board (earlier the Community Care Facilities Division). The files include correspondence of the executive officer of the board.

British Columbia. Ministry of Health (1976-2001)

Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board records

  • GR-2667
  • Series
  • 1968-1979

In 1969 the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act replaced the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act regulating private care facilities in the province. The following year responsibility for the supervision and administration of the Act was transferred from the Department of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement to the Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance, as was the Chief Inspector and his staff.

The Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board was instituted about 1976, when the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board was split into the Adult Care and the Child Care Boards. Members on the board included staff of the Department of Health, Department of Human Resources, Department of Education as well as community representatives.

These records consist of files created and received by the Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board (previously the Community Care Facilities Board). They include correspondence with universities and colleges in B.C. relating to the topic of early childhood education and day care supervision courses. They also contain general correspondence with school districts and health units.

British Columbia. Ministry of Health (1976-2001)

Provincial Council of Women of British Columbia fonds

  • PR-1124
  • Fonds
  • 1894 - 2005

The fonds consists of the records of the Provincial Council of Women of British Columbia, which document the interests and activities of one of Canada’s oldest advocacy groups and largest women’s organizations. Records date back to the first local groups formed by women in British Columbia in the 1890s.

The records document the council’s core function: its development of policy through research and the creation of submissions and resolutions for advocacy at all levels of government.

The records were created by elected officers, including the president, vice president, corresponding secretary, recording secretary, treasurer and immediate past president. Records were also created by members of committees, including standing study committees dedicated to researching subject areas. The materials reflect the organization’s activities under this committee structure. For example, at one point (ca. 1950 to 1960) committees included: Arts and Letters, Economics, Laws, Extension, Education, Health, Home Economics, Immigration/Migration, and the Thrift campaign.

The fonds consists of meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; issue files kept for reference; research reports; resolutions; briefs and submissions to government; annual reports; yearbooks; newsletters and journals; transactions of and reports from annual conferences; conference and other event programs; records related to the organization’s constitution and by-laws; ephemera such as leaflets and magazine and news clippings; scrapbooks; financial records; directories (regarding executives and members); photographs (primarily of participants at meetings and conferences); and published books, presumably held in an office library or personal libraries.

Due to the Provincial Council’s organization and structure, the fonds contains materials from associated organizations and “higher” (national and international) levels of the Council of Women. Records were created by or relate to affiliated groups, which include, for example: the Elizabeth Fry Society, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, the Women's Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, the Progressive Conservative Women’s Association of British Columbia, Native Indian Service Council, and Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.

Some of the records were originally printed or published by the National Council of Women of Canada in Ottawa. This includes the National Council’s yearbooks (containing its annual reporting), in a nearly-complete set from 1939 through 1994.

Since members of the Provincial Council were often members of both that provincial body and their local group, records in the fonds include, for example, those of local groups such as the White Rock & District Council of Women and the University Women’s Club of White Rock.

The records were donated to BC Archives between 1974 and 2016 in five separate accessions. There was no consistency in the original order in which they came to BC Archives and the council did not have a classification system for its records. As a result, BC Archives created an arrangement structure, assigning records to the following series:

MS-3294 - General office files
MS-3295 - Minutes
MS-3296 - Scrapbooks
MS-3297 - Annual reports and directories
MS-3298 - National Council yearbooks and newsletters
MS-3299 - Publications and ephemera

Provincial Council of Women of British Columbia

Provincial Education Media Centre photographs

  • GR-3424
  • Series
  • [ca. 1947-1978]

The series consists of photographic negatives produced by PEMC, and predecessor agencies including the Division of School of Radio Broadcasts, Division of Visual Education, Division of Audio-Visual Services and Audio-Visual Services Branch. These agencies were responsible for providing media services to public education institutions. The records document school sites and educational programs for elementary, secondary, college and university students in British Columbia.

Subjects often relate to specific classes and schools, and include: projects and performances; facilities; ceremonies; teachers, staff and government officials; students; and displays and exhibits for promotional purposes. Included are some copy photos depicting schools and classes from the 1880s to 1920s. Records' arrangement based on original PEMC numbers. These numbers appear to reflect a general arrangement by date and subject matter. Records include PEMC numbers: PEMC45001-PEMC52881, PEMC74/1/1-PEMC75/86/4, and PEMC7591-PEMC7780. The series also includes two item lists, arranged by photo number; the first created by the PEMC and the second by either the PEMC or the GIS and amended by the BC Archives. These lists are incomplete and are stored in container 000352-0014.

British Columbia. Provincial Educational Media Centre

Provincial Educational Media Centre : school broadcasts

  • GR-3378
  • Series
  • 1940-1980, predominant 1950-1980

The series consists of radio programs produced by the Division of School Radio Broadcasts and its successor bodies, between 1940 and 1980.
The BC School Broadcasts were a series of educational radio programs designed to supplement existing school curriculum and were broadcast over the CBC's Pacific network. The majority of school broadcasts were organized and administered at the provincial level between the Department of Education and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The series went on the air in March 1938 as a twice-weekly program that later expanded to daily broadcasts. The BC School Broadcasts continued until 1980.

The series includes 38 episodes from 1940-1949 (mainly on audio disc), with the balance of the programs dating from 1950-1980. The series also contains the Education Department's one-page description sheets for each of the broadcast programs on audio reels from T4022. These sheets are in eight volumes and are arranged chronologically.

British Columbia. Provincial Educational Media Centre

Provincial electoral maps

  • CM/CL2
  • Series
  • 1884-1989

The series includes those maps in the holdings of the British Columbia Archives that were specifically published to depict provincial electoral districts or were annotated with information about such districts, as well as selected maps which include electoral districts as a minor depicted feature. Researchers should note that the dates provided in the map list refers to the publication date of the base maps. In some cases the same map has been used as a base on which to draw the electoral boundaries for different years. The dates of the district boundaries (when such dates are specified on the maps or have been determined) are provided in the notes portion of the description column.

Provincial Archives of British Columbia

Provincial Forest information files

  • GR-4083
  • Series
  • 1932-1983

This series consists of Provincial Forest information files created by the Ministry of Forests and its predecessors from 1932-1983. The records consists of tables recording the various tenures, permits and other forms of land use in Provincial Forests. These include: special use permits, logging road right of ways, reserves, map notations, land withdrawals for public use (parks, reserves, archaeological sites), and land withdrawals for other uses (personal, agricultural, commercial, industrial use).

The series also includes a file on stumpage rates paid, including statistical and financial information related to timber harvesting.

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

Provincial Game Warden records

  • GR-0446
  • Series
  • 1905-1927

This collection is comprised of records relating to the development, implementation and administration of game management policies in British Columbia from 1905-1927. It includes correspondence, reports, vouchers and licences, as well as information regarding firearms regulation and prosecutions under game laws. Records were created by the Provincial Game Warden, Deputy Game Wardens and other related staff.

Researchers will find these records particularly useful for tracking the development and implementation of early provincial game management policies. General correspondence and reports from Deputy Game Wardens throughout the province contain information regarding the status of game in various areas over time. Difficulties in enforcing policies such as regulation of trophy hunters and the need for firearms licences are documented in these materials. Development of the game base as an economic resource through payment of licence fees, and international promotion of the province as a sportsperson's centre, were key components of A. Bryan Williams' approach to game management and the results of this can also be studied in these records. Conflicts between the provincial approach to the game resource and that taken by some Indigenous peoples can be studied in this collection. Additional subjects include fishing, fur farming, wildlife management and conflict between hunting with other forms and land and resource use. Many of the Deputy Game Wardens saw military service abroad during World War I and the records include some relevant correspondence.

See Table of Contents below for a general sense of the collection organization and finding aid for a detailed file/item list. The contents of some files are listed in a hardcopy index (i.e. an item list) available in the reference room. The series is arranged by record type into the following sub series and sub-sub series:

A. Indexes
B. Correspondence
B(1) Personal and semi-official correspondence of A. Bryan Williams, Provincial Game Warden
B(2) Correspondence out
B(3) Letterbooks of correspondence out
B(4) General correspondence inward and outward
B(5) Correspondence re: firearms licences
C. Deputy Game Wardens
C(1) Monthly reports Boxes
C(2) Correspondence Boxes
D. Returns re: firearms licences
E. Vouchers
F. Licences
G. Prosecutions
H. Miscellaneous

British Columbia. Provincial Game and Forest Warden

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