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Letters of administration (form 156).

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.

This series consists of cause books from Fort Steele Supreme Court, 1900-1908 and from Cranbrook Supreme Court, 1908-1956. Attached to the covers of volume 1 is a list of trust companies registered in 1914; instructions regarding estates of alien enemies, 1915; and British Columbia Gazette excerpts regarding Workmen's Compensation, 1902 and 1904. The books contain primarily civil matters.

Certificate of incorporation, minute books.

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].

Biographical material, correspondence, unpublished memoirs (1960) which give an account of Munro's life and include his experiences as a customs and revenue officer in Revelstoke, WW 1 Army officer in Russia and furrier and big game guide who, after 1929, was based in Vancouver until his retirement to Emerson, Manitoba in 1956. Photographs of Munro, big game and other subjects have been transferred to Visual Records accession, 98404-1.

Presented by Mr. Munro, Penticton, 1970.

Series consists of minute books, 1932-1967; directors' meeting minutes and roll call, 1928-1937; cash books, 1930-1967; membership book, 1930-1953; attendance book, 1959-1964.

Series consists of minutes of the Kaslo Miners' Union, the Kaslo Fire Brigade, the Kaslo Board of Trade, the Kaslo School Board, and papers relating to the London Hill Development and Mining Co., the Shutty Bench Land Development Enterprise, an account book for a dry goods store, a history of mining in the area, Master's and Pilot House Log books for the S.S. Moyie, and daily guest registers from the Adams House and Kaslo Hotel.

Files relating to the Columbia River Treaty.

Purchased from Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, which holds the originals, 1980.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfilm by John Willis Christian, entitled "The Kootenay gold rush: the placer decade, 1863-1872." v, 193 leaves: maps. Thesis (Ph.D.), Washington State University, 1967. Bibliography: leaves 180-191.

Robert George Joy was born in Margate, Kent, England, in 1873. He came to Canada in 1892 staying first in Nepawa, Manitoba for a year and then moving on to Revelstoke where he booked steamboat passage to Robson. He found employment as a cook for a construction camp on the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway. He later ran a bakery in Rossland and Nelson, and next operated a grocery store in Nelson. In his later years he worked as a meter reader for the City of Nelson electric service. Joy's interest in the history of the Kootenays led him to write a regular column for the Nelson Daily News entitled "From an Old Timer's Notebook." He was also the historian for the Nelson and District Old Timers' Association and the unofficial historian of Nelson. R.G. Joy died in 1958.

The collection consists of correspondence, accounts, clippings and papers of individuals and associations connected with the development of the Kootenays collected by R.G. Joy. Printed materials have been deposited with the British Columbia Archives Library and the Legislative Library.

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.

Cause book (indexed).

The series consists of declarations of partnerships made under the Partnership Act. Records in this series were created between 1955 and 1965 in the County Court of Golden. Records were originally housed in shannon folders, but have since been rehoused by the Archivist.

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".

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lorna Lytle discusses how her father; Thomas Lytle, came to Crawford Bay from Saskatchewan in 1912 to become a fruit farmer. She offers reasons why he came and discusses the Kootenay l;and boom in 1912; how early fruit farming was not profitable; the journey from Saskatchewan; steamboats on Kootenay Lake; early transportation; stone boat trails; optimism of the region; the mining boom from 1898 to 1906; farming by 1912; George Zimmer; Ted Wakefield; an anecdote about a cougar; Prospector Bill's "bear story"; knives and more on the bear story. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle continues with; more on Prospector Bill's story in which two miners encounter a grizzly bear and a trapper gets killed. She discusses grizzly and black bears; hunting for food; caribou; an anecdote about a deer hun;t; more of her father Thomas Lytle and his birth in Ontario on 1873; his family moving to Norquay, Manitoba in 1879; pioneering at Norquay; moving to Winnipeg in 1898; homesteading in Quill Lake Saskatchewan from 1906 to 1911 and buying land at Crawford Bay in 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle explains how her father; Thomas Lytle, acquired land at Crawford Bay in 1912. She discusses the fire of 1883; reforestation; building up the land; small fruit farming in 1912; agriculture including dairy and poultry and fruit in the Kootenay Lake region; the Bluebell Mine; first pre-emptions in 1894; the growth of Crawford Bay from 1898 to 1918; an anecdote about "greenhorn Englishmen"; raw hiding ore is explained; the Pilot Bay smelter; floatation process for separating zinc and lead; a story of Mike Johnson, who was a prospector; and the stores of Crawford Bay. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle offers memories of childhood sounds; childhood memories of the mountains; a discussion of smelter life; how food was plentiful; mountain surroundings versus the open prairies; trees; bir;ds; wildflowers; Professor Murray; effects of the mountains; nationalities of the settlers; British immigrants; present population of Crawford Bay as fluctuating; steamboats including the "Kokanee" whistle; a boiler blow up on the "Kokanee"; "Nasookin"; "Moyie", the work horse of the lake; schedules; impressions of Kootenay Lake; social life and recreation.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle continues with more on Crawford Bay; British immigrants; Kootenay Indians; place names; education; Crawford Bay life; and the Women's Institute. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Cause book.

This series contains correspondence relating to petroleum leases. The records consists of enquiries relating to oil lands in British Columbia (1940-1943), a general file on oil lands (1940-1956), and correspondence files on petroleum leases in Block 4593, Kootenay District, held by Borden Oil Company.

Records relating to appraisals of Doukhobor lands. Records include: "Doukhobor Lands, a report on a study of the condition and value of the Doukhobor Lauds", by N.T. Drewry, with accompanying atlas of soil and land classification maps and land use mosaics, and working files; "Doukhobor lands: a report on a valuation of the Doukhobor lands for the Land Settlement Board", by Neil T. Drewry, 1957; appraisal of 1962 subdivisions of former Doukhobor lands at Ootischenia and Pass Creek, Kootenay District, by N.T. Drewry, H.W.R. Ramsden and J.S.D. Smith.

Minutes, 1914-1922, 1950-1962; cash books, 1921-1947; papers re incorporation; correspondence, 1943-1948; Dept. of Agriculture "Early history of the Farmers' Institutes of British Columbia"; Acts of the Legislature relating to agriculture, newsletters of and correspondence with British Columbia Interior Vegetable Marketing Board, 1949.

Series consists of correspondence, 1926, 1935-1937, 1952-1962; notes; speeches; printed materials; and newspaper clipping books containing reports of legislative sessions, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1956-1959.

Letters of administration with will annexed - Form 157.

Department of Agriculture report entitle "the present economic status of the Arrow Lakes Valley", prepared by P.C. Forward with the assistance of J.M. Boygo of the B.C. Power Commission staff, 1961.

Criminal case files heard before a magistrate.

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.

Mechanics' liens.

"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.

Series consists of some family memorabilia, and records relating to the career of J.M. Robinson as a school teacher, MLA and newspaper proprietor (Brandon Times and the Portage La Prairie Printing and Publishing Co.) in Manitoba. Several notebooks and a diary relate to his interest in prospecting in B.C. (area between Rossland and Okanagan) and to his interest in spiritualism, including its use in prospecting.

The bulk of the series consists of minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records relating to Robinson's various development companies: Okanagan Securities, Canadian Irrigated Orchards, Okanagan Realty, Naramata Supply Co., Hotel Naramata, Hotel Summerland and Crescent Beach Co.

The series also contains letters inward to the Headmistress of Naramata School for Girls, 1942-1946 and photographs of school activities, Visual Records accession 198504-16. Microfilm (neg.) 1879, 1897, 1929-1931 35 mm 6 reels [A01438-A01443] John Moore Robinson (1855-1934) moved to the Okanagan in 1898 and acquired and developed property at Peachland, Summerland and Naramata. He also had a career as a school teacher, MLA and newspaper proprietor (Brandon Times and the Portage La Prairie Printing and Publishing Company) in Manitoba. He had an interest in prospecting in British Columbia (area between Rossland and Okanagan) and spiritualism, including its use in prospecting. His business interests included the Summerland Trust Company, incorporated in 1907. The company name changed to Okanagan Trust Company Limited, on September 12, 1911, and finally to Okanagan Securities Limited on August 28, 1915. He was also involved with the Naramata Development Company (incorporated in 1907) which became Canadian Irrigated Orchards Limited in October 5, 1926. The bulk of the records consist of minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records relating to Robinson's companies: Okanagan Securities, Canadian Irrigated Orchards, Okanagan Realty, Naramata Supply Company, Hotel Naramata, Hotel Summerland and Crescent Beach Company. There are several notebooks and a diary related to prospecting and spiritualism. Also included is some family memorabilia and letters inward to the Headmistress of Naramata School for Girls, 1942-1946. Maps transferred to Map accession 19419.

Woodmen's liens.