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Vancouver Island Treasury stamps

Photograph of illustrations of stamps requested by Alex Watson, Treasurer, in letter of 18 Mar 1863. The illustrations appear at the bottom of an attachment describing the stamps ("Stamps and Stamping Apparatus required under the Vancouver Island Stamp Act 1863"). "Act repealed" note added to letter.

Departure Bay

Item consists of a mount of two waterfront photographs adhered to card to create a panoramic view of Departure Bay, Nanaimo. Adhesive is unknown. The image includes a dock, buildings, and a small number of boats and ships. "Departure Bay" is written on the verso in pencil.
The sternwheeler on the left may be the S.S. Dakota. The ship on the right is the S.S. Abyssinia.

File disposition list

  • GR-1225
  • Series
  • 1982

The series consists of a photocopied file list of "O" series (O files) correspondence files, showing disposition of files. It was created by the Surveys and Land Records Branch in 1982 from a computer print-out.

It includes references indicating the following:(1) files still active with the Survey and Land Records Branch (2) files microfilmed (3) files in the Provincial Archives (4) files sent to a Regional Office of the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing (5) Ministry of Forests files, partially renumbered to Forests filing system (6) Water Management Branch administration files and water rights applications (7) Parks Branch files renumbered to Parks Branch filing system (8) old Coal and Natural Gas files.

British Columbia. Surveys and Land Records Branch

Elliot, A.C., 1863

Cartographic material removed and transferred to map collection:

F514/22 Clinton (Cut Off Valley) August 16th 1862 Robert Watson’s pre-emption [1862], map cat. no. CM/A1825 F514/22 Clinton (Cut Off Valley) Traced by J. Launders RE 15 June 1863, map cat. no. CM/B481

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