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The item is a 38 page autobiography by Arthur G. Builder titled "Born 1902 - like Johnny Walker, still going strong". Mr. Builder emigrated from England to Canada in 1923, worked at various jobs in the Kootenays, Vancouver and Port Coquitlam and the Okanagan, and in Nova Scotia. He served in the Canadian army in England during World War II and spent much of his time in England until 1973 when he returned first to the Okanagan and then to Victoria.

The item is a large, illustrated volume titled "British Columbia: of their doings there by one of them" by Frederick D. Williams. The volume contains a manuscript account of a journey from London, England to Vancouver B.C. and back between August 28 and October 6, 1897. Williams landed in New York and travelled by train through Chicago and Spokane to Nelson where he and his party took the Kootenay Lake steamer to Kaslo and the train to Sandon and then on up to Nakusp and Revelstoke, Kamloops and Vancouver.

The volume has been illustrated by glued in photographs, magazine prints, maps, menus, passenger lists and programs.

Draft of general instructions to the Chief of party on British Columbia Southern Railway Company explorations and surveys, issued by the Chief Timber Ranger. Typescript with amendments handwritten in red ink.

Donated to BC Forest Service Museum in 1953 by A.J. Ross, BCFS Ranger at Creston; received by Provincial Archives of British COlumbia [now B.C. Archives] from Project 87 in 1982.

The Nestegg Mining Company was incorporated by Patrick Aloysius O'Farrell, Archibald Blair Erskine and George Alan Kirk on Jan. 31, 1896, to purchase and work the Nestegg Mineral Claim in the Trail Creek Mining Division of the West Kootenay District. In June P.A. O'Farrell bought a half interest in the adjacent Firefly Mineral Claim on behalf of the company. On Dec. 2, 1896, the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company was incorporated by P.A. O'Farrell, Charles Hayward, Arthur John Weaver and C.A. Holland to purchase and work the Nestegg and Firefly Mineral Claims. Early the next year the former company resolved to call in all its shares and sell about a quarter of them to pay off its debts. The remaining shares were to be exchanged for an equal number of shares of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company to be distributed to shareholders in proportion to the stock of the older company they had surrendered. The mining operations were never profitable, and the company found itself in legal and financial troubles almost from the beginning. After becoming inactive in about 1899, the company made one last attempt to work the Nestegg claim in 1907 when they shipped a few tons of ore, but this too proved unprofitable.

The series consists of the business records of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company. The records date between 1896-1900 and are comprised of correspondence (inward and outward), minutes, financial records, share and debenture certificates, bills, and legal documents.

The series consists of photographs documenting the career and family life of Allan DeWolf, ca. 1900 to 1960. His photographs are intermingled (combined in albums) with family photographs of several generations of the DeWolf family. There are also family photographs (Fink family) which relate to Allan DeWolf's wife, Ethel Minnie Fink. The series also consists of photographs which relate to Allan DeWolf's daughter, Gladys (DeWolf) Malach. These include photographs of Gladys DeWolf as a child and with colleagues at RCAF Station Fingal, (Ontario) in 1943-1945, when she served with the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division (RCAF WD).

The series includes loose prints, prints mounted in albums, negatives, and includes panoramic photos. Some of the photographs of logging engineering (log flumes on trestles, etc.) appear to have been taken by a professional photographer. Some photographers identified are: R.J. Binning of Cranbrook, B.C. and W.F. Montgomery of Chase, B.C, in the 1920s. Many of the photographs of flume construction and surveying are not accompanied by information on locations. Subjects include: Northwestern Military Academy, the Flathead Trading Company (Flathead Valley); construction and operation of the Moyie River flume; B.C. Spruce Mills Ltd. operations at Lumberton, B.C.; work on a movie set for a Louis B. Mayer production on the Bull River in 1922; portable sawmills and logging machinery; the Alexander Creek flume; the Chipka Creek flume; the Western Exploration Company and construction of the Mammoth Mine concentrator at Silverton, B. C.; Nicola Valley Sawmills and Merritt Logging Company; trucking, unloading and scaling of logs; and family travels to California in the 1930s. Locations reflected in the photographs include: the University of Minnesota, ca. 1908-1910; Aroland, (Ontario); and B.C. locations including Cranbrook, the Crow's Nest Pass area, Moyie Lake, Kootenay Lake, Premier Lake, Yahk, Waldo, Allison Creek, Tulameen, and Merritt.

The series also includes memorabilia and other textual material including: DeWolf's naturalization certificate, letters of condolence on the death of Allan DeWolf, brochures, postcards, souvenirs and news clippings.

Case files and related correspondence.

Case files from appeals: 11/20 Rosa Boutry; 16/20 Donald M. Stuart; 40/25 George Laforme; 121/31 Frederick Barrett; 26/32 Stefen Dmuchowski; 14/47 Isacco Colussi; 5/47 Steve Harnjoik (Hornyk).

Case files from appeals of criminal convictions: 10/23 Hiskias Heinanen; 16/23 Elsie Simmons and Harry Greenwood: 3/31 Phillip Moase.

Cause book.

The series consists of one indexed cause book on microfilm (1901-1959) and one unindexed volume (1959-1977). The volume running from 1959 to 1977 has a sheet of paper in the front listing divorces found in the ledger. All other cases are unindexed.

Certificate of incorporation, minute books.

Kootenay land district. Certificates of Improvement, numbers 1-95, with duplicate numbers 17, 36, 75, 77-79, at the front, for the West Kootenay District showing statement of, and witnesses to, the required improvements being completed, prior to the issuance of a Crown Grant. Information includes the names of the occupier and the witnesses, the number of the pre-emption claim, legal description and geographical location of the land, and the dates of the pre-emption claim and the completion of Improvements. An alphabetical index is included in this volume.

The series consists of records created by the Revelstoke Gold Commissioner between 1891 and 1930. It includes certificates of work and records of mineral claims and transfers.

Business records of Cowan and Penrose Land Agents (Kamloops), including office diaries, correspondence, accounts, and legal documents re property they handled arranged alphabetically under the names of the English investors. Papers of C.P. Cunliffe re his investments in Colonel James Baker's Cranbrook estate and the Cariboo Trading Company, 1913-1931. Papers of C.G. Cowan re acquisition of the Onward Ranch and the 150 Mile Ranch from the Cariboo Trading Company.

This series consists of a variety of records related to timber tenures predominantly created from 1975-1998 by the Columbia Forest District, a division of the Nelson Forest Region. The series also includes records from the Revelstoke Forest District, Golden Forest District, Kootenay Lake Forest District, and Mica Creek Forest Station. All files were managed as part of the Columbia Forest District when the files were closed.

The series includes the following types of timber tenures: forest licences, timber licences, timber sale licences, timber sale harvesting licences, cash timber sale licences, licences to cut, timber marks, timber berths, woodlot licences, special use permits and road permits. There are also records related to tree farm licences (TFL) 23, 55 and 56. The majority of files relate to cutting permits. Licensees were required to apply for a forest licence or similar tenure and cutting permits in order to harvest timber. Records regard the issuance, evaluation, administration, monitoring, planning, replacement, cancellation, deletion and extension of these timber tenures.

The records include legal documents, operations information, correspondence, forms, reports, maps, photos, licences, permits, permit amendment or renewal documentation, applications, logging plans, reports, silviculture prescriptions, major licensee silviculture audits, stumpage adjustment, salvage information, and financial records.

Additional types of records include: subject files on weather, mining and oil exploration, tree seeds, resource analysis program, and forest road planning; a timber tenures ledger; files regarding audits of licensees to ensure compliance with guidelines for managing and preserving fish habitat; and a few silviculture opening files.

The ministries responsible for creating these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

The records were classified as 18765-20, 18750-20, 19500-45, 19540-25, 19565-25, 19570-25, 19580-45, 19600-45, 19620-25, 19700-45, 19720-20 and 19910-20 in the Forest Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).

This series consists of records of the Royal Commission on the Nakusp and Slocan Railway, 1894, including: report, exhibits and transcripts of evidence.

This series contains minute books for the periods March 21, 1907 - April 10, 1924 and May 14, 1924 - April 27, 1932. Vol. 1 also contains minutes of the Licence Commission, June 20, 1906 - Dec. 21, 1907.

This series consists of the records of the Commission to Investigate Claims of Squatters on Crown Lands in the District of Kootenay, 1908. Records include letters patent appointing the Commissioner, report and evidence presented at the hearing in Creston.

Conditional sales agreements and lien notes, 1 - 4778.

Conditional sales register (listed alphabetically by both buyer and by seller).