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Speedy trial case index giving name and suit number.

This series consists of correspondence inward with replies, of the Provincial Secretary, 1914-1918. Correspondence is arranged by year then alphabetically by subject. Some subjects included in the correspondence:

Canadian Explosives, Ltd., Prince Rupert; Curfew Law in Creston; Dominion Royal Commission Publications; Doukhobors; Congregation of Emanuel, Victoria; flags of foreign consulates; parliamentary franchise be extended to women; Industrial School for Boys; Provincial Jail jury lists; Japanese Consulate; Immigration Branch; marine and fisheries; Marriage Act; Walter Moberly; Observatory; railways; cemetery - Quesnel; Colonial Lumber and Paper Mills Co. Ltd.; Drainage, Dyking and Irrigation; Dyking Districts - Dewdney, Island West, West Langley; jury list; Mission City; Regimental Fund (British Columbia Regiment): British Columbia Electric Railway (Jitney Bus Competition); H.D. Ruggles (Commission-Police Magistrate); Water Works - Sidney; census and statistics office; cemetery-Hazelton; Dyking Districts Projects; Japanese memorial; Workmen's Compensation Act; application to Land Dept. for agricultural development; Census and Statistics Office; Cemeteries; Coroners' inquests; juror lists; jails; Indian Rights Association of British Columbia; Sir Richard McBride's funeral; Public Health Journal (mental health); British Columbia Prohibition Act - Woman Suffrage and Military Forces voting Acts; Returned Soldiers Commission; J.A. Russell regarding taxation; Tupper in respect to Western Power Co. of Canada Ltd. (Water Act); Mary Velleuoweth estate: Vancouver Joint Sewerage and Drainage Board; University of British Columbia Library; Alberni Pacific Lumber Co.; agriculture; Cattle Rangers Act; Cemeteries - Chinese; College Dental Surgeons; Johnson re Chinese camp at William Head; Public Inquiries Act; prohibition; Dept. of Soldier's Civil re-establishment; establishment of steel industry; Special Surveys Act; Vancouver Island Settler's Right.

Case files from appeals of criminal convictions; Rex v. Telesphore Marion, 1917 and Rex v. William G. Bradshaw and George W. Armstrong, 1923.

Warrants of commitment and other forms documenting admissions to Victoria Gaol and Nanaimo Gaol, 1913-1914 and the Saanich Prison Farm, 1914-1917.

Civil case file 418/1917: Trustees and Executors Act vs. Estate of Henry Town.

Civil case file 499/1917: George Owen Buchanan vs. Barclay Shingle Mills Ltd.

The fonds consists of Hooper's photographs of family, friends, and local scenery.

This series consists of one volume of a roll of coroners, 1899-1917.

This series consists of records of the Commission on the 1916 By-Election in Vancouver, 1916-1917. Commission records consist of transcripts of evidence presented at proceedings, exhibits and the commissioners original signed report.

This series consists of three volumes of records of the Water Commissioner, Omineca District, relating to water rights. Volume 1 is a record of Water Grants pursuant to the Water Clauses Consolidation Act (1897), 1898-1905, including determinations by the Board of Investigation, 1917. Volume 2 is a record of Water Grant pursuant to the Water Clauses Consolidation Act (1897), 1909-1917, including determinations by the Board of Investigation, 1917. Volume 3 is Water Record Book No. 1, from 24 June 1898, recorded at the Gold Commissioner's office, Omineca District, including correspondence relating to water rights claims, 1915 and 1917.

The series consists of the records of the Commission on the Overseas Vote in Connection With the British Columbia Prohibition Act, 1917. Commission records include transcripts of proceedings for the eleven days of hearings in London during June and July 1917.

This series contains ranger patrol diaries. The series includes the diaries of D. Wallace, whose ranger district was probably the Nicola valley and adjacent parts of the Railway Belt.

Record books of cases heard before Judge McInnes

The fonds comprises photographs of and by Henri Dumas, taken in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, North Vancouver, and France. They show local scenery, as well as Mr. Dumas' family, business activities, and horses. One group of images shows the Hotel Capilano and the horse-drawn coaches taking tourists to and from Capilano Canyon.

The fonds also contains 12 pages of photocopied textual material, which was given the MS accession number 86-053. This material includes: a handwritten biography of Henri Dumas by his son, A. Dumas; a prospectus for J.Z. Lajoie Co., Limited of LaJoie Falls, B.C., a company that Henri Dumas was involved with in 1914; an indenture for sale of land; unidentified documents in French; and a letter to Kathryn Bridge, Visual Records Divsion, PABC, regarding the Dumas photographs.

The fonds consists of commissions and scrapbook of Erland Hadow.

The fonds consists of correspondence, receipts and clippings.

The fonds consists of correspondence, legal documents, certificates, assessment notices and sketches.

The fonds consists of an account book of the Revelstoke Board of Trade.

This series consists of New Westminster Land District tax rolls for West Nicomen Dyking District from 1914-1917. Information may include the names and address of the registered owner and applicant to register, the legal description of the land, acreage, amounts payable and payment records. Auditors' reports are also included.

This series consists of four volumes of record books from the Lillooet Provincial Court. Volumes include magistrate's record book, 20 May 1865 - 15 Aug 1893; gaol book (charge and sentence), 9 Jan 1862 - 9 Jul 1867 and 29 Sep 1893 - 7 Nov 1912; charge and sentence book, 14 Jul 1874 - 31 Oct 1879 (contains also Firm Index Book and listings under the Mechanics Liens Act and the Sale of Goods Act, 1897-1915); Magistrate's Court notebook, 18 Feb 1893 - 3 Jul 1917.

This series consists of applications for admission to the Provincial Home for the Aged and Infirm (Kamloops), comprised of forms pursuant to the Provincial Home Act, 1893, and related correspondence, 1895-1917.

The fonds consists of the guest register of the Lardeau Hotel.

This series consists of records of the Commission on the Economic Conditions and Operations of the British Columbia Electric Railway Co. and Subsidiary Companies, 1917. Commission records consist solely of the original signed report.

The series consists of orders issued by the Prince Rupert Supreme Court from 1911 to 1917. An order is the document, filed in the court registry, which sets out the decision of the judge or master.

Debt attachment book.

The series consists of records created by the British Columbia Provincial Police between 1909 and 1917 relating to the enforcement of the Clubs Regulation Act, 1909. The records include the following:
Box 1: correspondence re applications for licenses, 1909-1910
Box 2: applications, reports, etc., 1912-1916
Box 3: correspondence, Dec 1916 - Jan 1917
Box 4: register of applications, 1909-1916.

This series contains water rights maps prepared pursuant to Water Act Amendment Act, 1913, showing location of water rights and licences, points of diversion, conduits, places of user, file references and legal descriptions. The series also contains water rights determination sheets relating to water rights decisions of the Board of Investigation. These records show the dates of the original record (includes records ca. 1859-1909), creek or source, grantee, appurtenant land, purpose of water grant, works constructed, amounts of irrigated and irrigable land, names of other claimants, and remarks of the board. The records are arranged by Water District and Water Precinct. The original maps have been catalogued in the Map Division as CM/B1575.

This series contains letters inward to the Department of the Provincial Secretary, 1892-1917. During the period covered by GR-1330 (1892-1917) the Provincial Secretary was variously responsible for the departments of Mines, Education and Immigration. Within these departments he was responsible for the Legislative Library and Archives, the Queen's Printer, the Bureau of Statistics, the Civil Service Commission, and various agencies concerned with health and social welfare. The multiplicity of his duties accounts for the range and diversity of the records in GR-1330.

Among the records are correspondence to, and from, the Lieutenant-Governor and the Executive Council, correspondence from Dominion officials concerning colonization and settlement, applications from organizations wishing to register under the Benevolent Societies Act, memoranda of association from businesses seeking to be incorporated under the provincial Companies Act, petitions from community groups requesting schools and improved municipal services, plus letters from private persons applying for appointments in the civil service. Also included are records arising from the administration of the provincial elections, hospitals, and asylums.

The fonds consists of minute books and a photograph of the Matsqui Women's Institute.

Punishment book showing "punishments awarded for breaches of prison discipline in Provincial Gaol". The volume indicates the date, prisoner's name, nature of the offence, by whom reported, sentence, date of sentence and the signature of the warden, J. Munro.