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Account book kept by Thomas Joseph Hamilton, foreman of Wolfe Creek Ranch, Wasa, B.C., 17 March - 10 June 1940.

Account books: ledger, Jul 1912 - Feb 1913, Feb 1913 - Jun 1915, Mar 1913 - Sep 1914, Jun 1916 - Aug 1917; cash book, Feb 1912 - May 1916; ledger, Jan 1915 - ca. Jan 1917; monthly statements, Sep 1916 - Jun 1917.

This series contains an application for a mill site on the Upper Kootenay River by L.A. Campbell of Rossland, filed under the provisions of the Mineral Act. It includes a plan of the site and example of cloth poster.

The series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and agreements of the Saseenos Water, Light and Power Co., documents pertaining to the B.C. Oil and Coal Development Co., Cameron Lake Timber, the Fraser-Cariboo Gold Syndicate, Port Alberni Syndicate, Towner Park subdivision; coal mining on Vancouver Island, mining leases in the Horsefly River area and property in Victoria, B.C.

Applications, decisions and correspondence with Judge W.A. Nisbet of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board Rentals Administration concerning suites in two apartment blocks on McKenzie Avenue in Revelstoke. (2 files)

Arthur Stanhope Farwell was a surveyor who worked out of Nelson and Victoria, B.C.

Records include: letterbook, outward correspondence, 1901-1907; correspondence regarding West Kootenay mineral claims, 1893-1906; diaries, 1864-1867, 1888, 1892, 1894-1898, 1900-1905, 1907; financial records, 1893-1895, 1904-1906; surveyor's field notes and field books of miscellaneous West Kootenay mineral claims, Lots, and pre-emptions, 1891-1902. Also includes correspondence with Department of Lands and Works re Slocan Mining Division; correspondence with Gilbert M. Sproat re Sandon, British Columbia mineral claims, 1896, 1898; and a journal of a mineral claim survey trip in the West Kootenay, 1902.

Proceedings of the assize of 23 June - 14 July 1885 as kept by J.C. Hughes, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Farwell, West Crossing of the Columbia River; it also contains jury lists.

This series contains Cranbrook court registry correspondence with the Dept. of the Attorney-General. It includes some Magistrate's and Police court records.

Bench books of the Revelstoke District Police Court and the Revelstoke Police Court in the hand of W. Maxwell (Stipendiary Magistrate) [with entries by J. Lee (Stipendiary Magistrate) in July 1929 and July 1930 and in 1947 there is a Juvenile Court note in an unknown hand]. There are also entries from Magistrate's Court (Malakwa), 1927; Police Court at Malakwa, 1927, Police Court at Sicamous, 1928, Police Court at Arrowhead, 1928 and 1931 and Juvenile Court, 1934, 1938-1941, and 1947.

Bench books for County Court civil, criminal and chambers actions and Supreme Court chambers actions.

The series consists of photocopies of Henry William Birch's commonplace notebook, two diaries kept by Arthur Nonus Birch pertaining to a trip to North America and his service as colonial secretary of British Columbia, correspondence with various members of the Birch family, reminiscences of life in the colonial service by Arthur Nonus Birch, and photographs. The series also includes some Birch family papers on microfilm.

The Nestegg Mining Company was incorporated by Patrick Aloysius O'Farrell, Archibald Blair Erskine and George Alan Kirk on Jan. 31, 1896, to purchase and work the Nestegg Mineral Claim in the Trail Creek Mining Division of the West Kootenay District. In June P.A. O'Farrell bought a half interest in the adjacent Firefly Mineral Claim on behalf of the company. On Dec. 2, 1896, the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company was incorporated by P.A. O'Farrell, Charles Hayward, Arthur John Weaver and C.A. Holland to purchase and work the Nestegg and Firefly Mineral Claims. Early the next year the former company resolved to call in all its shares and sell about a quarter of them to pay off its debts. The remaining shares were to be exchanged for an equal number of shares of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company to be distributed to shareholders in proportion to the stock of the older company they had surrendered. The mining operations were never profitable, and the company found itself in legal and financial troubles almost from the beginning. After becoming inactive in about 1899, the company made one last attempt to work the Nestegg claim in 1907 when they shipped a few tons of ore, but this too proved unprofitable.

The series consists of the business records of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company. The records date between 1896-1900 and are comprised of correspondence (inward and outward), minutes, financial records, share and debenture certificates, bills, and legal documents.

The series consists of photographs documenting the career and family life of Allan DeWolf, ca. 1900 to 1960. His photographs are intermingled (combined in albums) with family photographs of several generations of the DeWolf family. There are also family photographs (Fink family) which relate to Allan DeWolf's wife, Ethel Minnie Fink. The series also consists of photographs which relate to Allan DeWolf's daughter, Gladys (DeWolf) Malach. These include photographs of Gladys DeWolf as a child and with colleagues at RCAF Station Fingal, (Ontario) in 1943-1945, when she served with the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division (RCAF WD).

The series includes loose prints, prints mounted in albums, negatives, and includes panoramic photos. Some of the photographs of logging engineering (log flumes on trestles, etc.) appear to have been taken by a professional photographer. Some photographers identified are: R.J. Binning of Cranbrook, B.C. and W.F. Montgomery of Chase, B.C, in the 1920s. Many of the photographs of flume construction and surveying are not accompanied by information on locations. Subjects include: Northwestern Military Academy, the Flathead Trading Company (Flathead Valley); construction and operation of the Moyie River flume; B.C. Spruce Mills Ltd. operations at Lumberton, B.C.; work on a movie set for a Louis B. Mayer production on the Bull River in 1922; portable sawmills and logging machinery; the Alexander Creek flume; the Chipka Creek flume; the Western Exploration Company and construction of the Mammoth Mine concentrator at Silverton, B. C.; Nicola Valley Sawmills and Merritt Logging Company; trucking, unloading and scaling of logs; and family travels to California in the 1930s. Locations reflected in the photographs include: the University of Minnesota, ca. 1908-1910; Aroland, (Ontario); and B.C. locations including Cranbrook, the Crow's Nest Pass area, Moyie Lake, Kootenay Lake, Premier Lake, Yahk, Waldo, Allison Creek, Tulameen, and Merritt.

The series also includes memorabilia and other textual material including: DeWolf's naturalization certificate, letters of condolence on the death of Allan DeWolf, brochures, postcards, souvenirs and news clippings.

Case files and related correspondence.

Case files from appeals: 11/20 Rosa Boutry; 16/20 Donald M. Stuart; 40/25 George Laforme; 121/31 Frederick Barrett; 26/32 Stefen Dmuchowski; 14/47 Isacco Colussi; 5/47 Steve Harnjoik (Hornyk).

Case files from appeals of criminal convictions: 10/23 Hiskias Heinanen; 16/23 Elsie Simmons and Harry Greenwood: 3/31 Phillip Moase.

Cause book.

The series consists of one indexed cause book on microfilm (1901-1959) and one unindexed volume (1959-1977). The volume running from 1959 to 1977 has a sheet of paper in the front listing divorces found in the ledger. All other cases are unindexed.

Certificate of incorporation, minute books.

Kootenay land district. Certificates of Improvement, numbers 1-95, with duplicate numbers 17, 36, 75, 77-79, at the front, for the West Kootenay District showing statement of, and witnesses to, the required improvements being completed, prior to the issuance of a Crown Grant. Information includes the names of the occupier and the witnesses, the number of the pre-emption claim, legal description and geographical location of the land, and the dates of the pre-emption claim and the completion of Improvements. An alphabetical index is included in this volume.

The series consists of records created by the Revelstoke Gold Commissioner between 1891 and 1930. It includes certificates of work and records of mineral claims and transfers.

Business records of Cowan and Penrose Land Agents (Kamloops), including office diaries, correspondence, accounts, and legal documents re property they handled arranged alphabetically under the names of the English investors. Papers of C.P. Cunliffe re his investments in Colonel James Baker's Cranbrook estate and the Cariboo Trading Company, 1913-1931. Papers of C.G. Cowan re acquisition of the Onward Ranch and the 150 Mile Ranch from the Cariboo Trading Company.

This series consists of a variety of records related to timber tenures predominantly created from 1975-1998 by the Columbia Forest District, a division of the Nelson Forest Region. The series also includes records from the Revelstoke Forest District, Golden Forest District, Kootenay Lake Forest District, and Mica Creek Forest Station. All files were managed as part of the Columbia Forest District when the files were closed.

The series includes the following types of timber tenures: forest licences, timber licences, timber sale licences, timber sale harvesting licences, cash timber sale licences, licences to cut, timber marks, timber berths, woodlot licences, special use permits and road permits. There are also records related to tree farm licences (TFL) 23, 55 and 56. The majority of files relate to cutting permits. Licensees were required to apply for a forest licence or similar tenure and cutting permits in order to harvest timber. Records regard the issuance, evaluation, administration, monitoring, planning, replacement, cancellation, deletion and extension of these timber tenures.

The records include legal documents, operations information, correspondence, forms, reports, maps, photos, licences, permits, permit amendment or renewal documentation, applications, logging plans, reports, silviculture prescriptions, major licensee silviculture audits, stumpage adjustment, salvage information, and financial records.

Additional types of records include: subject files on weather, mining and oil exploration, tree seeds, resource analysis program, and forest road planning; a timber tenures ledger; files regarding audits of licensees to ensure compliance with guidelines for managing and preserving fish habitat; and a few silviculture opening files.

The ministries responsible for creating these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)

The records were classified as 18765-20, 18750-20, 19500-45, 19540-25, 19565-25, 19570-25, 19580-45, 19600-45, 19620-25, 19700-45, 19720-20 and 19910-20 in the Forest Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).

This series consists of records of the Royal Commission on the Nakusp and Slocan Railway, 1894, including: report, exhibits and transcripts of evidence.

This series contains minute books for the periods March 21, 1907 - April 10, 1924 and May 14, 1924 - April 27, 1932. Vol. 1 also contains minutes of the Licence Commission, June 20, 1906 - Dec. 21, 1907.

This series consists of the records of the Commission to Investigate Claims of Squatters on Crown Lands in the District of Kootenay, 1908. Records include letters patent appointing the Commissioner, report and evidence presented at the hearing in Creston.

Conditional sales agreements and lien notes, 1 - 4778.

Conditional sales register (listed alphabetically by both buyer and by seller).

Letters from Anne (McQueen) Gordon written from Nicola and Kamloops (1887-1888), St. Thomas, Ontario (1890), Salmon Arm (1894-1895), Crow's Nest Landing, Phillipps, and Gateway (1897-1905), and Victoria (1912-1925). Two letters from Jessie McQueen, Lower Nicola, 1890-1891. Anne Gordon taught school in Nicola before her marriage. In Victoria she was involved with community and women's organizations and was head of the Homes Branch of the Soldier Settlement Board.

This series contains files from the Public Information and Education Division. The records consist of correspondence of the Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources on controversial matters including: multiple use in the Nitinat Triangle (1972) and Fry Creek (1972-1973) areas, and the Eden Fire (1973-1975). This series also contains the report of the Committee for Ranger District Organization (1976) which was appointed as a result of the Eden Fire controversy.