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The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Ranchland views; old irrigation project at Deadman Creek, Lillooet District; new irrigation system, pumping water from the Thompson River; irrigation pipes and sprinklers; totally mechanized commercial hay ranch operation; machinery: baler, bale collector, boom loader; ranch house and scenery.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Vegs - Canim Lake - 1966": Views of Canim Lake. Beet field. Harvesting cabbages. Loading bins. Beet damaged by worm. Selecting and bagging beets. Making bins. Harvesting potatoes. Hay baler. Picking carrots. A dwelling with hanging skins and meat [?]. Children watching television in the house. Beet picking. Building a large root cellar [?]. Views of settlement, farm workers. Cabbage field. Farm workers.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Gardening procedures: pruning, planting. Colour views of flower garden, roses. Planting a shrub. A settlement. Young farm workers. Picking fruit. Picking beets. Harvesting potatoes. Building a root cellar [?]. Selecting beets. Children watching television. Picking fruit. Workers. Workers' camp.

This series consists of Appraisal Reports of reverted government lands for the Lillooet Land District, 1932. The reports are arranged numerically by report number. Information may include assessment district registry office, legal description, land plan number, acreage, date of forfeiture, soil, water suitability, improvements, accessibility, supply, irrigation or dyking, nearest settlement or Post Office, nearest school, topography, and assessed and appraised value. The report usually contains a sketch map of the property, and this volume contains a sketch map of Lillooet townsite plus the lots across the Fraser River. The volume is indexed by report numbers to the legal land description.

RECORDED: Lillooet (B.C.), 1986 SUMMARY: Arnold Malm: A third generation PGE-er, Arnold took control of his first engine in 1959 at the age of 19. When he retired, in 1986, he was road foreman of engines, based in Lillooet.;

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art H. Phair discusses his background; in that he was born in 1880, details of his father's work, his experience at private school in Victoria, the story of the Golden Cache Mine swindle of 1886-98. He describes the early history of Lillooet from 1856, the gold rush of 1858, Chinese miners around Lillooet in the 1880s, pre-war land boom and economic cycles in Lillooet.

TRACK 2: Phair discusses Indian life prior to European contact, strained White-Indian relations, bad relations between Indians, the Poole murder at Pemberton Meadows, murders and hangings, more on Lillooet Indians, Lillooet as a "melting pot" of many races, and the Chinese in Lillooet after 1884.

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Phair offers anecdotes about Indians and Chinese people, more about his own childhood experiences at school in Victoria, adventures and "close calls", hunting and prospecting, tobacco growing near Lillooet, the meaning of the word "Lillooet", early farmers between Lillooet and Pavilion, gold panning as a young boy, his family background, the red light district in Lillooet and the flourishing of Lillooet between 1858 and 1864.

TRACK 2: Phair comments more on the Chinese in the area, he describes how his store was a social center, how it was robbed, Indians in the store, and the start of big game hunting in Lillooet after 1884. Phair describes the Pemberton to Lillooet road, his family's relations with Indians, the John Bull murder, old settlements near Lillooet, crossing the Fraser River at Lillooet, how his mother was a musician, uncle was a poet, an incident about a priest who alleged to have beaten an Indian woman, and finally his father's background.

Correspondence between the secretary-treasurer, E. Bell (Clinton), the government auditor, J. McB. Smith, and B.H. Tyrwhitt Drake, acting on behalf of the company, and shareholders, mining engineers, prospectors, prospective buyers, etc. Included are draft agreements, assessment forms, assay forms, tax forms, receipts and 2 cash books giving names of shareholders. A sketch map of the Bonanza property on Cayoosh Creek, was transferred to Maps.

The item is a black and white workprint of an industrial film made between 1955 and 1958. It shows the construction of the 345,000-volt power line from Bridge River to Rosedale, which took three summers to complete.

Shows rivers, lakes and trails from Lytton to the Cottonwood River and from the Fraser River east to Quesnel Lakes.

Shows rivers, lakes and trails from Lytton to the Cottonwood River and from the Fraser River east to Quesnel Lakes.

The British Columbia Cattle Company was incorporated by John Irving, Thomas Ellis and Richard Lowe Cawston on Nov. 5, 1890, to carry on farming, stock-raising and butchering and to acquire land for those purposes. The company managed the Triangle Ranch at Quilchena and the Canoe Creek Ranch. The firm was deleted from the companies register in 1944. Fonds consists of one series of correspondence inward dealing with miscellaneous matters relating to the management of the two ranches and the sale of beef cattle. For related records see MS-2887, British Columbia Market Company fonds and MS-1950, the K.R. Genn fonds.

Typescript entitled "Report on Pemberton Valley Reclamation".

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.

Cash book, 1913-1926. The hospital's name in the B.C. Gazette notice was given as the Ashcroft and District General Hospital, the name in the cash book is Lady Minto Hospital.

Cause book (indexed).

The series consists of a counterfoil book record of placer claim (indexed), created by the Clinton Mining Recorder between 1891 and 1905.

This series consists of a minute book of the Clinton Supreme Court, Oct. 1909 - May 1919.

Letter of introduction signed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and testimonial letters from H.K. Bloomfield, T.W. Nicholls, E.B. Wyngard, C. FitzRoy and J. Singleton, 1859; diary, 1864-1865.

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.

Series consists of correspondence and reports.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. D.W. Hodgson talks about his experiences in the Cariboo, coast, and southern Okanagan regions of BC, 1904 to 1946. He describes how he came to BC in 1904 and offers his impressions of Vancouver and Victoria at that time; various early jobs; encounters with Indians; automobiles in the Cariboo in 1910; looking for a railway pass in the Chilco area; impressions of Lillooet; stories abo;ut working with a survey crew for the BC Electric Railway; a discussion of early railway surveying; stories about survey crews; a discussion of work on the BC coast; examining inlets for hydro electric power possibilities in the early 1920s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hodgson continues with more stories about work on the coast in Rivers Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Knight Inlet, including details on the ;coastal landscape; looking for irrigation water for the south Okanagan before World War I; irrigation in the area; details of the soldier settlement scheme; irrigation; and orchard development in the Oliver/Osoyoos area after World War I.

Cash book, 1893-1927; ledger, 1917-1927.

Selected records, 1888-1904: letterbook, 1896-1897; ledgers, 1888-1890, 1893-1896; journals, 1892, 1897-1898; daybooks, 1903-1904. These records constitute a sampling of the Harvey, Bailey and Co. records held at the Ashcroft Museum.

The Hat Creek Ranch was formed in 1910 by Charles Gottfried Doering when he purchased the McCosh, O'Hara and original Hat Creek Ranches and amalgamated them. The ranch, which was located in the Bonaparte Valley near Ashcroft, was a cattle and horse-breeding, as well as an agricultural centre. Hotel Hat Creek was also situated on the ranch and was operated by Doering.

In addition to his ranching interests, Doering was involved in the brewing industry and associated hotel trade. He was president of the British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., which was incorporated in 1911 following an amalgamation of three other breweries. Until prohibition in 1917, he was also involved in the operation of several Vancouver hotels.

Business records of the Hat Creek Ranch, including account books and land, water and livestock records, and of British Columbia Breweries and Hotel Hat Creek. The business records reflect the day-to-day business operations of Hat Creek Ranch and, to a lesser degree, Hat Creek Hotel, first under Doering and later under John Basil Jackson. There are also records related to land transactions, grazing leases, water rights applications and breeding. Also included is correspondence regarding Doering's brewery and non-local hotel interests which deals primarily with the windup of British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., and his divestiture of his hotels.

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Horsefly, 1905 and 1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0002 - 0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for these two tapes.];

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mining around Horsefly in the early 20th century RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Old-timers of Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Old timers of Horsefly, BC. TRACK 2: Old timers continued; comparison between life today and sixty years ago.;