Constitution and by-laws, minutes of annual meetings, 1890-1893, subscription list, 1890-1894, short list of books borrowed; information on rental of hall, 1901-1905, giving date, purpose and charge.

Series consists of minutes, membership rolls, correspondence, committee files, subject files and clippings. It also includes one oversized certificate of merit presented by the Society of Typographic Designers of Canada for the "Typography 61" exhibition.

Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 197810-006. Photographs include: one photograph of the delegates at the 14th Annual BCLA Conference, 1927, in Vancouver; thirteen photographs of the 55th Annual BCLA Conference, 1963, in Burnaby; and an album containing fifty-six prints of the 1963 and 1965 BCLA Conferences in New Westminster and Kelowna and the 1964 Western Library Conference in Calgary, Alberta.

This series include records of the Library Services Branch and its predecessors, the British Columbia Library Development Commission and the Public Library Commission (PLC). Includes PLC minute books (1919-1960) and correspondence and reports regarding local and regional libraries (1934-1977). Also includes statistical summaries, miscellaneous reports, and manuscript history of the Capilano Public Library Association by Eleanor Godley. 16 mm film of Fraser Valley bookmobile (ca. 1920's) transferred to PABC's Sound & Moving Image Division [Acc.# F1984:5/1]. This series may be used in conjunction with GR-1387 [British Columbia. Library Services Branch, 1919-1979].

This series consists of executive records of the Provincial Secretary, covering a wide variety of topics. The Provincial Secretary's department was responsible for a broad range of legislation and activities - including the civil service, provincial elections and (until 1946) health and welfare services. These records comprise part of the former Provincial Secretary's Central Registry. This registry consisted of general correspondence, policy directives, branch reports, inter-departmental memoranda, circulars, grant applications, and a host of miscellaneous documents.

The finding aid consists of two parts. Part I is a box/file list showing the original order and arrangement of the records. The records fall into six categories or subseries:

A. General correspondence: correspondence inward (with replies), reports, circulars, etc.
B. Appointments: correspondence, commissions, oaths of allegiance of coroners, magistrates, and other appointed officials.
C. Resident Physicians: correspondence re: grants paid to physicians in isolated communities
D. Grants: correspondence and reports pertaining to grants paid to various community groups and charitable organizations, service clubs, etc.
E. Workmen's Compensation Board: circulars, etc.
F. Contemporary card indexes: alphabetical subject index cards. Part II: Subject Index

Part II of this finding aid consists of a subject index compiled by the Provincial Archives of BC. The index indicates the main topics or subject areas - e.g. Provincial Infirmary, Elections, Industrial Schools, etc. which are documented in GR-0496. The index does not claim to be comprehensive or exhaustive, but it should help researchers to locate documents which concern particular institutions or activities.

This series consists of the personal files of the Deputy Provincial Secretary, Paschal de Noe Walker, 1930-1946. Records deal with health and welfare facilities (hospitals, industrial schools, etc.), social services, elections, libraries, museums and a variety of other programmes and services administered by the Provincial Secretary's department.

The item is a video copy of a promotional film about library service in the Fraser Valley, funded by the Carnegie Corporation. Follows a bookmobile from community to community, and depicts various aspects of the library service. Shots of places visited, rural landscape, and the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry.

The item is a promotional film about library service in the Fraser Valley, funded by the Carnegie Corporation. Follows a bookmobile from community to community, and depicts various aspects of the library service. Shots of places visited, rural landscape, and the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry.

Notes, speeches, and correspondence of Muriel (nee Page) Ffoulkes. Correspondence with Dr. Helen Gordon Stewart and John Ridington re: Mrs. Foulkes appointment as Regional Librarian, Okanagan Union Library, 1936; speeches and addresses on library services in the Okanagan; account of motor car trip from Kelowna to Qualicum Beach, ca. 1952. Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198608-2.

Presented by Peter Lofts, Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna, 1986.

Constitution; constitution committee files, 1945-1964; minute book, 1968-1972.

The item is a copy of a documentary film. Shows a library van on its three-week on a 750-mile circuit of the Fraser Valley. Twenty-one communities pooled their resources to solve the problem of bringing books to people in scattered farming areas.

SUMMARY: Report by Bill Herbert with comments by Margaret Hincks, Extension Librarian of British Columbia Public Library Commission.;