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CALL NUMBER: T4029:0001 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Warren "Slim" Cameron discusses game law enforcement under the Provincial Police, 1919-1929. Game Department was a "political organization". Bryan Williams. Comments on A.P. Cummings, warden for Fraser Valley and early commissioners Gary Bolton, Jim Cunningham, Frank Butler. Indian trappers a problem in the interior. TRACK 2: Slim Cameron recalls his policy of enforcement during the 1930s. Recollections of bootleggers and their methods, graft, in Fraser Valley, Columbia Valley, and Ladner. Use of Provincial police to quell disturbances in relief camps and in Anyox miners' strike. Cameron's involvement in Bagley and Fawcett bank robbery. Tact in law enforcement. Story of pheasant poacher. Shooting "for market" pre-1913.

CALL NUMBER: T4029:0002 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-02 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]

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).

The fonds consists of a diary, a notebook, miscellaneous accounts and letters.

Diary, 1882, kept while a police constable at Lytton; letterbook, 1890-1904, kept in Kamloops and Victoria; rough notebook containing report of inspection of Giant Powder Works, 1905 and miscellaneous accounts, 1908-1910.

The series consists of Provincial Police Force personnel records created between 1858 and 1950, mostly from after 1900. The records include applications, correspondence regarding applications, oath books, pay lists and other salary records, staff registers, nominal rolls and personnel cards. Some records may relate to staffing provincial gaols and game wardens.

The series consists of records created by the British Columbia Provincial Police between 1877 and 1925. The records relate to the Victoria district and include the following: Police and gaol diary, 1877; Provincial Police record books, Jan. 1894 to Nov. 1898; office diaries, 1911 to 1914 and 1921 to 1924; report book, 1916 to 1925; files relating to informations, warrants and depositions, 1893 to 1909; and deposition case files from 1919 to 1923 and 1925.

The series also includes correspondence files from Otway Wilkie, Senior Police Constable, Victoria, dated 1922-1923. This position is also referred to as the Officer commanding “A” Division. “A” Division of the BC Provincial Police Force included subdivisions for the Victoria and Vancouver regions, but had its headquarters in Victoria. The Senior Constable may have been located in the same office as the Police Superintendent, which was responsible for the entire province. Many records are to or from the Superintendent or include stamps from the Office of the Superintendent. These records include circulars, correspondence, game reports, coroner inquisition records, reports on various crimes. Correspondence may be with other police officials or from public reporting or providing information on crimes.

There is also a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Vancouver Daily Province from 1927-1928 created by the Victoria Criminal Identification Department. The clippings relate to a variety of crimes reported in the paper. They are arranged by date and indexed by name of the individuals in the paper. The scrapbook was likely used as a reference for tracking repeat offenders.

The series consists of letters inward re service with British Columbia Provincial Police, including notices of appointment and transfers, 1932-1947; police forms, including letterhead and blank Christmas cards; police records collected by MacAlpine, including information and warrants, Port Essington, 1909-1913 and prisoners' effects and description book, Bella Coola, 1914-1934; clippings re BCPP, mainly 1950; National Parks licence, Banff, 1922; published material including programmes for Christmas celebrations, Victoria, 1928, Victoria Day celebrations, Victoria, 1946, visit of Princess Alexandra, 1967, revised rules of the road, 1922; Gaol rules, 1940, BCPP regulations, 1945 and 1947, Criminal law in twelve lessons. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198207-18.

This series consists of a variety of administrative and operational records from the office of the Superintendent of the BC Provincial Police Force. The series includes records from 1861-1936, but records are predominantly from 1903-1936.

The wide variety of records have been arranged into 6 sub-series of records:

1. Administrative : equipment, statistics and finances. Most files consist of forms, correspondence or reports and statistics submitted from police divisions, districts and stations across the province to the Superintendent’s office. Some of this information was compiled into various ledgers in the Superintendent's office. Records regard lockups and stations; car, launch and mileage reports; Gasoline Tax Act exemptions; monthly financial analysis; monthly crime analysis, revenue analysis and collections; monthly revenue analysis submitted to the Attorney-General; monthly and annual financial statements for provincial police expenses in each municipality; and inventories of government property or equipment.

2. Administrative : personnel. Records include staff pay lists; lists of constables; and advances for constable expenses. This includes staffing data complied to answer questions asked of the Attorney General in the Legislative Assembly regarding staff who left police service and soldiers returned from World War I.

3. Operational : licences. This includes correspondence regarding the issuing of licences and records regarding the applications and issuance of licences. Licences issued by the Superintendent of Police evolved over time and include firearm licences, retail licences, trade licences, wholesale licences, liquor licences, and licences to operate an employment agency. See sub-series 4 for motor vehicle licence and GR-0446 for additional records regarding firearm, fishing, hunting and game licences.

4. Operational : motor vehicles licencing. Records regard the application, issuing, renewal and transferring of licences; payment and refund of licencing fees; accidents; as well as incidents related to the cancellation or suspension of licences throughout the province.

5. Operational : miscellaneous correspondence. Relates to a variety of subjects such as Special Constables at Sooke Lake Reservoir, licence districts, Industrial School supplies, and other subjects.

6. Operational : miscellaneous subject files and other records. Subjects include murders of August Carlson and Indigenous men Zelak and Kwa-zitl, Pinkertons investigations looking for wanted persons, a 1909 Cariboo stage coach robbery, hotel and liquor licence inspections, and the admittance of Lord Verney to a mental hospital. This subseries also includes some 1918 circulars and examples of cattle brands burned onto pieces of wood.

The series consists of records acquired and created by Colin Clarence Campbell, Clerk in the British Columbia Provincial Police Force, between 1941 and ca. 1950. There are copies of general orders, 1941-1947; nominal rolls, 1941-1948; salary lists, 1947-1949, and seniority lists, 1941-1948. In addition there are two police publications: regulations from 1945 and consolidated general orders from 1947, some lists of officers working in Oakalla Prison, 1944-1948, a list of officers and their dependents, 1948 and a list from about 1950 of the city and district municipalities policed by the R.C.M.P.

This series consists of multiple copies of transcripts of statements regarding the events of at CPR holdup and attempted robbery on 21 June 1909. There are three statements from different CPR employees recalling the details of the event which occurred outside Kamloops at Ducks. The holdup may be attributed to Bill Miner. The three employees are Mathew Fulton Crawford, Engineer; Harry Carpenter, Fireman; and Charles Lawrence, Car Repairer.

The fonds consists of records documenting the professional career of Hubert Mansell, an Inspector in the British Columbia Provincial Police. The fonds consists of photographs and textual records. The photographs are primarily group portraits of BC Provincial Police officers. The majority of the photographs are from the 1940s, but some are from earlier as well. A small number of the photographs have identifying information on the verso. The textual records consist of letters of transfer and recommendation, miscellaneous correspondence and a selection of BC Provincial Police nominal rolls from various dates (seemingly in support of personal research), and a collection of miscellaneous event invitations and ephemera.

This series consists of a variety of records created by the Provincial Police Force with an unclear provenance. This means the specific person or office that created or used the records may be unknown, or the records may not fit in with other existing series. The records were created between 1867 and 1950 and relate to several areas of the province.

The series currently consists of the following items and files:

-- Blank prisoner’s effects and description book, c. 1910;
-- Blank Liquor Act form and letterhead, c. 1910;
-- Receipts for miner’s licences issued by Constable Frank Trevor at Quesnelle Forks, 1867;
-- Bridge pass form book [mostly blank], 1950;
-- Lists of prisoner transfers to Victoria Gaol, 1914-1915;
-- Lock up calendars sent to the Chief Constable, Kamloops from police in Chase, Sicamous, Savona and an unidentified location, 1918.

The series consists of records created by the British Columbia Provincial Police between 1913 and 1921 relating to the enforcement of the Act to amend the Pool-rooms Act, 1913. Records include correspondence re applications for licenses and "Report on application", 1913-1927; counterfoils and licenses numbered 651-950, 1918-1921.

The series consists of records created by Inspectors in the British Columbia Provincial Police between 1908 and 1911. It includes correspondence inward to Inspectors J.H. McMullin (to Dec 1909) and Colin Campbell (Sep 1910 - Dec 1911); Inspectors' correspondence outward, 1909-1911 (indexed); and reports on inspection tours by Campbell, 1910-1911.

The series consists of copies of telegrams sent by the British Columbia Provincial Police in 1913 and from 1941 to 1945.

The series consists of records created by the Superintendent of Provincial Police between 1917 and 1929. The records relate to the Victoria district and "A" division and contain files relating to various acts including the Sheep Protection Act and the Poll Tax Act from 1917 to 1921; vouchers and correspondence re vouchers from 1917 to 1925; and vouchers and miscellaneous letters from 1928 to 1929.

The series consists of records created by the Deputy Provincial Secretary between 1914 and 1933 pertaining to the administration of funds for the "aid of the destitute, poor, and sick."

Between 1872 and 1942, an annual vote of funds was included in the estimates of the B.C. legislature. The fund, which was administered by the Office of the Provincial Secretary, originally contained $500. By 1935, this figure had risen to $110,000; but in the fund's final year of existence, 1943, the vote of funds had declined to $40,000.

The Indigent Fund, unlike the Mother's Pension, the Old Age Pension (1927), or the Veterans Assistance plans was not tied to an Act of Parliament, and thus relief was provided to people under a wide range of circumstances, and included many who failed to qualify for assistance under specific federal or provincial schemes. The fund was designed to meet the immediate and shortterm needs of rural B.C. residents (municipalities had their own funds) who through misfortune or bad planning had found themselves without "the necessities of life." The key to the fund, until the early 1930s, when the position of Superintendent of Welfare was created, was the Deputy Provincial Secretary, for it was often at his discretion that assistance was provided. He was aided in his duties by the various Government Agents, who were responsible for handling vouchers, disbursing cheques, and reporting to Victoria any new developments in individual cases. They, in turn, were assisted by Provincial Police constables who usually investigated each case and submitted a report.

The records consist of correspondence inward and outward from the Deputy Provincial Secretary's office; correspondence from Government Agents to the Deputy Provincial Secretary; Provincial Police reports on the condition of Indigents; correspondence from indigents or persons representing them to the Premier, Ministers, and the Deputy Provincial Secretary; and miscellaneous correspondence to and from various government departments and agencies such as Workman's Compensation Board, Department of Immigration, public hospitals, police departments etc.

The files are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the indigent. They are not, however, arranged alphabetically within each folder. There are two alphabetical series, as well as two sets of files titled "miscellaneous". All files have been preserved in their original order.

This series consists of correspondence outward of BC Provincial Police Inspector T.G. Wynn from 10 January - 12 April 1913.

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert "Steve" Brodie comments on protest marches during the Depression, including the Vancouver Post Office sit-down. 500 single unemployed travelled to Victoria on June 19, 1938. Recruiting extra Provincial Police to handle protest. Possibilities of action by single unemployed in Victoria at time of the Vancouver Post Office eviction. Reasons for Vancouver Post Office eviction of June 19, 1938. Communist Party of Canada and Post Office sitdowners. Relationship of Brodie to Communist Party. Infiltration of single unemployed by RCMP. Brodie's view of the law and the sitdowners. Brodie and Col. Hill, Sunday morning June 19, 1938. Single unemployed travelling to Victoria via Nanaimo. Victoria soup kitchen and abandoned hotels. Possible attempt to occupy Empress Hotel. Single unemployed move to Beacon Hill Park, then back to hotels. Philosophy of opposing bureaucracy. Thoughts on poverty. "Robin Hoodism" and the Communist Party. Anti-war feelings of the 1930s and the Bolshevik Revolution. "Class" in Canada. TRACK 2: Sitdowners after moving back to hotels. Colin Cameron's part in the settlement. Firefighting by the single unemployed. Christmas money earned by firefighting. Sabotage on the fireline. Attorney General Wismer's reaction. Newspaper views of the incident. Hutchinson and the Regina Riot (Detective Miller's death). Saskatoon Riot and Inspector Sampson. Civil service towns and single unemployed. Women's emergency committee. Dr. Mitchell and his wife. Business community appeals to Ottawa for works program. Doctors admit fake birth (death) certificates. Bridge River incident and birth fatality. Warden Owen of Oakalla jail. Police Chief Anderson of Kamloops and sick man.

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve Brodie discusses the Vancouver law court procedure and the unemployed. Victoria police and the unemployed. Vancouver police expert in Communism. Vancouver lawyer, Adam Smith-Johnson. Trial of men after the Post Office eviction. Provincial rights of travelling unemployed. Scam on railway tickets. Agreement for single unemployed not to return to B.C. for a year. Smith Johnson again. Comments on: Rev. Bob Matheson, Rev. Clem Davis, Rev. Andy Roddan, and Harold Winch and the Art Gallery eviction. Brodie's theory of the cure for unemployment. Brodie and Bishop Sexton. Dean Whitlow preaching against the unemployed. Radio on the prairie -- church services. TRACK 2: Radio church services. Church aid and attitude to the unemployed. Archbishop Duke (R.C.). Comments by Duke, Roddan, and McIntyre and the reaction of the unemployed. Brodie's orange sweater. Single unemployed women. Block committees. Stealing milk for the baby. Evictions and block committee help. Story of Scottish lady's eviction and result. Single unemployed women. Failure to organise single unemployed women. Accusations of boy and girl found in a boxcar. Frozen transients in boxcar. Brodie's theories of economics and unemployment. Administration of Royal Twenty Cent-ers.

CALL NUMBER: T1376:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): In the service of the British Columbia Provincial Police RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1975-01-10 SUMMARY: Mr. MacAndrew discusses early life and family background: arrives in Canada, 1926; experiences on the coastal steamer "Maquinna". Joined B.C. Provincial Police, 1928: training period; highway patrol, 1929-50; postings in Victoria, Chilliwack and Princeton.

CALL NUMBER: T1376:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): In the service of the British Columbia Provincial Police RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1975-01-10 SUMMARY: Mr. MacAndrew discusses: role in miners' strikes; escort duty in 1930s; opium, liquor and prostitution problems; policing the Doukhobors; postings to Princeton [strike], Castlegar, Richmond, Abbottsford.

CALL NUMBER: T1376:0003 - 0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): In the service of the British Columbia Provincial Police RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1975-01-10 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for these two tapes.]

CALL NUMBER: T4129:0001 RECORDED: Pitt Meadows (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert Leighton discusses his family background. Early duties with B.C. Provincial Police included maintaining order at points of labour unrest and controlling transients. Location of various postings. Review of game law enforcement under Provincial Police (1919-1929). Leighton's duties as "spare" warden. Control methods on opening days. Pheasant stocking. Importance of hunting for recreation and food supply. Need for predator control. B.C. trap line system a model. Comments about Frank Butler and Jim Cunningham. TRACK 2: Description of Maple Ridge District in the 1950s. Deer hunting areas. Port Moody pigeon hunt. Ruin of fishing on Coquitlam River. Many resident complaints about animals. Contribution of fish and game clubs and their role. Comparisons of system before and after the reorganization of 1956. Comments about earlier system when game warden ran his district.

CALL NUMBER: T4129:0002 RECORDED: Pitt Meadows (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert Leighton recalls wardens Benny Rauch, Leo Jobin, and Reg King. Advent of scientific research methods: some studies not based upon B.C. type environments. Disastrous policies re: Princeton area deer and reaction of warden Alan Gill. Polarization of department. Popularity of "Wildlife Review". Environmental groups well-meaning but have little direct contact with wildlife. Reflections upon career. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The fonds consists of correspondence, bulletins pertaining to association activities, a collection of B.C. Provincial Police documents, and photographs of activities of the association and of BCPP activities, including Doukhobor protests.

Daily diaries kept by Maitland-Dougall as Chief Constable at Duncan, August 1, 1892 - January 31, 1897, and at Hazelton Police District, August 10, 1909 - May 8, 1911 (folders 1 and 2); notebooks kept as Stipendiary Magistrate, Duncan, October 25, 1916 - August 20;, 1923, August 21, 1923 - December 14, 1926, and June 11, 1931 - March 19, 1932 (folders 3-5). Loose correspondence and clippings re Maitland-Dougall's retirement removed from folder 5 and filed in folder 6 with loose material such as reports, correspondence and tailor's bill removed from other folders. Commissions as Police Magistrate, Cumberland, and Stipendiary Magistrate, Counties of Nanaimo and Victoria, (folder 7).

Presented by R.S. Bayne, Victoria, 1985.

Series consists of a diary kept by Mr. Noble while special constable, Kamloops district.

The fonds consists of Graham's diary and a letter.

The series consists of records created by the British Columbia Provincial Police between 1899 and 1927 relating to the enforcement of the Licences Act, 1888, the Liquor Licence Act, 1910, and the Government Liquor Act, 1921.

The records include correspondence of the Superintendent; circulars; newspaper clippings; hotel licence application and renewal files; indexes and list and files relating to prosecutions and convictions.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alfred James Balment describes how he came west from Winnipeg in 1898; built railway bridges in Alberta and the West Kootenays; a description of bridge building; he became a conductor in ;1902 or 1903; describes "boomers"; was the conductor on Crowsnest line the day of the Fernie fire; took several loads of Fernie residents; was elected alderman in Cranbrook on the 'wet' ticket in 1914; Tommy Roberts was the mayor; dispute over replacement of local police by Provincial Police. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: Sperry Cline recalls the manhunt for the accused murderer Simon Gun-An-Noot.

CALL NUMBER: T0625:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. William (Bill) Broughton recalls the Chilcotin region of the 1930s. Mr. Broughton describes his life as he was born in Alexandria; his family; a description of Lillooet and Clinton before 1920; childhood memories of freighters and stages at Alexandria before 1913; how he joined the Provincial Police Force in 1930; being stationed at Hanceville; duties; the telephone system in the Chilcotin in the 1930s; a description of the Chilcotin landscape; and settlers in the early days. TRACK 2: Mr. Broughton continues describing the region; housing; refrigeration; present versus past landscape; roads; place names; Becher house; Eric and Lillian Collier's place; Eric Collier's book "Three Against The Wilderness"; more physical description of the Chilcotin region; and the attitude of residents toward law enforcement.

CALL NUMBER: T0625:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Broughton discusses several people who gave character to the Chilcotin region during the 1930s; the epic scale of the country; Indians; children; the spirit of the community; humorous anecdotes involving the telephone system and home brews. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0046:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-27 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott discusses his early childhood and education in England and Germany. Being given 3 years to live, he comes to Canada at turn of century. Clears land as a farmer in the Kootenays, assesses mines part-time, becomes a B.C. Provincial Policeman. Describes his experiences: patrolling U.S. border, finding missing persons, hiking hundreds of miles on foot with dog sled. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-30 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott describes police ethics of the times. An account of the relations of the police with the foreign and native communities who lived in the area around Nelson -- including Doukhobors. An account of the strikes which occurred on Vancouver Island in the early 1900s. Duties in militia and outbreak of WWI. Guarding the cable to Australia and Canadian readiness and mobilization for war. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1913 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-01 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott, veteran of WWI, gives biography 1905-1913. Pioneer spirit. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-01 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott gives an account of the trip overseas, troop training in England, and the movement of his battalion to France. He traces the movement of his unit in France and describes his duties ;and personal role in the operation. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-03 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott describes the gas attacks and Canadian losses at St. Julienne as well as life at prisoner of war camps. A description of the appearance of the camp, its facilities, its personnel. An account of work gangs, treatment of prisoners, escapes, punishment, Red Cross and his role as an interpreter. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-04 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott gives a detailed account of three years spent at camps at Mesched, Saltau II, Bohnidty, and Grafenfiderung. Descriptions of the daily activities of the prisoners, their labour (working in mines, field irrigation, food depots, freight), their leisure, their treatment. Also includes episodes of escape and punishment. CALL NUMBER: T0046:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-09 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott gives an account of his work with the B.C. government as a log scaler and grader, and his dismissal as he supported the Independent Labour Party (in his opinion, the forerunner of NDP). CALL NUMBER: T0046:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Thomas Cecil Scott PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-09 SUMMARY: Thomas Cecil Scott gives an account of the years from 1935 to 1972. A comparison of life and values of 1972 with those of former years (early 1900s). Comments upon and an analysis of Canadian identity. Opinions of the unification of the armed forces and Canada's role in world politics.