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F329/1-F329/37. No F (item) numbers assigned to contents of files F329(2) and F329(3).

No F (item) numbers assigned to file contents.

Original file contents split into two folders. F190a contains F190/1-F190/15 and associated typed transcripts. F190b contains F190/16-F190/40 and associated typed transcripts. Both folders also contain miscellaneous unnumbered (and unindexed?) items. Microfilmed and scanned as one file.

No file items numbers assigned.

Contains letters F326/1 to F326/16.

File contents split into two folders. F191a contains F191/1-F191/13. F191 contains F191/14-F191/25.

The series is a handwritten, verbatim account of the "Confederation debate," held in colonial legislature, March 1870. This file is an incomplete recording of the debate.

The series consists of a copy of a 1981 file check list to Lands correspondence "O" files (or O series) 1918 to 1970, created by the Surveys and Land Records Branch.

The checklist lists O file numbers 1 to 40,000, arranged numerically. Inactive files, which were transferred to the BC Archives in 1980 and 1981 and returned to Crown Land Registry in 1997, have been annotated in the list with an original box number.

Use this list to determine whether a Lands "O" file is in the custody of the Crown Land Registry by finding the file number in the list and checking to see if there is an annotation next to it. If there is, contact Crown Land Registry for access.
If no annotation appears, check the file disposition list (GR-1225) for further information about other possible locations of files. Files may have been microfilmed, been transferred to another ministry or may have remained active with Crown Land Registry all along.

The series consists of a register of land purchases from Indigenous peoples on Southern Vancouver Island (near Fort Victoria), 1850-1852; record of agreements with Indigenous peoples at Fort Rupert, 1851, and Nanaimo, 1854. These conveyances or agreements are often referred to as the Fort Victoria treaties, Vancouver Island or Douglas treaties.

The following is a list of the signatory tribes and their present-day community names:

Saanich, Victoria, Metchosin and Sooke areas:
Teechamitsa (Songhees)
Kosampson (Esquimalt)
Whyomilth (Esquimalt)
Swengwhung (Songhees)
Chilcowitch (Songhees)
Che-ko-nein (Songhees)
Ka-ky-aakan (Scia'new/Becher Bay)
Chewhaytsum (Scia'newBecher Bay)
Soke (T'Sou-ke/Sooke)
Saanich -South (Tsawout, Tsartlip, Malahat)
Saanich -North (Pauquachin, Tseycum)

Nanaimo area:
Saalequun (Snaw-Na-Was/Nanoose, Snuneymuxw)

Port Hardy area:
Queackar (Kwiakah)
Quakiolth (Kwakiutl)

Included with these records, but not part of the HBC agreements, are two land purchase agreements made between Vancouver Island Government Agent William Banfield and two Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations in 1859 and 1860, as well as a list with the male adult population of tribes of the southwest coast of Vancouver Island compiled by Banfield.

Series consists of two items. One is a 1911 letter from Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Victoria businessman Li Bang Lim, regarding fund-raising for Nationalist China. The letter is written in Chinese. The second is a medal presented to Li Bang Lim by Hon. Li Hong Chong on the occasion of his visit to Victoria.

File consists of two photographs at least one of which was taken by Hannah Maynard for her photography business in Victoria. This image is a group photograph of sailors, possibly the gun room officers of a Royal Navy ship docked at Esquimalt. The names of the sailors are listed on the verso.
The other photograph is of a family in front of a house. Possibly Hannah and Richard Maynard seated in a garden with a young man (their son Albert Hatherley Maynard?) behind them. Two women, a man (Harry Maynard?), three children, and a dog, are positioned in a stairway nearby.

Includes:
J-08135
J-08144

Item is a black and white photograph showing 62 BC Ministry of Forests staff including Deputy Minister Mike Apsey, Assistant Deputy Minister Ralpa Robbins, Chief Forester Bill Young, and others, likely in 1979. A numbered silhouette on the verso names each individual in the photograph.

The file consists of three black and white photographs of the 2nd Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, taken at Willows camp, Victoria, in 1915, likely photographed by Ernest Crocker. The photographs consist of large group portrait of the battalion and two postcards. One postcard shows the battalion on parade at Willows Camp. Another is a group photograph of soldiers performing camp duties.

Items include:
J-08131
J-08142
J-08143

The file consists of three photographs of the V-J Day parade in Victoria B.C. on August 15, 1945. One photograph shows the Victoria Girls' Drill Team, another shows the Chinese float, and another shows several female Chinese-Canadian participants.

Includes:
J-08130
J-08140
J-08141

This series consists of Volume I of the Journal of Proceedings of the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (JIRC) and documents the daily work of the three commissioners (Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Archibald McKinlay, and Gilbert Malcom Sproat) from November 1876 to June 1877 on the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. In addition to the text of the journal, there are also several ink and colour drawings of reserves.

Within the journal are several loose correspondence and drafts of documents, many of which are addressed to A.C. Anderson. These loose documents have been retained within the pages of the volume.

The JIRC was formed in 1876 to settle disputes between the federal and provincial governments regarding allotment of reserves in British Columbia. The JIRC operated until 1878, when it was replaced by the Indian Reserve Commission, for which Sproat remained the commissioner.

An attached document (see the finding aid note section of this description) provides a paginated listing of locations visited by the commissioners.

This series consists of one volume titled “Waddington Massacre : Minutes of the Evidence” related to the Tsilhqot'in War, also historically referred to as the Chilcotin uprising and Bute Inlet massacre. The notebook is mostly blank but was used to record several kinds of information, including: diary entries; draft letters; transcriptions of hearings and statements; sketches and diagrams; accounting information relating to expenditures; and an unrelated County Court schedule for 1868.

The diary entries cover the period June 6 to July 12, 1864. The creator is unclear, but it may have been written by William George Cox, Gold Commissioner and Magistrate for the Cariboo region, or someone in the group of men who travelled with him from Alexandria in an attempt to apprehend the Indigenous men allegedly involved in the deaths of several settlers. This group was referred to as the Alexandria expedition. This estimation is based on the events and dates in the diary and their similarity to Cox’s expedition as described in related colonial despatches. The expedition resulted in the arrest and execution of six Tsilhqot’in Chiefs.

The notebook also includes several sworn statements from witnesses related to events of the Tsilhqot'in War.

This record is a plan of the cemetery at the New Westminster Mental Hospital. It lists the names of individuals, date of death and location of their burial plots with a corresponding diagram. Names were added to the list between 1920 and 1958. In 1950 the New Westminster Mental Hospital was renamed Woodlands School.

McKinlay to Elliott, [n.d.], re administration of Indian affairs in B. C., and commenting on the expropriation of land from Mr. O'Keefe at the head of Okanagan Lake, the pre-emption of Mr. Walker on the South Fork of the Thompson River, Indians between Yale and Spences Bridge, Indians at Williams Lake and the Chilcotin tribes.

Elliott to McKinlay, 18 Mar. 1878, informing McKinlay of dissolution of Indian Reserve Commission.

Copy of telegram, D. Mills, [Minister of the Interior] to Lt. Gov. of B. C., 15 Mar. 1878.

[McKinlay] to Elliott, Victoria, 8 March 1878, offering further remarks on Indian Reserves. [draft of letter found in GR 394, file 59, pp. 566-577].

Anderson to McKinlay, Osooyoos, 10 Nov. 1877, giving his assessment of the needs of Okanagan Indians and asking McKinlay for proposals on the part of Prov. Gov't.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., South end of Okanagan Lake, 27 Oct. 1877, enclosing two letters sent to Minister of the Interior on the subject of Indian Departmental organization in B. C. [enclosures missing.]

McKinlay to Sproat, Camp, Okanagan Lake, 28 Sep. 1877, re Sproat's concerns in his letter of 21 Sep. 1877.

Sproat to McKinlay, Head of Okanagan Lake, 21 Sep. 1877, discussing question of Commissioners' communicating with outsiders.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., Head of Okanagan Lake, 2 Sep. 1877, enclosing letter of 3 Aug. 1 [1877] from Minister of the Interior. [See pp. 22-29.] and discussing the question of Indian title to land.

Sproat to Lt. Gov., Head of Okanagan Lake, 28 Aug. 1877, enclosing letter sent to Minister of the Interior.

David Mills, Minister of the Interior, to Sproat, 3 Aug. 1877, re state of Indian affairs in B. C.