Bench books of the Revelstoke District Police Court and the Revelstoke Police Court in the hand of W. Maxwell (Stipendiary Magistrate) [with entries by J. Lee (Stipendiary Magistrate) in July 1929 and July 1930 and in 1947 there is a Juvenile Court note in an unknown hand]. There are also entries from Magistrate's Court (Malakwa), 1927; Police Court at Malakwa, 1927, Police Court at Sicamous, 1928, Police Court at Arrowhead, 1928 and 1931 and Juvenile Court, 1934, 1938-1941, and 1947.

CALL NUMBER: T0435:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Blanche Jordan-Williams came to Sicamous, B.C., from Michigan in 1891 to stay with her uncle, Soames Appleby. She married Mr. Frederick W. Jordan, a storeowner, and they moved to Nakusp in 1892. She recalls early Nakusp as a railway construction camp that was busy, rough and noisy. She mentions some townspeople: Jake Sirsun, Mr. Fauquier, Dr. Williamson and Mr. Mara, M.P., a business associate of her husband.

TRACK 2: Continues with early Nakusp, new buildings, development following the departure of the construction camp, the wharf, railway station, hotels, Frank Bourne, the women of the town; Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Madden, Mrs. Muirhead and Mrs. MacDougall. She mentions her husband's business and his knowledge of Chinook. Nakusp's shipping industry, including ship captains, shipyards, sawmills, and mining industries are discussed. She and her husband journey back to Sicamous for the birth of her first child, and the family remained in Nakusp until 1911, when Blanche took charge of the family ranch in Fire Valley near Edgewood. She mentions the Government Survey party and her brother-in-law, George Jordan's first sight of Fire Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T0435:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: This tape continues with recollections of Fire Valley (Inonoaklin Valley) and the pre-emption of 160 acres -- later 320 acres. Two Jordan brothers worked the family ranch and later they employed Dutch settlers, until Blanche took charge in 1911. She discusses Edgewood, the town site, stores, industry, the hotel she owned and operated, W.J. Banting, and Mrs. Williams.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Kappel describes how he came from Wales with a friend, Loland Salt, after seven years in Germany, because English was the language of Canada, and because the family of the woman he; was engaged to had land out by Shuswap Lake. He describes his first impressions upon coming into the area; remittance men; the process of building a house; selling wood; settling at Notch Hill; hostility aimed at the British; the first settlers at Chase; the first sawmill in the area, and the family who started it; the development of more sawmills; his property at Celista and the first settlers there; the timber industry at that time; having to clear land in order to get a patent to farm it in Magna Bay; his time in WWI; his job as a fire warden; other jobs he has worked at; how much he loved; his outdoor work; his work decoding German messages during the war; and his impressions of Indigenous peoples. TRACK 2: Mr. Kappel continues by discussing sawmill activity in the area; how in 1926 the company; he worked with built a sawmill in Canoe, then later sold it; a man who was rumoured to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce; an anecdote about a murder; the discovery of gold at the big bend of; the Columbia at Seymour Arm [?]; details about Sicamous; Notch Hill; growing apples at Salmon Arm; families in the area; game in the Shuswap area; how his wife liked the country; various odd characters; salmon runs before the slide at Hell's Gate; stories about various old timers and characters.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Guy Collings discusses his father, artist Charles John Collings, who came to Canada from England in 1910 to paint; their background in England; more on the life of his father; advertising in England to come to Canada; details on his father's paintings and painting supplies; what Sicamous was like when he arrived; details on the Seymour Arm; going back to England in 1920 with the intention of staying until his brother contracted rheumatic fever and they had to come back; the fruit season and canning small fruits; and people who lived in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Collings continues ;by discussing the quietness of life in the area; how their parents liked living in the area; land cleared in the area; irrigation and planting fruit trees.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1955?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. J.R. Dennison gives some of his impressions of Vernon and area, 1893 to 1900. He describes the land between Sicamous and Vernon; impressions of Vernon in 1893; comments on the other Okanagan communities at that time; Coldstream Ranch and other ranches in the area; a story about a hungry Indigenous person; schools in the area; childhood then as compared to 1955; people in the area; remittance men; other people in the area such as "Old Bono" and Joe Harwood. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains maps of the Railway Belt of BC in 1907 prepared by James White, F.R.G.S., Geographer, under the direction of R.E. Young, D.L.S., Superintendent of Railway and Swamp Lands for the Dominion Department of the Interior. Each map depicts trails; trails surveyed; post offices; railway stations; range numbers; township numbers; homesteads patented and homesteads entered for and unpatented; sales, special grants, mining land sales; lands disposed of by provincial government; forest reserves and parks; timber berths; and (First Nation) reserves. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

The special edition maps "showing lands disposed of" include: Port Moody and Yale sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Kamloops and Lytton sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Sicamous sheet (west of sixth meridian), and Donald sheet (west of fifth meridian).

Item consists of one bound album measuring 43 x 57 cm. It contains seven maps of the Railway Belt of BC photo-lithographed at the Surveyor General's Office in Ottawa after September 28, 1904. Maps depict trails, trails surveyed, post offices, railway stations, range numbers, and township numbers. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

Maps include: Donald sheet, west of fifth meridian (90, revised to March 13, 1902); Sicamous sheet, west of sixth meridian (91, revised to Jun 4, 1903); Seymour sheet, west of sixth meridian (92, revised to July 5, 1904); Yale sheet, west of sixth meridian (93, revised to September 25, 1902); Lytton sheet, west of sixth meridian (94, revised to June 24, 1903); Kamloops sheet, west of sixth meridian (95, revised to September 28, 1904); and Port Moody sheet, west of seventh meridian (96, revised to August 2, 1902).