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Series contains records relating to an application for a Crown grant of coal lands near Nanaimo, B.C., by Ellen Wenborn. Includes correspondence, affidavit and agreement related to Lands file 26911/10.

Series consists of one Nanaimo Supreme Court Registrar's assize record book for 1888 to 1912.

Original textual records were destroyed after microfilming. Use microfilm copy.

Mechanic's lien register.

The series consists of two registrar's assize record books. One dates from December 1882 to July 1884, and the second dates from 1887 to possibly 1888. The first volume was kept by the registrar (Marshall Bray) and served as a minute book, bench book and record book. It includes several Petit and Grand Jury lists. The second volume was not kept by Bray, but was presumably kept either by his successor or another courts employee working in a similar capacity.

Both volumes include a great deal of witness statements concerning particular cases. Many of the cases deal with Chinese or Indigenous residents of Nanaimo and the surrounding area. The statements are frequently lengthy and often appear to have been recorded verbatim. There are notes regarding translations.

The series consists of an indexed letterpress book kept by the Registrar of the Nanaimo Courts, 1911-1916. It mostly contains answers to routine inquiries and covering letters. Many letters are unreadable.

Series consists of one bench book for Colony of Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice civil and criminal cases heard by Judge David Cameron at Fort Victoria from November 1853 to January 1856 and one criminal case at Nanaimo in May 1854. It also includes civil cases heard at Victoria in the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1856. The volume additionally served as a criminal record book for 1853, a cause book for 1856, and a Registrar's record book for 1853. It opens with a notation that Judge Cameron's commission was read and that he took his seat on 6 October 1853. The Registrar also notes that he received the court seal from Judge Cameron.

Grand and Petit Jury Register for Nanaimo; alphabetical lists giving name, occupation and address.

Civil case files.

The fonds consists of the wastebook [accounts book] of Fort Nanaimo, 1854-1861,reflecting the various activities of the HBC in the Nanaimo area. It also includes a transcript copy of Fort Nanaimo correspondence between Joseph W. McKay and James Dougas, 1852 to 1853, and a transcript copy of the Fort Nanaimo journal, 1855 to 1857.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Annie McLeod, wife of George McLeod, describes her arrival in Nanaimo in the ship "Maude"; mining on Texada Island; her father James Raper and the Cornell Mine in 1898; and a description; of Marble Bay, Van Anda in 1900. She then offers her impressions of her father; Van Anda, including the church and opera house; the Columbia Coast Mission and Hospital; and copper mining. She describes her arrival at Vananda; union steamships; Van Anda company town life; Gilles Bay; the 1913 "Cheslakee" shipwreck; the origin of the Van Anda name, involving Harry Whitney Treat; the town's decline in 1921 and the re-growth after WWII with new mining prospects; the influence of Treat; and comments on Van Anda in the past and present. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. A (Ethel) Cadorin acts as a translator for her mother, Katri Riksman, who recalls the Finnish community of Sointula on Malcolm Island. Mrs. Riksman describes her father, Matti Riksman, ;and the beginnings of the Sointula community; earlier settlements in Nanaimo, Hoquiam and Australia. Then she discusses the ideals of Sointula and Kaleuan Kansa; her own impressions upon arrival in Sointula in 1902; the fire of 1903 and its consequences; and the breakdown of Sointula. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "The Inland Sea" is number 12 in the series. A tour of the Gulf of Georgia, with stories of the people and places on the Gulf; including the Gulf Islands, Nanaimo, Comox, and inlets on the mainland. Stories of the coastal boats. Voices heard include: Ruth Jackson, Ada Dawe, Ida New, Freda New, Constance Swartz, Bea Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Geraldine Hulbert, Jud Johnstone, Clarence Joe, Joe Kneen, Ronald Norris, Donald New and Bill Law. The opening narrative about a sailboat in the gulf is drawn from reminiscences of Harry Roberts of Cape Coburn.

SUMMARY: The history of Nanaimo and the local coal mining industry (including the bitter coal miners' strike of 1913), followed by stories about childhood on the Gulf Islands. The voices heard are: Ida New; Freda New; Constance Swartz; Beatrice Freeman; Dorothy Richardson; Geraldine Hulbert; Joe Kneen; Ronald Norris; and Donald New.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the area between Qualicum and Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, including Alberni, Bowser, Nanaimo, and Parksville. Some interviews also deal with First Nations culture and society, and with the story of cult leader Brother XII.