Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Campbell River District Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors the Kwawkewlth Agency. The accession includes but is not limited to records relating to: churches; medical equipment and supplies, including drugs, prosthetics and eyeglasses; equipment and supplies, including band machinery, stationery, triennial clothing and tools; school equipment and supplies, including school room supplies, sports equipment, school furnishings, audio-visual aids, and school lunches; arts and crafts, including basket weaving and woodwork; farming, including land clearing, fencing, weed control, livestock, insect and parasite control; financial investigations; health services, including health insurance, treatment services, sanitation, tuberculosis, hospital accounts, doctors' accounts, nursing services, admissions and discharges into medical institutions, and occupational therapy; law enforcement, including accidents, assaults, burglary and theft, intoxication, trespass and trading on reserves, pool rooms and dance halls, child maintenance, remission of sentence, non-support, and employment of council; Indian associations; education, including special vocational training, education journal vouchers, transportation, tuition contracts, student room and board, adult education, home school coordinator, and tuition payments; welfare, including funerals and care of adults; transportation, including vehicles, and the transportation of boats, school supplies, patients, school children and the destitute; agency buildings; school buildings; engineering, including water supply systems and electric power systems; natural resources, including timber, commercial recreation development (parks and playgrounds), fur conservation, traplines, reforestation, tourist outfitting and guiding, and wildlife; placement of Indian labour, including employment and relocation, the Recruitment and Development Program, Local Initiatives Program, Opportunity for Youth Program, and the University Student Summer Employment Program; reports and returns, including counsellors quarterly returns, superintendent's quarterly reports, regional monthly returns, social workers reports, and annual reports; trust accounts, including commutation, band property insurance, Winter Works Incentive Program, and welfare and education assistance to non-Indians living on reserve; and personal case files.
Records were transferred to Library and Archives Canada by the British Columbia Regional Office of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
These records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
