Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the British Columbia Regional Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors. Predecessors include: the Nanaimo District Office, the South Island District Office, the Cowichan Agency, the West Coast Agency, the Gitksan Carrier District Office, the Terrace District Office, the Terrace Agency, the Skeena River Agency, the Fort St. John Service Centre, the Fort St. John District Office, the Fort St. John Agency, the Campbell River District Office, the North Island District Office, the Kwawkewlth Agency, the West Coast Agency, the Central Interior District Office, the Thompson River District Office, the Kamloops Agency, the Nicola Agency, the Kootenay-Okanagan District Office, the Kootenay-Okanagan Agency, the Kootenay Agency, the Okanagan Agency, the Prince George District Office, the Lakes District Office, the Stuart Lake Agency, the Burns Lake Agency, the Williams Lake District Office, the Williams Lake Agency, the Vancouver District Office, the Fraser District Office, the Fraser Agency, the Lytton Agency, the Vancouver Agency, and the New Westminster Agency.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including methods and procedures, school establishment, and committees; welfare equipment and supplies; farming; finances, including band core funding, and capital management; natural resources, including fishing; education, including admission and discharge of pupils, residential schools; social activities, including social leaders - activities; welfare, including care of children; property damage and protection, including fire protection, policy; policy research and evaluation, including meetings of band chiefs, meetings - associations and band members, and finance; research into rights and treaties, including Union of Ontario Indians; management information systems; cultural affairs; individual case files, including the mentally incompetent, and guardianship cases; economic development, including Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, co-operative enterprises, resettlement, industrial and business development, and Indian Economic Development Fund grants and/or contributions; law enforcement, including accidents, drownings, manslaughter, intoxicants, indebtedness, trespassing on reserves, taxation, RCMP detachments, and employment of counsel; arts and crafts; and school buildings.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
