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The item is an essay by Mary D. Trainer titled "A History of Policing in Burnaby, 1892-1950, with an emphasis on the years 1892-1935."

Item consists of one bound album measuring 57 x 29.5 cm. It contains one location map and 12 charts of Vancouver Harbour that depict mean current velocities and patterns for each hour of the tidal cycle. This January 2, 1981 edition is an update to the 1973 atlas and is based on data obtained from surveys conducted in 1972 and 1980 by the Tides, Currents and Water Levels Section of the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

Shows surveyed lots in New Westminster and Burnaby. The original, dated ca. 1859, is in Legal Surveys.

Map of Greater Vancouver with Coquitlam highlighted and shown in greater detail. Surveyed lots shown in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody and Pitt Meadows.

This series consists of two notebooks containing information collected during artesian well investigation, Fraser River Flats. See the Water Rights Branch, interim report for 1914 (BC Sessional Papers 1915, v.1, p. H-18) for report.

This series contains a specialized volume that pertains only to correspondence relating to applications for Burnaby lots (folio 12), the Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Act, 1903 (folio 138), and the South African War Land Grant Act, 1901 (folio 158). They includes name of correspondent and letter or file number.

This series contains registers of auction land sales held at Vancouver. Volume 1 contains information from an auction sale that took place November 20-23, 1901. Volume 2 contains information from an auction sale that took place September 29, 1908. The registers include information such as lot number, name of purchaser and sale prices.

Case files including summons, statements, correspondence and indexes, 1915-1933; 1939-1941. Box 1, file 1 contains correspondence 1942-1948 regarding the transfer of these case files.

The series consists of records created by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the escape of prisoners from the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in 1988.

Records include Commissioner's (Honourable Judge Ian L. Drost) report, lists of exhibits, witnesses, days of sitting, counsel appearing and the minutes of proceedings. In addition there are 70 exhibits, which include Commission administrative records such as a certified Order in Council appointing Drost as Commissioner, his oath, notice of public hearings and Gazette notices as well evidence presented to the Commission such as statements, policy and procedure and training books, photographs and drawings of the grounds, cells and individuals involved in the event, two videotapes of previous prison riots and three brass rods.

The series also contains 67 volumes of the transcript of proceedings which took place from January 29 to June 28, 1988.

This series consists of duplicate auctioneers records for auction sales of Crown land in the New Westminster Land District. Sales include: Hastings townsite District lot 540, 1906; North Vancouver, District Lot 2027 in Group 1, 1906; and in 1908, a further sale of lands in North Vancouver. Information may include date of sale, name and address of highest bidder and amount bid, deposit, and terms of sale. Also included is a copy of the brochure detailing the forthcoming sale and a summary of receipts for the 1906 sale.

The item is a newsreel compilation on a black and white film print. It contains an historical compilation of international news items: the Rise of Mussolini 1922-36, 1919 Schubert show girls, 1921 personalities, 10,000 homeless by fire 1930, "The Spacehunters 1919-36" [Mt. Wilson observatory], 1921 aviation [USN dirigible C-7], 1927 fashions and 1933 sports. It also includes BC material spliced into the prin]: 1948 Fraser Valley Floods [ca. 30 secs.] and 1950 BC Electric opens new Horne-Payne substation [ca. 2 mins.]. The latter item discusses BC Electric's new system of substations in the lower mainland.

The item is a reel of unedited film footage. Shows construction of highway access to the Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain. Includes shots of models and aerial views.