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1896-1900 (Creation)
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92 cm of textual records
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The Nestegg Mining Company was incorporated by Patrick Aloysius O'Farrell, Archibald Blair Erskine and George Alan Kirk on Jan. 31, 1896, to purchase and work the Nestegg Mineral Claim in the Trail Creek Mining Division of the West Kootenay District. In June P.A. O'Farrell bought a half interest in the adjacent Firefly Mineral Claim on behalf of the company. On Dec. 2, 1896, the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company was incorporated by P.A. O'Farrell, Charles Hayward, Arthur John Weaver and C.A. Holland to purchase and work the Nestegg and Firefly Mineral Claims. Early the next year the former company resolved to call in all its shares and sell about a quarter of them to pay off its debts. The remaining shares were to be exchanged for an equal number of shares of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company to be distributed to shareholders in proportion to the stock of the older company they had surrendered. The mining operations were never profitable, and the company found itself in legal and financial troubles almost from the beginning. After becoming inactive in about 1899, the company made one last attempt to work the Nestegg claim in 1907 when they shipped a few tons of ore, but this too proved unprofitable.
The series consists of the business records of the Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company. The records date between 1896-1900 and are comprised of correspondence (inward and outward), minutes, financial records, share and debenture certificates, bills, and legal documents.
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Accession number: 93-5638
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When the records were transferred from City of Victoria Archives (CVA) to BC Archives, the BC Archives maintained CVA’s hierarchical arrangement but mapped this on to BC Archives reference codes. The CVA description included 9 series level descriptions, that, when mapped onto BC Archives’ system, became sub-series. Therefore, the BC Archives’ description of these records consisted of 9 sub-series descriptions built off of the series reference code, MS-2884:
MS-2884.1: Correspondence outward (CVA series 001)
MS-2884.2: Correspondence inward [file codes: AAAC4112; AAAC4331; AAAC4496; AAAC4667] (CVA series 002)
MS-2884.3: Miscellaneous records [file codes: AAAC4113; AAAC4332; AAAC4497; AAAC4648; AAAC4803; AAAC4921; AAAC5072; AAAC5167] (CVA series 003)
MS-2884.4: Share and debenture certificates [AAAC4114; AAAC4289] (CVA series 004)
MS-2884.5: Stock journal [AAAC4115; AAAC4333] (CVA series 005)
MS-2884.6: Stock ledger [AAAC426; AAAC4116] (CVA series 006)
MS-2884.7: Minute book of the Nestegg Mining Company Limited Liabilty (CVA series 007)
MS-2884.8: Ledger (CVA series 008)
*MS-2884.9: Journal (CVA 009)
In 2018, the records were redescribed by BC Archives staff. All sub-series descriptions were removed and replaced with a file list.
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- Nestegg and Firefly Gold Mining Company (Subject)