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 Williams Lake District, the Williams Lake Agency, the Vancouver District Office, the Fraser District Office, the Fraser Agency, the Lytton Agency, the Vancouver Agency, the New Westminster Agency, the Terrace District Office, the Terrace Agency, the Skeena River Agency, the Nass Agency, the Babine District Office, the Babine Agency, the Bella Coola District Office, the Bella Coola Agency, the Prince George District Office, the Lakes District Office, the Stuart Lake Agency, the Burns Lake Agency, the Nanaimo District Office, the South Island District Office, the Cowichan Agency, the West Coast Agency, the North Coast District Office, the North Island District Office, the Kwawkewlth Agency, the Campbell River District Office, the Central Interior District Office, the Kootenay-Okanagan District Office, the Kootenay-Okanagan Agency, the Kootenay Agency, the Okanagan Agency, the Fort St. John District Office, the Fort St. John Agency, the Thompson River District Office, the Kamloops Agency, the Nicola Agency, the Yukon Region, the Yukon Agency, and the Stikine Agency.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including itineraries of officials, ethnological, anthropological and historical research, liaison, the Indian Act, field inspections, and school establishment; band management, including membership, elections, minutes of council, by laws - band council, claims and disputes, and complaints and petitions; engineering services, including water supply system, flood and water council, government contracts and specifications, electric power services, roads, wharves, irrigation, bridges, water licences, sewage disposal systems, and physical planning of communities; administration buildings; economic development, including research and surveys, co-operative enterprises, Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, and industrial and business development; placement of labour, including employment on special projects; reports and returns, including employment and relocation reports; education, including educational assistance, and joint schools; transportation, including freight or express, the destitute, school children, warrants, and air transport; trust funds, including trust account statements, interest distribution, salaries - band officials and casual employment, budgets and authorities for expenditures, band property insurance, Winter Works Incentive Program, and management of band funds under Section 69 - Indian Act; welfare, including housing, community development, funerals, care of children, and the deaf; statistics, including census record, vital, and public assistance; property damage and protection, including fire protection policy, fire loss, and forest and prairie fires; surveys and reserves; leases; miscellaneous land matters, including maps and plans, school land, church sites, parks and playgrounds, and range and pasture land; miscellaneous buildings and projects, including council or community hall, and sawmill projects; rights-of-way, including power line, railroad right-of-way, road right-of-way, telephone lines, and foreshore rights; equipment and supplies - farming, construction and industrial machinery, including machinery and wagons; school supplies, including school furnishings and appliances; transport, including agency motor vehicles, and school motor vehicles; school buildings, including staff residence; farming, including livestock; equipment and supplies, office and miscellaneous, including technical equipment, and non-technical equipment; finances, including accounting and debts, special investigations, and audit reports; natural resources, including timber, and traplines; individual land holdings; sale of land; staff matters, including employment and qualifications, and associations, committees; medical equipment and supplies, including prosthetic appliances; welfare equipment and supplies; arts and crafts; individual case files, including estates, and enfranchisements; policy research and evaluation, including meetings - associations and band members; office and other miscellaneous expenses, including fuel and light - agencies; and placement of labour, including employment on special projects; and arts and crafts.
These records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
