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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.

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.;

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.

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.

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.]

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.]

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.

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.]

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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thomas Cole Hurley remembers early days in the Lillooet district. Mr. Hurley recalls how his father, Daniel Edward Hurley, arrived from Nova Scotia around 1883; his uncle Thomas Jameson Cole; more about his father; Bridge River mines and its amalgamation into Bralorne in later years; working at the mine in 1912; his father's Victoria Hotel built in 1900; the town of Lillooet in the 1890s; the Chinese miners; more about Lillooet; the Depression; more on Lillooet in the 1890s, the industry, the town; anecdotes about Halley's Comet; Old Bill; and a New Years Eve prank.

TRACK 2: Mr. Hurley tells two stories about law and order; Lillooet's Chinese section; more anecdotes; Frank Gott; Lytton in the 1890s; the stopping houses; the stages between Lillooet and Lytton; arrival of the PGE Railway from Squamish; hunting; minerals; travel by road; steamers and river traffic in the early years; and the opening of the Golden Cache Mine.

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.

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.

Documentary. The historical background of Fraser River jade, and how it is cut, shaped and polished to make jewellery. Filmed in the Lytton area, especially at Ron Purvis' jewellery workshop on his ranch at Texas Creek. The "Buddha's Foot" of the title is a large boulder of jade.

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.]

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).

The item is a copy of an essay by Clarence Walkem titled "Life of an Indian lad in a residential school."

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".

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.

This series contains Yale district Provincial Police files dating from 1941 to 1947. The records consist of subject files containing reports and correspondence inward and outward of district headquarters at Ashcroft with Bralorne, Bridge River, Lillooet, Spences Bridge, Clinton, Lytton and Ashcroft detachments, C division headquarters at Kamloops, and others.

Probate/estate files.

Criminal case files from Ashcroft and Lytton.

The item consists of an edited typescript called "That They Might Have Life: an autobiography by the late Reverend Stanley E. Higgs". It contains an account of his life from his education at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury (1923-1927), his journey to, and missionary work at Lytton, (1928-1933) and his later postings at Clinton (1933- 1935), Quesnel (1935-1937) and Lytton (1937-1941), to when he joined the Canadian Army as chaplain in 1941.

Plan of Lytton Townsite with Lots 1 and 2, Block 10, highlighted.

Footage. A travel film presenting outdoor attractions and community life along the highways linking the Fraser Canyon to Clinton and Lillooet. Featured are swimming, fishing, hiking, sightseeing, motoring through the Fraser Canyon and accommodations such as hotels, resorts and auto courts. Community subjects include children clowning and swimming, ranching, railway trains, a covered wagon, native basketry for sale, building and students at St. George's Indian Residential School (Lytton), abandoned roadhouses, and the towns of Lytton, Spences Bridge, Ashcroft, Clinton and Lillooet. In the last sequence on the reel, townsfolk in Lillooet extract a vintage automobile from an old garage, push it onto the town’s main street, and start it up.