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The series consists of account books, 1928 and 1929, mining receipts and fur trade licenses created by George Ball. It also includes correspondence inward, 1927-1939.

This series contains applications for coal licences pursuant to the Coal Mines Act and gazette notices relating to the Skeena River and Stikine River anthracite coal fields. Includes Register of Coal Applications (see v. 3).

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.

This series consists of Cassiar Land District subdivision lot registers for the townsite of Atlin. Records dated 1899-1947. The registers list lots in numerical order by block and lot numbers, and record the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and references to correspondence files. Upset prices are also listed.

The series consists of two volumes

1. Atlin townsite (includes alphabetical name index), 1899-1948
2. Atlin townsite, and additional, 1910-1947

The fonds consists of correspondence, clippings, articles and photographs relating to big game hunting in the Cassiar District, principally created by George and Georgiana Ball. Fonds also includes home movies of Ball family activities and oral history interviews with family and neighbours.

The series consists of correspondence and other records of the Ball family, from 1918 to 1953. It contains the business correspondence, mainly inward, of George Ball with prospective hunters from the United States and with business associates from the North from 1920 to 1949; some financial records; the private correspondence of George Ball, consisting of letters from relatives and friends in New Brunswick, Vancouver and the North; and clippings, articles, Christmas cards, and other miscellaneous family records. There are also copies of Diamond B Ranch guestbooks. 1941-1951 and 1952-1953.

The series also includes the business correspondence of guide outfitter J. Frank Callbreath, mainly with hunters from the Eastern United States, 1928 to 1929.

Both the Callbreath and Ball files contain letters from Fenley Hunter of Flushing, New York, with whom Ball explored the Nahanni River in 1928.

The item consists of nature videos. Fictional narrator uses motion picture camera to track big game in Tweedsmuir Park and Cassiar district. Subjects include mountain caribou, mountain goats, grizzly bear, California bighorn sheep, whitetail deer, elk, stone sheep, moose and Osborn caribou.

The item consists of a composite print of a nature film, made from 1957 to 1962. A fictional narrator uses motion picture camera to track big game in Tweedsmuir Park and Cassiar district. Subjects include mountain caribou, mountain goats, grizzly bear, California bighorn sheep, whitetail deer, elk, stone sheep, moose and Osborn caribou.

The item is a composite print of a nature film made from 1957-1962. A fictional narrator uses motion picture camera to track big game in Tweedsmuir Park and the Cassiar district. Subjects include mountain caribou, mountain goats, grizzly bear, California bighorn sheep, whitetail deer, elk, stone sheep, moose and Osborn caribou.

The item consists of five reels of out-takes from 1957 to 1961. It contains original out-footage from the film "Big Game Camera Holiday" (reel 1), bighorn sheep & stone sheep (reel 2), Caribou (reel 3), bear, elk, occasional deer (Reel 4), flowers, mountain goats, marmots, beaver, birds (reel 5)

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This series consists of a registrar's record book, 1874-1894; case book from Gold Commissioner's Court at Cassiar, 1878-1892; and miscellaneous correspondence from Gold Commissioner's Court, 1883-1893.

The series consists of records created by the Cassiar Gold Commissioner between 1873 and 1931. It includes correspondence outward, mining and water records and photocopies of gold commissioner's court records originally created 1876-1888.

Cause book, July 1926 - June 1928 (pp. 2-76); record book, 1930-1940; 1951-1960 (pp. 80-150) and pages from a ease file Stewart Hi-Way Services vs. Terminal Taxi, December 1960.

This series contains circular letters from District Forester to field staff pertaining to forest protection, forest management, etc. It includes some circular letters from the Chief Forester to District Foresters.

Correspondence and business papers of Joseph Clearihue, d. 1907, miner, merchant, and Justice of the Peace for Cariboo, Omineca and Cassiar districts, 1868-1914 ; diary of trip made by Mrs. Annie Clearihue to Laketon, 1885; registers, Boys Central School, 1896-1897, 1908-1909; miscellaneous legal documents and court records acquired by Dr. J.B. Clearihue.

Incoming correspondence consisting of one letter with enclosure of two annotated maps from T.F.H. Reed concerning Tarr Inlet and the Alaska coastal ferry project.

This series consists of records of the Land Inspector and Government Agent, Prince George, relating to government land reserves in Cariboo, Cassiar, Range 4 and Range 5 Land Districts. Correspondence, memoranda, plans, and reports concerning recreation, highway, B.C. Forest Service, railway, school and power line reserves.

Diaries, May 27 to August 19, and August 20 to September 21, 1875, of an exploring trip made from Telegraph Creek to Hazelton and from Hazelton via the Nass to Fort Simpson.

Diary, May 21 - October 12, recording activities at a mine at Boulder Creek, a tributary of Thibert Creek, Cassiar district. Probably written by Warburton Pike at the Boulder Creek Mining Company's mine, 1913. The days and dates correspond with those for 1913 according to perpetual calendars; the diary mentions John Cartmel as Gold Commissioner and he was at Telegraph Creek from 1911 to 1913. The handwriting seems to be that of Warburton Pike (see Pike to Marshall Bond, July [1913] E/D/B64).

Diary recording road work done for Provincial Government, 1917-1919.

Diary, Sept. 13 - Nov. 1, 1897, kept while Duchesnay was examining the Stikine River and the country between Telegraph Creek and Teslin Lake for the proposed Canadian-Yukon Railway. Duchesnay travelled from Vancouver to Wrangell on the Princess Louise, and from Wrangell to Telegraph Creek on the Alaskan.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Richardson describes how her father, Gerald Payne, came to BC in 1885 to Saturna Island; Saturna Island characters Warburton Pike and Billy Trueworthy; Gerald Payne's exploratory expeditions with Pike to northern BC and the Yukon in the 1890s; Gerald Payne's marriage in San Francisco in 1898; the story of his romance; Dorothy's birth in 1902; Gerald Payne pre-emption of land; on Saturna Island; farming operations are described; details about sheep farming; story of Billy Trueworthy who was a shepherd and bootlegger. TRACK 2: Richardson continues with more on Trueworthy; the Payne's hired hand John "Old Jack" Blanton; rum running in the Gulf Islands; education and schooling; going to private school, especially Crofton House; problems of adjusting to city life; a description of Miss D.W. Trickey, who was a private tutor to the Payne family.

Includes 5 interpretive structural sections. Scale 1:125 000

The item consists of 20 camera original, unedited films created by Georgiana Ball between about 1957 and 1970. Original films 1-11 and 12-20 were combined onto 2 film reels by the BC Archives upon acquisition.

The film are "home movies", primarily of ranching activities in the Stikine and Liard regions, particularly showing the communities of Telegraph Creek and Trutch. Other locations include Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Ocean Falls, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Stikine River, Mount Edziza and Banff, Alberta. Activities shown include Ball family Diamond B Ranch game guiding operations, ranching, haying, packing and various types of transportation including horseback, pack horses, river boats (incl. Judith Ann), cargo ships (incl. Northland Prince, Skeena Prince), bush planes (North Coast Airways) and helicopters.

Diary, 1899. Dr. Hicks travelled to Atlin via Skagway and the Chilcoot Trail, and remained in the Atlin area from March 28 to August 10, practicing medicine and working as a labourer. He returned by ship to Victoria, then worked in Washington State as a labourer at the military fort near Port Townsend, in Seattle, and as a tunneler in the Cascade Mountains. He returned to Victoria on December 27th. The collection includes a list of names mentioned in the diary and Dr. Hicks Notice of Restoration to the Medical Register, 1922.

Presented by Mr. T.H. Hicks (son), Richmond, 1986.

Letters written from Boundary Camp, Canyon of the Stikine River, and Glenora, April-June, 1898, describing to his family in England his and his companions' attempt to reach the Klondike gold fields via the Stikine River and Teslin. The letters are dated April 3, April 13, April 25, May 18, May 30, June 1, June 3, and June 12, (the last exists only typescript). Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198601-7.

Presented by T.R.H. Hicks (son), Richmond, 1985.

The item is an essay on the history of the Cassiar gold rush and later claims, 1873-1948, by R.J. Cathro, a geological engineer.

This series consists of an indenture for irrigation right-of-way, McDame Creek, Cassiar district.