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Oath of allegiance and oaths of office (Judge of the County Court of the County of Yale and local Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia) for McLeod Munro Colquhoun, sworn before the Chief Justice on 2 February 1943 sent with a covering letter to the Penticton Registry from Vancouver.

Criminal case files.

Series consists of original civil orders and judgements created between 1922 and 1941 by the Penticton Supreme Court. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgements are the final orders issued in a case. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces.

Penticton Supreme Court (1922-1950) and County Court (1922-1962) probate/estate files.

Probate/estate files: K8/38 Isabella Mitchell, H9/38 Mark Freeman Hill and K12/38 Charles Herbert Kingzett. These people also have probate files in GR-1428.

Probate/estate files (1086-27492).

Penticton grants of letters of administration from the County Court, 1910-1911; 1919-1922; 1928-1957 (Form 156) and from the Supreme Court, 1925-1976 (Form C). An item list is available for the records from the Supreme Court. The volumes include: Volume# Contents Number Range Date range Penticton County Court letters of administration 1910-1911 Penticton County Court letters of administration 1919-1922 Penticton County Court letters of administration 1928-1939 Penticton County Court letters of administration 1939-1945 Penticton County Court letters of administration 1945-1954 Penticton County Court letters of administration 1956-1957 1 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 49-415 1925-1938 2 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 418-781 1938-1946 3 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 787-1169 1946-1951 4 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 1173-1571 1951-1955 5 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 1572-1999 1955-1958 6 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 2009-2489 1955-1958 7 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 2497-3001 1961-1965 8 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 3004-3637 1965-1968 9 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 3641-4230 1968-1971 10 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 4233-4919 1971-1974 11 Penticton Supreme Court letters of administration 4923-5472 1974-1976

The series consists of divorce index ledgers created by the Supreme Court in Penticton between 1977 and 1988. The ledgers are organized by year and alphabetically by surname of the divorcing party.

The location of the cause books to which the indexes refer is unknown.

Civil case files.

Series consists of original civil orders and judgements created between 1914 and 1938 by the Penticton County Court and Supreme Court. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgements are the final orders issued in a case. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces.

Adoption case files.

The series consists of Penticton letters of administration with wills annexed from the County Court, 1928-1946 (Form 157) and from the Supreme Court, 1927-1976 (Form B).

The 4 volumes comprise: County Court letters of admin with wills (1928-1946), numbers 20-448; Supreme Court letters of admin with wills (1927-1952), numbers 78-1282; Supreme Court letters of admin with wills (1952-1967), numbers 1272-3356 and Supreme Court letters of admin with wills (1967-1976), numbers 3362-5426.

Penticton Supreme and County Court letters of administration handled by the Official Administrator.

Series consists of alphabetical indexes for Penticton Supreme, County, and Family Court civil cause books and case record cards between 1958 and 1990. The location of the cause books and case record cards to which they refer is unknown. Indexes provide only a case file number. They do not provide volume and folio numbers necessary to locate civil orders and judgements.

Series consists of divorce case files created in 1933 and 1940-1949 by the Penticton Supreme Court registry. Case files typically include decrees absolute/final orders, petitions, affidavits, bills of costs, subpoenas, proceedings at trial, exhibitions, and other related documents. A decree absolute/final order was not granted in all cases.

The records are arranged by case file number, as assigned by the Court Registry. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51440-20.

The series consists of original wills probated between 1986 and 1998 in the Penticton Supreme Court registry.

The wills are arranged by probate number, which can be found by using file list ‘Part II: 1982-2006’ associated with GR-3007. Not all probate records have an accompanying will. In January 1989, the probate numbering sequence was re-set, starting with probate number 0020. As such, some probate numbers within this series have been used twice, but for different years. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51460-30.

Series consists of original civil orders and judgements created by the Penticton Supreme Court registry from March 1951 to December 1987 and April 1990 to June 1992. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court and judgements are the final orders issued in a case. Records relate to a variety of civil matters including divorces, bankruptcies, probates, foreclosures, and some adoptions.

Orders and judgements are interfiled. Records up to December 1987 are arranged by volume and folio number as assigned by the court registry. Initially, folio numbers were assigned to each page of a record. Beginning July 1981, each record was assigned only one folio number. Records from 1990-1992 are arranged chronologically by entered date. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51400-25.

Probate cause books (indexed).

Penticton letters probate (Form A) List for Volume 33 is missing.