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Assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Register of book accounts assigned for courts sitting at Vancouver Court Registry. Vol. 1: 1916-1924; vol. 2: 1924-1936; vol. 3: 1936-1948; vol. 4: 1948-1960. These volumes record agreements between debtors and creditors. They include the following information: case number, name of assignors, assignor's address, assignor's occupation, name of assignee, nature of instrument used, date of instrument, date instrument registered with the Vancouver court, and the amount of purchase or mortgage moneys. GR-3146 is an index to these volumes.

Civil case file 418/1917: Trustees and Executors Act vs. Estate of Henry Town.

Civil case file 499/1917: George Owen Buchanan vs. Barclay Shingle Mills Ltd.

This series consists of records of the Commission on the Economic Conditions and Operations of the British Columbia Electric Railway Co. and Subsidiary Companies, 1917. Commission records consist solely of the original signed report.

Minute book of cases heard before Judge W.W.B. McInnes, Feb - Sep 1917; and Judge H.S.Q. Cayley, Oct 1917 - Jan 1932.

Correspondence regarding transactions with 6% (six percent) Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (1926-1935); shareholder ledgers (1926-1947); and redeemed share certificates of 4 1/2% (four and a half percent) Perpetual Guaranteed Debenture Stock of Vancouver Power Company Limited (1918-1947).

The series consists of Vancouver Supreme Court Chambers Orders from 1947 to 1976. The orders are indexed and are contained in volumes 78 to 429.

Minute book of cases heard before Judge H.D. Ruggles, Nov 1919 - Nov 1931. Also includes lists of interpreters, official stenographers, and typists.

The series consists of one index book from 1920-1961 for Vancouver Supreme Court bankruptcy case files found within GR-2420 (1920-1948).

This series contains correspondence with Gerald Grattan McGeer, Member of the Legislative Assembly, relating to an inquiry about properties at Point Grey.

Loose material removed from the cause book to the Small Debts Court in South Vancouver. There are summonses, orders, and affidavits from 2 case files (7/20 Leesdale v. Perrin; 18/23 Hudson v. Janes), court calendars from July and September 1928, correspondence from 1926 and notes.

Cause book for proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act, 1920-1933. Vol. 1 includes cases also found in GR-1943.

Series includes correspondence relating to proposed grant of land to the Point Grey School Board (0.1 cm).

Sweeney Cooperage was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver-based international organization with branches in Montreal (ex John Paxton and Company) and Seattle (ex Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981. Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Company and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

Sweeney Cooperage, manufacturers of barrels, staves and headings, was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver based international organization with branches in Montreal (John Paxton and Co.) and Seattle (Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981.

Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Co. and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

Series consists of a diary of Vancouver water observer for 1922 giving details of his work during the year.

Minute books of cases heard before Mr. Justice D.A. McDonald, 1922-1931.

Constance Swartz was the daughter of English parents who had emigrated to Pender Island and Samuel Island. She grew up in Victoria and then lived in Vancouver and Kelowna where she worked as a newspaper correspondent interested in cultural affairs. She returned to Pender Island in the 1950s. The collection contains journals, notebooks, personal correspondence, drawings, poetry and publications pertaining to her family ca. 1923-1981; correspondence and published programs relating to cultural events, mostly in Vancouver, ca. 1930-1970; and correspondence and subject files relating to her life and work as a journalist in the Gulf Islands. Constance Grey was born 16 January 1902 at Victoria, the daughter of Ralph Geoffrey Grey and Winifred Grace Spalding Higgs Grey. Both parents were English immigrants: her father, who was a cousin of Earl Grey, the Governor-General, settled on Samuel Island; while her mother's family, the Higgses, settled on Pender Island. Through her mother Constance was related to the Spalding family also of South Pender Island. Constance ("Contie" or "Connie") and her sister Evelyn ("Evie" or "Eve") were educated at St. Margaret's School in Victoria. Later, Constance was sent to finishing school in England and to France to complete her education. Both sisters spent the summer of 1925 at the Church family ranch in the Chilcotin. On 27 May 1926 Constance married Englishman Barnard Box (born 1900). Their son, Rollo Grey Barnard Box, was born in 1928. Constance and Barnard Box were divorced in June 1933, at which time Constance changed her name back to Constance Grey, and her son's name to Rollo Grey. In July 1934, Constance married an American born musician, Ira Wesley Swartz (born 1902); they were divorced in 1946. Constance retained the name Constance Grey Swartz and never remarried; Rollo Grey subsequently changed his name to Richard (Rick) Johnson. Between the 1930s and 1950s Constance lived in Vancouver, first with Ira Swartz and later with her aunt and uncle, Mabel (Higgs) and Martin Grainger. She worked as a stenographer at a number of Vancouver law firms, hotels, advertising agencies, and cultural organizations. She was also involved in the arts community in Vancouver. During the late 1940s she worked in Kelowna as women's editor, reporter, music, drama, dance and art critic for the Kelowna Courier. In the 1950s she returned to Higgs family land on South Pender Island where she built a house called "Clakili". During the 1960s and 1970s she wrote a social and news column for the Gulf Islands Driftwood under the Chinook name "Cultus Coulee". On Pender Island she assisted her cousin Beatrice J.S.I.M. Freeman complete her book A Gulf Islands Patchwork. She died in 1981. Most notably, the records include musical programmes and correspondence relating to Vancouver's cultural life in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and files relative to the Gulf Islands in the 1960s and 1970s. Letters, journals, photographs, books, poetry, and songs make up the rest of the records. 152 photographs and negatives, including one photograph album, transferred to Visual Records accession 199009-009. File list available. Related records include: MS-0588, Martin Allerdale Grainger, MS-0604, Grey Family and MS-2698, John Granville Orton. The records were received by Richard Mackie and Jonathan Spalding from Mrs. Jean Connors of North Pender Island in the summer of 1988. Spalding and Mackie at the time were collecting garbage for Spalding Sanitary Services. Part of the collection had already been destroyed. Permission to deposit the collection in the Provincial Archives was subsequently obtained from Constance Swartz's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jean Johnson of Regina, Saskatchewan, who was executor of Mrs. Swartz's will.

Denys Nelson was a pharmacist in Vancouver, B.C. Records consist of newspaper clippings, correspondence, field notes, photographs re the British Columbia Indians including art, stone carvings, totem poles, houses, canoes, funerals, graves, obituaries of chiefs, weddings, potlatches, fishing, trapping, social life, political affairs, land claims, and missionaries; "The life and work of Father Coccola as related to Denys Nelson," 103 pages, typescript, 1924; "Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser," by Denys Nelson, typescript, 1927; notes on places and buildings in Vancouver, and the Fraser Valley; notes from an address by Harlan I. Smith, Dominion Archaeologist, to the Women's Canadian Club, Vancouver, 1925.

Series consists of Vancouver Supreme Court case files for cases handled by the Official Receiver between 1923 and 1949. Cases include bankruptcies and assignments.

Cause books (indexed), 1924-1925. In indexes, the first number is the number of the cause; the number following the name is the page number.

Fines book for Vancouver District Police Court, June 1925 - Jan 1949.

This series contains the Lands Service records relating to the University Endowment Lands [UEL] adjacent to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. They contain ledgers of lot sales which show purchase payment, improvement tax schedules, and interest charges. Boxes have nominal indexes. Box 5 is oversized. For related records, see GR-1068.

Scrapbooks, 1925-1950 (5 volumes) containing postcards, photographs, hotel and motel brochures, menus, tickets, time tables, place mats and other memorabilia collected by Mr. and Mrs. Scott Graham on vacations in Ontario, the United States (mainly New York, Washington, D.C., and Washington State), British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. The scrapbooks also contain theatre programmes, Anglican Church leaflets and Council of Women and Women's Canadian Church meeting notices, etc.

Civil case file 1/1925: Alfred James Mortimore vs. Sydney Charles Mortimore, Lillian Mecredy and Rose Tennant.

Certificates of limited partnership (indexed) stuck into an indexed scrapbook. Most partnerships are for a term of 1 year or 5 years.

Jack Gillmore, a pioneer in radio drama broadcasting in British Columbia, acted in and was responsible for the production of many popular radio plays broadcast by Vancouver radio stations CNRV (later CRCV and then CBR) and CKWX during the years 1926-1935. This unit consists primarily of radio drama scripts for plays presented by the popular CNRV Players, 1927-1932, and scripts for the "Radio Artists Revue" series broadcast by CKWX, 1933-1935. Also included are notes on early broadcasting in BC, notes on the CNRV Players and their scripts, clippings (original and xerox) about Gillmore and the CNRV Players as well as Gillmore's annotated copies of published plays which he adapted for radio.

Case files for proceedings under the Creditor's Relief Act in both Supreme and County courts.

This series contains records relating to the University Endowment Lands. Correspondence, memoranda, special reports, progress reports on the master survey plan and general administration of the University Endowment Lands, 1945-1958. Applications for employment, 1935-1936. Tenders for contract for Development Unit Nos. 1 and 2, 1926-1928.

Register of Tug-boat Men's Liens under the Tug-boat Men's Lien Act (BC Statutes, 1926-1927 Ch. 73) for Vancouver. The register shows the lien number, the date of filing, "By whom claimed" and "Against whom claimed". A photocopy of the Act has been put inside the front cover of the volume.