Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Official and private records
General material designation
- textual record
- cartographic material
- graphic material
- multiple media
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the series.
Level of description
Series
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1904-1960 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 m of textual records, maps and ca. 400 photographs
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Custodial history
Records presented by Mrs. T.W.S. Parsons, Victoria, accessioned in 1974.
Scope and content
The series consists of records created by T.W.S. Parsons. Parsons wrote extensively on topics mostly related to policing and to British Columbia history, including diaries covering three decades, addresses to police conventions, radio scripts, and articles for periodicals, as well as some fictional stories. He also wrote about his travels.
Records include correspondence, official and private, including letters relating to his work with the Boy Scouts and the Queen Alexandra Solarium; diaries, account, and appointment books, 1931-1955; certificates, membership cards; scrapbooks; notes re Fort George Hazleton Police District; notes and correspondence on various police cases; report on Northern Patrol, 1935; notes on Tahltan bear dogs; horoscope; manuscripts of articles on police matters; manuscripts re radio plays. Also includes maps of Tweedsmuir Park, Alaska and various district maps.
The ca. 400 photographs include scenes of the BCPP, Indigenous people, Parsons' Pacific trip, Canadian Pacific Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and Tweedsmuir park.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 198006-028, 198203-028 and 199305-002. Maps transferred to Map Division, accessioned as M867075. Maps listed in file list.
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
A file list is available: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Document/Finding_Aids_Atom/MS-1001_to_MS-1500/ms-1134.pdf
Associated materials
Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): 74A-105, 198006-028, M867075
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- British Columbia. Provincial Police Force (Subject)
- Boy Scouts Association (Canada) (Subject)