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Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of British Columbia)
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Indentures of Conveyance

  • GR-1066
  • Series
  • 1874-1878

Indentures of Conveyance of church lands by the Bishop of British Columbia to Charles Thomas Wood, Archdeacon of Columbia, Henry P. Wright, Archdeacon of Vancouver, and John Foster McCreight; includes lands and church sites at Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich, Cowichan, Comox, and New Westminster.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Records relating to baptisms, marriages and burials

The series consists of copies of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials kept at Fort Vancouver, Fort Victoria, Fort Langley, and the Parish of Victoria. The original dates of the records are 1836 to 1886 while the photocopies and transcripts were probably made around 1950.

The first mission of the Church of England on the northwest coast of North America was established by Rev. Herbert Beaver when he arrived at Fort Vancouver, the Pacific Headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, in May 1837. With the establishment of Fort Victoria, the Hudson's Bay Company employed Rev. Robert John Staines to replace Rev. Beaver who had resigned his Fort Vancouver post in 1838. Staines arrived in 1849 and initiated construction of Victoria's District Church in 1853. Unhappy with the company's land policies, Staines sailed for England in 1854 carrying the grievances of other settlers. His ship foundered and Staines perished. His replacement was Edward Cridge who arrived at Fort Victoria on 1 April 1855. With the issuance of an ordinance by Governor Douglas "establishing regulations for the arrangement of the affairs of the Colonial Church" Cridge could hold his first regular services in August 1856. An endowment of £25,000 from Baroness Burdett-Coutts provided for the establishment of the Diocese of British Columbia and on 12 January 1859 Letters Patent were issued creating a Bishopric and appointing Rev. George Hills as Bishop. His church was consecrated on 7 December 1865 and Edward Cridge was appointed Dean. In September 1869 the Cathedral was destroyed by fire to be replaced by a second wooden structure consecrated on 5 December 1872. This was replaced with the existing stone cathedral consecrated 28 September 1929.

Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of British Columbia)

Columbia Coast Mission records

The Columbia Coast Mission (C.C.M) was inaugurated in 1905 by Reverend John Antle of the Anglican Church to serve the medical and spiritual needs of logging camps on the coast of B.C. between Vancouver Island and the Mainland.

Records include: correspondence, conveyances, minute books, reports, accounts, parish records, and log-books of mission ships.

Columbia Coast Mission

Anglican Synod correspondence

The series consists of three letterpress copybooks, which includes outgoing correspondence from Pemberton & Son, concerning the business affairs of the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia. Pemberton & Son was the financial agent for the Synod, and invested money on their behalf. The labelling on the three volumes reads: "The Incorporated Synod of BC." There are also business records in the fonds dealing with transactions concerning the Synod of New Westminster.

Letters are arranged chronologically, with an alphabetical index of recipients. In the 1902-1903 volume, handwritten numbers on a letter indicate a cross reference to letters to the same recipient. It is not known why the fonds includes only letterpress books from 1901 to 1903.

Registrar of the Diocese of British Columbia fonds

  • PR-1823
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1943

The fonds consists of correspondence and certificates of Lindley Crease and Edward Wooten, Registrars of the Diocese of British Columbia and its predecessor, the Diocese of Columbia, pertaining to the appointment and resignation of priests and the consecration of cemeteries and churches.

Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of British Columbia)