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The series consists of orders created by the Grand Forks Supreme Court registry between 1900-1949. Between 1900 and 1922, the orders relate to a variety of civil matters such as loans and mortgages, debts, guardianship of minors, and estate matters, including probates. Beginning June 1922, records are probate orders only.

Records are arranged chronologically and were assigned file, volume, and folio numbers by the court registry. An alphabetical index by last name is included within both bound volumes of records.

Mechanics' liens.

Case files and related correspondence.

Adoption case files.

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.

This series contains reports by the Assistant Timber Inspector at Nelson on timber cut and royalties payable by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Doukhobor Society.

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.

This series contains a carbon-copy of "The Problem of Slash Disposal in the Western White Pine Stands of North Idaho, 1921", a report to the U.S. Forest Service, District One, Missoula, Montana, by Forest Examiners J.A. Larsen and W.C. Lowdermilk.

This series contains project files from the Mitchell River Bridge, Invermere Ranger District, Project 196. Types of records includes photographs and brief construction history.

Registrar's record book of the Revelstoke County Court from 1939-1967. Primarily it is in the hand of the Registrar of the County Court/Clerk of the Court. It includes civil, chambers and two appeals, one in 1948 and one in 1959. There is one entry from the Revelstoke District Police Court in 1941. In mid-1963, Judge Eric P. Dawson has used-this volume as a bench book, signing his name at the end of each case. There are occasional Supreme Court entries from 1941-1952; some are stroked out with the notation : "Notes transferred to assize notebook" [GR-2194].

List of naturalizations, March 5, 1900.

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

Writs of Summons served on 11 November 1885 on McKenzie and Co. and McKenzie and Meagher from plaintiffs in Farwell, New Westminster and Similkameen Mines.

Court Rules on petitions signed by GMS - GC [Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, Gold Commissioner].

Return of convictions made by Stipendiary Magistrate John D. Sibbald, March 1902 - April 1903.

Adoption case files.

This series consists of probate cause books from the Supreme court of Cranbrook and the County Court of Cranbrook, 1925-1977.

This series contains probate/estate case files from Cranbrook County Court.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Killough remembers Castlegar and Kinnard. He came to Castlegar in 1913 with his family. He offers his first impressions; school; the importance of the CPR in Castlegar history; Castlegar as it was in 1913; more about the railroad to 1917; the Edgewood Lumber Mill; more about trains; Kinnard in 1913; his father Captain Joseph Arthur Killough; a logging camp at Kinnard; marketing meat; an incident while swimming as a child; the wheat harvest and Doukhobors at Brilliant. TRACK 2: Mr. Killough continues with more on the Doukhobors as seen by an outsider; school; the population increase in 1918; mining and milling economy; the arrival of traction engine for one of the mills; other families; Peter "Lordly" Verigin; the Doukhobor ferry at Waterloo; the route from Castlega;r to Nelson by road; Jimmy Davidson and the Castlegar ferry; Waterloo as a mining community; and the name "Castlegar".

Cheques on the Exchange National Bank of Spokane, 16 July 1894 - 29 January 1895 and the old National Bank of Spokane, 12 February 1895 - 1 March 1897; and a deposit book with the Traders National Bank of Spokane, 19 August - 28 October 1894. Also time check sheets nos. 1-48 detailing wages paid, 13 May - 27 September 1895.

This series consists of plaint and procedure books from the Cranbrook County Court for cases between 1913-1968. Plaint and procedure books are the basic record book for actions at the County Court level. They provide the skeletal framework for County Court civil action proceedings and may include the names of parties, the dates when proceedings occurred, and can be used to determine a volume and folio number for locating final orders.

The records are arranged by case number, which can be found by using the indexes included in some of the plaint and procedure books or in series GR-2512 for 1913-1945. The records were scheduled for retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 53200-20.

Record books, 1901-1950.

The series consists of original civil orders created between 1900 and 1947 by the Grand Forks Supreme Court registry. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

The item is a photocopy of a diary kept by Mrs. Edward Bailey in 1910 of a journey to Cranbrook from Banff and of a visit in Cranbrook.

"A history of Yoho National Park, Field, B.C."

Loaned for copying by F.M. Woodward, Special Collections, University of British Columbia, 1976.

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.

Minute book, August 1919 - April 1921; account book, 1919-1924.

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.

Letters from Thomas I. Dunn to George Ironside Dunn discussing family matters, mining conditions in the Kootenays, and the managing of social clubs (T.I.D. was manager of the Rossland Club); notes and letters.