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McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891
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Archibald McKinlay Diary Part 1

File consists of one diary of Archibald McKinlay, the first of two. The diary spans November 3, 1876 to February 9, 1877 and documents McKinlay's travels to reserves as reserve commissioner and includes copies of correspondence, basic census information for Indigenous communities, and translations of Indigenous languages.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Archibald McKinlay Diary Part 2

File consists of the diary of Archibald McKinlay, the second part of two. The diary documents his travels in the role of reserve commissioner through the Okanagan region, and also contains copies of outward correspondence and expenses. A loose sheet in the back of the diary contains copies of letters written by James McKinlay and a list of plants.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Archibald McKinlay fonds

  • PR-1709
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1885

The fonds consists of diaries, correspondence, and financial records of Archibald McKinlay and the McKinlay family, as well as the official appointment of McKinlay to the Joint Indian Reserve Commission.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Contracts and expenditures

File consists of the marriage documentation for Archibald McKinlay and Sarah Ogden, a financial account for Archibald McKinlay from 1856, and agreements of indenture.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Correspondence

File consists of inward and outward correspondence of Archibald McKinlay. Original letters as well as typed copies are included.

Correspondence outward

The file consists of 7 letters and 4 transcripts of Ogden's outward correspondence from 1831 to 1849. Correspondence is addressed to a variety of recipients, including John Haldane, William F. Tolmie, John McLeod, Donald Ross, and Ogden's son-in-law Archibald McKinlay, as well as several unidentified correspondents. The file also includes an extract from Ogden's letters to Chief Traders Tod and Mansion in 1845. Although described as a holograph, it appears to be in a different hand than Ogden's. Correspondence deals with a variety of private and Company matters.

Transcripts have been placed in a separate folder for conservation purposes. Not all letters have accompanying transcripts. Some transcripts appear to be copied from John McLeod's "Journals and correspondence of John McLeod, Senior, Chief trader, Hudson's Bay Company."

Ogden, Peter Skene, 1794-1854

Correspondence outward

The file consists of Peter Skene Ogden's outward correspondence dating from 1851 to 1852. The file includes both original letters and transcripts that were created in 1952. Not every letter has a corresponding transcription.The letters are addressed to a number of correspondents, including Ogden's son-in-law Archibald McKinlay, William F. Tolmie, and Ogden's daughter, as well as several unnamed individuals. The letters discuss both personal and Hudson's Bay Company business.

Ogden, Peter Skene, 1794-1854

James McKinlay Correspondence and Diary

File consists of correspondence regarding McKinlay family finances and a diary written by James McKinlay titled "Diary of the Great Fish River Exploring Party."

The diary is written by a different James McKinlay than the eldest son of Archibald McKinlay, and documents a journey from Fort Resolution through the Northwest Territories with Warburton Pike. This James McKinlay was a clerk with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort St. John, Fort Resolution, and Fort Smith.

Joint Indian Reserve Commission : journal of proceedings : vol. I

This series consists of Volume I of the Journal of Proceedings of the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (JIRC) and documents the daily work of the three commissioners (Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Archibald McKinlay, and Gilbert Malcom Sproat) from November 1876 to June 1877 on the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. In addition to the text of the journal, there are also several ink and colour drawings of reserves.

Within the journal are several loose correspondence and drafts of documents, many of which are addressed to A.C. Anderson. These loose documents have been retained within the pages of the volume.

The JIRC was formed in 1876 to settle disputes between the federal and provincial governments regarding allotment of reserves in British Columbia. The JIRC operated until 1878, when it was replaced by the Indian Reserve Commission, for which Sproat remained the commissioner.

An attached document (see the finding aid note section of this description) provides a paginated listing of locations visited by the commissioners.

Joint Reserve Commission

Joint Reserve Commission collection

  • Collection
  • 1869, 1876-1910; predominant 1876-1878

The collection consists of records generated by the Joint Reserve Commission, predominantly from 1876-1878. The
collection includes correspondence inward and outward, memoranda, and reports. Many of the records were sent from Commissioners to representatives of the Canadian and British Columbia governments, such as the Provincial Secretary and the Department of Indian Affairs.

Joint Reserve Commission

Joint Reserve Commission correspondence

This series consists of Joint Indian Reserve Commission records, 1877-1878. Records include correspondence inward and outward and memoranda between Commissioners G.M. Sproat, A. McKinlay and A.C. Anderson and the Provincial Secretary and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Joint Reserve Commission

Joint Reserve Commission records received by the Provincial Secretary

The records in this series consist of correspondence and reports inward to the Provincial Secretary from the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Dominion Commissioner, Archibald McKinlay, Provincial Commissioner, and Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, Joint Commissioner). The records include reports; summaries of work; minutes of decision; census of Indian population, livestock and acreage of reserves; and two memoranda dated 1869 by J.W. Trutch regarding disputes about Indian lands in Cowichan district.

Copies of correspondence inward to the Lieutenant Governor from the Commissioners and certain correspondence with Dominion Officials is also included in the record. The records are as originally filed. In most cases, the original Provincial Secretary's file number may be seen on the first document in a file, eg., for file 3 the number is 664/76, representing the 664 document received in the year 1876.

Joint Reserve Commission

Letter book of outward correspondence

File consists of letter book copies of outward correspondence from Archibald McKinlay as well as his wife Sarah Julia McKinlay and son James McKinlay. The letter book also contains a list of Williams Lake residents from 1884.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Malcolm McLeod family papers

Malcolm McLeod was a barrister and writer.

MS consists of correspondence, manuscripts and notes relating to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company in Oregon, the Northwest Territories and the selection of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway accumulated by McLeod in his attempt to secure recognition of the value of the information on the west provided to the Canadian government, CPR, etc., by his father, John McLeod, and himself; includes letters from fur traders, information on the McLeod family, manuscripts by M. McLeod on the Hudson's Bay Company's territories and the location of the CPR. Also includes correspondence with Ranald Macdonald, who taught English in Japan, 1848-1849; reminiscences and Japanese glossaries by Macdonald, manuscripts by McLeod entitled "Japan, story of adventure of Ranald Macdonald."

McLeod, Malcolm, 1821-1899

Minutes of decision of Joint Indian Reserve Commission

  • GR-2982
  • Series
  • 1876-1949; predominant 1876-1907

The series consists of minutes of decision of the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (1876-1878) of governments of Canada and British Columbia and of the Indian Reserve Commission (1878-1907) of the government of Canada regarding allotment of Indian reserves in British Columbia.

Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports and coloured maps of the reserve allotments. Although these records are called Joint Reserve Commission records, they probably form part of the British Columbia Department of Lands and Works fonds. Most of the records are stamped with the Lands and Works Dept. stamp and also have Lands and Works file numbers assigned to each, after they were received from the Commission. Some files then had additional related records added to by Department staff, as reserves were surveyed or related issues came up. Additional records were added to several files by Department of Lands staff up to 1949.

In addition, the series includes an item level precis of each document, created by the Dept. of Lands in 1980. The precis are filed in the first file of each box.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Narrative of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company

File consists of a portion of a handwritten manuscript by Archibald McKinlay describing an encounter with an Indigenous group at Fort Walla Walla. A typescript of "Narrative of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company" is included in the file, copied from MS No. C25 from the Bancroft Library.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Pre-emption of Sara Julia McKinlay

Item consists of one letter written to Peter O'Reilly as a request to pre-empt land. Included in the letter is a hand-drawn map outlining her requesting pre-emption as well as the land pre-empted by Archibald McKinlay.

Request for furlough

Item consists of one letter written by Archibald McKinlay to the Board of Management of the Hudson's Bay Company requesting furlough.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

William Fraser Tolmie records

The series consists of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, commissions, notes and memoranda relating to his work with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Puget Sound Agricultural Company at Fort Nisqually, and later, Victoria. Some published materials from the library of the Tolmie family not related to the history of the northwest have been included in the collection.