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Orders, invoices, records of material distribution; inventories, inter-departmental correspondence, letters outward, letters inward and completed orders.

The series consists of a small album of 37 photographs taken by G.V. Boorman, of the Consolidated Whaling Company. The photographs were taken in 1937 at Rose Harbour and Naden Harbour, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) and show the whaling station facilities and the processing of caught whales and whale remains.

Series consists of records related to the Sisters' short-lived school in Whitehorse.

When the Klondike gold rush and discovery of copper near Whitehorse brought an influx of prospectors and settlers to the region, Father Lefebvre, OMI called upon the Sisters of St. Ann to open a school. Two Sisters arrived in the summer of 1903 to open the school. From the start, attendance was low and conditions were tough. Lack of funds forced the Sisters to take on extra work such as French and sewing lessons as well as go on begging trips to support themselves. In early May 1904, the General Superior, Mother Mary Anastasia and Mother Mary Agatha visited Whitehorse and realized that the school was not viable and decided to close it.

The records include histories of the school, excerpts from the annals, articles, photographs and ephemera.

The series consists of a manual of conveyance for the Wild Horse Creek district, created by the Kootenay Gold Commissioner between 1865 and 1972.

The series consists of Wilderness Advisory Committee records, created between 1981 and 1986 and consist of transcripts of the proceedings of the public meetings (January, February 1986), submissions, exhibits, report (Wilderness Mosaic), administrator's files and the committee's library of select articles, publications and clippings.

The series also includes 2 photograph albums, 28 loose colour prints and 272 colour slides; a map of the Stein drainage area and two videocassettes.

Series consists of course materials used to train staff in wildlife habitat inventories and assessments. The courses were created by the BC Government’s Resources Inventory Committee to train staff in how to create inventories of small mammals, raptors, bats, songbirds, the Marbled Murrelet and Plethodontod Salamanders.

The material includes instructor and participant manuals and workbooks. The workbooks contain a wide variety of media including overhead transparencies, slides, compact discs, cassettes, photographs and maps.

These records were classified as 17635-05 in the Administrative Classification System (ARCS).

The series consists of microfilmed copies of the Laurier papers held by Library and Archives Canada. The records include correspondence, 1871-1919; memoranda and notes, 1896-1911.

There are three finding aids for the general, bound and microfilmed correspondence. There is an author index which contains references to more than 15,000 names; and a subject index which lists the most significant subjects. The author index gives author, subject, date and page numbers for each letter, but the subject index gives only the subject and page numbers and is therefore less useful. The two indexes are available in the original and on microfilm (reels C-1158 and C-1606 to C-1608) and there is a chronological guide on microfilm (C-1-21 to C-1-29). There is also lists for some of the groups of documents in the Laurier Papers. These lists are either in finding aid No. 91 or with the documents themselves as indicated in the description of the papers.

Will.

Wills probated in British Columbia, numbers 31,201 - 46,021.

Record book, April 9, 1963 - Feb. 28, 1964.

The series consists of seven audio recordings made in August 1971 by Dr. A.Ross McCormack while interviewing William A. Pritchard who discussed the following topics.
Tape summaries:
T0225-0001: Various members of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) in B.C. including D.G. MacKenzie, J.H. Burroughs, E.T. Kingsley, Parme Pettipiece, Chris Stephenson, Jock Reid, Dick Johns, Moses Baritz, Macdonald, Joe Knight, George Armstrong, Arthur, Petit, Dick Rigg, Dixon, Ernest Burns. Selling the Clarion. Open-air meetings.
T0225:0002: Free-speech issue in Vancouver, 1912. Lecture tours, meeting places. Role of the Socialist Party of Canada in the B.C. labour movement. Post-war unrest, 1919. SPC influence in the B.C. Federation of Labour. SPC influence on the B.C. Federation of labour, SPC support, outside and inside B.C. Joe Knight and the Alberta party. Screening applicants to the SPC. Social events.
T0225:0003: The Socialist Party in Saskatchewan in the early 20th century. Importance of the Winnipeg local. The role of the Dominion Executive Committee. Funding for the party. Editor of the Clarion. Publications of the SPC. Comments on the concept of violent revolution. Question of compensation for capitalists after the revolution, and other debates within the party. Social events in party locals.
T0225:0004: Social events in Socialist party locals, continued. Picnics and smokers; dances in Alberta. Feelings of confidence and optimism in the party. Question of intellectual arrogance in the party. Decline of the SPC after World War II. The party and the One Big Union. More on the party and the O.B.U. Origins of the Marxist ideology of the SPC. The SPC and the Social Democratic Party of Canada. Conditions in the mines of B.C. at the turn of the century. Blacklisting after the miners' strike of 1912.
T0225:0005-0007: No content summaries are available for these three tapes. However, the subjects discussed include dealing with spies in the SPC; the 1917 Socialist campaign against conscription; and the funeral of Ginger Goodwin in Cumberland, B.C., at which Pritchard represented the Socialists.

Series includes subject files reflecting his interest in philosophy, civil liberties, local politics; correspondence, reports and diaries re life and work in China; family papers and correspondence.

Correspondence, depositions, memoranda of witnesses, notes, etc. relating to the arrest and trial of Gordon who was arrested in Hazelton, by R.E. Loring and charged in connection with the disappearance of his partner, Isaac Jones. Photographs of the accused transferred Visual Records accession 198112-6. Sketch map of trail to Tom Creek and Manson, and sketch map of trail from Quesnelle to Hazelton, transferred to map collection (map registration number 17411A sheets 1 and 2).

• William Alfred Galliher was a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament (MP). He had interests in mining development, mineral claims and real estate.

The records include correspondence, legal documents, papers of clients, financial records, account book relating to Galliher's law practice in Nelson and Vancouver. Also, correspondence relating to mining development and mineral claims in Kootenay district with Robert Garvin McLeod (mine owner) and others; re sale of lots in the towns of Nelson, Erie, Three Forks, Comaplix, and Kaslo; re breweries, hotels, grocers, a furniture store, and other businesses in Nelson; relating to land sales of the Columbia and Kootenay Railway Company, and the Similkameen Valley Coal and Development Company; with W.H. Keary, Mayor of New Westminster, re sale of town lots; correspondence with Sir Wilfrid Laurier re Galliher's appointment as a judge for the British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1908-1909.

• The following maps have been transferred out of this series: Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20461 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20462 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20463 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20464 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20465 Removed from box 2 file 8 : 20457 Removed from box 4 file 4 : 20459 Removed from box 5 file 7 : 20458 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20466 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20467 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20468 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20469 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20470 Removed from box 6 file 7 : 20460

General incoming correspondence, 1927, 1959-1974; Royal Canadian Air Force [RCAF] search and rescue operation summaries (1960, 1962); two Dept. of Transport accident reports involving aircraft of Victoria Flying Services. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-44.

William Curtis Ward was an important British Columbia banker and entrepreneur. The fonds consists of five letters inward from people who had connections with British Columbia and were writing to ask for advice on land holdings or to keep in touch and convey information about themselves and their families. There is also a letter from Nellie Grant, the daughter of Captain John Marshall Grant, R.E. who came to British Columbia with Colonel Moody in 1858, giving information on the family.

Correspondence, notes and newspaper clippings concerning the history of Revelstoke, the Big Bend area of the Kootenay district and the pioneers of the area. Also includes collected notes and correspondence of Benjamin Richard Atkins as well as his dictionary history of Revelstoke.

Material is files MS-0560.1.1 to 1.17 contain Earle Dickey's general correspondence files, incoming and outgoing, 1937-1953 (includes Dickey's correspondence with the Vancouver Sun as that newspaper's correspondent in Revelstoke). Files 1.18 to 1.51 contain drafts, rough notes etc. concerning Revelstoke pioneers, Revelstoke history etc. Files 2.1 to 2.8 contain Benjamin Richard Atkins' correspondence and files 2.9 to 2.19 contain Dickey's miscellaneous materials.

The series consists of microfilmed copies of William Duncan's papers relating to missionary activities in Metlakatla (B.C.) and Metlakatla (Alaska). The records include correspondence, including that with Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, journals, notebooks, memoranda printed material, speeches, community business, financial and legal records. Rev. William Duncan established the Metlakahtla Christian Mission in northern British Columbia under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society in 1857 but in 1881 relations between the Mission and the Society became so strained that the connection was broken. In 1887, relations with the Dominion and Provincial governments reached such a point that the mission and many of its adherents moved to Annette Island in Alaska. Rev. Duncan remained in full charge of the mission until his death in 1918 in the midst of a jurisdictional dispute with the United States Government. Because the mission was so much the creation of the Rev. Duncan, it is virtually impossible to separate official mission business from the personal affairs of its leader. Included are some papers of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, who was a close friend of Duncan, and acted as trustee after his death. The description of the collection identifies William Duncan "The Reverend William Duncan", although Duncan was never ordained.

The series consists of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, commissions, notes and memoranda relating to his work with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Puget Sound Agricultural Company at Fort Nisqually, and later, Victoria. Some published materials from the library of the Tolmie family not related to the history of the northwest have been included in the collection.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports and diverse material connected with Mr. Hartley's activities as M.L.A. (Yale-Lillooet) and Minister of Public Works.

William L. Hartley was born in 1916. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly and held the position of Minister of Public Works.

Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports and diverse material connected with Mr. Hartley's activities as MLA (Yale-Lillooet) and Minister of Public Works.

Scrapbooks related to his political career, consisting mainly of newspaper clippings but containing also some letters, invitations, programmes and photographs; scrapbook of clippings and photographs relative to British Columbia exhibit at Golden Gate Exposition, 1939, letters of congratulation (1937-1938) received on his appointment as Minister of Mines; genealogical information on Asselstine family.

British Columbia, Executive Council minute book, 1910-1912; legal papers concerning the affairs and estate of William Bowser; voters list from the Cariboo electoral district, May 1931; letter inward from the Ku-Klux Klan, 1933; correspondence with John H. Turner, Agent General, concerning the Turner's resignation, 1915.

Speeches; correspondence, official and personal; invitations; diverse government reports, memoranda, and briefs; correspondence, speeches, handbooks and papers concerning Social Credit Party organization and campaigns, and monetary policy. Material transferred to Map Collection, Visual Records and the BC Archives Library. During his career William Neelands Chant was a businessman, farmer, MLA (Alberta and B.C.), Minister of Agriculture (Alta.), and the Minister of Public Works (B.C.). The records include speeches; correspondence, official and personal; invitations; diverse government reports, memoranda, and briefs; correspondence, speeches, handbooks and papers concerning Social Credit Party organization and campaigns, and monetary policy. Books, photographs and maps transferred to other units. See list at the end of the finding aid. Material transferred to BC Archives Library (check library catalogue for call numbers): British Columbia. The Law Courts, Victoria, British Columbia [Leather bound copy] British Columbia. Education Building, UBC, Vancouver, B.C. Draft Canadian Constitutional Charter British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, First Annual Report Power Means Progress. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Standing Order (adopted February 20, 1930) Queen's Printer, 1955 H.E. Nichols, A Handbook of Social Credit, Edmonton Reading Reference to Social Credit: A Bibliography, compiled by Michael Sinclair, 1963 American Historical Documents from official Archives [portfolio] British Columbia. Centennial Edition. 1964 T.J. Irwin, The Pageantry of Parliament. [Pamphlet, no date] Major C.H. Douglas, "Social Credit Principles". Speech, 1924 Material transferred to Visual Records accession 198006-033 includes: 4 photo albums, with numerous loose photographs 4 boxes (approximately 20 slides each) 35 mm color transparencies metal plate of photo of W.N. Chant Envelope containing 11 loose photos of Chant Cuts of photos of Chant Album "To the Government of the Province of British Columbia" advertising work of Townley, Matheson & Partners, Dexter Bush and Associates Ltd., Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, architects and engineers Material transferred to Map Collection: Map. Columbia River Basin in British Columbia, showing principal water powers. Map registration number 14009B. Map. British Columbia. Electoral districts. Redistribution 1966. Duplicate of this map available. See CM/A1128. Map. Plan of part of the Municipality of Richmond, showing suggested land reclamation scheme on Sturgeon Bank. Map registration number 13829B.

Series consists of a draft of Social Credit Handbook (no date), notes and essays on economic theory, Social Credit Research Team Bulletin (mimeographed, 1953-1959) and The Free Society (1960-1961). Includes manuscript prepared by Henry Torey for Social Credit Handbook, eventually published in 1968.

Presented by Gordon Torey, Vancouver, 1977.

The series consists of photographs of the Scott-Walker family on Barnston Island. The photographs document farming (haying) activities, the dredge boat Sampson, land clearing, and family members.

The series consists of records of Sterling's trading business including: receipts for general merchandise, food hardware, clothing, liquors, soap, etc. bought in San Francisco, Victoria, Yale and Quesnelmouth 1873-1876 and Sterling's licenses to trade and to sell liquor, 1876. Also includes an inventory of goods at the Cohen and Hoffman store in Germansen Creek and a license to operate a saloon for Ezra Evans of Manson Creek, 1883.

Series consists of diaries of William Thomas Ross, assistant manager of North Pacific Cannery 1953-1966, manager of North Pacific Cannery 1966-1970, manager of Oceanside Cannery 1970-1973 and manager of Sterling Shipyard 1973-1975. The diaries relate to W.T. Ross' working life at North Pacific, Oceanside and Sterling.

Names of people are often given (i.e. the fishermen and other employees at the canneries) and mention is also made of the Indians and Japanese employed in the industry. The diaries also give details of the various boats employed, such as names, skippers, equipment, repairs and problems. Mr. Ross also gives a brief precis of the weather and details of the fishing for that day (i.e. which boats have brought in fish and how much).

All diary entries for 1971, and up to 10 June 1972, are missing due to a fire that destroyed Oceanside Cannery.

Civil case files with the exception of probate/estate files (GR-2462) which have been removed from this series and filed separately.

Criminal case files 1926-1947.