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Pacific Great Eastern Railway correspondence
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1919-1951 (Creation)
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- British Columbia. Railway Dept.
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80 cm of textual records
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The Railway Department was established in 1911 with the enactment of the Railway Department Act (SBC 1911, c. 45). The mandate of the Railway Dept. was to regulate all railways falling under the jurisdiction of British Columbia Railway Act (SBC 1911, c. 44). This included the regulation and inspection of industrial railways (logging and mining) and electric street-car and interurban systems, as well as improvements to terminals and to combined railway and highway bridges. Railways which operated under federal charter came under federal regulation.
In 1959, the Railway Department Act was repealed and the functions of the Railway Dept. were transferred to the newly created Dept. of Commercial Transport (SBC 1959, c.12).
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Scope and content
This series consists of incomplete general Railway Department correspondence files, incoming and outgoing of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, 1919-1951. Files include topics on Vancouver-Squamish bridges, Car barge and transfer ferry, Directors records, personal freight accounts, Orders-in-council, Location surveys for the Quesnel-Cottonwood revision, Right of ways, Proposed changes of route, Completion of line at Cottonwood-Prince George, tariffs, water licenses and Squamish dock & harbor improvement.
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Transferred from Victoria office, Ministry of Transportation and Highways, 1980.
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These records are restricted. Please contact the BC Archives for information about access.
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For additional PGER correspondence files see MS-0106, which may be attributed to the Railway Dept.; however, provenance of the unit was unknown when the body of papers was arranged and catalogued in 1974.
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Accession number(s): GR-0876
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This series was previously described by the BC Archives under the title "correspondence"
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Location note: These records are stored onsite at the BC Archives. If they have no access restrictions or our Privacy Office has given you permission to view them, please request them from the retrievals desk in the Archives reference room.
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- British Columbia. Railway Dept. (Subject)
- Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company (Subject)