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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.

Woodmen's liens.

Record book, 1950-1955. Part of file 90/59 removed from GR-0419.

Record book, 1925-1954. Part of file 90/59 removed from GR-0419.

Correspondence, notes and newspaper clippings concerning the history of Revelstoke, the Big Bend area of the Kootenay district and the pioneers of the area. Also includes collected notes and correspondence of Benjamin Richard Atkins as well as his dictionary history of Revelstoke.

Material is files MS-0560.1.1 to 1.17 contain Earle Dickey's general correspondence files, incoming and outgoing, 1937-1953 (includes Dickey's correspondence with the Vancouver Sun as that newspaper's correspondent in Revelstoke). Files 1.18 to 1.51 contain drafts, rough notes etc. concerning Revelstoke pioneers, Revelstoke history etc. Files 2.1 to 2.8 contain Benjamin Richard Atkins' correspondence and files 2.9 to 2.19 contain Dickey's miscellaneous materials.

• William Alfred Galliher was a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament (MP). He had interests in mining development, mineral claims and real estate.

The records include correspondence, legal documents, papers of clients, financial records, account book relating to Galliher's law practice in Nelson and Vancouver. Also, correspondence relating to mining development and mineral claims in Kootenay district with Robert Garvin McLeod (mine owner) and others; re sale of lots in the towns of Nelson, Erie, Three Forks, Comaplix, and Kaslo; re breweries, hotels, grocers, a furniture store, and other businesses in Nelson; relating to land sales of the Columbia and Kootenay Railway Company, and the Similkameen Valley Coal and Development Company; with W.H. Keary, Mayor of New Westminster, re sale of town lots; correspondence with Sir Wilfrid Laurier re Galliher's appointment as a judge for the British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1908-1909.

• The following maps have been transferred out of this series: Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20461 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20462 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20463 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20464 Removed from box 1 file 7 : 20465 Removed from box 2 file 8 : 20457 Removed from box 4 file 4 : 20459 Removed from box 5 file 7 : 20458 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20466 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20467 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20468 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20469 Removed from box 6 file 2 : 20470 Removed from box 6 file 7 : 20460

The series consists of a manual of conveyance for the Wild Horse Creek district, created by the Kootenay Gold Commissioner between 1865 and 1972.

Series consists of the records of two companies; DeWolf and Ham Construction Company, Limited, whose principals were involved with the development and running of Western Exploration Company, and Western Exploration Company Limited.

The series consists of records from the Nelson Gaol, 1989-1961. Volume one includes warrants of commitment to Nelson Gaol, 1898-1899; volume 2 includes correspondence outward from warden, 1898-1905; and volume 3 includes the warden's daily record book, 1956-1961.

Appearance book (indexed). The volume gives the date, Style of Cause, "For Whom" and 'By Whom".

Record books, 1901-1950.

Provincial Police Court record books showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks".

Suitor's fund cash book from Peterborough, 1901 and from Wilmer 1902-1928; 1939.

Series consists of documents relating to mine management for the McDonald Creek Mines (1901) and the Ptarmigan Mine (1902-1904), include payroll sheets, supplies and services invoices, hotel invoices, tax receipts, express, salary, telegraph and other operational receipts. Also certificates of work, 1895-1899, on mineral claims in the Windermere mining district and appended is a March 1902 War Bulletin relating to Russian/Japanese/Chinese hostilities and German losses in Southwest Africa.

Journal of sales and receipts of unidentified general merchant. New Denver.

Scrapbook containing sketches, specifications, correspondence, and records of expenditure for construction of Bank of Montreal in Rossland. Specifications and plans for Bank of British North America, Rossland. Correspondence, records of diverse banking transactions, examples of banking stationery.

Series consists of private correspondence and personal financial accounts of James Hargrave and his family and descendants, which include the family of John Lockhart Schofield. Records include correspondence referring to life at York Factory and in mid-nineteenth century Britain; accounts; wills and marriage contracts; correspondence regarding publishing of family papers; school reports; papers relating to the Trail Creek News; and copies of newspapers.

Series contains a sales book, lands in Kootenay District. Arranged by lot number. Includes owner, acreage, improvements, and assessed values in 1911-1912.

This series consists of the records of the Royal Commission on Doukhobor Affairs, 1946-1947. Records include correspondence, transcripts, exhibits (indexed), and an interim report. No final report was issued.

This series consists of records of the Royal Commission Investigating the Fruit Industry (and interrelated conditions) of the Districts Territorially Known as the Okanagan, Kootenay, and Kettle River of the Province of British Columbia, 1929-1930. Commission records consist of correspondence and the report.

Probate cause books (indexed).

Orders with the exception of probate orders which are filed separately (GR-1429 and GR-2253). There is a handwritten file list in the first file of box 1.

Divorce case file (Chester Frederick Buchanan v Margaret Elise Buchanan and William Przybylskie aka William Watson).

Selected Rossland Supreme Court civil case files.

Provincial Police Court record books showing name of prosecutor, name of defendant, nature of the charge, costs, name of arresting officer, name of gaol or lockup, order or conviction, amount of fine, name of presiding magistrate or justice and "remarks", 1919-1935; 1937-1950.

Probate cause books (indexed).

Judgements. Box 1, file 1 contains a handwritten list giving plaint numbers, the style of cause (up to 50/30), and the documents retained as well as the plaint numbers for files which were approved for destruction.

The series also consists of a judgment in the case of Elizabeth Graham v. A. Folden and Elizabeth Folden (82/1919) that was signed and filed in 1926.

Case files of appeals from criminal convictions; many are from a contravention of the Wartime Prices and Trade regulations.

Series consists of a letterpress copybook contains tissue copies of his outgoing letters, September 1908 - June 1909, to government departments, businessmen, etc.

This series consists of timber tenures from the Rocky Mountain Forest District for the years 1946-2008. This series may also include records created by the Cranbrook, Invermere and Kootenay Lake Forest Districts, as well as the Nelson and Southern Interior Forest Regions. Note that the names and boundaries of districts and regions varied over the years.

Timber tenures include replaceable forest licences, licences to cut, replaceable timber sale licences, non-replaceable timber sale licences, woodlot licences, special use permits and Christmas tree permits. There are also records regarding tree farm licence (TFL) 13, TFL 14, TFL 26, TFL 36 and TFL 37.

Files contain cutting permits, legal documents, operations information, charts, applications, development plans, annual reports, management plans, an “A” number bid deposit register, correspondence, maps, reports, amendments, logging inspection reports, logging plans, licences, policy, procedures, and a variety of other documents.

The series also includes some records related to silviculture. These include silviculture openings, obligations, as well as silviculture experiment (SX) files regard trials completed under the jurisdiction of the silviculture program. Includes records detailing silviculture trials conducted, working plans, results, evaluations, reports, models, maps and data. Silviculture obligations may relate to major licensees, woodlot licences or the small business program.

The ministries responsible for the Forest and Range Districts, and the years that they were responsible, are:
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water (1962-1975)
British Columbia. Dept. of Forests (1975-1976)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)
British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Range (2005-2010)

Records in this series are classified under ORCS numbers 18750-20, 18765-20, 18765-25, 18765-30, 18990-20, 19440-25, 19500-20, 19500-45, 19500-60, 19540-25, 19570-25, 19600-30, 19600-45, 19620-25, 19620-45, 19680-20, 19700-25, 19700-45, 19700-60, 19710-20, 19710-30, 19720-20 and 19720-45 of the Ministry of Forests schedule (881261).