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This series consists of property tax assessment rolls and other records related to real estate or land tax in Victoria and the surrounding area. The records range in date from 1865-1886. The records may have been created by local government tax Assessors and Collectors, or the Surveyor of Taxes. Property tax assessment rolls are administered according to the Taxation Act and the Public Schools Act for the collection of real property taxes, income taxes, school taxes etc. Records record the name of the property owner, date, a description of the property and its value. Some records include additional information or also document the collection of fees related to trade licences, liquor licences, fire insurance companies, etc.

This series consists of 40 volumes of financial records likely created by the colony of BC Treasury from 1858-1872. The majority of records are waste books, journals, ledgers and cash books. However they may not be labelled clearly as such. Other types of records include day books, blotters, bill books, toll books, debenture registers, notebooks, payment slips, revenue books and other account books. The titles of each volume in the file list are transcribed directly from the cover of the volume. Title information in [square brackets] is estimated or inferred by the archivist. The records document the financial transactions and balances of the colonial government in all aspects of its operations and functions.

Waste books are rough account book in which transactions are recorded as they occur. Waste book entries are often transferred to day books prior to summary in journals and ledgers. These transactions are entered chronologically by date and are arranged under various accounts. The accounts may be the type of expense, or the name of the office in which the transaction relates to. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, amount and total. Only some books include a description of individual services or items of a transaction.

Journals are a type of financial record used in double entry book keeping to separate transactions into debits or credits. They are an intermediary record used to reorganize the chronological entries in rough day books or waste books into specific accounts, before they are ultimately copied into a ledger book. Information may be entered under the following headings: amount, associated ledger folio number, associated waste book page, date, a description of the transaction, and if the transaction was a debit or credit. The end of each year includes a sheet summarizing the balances for various accounts.

Ledger books are financial records in which each transaction is entered under a particular account or subject as a debit or a credit. The information may have been copied from a related daybook or journal before being sorted and copied into the ledger. Accounts can include anything that is a source of government income or expenditure. Account names may be indexed. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, description of the transaction, and the amount. Debit transactions are recorded on the left side of a folio and credits on the right side.

Cash books list receipts and payments in date order and are used to determine total assets at any given time. Information may be entered under the following headings: date of receipt or payment, number of voucher; name of the person or department making or receiving the payment; reason for payment or receipt; amount received or paid; the heading under which the entry was recorded in the related waste book; and the waste book page number. Cash books may be referred to as collectorate books or records of receipts and payments.

The series consists of four volumes, created at Fort Rupert to manage sundry accounts, arranged by date from 1878 to 1882. The volumes list the supplies issued to Robert Hunt, George Hunt and William Weston as well as the Fort expenses and labour accounts.

This series consists of 41 volumes of financial records likely created by the Provincial Treasury and Department of Finance from 1869-1948. The majority of records are waste books, journals, ledgers and cash books. However they may not be labelled clearly as such. Other types of records include day books, memoranda, authorities, promissory notes, blotters, form K, form J and other account books. The titles of each volume in the file list are transcribed directly from the cover or front page of the volume. Title information in [square brackets] is estimated or inferred by the archivist. The records document the financial transactions and balances of the colonial government in all aspects of its operations and functions.

Waste books are rough account book in which transactions are recorded as they occur. Waste book entries are often transferred to day books prior to summary in journals and ledgers. These transactions are entered chronologically by date and are arranged under various accounts. The accounts may be the type of expense, or the name of the office in which the transaction relates to. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, amount and total. Only some books include a description of individual services or items of a transaction.

Journals are a type of financial record used in double entry book keeping to separate transactions into debits or credits. They are an intermediary record used to reorganize the chronological entries in rough day books or waste books into specific accounts, before they are ultimately copied into a ledger book. Information may be entered under the following headings: amount, associated ledger folio number, associated waste book page, date, a description of the transaction, and if the transaction was a debit or credit. The end of each year includes a sheet summarizing the balances for various accounts.

Ledger books are financial records in which each transaction is entered under a particular account or subject as a debit or a credit. The information may have been copied from a related daybook or journal before being sorted and copied into the ledger. Accounts can include anything that is a source of government income or expenditure. Account names may be indexed. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, description of the transaction, and the amount. Debit transactions are recorded on the left side of a folio and credits on the right side.

Cash books list receipts and payments in date order and are used to determine total assets at any given time. Information may be entered under the following headings: date of receipt or payment, number of voucher; name of the person or department making or receiving the payment; reason for payment or receipt; amount received or paid; the heading under which the entry was recorded in the related waste book; and the waste book page number. Cash books may be referred to as collectorate books or records of receipts and payments.

The series consists of four volumes, created at Fort Rupert to manage receipts and expenditures, arranged by date from 1879 to 1882. Each volumes lists inventory received from Victoria in the form of goods and supplies and the amounts received for sold portions, paid in skins, labour or cash. Sales and rations to servants and supplies to mess are also noted.

The series consists of the dagger allegedly used to kill Captain Cook, a photograph of the dagger, and correspondence regarding its authenticity.

The series consists of Vancouver Supreme Court civil orders between 1944-1976 and 1980-2005. Orders dating from April 1944 until December 1945 were microfilmed and the originals destroyed. Between ca. 1980 until 1994, civil orders were separated into different series by the court registry: statues (“A”), motor vehicle (“B”), general civil (“C”), and foreclosures (“H”). Beginning July 1994, civil orders and judgements were once again combined into a single series of numbered volumes prefixed by the letter “S”.

The records are arranged within volumes by folio number. They were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of microfiched Supreme Court case files from the “A,” “B,” “C,” “H” and “X” records series. The majority of the case files date from the period 1977-1979, with some records dating from as early as 1970 and as late as 1980. The original case files were microfiched and destroyed before the final orders could be removed and filed separately; as such, these microfiche represent the only extant copy of the final order.

“A” and “X” series records appear to contain case files relating to legislated statutes, "B” series relates to Motor Vehicle cases, “C” series relates to general civil cases, and “H” series records deal with foreclosures.

The fiche are arranged by series, and then by case number. The case numbers are not arranged in a strict sequential order, but rather are arranged by record series, year, and then by the last two digits of the court file number. For example, all “A” series records from 1978 ending in “00” are grouped together (A780100, A780200, A780300, etc), followed by all the 1978 “A” series records ending in 01, and so on.

If a researcher is missing the file number, this can be located in indexes that are available to staff only. These indexes include both plaintiff and defendant in the same list. Once the file number has been located, this can be used to locate the case file and the order can be copied.

The series consists of orders and reasons for judgement concerning family law cases heard in the Nanaimo Supreme Court between 1984 and 1997. The records are arranged by case file number and are in roughly chronological order. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court, whereas reasons for judgement provide the explanation for the order. Reasons for judgement are given at the conclusion of a court hearing. Family law records include those relating to divorces, child custody, and family maintenance.

The records are covered by secondary 51450-25 of the Court Services Operational Records Classification Schedule (schedule 100152).

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.

The series consists of civil orders and reasons for judgement created between 1881 and 2000. Early records are from the Yale district, although the majority of records in the series relate specifically to Kamloops. The records are largely arranged chronologically by filing date, which can sometimes be several months after the order was issued in court. Between 1954 and 1973, orders were arranged by volume and folio numbers. Records were compiled into volumes based on filing date. Each folio is comprised of one order. The Archives does not currently have records for the period 1974 to 1982. Between 1983 and the late 1980s, some civil orders were filed by a sequential number. From the late 1980s onwards, the court filing system returned to using volumes and folios; however the volume number began again at 1. Many of the volumes contain indexes.

Civil orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and reasons for judgement provide the court's rationale. The records relate to a variety of civil matters, including adoption orders.

The series consists of civil orders created by the Chilliwack Supreme Court between 1916 and 1940, and 1974 to 1991. The series also consists of a subseries of early reasons for judgement, dating to the 1930s and 1940s. In many cases, these were interfiled with the civil orders. Early civil orders contain adoption information, although later orders appear to have been removed. The series includes divorce records, including decrees nisi and absolute. Reasons for judgement provide the rationale behind a court’s decision, and civil orders are a formal expression of the court’s will.

Records in this series are arranged by volume and folio number. Many of the records were originally housed in shannon folders, and have been rehoused for preservation purposes. When the records were received by the Archives, the volumes were out of order. As it would have been too difficult to re-order the files at the time, they have been left in the received physical order but the file list is arranged by volume number.

The records in this series were selected for full retention under the Court Services ORCS (Schedule 100152) number 51400-25.

The series consists of civil orders and judgements from the Supreme Court of Creston. The records date from 1953 to 2001. Orders and judgements are interfiled, and the series also includes divorces. Although most divorces are interfiled, the series also includes one file of divorce orders that were either removed from their original volumes or were maintained separately.

The series consists of civil orders and reasons for judgement created by the Supreme and County courts of Vanderhoof between 1977 and 2002. Orders from Supreme and County courts have frequently been interfiled together. The records deal with a variety of civil matters, including adoption, divorce, granting of letters probate, and foreclosures. Civil orders represent the formal expression of the court’s will, whereas the reasons for judgement provide the rationale for the court’s decision. The series includes a number of certified copies of probates, the originals of which are awaiting transfer to the BC Archives as of September 2018. These probates date to the 1990s and early 2000s.

Records in this series were arranged in various ways, including by court registry file number and by volume and folio number. In some instances, the folio and volume number have been reversed on the orders themselves.

Records have been managed and retained under the Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of original civil orders and reasons for judgement created between 1982 and 2001 by the Campbell River Supreme Court registry. Civil orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and reasons for judgement provide the court's rationale. The records relate to a variety of civil matters, primarily motor vehicle accidents.

The records are arranged by file number and were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of original civil orders and reasons for judgement created in the Smithers Supreme Court registry between 1969 and 1974. One additional record from 1958 was added in 2009. Civil orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and reasons for judgement provide the court's rationale.

The 1969-1974 records are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Within this series, there are divorce orders interfiled with other Supreme Court orders. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of original civil orders, judgements, and reasons for judgement created between 1978 and 2001 by the Fernie Supreme Court and County Court registry. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court, judgements are the final orders issued in a case, and reasons for judgement provide the court's rationale. The records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, and some adoptions. In the later years of this series, adoptions were removed and filed separately.

From 1978 to August 1999, the records are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Beginning September 1999, they are arranged chronologically. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

This series consists of a variety of financial records created by the Cariboo Government Agent and its successors from 1860-1948. Records are related to locations throughout the Cariboo and Chilcotin region, including, Quesnel (Quesnelle Forks or Quesnelmouth), Lightening Creek, Barkerville and Richfield. Records include collectorate cash books, waste books, records of payments of pre-emptions, assay office expenses, a mineral tax register, liquor sale records, a Bank of British Columbia bank book, a company stock journal, a tax assessment book, handwritten notes and invoices, and a list of arms borrowed from the Government Agent at Quesnelmouth. There is also a record book documenting supplies, equipment, memoranda's, and some records from the Lightening Creek Gold Commissioner's Court.

Collectorate books record the collection of various fees by the government agent. Such as trade licences, liquor licences, marriage licences, pre-emption records, water records, mining records, fines such as “Indian fines”, deposits and rent.

This series consists of various financial records created by the Lytton Government Agent and related government employees from 1858-1900. The records include account books, cash books, records of licences, lists of lots, receipts, a list of prisoners and charge book for the Lytton gaol, road tolls collected at Lytton, a store ledger, waste books and collectorate books. Collectorate books record the collection of various fees by the government agent. Such as trade licences, liquor licences, marriage licences, pre-emption records, water records, mining records, fines, deposits and rent. There are also handwritten notes and invoices created by the Government Agent for the Hope-Yale-Lytton District.

This series contains Vancouver Supreme Court Orders in 113 volumes.

The series consists of an index to civil orders and judgements created between 1984 and 1996 by the Prince George Supreme and County Courts. Entries provide a file number, the style of cause (including names of plaintiffs and defendants), a description of the order and/or judgement, and volume and folio numbers, which can be used to located associated orders and judgements found in GR-4156 (1965-1989). The index relates to orders and judgments on a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

The index is arranged by file number. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of civil orders and judgements created between 1965 and 1989 by the Prince George Supreme and County Courts. There are County Court orders and judgements for only 1984 to 1989. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgments are the final orders issued in a case. The records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

Records are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Orders and judgements are interfiled unless otherwise indicated. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

The series consists of records documenting the evaluation of residential care programs and day services in British Columbia. The records were created and received by the Ministry for Children and Families, Ministry of Social Services, and Ministry of Social Services and Housing between 1989-1998. As a result of institutional downsizing, the ministry contracted out external monitoring services specific to residential and day services across BC. The contractors, known as the Provincial Review Team (PRT), created evaluative reports on the family home or day service. The reports include overviews of the clients and their requirements, the model of service, the review process, and the overall impression of the residential care home or day service program. Residences may be semi-independent apartment supports and training homes; family model homes (1-8 clients per home); facilities (7 or more clients); and staffed residences (approximately 4 clients). Day services include supported employment and self-help skills programs. Some of the files contain information packages on the PRT, various proposals, and some contract files.

The records are arranged alphabetically by the name of the program or topic. The records include correspondence files, evaluation reviews, reports, follow-up surveys, and research/reference materials. These records are classified as resource program evaluation case files (secondary 45130-50) under the Ministry for Children and Family Development ORCS (schedule 118669).

This series contains a handwritten, verbatim account of "Confederation debate," held in colonial legislature, March 1870.

The series consists of records which document Herbert Anscomb’s activities as a member of the B.C. Legislative Assembly (in opposition), as a cabinet minister, and as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia. The time period in which the records were created begins with Anscomb’s first entry to the B.C. legislature at the beginning of 1934 and ends with his political defeat in his Oak Bay constituency and resignation as party leader in 1952.

The documentary forms include correspondence, diaries Anscomb maintained as a cabinet minister, photographs and speeches (full speeches and speech notes for speeches in public, in the legislature, and for radio broadcast). In smaller numbers the documentary forms include pamphlets, political campaign brochures and posters, press releases and news clippings.

Most files are arranged chronologically, an order imposed by the archivist. A second group of files are maintained with titles apparently used by their creator,
based on surnames, including Merryfield, Howes, Hague, George, Pearson, Wright, all of whom appear to have been Conservative party organizers. A third group of files have the titles given by their creator, and are labelled “Personal.”

Conservative party organizers apparently functioned in a specific region of the province. J.E. Merryfield was an organizer for the BC Progressive Conservative association, probably with regional responsibility for northern and coastal BC, including the Gulf Islands. Philip Howes was an organizer for the BC Progressive Conservative Association, probably responsible for a region including the Kootenays, Okanagan, and Similkameen. Reece Hague, organizer for the BC Progressive Conservative Association, on Vancouver Island. James A.A. George became Vancouver Island organizer for the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Association about 1950-1951. W.W. Wright was apparently an organizer for the BC Progressive Conservative Association, based in Prince George, B.C.

These files consist of correspondence incoming and outgoing between citizens and Herbert Anscomb’s office. These are from people who reside in the region covered by each party organizer. For example, letters in the “Howes” file are from constituents in the southern interior areas of the province such as Kootenays, Okanagan, and Similkameen. Citizens typically wrote to Anscomb with requests, concerns, and statements of their opinion on provincial government policy and government matters as it affected the local areas. The files include periodic mail-out letters to the public by Anscomb as party leader; subject matter of correspondence mixes letters to and from Anscomb in his capacity as a cabinet minister with letters as Conservative party provincial leader.

Discussion between Anscomb and party organizers concerns Progressive Conservative Association matters, particularly the state of the party in local areas, publicity and organizing efforts. Each organizer discusses party matters relevant to their region, including their travel through the region. It appears the party leader (Anscomb) expected a weekly report from the organizers on where they had been and what they did.

The files reflect a wide range of subjects, including government, politics and economic policy during the depression and World War II, the coalition government, infrastructure building, political competition against the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF party), the single transferable vote electoral system, the process of appointment to government jobs, hospital insurance, the history of the Conservative Party in BC and its relation to the federal party.

The series includes a rich collection of photographs. Also of particular note are the detailed diaries Anscomb kept as Minister of Mines, Minister of Trade and Industry, Minister of Public Works, and Minister of Municipal Affairs in the early to mid-1940s.

This series consists of land and mineral tax records related to the Nicola, Merritt and Ashcroft area from 1900-1952. The records were likely created by the Government Agents working in those locations, who acted as Tax Assessors and Collectors.. There is also one record of water rights for the Nicola and Yale area and one register of water licence applications. The majority of records relate to the sale of mineral claims or land as a result of the failure to pay taxes.

Records include tax sale deeds of land, various tax sale of land forms, tax sale certificates, redemption receipts, tax sale papers, and some correspondence. There are also related tax related records from the Court of Appeal and Court of Revision. These record the appellant, date, description of property, reason for appeal, evidence heard and decision.

The series consists primarily of cuttings from newspapers, but also from magazines, permanently mounted in 12 scrapbooks, some with annotations, in chronological order.

Other items in the scrapbooks include full magazine articles, postcards, credentials for conventions, menus, and other ephemera. There are numerous short, handwritten notes which were passed from MLAs to Anscomb during sittings in the legislature.

The 12 volumes cover Anscomb’s entire career, as well as events after he retired from politics in 1952. The time period covered begins with Anscomb’s career in Oak Bay politics and government, and Volume 1 consists of excellent secondary source material on the history and politics of Oak Bay. The subjects of the news clippings include all aspects of government and politics in Oak Bay, Victoria and the province of B.C., and not just articles pertaining to Anscomb himself.

The series consists of 234 black and white photographs in a 103-page album, which document a part of Anscomb’s political career. The album begins in January 1929, which coincides with Anscomb’s first swearing in as Mayor of Victoria, and continues through his tenure as mayor of Victoria. The largest number of pictures date from 1929-1930, a smaller number date from 1931-1933. Towards the end of the album, 24 pictures date from the period 1935-1942, when Anscomb had entered provincial politics. The album also includes two photographs dating from an earlier period (1924) when Anscomb was Reeve of Oak Bay.

Subjects represented include a wide variety of public events, mostly with regard to Anscomb’s role as mayor of Victoria. Notable items include three photographs of a tree planting by Winston Churchill in Beacon Hill Park on September 6, 1929. Other notable items include images of a rural Sunday church service at Banff, Alberta in 1929, which included Ralph Connor, the novelist and Presbyterian and United Church minister.

The series consist of records created in Herbert Anscomb’s capacity as a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation, to which he was appointed by Prime Minister Diefenbaker in 1959. Headed by Murdoch MacPherson (and known as the MacPherson Commission) it was created to examine transportation policy, in particular to investigate railway freight-rate inequities. The commission conducted hearings across Canada and reported, in three volumes, in 1961-1962.

The records include correspondence, black and white photographs of commission members and the hearings, a collection of working or draft versions of Volume II of the report, and the final report.

The three volumes of the final report, including Volume I, March 1961, Volume II, December 1961, and Volume III, July 1962 have been placed in the custody of the B.C. Archives library collection.

The series also consists of a copy of the transportation report of the previous decade (Report of the Royal Commission on Transportation, February 9, 1951) which was presumably used by the later commission as a precursor and reference point.

The series consists of records created in the course of private and personal activities, in the time period from Herbert Anscomb’s arrival in Victoria from England in 1911 to his death in 1972. The series also consists of a small number of records created by Jane Hall between 1972 and 1993 in her capacity of managing Anscomb’s records after his death.

The documentary forms include correspondence, photographs, personal financial records, collected published articles (including those by and about Anscomb), the manuscript of an autobiography, campaign literature, collected editorial cartoons, newspaper clippings, a water colour painting, caricature drawings, ephemera and reports.

Of particular note is a lengthy handwritten manuscript of an unpublished autobiography which Anscomb began in 1953.

The series also consists of the document “The Road North 1943: Glimpses of British Columbia from the Ministerial Diary of Herbert Anscomb, Minister of Public Works in 1943.” Its origin is unknown; it was possibly written by a Michael Gregson in about 1992, based on records he borrowed from Jane Hall.

The series consists of records concerning Anscomb’s involvement in the wine and brewing industry, however, they are relatively few in number.

The records are arranged both by documentary form and chronologically.