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Cariboo Region (B.C.) Series
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Correspondence and diary

Letter of introduction signed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and testimonial letters from H.K. Bloomfield, T.W. Nicholls, E.B. Wyngard, C. FitzRoy and J. Singleton, 1859; diary, 1864-1865.

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-1081
  • Series
  • 1953-1961

This series consists of records of the Land Inspector and Government Agent, Prince George, relating to government land reserves in Cariboo, Cassiar, Range 4 and Range 5 Land Districts. Correspondence, memoranda, plans, and reports concerning recreation, highway, B.C. Forest Service, railway, school and power line reserves.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-1338
  • Series
  • 1965-1979

This series contains correspondence, charts, plan map and report relating to the creation and staffing of the Cariboo Forest District. Types of records include a floor plan of Williams Lake headquarters, (1969), a report on the re-establishment of the Cariboo Forest District (1970), and field organization charts (1975-1979).

British Columbia. Cariboo Forest District

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-2842
  • Series
  • 1939-1948

Correspondence, oaths, jury lists and calendars for Spring Assizes in Williams Lake in 1937, 1939, 1947 and 1948. (4 files)

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Williams Lake)

Correspondence files of the District Forester relating to timber sales

  • GR-0959
  • Series
  • 1917-1933

This series consists of Correspondence files of the Cariboo District Forester relating to timber sales, 1917-1933. Includes logging inspection reports, timber sale reports, status inquiries, surveys, and sale contracts.

British Columbia. Cariboo Forest District

Correspondence outward from the District Forester

  • GR-1232
  • Series
  • 1959-1977

This series contains circular letters from the District Forester to field staff pertaining to forest protection, forest management, range management, office methods etc. The records include some circular letters from the Chief Forester to District Foresters. The records are arranged chronologically.

British Columbia. Prince George Forest District (1953-1978)

Correspondence, time books and other material

Series consists of letters inward, 1924-1937, relating to gold mining ventures, principally the development of Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company; time books, assay reports, financial records, prospectuses and circular letters to stockholders, papers relating to the Surf Inlet Gold Mines, 1912-1919.

Fred Marshall Wells was a prospector and mine manager in Wells, B.C.

The fonds consists of personal and business correspondence relating to gold mining ventures, principally the development of Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company, time books, reports, financial records and circular letters to stockholders. Also contains papers relating to the Surf Inlet Gold Mines, 1912-1919.

Photographs transferred to Visual Records, accession 197901-60. Maps transferred to map collection (see list at the end of this finding aid).

List of maps transferred to map collection

Cowan Family records

The series consists of Cowan family records including business records: ledger, 1887-1889, and daybooks, 1889-1892 and 1892-1894, Eagle and Paxton (Onward Ranch); reminiscences and scrapbook of C.G. Cowan re big game hunting, travel in the Yukon, Alaska, and British Columbia, and work as ranch manager and land agent, Kamloops and Cariboo; letters of his wife, Vivien Cowan to a friend, 1964-1970, describing life on the Onward Ranch, painting, artist friends, etc.

Creditor's relief procedure book

  • GR-3610
  • Series
  • 1909-1922

The series consists of one volume of the Creditor’s Relief Act procedure book. Typical entries include names of claimant and debtor, the amount of debt and costs, the date of judgement and a list of proceedings. Records are arranged chronologically and the volume is unindexed.

The records were created in accordance with the Creditor Relief Act (SBC 1902, c. 17).

British Columbia. County Court (Quesnel)

Day book

The item consists of a microfilm copy of a day book, kept by John Lyne, a blacksmith at 150 Mile House, Clinton, and Quesnel, between 1906 and 1914.

DeBeck family papers

The DeBeck family were residents of Victoria, B.C. Edwin Keary DeBeck was Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of B.C. (1949-1973).

The records consist of personal correspondence, notes, reminiscences by Edwin DeBeck and his relatives; essays on Indians of the British Columbia coast.

Photographs transferred to Visual Records, accession 198206-100. Published material transferred to BC Archives Library, see box 2, file 16.

Related records in 198202-19; 198202-42; 197909-10

DeBeck, Edwin Keary "Ned"

Diaries

Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co.'s diary, April 22, 1901 - Dec. 31, 1901 and Jan. 1, 1902 - Nov. 11, 1902 (2 volumes). The diaries are kept in a variety of hands including that of H.B. Ferguson, stenographer and time keeper (see entry of Dec. 7, 1901 and Henderson's B.C. Gazetteer, 1902.)

Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company

Diaries

James Cran was an accountant and manager for the Bank of British North America. During his career he managed the bank in Barkerville (ca. 1875) and in Dawson (ca. 1898).

This collection consists of Cran's account of a journey to Barkerville ca. 1870s and his diary written during a trip from Vancouver to Dawson in 1898.

Cran, James, 1848-1920

Diaries

Diaries kept by Mary Carolina (Williams), September 1922 - February 16, 1925. Mary Williams taught school at Mud River, B.C. (seventeen miles south west of Prince George) from 5 September 1922 to 27 June 1924. She then taught school at Park Court, Alberta; diary entries cover the period from 17 September 1924 to 16 February 1925. A typescript of the diaries has been filmed with the originals.

Diaries

Microfilmed collection of diaries produced by Wellington D. Moses the Black barber of Barkerville. The diaries in this series are from the years 1865, 1871, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1879 and 1880. These diaries were microfilmed in sequence with diaries and cashbooks held by the BC Archives, and can be located on reels A01046 and A01047.

Diaries and other material

Diaries, 1901, 1902, 1904, and 1911 (handwriting varies); correspondence outward, 1903-1908 and weather statistics, 1901-1907 (the original letter-press volume was in very poor condition and as a result the microfilm copy is frequently unclear); Discover Gold Mining Company journal, 1900-1909.

Diary

Diary, April 1 to October 2, 1875 about mining activities.

Diary and other material

"Diary of a trip down the Yukon River, 1905" by Evelyn Penrose, C.G. Cowan's partner (original and illustrated typescript); letter from Evelyn Penrose to his mother, dated Hazelton, British Columbia, June 17, 1906, describing his trip from Kamloops with Cowan and the murder of Max LeClair near Hazelton (typed transcript); offprints of two undated articles "from Rod and Gun in Canada" by C.G. Cowan - "Two thousand miles down the Yukon River in a small boat" and Caribou shooting in British Columbia"; photograph album with captions by C.G. Cowan entitled "Trip with the Honourable Maurice Egerton up McMillan River, Yukon Territory, 1907; "Early history of the Onward Ranch" by C.G. Cowan. Selected photos copied by Visual Records accession 198006-5.

Diverse mining records

  • GR-1771
  • Series
  • 1864-1896

The series consists of a small group of diverse mining records created between 1864 and 1896 by the Dept. of Mines and its predecessor bodies. It includes declaratory statements (Cariboo district) concerning the partnerships formed, applications for leaves of absence and mining court records from the Omineca district.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Essays and accounts

The series consists of microfilmed transcripts of short essays on various subjects, including the transport and mining industries in B.C., the history of B.C., descriptions of Victoria and other B.C. cities by Cariboo grocer Leonard A. Coton. Also includes accounts of car trips taken by L.A. Coton to the Okanagan, the Cariboo and on Vancouver Island in the 1950s.

Fee book

  • GR-0572
  • Series
  • 1862-1864

Cariboo-Alexandria County Court fee book, Aug. 25, 1862 - June 29, 1864.

British Columbia. County Court (Cariboo-Alexandria)

Fort Fraser Government Agent land records

  • GR-4200
  • Series
  • 1911-1980

This series consists of records related to land use, management and alienation in the Range IV Coast District, Range V Coast District and the Cariboo Land District. The records date from 1911-1980. The records were created by various government officials stationed in Fort Fraser and Burns Lake.

The series includes subject files and correspondence files with settlers discussing the pre-emption, lease and purchase of specific parcels of land.

Other records include certificates of pre-emption; lists of pre-emptions, crown grants, cancellations, purchases and leases; Cariboo country lands registers; Atlin Townsite land register; Endako townsite land register; registers of pre-emption records; register of purchased land; Fort Fraser hay and pasture lease register; one volume of government agent record of receipts and payments financial records; and one file of Smithers mining recorder correspondence.

British Columbia. Government Agent (Fort Fraser)

Fort George district lot registers

  • GR-2598
  • Series
  • 1914

This series consists of Cariboo Land District, auctioneer's agreements, subdivision lots 11385, at Fort George from 1914. The lots were subdivided from District Lots 343, 933, 934, 936, 938, and 1429, and are arranged randomly by lot and sublot, but numerically by certificate number, in each volume. Information may include date of sale, name and address of highest bidder and amount bid, deposit, and terms of sale. No index is available.

The series includes two volumes. Volume 1 includes entries for certificates 1-721, and volume 2 is 722-1385.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

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