Stock shots. An A-26 airtanker and a helicopter with a monsoon bucket do test drops on a fire in the Sooke area.

The series consists of three registers that document registration of half yearly mining licences and mining claims, transfers, and forfeitures by the office of the Acting Gold Commissioner in 1864.

One volume, labeled Acting Gold Commissioner Record Register 1864, documents mining records registered with the gold commissioner. Two volumes document the registration of mining licences: one volume is labeled Acting Gold Commissioner Register of Licences 1864; the other is not. The handwriting in the unlabeled volume differs from the script in the other two registers in this series. However, the volume is a near duplicate of the labeled register.

These registers are organized into a tabular form (pursuant to Gold Fields Act, Section VI) and provide the following information: number, name, and amount (all registers); date of issue and expiration of license and remarks (licence register); and date [of entry?], amount, date of transfer and forfeiture, to whom transferred, page of entry in transfer book, and number of license (record register).

The series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and agreements of the Saseenos Water, Light and Power Co., documents pertaining to the B.C. Oil and Coal Development Co., Cameron Lake Timber, the Fraser-Cariboo Gold Syndicate, Port Alberni Syndicate, Towner Park subdivision; coal mining on Vancouver Island, mining leases in the Horsefly River area and property in Victoria, B.C.

News item. Excellent footage of some of the main events. Background sound only.

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News item. Interview, and shots of logs being lifting from booming grounds into a barker at BC Forest Products's Sooke Division.

News item. Shows Canadian bicyclists participating in a road race (on the Old Island Highway near Sooke?) as part of a training camp. A team of six riders will go to Europe to contest four major tours, while six riders from Europe go to Mexico to contest a Mexican tour. Following these tours, the Canadian bicyclists will return to Canada to take part in the Okanagan tour at Penticton. Other B.C. riders are also preparing for the 1984 Olympics Games. One Victoria rider, Bernie Willock, will almost certainly go on to the Olympics, says the club's trainer. Lots of footage.

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1930s. "Saanich Boys & Girls Club at Sooke, looking at and wrestling with young heifers. Adults making presentations. Starting a Boys & Girls Club. Kids lined up on school steps. Teacher asks who'd like to join. Kids receive boxes of eggs for hatching. Young girl prepares her hen for laying. Potato and Calf Club. Field day at Sea Island. Calves, picnic, spuds. Richmond and Delta Boys & Girls Club members in a field examining crops. Boys & Girls Club livestock judging in Vancouver: cows, horses & calves being judged outdoors and indoors." (Colin Browne)

This series consists of three volumes of records from the Commission on the Capture of Salmon in the Sooke Area and Purse-Seines in the Gulf of Georgia, 1939. Records include correspondence, draft report, exhibits and transcripts of evidence taken at hearings (pp. 1-252, 341-1953).

The series consists of a duplicate cash book of payments received by Alexander Watson, treasurer, for mining revenue from Sooke Mines, Vancouver Island, commencing December 1864 (1864-1865).

The journal is organized into debtor and creditor cash pages (abbreviated Dr. and Cr) that are recorded on the left-hand and right-hand sides respectively: “Dr” cash pages include date, receipt number, from whom, receipt description, and amount; “Cr” cash pages include date, summary of payment by type, and amount.

Mining revenue resulted from payments for licences, records of mining claims and transfers, percentage on purchase money, and records of water privileges. Payments correspond to the mining regulations and fees for Sooke District issued by the Acting Colonial Secretary Henry Wakeford on July 29, 1864 (published in The Daily British Colonist).

The script throughout the volume varies.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor; Canso airtanker; forest fire near Sooke Harbour; fire crews at work; fire fighting equipment in use; etc.

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