Duncan Supreme Court civil case files
- GR-2341
- Series
- 1938-1949
Civil case files with the exception of probate, divorce and adoption files which have been removed from this series and are filed separately.
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
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Duncan Supreme Court civil case files
Civil case files with the exception of probate, divorce and adoption files which have been removed from this series and are filed separately.
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
Correspondence handled by the Registrar of the County Court, the District Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Peace, and the Government Agent. These positions were held by Stephen H. Hoskins in 1938-1939 and by S.B. Hamilton 1939-1944.
British Columbia. County Court (Duncan)
Duncan Supreme Court probate/estate files
Probate/estate files.
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
Duncan Small Debts Court case files
Case files.
British Columbia. Small Debts Court (Duncan)
Farms south of Duncan near Glenora Creek
Part of Forest Service photographs
"Memoirs". Genealogical account of the Burkitt family and reminiscences of author's boyhood in London, England; account of author's apprenticeship at Salvation Army's Hadleigh training farm and of his emigration to Vancouver Island in 1911. Reminiscences of his career as farmer, dairyman, and horticulturist at Westholme (1911-1914), Saltspring Island (1919-1949), and Sooke (1950s). MS includes account of Burkitt's tenure as director of Saltspring and Gulf Islands Agricultural Association (1921-ca. 1938) and work with Canadian Corps of Commissionaires in Victoria (ca. 1960-1977). Also, reminiscences of author's military service (1914-1918) first as member of 67th Battalion (Western Scots) and later as pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Xerox photos of author and family also included.
Burkitt, William Adlard Theodore
Duncan Supreme Court letters probate
Letters probate (Form A). Volumes 6 and 10 are missing.
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
The item is an autograph book kept by Patrick Webb, while he was a trainee at Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School (Cowichan Station, B.C.) and at the Fintry Fairbridge Training Farm near Vernon B.C.
Articles on Cowichan district history
The file contains ten manuscript articles by Cowichan district pioneer and historian, John Evans, on the early history of the district. Topics include histories of North Cowichan, agriculture, pioneering, schools, the stone church; work "bees" and picnics; lists of pioneers; and a biography of Mrs. Nell Bell.
Second public school in Cowichan district
The item consists of brief notes titled "Second public school in Cowichan district". The notes were made by Annie Monk on her experiences as a teacher on Mayne Island in the fall of 1883, and at Quamichan from January 1884 to 1886.
Fairbridge Farm School Alumni Association papers
Newspaper cuttings concerning Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School and Old Fairbridgians, ca. 1934-1983; copies of provincial government statutes and regulations re: welfare institutions, etc., 1937-1948; correspondence to Miss Katie O'Neill (farm school cottage mother), 1936-1941, 1960. Also a photocopy of a certificate from the Fairbridge Society in Britain to the Fairbridge Alumni Association, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station. 1 leaf.
Fairbridge Alumni Association
Marriner, Edward, -1884. Cowichan Bay; Farmer.
Part of Edward Marriner fonds
Diaries (5 vols.): Aug 5, 1862 - Apr 3, 1863, and Apr 1 - Sep 12, 1867; Nov 24, 1867 - Apr 15, 1868, and Jun 28-29, 1868; 1862; 1883; and 1884. Entries describe Marriner's voyage from England around Cape Horn to Victoria in 1862 and his life, work, expenditures and receipts at his farms at Somenos and Cowichan Bay. Volume 2, 1867-1868, contains detailed reports of sermons heard at Anglican Church services he attended.
Marriner, Edward, d. 1884
Cowichan Indians mat making - basket cradle - paddle.
Part of Frederick Dally fonds
Records related to the Sterling Mine
Part of Sterling Mine fonds
The series consists of correspondence, legal documents, assay certificates, assessment notices and sketches regarding the Sterling silver mine located on the Koksilah River.
C.N.R. brdige over Koksilah River
The item is a b&w photograph of the Canadian National Railway wooden trestle over the Koksilah River in the Cowichan district.
Part of George Hargreaves fonds
The series consists of photocopies of three letters and a written "sketch" sent to friends and a brother in England. Hargreaves arrived in Victoria from England on July 2, 1862. The letter of Sept. 1, 1862 describes his first attempt to reach the Cariboo, from which he turned back, his work as a survey assistant in the Cowichan district, and his reaction to the articles written by Donald Fraser, the London TIMES correspondent. The second letter, Jan. 9, 1865, describes a trip to Cariboo in 1863 and the third item is a "sketch of a trip I made in the winter of 1875" describing a CPR exploratory survey in the Chilcotin. The final item, a letter of Feb 6, 1878, continues the account of his survey work in 1875, describing work in the Salmon (Kimsquit) River Valley at the head of Dean Channel, and in the Kemano River.
Inventory of safety deposit box holders
Inventory of contents of safety-deposit boxes under the Succession Duty Act.
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
Dockets from County Court, Judge's Criminal Court, and Supreme and County Court Chambers.
British Columbia. County Court (Duncan)
Dockets and correspondence from cases involved in the Rentals Administration under the Maximum Rentals Regulations and an extract from the Canada Gazette regarding the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
British Columbia. County Court (Duncan)
Duncan Police Court record book
Provincial Police Court record book showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting office, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".
British Columbia. Police Court (Duncan)
Duncan Supreme Court letters of administration
Letters of administration (Form C).
British Columbia. Supreme Court (Duncan)
Fairbridge Farm School administrative records
Administrative records of Fairbridge Farm School, a residential training centre for underprivileged British children located near Duncan, B.C. Includes correspondence, reports, newsletters and case files of Fairbridgians (student trainees), 1935-1949. Also includes operational records re: agricultural work on the farm site and records re: English immigrant families who leased farm cottages between 1950 and 1960.
The Fairbridge Farm School was part of a philanthropic scheme aimed at strengthening the British Empire and improving the condition of underprivileged British children. The scheme was conceived by Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (l885-l924), a South African-born reformer who was raised in southern Rhodesia. On first visiting England in 1902 Fairbridge was struck by the over-crowding and poverty in large industrial cities; he was also appalled by the condition of working-class children who lived in unhealthy, unstable homes in city slums. In 1909, having returned to England as a Rhodes scholar, he outlined his plans for saving these children to a group of fellow students at the Oxford University Colonial Club. Fairbridge's plan was to resettle selected British children in the overseas dominions. There, in a rural environment, children would live together in cottages within a village-like setting. Girls would receive training in domestic pursuits, while boys would be trained in manual arts and agriculture. Vocational training was to be supplemented with moral guidance and leavened with recreational pursuits in such a way that the young emigrants would be able to take their places as productive citizens in the host communities. Fairbridge's proposal led to the founding of the "Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies," afterwards incorporated as the Child Emigration Society [CES]. The society raised £2,000 and in 1913 the first "farm school" was opened in Western Australia. Other training farms (which were supported by grants from the British and Australian governments and by private donations) were later established in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.
Kingsley Fairbridge had hoped originally to open a farm school in Canada. Ten years after his death - when the CES was reconstituted as Fairbridge Farm Schools (Inc.) - his wish was realized. Encouraged by Canadian enthusiasts, an appeal was launched to help bring the farm school concept to the Dominion. The appeal was led by the Prince of Wales and sufficient funds were raised to purchase a 1,100 acre site at Cowichan Station, near Duncan, on Vancouver Island. The new facility - officially named The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School - opened in 1935. The first principal of the farm school was Major F. Trew who held the position from April 1935 to May 1936. Trew's successor was Colonel H.T. Logan, a contemporary of Kingsley Fairbridge at Oxford and a former professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia. Logan resigned in June 1945 to join the staff of the Fairbridge Society headquarters in London. He was succeeded as principal of the Prince of Wales farm school by Mr. W.J. Garnett (July 1945 - January 1949) and Major A.H. Plows (February 1949 - January 1951.) The Fairbridge Farm School consisted of fourteen cottages, each capable of accommodating a dozen children and a resident "cottage mother". Other buildings included the principal's residence, staff quarters, a chapel, a hospital, and a school. These facilities - which were adjacent to the school's large dairy farm - were maintained with the help of subscriptions from England and a grant from the British Columbia government. Funds were also raised throughout the province and in 1938 Captain J.C. Dun-Waters donated his 2,000 acre orchard near Vernon to the Fairbridge Society. Named the Fintry Fairbridge Training Farm, the Okanagan property was run in conjunction with the main centre on Vancouver Island.
Over three hundred children passed through Fairbridge Farm School during its first ten years of operation. But after the Second World War a number of problems arose which placed the future of the school in doubt. Among these was the unfavourable dollar/sterling exchange rate, the post-war monetary controls which restricted funds from Britain, and the provincial government's decision to discontinue its operating grant. The whole concept of institutionalized child care was also being questioned in many quarters and after the passing of the 1948 Child Welfare Act in Britain [which made local authorities responsible for child care] there was no longer a need for juvenile resettlement on a large scale. Accordingly, the Fairbridge Society reluctantly decided to wind up its operations in British Columbia. The Fintry estate was sold and in the early 1950s the last of the Fairbridge "trainees" left the Prince of Wales Farm School. For the next ten years the Cowichan Station site was managed on behalf of the Fairbridge Society by the Canada Colonization Association. A subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the association leased the farm school cottages to newly-arrived English immigrant families. The arrangement was eventually discontinued and in 1975 the farm school was sold to a Victoria real estate firm. The property is now the site of a residential housing development.
Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School
Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School. Cowichan Station.
Documents pertaining to Fairbridge Farm School, a residential and educational community for underprivileged British children, located near Duncan. Includes visitors books (1935-1953) and roll book of Fairbridge school staff (1935-1950). Also includes scrapbook and diary of school nurse, Margaret (nee King) Minchen (1940-1942). Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198706-2.
Presented by the Fairbridge Alumni Association, 1985.
Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School