- GR-1055
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- 1883-1885
This series includes notes on various inward letters in Lands Dept. vaults, 1883-1885. Contains a brief synopsis of contents of selected letters.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
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This series includes notes on various inward letters in Lands Dept. vaults, 1883-1885. Contains a brief synopsis of contents of selected letters.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Records relating to miners' certificates and permits
This series consists of records relating to miners' certificates and permits issued by the Dept. of Lands and Works and the Dept. of Lands at Victoria. Includes Free Miner's Certificates, 1897-1912; Special Miner's Certificates, 1899-1906; Leave of Absence permits, 1895-1906; mining receipts, 1897-1903; Crown Grant fee receipts pursuant to the Mineral Act, 1911-1918.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Merchandise accounts and sales register
Store Book, Boston Bar Waggon (sic) Road, July 1862- November 1862, Rocky Camp (1 vol.). Merchandise accounts and sales register.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Indentures of Conveyance of church lands by the Bishop of British Columbia to Charles Thomas Wood, Archdeacon of Columbia, Henry P. Wright, Archdeacon of Vancouver, and John Foster McCreight; includes lands and church sites at Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich, Cowichan, Comox, and New Westminster.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Similkameen District land records
This series contains records relating to pre-emptions, subdivisions, Crown Grants, and town sites in Similkameen District. Consists of five registers, including Register of Town Lots, Tulameen, B.C.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Correspondence and contracts for public works projects
Part of Herald Street collection
The series consists of correspondence and contracts between Surveyor General W.S. Gore, on behalf of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, with various contractors regarding three public works projects. The projects are the building of the Victoria Law Courts, correspondence and contracts from February to June 1887; Kamloops bridge, correspondence and contracts from March 1887 to February 1888; and Lillooet Bridge, correspondence and contracts from August 1887 to March 1888.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Applications for government surveys
Part of Herald Street collection
Series consists of an indexed volume of applications to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works from individuals who have applied for pre-emptions or for the transfer of Crown land in British Columbia. Each application for a government survey has the name of the applicant, the date, the description of the property and usually includes a sketch map of the property.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
This series contains an accounts payable ledger from 1863, relating to wages paid and construction costs of the Cariboo road. Includes an alphabetical index.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Records of the Assistant Land Commissioner and pre-emption certificates
This series contains the records of the Assistant Land Commissioner, New Westminster, relating to pre-emptions. It includes pre-emption certificates Nos. 1-100, 967-1063, New Westminster District, (2 vols.) Nominal index.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
This series includes correspondence files relating to the administration, management, conservation and development of Crown lands and natural resources. Series 1: early chronological series (files created, 1877-1911). Series 2: 1912 series (files created, 1912-1917). Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans, 1877-1980.
British Columbia. Surveys and Land Records Branch
Records relating to the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Acts, 1903 and 1904
Contains land records file relating to the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Acts, 1903 and 1904. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal briefs and sketches pertaining to land disputes between settlers and the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company. File 145321/12, 1912 Series.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
The series contains correspondence inward relating to roads and road construction. These letters have notation that they were referred to J. Sprott, road superintendent, New Westminster district, for consideration.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Letter inward presenting bill for lease of building at Port Moody for use as provincial jail
Series contains a letter inward to Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, Attorney-General, from Andrew Onderdonk, 24 September 1886, presenting bill for lease of building at Port Moody for use as provincial jail. The letter contains 2 pages.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Letter inward regarding proposed water legislation and City of Victoria's water supply
Letter inward to Premier John Foster McCreight from Robert Beaven, 22 December 1871, regarding proposed water legislation and City of Victoria's water supply. Contains 1 page.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Registers relating to Crown Grants
This series includes registers relating to Crown Grants, Similkameen Division and Osoyoos Division, Yale District (2 vols.) Volume 1 is a register of Crown Grant applications forwarded to Victoria and includes date and disposition of application, name and address of applicant, legal description of land, Crown Grant number. Volume 2 is a register of Crown Grants and includes date of notice, number of grant, legal description of land, payment schedule, disposition and Grown Grant number. The registers are arranged chronologically.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Records relating to water projects
Series contains lists relating to water projects. List of Certificates of Approval for water works, diversions, dams, spillways, etc. issued between 1898 and 1911; includes grantee, date of approval, purpose and nature of grant. List of power, light and water companies, registered or licenced in the province of British Columbia, including those under statute, those with grants of water rights, and those with Certificates of Approval pursuant to the Water Clauses Consolidation Act (1897) and the Water Act (1909).
British Columbia. Water Rights Branch
This series contains correspondence and memoranda of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works with the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, Nelson, regarding land disputes. File 1 contains correspondence relating to the disputed pre-emption claim of E.P. Dunn at Slocan City, 1895-1897. File 2 deals with a three-sided dispute over lands at Bonnington Falls between the City of Nelson; L.A. Campbell's application for a mill site (under the Mineral Act), and the West Kootenay Power and Light Company.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Minutes of Executive Council relating to lands and resources for which no approval notices received
This series contains copies of Minutes of Executive Council (orders-in-council), relating to lands and resources for which no approval notices received.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Applications to purchase and lease lands in the Bulkley Valley
This series includes applications to purchase and lease lands in the Bulkley Valley, Skeena district. Includes affidavits and a list of applicants indicating lot numbers, acreage, and purchase price.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Pre-emption correspondence and applications, Lytton District
The series consists of correspondence and applications made to the Colonial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1859-1871, and its successor agency, the Provincial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1871-1874 regarding land pre-emptions in the Lytton district.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Pre-emption correspondence and applications, Cariboo district
The series consists of correspondence and applications made to the Colonial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1862-1871, and its successor agency, the Provincial Dept. of Lands and Works between 1871-1873 regarding land pre-emptions in the Cariboo district. Some of the correspondence regarding mining interests originated with William Cox, the Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo district.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Correspondence relating to compensation for privately owned lots on Bird Cage Walk
Correspondence relating to compensation for privately owned lots on Bird Cage Walk required for the Parliament Buildings. From Lands and Work files 4155/1892, 4457/1892 and 41/1893.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Correspondence relating to roads in Victoria district
This series contains correspondence relating to roads in the Victoria district. It includes a request for new road construction from the Victoria Driving Club and the Victoria Tourist Association, and correspondence about cows wandering at large in Oak Bay. Also includes a small sketch. Reverse of sketch not on microfilm.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Correspondence relating to safes and locks at the Parliament Buildings
This series contains miscellaneous correspondence relating to safes and locks at the Parliament Buildings. It includes a letter to F.M. Rattenbury from M.W. Waitt regarding vault door combinations.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Pre-emption record of Joseph Trainer at Oyster Bay, Cowichan District
This series contains a pre-emption record, Cowichan district, of Joseph Trainer at Oyster Bay, Chemainus. The series contains one page.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
This series contains miscellaneous bills, paid and unpaid, and a statement of personal expenses for liquor and alcohol, by John Boles Gaggin of Quesnellemouth (modern day Quesnel).
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
This series contains a specialized volume that pertains only to correspondence relating to applications for Burnaby lots (folio 12), the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Act, 1903 (folio 138), and the South African War Land Grant Act, 1901 (folio 158). They includes name of correspondent and letter or file number.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Registers of the Board of Investigation
This series contains registers of the Board of Investigation, pursuant to the Water Act (3 vols.) Volume 1 is a register of land, water, mining, power and light, and lumber companies incorporated from 1896-1914. The registers are arranged alphabetically by company name and shows date of incorporation, capital, registered address, and file references. They include miscellaneous file references dated 1918. Volume 2 is a register of water claims in the Alberni district from 1905 to 1908, with Board of Investigation file references. Volume 3 is an alphabetical list of companies with water rights claims that are undated.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Register of auction sales of lots
This series contains a register of auction sales of lots at Esquimalt, Hastings, Lulu Island, New Denver, Nelson, New Westminster, Vancouver, and Victoria. The register shows the name of the purchaser, a legal description, the amount paid and the terms of payment.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
This series contains one volume of an accounts ledger, receipts and payments. It also includes a ledger of expenditures for road construction, surveys and explorations, salaries, supplies, etc.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works