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This series consists of a Supreme Court record of cases heard at Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland, Greenwood, and Victoria, 1905-1907.

Rossland probate/estate files. For additional files from this time period see GR-2254.

This series contains cause books for civil cases.

The series consists of plaint and procedure books from the County Court of Rossland from, 1897-1976. There are notes regarding snowfall in the area, 1896-1903, inside the back cover of volume one. Books contain primarily civil matters, including some estate administration, as well as appeals and some criminal matters under the Speedy Trials Act.

Researchers should note that one page from the volume 6 defendant index was missed during microfilming. This page has been scanned and is included at the end of the PDF file list.

Probate cause books (indexed).

Provincial Police Court record books showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks", 1919-1935; 1937-1950.

Report of the license inspector, William Harp, to the City of Rossland regarding hotels in the city. Includes information on the capacity and condition of 38 hotels.

Plaint and procedure books, 1895-1911, 1915-1923; 1940-1956 (some indexed). Also includes list of cases heard at Nelson, 1899.

This series consists of cause books from the Supreme Court of Rossland from 1946-1967 and 1974-1978. The books include primarily civil matters, as well as probates, estate administration, divorce, and adoption. May include some criminal cases.

Probate files. Handwritten file list in box 1/file 1. For probate files from 1919-1941 see GR-1429. For additional probate files from 1942-1950 see GR-2254.

The series consists of probate/estate files probated by the Rossland registry between 1934-2004. Series includes only a few records from 1943-1950 and consists primarily of records from 1951-2004.

Probate orders and other documents relating to estates. Box 1, file 1 contains a handwritten list giving plaint numbers, name of the estate and the name of the documents retained (Orders, Inventory X & Y, Wills) and the information that all documents in files 1/97 to 78/22 with the exception of 108/21 and 25/22 were approved for destruction by OIC no. 1449.

Judgements. Box 1, file 1 contains a handwritten list giving plaint numbers, the style of cause (up to 50/30), and the documents retained as well as the plaint numbers for files which were approved for destruction.

The series also consists of a judgment in the case of Elizabeth Graham v. A. Folden and Elizabeth Folden (82/1919) that was signed and filed in 1926.

Civil case files with the exception of probate/estate files (GR-2415) and appeals of criminal convictions (GR-2747) which have been removed from this series and are filed separately.

Probate/estate files.

Firm index, 1898-1921; individual index, 1898-1921.

Orders with the exception of probate orders which are filed separately (GR-1429 and GR-2253). There is a handwritten file list in the first file of box 1.

Probate cause books (indexed).

Selected Rossland Supreme Court civil case files.

Divorce case file (Chester Frederick Buchanan v Margaret Elise Buchanan and William Przybylskie aka William Watson).

Case files of appeals from criminal convictions; many are from a contravention of the Wartime Prices and Trade regulations.

Plaintiff index to Rossland plaint and procedure book volume 8 (GR-1631).

The series consists of original wills probated between 1986 and 1998 in the Rossland Supreme Court registry.

The wills are arranged by probate number, which can be found by using the index associated with GR-2254. Not all probate records have an accompanying will. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51460-30.

The fonds consists of consists of correspondence and papers relating to mining and real estate in Rossland and real estate in Victoria. Included also, as Dean acted as an arbitrator, are papers dealing with land expropriation by the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) for its Saanich Suburban Inter-urban Railway and papers concerning the Victoria (B.C.) Shipowners Limited dispute. The fonds also contains Dean's personal diaries, his diary as Mayor of Rossland for 1903, two account books, a copy of a Victoria city census ca. 1900-1901, certificates appointing John Dean Justice of the Peace for various counties, photographs and nine maps.