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The series consists of miscellaneous documents gathered together by the Dept. of Education library:
(1) Report, Frontier College - Promoting Citizenship Among Migratory Workers in British Columbia, 1951 (includes photographs)
(2) Receipts, by schools, for B.C. Centennial Commemorative Project, 1958
(3) Centennial Commission Provincial Survey Federal - Provincial Youth Travel Program, 1966
(4) "The History Makers," seventeen films presented to the Hon Leslie Peterson, Minister of Education by the National Film Board of Canada, 1966
(5) Malaspina College - Opening and notes re. background of name, 1969
(6) Speech materials for minister, 1954-1968.

This series consists of records created by the Ministry of the Environment, the Department of Environment and their predecessors departments, such as the Department of Lands, Forests and Water Resources. The majority of the records were created from 1970-1977.

Records relate to department administration, organization charts, reorganization, pollution control, water resources services and the agricultural land reserve.

The records relate to all functions of the Department of Environment. This includes, but is not limited to, the creation and management of the Department of the Environment; managing protected areas; hunting; trapping and traplines; guide outfitters; fishing; Indigenous hunting and land rights; wildlife management, including wolf control; game farming; fish farms and aquaculture; water rights and management; Ministry centralization and reorganization; the establishment of the Environmental Lab; conservation and habitat management; water rights and water licences; flood prevention and mitigation; the creation and management of dams and dykes; land use; pollution, including air, chemical, solid waste and sewage; waste management, including landfills and sewage systems; coal mining; pesticides and herbicides; conservation officers, including enforcement and prosecutions; the drafting of legislation and orders-in-council; flood claims, control and prevention; and surveys and mapping.

Records include correspondence from the public and within government, briefing notes, meeting minutes, minister's speeches, Cabinet submissions, Treasury Board submissions, reports, agreements, legislation, agreements, policies, procedures, maps and photos.

The records were created by the following executive:

Ray Gillis Williston, Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources, 1962-1972
Robert Arthur Williams, Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources, 1972-1975
James Arthur Nielson, Minister of Environment, 1975-1978
Kenneth Rafe Mair, Minister, 1978-1979
Charles Stephen Rogers, Minister, 1979-1983

Ben E Marr, Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM), Water Resources, 1973-1975
Ben E Marr, Deputy Minister, 1974-1987
Allan Murray, ADM Conservation, 1978-1979
V Raudsepp, DM, Water Resources, 1970-1973
GE Simmons, ADM, Water Resources, 1975
GE Simmons, ADM, Water and Air, 1976
GE Simmons, ADM, Environmental and Engineering, 1977-1978
GE Simmons, ADM, Environmental Management, 1979-1981
WN Venables, ADM Environmental Protection, 1979
Ed H Vernon, ADM, Conservation, 1974-1978

This series consists of records of the provincial Department of Fisheries from 1902-1954. Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports and statistical data. The records in this series are arranged in 23 sub-series according to either form or subject matter and then chronologically within subseries. Most of the records were created by the office of Deputy Commissioner and its successors.

This series consists of Department of Health and Hospital Insurance executive records including files of the Minister of Health pertaining to hospital programs and hospital insurance service from 1972-1975. Most files are related to a particular hospital in BC.

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings of the Deputy Minister of Health relating to all fields administered by the Department of Health and its predecessors, particularly in the period 1955 to 1976.

The series comprises motion picture film materal shot by and for the Dept. of Highways, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. There are also a few brief items from ca.1935-1940s, presumably shot for the Dept. of Public Works. Most of the material consists of unedited (or rough-edited) footage documenting highway and bridge construction and maintenance around the province, along with a few items about ferry services. The series also contains a few complete film productions, including prints of "Deas Island Tunnel", "Highway on the Sea", "Men, Mountains and the Challenge", and "Rogers Pass", some of which were produced for Highways by the Photographic Branch of the Dept. of Recreation and Conservation.

The series consists of administrative files selected for microfilming by the Dept. of Highways from file range 2 to 1396 with gaps. Most of the original files were destroyed after filming.

This series consists of a systematic sample of early case files including some of the earliest applications for the Old Age Assistance, Disabled Persons Allowance and Blind Persons Allowance programs; case files from the Island Youth Centre; and files representing the generalized case loads of the regions, including social allowance, pensions, boarding and nursing homes, foster homes, unmarried mothers, and all matters that were dealt with by the Welfare Field Service.

In January 1975, E.L. Northup, the Associate Deputy Minister, sent out an operational directive (No. 201974/75) to all Regional Directors, District Supervisors, Municipal Administrators, Divisional and Institutional Heads and Senior Administration, requesting that the various offices send a random sample of their files inactive since 31 December 1966, to the Provincial Archives.

The sampling instructions were to "select every 5th file from each group until the sample is complete". A certain number of files were requested from each Region, the Island Youth Centre and the Division of Aging. Although the instructions were to sample only from files inactive since 31 December 1966, some of the files received do include material up to 1972.

Region 2 - 25
Region 3 - 15
Region 4 - 15
Region 5 - 40
Region 6 - 25
Region 7 - 15
Region 8 - 15
Region 9 - 15
Region 10 - 20
Region 11 - 50
Island Youth Centre - 10
Division of Aging - 25 of each case category cited (B.P.A., D.P.A., S.A., O.A.S.)

Although the instructions were to sample only from files inactive since 31 December 1966, some of the files received do include material up to 1972.

This collection includes some of the earliest applications for the Old Age Assistance, Disabled Persons Allowance and Blind Persons Allowance programs. It includes case files from the Island Youth Centre. It also includes files representing the generalized case loads of the regions, which usually include social allowance, pensions, boarding and nursing homes, foster homes, unmarried mothers, and all matters that were dealt with by the Welfare Field Service.

The fonds consists of records generated by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, its subordinate branches, divisions and agencies and predecessors, relating to the administration of Indian affairs in British Columbia. The fonds includes records created in the offices of the Indian Reserve Commissioner, the Indian Commissioner, and the Chief-Inspector of Indian Agencies for the Department of Indian Affairs and the Indian Affairs Branch. It also includes records of the Victoria office of the Indian Superintendent of British Columbia. Copies of records from the National Archives of Canada include microfilm copies of parts of RG 10 (central registry files and records of the Indian Reserve Commission) and photocopies of finding aids. Types of records from the office of the Indian Superintendent of British Columbia include records books, cash books, cheque books, letters of credit, statement of accounts, schedules, and requisition receipt books.

The series consists of three reports created by the Dept. of Industries: an interim report, 1921; fifth annual report, 1923; sixth annual report, 1924-1925.

This series consists of correspondence between the Department of Lands and Works and the Lieutenant Governor, or his personal secretary, from 1871-1895. The records were listed as correspondence book 479 and include an index of the included correspondence. Correspondence relates to a variety of subjects.

This series consists of Semi-official correspondence inward received by the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works (1901-1908) and the Chief Commissioner of Lands (1908-1910). Arranged alphabetically.

Letterpress copies of "semi-official" correspondence outward from the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, and, after the Dept. of Lands and Works was split in 1908, the Chief Commissioner of Lands. vols. 6-10. There may be volumes missing in this unit. The volumes contain nominal indexes of correspondents.

The series consists of 43 films created or collected by the Forest Service between ca. 1922 and 1965.

The fonds consists of records created and received by the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries and its subordinate agencies. Fonds includes log books for the Canadian government ships Sir James Douglas and Quadra as they served as lighthouse station tenders (1888-1906), and lighthouse journals believed to have been maintained by Captain James Gaudin on the British Columbia Coast (1902-1907).

The series consists of 11 volumes of correspondence outward created by the Provincial Mineralogist between 1905 and 1920. Each volume is indexed.

The series consists of a letterbook of correspondence outward created between 1899 and 1900 by the Minister of Mines. Some letters are signed by Provincial Mineralogist.

The series consists of 21 volumes of correspondence outward created by the Provincial Mineralogist between 1925 and 1934. Each volume is indexed.

The series consists of correspondence outward created by the Provincial Mineralogist between 1899 and 1902. Includes some personal letters.

The series consists of seven volumes of correspondence outward created by the Provincial Mineralogist between 1934 and 1936. Each volume is indexed.

Miscellaneous correspondence files of the Deputy Minister of Mines. Includes correspondence with the Geological Survey of Canada, 1935-1941; 1928-1929 prospectus of Salmo Consolidated Mines; 1901 draft list of Free Miners' certificates; and correspondence regarding various mining developments.

This series consists of draft reports and statistics created by the Department of Mines from 1902-1903. The records were likely used for the creation of the Department report in the 1902 sessional papers. The records include various statistics, including the production of coal and other minerals at mines around the province.

This series contains the correspondence inward to the Minister of Mines: includes 1898 report from Gold Commissioner, Telegraph Creek; correspondence with George M. Dawson, Geological Survey of Canada, 1899; a 1900 report on the collection of mineral statistics; correspondence relating to radioactive ores, the B.C. War Metals Research Board, and the B.C. Research Council, 1942-1945, etc.; correspondence with Federal Minister of Transport relating to the establishment of airports in B.C., 1939; notes on 1942 Dominion Provincial conference regarding wartime agreement on Peace River oil rights.

The series consists of a bound report which details the activities of the Department of Public Works from fiscal year 1934-35 to 1941-42. It includes details of activity undertaken by the Architectural Branch, Bridge Department, Equipment Branch, Accounting Branch, Surfacing Program, Survey Branch, Motor Vehicle Revenue and Registration, Highway Work, Dominion-Provincial Agreements and work undertaken by Electoral Districts.

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings of the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Dept. of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement, predominantly from 1971-1973.

The series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes of meetings of the Assistant Deputy Minister (Director of Social Welfare) created between 1965 and 1968.

The series consists of records created by the Deputy Minister and the Associate Deputy Minister of the Dept. of Social Welfare between 1936 and 1966. The series includes subject files, correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings and speeches.

The series consists of files created by the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare. They are arranged in alphabetical order and include correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings of the Deputy Minister.

The majority of the fonds consists of records generated by the Victoria office of the Dept. of Transport. The fonds also includes copies of reports of formal investigations into shipping accidents submitted to the Dept. of Transport. The fonds includes documents filed in support of registration of ships and copies of investigation reports. Types of records include correspondence, declarations of ownership, registered court documents, bills of sale, ship registration forms, certificates of survey and inspections, and reports. Records include material from the offices of the Mercantile Marine Shipping Office of Vancouver, B.C. including ships articles, log books, statement of engineers fees from the steamboat inspector and a minute book from the ship Pollalloch (1888-1952); records from the Carmanah Point lighthouse including lightkeepers diaries, lightkeepers journals, diaries of the engineer, engine room diaries, engine room detailed reports, fog signal operating reports, fog signal operating reports, quarterly returns of stores, a notebook containing weather statistics (1891-1965); and a diary from the Fiddle Reef lighthouse (1903-1940).

The series consists of 214 photographs, mostly glass lantern slides and glass negatives, created or collected by the Dept. of Agriculture sometime between 1900 and 1915.

The lantern slides contain images of fruit trees, orchards, farms, packing boxes, greenhouses, crops and other agricultural activity. A few have descriptive labels which indicate that they were taken in Victoria, Kelowna, Nanaimo and Summerland, and some have photographers identified (D.J. Dwyer, J. Howard A. Chapman and Edgar Fleming). These photographs may have been used for a variety of purposes including public lectures and as illustrations for reports. Some of the slides have been hand coloured. These slides are from accession 198012-018.

The glass negatives from this accession consist of two files. The first file contains 13 negatives identified as being from Atkinson's mushrooms; images of mushrooms and fungi from book on same and appear to have been photographed directly from George F. Atkinson's 1901 books called "Studies of American Fungi". The second file consists of 24 negatives identified as Morris Middleton pruning lecture. Middleton was an assistant horticulturalist for the Dept. of Agriculture and gave pruning workshops and lectures.

The 27 glass negatives from accession 198410-027 show farms and farm buildings, fruit and berry growing as well as fruit packing and pruning classes in Creston, B.C. in 1914 (F.B. Turner photographer) and photos of apple growing medals presented to the Government of British Columbia in 1909.