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Judgement indexes - debtors and creditors - giving plaint numbers.

The series consists of Vancouver County court judgement indexes from 1913 to 1952. Volumes 1 to 3 are arranged by the debtors and volumes 4 to 6 are arranged by creditors. The indexes provide plaint numbers.

Declarations of partnership (Nos. 115-378).

The series consists of declarations of partnerships made under the Partnership Act. Records in this series were created between 1955 and 1965 in the County Court of Golden. Records were originally housed in shannon folders, but have since been rehoused by the Archivist.

Declarations of partnership (Nos. 379-877).

Declarations of Partnership and Declarations of Dissolution of Partnership from Cranbrook (1905-1909) and from Fort Steele (1905).

Name changes by deed poll. Documents arranged alphabetically and indexed by present name from previous name.

The fonds consists of minute books and cashbooks of the Deep Creek Farmers' Institute.

The fonds consists of minute books of the Deep Creek Women's Institute.

The fonds consists of a certificate of incorporation, bylaws, and minute books of the Deer Park Women's Institute.

The series consists of transcripts of court proceedings, cross-examinations, examination of discovery, exhibit indices, closing statements, briefs, and reasons for judgement of Delgamuukw v. The Queen. The case was heard in the Smithers Supreme Court between 1987 and 1989 (case file 0843). Following the hearings in Smithers, the case reached the BC Court of Appeal and eventually made its way to the Supreme Court of Canada where a landmark ruling was finally issued in 1997.

The transcripts of the proceedings at trial, which consist of 369 spiral-bound volumes, provide a wealth of information on First Nations genealogies, traditional resource knowledge, and language, as well as details of the extent of traditional territories. The series consists of more than 23,000 pages of trial transcript and includes the testimonies of more than 60 witnesses. The series also includes the reasons for judgment. Gitxsan hereditary chief Delgamuukw (Albert Tait), who filed the Statement of Claim, passed away shortly before the trial opened in 1987 and was succeeded by Kenneth Muldoe who was in turn succeeded by his brother, artist Earl Muldon. The claim covered 133 traditional territories, which amounted to 58,000 square kilometers of northwestern British Columbia. Peter R Grant served as lead counsel for the Gitxan and Wet-suwet'en chiefs, and D.M.M. Goldie served as lead counsel for the Province.

The files are arranged as they arrived from the Smithers court registry. Boxes 1 to 13 contain the proceedings at trial. Boxes 16 and 17 include lists of exhibits which provide information on relevant archival collections held in repositories across the province.

Series consists of Delta Supreme Court divorce decrees absolute, decrees nisi, and orders created between 1974 and 1977 as well as one judgement from 1980. Between 1968 and 1985, a decree nisi required a three-month waiting period before a decree absolute could be applied for. During this time, a divorce was not legally in effect without a decree absolute. Also included in the series is a list of divorce petitions for August 1974-February 1975.

All orders are arranged by volume and folio numbers, as assigned by the Court Registry, and folders each include a nominal file list. The divorce petitions list is arranged by case file number and entries include a last name, an additional unknown numbering sequence, and details per case such as date discontinued or transfer to another registry. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51440-25.

The fonds consists of minute books of the Delta Women's Institute.

The Denman Island School District fonds consists of a register of pupils attending Denman Island School.

The fonds consists of minute books, case books, membership book, financial statements, and annual reports of the Denman Island Women's Institute.

The series consists of surveys, studies, reports, news releases, correspondence, budget submissions and cabinet submissions relating to a variety of dental care initiatives between the 1950s and 1980s. The records were created by the Ministry of Health's now-defunct Dental Health office and provide evidence of the functions of that office. They later passed into the custody of the Community Health division. The series consists of records relating to discussions about a proposed universal dental care system in British Columbia that would have provided varying levels of dental insurance for children, adults, and institutionalized individuals across the province. This scheme was presented to the public in 1980 under the Honourable Rafe Mair.

The series also consists of a variety of reports and surveys, including a dental health survey of Canadian provinces, a survey of British Columbia, and several reports relating to dental care of American Indigenous populations. It is unclear whether these records were created by a predecessor to the Ministry of Health, or if they were retrieved during the 1970s during a planning and research phase for the provincial dental care plan.

The series is covered by ORCS 62500-35 (project, program, initiative and strategy case files) of the Community Health Programs operational records classification system.

The fonds consists of correspondence, field notes, photographs regarding British Columbia Indians, miscellaneous notes on places and buildings in Vancouver and a manuscript.

Department of Agriculture ledger of expenditures under special warrant.

This series consists of a Department of Agriculture book of lists. The book records fruit inspectors (1920), B.C. students at Guelph Agricultural College (1913-1920), loans (1920), bulletins (1924), books on agriculture, films, and canning factories in British Columbia.

The series consists of reports acquired by the Deputy Minister of the British Columbia Department of Agriculture between 1927 and 1972. There are both published and draft reports which cover all aspects of agricultural issues including dairy farming, soil erosion, land reclamation, fruit farming, marketing, exports and irrigation. Many of the reports are illustrated with photographs, maps, graphs and other technical material.

The reports were written by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and other Provincial Departments such as Lands, Forests and the Water Rights Branch. Some of the reports are from the Federal Department of Agriculture or other agents. The reports are arranged numerically by numbers applied by the Deputy Minister's office although the attached numbers have come off some of the reports and there are gaps in the series.

The series consists of operational records of the Department of Anthropology at the British Columbia Provincial Museum and it's predecessor, the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology. The records are often referred to as the Wilson Duff Papers, as a significant portion of the series consists of original research notes made by Duff, curator of Anthropology at the museum from 1980-1965, in the course of his work with Indigenous communities in British Columbia. Some field notes of other museum anthropologists are also included, as well as correspondence, subject files, and records relating to totem poles in British Columbia.

Staff of the Department of Anthropology conducted research work documenting the history, culture, and languages of Indigenous communities in British Columbia. Records include field notes, maps, transcripts of interviews, correspondence, subject files, and copies of published and unpublished works.

The series has been arranged into the following five sub-series:

A: Wilson Duff research notes
B: Administrative records and correspondence
C: Totem poles 1950-1975
D: Subject files 1945-1968
E: Ethnology field notes

Fonds consists of records of the Dept. of Customs and Inland Revenue generated in the offices of the collectors of customs at Burrard Inlet, Nanaimo, and in Victoria. Types of records include ships' bills of health, general clearance papers and manifests (1872-1875), a ledger (1882-1886), shipping documents (1892-1921), claims paid under the Bering Sea Award (1893), correspondence (1897-1899) and Agreement and account of crew forms (1889-1890).

This series contains records pertaining to school properties, school sites, and school district boundaries. Vol. 1: Index to Deeds of School Sites, 1886-1948 (provides name of school, date when school district established, legal description of site, and name of vendor of property); Vols. II and III: Index to B.C. Gazette notices defining rural and assisted school districts, 1921-1945; Vol. IV: Alphabetical Register of Rural and Assisted Schools, 1921-1944 [showing dates of establishment, boundary and name changes, etc.]. The series also includes files containing miscellaneous contracts and fire insurance policies, 1914-1934. Vol. I may be used in conjunction with GR-1440, Lands Branch correspondence, File 2655/07.

This series consists of Department of Education records. Records include contracts and bonds with text-book companies; and bequests, including a trust deed between Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia and Toronto General Trusts Corporation regarding Norah Elizabeth Coy and between Canadian Teachers' Federation and Mary Louise McLennan. Also includes a copy of Memories, 1923-1930 (Stratford, Ontario, 1941) by M.L. McLennan.

This series contains correspondence inward to J.W. Gibson, Director of Elementary Agricultural Education. The series includes reports on "Caring for School Gardens" [1913] and notes on correlation of rural science with manual training. It also includes "Remittance Forms" from "Patriotism and Production School Campaign" [1917], a patriotic fund-raising exercise held in schools to assist the war effort. The forms give the name of schools, teachers, and a description of projects undertaken by pupils. There are over one hundred (mainly) rural schools represented. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-0458 and GR-1446 (Elementary Education correspondence, 1915-1929).

This record series was maintained by the Administrative Services Branch of the Department of Education and relates to almost every facet of the Department's work. It includes correspondence of the Minister and department staff with the public and associations such as the B.C. Parent Teacher Federation, B.C. School Trustee's Association, B.C. Teachers' Federation and Canadian Association for Adult Education as well as correspondence with educational institutions including private schools, colleges and universities.

There are also 12 architectural drawings of schools, removed and given map registration numbers 24231C - 24242C.

The results of school trustee elections in B.C., 1962-1966, are also included in this collection in box 30.

This record series is composed of the 1960-1963 files of the then Minister of Education, the Hon. Leslie Peterson. The files contain his ministerial correspondence and briefs that he received as a member of the cabinet. The filing system is not consistent over the four years.

The files contain material on almost all types of education activity in the province including home economics, correspondence schools, curriculum, community programs, private schools, technical and vocational education, text books, tests, standards and measurements, religious education, teacher recruitment, the school attendance of Doukhobor children and other subjects. They also contain correspondence with the B.C. Parent Teacher Federation, the B.C. School Trustees Association, the B.C. Teacher's Federation, the Canadian Education Association, the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, Jericho Hill School for the deaf and blind and other interest groups and educational institutions.

The series consists of Associate Deputy Minister A.E. Sole's subject files arranged alphabetically by file title. The records include correspondence and reports dealing with schools, colleges, teachers, curricula, libraries, and various other education-related topics.

This series consists of Department of Education newspaper clipping books, 1903-1919; 1920-1931; and 1932-1938.

The series includes records relating to three inquiries into various educational matters, and include correspondence, transcripts of evidence and reports on:
Commission on the Board of School Trustees of Vancouver, 1913
Commission Re Board of School Trustees of the City of Nelson, 1912
Commission to investigate the charges brought by Miss [Agnes] Gertrude Donovan of Victoria against the Department of Education, 1903-1908