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Series includes correspondence, 1910-1912; minute books, 1907-1952; transaction records, 1907-1955; daily bulletins, 1928-1955; financial records; papers re Howe Investment Ltd., and Vancouver Curb Exchange.

Researchers should note that volumes 42 to 49, 54, and 57 to 60 were discovered to be missing when the records were described and rehoused.

Series consists of 11 volumes containing minutes of directors' and shareholders' meetings, a shareholders register and share certificate counterfoils, and an accounts ledger, as well as a box containing a notice from the Registrar of Companies.

There are 1906 and 1911 notations on some of the volumes and records, referring to the two companies.

Sweeney Cooperage was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver-based international organization with branches in Montreal (ex John Paxton and Company) and Seattle (ex Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981. Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Company and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

Sweeney Cooperage, manufacturers of barrels, staves and headings, was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver based international organization with branches in Montreal (John Paxton and Co.) and Seattle (Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981.

Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Co. and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

Partnership records documenting declarations and dissolutions of partnership. GR-0930 is the index to these volumes by the name of the firm rather than the name of the partners.

Series consists of correspondence, shipyard job books, moorage books, and financial records.

The series is a memoranda from the Registrar of Companies (Victoria) indicating dissolution of partnerships registered in the Vancouver County Court. The memoranda are stapled to a photocopy of the certificate of partnership.

Invoices and business correspondence, 1969-1970; University of British Columbia Summer Session Association Bulletins, No. 2-7, no date; posters printed for University of British Columbia Cinema - 16, 1968-1969; samples of handbills and other material printed by Lighthouse Press; copies of "Community: 1"; "The Dangling Conversation"; and "below zero" by Stephen Scobie. Books of poetry (9) printed by the Lighthouse Press transferred to BC Archives Library.

Purchased from William Hoffer, Vancouver, 1978.

Certificates of limited partnership (indexed) stuck into an indexed scrapbook. Most partnerships are for a term of 1 year or 5 years.

Individual indexes to partnership declarations found in GR-2568.

The Hat Creek Ranch was formed in 1910 by Charles Gottfried Doering when he purchased the McCosh, O'Hara and original Hat Creek Ranches and amalgamated them. The ranch, which was located in the Bonaparte Valley near Ashcroft, was a cattle and horse-breeding, as well as an agricultural centre. Hotel Hat Creek was also situated on the ranch and was operated by Doering.

In addition to his ranching interests, Doering was involved in the brewing industry and associated hotel trade. He was president of the British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., which was incorporated in 1911 following an amalgamation of three other breweries. Until prohibition in 1917, he was also involved in the operation of several Vancouver hotels.

Business records of the Hat Creek Ranch, including account books and land, water and livestock records, and of British Columbia Breweries and Hotel Hat Creek. The business records reflect the day-to-day business operations of Hat Creek Ranch and, to a lesser degree, Hat Creek Hotel, first under Doering and later under John Basil Jackson. There are also records related to land transactions, grazing leases, water rights applications and breeding. Also included is correspondence regarding Doering's brewery and non-local hotel interests which deals primarily with the windup of British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., and his divestiture of his hotels.

This series consists of 13 volumes of individual firm indexes from the County Court of Vancouver, 1894-1964.

Inventory of records deposited in the archives of the Company and with the Vancouver City Archives.

Presented by Anthony P. Farr, BC Telephone Company, 1978.

Correspondence regarding transactions with 6% (six percent) Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (1926-1935); shareholder ledgers (1926-1947); and redeemed share certificates of 4 1/2% (four and a half percent) Perpetual Guaranteed Debenture Stock of Vancouver Power Company Limited (1918-1947).

Correspondence, diary, notebook, school certificates, report and essay, share certificates, biographical notes, papers pertaining to Mary Helen Flavelle; letters patent, licences, by-laws, inventory, indentures, financial statements and related correspondence of the Rat Portage Lumber Company. Includes copy of Final Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Timber and Forestry 1909-10. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198201-78.