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Records of a U.S. commission on records of federal officials

Selected records of the National Study Commission on Records and Documents of Federal Officials. This Commission, also known as the Public Documents Commission, was established on 19 December 1974 when President Ford signed the Public Documents Act into law (PL 93-526, Title II). The 17 member commission, headed by former Attorney General Herbert Brownell, was organized in Dec. 1975 and assigned to study problems and questions relating to the control, disposition and preservation of records and documents produced by or on behalf of federal officials. In its report to Congress, the Commission recommended public ownership of the records and papers produced by the President, Vice President, members of Congress and the federal judiciary. The records on microfiche consist of background material, testimony, statements and reports presented to the Commission. The Commission's final majority and minority reports are not included.

United States. National Archives and Records Service

Records relating to CANOL project and Alaska Highway

This series contains records relating to the CANOL Project and the Alaskan Highway. The CANOL (Canadian Oil) pipeline project, conceived in response to fears of a Japanese invasion of Alaska, 1942, consisted of the construction of a road and pipeline from the Norman Wells (NWT) oil field to a refinery at Whitehorse which served as a junction for pipelines to Alaska and Alberta to supply refined petroleum products necessary for the defense of Alaska and the Canadian North. This body of records, part of the National Archives and Records Service's Record Group 338 - Records of the United States Army Commands, consists of general orders. international agreements, organization manuals, reports, briefs, correspondence and administrative records relating to the CANOL Project and the Alaskan Highway.

United States. Army Service Forces. Northwest Command

International Fact Finding Committee (Canada-United States, 1931)

This series contains International Fact Finding Committee records to October 1931. In the early 1930s, separate Canadian and American committees (Canadian 1931, US 1930) were formed to study the proposed B.C.-Yukon-Alaska highway. The two committees met as a joint fact finding committee in Victoria in 1931. The Canadian committee did not publish a report but reported the results of its investigation to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The published report of the American commission contains information collected by the Canadian committee. This volume, which contains material relating to the study and the joint meeting, consists of notes on the joint meeting, route reconnaissance reports, preliminary construction estimates and individual reports on mineral, forest and water resources in the proposed route areas of British Columbia (2 copies).

International Fact Finding Committee (Canada-United States, 1931)

Immigration Branch ship's passenger lists

This series contains Ships' Passenger Lists of the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior. These records (part of the National Archives' Record Group 76) are passenger lists for various ships arranged chronologically by date of arrival for the ports of Vancouver and Victoria 1905-1919. Also included in this series are lists of ship arrivals at Vancouver and Victoria 1900-mid 1908, prepared by the National Archives-of Canada, and "Reports of Monthly Steamship Arrivals" for the ports of Vancouver, Victoria and adjacent Pacific ports 1905-1922.

Canada. Immigration Branch

Canada. Dept. Of Marine And Fisheries.

Transaction Registers for ships registered at Victoria 1867-1908 and Vancouver 1891-1898 and 1917-1945. The reels also contain Registers for various Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports 1841-1950. Among details to be found are where and when ship was built; owners; builders; number of decks, masts, details of rigging etc.; length, breadth, depth; tonnage; details of engines; changes of ownership and final fate of ship (i.e. reason for being taken off Registry). Some Victoria volumes are indexed.

Reel B08475 (NAC reel C-1214, Vol. 147) Victoria 1897-1908
Reel B08476 (NAC reel C-3184) Quebec, Ontario, Victoria
Reel B08477 (NAC reel C-3185) Weymouth, Annapolis, Victoria
Reel B08478 (NAC reel C-3188)

Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries

Immigration Branch border entry lists

Border entry lists, 1908-1918, of the Immigration Branch. This unit contains those reels which have British Columbia entry ports on them although other Canadian entry ports do appear.

Canada. Immigration Branch

Correspondence between Edward Sapir and James Alexander Teit

The series consists of microfilm copies of the correspondence of Edward Sapir, Chief of the Anthropological Division, with James Alexander Teit. The correspondence relates to the ethnology, linguistics, and politics of British Columbia First Nations. The series is arranged chronologically.

Canada. Geological Survey

Royal Commission on Indian Affairs in British Columbia (1913-1916) : transcripts of evidence

The records include transcripts of evidence taken at hearings (1913-1916) and copies of minutes of decision for Cowichan, New Westminster, Okanagan, Kamloops and Lytton agencies taken by the Indian Reserve Commission (1876-1880).

See MS-1056 for typed transcripts.

Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia (1913-1916)

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