Criminal case files including Speedy Trials. The files from 1919-1923 are from the Fort George or South Fort George registry; from 1925-1949 they are marked Prince George registry.
Correspondence (inward and outward) with both Supreme and County Courts at Fort George. This numbered series includes many inquiries regarding naturalization, time and location of court sittings, 1916 and 1917 lists of all civil and criminal actions, requests for various statistics, information on wartime regulations, etc. Box 1 contains an index to the correspondence by sender giving file number and subject.
The series consists of subject files of the Family Services Division including correspondence and reports on many programs, such as Mother's Allowances, and institutions, such as the Vancouver Preventorium. The files also include correspondence of the Director of Welfare.
The Family Services Division was established within the Social Assistance Branch of the Department of the Provincial Secretary in 1944 to provide service in cases in which no financial aid was required.
British Columbia. Dept. of Health and Welfare. Social Welfare Branch
Contains permits and authorizations to make surveys necessary for the planning and construction of water works pursuant to the Water Act, 1909 and the Water Act, 1914. Arranged numerically. Includes permit number, name of applicant, description of proposed works, fees, and file references. vol. 1, no. 1-250, 1912-1913; vol. 2, no. 251-500, 1913-1914; vol. 3, no. 501-1000, 1914-1930; vol. 4, no. 1001-1075, 1930-1955.
Records related to land disputes arising from conflicting claims and applications for the purchase of unsurveyed lands and pastoral lands in the vicinity of Port Simpson, Coast Land District. Includes correspondence, applications, sketches, and a copy of a report of the Executive Council dated 13 May 1891.
Series contains correspondence files relating to water licences and irrigation in the vicinities of Rock Creek and Greenwood, and the southern Okanagan valley.
Records of the Mining Recorder, Telegraph Creek, relating to mineral claims and placer filings. Includes receipts of notice of assessment work, partnership applications, applications for placer claims, placer assignments, powers of attorney, mineral claim agreements, and mining syndicate agreements.
British Columbia. Mining Recorder (Telegraph Creek)
Series contains copies of correspondence between the British Columbia Minister of Public Works and the Dominion Deputy Minister of the Interior relating to the Banff-Windermere road and to jurisdiction within Dominion parks.
This series contains an Index of gazette notices of intention to lease Crown Lands. Gazette notices, arranged chronologically, are pasted onto pages with 0 series file number noted, 23 February 1967 to 22 August 1968. It includes an alphabetical index.
This series contains 3 volumes of coal production ledgers. The information records the returns of coal production and is arranged by colliery. The records consist of tables of statistics showing gross tonnage, tonnage shipped, numbers of employees, fatalities, wages, and total sales. Also included are tables with provincial and mining district totals and tables for each producing colliery.
British Columbia. Dept. of Mines. Inspection Branch
This series contains a record of the Board of Investigation list of streams upon which water records have been issued in the Kamloops Water District by E.T.W. Pearse, Water Commissioner, Kamloops, B.C., May 5th, 1911. The series includes an index to water rights transfers in Kamloops, no date.
Wills book (indexed) containing copies of wills probated in New Westminster, 1894- ca. 1900. These are convenience copies; the original probated wills were sent to the Victoria Court Registry and are found in GR-1052.
The series consists of cause books for bankruptcies tried in the Victoria Supreme Court between 1920 and 1981. Entries are arranged chronologically by the date the case commenced, and provide a list of proceedings in the case. Entries also provide the date of the final order. Orders are found in GR-2876, and an index to the cause books can be found in GR-3743
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.)
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".
Provincial Police daily diary (1934-1935) and Provincial Police Court record book from Coquitlam (1938-1944) showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of gaol or lockup, order or convictions, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".
Cash book (indexed) for County Court of Yale holden at Midway and at Grand Forks, many under the Mining Jurisdiction. One case from Osoyoos and one case from Vernon were adjourned to Midway. The volume was maintained by District Registrar, William G. McMynn and includes a diary of his duties from November 1896 to May 1898.
