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Diplomatic despatches from U.S. Consuls in Victoria, Canada. National Archives microcopy T-130.

Reasons for judgement in case of Frank Calder et al. vs. Attorney General of British Columbia (Nishga Tribal Lands case). Appeal heard Nov 29 - Dec 3, 1971; judgement given Jan 31, 1973.

Transaction registers for ships registered at the Port of New Westminster, 1880-1889 (reel B09868), and 1889-1913 (reel B09869). The reels also contain Registers for various ports in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes, and for Aklavik in the N.W.T. Among details to be found are where and when the ship was built, owners, builders, number of decks, masts, details of rigging, etc., length, breadth, tonnage, details of engines, transactions relating to ownership and reason for being taken off registry. The Registers record transactions up to ca. 1950. (National Archives of Canada, RG 12, A 1, vols. 364 and 445).

Received from the National Archives of Canada under the 1990-1991 Diffusion Programme.

Ships - Registration and transfer - British Columbia

Referred to as the Wilson Duff Papers, these records are microfilm copies of primarily the original research and field notes of Wilson Duff who was curator of Anthropology at the British Columbia Provincial Museum from 1950 to 1965 and deal with the ethnology of aboriginal peoples in British Columbia. Some field notes of other museum anthropologists are also included. The original papers consist of approximately 1.5 meters of textual records. The majority of them were microfilmed in order to make the contents available to clients of the then British Columbia Archives and Records Service. The Royal British Columbia Museum retained the original papers including some maps, typescripts and oversize material that were not microfilmed.

Wilson Duff received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Masters Degree in anthropology from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1951. From 1950 to 1965 he served as Curator of Anthropology for the British Columbia Provincial Museum (now the Royal British Columbia Museum). He also directed the British Columbia Government Anthropology Program from 1960 to 1965. From 1965 until his death in 1976 he was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. During his term as Curator of Anthropology with the Museum, Wilson Duff conducted the research work documented in these papers. The papers are a diverse collection of material, consisting of field notes, maps, official and unofficial records, and copies of published and unpublished works. Records of later museum anthropologists also form a part of this collection. The Wilson Duff Papers document many aspects of Indigenous history and culture, and include important linguistic information. They also document the activities of Wilson Duff and other staff of the Provincial Museum.

The series consists of Central Registry records, ca. 1895-1914, relating to British Columbia (part of National Archives of Canada RG 23/B/1. The collection consists of files from the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries Central Registry records held by the NAC filmed for the University of B.C. library and contains material relating to the development and administration of fisheries in British Columbia.

Received from the National Archives of Canada under the 1991-1992 Diffusion Program.

Finding aid: reel list prepared by Ira M. Chaikin for the University of British Columbia Library.

1901 census: British Columbia Portion - Schedule 1 (Nominal Return of Living Persons); Schedule 2 (Return of Buildings and Lands, Schools and Churches); and Indian Reserves. A database of the 1901 census data is available through ArchiviaNet but can be searched by geographic location only. It is not searchable by family name.

Central Registry records: index and correspondence registers, 1883-1915, 5 vols. (National Archives of Canada, RG 23/B/1/b). These five volumes are a set of contemporary indexes to GR-2908, Dept. of Marine and Fisheries, Central Registry Records. Volumes 1-3 contain entries arranged by name, volume 4, entries arranged by locality, and volume 5, entries arranged by subject. These volumes should be used in conjunction with the finding aid to GR-2908 which is a reel list of files relating to British Columbia.

Acquired from the National Archives of Canada under the 1992-1993 Diffusion Program.

Proclamation authorizing formation of Courts in the colony of Vancouver Island, April 4, 1856. Typescript available.

Case file: C864385 Pasco et al v. CNR (Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy defendants) known as the "double tracking" case. The file contains reasons for Judgment, affidavits of Bouchard, Kennedy and their lawyer Leslie Pinder, orders, exhibits, newspaper clippings.

1911 census, British Columbia portion, Schedule 1 (Population). Includes information related to residence, marital status, age, place of birth, religion, racial or tribal origin, occupation, education, etc. Note that Alberta District 7 is included on the first reel. The records were originally filmed in 1955 and the paper records then destroyed. The microfilm quality is inconsistent and not all images are decipherable. A database of the 1911 census data is available through Library and Archives Canada (www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1911/Pages/about-census.aspx) and can be searched by keywords, surname, given name(s), age, and/or province.

Purchased from the National Archives of Canada March 2006.

For further research assistance visit Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx).

Series consists of ~blue books~ containing a compilation of statistical information, public accounts and general information about the Colony of British Columbia. Each volume includes a table of contents and includes the following separate sections: 1) Taxes, duties and other sources of revenue 2) Fees 3) Revenue and expenditure 4) Comparative yearly statements of revenue and expenditure 5) Local revenue 6) Public debt 7) Military expenditure: militia 8) Public works 9) Legislation: laws, proclamations, etc. 10) Political franchise 11) Council and Assembly 12) Civil establishment 13) Officer who have given security for discharge of their duties 14) Pensions 15) Abstract of expenditure for civil, judicial, ecclesiastical establishments, etc. 16) Foreign consuls 17) Population 18) Savings banks, friendly societies, immigrants and emigrants, etc. 19) Ecclesiastical return 20) Education, newspapers and reviews 21) Coins exchanges, etc. 22) Imports and exports 23) Shipping 24) Agriculture, cultivated and uncultivated lands, wages, etc. 25) Manufactures, mines and fisheries 26) Grants of land 27) Gaols and Prisoners 28) Charitable and literary institutions.

Series consists of "blue books" containing a compilation of statistical information, public accounts and general information about the Colony of Vancouver Island. Each volume includes a table of contents and includes the following sections: 1) Taxes, duties and other sources of revenue 2) Fees 3) Revenue and expenditure 4) Comparative yearly statements of revenue and expenditure 5) Local revenue 6) public debt 7) Military expenditure: militia 8) Public works 9) Legislation: laws, proclamations, etc. 10) Political Franchise 11) Council and assembly 12) Civil establishment 13) Officer who have given security for discharge of their duties 14) Pensions 15) Abstract of expenditure for civil, judicial, ecclesiastical establishments, etc. 16) Foreign consuls 17) Population 18) Savings banks, friendly societies, immigrants and emigrants, etc. 19) Ecclesiastical return 20) Education, newspapers and reviews 21) Coins exchanges, etc. 22) Imports and exports 23) Shipping 24) Agriculture, cultivated and uncultivated lands, wages, etc. 25) Manufactures, mines and fisheries 26) Grants of land 27) Gaols and Prisoners 28) Charitable and literary institutions.

The series also consists of 11 pages which may be draft copies of several parts of the 1863 blue book.

Series consists of ~entry books~ containing official despatches including commissions, instructions, patents, etc. Records are arranged chronologically.

Series consists of Colonial Office correspondence relating to the Colony of Vancouver Island. Correspondence is arranged chronologically in bound volumes.

Copy, lacking signatures; no indication of provenance.

Scrapbook entitled "Christmas cards and the stories they tell".

Deposited by Secretary Treasurer, B.C. Women's Institute, 1975.

Standing rules and regulations of the H.B.C.'s fur trade established by the Council for the Northern Department of Rupert's Land.

Presented by J.A. Pearce, 1974.

Corporate history produced by Corporate Communications Division of the company.

Presented by Derek Reimer, Victoria, 1975.

The series consists of transcribed copies of letters describing the visit of Jane, Lady Franklin, to the Pacific Northwest coast.

The series consists of dossiers on ships of the Royal Navy which served on the Pacific Station (and those visiting prior to 1837). The research was commissioned by the Maritime Museum of B.C. and conducted by Admiral P.W. Brock in Britain under a grant from the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation. A letter from the director of the Maritime Museum, filed with the dossiers, outlines the project. There is also a key to symbols and a list of ships described.

Albert (H.M. Ship), America (H.M. Ship), Amethyst (H.M. Ship), Amphitrite (H.M. Ship), Asia (H.M. Ship), Bacchante (H.M. Ship), Blossom (H.M. Ship), Boxer (H.M. Ship), Brisk (H.M. Ship), Calypso (H.M. Ship), Cameleon (H.M. Ship), Champion (H.M. Ship), Chanticleer (H.M. Ship), Charybdis (H.M. Ship), Chatham (H.M. Ship), Clio (H.M. Ship), Cockatrice (H.M. Ship), Columbine (H.M. Ship), Constance (H.M. Ship), Cormorant (H.M. Ship), Daedalus (H.M. Ship), Daphne (H.M. Ship), Devastation (H.M. Ship), Dido (H.M. Ship), Discovery (H.M. Ship--1776-1797), Discovery (H.M. Ship--1789-1834), Driver (H.M. Ship), Endymion (H.M. Ship), Fisgard (H.M. Ship, 1905-1983), Forward (H.M. Gun Boat), Ganges (H.M. Ship), Gorgon (H.M. Ship), Grafton (H.M. Ship), Grappler (H.M.S. Gun Boat), Havannah (H.M. Ship), Herald (H.M. Ship), Imongene (H.M. Ship), Inconstant (H.M. Ship), Liffey (H.M. Ship), Liverpool (H.M. Ship), Magicienne (H.M. Ship), Malacca (H.M. Ship), Pandora (H.M. Ship), Pearl (H.M. Ship), Peterel (H.M. Ship), Phoebe (H.M. Ship), Pique (H.M. Ship), Plover (H.M. Ship), Portland (H.M. Ship), President (H.M. Ship), Providence (H.M. Ship), Pylades (H.M. Ship), Racoon (H.M. Ship), Rainbow (H.M. Ship), Reindeer (H.M. Ship), Resolution (H.M. Ship), Ringdove (H.M. Ship), Rocket (H.M. Ship), Royal Navy in British Columbia, Samarang (H.M. Ship), Satellite (H.M. Ship), Scout (H.M. Ship), Scylla (H.M. Ship), Shearwater (H.M. Ship), Sparrowhawk (H.M. Ship), Starling (H.M. Ship), Sulphur (H.M. Ship), Sutlej (H.M. Ship), Swift (H.M. Ship), Tartar (H.M. Ship), Topaz (H.M. Ship), Torpedo boat, 39, Torpedo boat, 40, Tribune (H.M. Ship), Trincomalee (H.M. Ship), Virago (H.M. Ship--1842-1879), Virago (H.M. Ship--1895-1919), Vixen (H.M. Ship), Zealous (H.M. Ship).

Scrapbook on safety.

Loaned for copying by Sooke and North Sooke Women's Institute, 1976.

"Indian Legends of the North Pacific Coast of America" collected by Franz Boas, published Berlin, 1895 and translated for B.C. Indian Languages Project by Dietrich Bertz.

Presented by Randy Bouchard, B.C. Indian Languages Project, 1975.

Manuscripts relating to Indian languages of British Columbia selected by the BC Indian Languages Project. Photocopy ca. 1850-1920 3.2 m The manuscripts in this unit were copied at the Smithsonian Institution by the British Columbia Indian Languages Project. A list of manuscripts is in the printed Catalogue to Manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives, G.K. Hall, 1975. The Catalogue gives the number of the manuscript assigned by the National Anthropological Archives. The list in the attached finding aid will show the manuscripts copied by the BC Indian Languages Project. Researchers are advised that not all manuscripts relating to British Columbia that are shown in the Catalogue are in this unit.

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.

A history of the Columbia Coast Mission, 1973. v. 103 p: map. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Victoria, 1973. Vita. Bibliography: p 95-103.

Loaned for copying by the Department of History, University of Victoria, 1977.

Correspondence, 1905, Robert (Robin) W. Dunsmuir to James J. Hill soliciting financial aid to purchase the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway from James Dunsmuir thereby preventing the purchase of the railway by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

Photocopy presented by David Wilkie, Victoria, 1976. Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Finding aid to HBC records on microfilm in the Public Archives of Canada: section A, Headquarters records; section B, post records; section C, Ships' logs, books and papers.

Presented by the Public Archives of Canada, 1972.

Inventory of records deposited in the archives of the Company and with the Vancouver City Archives.

Presented by Anthony P. Farr, BC Telephone Company, 1978.

The records in this unit were selected from the National Anthropological Archives, MS No. 4516 by the British Columbia Indian Languages Project.

Records include field notes, drafts of manuscripts and correspondence of Philip Drucker relating to Indians in British Columbia and Alaska. The files are arranged according to the numbers assigned at the National Anthropological Archives.

The file contains a photocopy of "Aborigines of the Pacific Northwest" by George Henry Griffin of Cortez Island.