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Oyster culture--British Columbia
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Records relating to marine resources

  • GR-1118
  • Series
  • 1907-1979

The series contains records of the Dept. of Fisheries (1907-1957), the Commercial Fisheries Branch (1957-1973), and the Marine Resources Branch (1973-1979). These records relate to commercial fisheries, the regulation, development and conservation of marine resources, and the administration of the B.C. Fisheries Act. Included are orders-in-council, copies of correspondence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of the Dept. of Recreation and Conservation and of the Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries, central subject files of the Branch, oyster licence and permit records, annual returns of salmon canning plants and sport-caught fish canneries, a licence receipt book, files relating to motor vessels operated by the Branch, and biological research materials. The subject files contain correspondence relating to the Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers, Federal-Provincial B.C. Fisheries Committee, Strait of Georgia Task Force, the Fishermen Loan Board, the Fisheries Association of British Columbia, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and the International North Pacific Fisheries Committee.

British Columbia. Marine Resources Branch

William Oliver interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the pre-emption by his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in 1884 in Delta; his family history; the family farm; dyking projects on the farm; family houses; flooding; his father's early appointments; his father's provincial politics from 1900 to 1927; early life in Delta; farming in the area; railways; farm produce; mixed farming; weather; flooding; oyster farming; hi;s father's character; the family's sawmill in 1899. [TRACK 2: blank.]

[Oyster operations, ca. 1955 ; air base ; miscellany]

Footage. First half of film shows a crew working around a pile of oyster shells, and preparing them to be hung submerged from a raft for oyster propagation. The locale is probably one of the oyster harvesting areas on east coast of Vancouver Island. Remainder of footage is mixed, including shots of U.S. Air Force Globemaster cargo plane and a Pan American Airways airliner (named "Clipper Monarch of the Skies") being serviced at an unidentified airfield. Also brief scenes of an abandoned coastal gun emplacement and the bow of a wrecked ship off a beach. This latter part of the reel may have been shot in California or Hawaii.

Land records related to leases

  • GR-0385
  • Series
  • 1865-1955

This series consists of records of the Department of Lands and Forests, Lands Service, primarily relating to leases of Crown land for various purposes. Records include cancelled or expired leases for oyster beds (including leases by the Government of Canada), hay meadow, summer resort, stone quarry, mill, coal mining, grazing, agriculture, cattle ranching, and pastoral purposes. This series also includes final agreements for sale and purchase under Soldier's Better Housing Scheme for City of Victoria lots (includes rebate applications and discharge certificates) and licences of occupation.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests. Lands Service

Legal opinions offered by Attorney General

  • GR-1459
  • Series
  • 1864-1879

This series contains legal opinions offered by Attorney General on a wide range of subjects. For more information on the subjects covered, please consult the attached finding aid.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Attorney-General