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Various Vancouver Island accounts

The file contains correspondence and abstracts of income and expenditure in regard to Colony of Vancouver Island land sales and survey costs for road building and abstracts from land registers. It also contains statements of revenue and comparative returns of imports to the Port of Victoria.

Various Vancouver Island and H.B.C. accounts

The file contains abstracts of income and expenditure in regard to Colony of Vancouver Island land sales and survey costs; abstracts from land registers and extracts from despatches regarding Hudson's Bay Company land sales as well as correspondence and other general accounts relating to Colony and Hudson's Bay Company affairs. It also includes a report on the defects and impediments in Victoria Harbour, with associated estimates for improvement.

Circulars despatches

The file consists of Governor Kennedy's copies of circular despatches issued by Colonial Office in London, 1866-1867. The despatches contain general regulations in regard to Board of Trade and Merchant Shipping issues as well as despatches regarding Treasonable Offences, Colonial Mints, appointment of Bishops and Foreign Office affairs.

Vancouver Island despatch register

The item is a volume registering despatches received by Vancouver Island Governors Blanshard (1849-1851) and Douglas (1851-1863), from the Colonial Office in London. The first 25 pages list the despatches specific to Blanshard and Douglas, arranged chronologically. Pages 29 to 46 list circular despatches (1952-1963) arranged chronologically.

The depatch entries list the date, the despatch number and the subject.

Pre-confederation marriage records

  • GR-3044
  • Series
  • 1859-1872

Records of marriages occurring in the Colony of British Columbia and the Colony of Vancouver Island, submitted to the Colonial Secretary by clergy, 1859-1872, prior to the entry of British Columbia into the Confederation of Canada. The records are bound into eight volumes in two accessions. The volumes contain certified copies of marriage certificates, or returns of marriages, submitted by clergy of various, but not all, denominations. Absent, for example, are the records of the Church of England/Anglican Church. See MS-0520 for Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral records and H/A/Sa21 for St. Stephen’s Church register of marriages, 1863-1880.

Also includes a letter from Rev. John B. Good.

British Columbia (Colony). Colonial Secretary

Lands sold under the Pre-emption Act, 4th Jan. 1860

The item is a volume containing a registry of land claimed under the Pre-emption Act. There are entries made between 1860 and 1865 which list the date, name of claimant and the situation of the land claimed in the lower mainland, mostly around New Westminster.

Country lands : district of Similkameen

The item is a pre-emption register kept for the country lands in the district of Similkameen. The register lists the record number, the name of the pre-emptor, the size and price of lot and payment details and notes about surveys and title deeds.

Don Horne interview

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Don Home. In it, he discusses his career in radio broadcasting. Mr. Horne took training at the Sprott-Shaw School and worked at radio stations in Victoria and Vancouver before joining the CBC in 1939. His field was technical production, including live radio drama, where he worked with producer Andrew Allan. In 1955, he became a supervisor, and in 1966, technical director. He retired from the CBC in 1974. The interview reflects on many aspects of technical change, the problems of early broadcasting, and the details of wartime broadcasting.

Harold Allison interview

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Harold Allision. Harold Allison is a third generation cattle rancher in the Princeton-Similkameen Valley area. His grandfather John Fall Allison was the first white settler in the valley. The first Allison ran a cattle ranch and trading post in the area. The bounds of the ranch, types of cattle run, and early markets are discussed, as is the state of the present day (1977) ranch, and its bounds, stock and market.

Vancouver County Court book debt indexes

  • GR-3146
  • Series
  • 1916-1960

Book debt indexes: 1916-1946; 1947-1954; 1954-1957; 1958-1960. These volumes are alphabetical indexes to the Register of book accounts assigned. They are alphabetical by name of the assignor and include the following information: case number; name of assignor; name of assignee; date instrument registered with the Vancouver court; and the register reference number (volume and page). The register of book accounts assigned are found in GR-1894.

British Columbia. County Court (Vancouver)

Indexes to estates probated in Vancouver

  • GR-2988
  • Series
  • 1952-1986

Vancouver probate indexes. Index for 1974-1976 (B11787-B11788) is also found on reel B09710 in one single alphabetical sequence.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Vancouver)

Harold Mortimer-Lamb fonds

  • PR-0621
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1967

The fonds consists of correspondence, catalogues, articles, scrapbooks and photographs.

Mortimer-Lamb, Harold

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