Applications to purchase Crown Lands
The series consists of 25 volumes of applications to purchase crown land created by the Lands Dept. between 1905 and 1970. The applications are arranged chronologically from application number 1681 to 46249 and include notices from the British Co...
British Columbia. Lands Service
Certificates of Improvement
The series consists of certificates of improvement [13 vols.] for diverse land recording districts created by the Lands Branch between 1869 and 1932. They generally include declarations by pre-emptors concerning the nature and valuation of improv...
British Columbia. Lands Branch
Commissioner's correspondence
Letters inward to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works. These letters were selected for transfer to the archives in 1937 and therefore do not appear on the microfilms of Lands letters inward that were made later.
Reel B16...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Correspondence files ("O" series) with regard to Crown lands
O series correspondence files relating to the administration, management, conservation and development of Crown Lands and natural resources.
These correspondence files were microfilmed between 1955 and 1986. Many of the microfilm reels contain am...
British Columbia. Lands Branch
Correspondence index
Alphabetical and numerical subject index to correspondence relating to the. administration of Crown lands and natural resources. It includes references to files created by various branches of the Dept. of Lands and Works (1872-1908), the Dept. of...
British Columbia. Surveys and Land Records Branch
Correspondence, memoranda and reports of the Chairman
Correspondence, memoranda and reports of the Chairman of the Land Settlement Board, William Turnbull, relating to his activities as chairman of the Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Agriculture and Land Settlement established by the Post-War...
British Columbia. Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee on Agriculture Land Settlement
Crown Lands records
Correspondence files relating to the administration, management, conservation and development of Crown lands and natural resources. Series 1: early chronological series (files created, 1877-1911). Series 2: 1912 series (files created, 1912-1917)....
British Columbia. Surveys and Land Records Branch
Crown land auctioneers agreements
Auctioneer agreements with private persons concerning the purchase of Crown lands at Atlin, Hastings, Hedley, Kootenay Valley, Lockhart Beach, McBride, New Westminster District, Point Grey, Quesnel and Tulameen. Each agreement is recorded on a f...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Crown land grant indexes
Indexes to and registers of colonial and provincial crown land grants. Excludes crown land grants (letters patent) issued by the federal government for the Railway Belt and Peace River Block lands, 1885-1930. See GR-0436 for more information about...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Crown land grants
This series consists of crown land grant files for BC crown land grants issued from December 1869 - when all such grants have been centrally registered, regardless of location or type - to 1930. They are arranged by volume and registration number...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Crown land grants
Crown land grant records recorded in registers covering particular districts or towns. Those registered after 1869 overlap with GR-3097. Registration forms include registration number, grantee name, location, acreage, lot number and amount paid....
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Crown land pre-emption records
The series consists of pre-emption records created by the Lands Branch and its predecessor bodies between 1859 and 1971. The Chief Commissioner of Lands was responsible for the administration of Crown lands under successive governments (Colony of ...
British Columbia. Lands Branch
Department of Lands correspondence outward
Letterpress copies of "semi-official" correspondence outward from the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, and, after the Dept. of Lands and Works was split in 1908, the Chief Commissioner of Lands. vols. 6-10. There may be volumes m...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Financial returns and accounts
Financial returns and accounts. Includes financial register of land transactions and land fees, values of property registered and office and miscellaneous expenditures.
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
George Henderson, Hudson Hope, B.C. Surveyor, Prospector.
Notebook of George Henderson, Slocan, BC, containing diary of trip from Vancouver to Hudson Hope, 1912; notes re land locations, mineral findings, vicinity Hudson Hope, Nation River, 1912, 1913.
Loaned for copying by Mrs. T. Cooper, Slocan, 1975.
Humbird, John A. St. Paul, Minnesota
Papers regarding Eagle Creek lands: 1) assessment notices, 188?; 2) abstract of devolution of title of Edmund Boyd Osler to lands in New Westminster district, 1889; 3) the report of Malcolm Dobie on Eagle Creek, Gordon Pasha Lake, 1889; 4) memo...
Humbird, John A.
Land records
Diverse cancelled or expired leases of crown land: oyster beds (including leases by the Government of Canada), hay meadow, summer resort, stone quarry, mill, coal mining, grazing, agriculture, cattle ranching, pastoral; final agreements for sale a...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests. Lands Service
Land surveys relating to the Railway Belt and Peace River Block
Correspondence files relating to surveys in British Columbia (68 boxes); files relating to surveys of quarter sections in the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block (27 boxes); Dominion Land Surveyors' diaries (146 volumes).
Canada. Department of the Interior
Lands Department executive records
Letterpress copies of letters outward from the Deputy Minister of Lands, Deputy Commissioner of Lands, Surveyor-General, Deputy Commissioner of Lands and Water, and Chief Commissioner of Lands & Works (314 volumes); Registers (22 vols.). Volum...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands. Deputy Minister
Lands correspondence
Selected correspondence files from the several branches of the department: Lands, Surveys, Water Rights, and Forests. The unit includes requests for information concerning the availability of land in British Columbia, Water Rights Branch correspon...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
Louis LeBourdais papers
Personal papers; subject files consisting of newspaper clippings, notes of interviews, drafts of articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to LeBourdais' interest in the history of the Cariboo district. Louis LeBourdais was born in ...
LeBourdais, Louis, 1888-1947
Mining Records Register Book
Mining Records Register Book. This volume is a register of various land grants, mineral claims, mining records, and water rights. Included are a record book of all claims and water privileges recorded in the Leech and Sooke River districts comme...
British Columbia. Gold Commissioner
Photograph album
- GR-3580
- Series
- 1919- [ca. 1922]
The series consists of a photograph album created between 1919 and ca. 1922 by the Land Settlement Board. The album contains 166 black and white photographs which depict various agricultural development areas and drainage and dyking projects.
Th...
British Columbia. Land Settlement Board
Pre-emption records
Pre-emption records for west coast land relating largely to Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. The records consist of pre-emption registrations, certificates of pre-emption, pre-emption sketches, certificates that certain lands are unoccupied ...
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works