Series consists of a wide variety of general operational records created and maintained by the Office of the Indian Commissioner for British Columbia in Victoria and its precursors. Volumes 10872-10873 contain (among other records) four files from the office of the Indian Commissioner for British Columbia dealing largely with trapline policy, game regulations and conservation, 1924-1944.
The records in volumes 11001-11006 cover the years 1910-1956 and consist of files of the office of the Indian Commissioner for British Columbia, its precursors (the Inspectorates and the office of the Chief Inspector of Indian Agencies) and the subordinate office of the Indian Inspector for the Southeastern Inspectorate (after 1923). Files are grouped by responsibility centre for, while they are all records of, or which found their way into, the Commissioner's office, each refers to operations in individual agencies. Some of the records were originally part of Shannon files (omnibus containers with sub-groupings of "files" on several subjects), but were removed from their original Shannon file containers some time in the past and placed in file jackets. As a result such files contained a number of district parts, the material often relating to different subjects. These files have now been divided and their parts given the artificial letter designations A, B, C, etc.
Subjects covered in volumes 11001-11006 include: grazing; road rights-of-way; leases; bridges and engineering projects; fishing rights; surveys; timber; riparian rights; surrenders; land ownership disputes; railways; schools; estates; irrigation.
Records in volumes 11041-11082 cover the years 1887-1965 and consist of files of the Office of the Indian Commissioner for British Columbia and its precursors (the Inspectorates and the office of the Chief Inspector of Indian Agencies). Some of the records are contained in Shannon files or were obviously removed from their original shannon boxes and placed in file jackets. The majority of these files are identified by a subject/agency number (e.g. 30-water, 33-land, 44-Kamloops Agency, 16-Williams Lake Agency) although some do not conform to this system. Certain of the Shannon files have now been artificially divided and their different parts given letter designations (A, B, C, etc.). Other records are contained in standard file jackets and are identified using the modified duplex numeric system with agency designations preceding the subject block number.
Subjects covered in volumes 11041-11082 include: surveys, surrender; right-of-way; leases; riparian rights; irrigation; water supply systems; land ownership; grazing; timber; mining; sealing; trapping; loans and school buildings. There are also records relating to federal-provincial negotiations to settle the British Columbia Indian land question and to the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs and the eventual adjudication of its findings. Many maps and plans accompany the correspondence.
Records in volumes 11288-11306 cover the years 1889-1956 and consist of files of the Office of the Indian Commissioner for British Columbia and its precursors. Many of the records were once part of Shannon files. No consistent file classification system is evident although portions of the records are identified according to a subject block system employed in the Commissioner's office (e.g. subject blocks 139 and 214 for military service or 112 for game and trapping, with secondary numbers 1 through 17 representing individual agencies).
Subjects covered in volumes 11288-11306 include: military service (World War II); game and trapping; membership; vital statistics; estates; band management; elections; law enforcement; farming; fishing; timber; water; land sales; schools and personnel.
