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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.

Series consists of diaries (1863-1892) and temperature logbooks (1869-1887). Also contains miscellaneous correspondence, poems, jottings and bills relating to Scott.

Shows line of proposed flume and placer claims on Lowhee Creek near Jack of Clubs Lake. Accompanied an undated petition to Governor Douglas requesting a charter for building a flume on Lowhee Creek.

Draft of receipt form for shipments of gold by the B.C. Gold Escort, Richfield, B.C., 1863. (1 page).

The series consists of records created by the Cariboo Gold Commissioner between 1863 and 1868. It contains correspondence and indentures re mining companies and notes re court cases.

Photostat of original in Legal Surveys. Notes by Frank Swannel plot the progress of Palmer's expedition.
"To accompany report of 24th November 1862"
Inset: Sketch of the head of North Bentinck Arm. Scale [1:31 680].

Consists of a collection of unidentified account books from hotels, businesses and mining companies in the Cariboo district. The records have been acquired by the archives over a number of years and placed into this collection.

Shows streets and surveyed lots. This copy cropped and annotated to show Robert Watson's pre-emption and his lots in Clinton allegedly mistakenly sold at public auction.

This series contains an accounts payable ledger from 1863, relating to wages paid and construction costs of the Cariboo road. Includes an alphabetical index.

The item is a microfilm copy of a journal kept by King of a trip from New Brunswick to California and British Columbia from 1863 to 1865. It also includes several 1873 journal entries, lists of books read, letters sent, expenses and other notes.

"British Columbia mining adventure": letter-book copies of the letters Evans wrote to H.B. Jackson, who financed the group of Welsh miners Evans brought to British Columbia, to keep him informed of the group's activities, progress, expenses, etc. The first letter is dated April 15, 1863 and describes events from December, 22, 1862; the last letter is dated November 6, 1864.

Mineral Claims Mortgage Register, 2 vols. This register is a record of mortgages held on mineral claims, of construction and work agreements, and of various indentures relating to mines at Antler Creek, Grouse Creek, Canadian Creek, Lowhee Creek, Jack of Clubs Creek, Stevens Creek, French Creek, Beggs Gulch, Valley Creek and Mosquito Creek. Volume 2 consists of an alphabetical index.

The series consists of various records created by King including reminiscences entitled "Trip to California"; a typewritten transcript of a trip from New Brunswick to Quesnel via Panama, 1863-1864, with a brief account of activities in Quesnel in 1865; pocket diary from 1864 containing accounting entries, and under dates March 16-21, an account of a "Trip from Mouth Quesnelle to Big Bend" dated March 25 to April 12; seven letters addressed to "Willie", from R.W. Carrall dated Barkerville, 1867 and 1868; conveyances to W.C. King of interest in Minnehaha and the United Mining Company by R.W. Carrall, 1868.

This series consists of five volumes of Magistrate's record books from the Quesnel Provincial Court. Volumes are an account book, 30 Jun 1864 - 26 Sep 1865; charge book 24 Aug 1896 - 30 Jul 1902; charge book and notebook, 03 Sep 1918 - 09 Jul 1920; notebook, 30 Dec 1947 - 12 Apr 1950; and notebook, 18 Jun 1950 - 10 Oct 1950.

This series contains legal opinions offered by Attorney General on a wide range of subjects. For more information on the subjects covered, please consult the attached finding aid.

Letters from Thomas McWatters to his father and sisters near Prescott, Ontario, written from New York and San Francisco and from Cameronton, where he worked as a miner. Photograph transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-9.

Purchased from C.M. Boyer, Kelowna, 1976.

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).

This series consists of a wide variety of records received or created by government officials in the Cariboo region from 1868 to 1915. Most of the records are addressed to government officials or were created by courts in the following places: Richfield, Barkerville, Quesnelle Forks and other locations in the Cariboo district. Over the years, the government offices responsible for the entire Cariboo district were located in each of these towns. The majority of the records appear to have been received by the Government Office, Richfield.

At this time government offices held a very wide range of responsibilities which could be done by as few as one person. The records relate to several government officials: the Gold Commissioner, Government Agent, Magistrate, County Court judge and Supreme Court judge.

The majority of the records are related to leasing, purchasing or gaining access to water for mining claims. This includes some records from the Gold Commissioner court.

There are also many county court and supreme court records. These records include summons; wills; probate and other estate records; search warrants; assizes; court transcripts; evidence; coroner inquest records; assize court calendars; sheriff records; and notes of the Board of Liquor Licence Commissioners approving renewal of liquor licences.

Other types of records include general correspondence from settlers; census data; voters lists; voter registration forms from Keithley Creek; criminal statistics; Land Ordinances; pre-emption records and other records related to the Land Act; naturalization oaths; indentures; receipts and financial records; maps; petitions for liquor licences; a BC Savings Bank (Cariboo Branch) depositors book; and a register of letters inward and outward for 1910-1915.

Miscellaneous court documents, civil and criminal, at all court levels. Includes summonses, exhibits, warrants, orders, affidavits and sheriff forms, from Barkerville, Quesnel, Soda Creek, Richfield and Lytton.