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GR-3139
BRITISH COLUMBIA. DEPT. OF LANDS AND WORKS.
Originals, 1851-1878, 2.46 m. (7 boxes); microfilm (neg.),
1851-1878, 16 mm (2 reels) [B14435-B14436] and 35 mm (1
reel) [B14437]
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. Attachments include sketches of
land, applications for Crown grants, receipts, certificates
of purchase and title, conveyances recording sale of granted
land to other persons, state of title forms, court documents
and related correspondence. Also includes an indexed volume
of Hudson's Bay Company deeds to lands on southern Vancouver
Island granted between 1851 and 1858.
Records from 1860-1878 have been indexed in the Crown Grants
database
(http://srmapps.gov.bc.ca/apps/rd/crowngrantsearchrequest.do
). Unlike the records in GR-3097, no volume or grant number
is provided, only a reel number.
Microfilmed by Genealogical Society of Utah in 2000 and the
BC Archives in 2004, from Crown Land Registry Services
originals.
Finding aid. Item/reel list.
Subject headings
Crown lands - Grants - British Columbia
Land settlement - British Columbia
Secondary entries
Hudson's Bay Company
Detailed Finding Aid
GR-3139
British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works.
Crown land grants
Originals 1851-1878 2.46 m (7 boxes)
Microfilm (neg.) 1851-1878 16 mm 2 reels [B14435-
B14436]
Microfilm (neg.) 1851-1878 35 mm 1 reel [B14437]
The series consists of Crown land grant records. Crown land
grants are issued when land owned by the government is conveyed
to private persons and organizations under the authority of the
senior official responsible for Crown lands. Records from 1860-
1878 have been indexed in the Crown Grants database
(http://srmapps.gov.bc.ca/apps/rd/crowngrantsearchrequest.do).
Unlike the records in GR-3097, no volume or grant number is
provided, only a reel number.
The Crown land grants in this series have been recorded in
registers covering particular districts or towns. Those
registered after 1869 overlap with a centrally registered series
of Crown land grants (1869-1930; see accession GR-3097).
Each Crown land grant in this series is documented with a land
grant registration form and, in many cases, related records.
Most of the forms originally consisted of "a" and "b" parts; the
latter was given to the grantee, and the former (a long, narrow
"counterfoil") was kept by the government. These counterfoil
records describe the sale or transfer of specific parcels of
Crown land; some also describe the terms and conditions governing
these transactions. (Some counterfoils contain very little
information.) Registration forms generally document the
following: registration number; grantee name; location, acreage,
and lot number of the land; and the amount paid. Registration
dates are in most cases distinguished on the forms from the dates
land was initially acquired; this reflects the fact that purchase
of land was generally not finalized for months or years
afterwards, when all required improvements had been made. In
rare cases, no registration or acquisition date is recorded.
Attachments (usually glued to the relevant counterfoil) include
sketches of land, applications for Crown grants, receipts,
certificates of purchase and title, conveyances recording sale of
granted land to other persons, state of title forms, court
documents, and related correspondence and other documentation.
The records are arranged in seven subseries, as described below.
Unless otherwise noted, within each subseries the grants are
arranged first by district or town, and then by registration
number and date.
Subseries 1 consists of Crown land grant records for lands in New
Westminster District, including Douglas town, New Westminster
City, and Hastings. They take the form of land conveyances
initiated between 1859 and 1870, and granted between 1861 and
1870. This subseries is an 1884 certified transcript "from the
books of the Land Registry Office of Victoria".
Subseries 2 consists of Crown land grant records for suburban and
country lots in the districts of Hope, Lytton, New Westminster,
and Yale; and for town and suburban lots in the communities of
Boston Bar, Cariboo, City of New Westminster, Douglas, Fort Hope,
Hope, Langley, Lillooet, Lytton, Seymour, and Yale. The lands
were acquired between approximately 1859 and 1869, and granted
between 1859 and 1878.
Subseries 3 consists of Crown land grants relating to the 1869
Mineral Ordinance, in Nelson, Lytton, and Yale Districts, 1869-
1878.
Subseries 4 consists of an indexed volume of Hudson's Bay Company
deeds to lands on Southern Vancouver Island, in Victoria,
Esquimalt, Metchosin, Sooke, and Lake land districts. The lands
were granted between 1851 and 1858. A modern, typed numerical
index exists for these records.
Subseries 5 consists of three indexed volumes of Colony of
Vancouver Island land grants in one continuous registration
number series. The lands were all in the districts of Victoria
and Esquimalt, and were granted between 1857 and 1859.
Subseries 6 consists of Colony of Vancouver Island certificates
of title to lands in Leech River town, Maple Bay townsite, and
Newcastle town (Nanaimo district). The lands were granted
between 1860 and 1866.
Subseries 7 consists of a Colony of British Columbia return of
pre-emption claims in the District of Alexandria for the quarter
ending 21 June 1861. This document was originally inserted in
the bound volume containing subseries 6, but does not relate to
the records in that volume.
The series is covered by the BC Lands ORCS (schedule 101687)
under classification 10240-20 "Crown grant registers". All
extant records in the series previously held by Crown Land
Registry Services have been transferred to the BC Archives.
Series title has been taken from the records classification
system. Also known as Crown grant registers.
Microfilmed in 2000 by the Genealogical Society of Utah and in
2004 by BC Archives. Subseries 4 (the Hudson's Bay Company
deeds) was filmed on 35 mm film due to its large size, and the
portions of subseries 2 and 3 filmed in 2004 were added to that
reel. All other documents were filmed in sequence on 16 mm film.
(The items microfilmed in 2004 are identified as B14437(2),
B14437(3), and B14437(4), and as original volumes 20, 21, and
22.)
Records were removed from bound volumes when microfilmed, except
records in subseries 4, which remain in their original bound
volume. Some of the volumes were original to the records, while
other records in varying formats had been bound together at some
point after they were created. In many cases, the bound volumes
contained numerous blank forms. For the original bound
arrangement of the records, see Original Bound Volumes List
below.
Some of the microfilmed attachments (mainly receipts) have some
wording obscured due to the fact they could not safely be
separated from the counterfoils they are glued to. However, most
of the information in this wording is also provided on the
counterfoil, and if necessary original documents may be referred
to for obscured information.
Conservation restriction: use microfilm copy unless it is
necessary to see coloured sketch tracings or obscured information
on originals.
Successor and related series include:
GR-3097 Crown land grants (1869-1930)
GR-3096 Crown land grant indexes (1869-1930)
GR-3140 Crown land auctioneers' agreements (1899-1914)
GR-1069, Herald Street Collection, miscellaneous crown land
grants records (ca. 1858-1910)
In the following file list the file number indicates the
placement of the original volume in the relevant box. The item
number refers to the number assigned to each volume on the
microfilm reel. Note that the volumes are not necessarily
arranged in the same order on the microfilm as they are in the
boxes.
Reel No. Item Title Gran Box File Sub-
No. t No. seri
Date es
s
B14435 1 Crown land grant 1861- 1 1 1
records for lands in 1866
Douglas and New
Westminster District.
Conveyances prior to
Act 1861 (acquired 1859-
1861), volume 1
(certified transcript
dated 30 August 1884)
B14435 2 Crown land grant 1862- 1 2 1
records for lands in 1868
Douglas and New
Westminster District.
Conveyances prior to
Act 1861 (acquired 1859-
1861), volume 2
(certified transcript
dated 30 August 1884)
B14435 3 Crown land grant 1864- 1 3 1
records for grants in 1870
New Westminster City,
Hastings town, and
Douglas town.
Conveyances (acquired
1863-1870), volume 3
(certified transcript
dated 30 August 1884)
B14435 4 Crown land grant 1864- 1 4 1
records for land in New 1869
Westminster District.
Conveyances (acquired
1862-1868), volume 4
(certified transcript
dated 30 August 1884)
B14435 5 Crown land grant 1864- 1 5 1
records for land in New 1870
Westminster District.
Conveyances (acquired
1864-1870), volume 5
(certified transcript
dated 30 August 1884)
B14435 6 Crown land grants. 1860- 2 1 2
Hope town lots 1863
B14435 7 Crown land grants. 1861- 2 2 2
District of Hope 1863
suburban lands
B14435 8 Crown land grants. 1861- 2 3 2
District of Hope 1861
rural/country lands
B14435 9 Crown land grants. 1862- 2 4 2
Lillooet town lots 1863
(acquired 1861)
B14435 10 Crown land grants. 1863- 2 5 2
Lillooet suburban lands 1863
(acquired 1861-1862)
B14435 11 Crown land grants. 1868- 2 6 2
Lillooet 1868
suburban/country lands
B14435 12 Crown land grants. 1862- 2 7 2
Lytton town lots 1867
(acquired 1860-1862)
B14435 13 Crown land grants. 1861- 2 8 2
District of Lytton 1867
country lands
B14435 14 Crown land grants. 1866- 2 9 2
Seymour town lots 1866
(grants to the Governor
and Company of
Adventurers)
B14435 15 Crown land grants. 1860- 2 10 2
District of Similkameen 1867
country lands
B14435 16 Crown land grants. 1862- 2 11 2
Yale and Boston Bar 1867
town lots (acquired
1861-1866)
B14435 17 Crown land grants. 1865- 2 12 2
District of Yale 1865
suburban lands
(acquired 1865-1865)
B14435 18 Crown land grants. 1861- 2 13 2
District of Yale 1863
suburban lands
(acquired 1859-1860)
B14435 19 Crown land grants. 1864- 2 14 2
District of Yale 1868
country lands
B14437(2 Crown land grants. 1863- 2 15 2
) Cariboo town lots 1864
B14435 20 Crown grants. Douglas 1862- 3 1 2
town lots (acquired 1863
1859-1863)
B14435 21 Crown grants 1 to 94, 1859- 3 2 2
101 to 423. New 1862
Westminster, Hope,
Douglas, Yale, Fort
Hope, Lytton, and
Langley (acquired 1859-
1862)
B14435 22 Crown grants 95 to 132. 1862- 3 3 2
Hope, Yale, and Douglas 1862
townsites (acquired
1861-1862)
B14437(3 Crown land grants. 1858- 3 4 2
) Langley town lots 1859
B14435 23 Crown land grants. 1861- 4 1 2
City of New Westminster 1863
town lots (acquired
1859 to 1863)
B14435 24 Crown land grants. New 1860- 4 2 2
Westminster suburban 1866
lands (acquired 1859 to
1864); grants 1-150
B14436 1 Crown land grants. New 1860- 4 4 2
Westminster suburban 1866
lands (acquired 1859 to
1864); grants 151-281
B14435 25 Crown land grants. 1861- 4 3 2
District of New 1864
Westminster country
lands 1R-25R (acquired
1859 to 1863)
B14435 26 Crown land grants. 1861- 4 4 2
District of New 1869
Westminster country
lands 1G-128G (acquired
1860 to 1869)
B14436 2a Crown grants related to 1874- 4 5 3
the Mineral Ordinance, 1874
1869. Grant of coal
lands within Nelson
District to the Union
Coal Company
B14437(4 Crown land grants 1875- 4 6 3
) relating to the Mineral 1878
Ordinance, 1869.
Grants of lands within
Yale division of Yale
and Lytton Districts
B14437(1 Hudson's Bay Company 1851- 5 4
) deeds (grants) 1-131 to 1858
lands on Southern
Vancouver Island, in
Victoria, Esquimalt,
Metchosin, Sooke, and
Lake land districts
(indexed) - bound
volume with some loose
material inserted
Loose material (in 1861 5 ?
folder):
List of "HBC lands
unsurveyed and awarded
them" (all on mainland) 1859
Copy of 1853
resolution and 1854
order recorded in the
Minutes of HBC re Lots
24, 31 and 32 occupied 1917
by HBC prior to 1846 on
Vancouver Island
Subpoena to Deputy
Minister of Lands re
Board of School 1852
Trustees v Silver and
Spring Brewery and n.d.
Royal Bank of Canada
Duplicates of HBC
indentures in HBC deeds
volume (Tolmie,
Kennedy, Demers and
Dodd) and a blank one
signed by Thomas James
Skinner
B14436 2b Colony of Vancouver 1857- 6 1 5
Island Crown land 1858
grants 1-250 to lands
in Victoria and
Esquimalt districts
(indexed)
B14436 2 Colony of Vancouver 1858- 6 2 5
Island Crown land 1858
grants 251-501 to lands
in Victoria town
(indexed)
B14436 3 Colony of Vancouver 1858- 6 3 5
Island Crown land 1859
grants 502-626 to lands
in Victoria town
(indexed)
B14436 1 Colony of Vancouver 1860- 7 1 6
Island certificates of 1860
title 1-28 to lands in
Newcastle town (Nanaimo
District)
B14436 2 Colony of Vancouver 1864- 7 2 6
Island certificates of 1864
title 29-30 to lands
in Leech River town
B14436 3 Colony of Vancouver 1865- 7 3 6
Island certificates of 1865
title 31-34 to lands
in Newcastle town
B14436 4 Colony of Vancouver 1866- 7 4 6
Island certificate of 1866
title 35 to land in
Maple Bay townsite
B14436 5 Colony of British 1861- 7 5 7
Columbia return of pre- 1861
emption claims in the
District of Alexandria
for the quarter ending
21 June 1861
Original Bound Volumes List
The original records were kept in bound volumes. Some of these
bindings were original to the records, while other records were
bound together after being created; this is evident from the
disparate shapes and forms of the documents bound together. All
volumes except the one covered by subseries 4 were disbound at
the time of microfilming, and are now stored in folders and
boxes.
Because one volume in many cases contains two or more sections
relating to different jurisdictions (each section corresponding
to an "item" in the file list), it is not evident from the file
list provided above which records were originally bound together.
The following list is provided for this purpose. Note that the
volumes are distinguished by the titles used on the original
bindings, and by volume numbers reflecting the current order of
the volumes (or the records from them). Also note that volumes
20, 21, and 22 were added to the accession after the other
volumes had already been numbered, so are not in consecutive
order.
Containe Sub- File Vol. Title of original bound volume
r serie No.
s
1 1 1 1 Conveyances Prior to Act 1861 - Part
of Vol 1
1 1 2 2 Conveyances Prior to Act 1861 - Vol
2 and Part of Vol 1
1 1 3 3 Conveyances Vol 3
1 1 4 4 Conveyances Vol 4 and 5
1 1 5 4 Conveyances Vol 4 and 5
2 2 1 5 Crown Grants - Hope. Town Lots.
Suburban and Pre-emption Lands
2 2 2 5 Crown Grants - Hope. Town Lots.
Suburban and Pre-emption Lands
2 2 3 5 Crown Grants - Hope. Town Lots.
Suburban and Pre-emption Lands
2 2 4 6 Crown Grants - Lillooet Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 5 6 Crown Grants - Lillooet Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 6 6 Crown Grants - Lillooet Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 7 7 Crown Grants - Lytton. Town Lots.
Country Lands.
2 2 8 7 Crown Grants - Lytton. Town Lots.
Country Lands.
2 2 9 8 Crown Grants - Town Lots - Seymour-
Similkameen Country Lands.
2 2 10 8 Crown Grants - Town Lots - Seymour-
Similkameen Country Lands.
2 2 11 9 Crown Grants - Yale. Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 12 9 Crown Grants - Yale. Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 13 9 Crown Grants - Yale. Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 14 9 Crown Grants - Yale. Town Lots.
Suburban and Country Lands.
2 2 15 20 Crown land grants. Cariboo town
lots
3 2 1 10 Crown Grants - Douglas Town Lots
3 2 2 11 Crown Grants 1859 to 1862
3 2 3 12 No. 95 - Hope, Yale and Douglas
3 2 4 21 Crown land grants. Langley town
lots
4 2 1 13 Crown Grants. New Westminster.
Town Lots. Suburban Lots. Suburban
and Country Lands.
4 2 2 13 Crown Grants. New Westminster.
Town Lots. Suburban Lots. Suburban
and Country Lands.
4 2 3 13 Crown Grants. New Westminster.
Town Lots. Suburban Lots. Suburban
and Country Lands.
4 2 4 13 Crown Grants. New Westminster.
Town Lots. Suburban Lots. Suburban
and Country Lands.
4 3 5 14 Crown Grants - Mineral Ordinance
1869 - Coal Lands
4 3 6 22 Crown land grants relating to the
Mineral Ordinance, 1869. Grants of
lands within Yale division of Yale
and Lytton Districts
6 4 1 15 Vancouver Island - Land Register -
Hudson's Bay Deeds - Lands and Works
Victoria, B.C. [Title page:
"Vancouver's Island Colony -
Registered Book No. 1"]
7 5 1 16 1 - Vancouver's Island Colony Crown
Grants - 1-250 - Feb 12th 1857 -
July 22nd 1858
7 5 2 17 2 - Vancouver's Island Colony Crown
Grants - 251-501 - July 22nd 1858 -
August 9th 1858
7 5 3 18 3 - Vancouver's Island Colony Crown
Grants - 502-626 - August 14th 1858
- August 23rd 1859
8 6 1 19 Vancouver Island Colony -
Certificates of Title - Newcastle
Town and Leach-town
8 6 2 19 Vancouver Island Colony -
Certificates of Title - Newcastle
Town and Leach-town
8 6 3 19 Vancouver Island Colony -
Certificates of Title - Newcastle
Town and Leach-town
8 6 4 19 Vancouver Island Colony -
Certificates of Title - Newcastle
Town and Leach-town
8 7 5 (not District of Alexandria, return of
a pre-emption claims, quarter ending
vol- 21 June 1861 [Loose document
ume) originally inserted into volume for
subseries 6; title taken from
heading of document]
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