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This series consists of grants of letters probate (Form A) from the Creston Supreme Court, from 1952-1984. Forms from 1982-1984 include a praecipe and copy of will. Letters are organized by file number.

Series consists of probate case files created between 1983 and 2002 by the Creston Supreme Court. Case files may include a Letters Probate (Form A) or a Letters of Administration (Grant of Probate); will; notice(s); list of assets, liabilities, and distribution; certificate of wills search; affidavit(s); and/or praecipe(s).

Records are arranged by file number. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51460-20.

Series consists of 2 cm of textual records related to government activities in Nanaimo from 1890-1901. Records include court summons, store tabs, and court orders. The bulk of these appear to be case files to settle disputes on debts owing between James Young (plaintiff) and Alex Crombie (defendant). The remainder are tax assessments related to mining and smelting operations in Van Anda, Texada Island, sent to Mark Bate acting as tax assessor.

Series consists of cause books from the New Westminster Small Debts Court for cases between 1912-1932 and 1941-1949. Cause books provide the framework for cases and may include the names of parties, the dates when proceedings occurred, and can be used to determine volume and folio numbers for locating final orders.

Original records were destroyed after microfilming; retrieve records using microfilm.

Series consists of criminal Assize Court calendars created between 1919-1961 by the Prince Rupert Supreme Court. Under the Assize System, hearings/trials are scheduled to be heard during a 1 or 2 week sitting of the court. Records also include some information and correspondence from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Judicial Statistics Branch.

Retrieve records using microfilm. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 53200-20.

Series consists of criminal Assize Court record books created between 1893-1951 by the Vancouver Supreme Court. Under the Assize System, hearings/trials are scheduled to be heard during a 1 or 2 week sitting of the court.

The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 53200-20.

The series consists of a bound volume of Assize Court calendar sheets that date from May 1907 to September 1949. The sheets are for criminal cases heard in the British Columbia Supreme Court at Vancouver, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery and are arranged by month and year. Each sheet lists cases heard that month and include the case number, name of prisoner, charge, date of conviction, date of sentence, plea, verdict and sentence. There are occasional handwritten notes attached. The sheets are certified as correct by the district registrar and signed by the presiding judge.

Series consists of an Assize Court calendar created between 1916-1923 and 1926-1964 by the Nanaimo Supreme Court. Under the Assize System, hearings/trials are scheduled to be heard during a 1 or 2 week sitting of the court.

The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 53200-20.

Series consists of a Nanaimo Small Debts Court cause book for 1904-1905. The volume is indexed and includes cases 2/1904 to 218/1905. Cause books provide the framework for cases and may include the names of parties and dates when proceedings occurred. They can be used to determine volume and folio numbers for locating final orders.

This series consists of a variety of records related to the Colony of Vancouver Island Treasury from 1853-1866. The majority of the records are various receipts, expenditures, estimates and financial statements of accounts. Accounts relate to a wide variety of government expenses, particularly those of the Land Office and transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Other records include: a 1859 return of officers submitted to the Legislative Assembly detailing all employees of the colony, including their names, title, salary and remarks; an 1860 index of letters outwards including the date and subject; and a copy of the 1866 budget act with associated schedules.

Series consists of New Westminster Supreme Court Official Receiver bankruptcy record books from 1923-1949 for proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act.

Original records were destroyed after microfilming; retrieve records using microfilm.

Series consists of Vancouver Supreme Court case files for cases handled by the Official Receiver between 1923 and 1949. Cases include bankruptcies and assignments.

Series consists of civil default judgements (1971-1975) and civil and criminal orders (1973-1975) created by the Cranbrook County Court registry. Orders are the formal expression of the ruling of the court. Default judgments are ordered when one party has failed to file and serve a response to a claim within an allowed time period. A plaintiff can also apply for a default judgment if the defendant has withdrawn the response to a civil claim. Orders mainly deal with civil matters but also include some criminal matters, particularly for 1974-1975.

Default judgements and orders are filed separately. Records are arranged by case file (or action) number. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51100-30.

The series consists of Nanaimo Supreme Court civil orders and reasons for judgment, 1900-2002. Civil court orders are the formal expression of the rulings of the court, whereas the reasons for judgment are the explanation that the court gives at the conclusion of a hearing, explaining why an order is being made.

The civil court orders date from 1900 to 1994 and contain divorce orders interfiled throughout. The orders are generally arranged by volume and folio number. The orders were originally added to a shannon file volume in file date order and given folio numbers from 1 to 200 or 300. Each volume is indexed.

Reasons for judgment, filed between 1985 and 2002, were not intermingled, but rather were housed separately in accordion files. They are arranged by court file number within each folder.

Series consists of one transcript of wills probated at the Vancouver Court Registry (1890-1901).

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

The wills are arranged by probate number, which can be found by using the index associated with GR-3004. Not all probate records have an accompanying will. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51460-30.

The series consists of divorce case files. Files from 1919-1923 are from the Fort George registry and from 1925-1949 are from Prince George registry.

Series consists of Kelowna Supreme Court civil case files created between 1923-1949.

Series consists of one 1939 divorce case file, for Chernokowski, in the Port Alberni Supreme Court.

The series consists of orders created by the Grand Forks Supreme Court registry between 1900-1949. Between 1900 and 1922, the orders relate to a variety of civil matters such as loans and mortgages, debts, guardianship of minors, and estate matters, including probates. Beginning June 1922, records are probate orders only.

Records are arranged chronologically and were assigned file, volume, and folio numbers by the court registry. An alphabetical index by last name is included within both bound volumes of records.

Series consists of one Registrar's minute book for Kamloops Supreme Court civil cases between 1913-1954.

Civil case files; includes four naturalization files.

Series consists of Chilliwack County Court bench books for civil and criminal cases between 1912-1954. Cases were heard before Judges Howay, Ruggles, Ellis, Swanson, Sullivan, and Grimmett. Volume 1 includes lists of applications for naturalization. Volume 3 also includes notes by Judge Howay regarding his final day on the bench at Chilliwack in 1937. Only volume 4 is indexed.

The series consists of transcripts of court proceedings, cross-examinations, examination of discovery, exhibit indices, closing statements, briefs, and reasons for judgement of Delgamuukw v. The Queen. The case was heard in the Smithers Supreme Court between 1987 and 1989 (case file 0843). Following the hearings in Smithers, the case reached the BC Court of Appeal and eventually made its way to the Supreme Court of Canada where a landmark ruling was finally issued in 1997.

The transcripts of the proceedings at trial, which consist of 369 spiral-bound volumes, provide a wealth of information on First Nations genealogies, traditional resource knowledge, and language, as well as details of the extent of traditional territories. The series consists of more than 23,000 pages of trial transcript and includes the testimonies of more than 60 witnesses. The series also includes the reasons for judgment. Gitxsan hereditary chief Delgamuukw (Albert Tait), who filed the Statement of Claim, passed away shortly before the trial opened in 1987 and was succeeded by Kenneth Muldoe who was in turn succeeded by his brother, artist Earl Muldon. The claim covered 133 traditional territories, which amounted to 58,000 square kilometers of northwestern British Columbia. Peter R Grant served as lead counsel for the Gitxan and Wet-suwet'en chiefs, and D.M.M. Goldie served as lead counsel for the Province.

The files are arranged as they arrived from the Smithers court registry. Boxes 1 to 13 contain the proceedings at trial. Boxes 16 and 17 include lists of exhibits which provide information on relevant archival collections held in repositories across the province.

Reasons for judgement of the Honourable Chief Justice Allan McEachern in the case of Delgamuukw, also known as Ken Muldoe, suing on his own behalf and on behalf of all members of the House of Delgamuukw and others vs. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the province of British Columbia and the Attorney General of British Columbia. Case no. 843/1984 (Smithers registry), heard at Vancouver, B.C., July 6-7, 1989.

Series consists of one bound alphabetical index of map books (and individual sheets) dating from 1859 to 1944 and thought to have been complied by the British Columbia Geographic Branch. The index includes a sheet number, book number, title, scale, and date for each item. Additional annotations in pencil, coloured pencil, or ink are found throughout.

The location of indexed items is unknown, and items may not be in the custody of the BC Archives.

The fonds consists of correspondence, notes and manuscripts of articles and books concerning birds, mammals and plants, and notes and correspondence concerning pioneering in rural Manitoba and Comox, B.C. Personal correspondence includes that with his mother, his wife, and other family members. Fonds includes photographs, miscellaneous tax and financial records, maps of North America, and records relating to house construction. In 2024, Laing's field notebooks, journals and diaries were added to the fonds, having been transferred from Natural History at the Royal BC Museum.

This volume was created by WG Cox, Police Magistrate and Gold Commissioner of Rock Creek in 1861. The ledger lists all of the furniture, fixtures, supplies and other items located at the Rock Creek government office and their "fate" - possibly where some items were moved to when the office closed around 1863.

The Archives photo collection (also known as the General file or genfile) consists of photographs collected by the Archives from around 1908 until the 1990s. The photographs were primarily collected because of their subject matter and little or no information was gathered as to their provenance and type. A single volume, arranged numerically by a classification code, appears to indicate that the first 14,000 or so photographs acquired were arranged by subject groupings.

By 1934, the annual report of the Provincial Library and Archives department noted that the "collection of photographs and prints in the Archives, which is estimated to consist of at least 14,000 items, is rapidly outgrowing the old filing system, and sooner or later the entire collection must be recatalogued and rearranged." In 1935 the new system of applying individual catalogue numbers known as "HP" or "Historic Photograph" numbers had begun. In 1940 the Provincial Archivist reported that half the photographs had been recatalogued. The cataloguing consisted of entering the photographs into registers in HP number order; the first number assigned was HP101 or HP000101. This system of item level numbering continued into the 1990s with over 100,000 photographs entered into the HP accession registers. While most of these photographs continued to be acquired because of their subject matter, selected photographs that formed part of original record groups, were also catalogued with an HP number.

The "original" photographs acquired in this way consist mainly of photographic prints in a variety of sizes and formats, but also include original negatives (both glass and flexible). In many cases, the Archives borrowed and copied photographs from individuals and other institutions. In these cases the "original" is a copy print made by the Archives at the time.

The prints are stored in HP number order in several runs: main run of several hundred boxes, one run of Maynard photographs, two runs of oversized photographic prints and one run of large oversized prints stored in map cabinets. Original negatives are stored by type (glass, nitrate, acetate, polyester etc.), usually by HP number. These original records are often know as "HP originals".

Copy prints were made of many of the prints and are arranged by subject in several runs. Portrait/family files are arranged in alphabetical order; topographic (place name) files are arranged alphabetically by place name and then by subject within the place; and a small set of subject files (including ships) are arranged alphabetically by subject. There are a variety of indexes and lists of files available in the Archives to help determine which general file copy print files are available on request.

Copy negatives (arranged by negative number or photo lab number) were made from many of the prints and original negatives. These records were used for reproductions and are stored in a large negative cabinet.