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Naturalization records, 1859-1963. Vol. 1 also includes the 1862 Constitution of the Congregation Emanuel of Victoria, V.I. with signatories and lists of Victoria firefighters, 1861-1862.

Same series as GR-1565. Related series to GR-1554.

The series consists of transcripts of proposed and draft agreements between the Syndicate and the Government of British Columbia regarding terms and conditions of settlement.

This series consists of the records of the Royal Commission on Mental Hygiene, 1925-128. The records include correspondence, material gathered in the research process, reports to the commission, clippings, and reports of the commission. The series is divided into the following subseries:

A. Commission Correspondence
B. Minutes Of Commission Meetings:
C. Special Subject Files And Working Papers
D. Reports
E. Miscellany: Articles, Published Reports, Etc.

This series contains records from the Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission. It includes documents of the provincial government agency established in 1919 to assist with the resettlement of Canadian and Imperial war veterans. Papers include correspondence with various ex-servicemen's associations, reports on military hospitals, and accounts regarding war services gratuity payments.
The RSAC papers consisted principally of three large files:
"25F" series - files pertaining to veterans of the Canadian armed forces
"35I" series - files dealing with veterans of the Imperial armed forces resident in British Columbia
"50" series - files pertaining to local branches of the Provincial Returned Soldiers' Commission and other veterans' associations
The papers also include records pertaining to War Services Gratuity payments, account books, cancelled cheques, reports, and correspondence concerning veterans' training, employment, and land settlement schemes.
The RSAC papers were microfilmed by the Provincial Secretary's Department in 1956. The microfilms were transferred from the Central Microfilm Bureau to the Provincial Archives of British Columbia in 1983.
Originally, the RSAC papers also included documents which were designated "R" series files. These files have yet to be identified. Although a card index to the files was included when the papers were filmed in 1956, the documents themselves appear to have been destroyed.

This series consists of a record of Japanese and East Indian people entering British Columbia.

Series consists primarily of Vernon County Court plaint and procedure books for 1897-1958. Volume 1 also includes a naturalization list for 1900-1914 and a Small Debts Court cause book for March 1944. Volume 2 includes County Court sessions held at Hedley during 1910-1913.

Correspondence, accounts, agreements, an indenture and newspaper clippings.

Price Ellison was born in England in 1851. In 1873 he left England for North America. After travelling across the United States from Boston to California he finally moved to Canada and settled in Vernon in 1876. He purchased large amounts of land on which he raised cattle and grew wheat. In 1884 he married Sophie Johnson, Vernon's first school teacher.

Price Ellison entered provincial politics in 1898 when he was elected in the riding of Yale East. He was elected in the same riding as a Conservative in 1903. In 1909 he entered the Cabinet, holding the post of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works. A year later he became Minister of Finance and Agriculture. He was defeated in the 1916 provincial election.

Plaint and procedure books: Volume 1: 1/1897-104/1900; Volume 2: 105/1900 - 135/1902: Volume 3: 1/1903 - 376/1908 (indexed) with naturalization lists on pages 7, 53, 71, 153, 253, 319, and 350.

The series consists of records created by or relating to Nelson Seymour Lougheed. Included in this series are a scrapbook of news clippings (MS-2594.1), a certificate appointing Lougheed to Minister of Lands in October 1930, and two photographs. One photograph is a portrait signed by Lougheed and dated 1924. The second photograph is a group photograph in front of the Legislature buildings, and is assumed to be of Lougheed as Minister with his staff.

Nelson Seymour Lougheed (April 16, 1882 – June 6, 1944) was a Conservative politician in British Columbia and served as an MLA from 1928-1933.

Naturalization register.

Naturalization records. Records from 1883-1890, 1903, 1911 consist of the Oath of Residence and Naturalization Certificate; those from 1911-1913 consist of notices of the intention to apply for naturalization at the next sitting of the Nanaimo County Court.

Naturalizations under the Naturalization Act. Returns made to the Secretary of State, Ottawa.

Naturalization index.

Naturalization files Nos. 2-83 from 1912 which contain certificates and the Oath of Residence on one files of naturalization applications from December 1911 to October 1912.

Naturalization case files (1914-1959), plus three files of correspondence regarding naturalization applications (1944-1958) and one file of correspondence, circulars, regulations, forms, fee schedules, etc. from the federal government (1948-1955).

The series consists of Revelstoke County Court naturalization records from 1890 to 1919. They are arranged in folders by year and each folder has monthly slips dividing the files, with the names of those naturalized that month. Each person file contains the oath of residence and the oath of allegiance (form A) as well as a naturalization certificate (form B). In some cases, an individual file may also contain other documents such as letters of recommendation.

Naturalization case files.

The records are available on 2 microfilm reels. The reels have the following records on each reel:

B16960 1925 - 1947 B16961 1948 - 1968

The series consists of naturalization applications and oaths of allegiance issued by the Victoria County Court between 1859 and 1917; 1926. They are arranged numerically by file number from 1 to 4118 and include oaths of allegiance from 1859 to 1865 and applications and oaths from 1871 to 1917; 1926. The files may also include oath of residence and certificates of naturalization.

The series consists of plaint and procedure books created between 1876 and 1881, and 1885 to 1977. Volumes until 1955 are partly indexed, and volumes between 1955 and 1965 contain indexes slipped in the front of the volume. Volumes created between 1966 and 1977 do not include indexes. Indexes for the years 1974 to 1977 can be found in GR-3612. For 1882-1884 see GR-1727. Naturalization lists for 1892-1900.

The series consists of a record book created by the Vancouver Immigration Dept. in 1903. Between 1900 and 1908, British Columbia passed nine acts which empowered officials to require prospective immigrants to pass a written test in any language of Europe prior to admission. Of the nine acts, eight were disallowed by the federal government and one (1907) was reserved by the Lieutenant-Governor.

The book records the names and passport numbers of Japanese passengers coming into the Port of Vancouver, the date of arrival, the name of the ship, where the passenger was from, and whether or not they were allowed to pass into Canada.

List of naturalizations, March 5, 1900.

This series consists of letters inward from Gilbert M. Sproat, Agent General, London, England, received by the Provincial Secretary, 1872.

The McKenzie Family collection consists of the business and personal papers of Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874), his ancestors and descendants, including correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and other papers. It documents over one hundred and fifty years of family history. The collection is divided into those records relating to Vancouver Island (Boxes 1-19) and those relating to Scotland (Boxes 20-25). The Vancouver Island papers contain correspondence and documents pertaining to Lakehill Farm, the settlement of estates, official appointments, and other family matters. They also chronicle the organization and operation of Craigflower Farm and, to a lesser extent, the other farms operated by the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company on Vancouver Island. The Scottish papers document family events, relationships and property from 1779 to 1852. Included is an extensive record of the protracted settlement of the estate of William Blair (Boxes 22-23). William Blair was the father of Janet McKenzie (Blair).

Born in Edinburgh October 5, 1811, the son of Dr. Kenneth McKenzie (1786-1844) and Janet Blair (1784-1820), Kenneth McKenzie was raised and educated in the same city. Later he moved to his father's estate of Rentonhall, Haddingtonshire, East Lothian where he managed the operations. The estate was sold in 1851 and McKenzie, his wife Agnes Russell (1823-1897) and their six children emigrated to Vancouver Island in 1853. McKenzie had been hired by the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company to oversee the establishment and operation of Craigflower Farm near Victoria. In 1866 the family, now with eight children, moved to Lakehill Farm just north of Victoria. Kenneth McKenzie died there April 10, 1874. A comprehensive biography of Kenneth McKenzie by William R. Sampson is in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, X, pp.477-479. A rough genealogy of the McKenzie Family is provided in the hardcopy version of the finding aid.

Numbers appearing at the upper left corner of documents are references to the old catalogue system and should not be used for citation.

Boxes 1-4: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874) and family: correspondence inward
Box 5: McKenzie, Kenneth (1846-1906): correspondence inward
Box 6: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874) and Kenneth McKenzie (1846-1906): correspondence outward
Box 7: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874): notebooks and personal papers
Box 8: McKenzie Family: notebooks, diaries, correspondence and personal papers
Box 9: McKenzie Family: material relating to Lakehill property
Boxes 10-18: Craigflower Farm
Box 19: Puget's Sound Agricultural Company
Boxes 20-25: McKenzie family: material relating to Scotland. N.B. See also box 25 for further material relating to the estate of William Blair, d.1800

Naturalization register showing name, occupation, former country, current address, and details of the naturalization certificate.

Plaint and procedure books, 1886-1890; 1895-1950; 1952-1954 (indexed). Volume 3 contains naturalization records 1895-1916 and plaint and procedures for criminal cases, 1895-1913.

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.

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.

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 transcript copies of short interviews with immigrants, who discuss their experiences and what Canada means to them. The interviews were held 1974-1975 in Victoria, Vancouver & 100 Mile House (B.C.); Halifax, Wolfville, Canning, Tangier, & Cape Breton Island (N.S.); Charlottetown (P.E.I.); Fredericton (N.B.); Montreal (Que.); Ottawa, Toronto, Sault St, Marie & Thunder Bay (Ont.); Winnipeg (Man.); and Calgary & Red Deer (Alta.). The interviewees are: Alek de March (Poland), journalist; Naemi Riberio (Portugal), janitor; Hubert Beyer (Germany), journalist; Flemming Jorgenson (Denmark), painter; Maria Bergink (Netherlands), housewife; Herman Bergink (Netherlands), insurance adjuster and carilloneur; Darshan (India), taxi driver; Dolores Tepper (Mexico); Pentti Nisula (Finland), mechanic; Joel Slimani (Algeria), waiter; Hans Neumann (Germany), chef; Dennis Alves (Jamaica), waiter; Jean Choi (Korea), waitress; Helmut Wiegert (Germany), hotel-motel manager; Dr. Aftab ;Mufti (Pakistan), university head of computer sciences; Vincent Leung (Hong Kong), mathematics instructor; Siegfried Delsu (Belgium), computer sciences; Felecita Kaleja (Latvia), piano instructor; Jurgen Peill (Germany), farmer; Mr. Pardoe (Wales), retired headmaster; Bastiaantje Speelman (Netherlands), animator-guide-supervisor; Willy Krauch (Denmark), fish smoker; Joseph Bartosek (Czechoslovakia;), delicatessen owner; Jose Castineiras (Cuba), maitre d'hotel; Julijanna Strudwick (Yugoslavia), waitress; Josephine Wicha (Czechoslovakia), restaurant hostess; Tasso Saltaris (Greece), manager; Tadas Januskevicius, known as Ted Janus (Lithuania); Werner Russold (Austria), wardrobe supervisor; Sleiman Wakim (Lebanon), restaurant owner; George Dow (a Palestinian Arab); Magnus and Heidi Ochsner (Switzerland), farmers; Christiane Martin (Germany), cashier; Anar Somani (Tanzania), bank clerk; Yu Kam Chung (Hong Kong), cosmetician;
Lucimar Volpeon (Brazil), translator; Gerardo Mosquerea (Colombia); Carlos Davila Vasquez (Equador); Doris Pegoud (Germany), assistant at ;CBC Radio International; Dorette Schaefer (Germany); Tomas Schuman (Russia); John Mezei (Hungary); Alfred Zbik (Poland), section head at CBC Radio International; Kristina Sandler (Sweden); Lars Ohman ;(Sweden), aeronautical engineer; Ted Petkoff (Macedonia), grocery store owner; "M.W." (Hungary), potter and housewife; [no name] (Germany), stockbroker; [no name] (Germany), builder; Peter C. Newman (Czechoslovakia), editor of Macleans Magazine; Umberto Manca (Italy), broadcaster; Nuzhat Amin (Pakistan), journalist; Joseph Palumbo (Italy); Effie Altonas (Greece), secretary; "Anonymous" (Serbian, Yugoslavia), environmental control officer; Teppe O. Moilala (Finland), drafting and design supervisor; Harry Bansal (India), metallurgist; Helmut Brandstetter (Austria), designer; Mario Gini (Italy), ;building supervisor; Primo Fabio (Italy), superintendent; Giovanna Zovatto (Italy), housewife; Reino Erkkila (Finland); Eva Liigvald (Finland); Maino Mannila (Finland); Mario Silva (Portugal), storekeeper; "Anonymous" (Czechoslovakia), pediatrician; Erik Lindhardt (Denmark), merchandising; Serge Radchuk (Ukraine), lawyer; Hans Gust (Germany), businessman; Halyna Kowal (Ukraine), receptionist; Agust Aguston (Iceland), student; Roman Ivan Kowal (Ukraine), painter-sculptor; Vera Pintyi (Hungary), cleaner; Dr. V.P. Madan (India), mathematics instructor; Frantisek Fiala (Czechoslovakia), mathematics instructor; Meena Vadgama (Kenya), education co-ordinator; Lascelles Black (Jamaica), fine arts student; Max von Hartmann (Germany), hotelier; Ole Pii; (Denmark), pastry cook and artist-craftsman; Irene Hegi (Switzerland), dental assistant; Dr. Helmut Ruebsaat (Germany), G.P. and folk singer; Rudi Diesvelt (Netherlands), leather worker; Ruth Idso (Norway), clerk; Alex Waissbluth (Chile), jeweller; John Giannis Contogiannis (Greece), head waiter; Masaharu Takaya (Japan), floral designer; and Sheila Munieza (Philippines), nurse.
The transcripts range in length from 1 or 2 pages to 15 pages

Civil case files. This collection includes appeals and naturalizations. Use plaint and procedure books (GR-2137) to obtain file numbers for these case files.