Letter from F.M. Chaldecott attaching original draft of a resolution respecting the Lieutenant Governor's calling Joseph Martin to form a ministry as telegraphed to Prime Minister Laurier, June 18, 1900; notebook of congratulations on 1907 election; notebook (indexed) of facts and figures about British Columbia [1915].

Notebook of financial statistics and other information on government programmes; receipt received as delegate to 1927 Convention of the British Columbia Liberal Association.

SUMMARY: Audio clips for a report on a meeting re: the proposed reconstruction of Carnegie Library as an East Side library and recreation centre.;

Minute books of the Executive Council of the Province of British Columbia (3 volumes): January 3, 1908 - December 30, 1909; January 3, 1912 - December 31, 1913; January 31 1914 - November 22, 1916.

The item consists of six film reels made from 1966 to 1973:

1. Answer print, aerial shots of Roberts Bank coal port; speakers' platform with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Premier W.A.C. Bennett; tour of facility by guests; shots of coal mining (Kaiser equipment).
2. Two duplicate prints, The item consists of film footage from 1973. It shows the freighter called "Snow Ball" unloading Japanese oranges in Vancouver.
3. Print, shots inside and outside Alcan's turbo-powered boat "Nechako"; its christening ceremony; departure with guests from Vancouver harbour.
4. Bennett bonds, people assembling in a large room; head table sits; Premier W.A.C. Bennett addresses the gathering; Bennett being interviewed about these bonds.
5. Bennett Mackenzie townsite, Premier W.A.C. Bennett campaigning in Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Prince George, and the "instant town" of Mackenzie, August 1966. One item shows him arriving in Prince George, boarding a train, aboard the train, and touring the Mackenzie mill and town.
6. Osaka trees, falling and hauling logs for the BC Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Nan Eleanor Drysdale : a Conservative woman -- Executive Secretary, B.C. Conservative Association RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-08 SUMMARY: Nan Eleanor Drysdale discusses her home and family; work; marriage; community work; the Conservative Party; from volunteer to executive secretary; and her views on some modern questions.;

The series consists of records created by or relating to Nelson Seymour Lougheed. Included in this series are a scrapbook of news clippings (MS-2594.1), a certificate appointing Lougheed to Minister of Lands in October 1930, and two photographs. One photograph is a portrait signed by Lougheed and dated 1924. The second photograph is a group photograph in front of the Legislature buildings, and is assumed to be of Lougheed as Minister with his staff.

Nelson Seymour Lougheed (April 16, 1882 – June 6, 1944) was a Conservative politician in British Columbia and served as an MLA from 1928-1933.

SUMMARY: Unidentified mail voice; George Puil; Bill Rathie; unidentified male voice [which might be Jack Volrich].;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-29 SUMMARY: Pat Foley discusses the take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

Private and official correspondence, speeches, accounts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports, memoranda and miscellaneous items. The papers consist of 84 document boxes [volumes 1-84] of private and official correspondence, inward and outward, speeches, accounts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports, memoranda and miscellaneous items. Among the papers is correspondence inward and outward of John Oliver and John Duncan MacLean relating to Liberal party affairs. The Pattullo papers divide into two series. Series I [vol. 1-61] contain papers related to private and public activities of Pattullo from 1892-1956, but contains only five volumes [54-58] of papers related to the years 1933-1941 when Pattullo was Premier of British Columbia. Pattullo's filing system, based on subject categories, has been maintained. Papers within each file are arranged in chronological order. A few files contain papers for more than one year. For instance, a file relating to one insurance policy might cover the years 1929-1933. All such files have been placed in the volume for the earliest year. A list of the dates, form and subject of each file is given in the finding aid below. Series II [vol. 62-84] contains papers related to Pattullo's tenure as Premier. Material within files is in chronological order. Most of letter analysis is given unless the entire file relates to one subject. In Series II it is not possible, as it is with Series I, conveniently to begin and progress through the papers year by year because the whole body of papers 1933-1941 is filed exclusively on a subject basis, hence more: than one year's correspondence may be in any one file. The filing system is that devised by the Premier's Office. Files are: classified as C" - Confidential [vols. 62-65], "D" - departmental [vols. 66-67], "F" - federal [vols. 68-71] and "G" - general [vols. 72-73]. Volumes 74-76 contain alphabetical files. Volumes 77-84 contain newspaper clippings related to the years 1933-1941. Most of the pamphlets from the Pattullo papers have been removed and catalogued in the British Columbia Archives Library. Many of the remaining pamphlets are duplicates. Restriction: Researchers are requested to use the microfilm for conservation reasons. [reels A-01796-A01811, A01959-A01963]. Files containing oversize material were filmed at a later date and are on reels A01959-A01963. The text of a radio speech delivered on 19 Feb 1941 in Prince Rupert was presented by UBC Library in 2008 (box 65, file 14).

Correspondence and reports related to Social Credit political organization in British Columbia and Canada; personal notebooks, speeches and campaign materials; pamphlets transferred to BC Archives Library.

The series contains personal correspondence; letters to editors; essays, articles and lectures; poems and songs, most of which reflect Harris' socialist viewpoint.

For ease of retrieval, since some essays duplicate letters to editors, only those items which are specifically addressed to an editor are considered letters to editors; these are filed in chronological order. Those items not specifically addressed to an editor are considered essays and are arranged alphabetically by title.

SUMMARY: Sam Cromie, running for Vancouver City Council.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-10-20 SUMMARY: An orial history interview with P.R. Matthew, managing director of the Mining Association of B.C. [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available.]

SUMMARY: In a radio speech broadcast 17-Jun-1935, Premier T.D. Pattullo talks about British Columbia in Canada, and the necessity of amending the British North America Act of 1867.

Press releases on various subjects issued by the Premier's Office, December 1972 - December 1975.

This series contains official reports and correspondence accumulated during the administrations of Premiers Tolmie, Pattullo, Hart, and Johnson. It includes Departmental, General, and Federal files, plus separate series of documents on Pacific Great Eastern Railway (1917-1945). It also includes applications for employment, petitions, press releases, speeches, and vouchers.

The records which comprise this unit were stored for many years in a maintenance shop adjacent to the Parliament Buildings. Storage conditions were less than ideal and in 1982 arrangements were made with the Premier's Office' to transfer the records to the Provincial Archives. It was a signal event, for the records provide documentation on virtually all facets of provincial life over a thirty-five year period. Additionally, the documents which make up GR-1222 provide a valuable record of the administrations of Premiers Tolmie (1928-1933), Pattullo (1933-1941), Hart (1941-1947) and Johnson (1947-1952). The records fall into three main categories or series, namely Departmental files, Federal files, and General files.

The records in this unit consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda and indexes created and accumulated during the administrations of Premiers Smithe, Turner, Semlin, Martin, Dunsmuir, Prior, McBride, Bowser, Brewster, Oliver, MacLean and Tolmie (1893-1933). They also include a series of diaries of Premier Oliver, 1917-1927, scrapbooks, 1905-1941, and official addresses, programs and special items, 1951-1971.

Note that the records are not complete. There are, most notably, no records for A.E.B Davie, Theodore Davie or John Robson (1887-1895), but there are also records lacking for other administrations.

The records are broken down into fifteen series on the basis of the type and/or filing system of the documents. A change in government did not always result in a break in a series of records, with the result that several series span more than one administration.

The fifteen series are listed below. See each series description for more information about content.
SERIES I: Indexes and registers to correspondence inward 1895-1933
SERIES II: Official correspondence 1883-1915
SERIES III: Semi-official correspondence, 1907-1910
SERIES IV: Private correspondence, 1903-1915
SERIES V: Subject files, 1902-1915
SERIES VI: Correspondence 1915-1929
SERIES VII: Official correspondence, 1930-1933
SERIES VIII: Memoranda, 1917-1925
SERIES IX: Letterbooks (official), 1883-1916
SERIES X: Letterbooks (semi-official), 1907-1911
SERIES XI: Letterbooks (private), 1885-1904
SERIES XII: Letterbooks (personal), 1903
SERIES XIII: Diaries, 1917 - 1927
SERIES XIV: Clippings books, 1905-1941
SERIES XV: Official addresses, programs and special items

This series contains press releases and official statements from the Office of the Premier, 1946-1955. The records include a pamphlet on Emergency Flood Legislation.

This series consists of correspondence and reports concerning laws, statutes, titles, and emblems. Records include files regarding the Provincial Elections Act, Engineering Profession Act, Daylight Saving Act, Public Documents Disposal Act, and Historic Objects Preservation Act. Records also concern the authorized use of the name "British Columbia", provincial coat-of-arms, and royal styles and titles. Additional files concern Court mourning observances and Princess Margaret's Portland Island. These records were originally part of a larger series, transferred separately to the PABC and catalogued as GR-1661.

The series consists of general office files created by the Dept. of the Provincial Secretary between 1951 and 1962 with their card indexes.

This series consists of 104 volumes of letter book copies of correspondence outward from the Provincial Secretary, 1873-1918. The index to correspondence missing.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-07-24 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with R.B. Hutchison of the B.C. Bar Association. [No content summary available.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reginald Walter Bullock : memories of an organizer (C.C.F. / N.D.P.) RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-27 SUMMARY: Reginald Walter Bullock was born in 1905. Free expression interview on the Left in B.C. Interrruptions by Ruth Bullock.;

This series consists of miscellaneous regulations and circulars emanating principally from the Provincial Secretary's office, 1873-1904, 1908.

The file consists of a notebook (covers removed) by Elsie Turnbull titled "Reminiscences written by Elsie G. Turnbull regarding hospital insurance act." The notebook details the work of her husband Alexander Douglas Turnbull, who was the Minister of Health and Welfare from 1950 to 1952.

SUMMARY: Gary Marcuse reports on the hearings of Judge Eckhardt's governmental review commission looking at the idea of a wards system for Vancouver.;