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Lytton Police Court record book

  • GR-2495
  • Series
  • 1931-1951

Series consists of a record book showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".

British Columbia. Police Court (Lytton)

Lytton Gold Commissioner's records

  • GR-1054
  • Series
  • 1859-1874

Series contains the records of the Assistant Gold Commissioner, Lytton, B.C. relating to pre-emptions. Letters inward to Henry Maynard Ball, April 12, 1860 to December 3, 1860, and letters inward to John Boyd, 1870-1871. Includes correspondence, notices, and other papers on pre-emptions at Nicola Lake, Boston Bar, Lytton, Cache Creek, Kamloops and in the vicinity of various Indian Reserves. Also an account of moneys received by the Collector of General Revenue, Similkameen, 1861.

British Columbia. Gold Commissioner (Lytton)

Sale of town lots : district of Lytton

The item is a register book listing the sale of town lots in the Lytton district. Each entry lists the block, the lot, the price, the name of the purchaser and whether the land was forfeited or paid in full.

Lytton land sales

The item is a pre-emption register kept for the country lands in the district of Lytton. The register lists the record number, the name of the pre-emptor, the size and price of lot and payment details and notes about surveys and title deeds.

Lillooet land sales

The item is a volume containing lists of country lands for which applications for surveys were received. There is an index at the front of the volume showing the page numbers where information about the following districts were recorded: Yale, Lytton, New Westminster, Lillooet and Osoyoos.
Recorded in each section is the application no., name of applicant, date of application, no. of acres, date of survey, by whom surveyed, locality and description of claim and remarks.
The last page also lists seven applications for and issue of crown grants.

Requisitions from the Government Agent Lytton and Spences Bridge

  • GR-3746
  • Series
  • 1880-1887

Series consists of requisitions from the Government Agent of Lytton and Spences Bridge. Requisitions were invoices sent to the Treasury Department requesting reimbursement for expenses. The records were created between 1880-1887 and are signed by Government Agent Frederick Hussey.

The requisitions relate to the administration of justice, public works, revenue services, transportation and miscellaneous. The expenses include costs for roads, bridges, court costs, coroner costs, special constables, payment of jurors and office expenses.

The forms record the following financial information: vote (account) number, abstract of payments made, amount of funds required, date of payment and amount paid. The Auditor was responsible for approving the requisition.

The records are arranged chronologically and each form was assigned a unique number.

British Columbia. Treasury Dept.

Town lots, Lytton

The item is a record book containing records of lands sold or auctioned in Lytton. The volume is arranged by block and lot number and includes the name of purchasers with dates and amounts of payment.

Lytton Government Agency account books

  • GR-3049
  • Series
  • 1858-1900

This series consists of various financial records created by the Lytton Government Agent and related government employees from 1858-1900. The records include account books, cash books, records of licences, lists of lots, receipts, a list of prisoners and charge book for the Lytton gaol, road tolls collected at Lytton, a store ledger, waste books and collectorate books. Collectorate books record the collection of various fees by the government agent. Such as trade licences, liquor licences, marriage licences, pre-emption records, water records, mining records, fines, deposits and rent. There are also handwritten notes and invoices created by the Government Agent for the Hope-Yale-Lytton District.

British Columbia. Government Agent (Lytton)

Leah Shaw interview

CALL NUMBER: T0303:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Leah Shaw describes her father, William Hugh Shaw, as a contractor for the railway with McKenzie and Mann when they built the first 100 miles from Gladstone to Dauphin [Manitoba] in 1896; eventually settled in Spences Bridge; kids went to school in Kamloops; how Shaw Springs was named, she describes how her father got involved in the railway business; his life; how her grandfather, Hunter Shaw, came to Canada from Scotland, how the Great Northern Pacific Railway was started by two Shaw brothers in Winnipeg; General Stuart; Shaw Springs; gold mining, how Spences Bridge was covered; by a landslide; Thompson River wagon tracks; Clapperton Trail. TRACK 2: Shaw continues by describing horse brigades; Lytton slide; road building; Spences Bridge known as Cook's Ferry, a murder by two Indians of a miner; the highway construction in 1921; Death Canyon and several whirlpools there, which killed many people; the Thompson River; local old timers, Johnny Moberly and Ned Stout; Chines;e in the area; jade; Spence's Bridge.

CALL NUMBER: T0303:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Shaw continues by describing the Leboudais family who documented historical incidents; anecdotes about incidents in the area; stage coach stories; cleaning camps on Saturday mornings. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Lytton, Kamloops and Ashcroft Government Agent records

  • GR-4107
  • Series
  • 1858-1949

This series consists of a variety of records created by Government Agents and other government officials stationed in the Lytton, Yale and Kamloops area from 1858-1949. The records include registrations of water rights (mostly for mining purposes); placer mining forms; mining record books recording mineral claims, placer claims, leases, records of abandonment and bills of sale; and an unlabeled cash book covering Cache Creek, Bonaparte, Okanagan, Tranquille, Dead Man’s Creek, Savona Ferry, Kamloops, and Nicola which records office expenditures and collectorates such as school taxes, property taxes, leases, road tolls, court fees, water records, licences, etc.

British Columbia. Government Agent (Lytton)

Rose Skuki interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rose Skuki describes salmon fishing and how the fish is prepared; her earliest memories of Lytton; farming; the white people who settled in the area; mining; schooling in Yale; and the Fraser River. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) photographs

Series consists of 545 photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.), thought to be taken by Richard or Hannah Maynard. In 1880-1881, Richard Maynard was hired to document the construction of the C.P.R. but photos within this series may have been taken at later dates or by other photographers. Images depict trains ("rolling stock"); views of locations along the construction route, including rivers, bridges, and mountains; tracks and construction in progress; wrecks following accidents; snowsheds; and portraits of workers.

Maynard (family)

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-0830
  • Series
  • 1900-1913; 1957

This series consists of correspondence and other records from the Department of Lands and Works, and its successor, the Department of Public Works. Records include correspondence inward and tenders for Victoria Court House, 1900-1904, Government House, 1900-1904, and Parliament Buildings, 1900; specifications for Victoria Graving Dock; specifications and agreement for Lytton highway bridge, 1913; and weekly building progress reports, Government House, 1957 (reports 30-75 only).

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Vince Gresty interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Vince Gresty describes the highways around Hope, Lytton, and Cache Creek from the 1930s to the 1950s. TRACK 2: Mr. Gresty describes Cache Creek in 1949, and recent changes; people passing through Cache Creek and early Ashcroft.

Sophia Steffens interview

CALL NUMBER: T0401:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Sophia Steffens discusses how her father came from Germany to England and then to Canada, and landed in BC in 1884. Sophia and her mother came in 1887 to settle at Ashcroft, then moved to Lytton, where her father started a store. She discusses mining efforts of local whites and Indians; other settlers in and around Lytton; and visiting aristocrats, such as Thomas Steward. TRACK 2:; Miss Steffens offers anecdotes about people and events at Lytton around 1900.

CALL NUMBER: T0401:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Steffens discusses other towns in the region, such as Lower Nicola and Coutlee; more anecdotes; Maisy Campbell-Johnson and Jack Chapman. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Rose Baker interview

PERIOD COVERED: 1860-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rose Baker discusses her grandfather, Lorenzo Loring, who came from the eastern states to BC to become a rancher and packer in the Botanie Valley (north of Lytton) anecdotes about her grandparents (i.e., the Lorings); packing adventures; relations with native people; Christmas celebrations; her grandmother's family; camping trips with her grandmother. TRACK 2: Mrs. Baker discusses her father James Pudney; childhood recollections of Lytton; British society; July 1 celebrations; first stores; anecdotes about British immigrants.

People in landscape : In and around Lytton

SUMMARY: This program deals with the history of Lytton and area, including the arrival of Simon Fraser, and the contributions of missionaries, native people, and ranchers. Voices heard include: Rose Baker, Rosie Skuki, Sophie Steffens, and Tommy Lick.

Mary Baker interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Baker discusses her father, Henry Steffans, who was from Switzerland and had a store in Lytton, then went to farm in the Nicola Valley; Mary's visits to an aunt and uncle Charlie McGillivray on the Cariboo Road; the Lytton Hotel and store fire; anecdotes about characters around Lytton; the Lorings. TRACK 2: Mrs. Baker discusses other settlers around Lytton; life on her father's Nicola Valley ranch; Ashcroft from 1907 to 1914; her husband Fred Baker, who came to Canada from England and ran a freighting business.

Louis Phillips : interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Louis Phillips, a Nlaka'pamux man, talks about the life of his people around Lytton; the relationship of Indigenous people with the Fraser River; a story about Simon Fraser; land question; Indigenous view of gold and copper; Indigenous view of private property. TRACK 2: Hunting; care of the land and game; primacy of food; fish in the Fraser.;

Lytton

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: Note: the documentation for this tape does not give the name of the interviewee but rather the word that summarizes the subject of the interview: "Lytton". The interviewee appears to be a First Nations woman. TRACK 1: She describes her life in Lytton, her mother and grandparents. She says that the Indian name for Lytton is Sumcheen which means 'the river goes together'. She describes the first priest, Mr. Coot, and Chief Spintlum who had ten wives. She tells about the life of Lorenzo Loring, an American adventurer born in 1818 [?], who settled in Botanie Valley. She gives an historical account of Botanie Valley, Father LeJeune and the church. She tells a bedtime story and stories of her grandfather; her grandmother's life; a description of Lytton; Indians; and the CPR. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Annie York and Arthur Urquhart interview

CALL NUMBER: T0678:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Annie York describes her grandfather, Joseph York (1868?-1951), who attended Anglican schools at Jackass Mountain; his lifelong work for the CPR; several anecdotes about things that happened to him during his lifetime; his character; Spuzzum Indians; Indians in Lytton; how Spuzzum got its name; Harry James; events in Spuzzum; Indians of Spuzzum; basket weaving; Spuzzum Indian chiefs; the Chinook language; languages used in church; she recites the Lord's Prayer and some hymns in her native tongue, Thompson Indian. TRACK 2: Miss York sings a bit more and discusses the hymns; Reverend Higgs; anecdotes about family; her great grandmother; her grandmother; her mother; her partner, Mr. Palmer; Chief James; Thompson Village. She tells the story of the Lytton Indians and Simon Fraser as told to her by her grandmother, who was ten years old at the time of the meeting, and sings the song that was sung to Simon Fraser when he left the Indians. More on Simon Fraser; more on hymns and prayers; teaching.

CALL NUMBER: T0678:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss York continues by discussing how Indians prepare food. Then Arthur Urquhart, who was born in Yale and moved to Spuzzum, describes his earliest recollections about his family; his father; people in the area; Chinese people; what people wore; what Spuzzum was like. TRACK 2: Miss York comes back on and tells stories that Chief James told her, and describes his life; bridges and settlements in the area; customs of the Indians; more on cooking; more stories about social customs; her father; Indian religion and beliefs; the origins of the river and the moon.

Lytton Mission fonds

  • PR-0662
  • Fonds
  • 1867-1945 [Microfilmed 1975]

The fonds consists of the Lytton (Anglican) Mission's list of villages, with names of chiefs and captains, watchmen and the population. Fonds includes a register of baptisms, marriages, burials and other statistics.

Lytton Indian Mission

Land and mining record book

  • GR-0833
  • Series
  • 1859-1870

This series consists of a ledger and general record book, 1859-1871. The creator of the volume is not clear, but was likely the Government Agent who worked in or around Lytton. The volume was used for several purposes overtime. It includes the following types of information: list of pre-emptions for Lytton City; mining licences, free miner's certificates, liquor licences, trading licences, garden plots and ground rentals from the Lytton area (Fraser Canyon to Kamloops); records of miners and storekeepers occupying Crown land as garden plots and residences throughout the Fraser Canyon area; copies of bridge toll agreements and ferry operation contracts for places on the Fraser River, Thompson River, Nicola River, Savonna's ferry, Anderson River and Bridge River.

British Columbia. Government Agent (Lytton)

[Maps of] B.C. Railway Belt, corrected to Nov. 1st 1907

Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains maps of the Railway Belt of BC in 1907 prepared by James White, F.R.G.S., Geographer, under the direction of R.E. Young, D.L.S., Superintendent of Railway and Swamp Lands for the Dominion Department of the Interior. Each map depicts trails; trails surveyed; post offices; railway stations; range numbers; township numbers; homesteads patented and homesteads entered for and unpatented; sales, special grants, mining land sales; lands disposed of by provincial government; forest reserves and parks; timber berths; and (First Nation) reserves. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

The special edition maps "showing lands disposed of" include: Port Moody and Yale sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Kamloops and Lytton sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Sicamous sheet (west of sixth meridian), and Donald sheet (west of fifth meridian).

Canada. Department of the Interior

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