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Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds
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25.11 m of textual, cartographic and architectural records
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The Greater Vancouver Regional District was created in 1967 as the Regional District of Fraser-Burrard. In 1968, the name was changed to the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Since its creation, the Regional District has been responsible for planning and administration of services that are common across the regional, predominantly utilities and regional aplnning. It took on these responsibilities from three already-existing bodies: the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District (created 1913), the Greater Vancouver Water District (created 1926), and the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board (created 1949). While the first two technically still operate, they do so under the overall banner of the Regional District, along with the Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation.
In 2017, the name of the organization was changed to the Metro Vancouver Regional District.
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The Greater Vancouver Water District is a local government authority responsible for water quality and distribution in Vancouver.
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The Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board was formed in 1949. Its purpose was to activate a long range regional plan dealing with the area from Hope to the Gulf of Georgia and to consider, among other things, bridges, highways, airports, industrial, urban, agricultural and recreational areas. Its first survey, presented in March 1952, constituted the first thorough study of the area. It considered future population trends, the course of industrial and agricultural expansion, as well as the problems associated with increasing traffic. The Board's greatest achievement occurred in 1966 with the development and adoption by 28 member municipalities and the provincial government of an Official Lower Mainland Regional Plan. By the time the Board dissolved in 1969, it had completed 40 planning studies, compiled 850 detailed lot-by-lot development maps, and accumulated a planning library of 4,000 volumes. With its dissolution, the Board's planning functions were transferred to the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
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Fonds consists of correspondence, reports, plans, and other documentation generated primarily by the above-mentioned predecessor bodies of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Arranged into the following series:
- Hospital Advisory Committee minutes and reports
from the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District: - Annual reports
- Correspondence and other records
- Minute books
- Miscellaneous records
from the Greater Vancouver Water District: - Chief engineer's daily journals
- Commissioner's reports
- Commissioner's yearbooks
- Contracts
- Correspondence files
- Correspondence files
- Engineering files
- Minute books
- Minute files
- Miscellaneous correspondence
- Miscellaneous publications
- Miscellaneous reports
- Reports
- Reports received by the commissioner
from the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board:- Clipping files
- Correspondence files
- Minute books
The fonds also includes two drawings made for the Greater Vancouver Water District.
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Health Department fonds, series 132.