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The item is an audio recording of an interview with Harold Allision. Harold Allison is a third generation cattle rancher in the Princeton-Similkameen Valley area. His grandfather John Fall Allison was the first white settler in the valley. The first Allison ran a cattle ranch and trading post in the area. The bounds of the ranch, types of cattle run, and early markets are discussed, as is the state of the present day (1977) ranch, and its bounds, stock and market.

The item is a reel of unedited film footage. Summer scenes showing Pinewood Lodge, Allison Pass, mountain scenery, an alpine meadow, and the Similkameen.

The item is a film print of a travelogue made in 1951. It depicts the Hope-Princeton Highway and the Penticton Peach Festival and Rodeo. Footage includes: Manning Park and highway scenes en route to Penticton; Peach Festival parade (including girls' pipe band); crowning of Queen Val Vedette; festival midway; harness racing. Rodeo events include pattern riding, bronco riding, calf roping, bulldogging steers and bull riding. Also lake shore and orchard scenes. BC highway construction is promoted in the commentary.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Adjusting the branches of fruit trees; apple picking; orchard scenes; pruning young trees to control growth. Irrigation. Old fruit trees supporting fruit-laden branches. Apple bins. Stacking hay bales. Clearing land for orchard on Similkameen River. Growing and stacking hay. Bees. Apple crop. Loading apple-filled bins. Keremeos Grower Co-Operative packing house. ("Modern, 1968.") Asphalting road for dust prevention. Soil erosion.

This series consists of registers used to record land assessment values from 1900-1912. All records are likely related to the Kootenay, Similkameen and Okanagan areas, primarily around Osoyoos to Trail. The registers were likely created by the local Government Agent or Assessor for the provincial Surveyor of Taxes as part of the creation of property tax assessment rolls. The registers list the property description, owner, value. Some volumes may also describe the property’s assets, such as buildings, cultivated land, orchards, available water, available timber land, roads, distance to schools or post offices.

Series consists of board of Managers minute books, January 16, 1928 - March 2, 1931; April 6, 1931 - June 7, 1938.

Series consists of private papers and business correspondence, agreements, etc. relating to mining companies promoted by A.K. Shives and his associates. Includes material relating to Empress Gold Mines, Gold Valley (properties in Similkameen District), Moose Dome area (Alberta) and others. Also includes some early reconnaissance and timber cruising reports for areas in the North Cariboo and Chilcotin and a letter from Arnold K. Shives to General Victor Odlum regarding Goldbridge Placer Leaser #564, Oct. 7, 1939.

Series consists of a history of Rock Creek Women's Institute and history of Rock Creek. Also contains 3 photographs.

The series consists of family and business records created by the Richter and Tweddle family, created between ca. 1890 and 1962. It includes records relating to the ranch and orchard business, family and general correspondence as well as correspondence of Richter's daughter, Florence Elizabeth Pendleton, regarding the disposal of the Richter Estate, 1959-1962. Among the business records are two account books, annotated cancelled cheques, packing company receipts and statements for fruit and beef, mail order correspondence, brochures, catalogues, etc., and various legal documents. In addition there are 86 black and white photographs of the Richter and Tweddle family along with friends and local scenery. There are also six published books owned by the Richter family.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Okanagan and Similkameen regions, mainly dealing with the history of those regions in the years 1880-1914.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Richter discusses how his father, F.X. Richter, came to the Similkameen Valley; the school at Okanagan Mission; the Brant family; his father's ranches; ranching in Kettle Valley; m;ail service; a story of a hold up at the Midway Hotel; an Indian who was shot at a July 4 celebration; Loomis, Washington; carrying revolvers; and the arrest of a cattle thief across the border. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Garnet E. Willis talks about his father and the people of the Chilliwack and the Similkameen region, 1894 to 1916. He describes how his family farmed near Sardis; what Chilliwack was like in his youth; steamboats on the Fraser; Harrison House; hard work on farms; school days; stories about Bill Miner; stories about John Ryder and his family; the Nelson brothers; how his father hauled freight; his father's background with the fur brigade; a discussion of the brigade route; details of his father's travels in Fort Garry, California and BC; his father's claims in the Cariboo; how his father logged on the present site of Vancouver; and John Beatty. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis continues with a story about an old man; the circumstances by which he came to the Similkameen area with his father in 1914; an anecdote about his father and the farm at Sumas; a comparison of Chilliwack and Similkameen areas; cattle and cattle drives over the Dewdney Trail; several stories about travels on the Hope Trail; a discussion of Herman Grell, known as "Shorty" Dunn; Jack Budd; and train robber Bill Miner.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willis continues with more on Shorty Dunn of Bill Miner's gang; a story about Pat Kennedy of Princeton; Jim Slater; a story about Charlie Rheinhardt; Price Chandler; the beginning of Keremeos; Keremeos centre; the town of Loomis, Washington; a description of Princeton in 1913; Bill Allison; Mr. Willis' own place near Princeton; several stories about August Carlson; a story about Steve Mangat; the Olalla Mine; other mines and drilling. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis offers a story about Duncan Woods of the Hedley Mascot Mine; a discussion of his wife's uncle, a packer named John Worth; Bill Bristol and his stopping house east of Hope; a discussion of "Colonel" Robert Stevenson and his tall stories; a story about tracking lost cattle; more about Stevenson; more about Jack Budd and Bill Miner; and a story about a foot race in Montana.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Herbert G. Clark talks about Penticton and the Keremeos/Ashnola Creek area after 1914. He discusses his family background; school days at Allen Grove near Penticton; people in the Penticton area; a story about an old Indian man named Toppy Louie; chores on the ranch; pioneers; old timers in Keremeos; a discussion of the area; a description of an imaginary trip from Keremeos through the Ashnola Creek area, including the roads, landscape and vegetation. He concludes by describing wildlife in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Winifred Innis talks about life in the Okanagan, 1896 to 1910. She describes her family background, including travels and her father's work, as well as coming to Vernon in 1896. She offers her impressions of Vernon while discussing the orchards and irrigation; Lord and Lady Aberdeen; her father's work in Vernon and building a road to Nickel Plate Mine; Penticton and its people in 1;900; the development of Penticton; life on Green Mountain; the people of Vernon and Lumby; her husband's background; Keremeos and its people from 1906 on; her impressions of Hedley; mining there; Duncan Wood; Jimmy Reardon; dances; land promotion at Olalla and other people in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Fraser Canyon, Nicola, North Thompson, Similkameen, Thompson, and Upper Fraser regions of B.C., mainly dealing with the history of those regions.

CALL NUMBER: T0675:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Angela McDairmid was born in Princeton before it was known as Princeton; she discusses her earliest memories; where the house was; several anecdotes about her mother and her youth; her father; floods; her family history; her father's arrival in Victoria in 1858; the gold rush on the Fraser River; the pack trains; the area around Princeton as she remembers it; more stories. Susan Louise Moir was her mother, and she discusses her life; her parents' early married life; the first settlers in Princeton; gold mining in Granite Creek; John Chance and other prospectors; how Princeton got its name. TRACK 2: Mrs. McDairmid continues by describing the first mines in the area; the Hope Trail; some characters; Chinese workers who worked for her father; stories; some characters whom she remembers.

CALL NUMBER: T0675:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. McDairmid continues with stories about the land around Princeton, some bodies that were found, building a bridge, a shooting among Indians, the Allison town site, Judge Haynes, Indian boat races at the river, potlatches, a shooting, the killing of a Nicola Indian, Merritt as a coal mining town, Dr. Tuttle's hanging, superstition among the Indians. Finally, she discusses her father giving the copyright to his stories to her sister. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Minute book.

Minute book, 1968-1969; records of the Princeton Board of Trade, 1945-1949, including minutes and correspondence, British Columbia Southern Interior Associated Boards of Trade, 1946-1949, and minutes of the Council of the Associated Boards of Trade of British Columbia, 1948.

Four diaries and certificate of discharge, 1919.

Presented by the United Church, British Columbia Conference Archives, Vancouver, 1976.

Notebook containing draft agreement for extending terms of payment for the Golden Sovereign Group of copper claims, situated near Aspen Grove, copies of telegrams sent by McConnell, and notes of assay records together with estimated production rates and costs for various mines.

Meteorological registers at Princeton, March 1, 1902 - June 22, 1942. A list of Meteorological Service of Canada international symbols for the designation of weather phenomena is filed at front of collection.

Membership list; minute books, 1917-1939, 1945-1948.

The fonds consists of files containing correspondence, clippings and reports, as well as manuscripts relating to local Similkameen history and individuals associated with the Similkameen district or the Presbyterian church. The fonds also includes a small accession of 7 graphic items (4 prints, 2 postcards, 1 negative). Three of these items have been described online.

The series consists of manuscript histories and biographies written by Goodfellow. Two of the histories are on the Similkameen district (one of which is a prepared speech), and the other two are brief biographies of a Presbyterian missionary and a pioneer in the Similkameen district.

Item consists of one typed address prepared by Goodfellow for the Board of Trade in Greenwood, B.C., on April 23, 1947. The address focuses on the history of the Similkameen and is divided into the following subject sections: First Nations [Indians]; fur; gold; copper; coal; community; and communication. Goodfellow was invited by Mr. Dodd (presumably a member of the Greenwood Board of Trade).

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.

• 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