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This series consists of Appraisal Reports of reverted government lands for the Lillooet Land District, 1932. The reports are arranged numerically by report number. Information may include assessment district registry office, legal description, land plan number, acreage, date of forfeiture, soil, water suitability, improvements, accessibility, supply, irrigation or dyking, nearest settlement or Post Office, nearest school, topography, and assessed and appraised value. The report usually contains a sketch map of the property, and this volume contains a sketch map of Lillooet townsite plus the lots across the Fraser River. The volume is indexed by report numbers to the legal land description.

Correspondence between the secretary-treasurer, E. Bell (Clinton), the government auditor, J. McB. Smith, and B.H. Tyrwhitt Drake, acting on behalf of the company, and shareholders, mining engineers, prospectors, prospective buyers, etc. Included are draft agreements, assessment forms, assay forms, tax forms, receipts and 2 cash books giving names of shareholders. A sketch map of the Bonanza property on Cayoosh Creek, was transferred to Maps.

The British Columbia Cattle Company was incorporated by John Irving, Thomas Ellis and Richard Lowe Cawston on Nov. 5, 1890, to carry on farming, stock-raising and butchering and to acquire land for those purposes. The company managed the Triangle Ranch at Quilchena and the Canoe Creek Ranch. The firm was deleted from the companies register in 1944. Fonds consists of one series of correspondence inward dealing with miscellaneous matters relating to the management of the two ranches and the sale of beef cattle. For related records see MS-2887, British Columbia Market Company fonds and MS-1950, the K.R. Genn fonds.

Cash book, 1913-1926. The hospital's name in the B.C. Gazette notice was given as the Ashcroft and District General Hospital, the name in the cash book is Lady Minto Hospital.

Cause book (indexed).

The series consists of a counterfoil book record of placer claim (indexed), created by the Clinton Mining Recorder between 1891 and 1905.

This series consists of a minute book of the Clinton Supreme Court, Oct. 1909 - May 1919.

Letter of introduction signed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and testimonial letters from H.K. Bloomfield, T.W. Nicholls, E.B. Wyngard, C. FitzRoy and J. Singleton, 1859; diary, 1864-1865.

This series contains Yale district Provincial Police files dating from 1941 to 1947. The records consist of subject files containing reports and correspondence inward and outward of district headquarters at Ashcroft with Bralorne, Bridge River, Lillooet, Spences Bridge, Clinton, Lytton and Ashcroft detachments, C division headquarters at Kamloops, and others.

Series consists of correspondence and reports.

Cash book, 1893-1927; ledger, 1917-1927.

Selected records, 1888-1904: letterbook, 1896-1897; ledgers, 1888-1890, 1893-1896; journals, 1892, 1897-1898; daybooks, 1903-1904. These records constitute a sampling of the Harvey, Bailey and Co. records held at the Ashcroft Museum.

The Hat Creek Ranch was formed in 1910 by Charles Gottfried Doering when he purchased the McCosh, O'Hara and original Hat Creek Ranches and amalgamated them. The ranch, which was located in the Bonaparte Valley near Ashcroft, was a cattle and horse-breeding, as well as an agricultural centre. Hotel Hat Creek was also situated on the ranch and was operated by Doering.

In addition to his ranching interests, Doering was involved in the brewing industry and associated hotel trade. He was president of the British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., which was incorporated in 1911 following an amalgamation of three other breweries. Until prohibition in 1917, he was also involved in the operation of several Vancouver hotels.

Business records of the Hat Creek Ranch, including account books and land, water and livestock records, and of British Columbia Breweries and Hotel Hat Creek. The business records reflect the day-to-day business operations of Hat Creek Ranch and, to a lesser degree, Hat Creek Hotel, first under Doering and later under John Basil Jackson. There are also records related to land transactions, grazing leases, water rights applications and breeding. Also included is correspondence regarding Doering's brewery and non-local hotel interests which deals primarily with the windup of British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., and his divestiture of his hotels.

Diaries, 1913-1914 (entries to September 21, 1914 by John Gibson Kenworthy; September 22 to September 25, Sidney Ann Jane Kenworthy (Mrs. John Gibson Kenworthy); September 26 - September 30, Mary "C", kept while on the Empire Valley Ranch.

Copied from originals borrowed from Cariboo-Chilcotin Archives, Williams Lake, 1980.

This series contains records relating to land use management in various parts of the province. The records document the creation and activities of various committees established by the planning region to address specific projects as needed.

The records represent the work of committees dedicated to the management of planning teams, emergency and disaster responses, information sharing, consultation guidelines, information management, safety, construction projects and communications.

Part of the series includes the Vedder River Management Committee which was chaired by the Water Management Branch. Other members included representatives from the Engineering Section of the Water Management Branch, Fisheries and Oceans, Fish and Wildlife Management, Inspector of Dykes, Ministry of Agriculture and the District of Chilliwack.

The records from the Peace Managers concern land management committees in the Northern Interior region as well their sub-committees. The records come from the office of Don Roberts of BC Parks; Peace Liard District who was the chair of Peace Managers (IAMC) and the Peace Manager's Oil and Gas Committee. Andy Ackerman, Manager of Environmental Stewardship, later succeeded him as chair.The Omineca Peace Interagency Management Committee's role oversees and guides the implementation of Cabinet approved Land Resource Management Plans and government corporate land use policies. There are representatives from various provincial agencies including : Ministry of Forests, BC Environment, Ministry of Energy and Mines, BC Parks, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, BC Assets and Lands Corporation, Oil and Gas Commission, Ministry of Transportation and Highways, Land Use Coordination Office and Muskwa-Kechina (Program Manager).

The Deputy Minister's Committee on Drought was established in 2003 following a severe drought in British Columbia that put pressure on many water resources. This multi-agency committee and task force conducted studies on precipitation, temperature and ground water conditions in addition to proposing several action plans and programs to help with water conservation. Their records relate to presentations and tours on water conservation, proposals and a list of options for consideration, as well as update reports. The committee disbanded in 2005 however many of the programs continued to be monitored.

The records in this series also show other forms of land management including projects to build dykes, remove gravel, establish campgrounds, restore natural habitat (particularly for salmon species), build infrastructure and grant land leases for farming, public works and other initiatives. Records include memos, meeting minutes, lease guidelines and copies, maps, blueprints, correspondence, expense reports, approvals, invoices and project reports.

Another part of the series includes committees established to encourage and maintain meaningful consultation with various First Nation groups during Land and Resource Management planning. These records include the grants for funding, protocols, strategic plans, work plans and meeting minutes.

This series consists of receipt books and miscellaneous land sale records. Records consist largely of receipts for the sale of town lots, suburban and country lands, and unsurveyed rural lands, issued by Assistant Commissioners of Lands and Works for Cariboo District, Lillooet District, Yale District, and New Westminster District. The series also includes land sale records pertaining to Lytton, Seymour, Douglas, Port Moody, Fort Langley, and Similkameen district, and a trading licences receipt book issued by Frank Trevor, Collector at Quesnel.

The series consists of two bound volumes of naturalization registers (also referred to as naturalization indexes) from the Lillooet County Court. The registers are indexed alphabetically and include the individual’s name, occupation, nationality, address, associated dates, and remarks.

Volume 1 covers 1913-1914 and a few records from 1920-1930. Volume 2 covers 1920-1977 and includes some loose correspondence relating to citizenship procedures.

The series consists of two volumes relating to partnership declarations in the Lillooet County Court.

Volume one (1909-1938) is a register recording declarations. It is divided into three sections: declarations of individual and firm partnerships, declaration of trade names and declarations of dissolutions of partnerships. Items are ordered by filing date. There are some original firm declarations pasted into the volume.

Volume two (1909-1969) contains original signed partnership declarations, declarations of firm names and dissolutions of partnerships. The different kind of declarations are numbered by filing date and are interfiled together.

The series is an index or register related to the Sale of Goods Act, including liens, conditional bills of sale, bills of sale, promissory notes, and receipts for labour. Names are entered alphabetically. The left side of each folio lists the vendors alphabetically and the right side lists the names of the purchaser. Each entry includes the file number, date of filing, nature of instrument/purchase, name of the vendor and name of the purchaser.

The sales were made under subsection 4 of section 2 of the “Sale of Goods Act Amendment” (SBC 1916, c. 56) which states “The office for filing shall be the office of the Registrar of the County Court holden in or nearest to the place where delivery of the chattels is made or required to be made.”

The series is a register of suitor’s funds for the Lillooet County Court and Lillooet Supreme Court. The volume is arranged chronologically by the date a receipt is received. The left page of each folio in the volume contains information on receipts where suitor’s money is paid into the County Court of Cariboo holden at Lillooet. The right side contains information on payments where the suitor’s money is payed out of the court.

Each entry includes receipts and payments. Information in the ledger includes: date payment received, style of cause, number of suit, from whom received, date payed out, signature of recipient and amounts.

This series consists of Lillooet Land District lot registers for lots 1-3000. The earliest record was entered in 1860 and all volumes were superseded by 1943 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1943).

The registers list lots in numerical order and record the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. There is an alphabetical name index in each volume.

This series consists of seven volumes of records of the Water Commissioner, Lillooet, B.C., related to water rights, 1859-1915. Includes grants of water right, licences, plans, notices, etc. Volume 5 covers area from south of Lillooet to 150 Mile House and includes Hanceville and Big Creek; volume 3 includes lots on the North Thompson.

The series consists of records created by the Lillooet Government Agent between 1859 and 1950. It includes correspondence inward and outward, mining, water and financial records. It also includes counterfoil books of Mineral Act (Form B) record of a mineral claim, placer mining leases-indentures correspondence and Cariboo Wagon Road toll records. Some records also relate to the nearby Clinton Government Agency.

The series consists of records created by the Mining Recorder at Lillooet between 1897 and 1919. The records include correspondence inward re registry of mineral claims.

This series consists of pre-emption records recorded at Lillooet by Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, Andrew Charles Elliott.

This series consists of two volumes of Lillooet Provincial Police Court and Magistrate's Court record books. Volume 1 includes dates January 1938 to December 1947. Volume 2 includes January 1948 to September 1951. The books list date, prosecutor, defendant, charge, costs, fines, arresting office, presiding magistrate or judge, and remarks such as plea. Additional records may be pasted into the volume.

The records consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, way bills, literary manuscripts (prose and poetry), published work, a scrapbook and papers of John Martley and Arthur Hugh John Martley; diary and notebook of Robert Adams Hopkins; letterbook of William George Cox Manson and photographs (HP79331 - HP79339).

Correspondence inward to Victoria hardware merchant Edgar Marvin. The collection consists of letters, way bills, invoices, etc., from Marvin's customers throughout British Columbia and from his suppliers, mainly in the United States and Britain. The papers were removed from the attic of the old Edgar Marvin premises in 1946 when the building was being renovated. They constitute only a small portion of the records which were found there. They were completely disorganized when they were loaned to the archives and were simply arranged in chronological order for filming.

The series consists of certificates of work and records of mineral claims created by the Bridge River Mining Recorder between 1896 and 1898.

The series consists of mining leases filed at Victoria and arranged by mining district. The records were created by the Chief Gold Commissioner between 1876 and 1930.