City of Vancouver Archives

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: Vancouver Electric Illuminating Co. Limited (signed by thr president Thos. Dunn) regarding the following subjects: arc light sysem, electric lights and street lights; Henry V. Edwards pertaining to school lots; Everettes's Mining Office and Assay Chemical Laboratory regarding smelters in Vancouver; Fenwick & Sclater Asbestos Warehouse relating to the sale of fire apparatus to the city of Vancouver; A. G. Ferguson regarding an application for a building permit; Fraser & Leonard, commission merchants, regarding the purchase of a new fire engine; Gamewell Fire-Alarm Telegraph Company regarding the installation of a fire alarm telegraph system in Vancouver; Garden & Herman, civil engineers, regarding the street survey of Powell and Hastings Streets, and the survey of the "old townsite of Granville"; San Francisco Journal of Commerce regarding the distribution of the Journal of Commerce in Vancouver; H. L. Gulline & Co., real estate and general brokers, pertaining to a pile-covering material produced by P & B Paint of San Francisco; Canadian Pacific Railway Company regarding the survey of the old Granville Townsite and the building of a bridge across the Fraser River; Hanson Bros. regarding Vancouver Bonds; F. W. Hart pertaining to the cemetery road; A.M. Herring, chairman of finance, regarding licenses; E. J. Howell regarding a report on foreign capital; Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Co. regarding the building of dwellng houses by P. Hickey; H. F. Keefer regarding the employment of Chinese on a gravel contract; John P. Lawson relating to a report on the water works and a second letter pertaining to the bridge across False Creek; Commercial Saw Mills regarding the location of the False Creek bridge; James River Lumber Company. File also contains the credentials of E. J. Howell and an advertisement for Lever Lifting Chocks produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ld.

Miscellaneous (M-P)

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: Don McA[lister?] regarding the withdrawal of the sidewalk contract for Hastings Street; Vancouver Board of Trade regarding location for a the Hamilton Powder Co.'s powder magazine; Forbes Litho Mftg. Co. pertaining to a Vancouver directory; R. B. McMicking pertaining to the installation of fire alarms; San Francisco Bridge Company regarding the False Creek bridge; Mallandaine & Sansom, architects, regarding payment of commission; E. M. Mathews relating to the delivery of coal by the fire department; A. A. Aures, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minn. pertaining to an introduction for Mr. Henry W. Warren to the Mayor of Vancouver; Murdoch & Dickson & Co. regarding pamphlets of Vancouver; Geo. Phipps pertaining to the issue of morality, in particular reducing the number of hotel and saloon licenses in Vancouver. File also contains a copy of the Mountain View cemetery regulations

Miscellaneous (Q-Z)

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: Rand Bros. pertaining to the closing of a lane; Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Limited regarding crushing mills; A. [?]. Richards regarding a "legal opinion on personal property taxation"; G. Robertson regarding the removal of a building on his property; Robertson & Co. relating to the supply of school desks; Rev. E. Robson regading the holding of services in City Hall; Brussels Steam Fire Engine Works (John D. Ronald) relating to parts for fire engines; Royal City Planing Mills Co. (Limited) regarding the False Creek bridge; San Francisco Contracting Co. regarding the construction of False Creek bridge; B. Saunders, Merchant Tailor and Robe Maker, pertaining to the Industrial Fair; Seitz & Co. regarding immigration into the city of Vancouver; Bank of Montreal regarding debentures; R. G. Tatlow & Co. regarding debentures; Vancouver Gas Company, Limited pertaining to the laying of gas pipes; John Thompson, photographer, regarding his photograph gallery on Cordova Street; Thomson Bros.' Bookstore regarding hospital books; Captain Sir W. Wiseman (Bart) regarding the circumstances surrounding the recovery of the body of seaman Joseph Evans; John M. Stewart, Chief of Police responding to the letter from Captain Wiseman; Moses Gibson relating to the burial of Joseph Evans. File also contains a fabric art print and "directions for planting and cultivating the sugar-beet seed" published by the Western Beet Sugar Company.

Land deed for the Carnegie Library site

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Series
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Series consists of one file containing the land deed regarding Carnegie Library site.

Vancouver (B.C.). City Solicitor's Office

By-law no. 57 : a by-law to amend by-law no. 7 of the City of Vancouver

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2 Apr. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 59 : a by-law to levy a rate on all the rate able real and personal property on the revised Assessment Roll of the City of Vancouver to provide for the necessary expenses, debts and abling and abling actions of the said City during the current

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File
23 Apr. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 60 : a by-law to amend by-law no. 31 of the City of Vancouver

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23 Apr. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 61 : a by-law to amend by-laws no 7 and 50 of the City of Vancouver by adding streets, certain clauses and amendments

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28 May 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 62 : a by-law to amend by-law no. 40 of the City of Vancouver

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19 June 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 67 : a by-law to establish a bureau and pound keepers and to impose a tax on the owners, possessors, or harborers of dogs

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File
9 Oct. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

By-law no. 75 : a by-law to appoint a Police Magistrate for the City of Vancouver

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File
28 Dec. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Cash book - accounts payable journal

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File
20 Sept. 1886 - 16 Feb. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Appropriation ledger

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Assessment roll Ward 1

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Includes all or portions of District Lots in the following order: 185, 541, Old Granville Townsite, 541, 196, 181, 182A, 182B, 182F, 182G, 182H, 182I, 182J, 182K, 183C, 183D, 183E, 184, 264A, 200A, 301, 302, 540, 526, 192 and the Old Granville Townsite.

Dominion government

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File includes a letter from the Post Office Inspector's Office detailing locations of street letter boxes and a letter from the Department of Agriculture regarding Vancouver's desire to have an immigration agent.

Provincial government

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1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Llewellyn, Richard [deep sea diver]

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27 Sept. 1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File contains letter of reference written by Keefer & McGillivray Contractors concerning Richard Llewellyn.

City officials

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File
1888

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File includes: "Special Audit of Hospital Accounts"; a February 1888 report of the Fire, Health & License Inspector; several Chief of Police reports to the Police Committee; and a report from the City Auditor.

Hospital