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The file contains "Adventures of a farm girl in Canada in 1925", by Joan Simpson, with a forward by her god-daughter, June Knowles. It consists of four reminiscences about life on a cattle ranch and in a fruit growing area of British Columbia by a young English woman who spent a year or two in British Columbia in the early 1930s. Although both personal and geographical names have been changed, the ranch on which Miss Simpson worked was undoubtedly the Church Ranch at Big Creek in the Chilcotin district.

The fonds consists of miscellaneous accounts and returns created at Fort Alexandria between 1831 and 1861.

The series includes correspondence, ranch diaries, business records and personal papers of the Bayliff Family, owners of the Chilancoh Ranch near Redstone in the Chilcotin district. It includes correspondence and papers of H.P.L. Bayliff's family in England (mainly letters written by his father, uncles and aunt as young people); letters written by T.L. Bayliff from England and from various naval ships during World War II. It also includes diaries, 1894-1925 (with gaps) of T.R. Young, a neighbouring rancher.

This series consists of seven volumes of records of the Water Commissioner, Lillooet, B.C., related to water rights, 1859-1915. Includes grants of water right, licences, plans, notices, etc. Volume 5 covers area from south of Lillooet to 150 Mile House and includes Hanceville and Big Creek; volume 3 includes lots on the North Thompson.

Shows trails from west of Tatla Lake to Alexandria and along the Chilcotin River to the Fraser.

Two record books containing brand registers for Kamloops and Clinton districts 1873-1914, as well as water records for Clinton district 1877-1879. The Kamloops volume also includes collectorate records from the Gold Commissioner at Yale for 1861. The index for the Clinton volume is in GR-1487, box 2, file 1. Also included are 6 volumes of office diaries, 1948, 1951-1953, 1955-1956, used by Thomas Moore, Recorder of brands.

The series consists of photocopies of three letters and a written "sketch" sent to friends and a brother in England. Hargreaves arrived in Victoria from England on July 2, 1862. The letter of Sept. 1, 1862 describes his first attempt to reach the Cariboo, from which he turned back, his work as a survey assistant in the Cowichan district, and his reaction to the articles written by Donald Fraser, the London TIMES correspondent. The second letter, Jan. 9, 1865, describes a trip to Cariboo in 1863 and the third item is a "sketch of a trip I made in the winter of 1875" describing a CPR exploratory survey in the Chilcotin. The final item, a letter of Feb 6, 1878, continues the account of his survey work in 1875, describing work in the Salmon (Kimsquit) River Valley at the head of Dean Channel, and in the Kemano River.

Photostat of original in Legal Surveys.
"To accompany report of 24th November 1862"
Signatures at bottom: Colonel R.C. Moody, R. Engr., Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works; H.S. Palmer, Lieutt., R. Engr, 18th Feby, 1863.
Inset: Sketch of the head of North Bentinck Arm. Scale [1:31 680].

Photostat of original in Legal Surveys which was removed from the Odd plans series and transferred to Roads and trails, 19T2, after this print was made.
Signatures at bottom: Colonel R.C. Moody, R. Engr., Chief Commissioner of Lands & Works; H.S. Palmer, Lieutt., R. Engr, 18th Feby. 1863. "To accompany report of 24th November 1862"
Inset: Sketch of head of North Bentinck Arm.

Photographic copy of lithographed map which was issued in H.S. Palmer's Report of a journey of survey, from Victoria to Fort Alexander, via North Bentinck Arm. New Westminster, 1863.
"Prepared by the Royal Engineers at the Office of Lands and Works, New Westminster, by order of Col. R.C. Moody, R.E., &c. &c., Feby. 1863" "To accompany report of 24th November 1862"
Inset: Sketch of head of North Bentinck Arm. Scale [1:31 680].

Photostat of original in Legal Surveys. Notes by Frank Swannel plot the progress of Palmer's expedition.
"To accompany report of 24th November 1862"
Inset: Sketch of the head of North Bentinck Arm. Scale [1:31 680].

Shows route from Quesnel to Elwin Lake near Topley. Photographic copy of coloured ms. original in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866d/D). Astronomical observations by P.J. Leech. From notes by J. [Maclu]re. Sheet 1.

The series consists of a diary kept by Hargreaves while a member of "W.X.Y." division during a C.P.R. survey of Bute Inlet, 1872. Also includes a typescript diary and survey notes, May to October 1874, kept while surveying between Burrard Inlet and Pender Harbour.

The series consists of records created by the Department of Lands between 1882 and 1923. It contains a Coast Land District, Range 2 lot register for lots 1-693. The register lists the lots in numerical order and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchaser, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

The Western Canadian Ranching Company (WCRC) was incorporated in England to acquire, develop and manage ranches throughout the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and the United States. The WCRC was registered in British Columbia as an extra-provincial company on Jan. 3, 1898. Ranches under its management included the Harper Ranch near Kamloops, the Gang Ranch and the Perry Ranch, near Ashcroft. Throughout its existence, the company maintained its head office in England with a branch office in Victoria. The British Columbia Land and Investment Agency served as its financial agent. The WCRC wound up its business in the 1950s. Fonds consists of correspondence and miscellaneous bills, photographs, maps and the transcript of a court case. The correspondence documents operations of the ranches and the administrative and financial relationships between the head office, the Victoria office and the various operational centres. Series 6 documents the background to the acquisition of the Harper Ranch. Series 9 consists of City of Victoria Archives accession 98401-22: research notes and copies made by City of Victoria Archives staff and volunteers.

The collection includes a letterbook, 1888-1893, belonging to S.K Twigge, Sidney A.J. Kenworthy's father, business documents and correspondence from the Empire Valley Ranch, documents from the Empire Valley School, two letters to men on the Empire Valley Ranch, and Kenworthy family correspondence. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 199205-010.

Received from the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature.

Finding aid: file list.

The series consists of records created by the Department of Lands between 1888 and 1953. It contains a Coast Land District, Range 3 lot register, covering lots 1-720. The register lists the lots in numerical order and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchaser, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

Diaries of H.E. Church, 1890-1933; account book and personal papers of R.H. Church, 1927-1969; business papers re the Church ranch; papers of the Big Creek Stock Breeders Association, 1923-1969. H.E. Church emigrated from England to Canada in 1886. He homesteaded on Sheep Creek in Southern Alberta from 1887 to 1897, farmed at Comox, B.C. from 1897 to 1902, and in 1903 moved to Big Creek, B.C.

Letter from Theodore Davie, May 24, 1894, replying to a letter from Prentice stating that Davie had threatened to withhold money set aside in the estimates to reimburse the Western Canadian Ranching Company for road building if Prentice ran as an opposition candidate. Davie denies the accusation but expresses surprise that Prentice should ally himself with a group tending towards "Socialism and communism", and points out that the money had been granted because the government thought of Prentice as a deserving friend.

Presented by Alison Prentice, Toronto, per the editors, BC Historical News, 1980.

Diary of E.P. Lee (1871?-1960), 1899, 1903-1913 (intermittent entries); day book, 1898-1906, and fur list, 1900-1906; Bank of Montreal accounts, 1919-1960; fur list, 1943-1945.

Series consists of articles, typescript drafts, essays, biographies, notes, clippings, etc. relating to Alaska, the history of British Columbia, historic sites in British Columbia, Indigenous people of British Columbia, the pelagic sealing industry, etc. The series also includes invitations to events and 124 black and white photographs, mostly of Smith's time in Japan and China.

Daybook, 1906-1910 and 1920-1926.

Letter to Provincial Archivist E.O.S. Scholefield from Anthropologist James A. Teit regarding Simon Fraser's identifications of the Shuswap, Chilcotin and Thompson River Indians.

Series consists of private papers and business correspondence, agreements, etc. relating to mining companies promoted by A.K. Shives and his associates. Includes material relating to Empress Gold Mines, Gold Valley (properties in Similkameen District), Moose Dome area (Alberta) and others. Also includes some early reconnaissance and timber cruising reports for areas in the North Cariboo and Chilcotin and a letter from Arnold K. Shives to General Victor Odlum regarding Goldbridge Placer Leaser #564, Oct. 7, 1939.

The series consists of Forest Branch records created between 1912 and 1914. The series contains timber cruiser reports by W.J. Kelly on diverse tracts, including holdings of the Lillooet and Cariboo Land Company, Ltd. Reports include numerous photographs and maps.