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This series contains the Central Registry of the Immigration Branch of the Dept. of the Interior. These records (classified in the Public Archives of Canada as RG 76 Series 1) include deputy ministers' files, personnel dockets, and the operational records of federal government immigration agencies in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Europe. Several files deal with Asian immigration and Doukhobor settlements in British Columbia. Also included are Registers of Chinese immigration at Port of New Westminster, 1887-1908 (RG 76 Series II) and headquarters registers of Chinese immigrants and residents, 1885-1903 (RG 76 series VI).

This series contains naturalization records which include correspondence, certificates, lists of naturalizations and Oaths of Residence from the Victoria Court Registry. File 2 shows numbers of naturalizations from many British Columbia Court registries, 1893-1899.

RECORDED: Pitt Meadows (B.C.), [19--] SUMMARY: Tape recorded reminiscences of Terry Finney, who immigrated to Canada in 1929 and moved to B.C. in 1933. Finney prepared aviation correspondence courses for the B.C. Department of Education and was active in the Aero Club of B.C. He trained military pilots during the Second World War, and civilian pilots in the post-war years.

This series contains Ships' Passenger Lists of the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior. These records (part of the National Archives' Record Group 76) are passenger lists for various ships arranged chronologically by date of arrival for the ports of Vancouver and Victoria 1905-1919. Also included in this series are lists of ship arrivals at Vancouver and Victoria 1900-mid 1908, prepared by the National Archives-of Canada, and "Reports of Monthly Steamship Arrivals" for the ports of Vancouver, Victoria and adjacent Pacific ports 1905-1922.

Naturalization register (alphabetical) showing name, occupation, county of origin, place of residence and various processing dates. The place of residence includes Nicola, Douglas Lake, Merritt, Aspen Grove, Voght Valley, Otter Valley, Coutlee, Quilchena, Canford, Middlesboro and Pennask Lake.

The series consists of a naturalization index for the Cariboo District from December 1906 to June 1914, created under the Naturalization Act (RSC, 1906, Cap. 77). The entries in the index are by name and are arranged chronologically and alphabetically.

Border entry lists, 1908-1918, of the Immigration Branch. This unit contains those reels which have British Columbia entry ports on them although other Canadian entry ports do appear.

The series consists of naturalization indexes arranged chronologically and alphabetically and created under the Naturalization Act (RSC, 1906, Cap. 77).. The first index covers the Cariboo District for June 1914 to September 1929 and the second volume covers the period 1934 to 1955.

Report (Henderson No. 183).

Purchased from Micro Media, Toronto.

Alphabetical indexes to policy and subject files relating to immigration, citizenship, and other functions of the department. Includes dates and file numbers. The files form parts of RG 26, Citizenship and Immigration and RG 76, Immigration Branch, Public Archives of Canada.

The item is a copy of a thesis by Eleanor Piggott titled "Dominion government policy on Immigration and settlement in Canada, 1867-1938." 177 p: tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1950. Bibliography: i-vi.

CALL NUMBER: T3653:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole talks about how people from Coal Harbour went to Port Hardy to vote. He speaks about his family's arrival at Coal Harbour where his father ran a hotel, and delivered the mail. He de;scribes the settlement at Coal Harbour; the proposed Winter Harbour British naval base; coal mining in the area; the Port Alice pulp mill; Nahwitti; Quatsino; early settlers in the area; Maquinna; Hol;berg; Shushartie; Winter Harbour; local work that included logging, fishing, mining, and the canneries. TRACK 2: Mr. Hole discusses his family's coming to Canada; they arrived in Vancouver in 1909, ;and later pre-empted on Nahwitti; and then moved to Quatsino Sound. He discusses early settlers in 1910, in the Nahwitti area; clearing land; fishing; hunting; and the telephone line. The Nahwitti settlement with ten to twelve pre-emptions only lasted four years; Cape Scott with thirty-five to forty pre-emptions, lasted ten to fifteen years. He talks about gold panning in the area; road work for ;the government; schooling; Shushartie; the post office; family life; the Hope Island Indian reserve; Nahwitti Bar; World War I, and trapping.;

CALL NUMBER: T3653:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole continues with his discussion about Quatsino and Coal Harbour; Ben Leeson the customs officer and justice of the peace; early settlers; his family; loggers; trouble-makers; dances; ;medical care; transportation of patients; storage and importation of food and supplies; the seaplane base at Coal Harbour, 1929 to 1940; coal mining at Coal Harbour; and settlers in Quatsino Sound. T;RACK 2: Mr. Hole describes the locations of communities in Quatsino Sound; Holberg; floating logging camps; the forest fire of 1889; early settlers; the Bland family; Williams the policeman and game ;warden; Leeson the coroner and justice of the peace; schooling; Hallowe'en pranks; and fellow students.; CALL NUMBER: T3653:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole recalls his teachers and schooling in Quatsino; his work at a logging camp; Coal Harbour air force base; the processing of whales at the Coal Harbour whaling station circa 1949. He ;describes early Port Hardy and Hardy Bay circa 1913; copper mining; logging and fishing in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.];

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), [196-?] SUMMARY: In an interview with Imbert Orchard, Frederick Nassau Sutton recalls how he came to Canada in 1906, worked as a ranch hand, and eventually bought a ranch at 150 Mile House.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Steven Stephano describes how he came to Canada from Italy when he was eighteen, including the story of how he obtained a passport, his experiences in Ontario after landing in Hamilton, jobs, and traveling and working in Manitoba and Western Canada. TRACK 2: Mr. Stephano describes working on the railroads in BC for the Grand Trunk Pacific and the CNR, the competition between the two, techniques of building railroad tracks, a boat trip up the Fraser River, and other job experiences.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. David Ross discusses the reasons for the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, the story of his coming to Canada from Scotland in 1908, and the series of jobs he held beginning i;n Medicine Hat. He describes early Prince Rupert and his work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, including construction camps, building the rail line, settlements in Terrace, Kitselas and Skeena Crossing, more on railroad work and tunnels at Kitselas. TRACK 2: Mr. Ross discusses the various nationalities of the workers on the railroad, more on railroad work, Cedarvale, including an area description, and characters such as Barney Mulvaney and Wiggs O'Neill.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Margaret Dalin describes how she came from Ontario with her brother, William John Riley, and her father, including her first impressions about the wild nature of the area around Notch Hill in the fall of 1907; how the family came from England; her first impressions of the area; various other settlers in the area; how the area of Celista got its name; various characters and features about them; and anecdotes about Sorrento. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0645:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred Foster begins with some anecdotes about the Foster family near Clinton. Then he goes back to his school days in 1881 in Victoria, and discusses Judge Matthew Begbie, including descr;iptions of the man and his character; a description of Begbie's house; the school on Belcher Avenue; his impressions of Victoria in those days, including the schools; an anecdote about a drunk man who; drove an ox team; a procedure for breaking camp at night while traveling on a pack train; his recollections of the packer Jean Caux (known as Cataline); a packer named Tate near Clinton; a story abou;t how Foster's father used to buy gold from the Chinese around the Fraser River, and the process of extracting the quicksilver from the gold; and the differences in gold between various creeks in the Cariboo. TRACK 2: Mr. Foster continues with details about his time in Atlin around 1902, and an anecdote about a dead body in a cabin; more anecdotes about his time in Atlin; running a farm in Clint;on, and eventually coming to Barkerville in 1906; a description of Barkerville at that time; an anecdote about spending New Years eve at Clinton around 1900; his time working on a steamship near Prince George; his experiences in Hazelton as a prospector just before WWI; what Hazelton was like at that time, including the Boyd family; the story of how his mother came to Canada in 1881 [?]; and the l;oss of the Skeena River steamer "Mount Royal".

CALL NUMBER: T0645:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Foster continues with details on how water for use the ships came from a spring at Royal Roads; a discussion of Hatley Park; his memories of Victoria as he first knew it; and characters a;round Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0464:0001 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kate Johnson recalls her journey from England with her husband in 1910 and settlement at Rock Island Ranch working for the Middlemass brothers. She discusses the hardships of life on the Arrow Lakes, the land agents, advertisement of the fruit farming districts, the expense of lake transportation, and the failure of these settlers. She also recalls the community of Fosthall, and her early years at Nakusp, when she and her husband ran a hotel, from 1912 to 1913. They later moved to Moberly, and later back to Nakusp.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Johnson continues her recollections of Moberly, Sunnyside, Burton and Arrow Park. She relates the story of the naming of Nakusp, some early town history, industries, Mrs. Moffat, and Rothwell Point.

CALL NUMBER: T0464:0002 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The interview continues with Mrs. Johnson's recollections of: Sam Henry, the red light district of Nakusp, Mr. Frederick William Jordan, Dr. Mossman, Mr. Thomas Abriel, the Dramatic Society, the Opera House, Walter Scott, "Hot Springs", Halcyon Hot Springs with General Dr. Burham, St. Leon and Michael Grady. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0640:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-01-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Lionel Douglas begins by discussing his first time at sea in Liverpool on the H.M.S. "Conway"; and his father, a doctor, who built a canoe which he used to go across the English Channel. He recalls boarding a ship that went from Liverpool to Vancouver, and details of the voyage, including various adventures; the crew; the food and impressions of Vancouver upon arrival in 1897. He describes other sailing experiences including travels to Asia; going off to war; travels to the Orient following a voyage to Australia to pick up WWII airmen; and places he went to during the war. He continues with anecdotes about experiences aboard ship during WWII, including stops at the Red Sea and in New Zealand; and his retirement in 1946. TRACK 2: Captain Douglas describes a stormy voyage across Great Bear Lake [in 1911-12 with his brother, the explorer George M. Douglas, author of "Lands Forlorn"]; naming Lionel Island after himself; the stowage of gear; navigation aboard the York boat; conditions while on the lake; and incidents using ingenuity to solve problems.

CALL NUMBER: T0640:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-01-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Douglas discusses a native hunter named Francois, and tells about fixing house leaks; fireplaces in the north; meals; shooting Cariboo for meat. He describes his house; playing cards; eating an arctic hare at Christmas; and a story about why trees in the north were always twisted. TRACK 2: Captain Douglas discusses his brother's and his own abilities as canoeists on the Trent Valley Canal near Peterborough, Ontario; catching fish; living in cabins with hammocks; and tools used for building cabins.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harriett Marshall recalls early years at East Arrow Park. Her family came to Canada from Glasgow in 1914, following her grandmother who had come in 1909. The family came with the idea of fruit farming, but due to the difficult living and growing conditions they had to seek work in other occupations. Early living conditions are described, the adaptation of a barn into a home, early furniture, domestic chores; washing and cooking equipment and methods are described. She worked originally for the Clark Marshall family, and later went to work in Burton.

TRACK 2: William Marshall begins this tape with recollections of his work in the woods, including at a lumber camp operated by Bill Waldy on Mosquito Creek where he undertook river driving among other duties. He talks about old timers in the area, Jack James, Sid Leary and Lord LaSalles. He discusses the family's attempts at fruit farming, and the conditions on the trip from Scotland. Harriett continues by recalling her; time at Burton working for R.L. Jeune, the Kootenay Indians who resided in the town, and about Lance Porter.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: Mr. Dan Lee, of Hanceville in the Chilcotin, tells the story of his father Norman Lee and his journey from England in 1887, early work, going into the fur trading business with Hugh Bayliff, roads in the area, the fur business, the Lee Ranch, mail delivery, comments on the local Indians, Mrs. Hance and other early white women of the area, the Bechers and their stopping house at Riske Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T0421:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Mr. Talbot Bond discusses his life: born in London, emigrated to Douglas Lake, BC, in 1903; a description of the trip across Canada; anecdotes about ranching at Douglas Lake.

CALL NUMBER: T0421:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Douglas Lake Ranch and its neighbours are described; anecdotes about cowboys; the McLean brothers; cattle drives to Kamloops; a description of Kamloops in 1905; repetition of the story of his emigration and the mail service. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alex Wylie discusses hiking near Hinton in 1905 with some traders as he moved to BC; moved to Alberta from Scotland; describes the fort at Edmonton; he describes how he became a packer in 1907; Swift Ranch; pack trails near Quesnel; a man named Swift; the Northern Territories as he remembers them; the CPR; and Fort George. [TRACK 2: blank.]