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This series consists of Forest Protection Plans, 1929, by S.E. Marling (288 pp.). Includes information on ranger stations, buildings, boats, equipment, fire lookouts, organization, trails, forest cover, causes of fires, and list of settlers with telephones.

Assize record books.

Bench books, cases heard by Judge John D. Swanson, 1930-1941, and Judge James Ross Archibald, 1942-1946.

This series contains a letterbook and daily diaries from the Boundary District police force. The letterbook covers the period Dec. 27, 1905 to Dec. 13, 1907 (vol. 1). Daily diaries cover the period April 1, 1901 to June 30, 1908 (vol. 2) and April 26, 1911 to March 31, 1919. (vol. 3).

Volume 1 covers the entire province of British Columbia, not just the Boundary District.

The series consists of records created by the Boundary Gold Commissioner between 1890 and 1922. It includes correspondence inward, records of claims, certificates of work, conveyances of claims, water record and records of free miners certificates. Records may also relate to the Kettle River and Osoyoos Mining Recorders.

Minutes of executive meetings, 1929-1971; convention packages, containing programmes, minutes, resolutions lists, etc., and sometimes verbatim records, 1939-1965; minutes, Southern, Central and Northern District Councils, 1960-1963; various drafts, agreements, announcements, circulars, speeches; growers lists, 1975.

Accounts, ledgers, memoranda, and correspondence pertaining to Lord Aberdeen's Guisachan ranch (Kelowna, British Columbia) and Coldstream Ranch (Vernon, British Columbia). Includes newspaper cuttings, sketches, and architectural drawings of Coldstream ranch buildings.

Case files from two speedy trials: 1949 - Charles Foreman; 1952 - Norman Henry Lovell.

Suitors' fund cash book, May 1923 - March 1978 (p.1-189); Law Stamp register, October 1930 - September 1973 (p.200-248); Small Claims Court suitors' fund cash book, 1978 (p.249-250); suitors' funds transferred to and made by Treasury, Victoria, B.C., 1923-1952 (p.280-281). There is a blank "Form M" for transmitting Suitors' Fund Deposits to the Deputy Minister of Finance inside the front cover of the volume.

Chambers applications, 1923-1930 (p.1-6); criminal record book 1931-1956 (p.7-47).

Cecil Claxton was born in Hampstead, England in 1886. He joined the Merchant Marine and the Royal Naval Reserve, and both before and after the First World War, served in the Canadian Pacific's Trans-Pacific fleet, attaining the rank of Staff Captain. In 1936 he became Superintendent of Pilots, British Columbia Pilotage district, and held that position until his retirement in 1953. While Captain Claxton was in the Pilot Service, the Claxtons lived in West Vancouver and Vancouver. After his retirement, he and Mrs. Claxton moved to Pender Island. In 1927, Cecil Claxton married Helen Violet MacGregor who was born in Kuling, China in 1898. Her father, Roderick MacGregor was with the Imperial Maritime Customs. Her mother, Annie Say, went to China in 1886 after receiving nursing and social service training in England. The MacGregors had four daughters; Mrs. A.L. Buckley (Nan), widowed during the First World War, who lived in England; Mrs. H.A. Cornaby (Jay or Jessie) also widowed during the First World War, who returned to China from England, was interned there during the Second World War, and then moved to British Columbia; Flora, who taught at the Shanghai Municipal Council Public School for Girls and also moved to British Columbia after the Second World War, and Helen. Peter, the Claxton's son, was born in 1929, and as a very young child lost his sight. He was educated at the West Vancouver Nursery School, operated by his mother, St. George's School (Vancouver), the National Institute for the Blind School of Physiotherapy, in London, England, and the University of British Columbia, from which he received a B.SC. in Agriculture in 1962. The collection contains two major series from Captain Claxton to his wife; letters, 1924-1932, written from various Canadian Pacific ships, mainly the Empress of Asia, largely domestic and personal, but containing references to incidents on voyages and at ports of call; and letters 1942-1943, written while Mrs. Claxton and Peter were living near Vernon for Peter's health which may contain some references to the Pilot service but seem to be almost entirely domestic. A third series of letters from Captain Claxton concerns arrangements to send Peter to the National Institute for the Blind School of Physiotherapy and consists of letters, 1946-1952, to the school and to his relatives in England. The letters from Mrs. Claxton to Captain Claxton, 1942-1943, are written from the Okanagan, mainly Vernon. They are largely concerned with domestic matters and Peter's development, but are also full of descriptions of their friends and activities in the Okanagan. Peter Claxton's letters consist mainly of ones written to his parents from England, 1949-1954, and from the University of British Columbia, 1958-1962. Amongst other correspondence and manuscripts written by him, the collection contains a long account of a trip made with a friend to the Cariboo ca. 1961. Letters from Mrs. MacGregor and from Flora, written from China, while they are mainly personal, form an interesting example of the life led by one segment of the British in China in the late 1920s and 1930s.

This series consists of minutes of evidence given at hearings held at Vernon, 12 August 1919, and Victoria, 7 January 1920, by the commission of inquiry to inspect the water systems of the White Valley Irrigation and Power Company and Coldstream Estates, pursuant to section 171 of the Water Act, (1914).

This series consists of records of the Canadian government's Commission on Protests of the Okanagan and Upper Nicola Indian Bands, 1954. The commission investigated protests against the inclusion or omission of certain people from membership in the bands. Records include a report of Commissioner C.W. Morrow.

Presented by Judge C.W. Morrow, Vernon, 1978.

This series contains the Commissioner of Grazing's file carbon copies of free grazing permits issued in the Vernon and Cariboo Grazing Districts as well as a letter transmitting grazing fees (form) from the Kamloops Grazing District. The boundaries of grazing districts coincide with those of the forest districts of the same name.

Series contains correspondence files relating to water licences and irrigation in the vicinities of Rock Creek and Greenwood, and the southern Okanagan valley.

This series contains general correspondence files regarding Provincial Forest Reserves coded MFR Supervision according to the Forest Service filing system described in Operational Manual with instructions to Forest officers ... (Victoria, 1942), pp. 109-110, 341-353. For a copy see GR-0944, Box 1. Files containing this code pertain to all correspondence and reports dealing with Forest Reserves, policy, methods of classification for Reserve, regulations, Orders-in-Council establishing boundary surveys, etc.

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to irrigation, the hydrometric programme (1944) and hot springs and mineral wells. Includes list of water records within various Okanagan irrigation districts.

Assize record books for criminal cases.

This series contains daily diaries kept by constable at Enderby, B.C., 1938-1950 (7 vols.)

Dirk Fraser was a student at Vernon Preparatory School, 1938-1941, and Magee High School in Vancouver, 1941-1943. This collection includes his 1941-1942 diary, his letters home to his mother and sister 1940-1941, letters to him from friends 1942-1943, his sketch books and school work books and a game he invented. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 199205-011.

The series consists of microfilmed transcripts of short essays on various subjects, including the transport and mining industries in B.C., the history of B.C., descriptions of Victoria and other B.C. cities by Cariboo grocer Leonard A. Coton. Also includes accounts of car trips taken by L.A. Coton to the Okanagan, the Cariboo and on Vancouver Island in the 1950s.

Files under the Woodmen's Lien for Wages Act, 1944-1950.

This series contains a notebook of data recorded during a fruit tree experimental pruning project conducted in the vicinity of Vernon. The notebook includes photographs affixed to the pages. The notebook is believed to have originated from the Horticulture branch of the Department of Agriculture.

Minute book.

Debtor and creditor judgement indexes.

This series consists of correspondence, petitions, accounts, statements of population, and reports relating to land of Indigenous peoples in British Columbia from the Department of the Provincial Secretary.

Information and complaints the majority of which were taken and sworn before William Morley.

These records relate to McKay's career as a chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company including correspondence, a journal, notes regarding ceremonies and traditional beliefs of Indigenous people of BC, and his recollections as Chief Trader.

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.

Case files from appeals of judgments by the Police and Stipendiary Magistrate (some from Small Debts Court).