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The file contains a letter to W.D. MacDonald from T.A. Love, 1954 re the McBride Cup, instituted in 1913 for the interior hockey championship. It also includes a letter from W.D. MacDonald, 1985, presenting the T.A. Love letter to the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and giving additional information on the McBride cup and on his own family background.

Share certificates for mining and other companies, sold in Rossland and Greenwood primarily. Also includes a map of the Franklin camp north of Grand Forks.

The item is a newsreel. Includes items about: Churchill, Manitoba; a BC ghost town (Phoenix); Toronto mounted military band; Quebec City narrow street; New Brunswick "Magnetic Hill"; Ontario Mennonites (horses and buggies); British Columbia/Washington international border; Bay of Fundy tides.

The item is a video travelogue. Scenery and attractions of the West Kootenay region: Crowsnest Pass, the Kootenay Lake ferry, boating, fishing, the Glass House, Nakusp or Ainsworth hot springs, the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie", golfing, Nelson curling bonspiel, caving, rodeo, spawning salmon, the Doukhobors, Fruitvale international dog show, miner's museum and Golden City Days Festival at Rossland, Wildlife Centre & Bird Sanctuary at Creston, hiking and skiing in the Valhalla Range. Other locales include Castlegar, Christina Lake, Grand Forks, Trail.

Records of the Mining Recorder, Osoyoos. Record book of applications for certificates of work on mineral claims at Boundary Creek, Osoyoos, Fairview, Penticton, and Camp McKinney, Osoyoos Mining Division. The volume contains a nominal index.

Boundary District Provincial Police files, consisting of correspondence, reports, jail calendars, vouchers, etc., from Coalmont, Fairview, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Hedley, Keremeos, Midway, Oliver, Penticton, Phoenix and Princeton, and correspondence with other police districts and with Victoria Headquarters.

These records were copied from originals loaned by the Penticton Museum in 1981. The originals had been transferred to the Penticton Museum and Archives by the Penticton area RCMP detachment. In 2006, the records were transferred to the BC Archives (accession 95-5924).

The numbered files that were microfilmed (40-1113 to 40-3500) appear to be consistent with the transferred originals. However, there are additional records on the microfilm (see the “Correspondence” and “Miscellaneous” sections in the Finding Aid).

The item is a composite print of a travelogue from 1972. It shows scenic and recreational attractions of the West Kootenay area. Includes sequences on Arrow, Christina and Kootenay lakes; mining history, abandoned mine workings, old hotels and ghost towns, including Sandon; Hugh Keenleyside dam (and boat lock there); boating, fishing and water-skiing; Duck Lake wildfowl sanctuary; Meadow Creek kokanee spawning channel; "house of bottles" tourist attraction; Ainsworth Hot Springs; the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie" at Kaslo; the Balfour-Kootenay Bay car ferry; mining museum at Rossland; parade honouring champion skier Nancy Greene, who is seen winning the ladies' slalom in the Du Maurier International at Red Mountain; Trail, including Cominco smelter; Phoenix open-pit mine; Doukhobor village museum and tomb of Peter Veregin; trail riding on the Dewdney Trail; various facilities for visitors.

The item is a composite print of a travelogue film made in 1981-1982. It features the scenery and attractions of the West Kootenay region: Crowsnest Pass, the Kootenay Lake ferry, boating, fishing, the Glass House, Nakusp or Ainsworth hot springs, the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie", golfing, Nelson curling bonspiel, caving, rodeo, spawning salmon, the Doukhobors, Fruitvale international dog show, miner's museum and Golden City Days Festival at Rossland, Wildlife Centre & Bird Sanctuary at Creston, hiking and skiing in the Valhalla Range. Other locales include Castlegar, Christina Lake, Grand Forks and Trail.

CALL NUMBER: T3846:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A long, happy tuneful life PERIOD COVERED: 1887-1981 RECORDED: Saanich (B.C.), 1981-05-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gags about Mr. Clark's 93 years. First job at age 13 at Woolidge [Woolwich?] Arsenal (London), manufacturing ammunition for the Boer War. Because of musical talent, Mr. Clark got sister's mandolin. Father's family very musical. Learned songs at Variety shows and uncle's bar, "Brambleberry Arms". Mr. Clark sings "Be kind to your dog". Family emigrates to Canada, starts ranch near Midway, B;.C. Learned songs by ear and RCA discs. Went busking through Boundary country with Joe Lento, ca. 1908. Musicians rare so they were well rewarded. Ragtime- Eubie Blake. Joe Lento versatile guitarist. No sheet music. Forms Hawaiian trio that plays at Savoy Hotel, Seattle. Plays on Pantages circuit. TRACK 2: Auditions for Orpheum circuit, hooked off stage. Description of Hawaiian music, original steel guitar. Description of five string combination on Pantages tour. Description of Pantages variety show. Musical entertainment at Russian tea rooms in San Francisco area. Clark was selected to play cadenza solo in concerto at Berkeley Open Air Theatre. Mandolin popular, played by Portuguese and Italians at picnics. Fados. CALL NUMBER: T3846:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A long, happy tuneful life PERIOD COVERED: 1882-1981 RECORDED: Saanich (B.C.), 1981-05-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Travelling musical groups from many ethnic backgrounds. Home entertainment. Arthur W. Black, foremost teacher of string instruments in San Francisco, taught Clark. Clark starts Clark and Mason studio in Oakland. (Earl?) Roberts prominent banjo player game Clark lessons. Eddie Peabody lightning hands on banjo. Highlights of Clark's musical career. Played variety of music according to popular demand. Mandolin playing almost a lost art. Clark moved to Victoria, 1941, married Evelyn Holt, played banjo in her orchestra. (End of interview)

This series consists of records related to tree farm licences (TFLs) managed by the Nelson Forest Region and its predecessor the Nelson Forest District. This currently includes records in the Arrow Forest District, which was part of the larger Region. Records date from 1970-1987.

TFLs are a type of timber tenure which grants a virtually exclusive right to harvest timber and manage forests in a specified area. They are issued for a term of 25 years, but can be replaced every 5-10 years. Records relate to TFL 3 and TFL 23.

The records are arranged by TFL number, then by the cutting permit number within the TFL. Each file will contain a variety of records relating to one cutting permit. This includes licences, cutting permits, other legal documents and operations information. Records include correspondence, reports, forms, maps, photos, applications, amendments, approvals, road tight-of-way documents, stumpage records and appraisal records. The majority of files are arranged with stumpage and appraisal records on the right side of the file, and most other records on the left side of the file. This organization may not be consistent for each file.

The records have been classified as 19700-45 in the Forestry Operational Classification System (ORCS). However, these records predate the creation of ORCS. They were originally created under the Ministry of Forests File Directory number 870-3-1 where all records related to a TFL were filed together.

The ministries responsible for these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
Dept. of Forests (1975-1976)
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)

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.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Boundary region of B.C., 1964-1965, mainly dealing with the history of that region.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: Mr. George "Romey" Kingsley came from Washington with his father in 1899 and landed in Midway. He went to Anarchist Mountain, then known as Rock Mountain, though people called it One-Eyed Mountain. He speaks about life in Caldville [i.e., Colville, Washington]; mining, hunting, lack of borders, farmers and prospectors. He discusses the history of Bridesville in great detail and then Greenwood; mining stories, surrounding farms and several people who lived there. Then he discusses the Dewdney Trail which ran from Creston to Salmo and the stagecoach routes of the time. Kingsley describes Salmo in great detail with dates of good crop years and bad crop years, prices for crops, what the town consisted of and stories of the settlers.

CALL NUMBER: T0348:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mr. Gerald Harpur landed in Midway on September 22, 1912, and settled as a fruit farmer in the Kettle Valley, farming mostly apples. He talks about his life, where he came from and the early Kettle Valley. He describes people and development including the construction of the railroad. As well, he describes the effects of World War I on the community and land of the Kettle Valley, irrigation, and cattle farming. Harpur speaks about Kettle Valley Flats and Ranch, horse and cattle thieves, and border crossings.

CALL NUMBER: T0348:0002 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gerald Harpur discusses the Canadian Pacific Railroad and gambling. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mrs. Edna Bonnet, originally from Suffolk, England, came to Canada with her father because she wanted to raise horses. They sailed from Liverpool just after the "Titanic" had sunk in 1912. She speaks of the Bell Mine in Beaverdell, the dances and the country around Midway and Beaverdell. The railroad and the failure of fruit farms are discussed as well.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carl Thomet was born in Midway in 1905, and lived his whole life there. The interview begins with a description of the railway built in 1900. The first passenger railway service was called the Columbia and Western, and was not extended to Penticton until 1915. The train was the main supply route for Camp McKinney. There is a discussion about the railways battling for business. The Great Northern was called the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway and in 1905 the CPR tried to hold back the Great Northern. The Vernon-Midway Railway came in 1905 and C.W. took it over. Thomet describes Midway at the turn of the century including the landscape, several characters, some stories of violence and the hotels. The track ends with talk about the loggers and river boats on the Kettle River.

TRACK 2: Mr. Thomet tells stories about several people who worked along the river and how loggers used the river to transport lumber. A person named Steeves is mentioned.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-19 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ellen Trounsen came to Phoenix in 1909, and took up barbering in 1910 with her husband. She describes the hairstyles of the time. She describes several people who had all sorts of different occupations. She describes twenty-six hotels in Phoenix in 1900, half of them closed by 1911, the flu epidemic of 1918, prohibition, the fact that women never went into the saloons, many deaths in the mines, drinking, pranks and dancing. As well, she describes Greenwood and the three buildings she owned.

CALL NUMBER: T0352:0001 - 0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Samuel Bombini came from Calabria, Italy in 1900, and came to BC for rich mining prospects. Bombini describes the life and people of the Boundary region and how gold mining served to build the community. Then Mrs. Bombini speaks about her life, how she came to Phoenix in 1909 when she was fourteen, and her trip there by train from Halifax. She moved to Greenwood and married Samuel; in 1912. She speaks about the community of Greenwood.

CALL NUMBER: T0352:0002 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. Bombini couple talk about the Italian community, their daughters, and a fire.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mildred Roylance begins this interview by singing "Home on the Range" and she tells the story of Colin Scott McRae, a young man from Ontario who wrote the song and came to Boundary in 1887 or 1888. He was a taxidermist and became partners with Mrs. Roylance's father and opened a ranch called "McLaren and McRae" in Deadwood. She outlines her father's life as a surveyor including his life in the South Pacific, San Francisco, and Vancouver Island, and finally to a ranch where she was born. Mrs. Roylance describes the location of Carson where her father lived for one year before coming to Deadwood. Her father and McRae were the first people to settle Greenwood, incorporated as a city in 1897. Mrs. Roylance talks about her father's relationship with the Indians and the "crazy" Volcanic Brown and recounts many stories about their celebrations and friendships together.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Roylance discusses a dance that Brown did at an Indian party. Mrs. Roylance's mother was the postmistress in Deadwood and she describes life in Deadwood before the mines closed and the town was deserted. The BC Security Commission moved the Japanese from the coast in 1942; 1,200 came into Greenwood and were accepted and assimilated into the town. Many names of pioneers are mentioned, including: Jack Lucie, Johnny Meyers, who was a butcher, Jim Pogie, an Italian from the Cantalito family who came to mine in 1850 in Rock Creek, and Bob Johnson, a teacher. Then she discusses the earliest days of Grand Forks, Deadwood and Greenwood. Dr. McLean, who lived in the area from 1912 to 1920, became the Premier of B.C. She then tells the story of Boundary Falls and the discovery of gold below Norwegian Creek.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mrs. Marjorie Reynolds came from Grimsby, Ontario to Grand Forks in 1900 with her father, who used to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She discusses orchards and nurseries and the day she arrived in great detail. Other things she discusses are: the community, fires, brickyard Doukhobors, some gentlemen, black maids, Chinese servants, and the closing of the smelter. Then Mr. E.S. Reynolds describes how he came to Vernon in 1913 and had to go east to join the army. He was one of two men from the area who survived the war. He worked on farms and describes the frost of 1925 which froze his orchard. Mr. Reynolds discusses irrigation, mining, smelting and Volcanic Brown's prospecting trips.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mr. Donald C. Manly's parents came from Michigan to Grand Forks in 1892. In this interview, Mr. Manly discusses his father's store, the local dentist, his home, the dance hall, his ownership of the first hardware store, the people of Grand Forks, and his life in the area.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert F. Simpson came to Grand Forks on March 1, 1894; his father had the first sawmill in the area. Mr. Simpson begins this interview by talking about his father and the lumber and floods of the late 1800s. Mr. Simpson bought a plot of land in "Brown Creek". Mr. Simpson describes what Grand Forks was like when he arrived in 1894, mentioning: McClintock, who was a farmer; John Manly, who owned a large plot of land below Grand Forks; Carse Manly, hardware store owner; Spraggot, in the sawmill business; Ammond, the gold commissioner; and Cobert, who had the first orchard. Mr. Simpson discusses the Chinook Indians of the area and horses. Mr. Simpson mentions the Granby smelter which opened in Grand Forks in 1899.

TRACK 2: Mr. Simpson discusses the boom in Grand Forks which followed from the opening of the smelter. The smelter closed in 1920 and he describes the repercussions of that before discussing how timber and farming helped the local economy pick up again. Mr. Simpson describes the Doukhobors and communal living before telling a story of Volcanic Brown. The interview ends with a story about Dr. Avril who was the first dentist in the Grand Forks area.

CALL NUMBER: T0357:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Randolph F. Sandner begins this interview by telling the story of his father who was from Chicago and came to Rossland in 1896 to stake a gold mine, but ended up taking the Dewdney Trail to Christina Lake. Mr. Sandner discusses history and Indian stories of Christina Lake and Kettle River. He speaks of Ranald MacDonald who was the first white man to teach in Japan and made a fortune in the BC gold rush. He goes on to speak more about his father's life and then the hotels in Cascade which prospered from the overflow from Rossland. He mentions a fire in 1902 which destroyed Cascade, how the town never recovered and the remnants headed to Christina Lake.

TRACK 2: He describes where people lived in Christina Lake prior to WWI, and a person named Jack Wardrow who owned a cigar store. He also discusses the English settlers in the area in great detail and mentions a few by name: Angus Stewart, newspaper reporter for the Grand Forks Gazette, and a remittance man named George Charles Archibald Brown, who built the Alpine Inn but was a terrible business man. He mentions a Vancouver company named Airline Chocolates. Mr. Sandner speaks of the difficulty of finding a school teacher and his poor educational background because of it. He was taught to live with nature and how to track deer. The track ends with a story of a girl on a freight train with a baby.

CALL NUMBER: T0357:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The story about the freight train is continued and "young fellows must never help a woman!" is disclosed. Mr. Sandner says that he was raised in the woods and speaks about his mother's job of working in the mill and the family's hotel business, the North End Lodge. His father was wrongfully arrested for stealing a cable and he tells the story in detail. Mr. Sandner describes his childhood by speaking of the hotel, his mother's role, what life was like, and the family car. He tells the story of the Alice L. Mine in Paulson which was mined for gold and silver. Then he tells the story of Aaron Chandler, the man who founded Greenwood along with George Stocker and Alphonse Bertoius. These men called themselves the Canadian Consolidated Company, as they owned the smelter in Grand Forks.

TRACK 2: Mr. Sandner speaks of the two railroads in Grand Forks and how they relate to the smelters. He begins to discuss the history of Cascade, which had two newspapers. Cascade Power and; Light Company was bought out by West Kootenay Power and Light Company. He describes mining and Scott McRae who was the first man in Grand Forks, "a true pioneer". Mentions Mrs. Roylance and says that she will discuss McRae further. Then he speaks of Jack Coryell, another miner.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jack E. Thompson was born in 1894 and came to the Grand Forks Valley in 1895. His father, Andrew Thomas, was a blacksmith. Mr. Thompson describes what the valley was like at the turn of the century, which towns were there, which towns had not yet been established, and how the CPR and the hotels brought expansion. He describes the Indians of the area and a man named Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes his relatives between Chilliwack and Rosedale. Mr. Thompson goes on to describe his earliest memories of Cascade and more about Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes Grand Forks, the farming, the Doukhobors, and Peter Verigin.

TRACK 2: Mr. Thompson describes the Cascade power house, the trestle bridge, the "Hot Air Line" Railway, North Fork mining, and people in Cascade including: Billy Dalgleish, Jack Shaffer, Stocker and Chandler. Then Christina Lake is described, and a story about a moose is told. The interview ends with stories about the Grand Forks beer parlor and ;more about Billy Dalgleish.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-11 SUMMARY: Mr. Fred Kingsley was born in Idaho in 1886. He moved to Bridesville in 1900 and his father built a log house for the family. The family opened a cattle ranch but all of the horses were diseased and had to be shot. Mr. Kingsley's father was the quarantine officer when smallpox broke out. The development of Rock Creek and the surrounding land is discussed, as are several people and travel routes. He recounts driving mail on stagecoach at the turn of the century. Many stories are told.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mr. Arthur Mellor emigrated from outside Liverpool to Ontario in 1903 and came out to Kettle River, near Westbridge, in 1904. He spent his first three years as a surveyor until he contracted typhoid, then he worked as a trapper and a surveyor. Mr. Mellor tells about several incidents including a shooting in Midway after two men robbed several hotels, the Dirty Dozen gang, Bridesville, the original prospectors of the area, and the Bell Mine. Then Mrs. Mellor speaks: she was born in Midway in 1897 and describes her childhood, including how her father was killed. Mrs. Mellor describes in detail several people at Camp McKinney. Then both compare life back then with the present.