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Agreements

File includes agreements with I. J. Hayden and Vancouver Electric Illuminating Company.

Sinking fund cash book

File consists of a cash book for the City's Sinking Fund, documenting cash transactions into and out of the Fund.

Miscellaneous (A-Z)

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: the Canadian Pacific Railway Company regarding hotel building expenses and a second letter pertaining to school lots; Pacific Gas Improvement Company (to the Paraffine Paint Co.) pertaining to the safety of protected vs. unprotected piles used for various docks and wharves; Royal Italian Consulate for the Dominion of Canada regarding payment of money for work performed by Italians in Vancouver; Robert B. McMicking, electrical dealer, regarding fire alarms for the city of Vancouver; F. X. Martin, dealer in groceries and provisions, regarding groceries for the City Prison; Oppenheimer Bros. regarding estimated cost of fire alarms and electric lights; Rand Bros. pertaining to the price of school lots; R. G. Tatlow, real estate and financial agent. Files also contain agreements between the City of Vancouver and the following contractors regarding improvements to Vancouver city streets (including specifications for each street): Henry B[owers?], Boyd & Clandening, James McAlpine, William Hawkins, McDonald & Cameron, Angus McLellan, Muir and Pratt, Stephenson and McCraney, Sicley (construction of water tanks), Oldfield & Glenn (addition to City Hall), A. J. Marks (painting City Hall); J. H. Wert (levelling off the Public Cemetery).

Miscellaneous (A-Z)

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: the Canadian Pacific Railway Company regarding the road at the foot of Burrard Street for the dumping grounds, "relief from taxation," the Hospital site and the terms of payment for the Hospital Lots. File also contains invoices for Abrams & Co., manufacturers of furniture and mattresses and for Thomson Bros., booksellers, stationers and printers.

Mountain View Cemetery registers

Series consists of cemetery registers from Mountain View cemetery, which was surveyed for a City burial ground in November 1886. The cemetery registers consist of an alphabetic index to the volumes which record burials for sections of the cemetery. These sections include the Old Cemetery, Horne Addition, Horne #2 Addition, Soldiers' Section, Abray Park Additions, Jones Addition, 1919 Addition and Societies' plots for the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Foresters and other groups. The alphabetic index (reels MCR 15-2 to 15-13) makes reference to page numbers in the registers corresponding to the cemetery section. In each register, the names are arranged by burial location in the section (range, block, plot, subdivision and lot number). Most registers (reels MCR 15-1, 15-14 to 15- 33) contain an alphabetic index of names in that volume. The index is sometimes found at the end of the volume. Entries usually give the following information: name of owner, name of deceased, age, birthplace, place of death, date of death, date of burial, sex, cause of death, name of physician, religion, marital status, amount paid for lot, amount paid for digging grave and remarks (usually the name of funeral company).

Vancouver (B.C.). Health Department

Engineering Department technical drawings, maps and plans

Series consists of technical drawings, maps and plans for a variety of building and engineering projects. While some of these drawings originated with the Engineering Department, others were created by transportation, communication, or utility companies and approved by the Engineering Department. Arranged in no apparent order.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineering Services

Property tax assessment rolls

Series consists of assessment rolls for 1887-1889 and 1929-1977 which indicate owners' names and values of properties (1890-1928 rolls are missing). Holdings dated 1887-1955 are in original ledger form while those dated 1956-1977 are held in microform only. Arrangement varies as follows: 1887-1955 by legal description; 1956-1963 by [old] roll number; 1964-1968 by legal description; 1969-1971 renumbering in progress so by roll number or coordinate number; 1972-1977 by coordinate number.

Vancouver (B.C.). Assessment Division

Miscellaneous (A-D)

File contains incoming correspondence addressed to a variety of City officials, which is filed by correspondent (by institution or individual), e.g.: the Canadian Pacific Railway Company regarding the following subjects: clearing of city blocks, track crossings and False Creek bridge construction, Sunday passenger train service, road construction from False Creek to the South Arm of the Fraser, incident in which a fire hose was cut and the selling of city lots owned by the C.P.R.; T. C. Atkinson regarding the abandonment of a contract between the City of Vancouver and J. J. Tierney; Edgar Crow Baker, real estate agent, regarding sale of city lots (includes a telegram); Vancouver Illuminating Co. regarding street lighting in Vancouver; Committee of the Cricket Club pertaining to the use of the Recreation Grounds by the Circus; John Boultbee, barrister regarding the claim of King Fung; Brussels Steam Fire Engine Works relating to the sale of a fire engine; Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory regarding smelters; California Bridge Co. pertaining to Lulu Island; the Vancouver News-Advertiser Office; A. W. Ross & Co. regarding the construction of a street railway; Vancouver Real Estate Exchange relating to electric light installation and the Industrial Fair in Toronto; E. Chanteloup regarding fire alarm instrument expenses; the Bank of British Columbia; H. E. Croasdaile, land and financial agent; Theodore Davie, barrister, solicitor, notary public regarding squatters; the British Columbia Directory requesting a plan of the sewers in Vancouver.

Accounting ledgers

Series consists of records which document expenditures by City committees and departments, and movements of cash into and out of accounts.

The series consists of a variety of types of bound volumes, which record expenditures at the level of individual transactions. The format of the records changed significantly over the course of the City's history as the administration grew, services increased, and accounting requirements evolved.

As a general rule, expenditures were recorded in two ways: by department or budget account (General ledgers) or by the appropriation which supplied the funding for the transaction (Appropriation ledgers or Detail Ledgers). In the early years, a single ledger contained both department/account information and appropriation information. In October 1950, the listing of transactions by appropriation was created in its own set of ledgers, called Detail ledgers until May 1956; as of June 1956, these were called Appropriation ledgers.

As of 1957, there are two sets of General ledgers: one which listed individual transactions by account, printed out each month, and a year-end ledger which listed each month's balances for each account.

Until 1950 the ledgers contain manual entries. As of the end of 1950, the ledgers are computer printouts.

The series also contains two Cash ledgers from the 1880s; these books document the value only of cash transactions from various licenses and other non-appropriation sources, and deposits into the City's bank accounts.

Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Accountant

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