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This series contains records of game biologists of the Game Management Division and the Wildlife Management Division, consisting of annual reports, monthly reports of the Chief Game Biologist and various regional game biologists, and special reports. The latter are a memoranda entitled "Required expansion of the Game Management Division, 1959-1969" and a copy of a report submitted by the division's Director, Ten Year Plan 1963-1973.

Series consists of one Provincial Police Court record book showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".

This series contains operational records of the Kamloops Forest Region and its predecessor, the Kamloops Forest District from 1951-1983. The Kamloops Forest Region has included a variety of different Ranger Districts or smaller Forest Districts over time. The records in this series relate to several, including the Chase, Barriere, Clearwater and Kamloops Ranger Districts. Note that the names and boundaries of districts and regions varied over the years.

The records are arranged according to the original filing number used at the Kamloops office. Records relate to grazing range management, timber management, and other administrative records of the office. This includes grazing permits; timber sale and harvesting licences; tree farm licences; firewood permits; road permits; plantations; reforestation; scaling and royalty records; and annual work charts.

This series also includes the accounts of the Kamloops Forest District, a subdivision of the Kamloops Forest Region, successor to Ranger Districts 3 (Barriere), 4 (Kamloops), 16 (Ashcroft) and 22 (Kamloops North) of the former Kamloops Forest District, and a guide to the Kamloops Regional 0 series.

The ministries responsible for Forest and Range Districts, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Department of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
Department of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
Department of Forests (1975-1976)
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

The fonds consists of biographical material, correspondence, photographs and unpublished memoirs.

The series consists of original civil orders and judgements created between 1951 and 2000 by the Merritt Supreme Court and County Court registries. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgements are the final orders issued in a case. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, probates, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

Records are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Orders and judgements are interfiled. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

Series consists of original civil orders and judgements created by the Penticton Supreme Court registry from March 1951 to December 1987 and April 1990 to June 1992. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgements are the final orders issued in a case. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, probates, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

Orders and judgements are interfiled. Records up to December 1987 are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Initially, folio numbers were assigned to each page of a record. Beginning July 1981, each record was assigned only one folio number. Records from 1990-1992 are arranged chronologically by entered date. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of miscellaneous documents gathered together by the Dept. of Education library:
(1) Report, Frontier College - Promoting Citizenship Among Migratory Workers in British Columbia, 1951 (includes photographs)
(2) Receipts, by schools, for B.C. Centennial Commemorative Project, 1958
(3) Centennial Commission Provincial Survey Federal - Provincial Youth Travel Program, 1966
(4) "The History Makers," seventeen films presented to the Hon Leslie Peterson, Minister of Education by the National Film Board of Canada, 1966
(5) Malaspina College - Opening and notes re. background of name, 1969
(6) Speech materials for minister, 1954-1968.

The series consists of general office files created by the Dept. of the Provincial Secretary between 1951 and 1962 with their card indexes.

This series consists of records of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding Mrs. Donald Ritchie and the Loss of Her Unborn Child, 1951. Commission records include Provincial Secretary files P-5 which contain correspondence, vouchers, copy of Letters Patent appointing the commissioner, transcript of evidence presented at proceedings (original and copy) and exhibits (list of exhibits in proceedings, pp. ii-iii). Also included is the commissioner's six page typewritten unpublished report which concluded that Mrs. Ritchie was not an emergency case and the loss of her baby was not caused by the failure to admit her to hospital, although this was an appropriate case for hospitalization.

This series contains a circular entitled "Departmental Circular for Inspectors, Directors, and other Officials."

This series contains a study on the organization and administrative systems of the Forest Service together with recommendations for departmental reorganization done by Stevenson and Kellogg Ltd., Management Engineers for the Ministry of Lands and Forests, presented to E.T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests, September 26, 1951. These recommendations were partially implemented by the Departmental reorganization of June 10, 1952.

Distinguished Visitors Books, 1951-1986, signed by the British Royal family, other royalty, Field-Marshall Montgomery of Alamein, Heads of State, Ambassadors, etc. Vol. 1, Aug. 1951 - Sept. 1969; Vol. 2, Oct. 1969 - July 1978; Vol. 3, Aug. 1978 - March 1986. Vol. 4 contains signatures of those admitted to the Order of the Dogwood, Nov. 1966 - Oct. 1980, with signatures including the British Royal Family, Major-General George Pearkes, Nancy Greene, and Terry Fox.

Photographs depict visits to Victoria and Vancouver by Prince Philip and Prince Andrew as part of a Royal tour which included the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, AB. Photos include sites visited such as the Vancouver Rowing Club, downtown Victoria and a presentation of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards held in the Legislative Assembly chamber. Also depicted are: Minister, Provincial Secretary and Travel Industry, Grace McCarthy; Mike Young (Mayor of Victoria); Premier W.R. (Bill) Bennett, and Lieutenant Governor Henry Pybus Bell-Irving.

This series contains weekly Summary of Activities from Labour Relations Board (British Columbia), 1951-1954, and Department of Labour, Labour Relations Branch, 1954-1974. The summaries include notices of appointment of and reports from conciliation officers and boards; certifications granted; and some court decisions. After 1954, it began to publish occasional notices regarding other Labour Department activities, but it remained essentially a Labour Relations Board publications. It ceased publication when the LRB was established as a separate entity from the Department.

Missing issues:
Series 1 Vol. 1: entire
Series 1 Vol. 2: entire (N.B. Vol's 2 and 3 appear in GR 1070, Box 1, Files 27 197-30)
Series 1 Vol. 3: numbers 1-30
Series 1 Vol. 4: number 5 (week ending 2 Feb 1952)
Series 1 Vol. 4: number 12 (week ending 22 Mar 1952)
Series 1 Vol. 4: number 14 (week ending 29 Mar 1952)
Series 1 Vol. 4: number 19 (week ending 3 May 1952)
Series 1 Vol. 4: numbers 29, 30, 31 (Jul 1952)
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 16 (week ending 18 April 1953)
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 20 (week ending 16 May 1953)
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 33 (week ending 18 Aug 1953
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 38 (week ending 19 Sept 1953)
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 45 (week ending 10 Nov 1953)
Series 1 Vol. 5: number 46 (week ending 17 Nov 1953)
Series 1 Vol. 6: number 13 (This may be an error in the number sequence rather than a missing issue)
Series 2 Vol. 11: number 31 (week ending 31 Jul 1964)
Series 2 Vol. 11: number 34 (week ending 21 Aug 1964)
Series 2 Vol. 17: number 3 (week ending 16 Jan 1970)
Series 2 Vol. 17: number 10 (week ending 6 Mar 1970)

The fonds consists of a certificate of incorporation, bylaws, and minute books of the Deer Park Women's Institute.

The fonds consists of Otto Nordling's correspondence from Martha Louise Black, an address book, a history of St. Mary's Hospital (Dawson, Yukon) and pamphlets and clippings about the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway and pensions.

This series consists of annual reports submitted by the holders of tree farm licences. Each tree farm licence requires the licensee to submit an annual report. The licensee must report on:

1. their performance over the previous calendar year in relation to its management of the licence area and their obligations under the licence,
2. their success in meeting their management objectives, including all employment and economic activities,
3. the processing or other use or disposition of the timber harvested under the licence, and,
4. their goals and major initiatives for the next calendar year.

The series is arranged annually by the tree farm licence number. The reports have been placed in file folders which, in some cases, also contain copies of correspondence between ministry staff, and/or the Licensee and references to the applicable “0” lands file. Some of the reports contain attached photographs to provide additional information.

The following ministries and departments were responsible for managing this function:

1951-1962 Dept. of Lands and Forests
1962-1975 Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources
1975-1976 Dept. of Forests (1975-1976)
1976-1986 Ministry of Forests
1986-1988 Ministry of Forests and Lands
1988-1999 Ministry of Forests

The series has been classified as 19700-60 in the Forests Operational Classification System (ORCS).

This series consists of record of appeals heard by the Executive Council.

Oath of Allegiance and Oaths of Office, Instructions, and Commission.

This series contains proceedings of appeals brought before cabinet regarding the Forest Act, Motor Carrier Act, Public Utilities Commission Act, and Pollution Control Act. Appellants include Celgar Development Company, Empire Mills Ltd., CN Transportation, Westcoast Transmission, British Columbia Forests Products, Port Alberni Warehousing, and the Corporation of the District of Saanich.

The series consists of Prince George Magistrate's record books created between May 1952 and November 1956.

The series consists of motion picture film prints accumulated by L.J. (Lawrie) Wallace during his tenure as Deputy Provincial Secretary (1959-1977). Wallace was responsible for organizing British Columbia's celebrations in to mark the 1958, 1966, and 1971 centennials, as well as the B.C. component of the 1967 Canadian cetennial celebrations. Most of the these film document the celebrations of these various centennials and associated special events. The series includes several films produced by or for the Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the National Film Board of Canada, as well as individual fitles by various other production companies. Non-centennial-related titles include the travelogues "Beautiful British Columbia" (BC Government Travel Bureau, 1952), "Highway North" (Royalite Oil Company, 1957?), and "A Day of Fun in the Historical Town of Barkerville" (Werner Aellen for the Barkerville Restoration Advisory Committee, ca. 1963).

The fonds consists of William Bilsland's research notes, and a draft on the history of Atlin. Also included in this file is an unpublished, typescript draft (2 copies) of an earlier (1952) history of Revelstoke prepared by the author for publication by the Department of Education in the British Columbia Heritage Series and a copy of a his thesis called "A history of Revelstoke and the Big Bend." 1955.

The collection consists of radio advertisements, including one for the 1952 B.C. elections, from CHUB radio.

This series consists of grants of letters probate (Form A) from the Creston Supreme Court, from 1952-1984. Forms from 1982-1984 include a praecipe and copy of will. Letters are organized by file number.

Cause book (indexed).

File consists of approximately 1 cm of textual records comprised of speeches, interviews, notes, memoranda, and a copy of reasons for judgement, created between 1952 and 1970, in relation to W.K. Kiernan's various Ministerial positions in the government of British Columbia. A list is provided below:

Radio 9 CJVI interview transcript regarding the Minister's tour of Japan - 1961.
Address to the Social Credit Party - 1952.
Vancouver Court of Appeal Reasons for Judgement, X245/63 - June 12, 1963
Address to the B.C. Wildlife Federation 12th Annual Convention - 1968
Address to the Third Session of the Twenty-third Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia - 1969
Notes for "Course into Future" - 1969
Address to the B.C. Wildlife Federation 13th Annual Convention - 1969
Address to the British Columbia Hotels Association - 1970

This series contains transcripts of hearings before the Minister of Lands and Forests and the Cabinet regarding the application of Celgar Ltd. for a Forest Management Licence (1952) in the Arrow Lakes.

Provincial Police Court record books from Vernon City showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".

Probate indexes.

Vancouver probate indexes. Index for 1974-1976 (B11787-B11788) is also found on reel B09710 in one single alphabetical sequence.