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Photocopy of a diary kept by Captain Lempriere during his service in British Columbia. Arthur Reid Lempriere was an officer in the third group of Royal Engineers to arrive in British Columbia. He arrived at Esquimalt Harbour on April 12, 1859, aboard the Thames City. Captain Lempriere and a small party of sappers surveyed and built the Boston Bar Trail, from Hope to Lytton by way of the Coquihalla River.

Copied from copy held by Special Collections, University of British Columbia with permission of National Army Museum (London, England)

Series contains the records of the Assistant Gold Commissioner, Lytton, B.C. relating to pre-emptions. Letters inward to Henry Maynard Ball, April 12, 1860 to December 3, 1860, and letters inward to John Boyd, 1870-1871. Includes correspondence, notices, and other papers on pre-emptions at Nicola Lake, Boston Bar, Lytton, Cache Creek, Kamloops and in the vicinity of various Indian Reserves. Also an account of moneys received by the Collector of General Revenue, Similkameen, 1861.

The item consists of one diary written by William McColl between September 26 and November 23, 1861. The diary also includes a rough tally of daily expenses as well a list of the cost of provisions. In the diary, McColl documents his trip with the Royal Engineers from New Westminster to Yale for the purpose of marking out a road from Boston Bar to Hells Gates [sic]. McColl includes a rough copy of a report on the route of the proposed road. The diary also includes entries on McColl's work exploring a road between Yale to Chapman's Bar, and from Chapman's Bar to Boston Bar.

Store Book, Boston Bar Waggon (sic) Road, July 1862- November 1862, Rocky Camp (1 vol.). Merchandise accounts and sales register.

Documents (kept by William Dodd, Registrar of the County Court) correspondence to William Dodd, informations, summonses, invoices, plaints, judgements, warrants, garnishees, dispute notes and exhibits. Three cases from 1898 are from the Small Debts Court (Yale). Also, Hong Yuen vs. Barber from 1910.

The series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and agreements of the Saseenos Water, Light and Power Co., documents pertaining to the B.C. Oil and Coal Development Co., Cameron Lake Timber, the Fraser-Cariboo Gold Syndicate, Port Alberni Syndicate, Towner Park subdivision; coal mining on Vancouver Island, mining leases in the Horsefly River area and property in Victoria, B.C.

Documentary. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission's struggle to save the Fraser River sockeye salmon run. Includes research toward and construction of the Hells Gate and Bridge River fishways, and the program for re-stocking depleted streams.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-?] SUMMARY: This tape records the sounds of the aerial ferry between Boston Bar and North Bend over the Fraser River. Imbert Orchard speaks to the operator, who describes conditions and the operations along the ;route. Includes the sounds of the motor which operate the ferry.

The item is a videocassette of a documentary from ca. 1986. It shows the old North Bend Aerial Ferry, which operated across the Fraser River at Boston Bar from March 1940 to January 1986. The aerial ferry, believed to be the last of its type in North America, was a familiar landmark and a part of the daily routine in Boston Bar and North Bend. It was replaced by a bridge, which could accommodate the logging industry's need for heavier hauls.