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Series consists of letters inward to the lieutenant governors of British Columbia, enclosing copies of speeches made by the lieutenant governors of diverse provinces re: opening or closing legislative assemblies, or acknowledging receipt of same.

This series contains official reports and correspondence accumulated during the administrations of Premiers Tolmie, Pattullo, Hart, and Johnson. It includes Departmental, General, and Federal files, plus separate series of documents on Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1917-1945). It also includes applications for employment, petitions, press releases, speeches, and vouchers.

The records which comprise this unit were stored for many years in a maintenance shop adjacent to the Parliament Buildings. Storage conditions were less than ideal and in 1982 arrangements were made with the Premier's Office' to transfer the records to the Provincial Archives. It was a signal event, for the records provide documentation on virtually all facets of provincial life over a thirty-five year period. Additionally, the documents which make up GR-1222 provide a valuable record of the administrations of Premiers Tolmie (1928-1933), Pattullo (1933-1941), Hart (1941-1947) and Johnson (1947-1952). The records fall into three main categories or series, namely Departmental files, Federal files, and General files.

This series consists of correspondence relating to the issuance of commissions to members of the Executive Council, to the oath of allegiance taken by cabinet ministers, and to royal toasts; index and registers of oaths of office and oaths of allegiance of members of the Executive Council.

This series contains correspondence between Amor De Cosmos, as Special Agent to London, and others, respecting the Petition of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, to the Queen, on the subject of the Canadian Pacific Railway from March 22nd 1881 to August 31st 1881. The series includes a printed copy of B.C. legislature's petition to the Queen, along with a manuscript copy of the Canadian Pacific Railway memorandum on "Vancouver Island Railway," December 1881. De Cosmos' map showing CPR terminus at Port Moody, alienated railway land on Vancouver Island, proposed ferry routes, etc. were transferred to PABC Library & Maps Division under accession M889117.

This series contains correspondence of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly [J. Roland Hett] from the period 12 November 1873 to 14 January 1875. The records are presented as letterbook copies in 1 volume.

This series contains messages to the Governor conveying resolutions of the Legislative Council.

Press releases on various subjects issued by the Premier's Office, December 1972 - December 1975.

SUMMARY: "Early Vancouver Reminiscences" includes recollections of the following: the origins of the Salishan people, the coming of the "white people", the smallpox epidemic, and Indigenous villages in Stanley Park and the Vancouver area (described by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mrs.George); descriptions of Vancouver after the 1886 fire, the arrival of the first trains, road building, eviction of native people from Stanley Park, and the dedication of the park (by Sam Walker, Captain Canessa, Chief Khahtsahlano, and Carl Timms); dredging and construction work on False Creek, Granville Island, and various bridges over False Creek (by Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton); 1912 politics, IWW competing with Salvation Army for streetcorner audience, Mayor Findlay, labour meetings, descriptions of bars and ;saloons (by [Reuben Hamilton? and Captain Canessa); local characters "Lazy George","Pacific Slope", and Tommy Roberts (by Sam Walker); the Kitsilano district and the Greer land dispute (by Chief Khahtsahlano); the "Komagata Maru" incident, World War One, conscription, post-war strikes, and construction of the old Second Narrows Bridge (by Captain Canessa and Carl Timms); Gerry McGeer as a youth and as a politician, and his opponent Lyle Telford (by Reuben Hamilton).

Ship's journal, January 1 - June 13, 1865; also contains random diary entries [R. Colston], 1873, 1874, 1882, 1883. Blank pages not filmed.

The series consists of a microfilm copy of an incomplete diary kept by Robert Colson, Governor's Anthony Musgrave's private messenger, in 1870. Blank pages were not filmed.

Transcripts of hearings (with appended submissions) held by the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Economic Affairs. Also includes reports of Special Committees on Medical Aid to Vietnam, the Ombudsman, and Crown Corporations.

The series consists of A.D. Turnbull's official papers as M.L.A., material relating to his time as Minister of Health and Welfare, in addition to his personal papers that reflect his association with various professional, national and community organizations.

The file consists of a notebook (covers removed) by Elsie Turnbull titled "Reminiscences written by Elsie G. Turnbull regarding hospital insurance act." The notebook details the work of her husband Alexander Douglas Turnbull, who was the Minister of Health and Welfare from 1950 to 1952.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Final extra half hour not recorded. Jack speaks with Frank Walden, CUPW National Director, Western Region, and Lloyd Ingram, President CUPW Vancouver, about the current Canada Post labour dispute and possible strike action after eighteen months of negotiations. They discuss working conditions, a 50% turnover rate, automation, Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) clause. Vancouver Mayor Bill Rathie appears in a short film clip about the Vancouver City Council.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Program starts in progress. Jack speaks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. They discuss west coast shipyards; unemployment; countervailing duties; Mr. Mulroney’s popularity; John Bosley, the Speaker of the House; Dalton Camp’s appointment; Sinclair Stevens and conflicts of interest; Margaret Thatcher and apartheid; Tamil refugees. Jack speaks with NPA aldermanic candidate Gim Huey, and his success on the ballot.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack opens with a breaking Vancouver story about a sniper in the West End. Reporter Steve Wyatt interviews Vancouver Police Department officer, Corporal Grant Driver, in hospital. A report from the area by reporter Anton Koschany follows. In the studio, Jack speaks with Committee of Progressive Electors’s Harry Rankin and Bruce Eriksen about Vancouver civic politics and upcoming civic election. Ruth Lotzkar and Betty Therriault of the Consumer Association of Canada discuss the removal of price tags on food items with the advent of scanning, pressing for the return of individual pricing on items.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver Alderman Mike Harcourt, speaks with constituents on Georgia Street, and in the studio talks about his run for Mayor (NDP); non-profit housing development; social planning department; grants; public opinion; the federal election; rapid transit; stadium; PNE. Webster speaks with Clive Cocking about his book entitled "Following the Leaders: A Media Watcher's Dairy of Campaign '79" and journalist Alan Fotheringham; Joe Clark.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt talks about a potential short fall in city finances, and refutes Jonathon Baker’s allegations. Steve Wyatt files a short report about taxes paid by a Vancouver racquet ball club. Kelly Heed, Senior Vice President of Macaulay Nicolls Maitland and Company, speaks with Jack about BC real estate. Jack then speaks with author George MacDonald Fraser, about his series of books about “Flashman”.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt joins Jack to discuss the Premiership; Expo ’86; Cambie Street Bridge realignment; BC Place; prostitution. Jack reports on tape about the renovation of the Hotel Europe, 43 Powell Street in Gastown. He speaks to Andy Rocco, grandson of Angelo Calori, a Nanaimo coal miner and builder of the Europe. In the studio, Jack speaks with Marc Faquy, Director-General, Industrial Cooperation Programme, Canadian International Development Agency. Jack ends the show with "That's a Fair Question".

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: In light of the civic election, Jack interviews Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and mayoral candidate Jonathan Baker. They discuss the four day work week at Vancouver City Hall, negotiations with the Vancouver Police union, Vancouver Symphony funding, BC Place, and the Cambie Street Bridge. Norm Stewart, a lawyer for General Motors and also chairman of “What is a Letter?” Committee, leading a revolt against Canada Post as a monopoly. Mark Schneider reports from an aerobics class.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts with a chat live from Robson Square Media Centre with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt about Mr. Harcourt’s opposition to Henry Kissinger making an appearance in Vancouver. Jack addresses the lockout of 14,000 CPU and PPWC members. He welcomes Art Gruntman, Regional Vice President of the Canadian Pulp Union (CPU) and James Sloan, President of the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC). They discuss the lockout, the negotiations and the stalemate. Jack contacts Don Saunders, President of FIR and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, who had refused to appear on the show today with his opponents in the negotiations, Mr. Gruntman and Mr. Sloan. Jack then speaks with Dr. Irving Abella, author of “None is Too Many”, a book about the anti-Semitism of Mackenzie King’s government from 1939 to 1945. To end the show, Jack speaks with Arthur Jennings, MP for Fiji, who speaks about the United Nations owing $10 million to his country for policing in Lebanon and the Sinai.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Harvie Andre explains why it seems that American multi-national pharmaceutical companies own a larger share of the Canadian prescription drug market. Bob Power, Vice-President of Finance at Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), explains why the price of auto insurance is rising. Vancouver mayoral candidates Kentish Steele, Robert Burgar, and Frank Baker, explain why they are the best candidate.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Tape change issues. Bill Rathie, candidate for Vancouver mayor, announces his campaign promises including amalgamating Vancouver with neighbouring towns, reducing the number of public servants, and stopping the construction of major civic works. Jim Kinnaird, president of the BC and Yukon Building Trades Council, discusses the BC Labour Relations Board’s arbitration decision that compulsory retirement was in violation of the Human Rights Code.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are listed in the subject area, below.

Granville Mall (Vancouver, B.C.)
Vancouver City Hall

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: V1988:25/1242 not added due to sound tracking and video issues. Clem Chapple, BCTV News Hour, reports live from the Victoria Legislature, regarding legislation the government is trying to push through, in particular Bill 3. An exhausted Dave Barrett is interviewed about the night sittings. Premier Bennett interviewed regarding debate. Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt discusses Operation Solidarity, the possibility of a general strike, civil disobedience, Bills 2, 3, 7, 9, the City of Vancouver’s AAA credit rating, the destruction of the Office of the Rentalsman, elimination of the Human Rights Commission, the vindictiveness of the bills currently before the Legislature.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Opens with Mike Harcourt, Vancouver's mayor, discussing the issues of juvenile prostitution in Vancouver, Bill C-49, and municipal affairs. Jack interviews Paul Grescoe and David Cruise, authors of “The Money Rustlers”, about self-made millionaires.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-29 SUMMARY: Pat Foley discusses the take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-11 SUMMARY: Bobby Jackson discusses the take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-07 SUMMARY: Steve Brodie discusses unemployment in the 1930s; the 1938 take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and "Bloody Sunday"; unemployment.;

Manuscripts of articles and poems, newspaper clippings of articles, letters to the editor, and poetry. Many of the articles are on BC history and political figures. Morton was a legislative reporter and later secretary to Premier Oliver and MacLean.

Presented by Mr. Morton.