Minutes of decision of Joint Indian Reserve Commission
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
Joint Reserve Commission
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--British Columbia
Surveying--British Columbia
Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Government relations
First Nations reserves--British Columbia
Governmental investigations--British Columbia
Governmental investigations--Canada
Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884
Joint Reserve Commission
McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891
O'Reilly, Peter John, 1827-1905
Sproat, Gilbert Malcolm, 1834-1913
Vowell, Arthur, 1841-1918
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works. Chief Commissioner
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands
The series consists of minutes of decision of the Joint Indian Reserve Commission (1876-1878) of governments of Canada and British Columbia and of the Indian Reserve Commission (1878-1907) of the government of Canada regarding allotment of Indian reserves in British Columbia.
Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports and coloured maps of the reserve allotments. Although these records are called Joint Reserve Commission records, they probably form part of the British Columbia Department of Lands and Works fonds. Most of the records are stamped with the Lands and Works Dept. stamp and also have Lands and Works file numbers assigned to each, after they were received from the Commission. Some files then had additional related records added to by Department staff, as reserves were surveyed or related issues came up. Additional records were added to several files by Department of Lands staff up to 1949.
In addition, the series includes an item level precis of each document, created by the Dept. of Lands in 1980. The precis are filed in the first file of each box.
1876-1949; predominant 1876-1907
78 cm of textual records and 3 reels of microfilm [B16974-B16976]
https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca//minutes-of-decision-of-joint-indian-reserve-commission
GR-2982
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