Series consists of financial journals created for financial reconciliations at the end of each month. The records date from 1859-1879 and include information from both the Colony of British Columbia (1859-1871) and the Province of British (1871-1879).
There is one volume for each year with the exception of 1869 and 1871. The colony created “original” and “duplicate” volumes in 1869. In 1871, the Treasurer created separate journals to delineate the end of the colony and the beginnings of the province.
The volumes provide monthly financial data as opposed to the day to day entry information of the cash books in GR-3053. The volumes include debits and credits in accordance with double entry accounting. Since this is high level monthly data, the journal uses the term “sundries” as a way to summarize the daily debits and credits that is captured in other financial records. There are also references to the volume and pages in ledgers and “waste books” (cash books).
The journals contain subaccounts for different regions of the Province although the list of regions varies in each volume. Regions listed in some of the volumes include New Westminster, Kootenay, Cariboo, Yale, Lillooet, Nanaimo, Columbia, Cassiar, Omineca, Clinton, Kamloops, Quesnel, Douglas and Fort Shepard.
There are gaps in the series. Some of the journals from 1860-1863 were described as part of GR-4169 (see GR-4169 volumes 10, 11, 17). The 1864 and 1872 volumes are missing.
The creators of the records, and the years that they were responsible for the records, are as follows:
British Columbia (Colony). Treasury Dept. 1859-1871
British Columbia. Treasury Dept. 1871-1879
British Columbia (Colony). Treasury Dept.