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The item is a film documentary. Early days in Barkerville are recalled through anecdotes and archival images.

Series consists of diaries kept for the years 1888 and 1901 covering the details behind organizing the Cariboo district election of 1888 from the original proclamation to the results and expenses accountability. Also included are entries to his duties as an assessor, collector, sheriff, stipendiary magistrate and returning officer for the district, together with local notes, weather reports and personal items.

Loaned for microfilming by Henry D. Windt, Terrace.

The item is a reel of news footage of the BC Centennial Committee project re-enacting the stagecoach journeys up the Cariboo Road. A vintage stagecoach and passengers travel from Victoria to Barkerville. A number of "hold-ups" are staged along the way, and mounted posses pursue the "bandits".

The series consists of one ledger that includes both advance and refund information as well as balances from the Barkerville Small Debts Court. The first ten pages of the ledger appear to have been used by the Government Agent in Barkerville, and provide information on cash advances and refunds from 1941 to 1948. Many of the advances were made to police constables, and included in the ledger are several “Authority for Cash Advance” forms addressed to the Government Agent at Barkerville and signed by Sergeant T. R. Baker, who may have been provincial police sergeant Thomas Raymond Baker.

The second half of the ledger includes a list of receipts and disbursements for the Small Debts Court, presumed to be at Barkerville.

Scrapbooks: Volumes 1-2 (1928-1962) contain articles on the Company; gold in the Cariboo; the Company's founders O.H. Solibakke, Fred Wells and W.B. Burnett; and other items. Volume 3 covers the Cariboo Miners strike 1937, the British Columbia Chamber of Mines, health insurance, the Kiwanis and miscellaneous items (mostly 1937-1938). Volumes 4-6 are on the Company (1937-1941). Volume 7 deals with articles on the Cariboo Amalgamated Gold Mines 1933-1939 and the Cariboo-Hudson Gold Mines, 1936-1940.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Russ E. MacDougall talks about gold mining and the Barkerville area, 1900 to 1940. Mr. MacDougall explains how he came to Barkerville in 1921. He discusses hydraulic mining, mining are as Barkerville area, Williams Creek and Lightning Creek, tunneling, claims, details of mining methods and comments on two old time miners, Bill Brown and Julius Powell. He comments about the population in the area, the names of mines and Barkerville.

TRACK 2: Mr. MacDougall talks about Barkerville; the people there, stories, his journey to Barkerville, transportation, road conditions, old timers in the area, ways of business, description of the stores, the old fashioned atmosphere, and social life in Barkerville.

Series consists of correspondence and financial records (1864-1870) of the Williams Creek Hospital; correspondence (1934-1935), patient summaries (1935-1936), and reports and proceedings (1935-1946) of the Royal Cariboo General Hospital Association.

In 1863 a typhoid epidemic raged at Williams Creek. In response to this epidemic, the miners petitioned the government for a hospital and in July 1863 the second Grand Jury, with Judge Begbie in the chair, convened at Williams Creek and requested government aid to build a hospital. The government made a small donation and the miners contributed enough so that Judge Begbie could lay the foundation log on 24 August 1863 in the presence of the Honourable Donald Fraser, Judge Peter O'Reilly and Thomas Elwyn. In October the building was completed and Dr. A.W.S. Black became the first resident surgeon of the Cariboo's first hospital. The hospital, most often referred to as the Williams Creek Hospital, was at Maryville, a little settlement across the creek from Cameronton. The original three room hospital contained a ward, kitchen, and doctor's office and served until 1891 when a more spacious facility was erected on a new site. The Royal Cariboo Hospital was the only one in the region and it operated continuously until 1925. A hospital was opened at Wells but proved too small from the outset and the old Barkerville hospital was reconditioned and reopened in 1935. The Royal Cariboo General Hospital Association was incorporated on 14 March 1935 with the aim of establishing, erecting, maintaining, managing and operating a general hospital for the treatment of all diseases of the body and for relief from sickness and injury. The hospital opened on 1 July 1935 and was destroyed by fire on 29 March 1936. The Hospital Board felt that circumstances did not warrant the re-establishment of the hospital, but the board remained in existence and managed hospital funds. The incorporation of the Royal Cariboo General Hospital Association was cancelled on 5 January 1950. MS-2566 consists of early records of the Royal Cariboo Hospital, correspondence (1864-1870), accounts (1865 - when it was known as the Williams Creek Hospital) and later records of the Royal Cariboo General Hospital Association, correspondence (1934-1949), financial records (1935-1946), members (1934-1935), some copies of patient summaries (1935-1936) and reports and proceedings (1935-1946).

Series consists of minutes of the board of management, May 15, 1935 - May 9, 1938; ledger, 1935-1936; financial statements, 1936-1939.

CALL NUMBER: T0375:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Roderick "Roddy" Roy Moffat discusses how his father came out to the Chilcotin from Ontario and began ranching near Alexandria. Moffat offers several stories about his father when he drove a stagecoach. He discusses the tests necessary for a person to be a driver for the BC Line Company. He describes horses and drivers and the relationship between the two. There are many more stories about freighting days. Jerk-line teams had anywhere between four and twelve horses and three carriages. He describes how the horses were handled just outside of Ashcroft when the road became hilly and curved.

TRACK 2: Mr. Moffat discusses the competition between freighters to get the business of the Hudson's Bay Company out of Quesnel, alcohol consumption being a problem to achieving the contract, and then more on freighting. His father invented the snow roller for easier freighting in the winter. He describes the town of Barkerville. He discusses Chinese people as ranchers and as miners in the region. He discusses the Pinchbeck farm as the first farm in the area in Williams Lake and other early ranches: Levy Ranch in Soda Creek, McGuiness Ranch, 4 Mile Ranch, Sam Bohanon Ranch and that was all the farming until Quesnel. He describes many people in the area, old timers, and miners. Steve and Andrew Olsen are two characters he discusses, other Moffatts in the area, Alexander Flats, irrigation, the Hudson's Bay post at Alexandria, and the war between the Chilcotin Indians and the Alexander Indians.

CALL NUMBER: T0375:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Moffat describes the trail used by the Chilcotin Indians to invade the Alexander Indians, and how this route was used by Simon Fraser. He describes farmland and how technology has improved its uses. He discusses cattle farming near Quesnel. He describes his childhood and schooling. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a film print of a documentary. The BC Centennial Committee's special project "Stagecoach," re-enacting a journey by stagecoach from Victoria to Barkerville by way of Nanaimo, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope, Yale, Lillooet, Ashcroft, Soda Creek, Quesnel and Wells. Many ceremonies and events are enacted en route, including a number of "hold-ups" and attacks by "wild Indians." Paul St. Pierre talks to stage drivers Jack Turnbull and Hank Rudofsky. Also interviewed are Frank Barnard and Yale historian Gus Milliken; Mr. Milliken disputes the authenticity of the re-enactment.

The item is a reel of documentary film. It shows the BC Centennial Committee's special project "Stagecoach," re-enacting a journey by stagecoach from Victoria to Barkerville by way of Nanaimo, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope, Yale, Lillooet, Ashcroft, Soda Creek, Quesnel and Wells. Many ceremonies and events are enacted en route, including a number of "hold-ups" and attacks by "wild Indians." Paul St. Pierre talks to stage drivers Jack Turnbull and Hank Rudofsky. Also interviewed are Frank Barnard and Yale historian Gus Milliken; Mr. Milliken disputes the authenticity of the re-enactment.

This series consists of three volumes of Richfield Magistrate's record books. Volumes are a charge and sentence book, 1862-1874; charge and sentence book, 1974-1978, containing licencing records kept by the court registry, 1878-1907; and a notebook, 1887-1914, recording Magistrate's court cases at Richfield, Small Debts Court cases at Richfield and some cases at Soda Creek and Quesnel.

This series contains letters inward to John Bowron, Government Agent and Gold Commissioner, Richfield, 6 June 1892 - 30 September 1894, 2 vols. Each volume contains a nominal list of correspondents.

Five letters to Jean Reid, formerly of Barkerville, B.C., 1945?-1947. 4 letters are from Fred Tregillus, written from Barkerville and from St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver) and contain news of Barkerville people and of mining activities.

Presented by Jean Reid, Victoria, 1991.

The series consists of a register of assays created by the Assay Office and Government Reduction Works at Barkerville between 1869 and 1895.

Records of the Government Agent and Gold Commissioner at Barkerville relating to mineral claims, elections and other work of the office.

This series contains records of the Deputy Provincial Secretary relating to the operations of the Ministry's branches. Many of these records deal with heritage conservation, museums, and cultural organizations. Records also deal with the administration of Royal Canadian Humane Association awards for bravery and life-saving.

GR-1661 is a pot-pourri of records accumulated by the office of the Deputy Provincial Secretary and by his various Assistant Deputy Ministers.The diversity of this collection is testimony to the multi- faceted operations and responsibilities of the Provincial Secretary's department.

A substantial number of the files deal with Heritage Conservation policies and heritage sites, such as Craigflower Schoolhouse, Barkerville, and Fort Steele.Many of the files also deal with cultural organizations and activities, with provincial fitness and recreation programmes, and with special interest groups.Other files in this unit pertain to the Royal Canadian Humane Association awards for bravery (which were coordinated by the ministry), to specific legislation re:the provincial flag, the provincial tartan, etc., and to the organization of out-of-town cabinet meetings.

This series consists of 11 volumes of records of the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, Cariboo District, 1863-1893. Records include certificates of pre-emption, certificates of improvement, lot register of Group 1, Cariboo District, sale of town lots of Richfield, Barkerville, Cameronton, and Quesnellemouth, and certificates of purchase. Also contains water rights recorded for irrigation purposes and an accounts book.

This series include a summary of pre-emption records cancelled in the Barkerville Assessment District. The series contains one volume of a register that contains the name and number of the pre-emption record, the lot number and acreage, and the date and cause of cancellation.

This series consists of 8 volumes of birth, marriage, death and naturalization records from the Department of the Provincial Secretary from 1872-1913 for various parts of the province. The volumes are:
Vol. 1 - Record of naturalization, Lillooet, B.C. (1913)
Vol. 2 - marriage register, Yale, B.C. (1911)
Vol. 3 - index to register of births, Hope, B.C. (n.d.)
Vol. 4 - index to register of marriages (1872-1886)
Vol. 5 - index to register of deaths (1872-1877)
Vol. 6 - marriage register, Cariboo district (1874-1905)
Vol. 7 - birth register (1913)
Vol. 8 - death register (1913)