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Promotional film. The route of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway from its southern terminus at Squamish to the Central Interior, and aspects of the area served by the railway. Includes footage of a voyage from Vancouver to Squamish on Union Steamship's "Lady Alexandra", with a stop at Bowen Island; sports and recreation at Alta Lake; cattle drive; wheat fields; placer mining; logging; PGE crews at work.

Includes footage of: Anderson Lake, Barkerville, Bowen Island, Bridge River, Clinton, D'Arcy, Lillooet, Quesnel, Seton Lake, Squamish, Wells, Williams Lake, Alta Lake, Birkenhead River, Lac La Hache, Rainbow, Vancouver, Cariboo Region, Cheakamus River

Footage. A travel film presenting outdoor attractions and community life along the highways linking the Fraser Canyon to Clinton and Lillooet. Featured are swimming, fishing, hiking, sightseeing, motoring through the Fraser Canyon and accommodations such as hotels, resorts and auto courts. Community subjects include children clowning and swimming, ranching, railway trains, a covered wagon, native basketry for sale, building and students at St. George's Indian Residential School (Lytton), abandoned roadhouses, and the towns of Lytton, Spences Bridge, Ashcroft, Clinton and Lillooet. In the last sequence on the reel, townsfolk in Lillooet extract a vintage automobile from an old garage, push it onto the town’s main street, and start it up.

The British Columbia Cattle Company was incorporated by John Irving, Thomas Ellis and Richard Lowe Cawston on Nov. 5, 1890, to carry on farming, stock-raising and butchering and to acquire land for those purposes. The company managed the Triangle Ranch at Quilchena and the Canoe Creek Ranch. The firm was deleted from the companies register in 1944. Fonds consists of one series of correspondence inward dealing with miscellaneous matters relating to the management of the two ranches and the sale of beef cattle. For related records see MS-2887, British Columbia Market Company fonds and MS-1950, the K.R. Genn fonds.

RECORDED: Lillooet (B.C.), 1986 SUMMARY: Arnold Malm: A third generation PGE-er, Arnold took control of his first engine in 1959 at the age of 19. When he retired, in 1986, he was road foreman of engines, based in Lillooet.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1986 SUMMARY: Marv Gammon: As Marv says, "Everyone started in Lillooet at one time or another." He started there in 1963. As of 1986, he was a trainman on the Fort Nelson run, based in Fort St. John.;

CALL NUMBER: T0175:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Rodger Burnes : recollections of Vancouver and North Vancouver, 1898-1920s PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1920s RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Rodger Burnes was born in 1889 and discusses his arrival in North Vancouver in 1898; description of area at that time; memories of North Vancouver Indians; the construction of Christchurch, English Bay, 1900-1904; theatre in City Hall. TRACK 2: Squamish and Paradise Valley in 1905; Pemberton Trail; survey trip to Nairn Falls, 1913; unusual incidents in everyday life in Vancouver, 1904-1907. CALL NUMBER: T0175:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Rodger Burnes : recollections of Vancouver and North Vancouver in the early 1900s RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Rodger Burnes discusses incidents in the life of Peter Larson (Shanghai Pete); dead cow on Lonsdale; clearing bee; Victoria Park. TRACK 2: North Vancouver waterfront, 1898; trip on the Lillooet Trail, 1898; memories of 1900. CALL NUMBER: T0175:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Rodger Burnes : B.C. Electric in North Vancouver RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Rodger Burnes provides anecdotes of the early years of B.C. Electric. TRACK 2: Tells of a greenhorn's experience with dried apples.

CALL NUMBER: T3164:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : an interview with Mrs. Minato RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Minato discusses background: born 1911 at home on Powell Street with help from midwife; mother had come 1910; father had come to North America from Kochiken 1906-07 but returned to Japan to marry; short history of father's world travelling and his getting his poke in California; mother ran boarding house for loggers, fishermen on Powell Street; father worked for Morrison Wire Company; later moved to 900 block of Cordova. Memories of Japanese School and then of Seymour School: went to Japanese school only after public school. Describes Japanese School, recalls teachers' names. Neighbours on Cordova Street, geography of that area and major buildings in area around 900 block. Describes work at Morrison Wire Company. Long description of bathhouse which parents ran starting in 1923 on Powell Street (318), Matsu-no-yu (Bath of Pine): neighbouring businesses, burning wood to heat water, towels and soap and use of bath for 15 cents, hours open, children's chores. Family living then at 222 Gore Avenue. TRACK 2: More on bath house: description of interior and of basement. Looking at fire insurance maps from '30s of Powell Street, Mrs. Minato recalls various businesses in 300 block. Anecdote about father buying land sight unseen in Burnaby. Theatres in area. Attending Methodist kindergarten in what is now the Buddhist Church. Japanese baseball team and Powell Street grounds. Story of children teasing Mr. Miyasaki, the tofu-seller. Fish and vegetables sold on Powell. Powell Street goods and clientele. CALL NUMBER: T3164:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : an interview with Mrs. Minato RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Traditional Japanese layette. Home remedies and herbalist stores. Parents' conversion from Shinto to Anglicanism. Evacuation during World War II: father taken to road camp on 1/2 day's notice; leaving mother with 3 small children; mother went to Lillooet where husband met them and built small shack for 7 people (including grandparents). Departure from Vancouver. Stay in Lillooet. Move to Vernon for children's schooling. Deaths of various members of family during this time. Description of Japanese camp in Lillooet, and of living conditions. Independent family, would take no money from government. Inadequate medical care in Lillooet. Days in Vernon: active with PTA and generally in community. Affiliations to organizations in Vancouver. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Horsefly, 1905 and 1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0002 - 0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for these two tapes.];

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mining around Horsefly in the early 20th century RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977

CALL NUMBER: T2788:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Old-timers of Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Old timers of Horsefly, BC. TRACK 2: Old timers continued; comparison between life today and sixty years ago.;

Documentary. The historical background of Fraser River jade, and how it is cut, shaped and polished to make jewellery. Filmed in the Lytton area, especially at Ron Purvis' jewellery workshop on his ranch at Texas Creek. The "Buddha's Foot" of the title is a large boulder of jade.

Minute books, April 1973 - October 1976, October 1976 - September 1978, October 1978 - June 1979.

Correspondence between the secretary-treasurer, E. Bell (Clinton), the government auditor, J. McB. Smith, and B.H. Tyrwhitt Drake, acting on behalf of the company, and shareholders, mining engineers, prospectors, prospective buyers, etc. Included are draft agreements, assessment forms, assay forms, tax forms, receipts and 2 cash books giving names of shareholders. A sketch map of the Bonanza property on Cayoosh Creek, was transferred to Maps.

Letter of introduction signed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and testimonial letters from H.K. Bloomfield, T.W. Nicholls, E.B. Wyngard, C. FitzRoy and J. Singleton, 1859; diary, 1864-1865.

Cash book, 1913-1926. The hospital's name in the B.C. Gazette notice was given as the Ashcroft and District General Hospital, the name in the cash book is Lady Minto Hospital.

The Hat Creek Ranch was formed in 1910 by Charles Gottfried Doering when he purchased the McCosh, O'Hara and original Hat Creek Ranches and amalgamated them. The ranch, which was located in the Bonaparte Valley near Ashcroft, was a cattle and horse-breeding, as well as an agricultural centre. Hotel Hat Creek was also situated on the ranch and was operated by Doering.

In addition to his ranching interests, Doering was involved in the brewing industry and associated hotel trade. He was president of the British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., which was incorporated in 1911 following an amalgamation of three other breweries. Until prohibition in 1917, he was also involved in the operation of several Vancouver hotels.

Business records of the Hat Creek Ranch, including account books and land, water and livestock records, and of British Columbia Breweries and Hotel Hat Creek. The business records reflect the day-to-day business operations of Hat Creek Ranch and, to a lesser degree, Hat Creek Hotel, first under Doering and later under John Basil Jackson. There are also records related to land transactions, grazing leases, water rights applications and breeding. Also included is correspondence regarding Doering's brewery and non-local hotel interests which deals primarily with the windup of British Columbia Breweries, Ltd., and his divestiture of his hotels.

Papers relating to Hat Creek House which was acquired by Blair from F.H. Nelson in April 1900: journal, April 1900 - March 1901; inventory of furniture, Hat Creek House; invoices and receipts with the Hudson's Bay Company, September 1900 and April 1901; postcard from J.W. Culbert, December 1900 and letter from Government Agent, Ashcroft, 25 May 1901.

Selected records, 1888-1904: letterbook, 1896-1897; ledgers, 1888-1890, 1893-1896; journals, 1892, 1897-1898; daybooks, 1903-1904. These records constitute a sampling of the Harvey, Bailey and Co. records held at the Ashcroft Museum.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports and diverse material connected with Mr. Hartley's activities as M.L.A. (Yale-Lillooet) and Minister of Public Works.

William L. Hartley was born in 1916. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly and held the position of Minister of Public Works.

Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports and diverse material connected with Mr. Hartley's activities as MLA (Yale-Lillooet) and Minister of Public Works.

Diaries, 1913-1914 (entries to September 21, 1914 by John Gibson Kenworthy; September 22 to September 25, Sidney Ann Jane Kenworthy (Mrs. John Gibson Kenworthy); September 26 - September 30, Mary "C", kept while on the Empire Valley Ranch.

Copied from originals borrowed from Cariboo-Chilcotin Archives, Williams Lake, 1980.

Diary of his travels through the interior of British Columbia, and from Victoria to Oregon and California.

Presented by Jean E. Burchell, North Vancouver, 1946.

Cash book, 1893-1927; ledger, 1917-1927.

Correspondence inward to Victoria hardware merchant Edgar Marvin. The collection consists of letters, way bills, invoices, etc., from Marvin's customers throughout British Columbia and from his suppliers, mainly in the United States and Britain. The papers were removed from the attic of the old Edgar Marvin premises in 1946 when the building was being renovated. They constitute only a small portion of the records which were found there. They were completely disorganized when they were loaned to the archives and were simply arranged in chronological order for filming.

The records consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal documents, way bills, literary manuscripts (prose and poetry), published work, a scrapbook and papers of John Martley and Arthur Hugh John Martley; diary and notebook of Robert Adams Hopkins; letterbook of William George Cox Manson and photographs (HP79331 - HP79339).

Minute books, 1939-1972 (8 vol.); cash books, 1939-1967 (3 vol.).

Presented by Mrs. Wiley, 1983.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. D.W. Hodgson talks about his experiences in the Cariboo, coast, and southern Okanagan regions of BC, 1904 to 1946. He describes how he came to BC in 1904 and offers his impressions of Vancouver and Victoria at that time; various early jobs; encounters with Indians; automobiles in the Cariboo in 1910; looking for a railway pass in the Chilco area; impressions of Lillooet; stories abo;ut working with a survey crew for the BC Electric Railway; a discussion of early railway surveying; stories about survey crews; a discussion of work on the BC coast; examining inlets for hydro electric power possibilities in the early 1920s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hodgson continues with more stories about work on the coast in Rivers Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Knight Inlet, including details on the ;coastal landscape; looking for irrigation water for the south Okanagan before World War I; irrigation in the area; details of the soldier settlement scheme; irrigation; and orchard development in the Oliver/Osoyoos area after World War I.

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art H. Phair discusses his background; in that he was born in 1880, details of his father's work, his experience at private school in Victoria, the story of the Golden Cache Mine swindle of 1886-98. He describes the early history of Lillooet from 1856, the gold rush of 1858, Chinese miners around Lillooet in the 1880s, pre-war land boom and economic cycles in Lillooet.

TRACK 2: Phair discusses Indian life prior to European contact, strained White-Indian relations, bad relations between Indians, the Poole murder at Pemberton Meadows, murders and hangings, more on Lillooet Indians, Lillooet as a "melting pot" of many races, and the Chinese in Lillooet after 1884.

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Phair offers anecdotes about Indians and Chinese people, more about his own childhood experiences at school in Victoria, adventures and "close calls", hunting and prospecting, tobacco growing near Lillooet, the meaning of the word "Lillooet", early farmers between Lillooet and Pavilion, gold panning as a young boy, his family background, the red light district in Lillooet and the flourishing of Lillooet between 1858 and 1864.

TRACK 2: Phair comments more on the Chinese in the area, he describes how his store was a social center, how it was robbed, Indians in the store, and the start of big game hunting in Lillooet after 1884. Phair describes the Pemberton to Lillooet road, his family's relations with Indians, the John Bull murder, old settlements near Lillooet, crossing the Fraser River at Lillooet, how his mother was a musician, uncle was a poet, an incident about a priest who alleged to have beaten an Indian woman, and finally his father's background.

Series consists of correspondence and reports.

This series consists of records related to the administration, management and alienation of land in the New Westminster land district from 1882-1978. The records were primarily created by the provincial Government Agent and the Dominion Land Agent stationed in New Westminster. The majority of these records are homestead files created by the dominion government. These files contain information about homesteaders, their applications and the process of obtaining title to land.

Record types and subject matter include, but are not limited to: land alienation through pre-emption or purchase from the provincial government and homesteading or purchase from the federal government; a variety of leases of Crown land; other general subject files; and records regarding Indigenous Peoples or Indian Reserves.

Records related to land alienation include: applications for pre-emption, purchase or lease; land classification reports; forms completed by land inspectors of the Department of Lands Inspection Branch; declarations of occupation and permanent improvement on pre-emption claims; applications for homestead entry, cancellation, and abandonment; homestead Inspector’s reports; affidavits in support of an Application for Entry; land sales records; correspondence with settlers and other government officials; patents; Crown Grants; certificates; forms; maps and plans; financial records including receipts and cheques; court records, such as probates; survey records; notices of sale or cancellation; and sale agreements.

Records related to leases and other uses of Crown land include: grazing leases; foreshore leases; dredging leases; special use permits; timber permits; timber berths; water licenses; applications for dyking schemes; campsite leases; oyster bed leases; right-of-ways (ROWs) through land for railways, roads, powerlines or pipelines; petroleum and natural gas leases; quarry leases; bar leases; coal leases; mining leases; and mineral claims. Other uses include government reserves, the establishment of parks, and the reservation of land for school sites or other public uses.

Other more general subject files include: inquiries about land availability; preliminary plans and correspondence for the survey and sale of townsites; Soldier Settlement Board records including forms, correspondence and records of soldier land grants; correspondence files on specific topics such as canal construction, the reclamation of Hatzic Lake, the draining of Sumas Lake and the establishment of fish culture and fish hatcheries; and business records of the office, including inter-department correspondence, circulars, and memorandum related to matters of land administration.

Files also exist for specific Indian Reserves, and can include correspondence; water records; surveys; and inspection reports created in the process of allotting new, and canceling or amending existing Indian Reserves. Some files document instances of overlapping land use and conflict between settlers and Indigenous peoples on specific parcels of land.

Files are generally either correspondence files on a particular subject, or a variety of records related to a particular piece of land. Many files cover a wide time period and may be associated with multiple individuals or companies, as land rights were often transferred to others or cancelled and reapplied for.

Only the name of the first individual listed on the file is included in the file list. This means there may be additional names associated with files not included on the file list. The file list may also only include part of the legal description of land in cases where the description was exceptionally long, or included many different pieces of land. Single individuals may also have multiple files for each piece of land they are associated with.

The series also includes some files related to land in the Yale Division and Kamloops Division of the Yale Land District; as well as the Lillooet Land District. These records were created in the offices of the Kamloops and Clinton Government Agents, but at some point became intermingled with the New Westminster records.

Maps, plans and sketches indicating the parcels of land relevant to the file are commonly found throughout the records.