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Cornelius Bryant emigrated from England in 1856. He taught school in Nanaimo from 1857 to 1870, and then became a Methodist minister, serving in that capacity at Nanaimo, at several places in the Lower Mainland and Lower Fraser Valley, and at Bella Bella, before retiring in 1893. Records consist of correspondence, 1859-1895, including letters of introduction, letters inward concerning family matters and expenses, letters outward concerning the New Westminster congregation and mission work among Natives in the Nanaimo area, and a letterbook, 1870-1895; diaries, 19 August 1856 - 1 February 1857, 1 January 1857 - 6 January 1860 [A01745] and 1 June 1895 - 31 December 1902 (in letterbook, 1870-1895); sermon notes; scrapbook.

Indentures, mortgages and conveyances relating to land owned by James Rogers and Walter Ruthven Gilley. This unit also contains an invitation to J.R Gilley to attend the opening of the Parliament Buildings on 10 February 1898.

Series consists of records created by the Delta Plywood division and consists of administrative records in the form of general office files and plant manager's files pertaining to management of the British Columbia Forest Products plywood plant at New Westminster. The series consists of two sets of records: A. General office files from 1970 to 1985; and, B. Plant Manager files from the office of W. H. Pumfrey, in two runs dating 1977 to 1979 and 1985 to1987. Both sets pertain to all aspects of plant operations including products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained for these records.

Series consists of records created by the Delta Plywood division and consists of Accountant's Office financial records from the British Columbia Forest Products plywood plant at New Westminster. The records are annual budgets, working papers, financial statements and other files. They pertain to all aspects of plant operations including products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangement has been retained for these records.

Series consists of the financial records of the Douglas Plywood project, including correspondence with suppliers and distributors.

A few personal and family papers including testimonials to his wife from church groups, life memberships, an invitation to his daughter's wedding, newspaper clippings by and about Mr. Sipprell; journals of tours he gave to the Holy Land and the Orient in the 1930s: journals of trips made for Rotary International to California and the Southern United States, 1938-1940; journal of a trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island, 1946; reminiscences of arrival in British Columbia and of Columbian Methodist College; notes for sermons; various notebooks.

Transferred from Visual Records accession, 98203-100, 1982.

Letterbooks (indexed) of correspondence outward by Registrar and Sheriff, 1866-1890. The first section of vol. 2 also serves as a letterbook of correspondence outward for the Dominion Saw Mill Co., 1884-1885. 2 vols.

Dockets, May 1937 - Dec 1940.

Criminal assize calendars for Victoria. Also includes criminal assize calendars for Yale, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Clinton, Richfield, Kamloops, Quesnellemouth, Cassiar, Laketon, Glenora and Lytton, 1870s.

Transaction registers for ships registered at the Port of New Westminster, 1880-1889 (reel B09868), and 1889-1913 (reel B09869). The reels also contain Registers for various ports in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes, and for Aklavik in the N.W.T. Among details to be found are where and when the ship was built, owners, builders, number of decks, masts, details of rigging, etc., length, breadth, tonnage, details of engines, transactions relating to ownership and reason for being taken off registry. The Registers record transactions up to ca. 1950. (National Archives of Canada, RG 12, A 1, vols. 364 and 445).

Received from the National Archives of Canada under the 1990-1991 Diffusion Programme.

Ships - Registration and transfer - British Columbia

The item consists of a film record of BC Electric passenger railway routes and interurban service in the Fraser Valley. It shows the line's last run before it shut down in 1950. One sections documents the entire route, from the Interurban Train Depot at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver, through New Westminster, across the Fraser River, through Surrey, Cloverdale, Langley Prairie, Clayburn, Abbotsford (and other way points) to Chilliwack. Derelict cars are scrapped and burned at the Kitsilano yards under Burrard Street Bridge.