Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Nanaimo District Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors. Predecessors include: the West Coast Agency and the Vancouver Island Education District.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization and administration, including administration establishment, regional office establishment, the Indian Act, school establishment, methods and procedures, liaison, and headquarters establishment; band management, including enlistments; school buildings, including staff residence, school building requirements surveys, and school farm buildings; engineering services, including roads, and wharves; medical equipment and supplies, including prosthetic appliances; welfare equipment and supplies, including fishing and hunting equipment, relief food assistance, clothing and blankets, camping equipment, canes and boats, household equipment and supplies, fire fighting equipment, relief fuel, and miscellaneous welfare supplies; arts and crafts, including woodwork, clothing manufacture, and slate carving; farming, including fairs, land clearing, fencing, gardens, fruit farming, livestock, band farms, weed control, and veterinary services; finance, including special investigations, and estimates; law enforcement, including accidents, drownings, manslaughter, etc, assault, burglary and theft, intoxicants, dogs, indebtedness, game and fisheries laws, trespassing on reserves, trading on reserves, subversive activities, immorality, child maintenance, remission of sentence, non-support, taxation, truancy, marriages, divorce, separation and annulment, juvenile delinquency, marine regulations, customs and excise regulations, traffic control regulations, employment of counsel, and impounding of livestock; economic development, including resettlement, Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, industrial and business development, research and surveys, cooperative enterprises, garden and home improvement competitions, and Indian Economic Development Fund grants and/or contributions; natural resources, including fishing, gravel and sand, hunting, mining, oil and gas, timber, fur conservation, reforestation, fur marketing, tourist outfitting and guiding, wild life, traplines, and wild crops; placement of labour, including consultation for employment opportunities, relocation to employment, winter works, employment training aids, and seasonal and casual employment; reports and returns, including school inspection reports, regional monthly returns, vocational and professional programs, principals monthly reports, inspection reports - regional office staff, quarterly returns - residential schools, superintendents semi-annual reports, and counsellors quarterly returns; social activities, including associations, sports, homemakers clubs, social leaders - activities, dances, brass bands, and 4H club; Education, including admission and discharge of pupils - residential schools, admission and discharge of pupils - residential schools for family allowances, educational assistance, joint schools, student residence, high school education, adult education, school committees on reserves, kindergarten classes, practical arts, non-indigenous pupils in indigenous schools, pupil guidance, in-service training of teachers, and educational research; trust funds, including winter works incentive program; welfare, including funerals, care of children, aged allowances, family allowance, the blind, miscellaneous assistance, disabled persons assistance, care of the handicapped, the deaf, welfare and education assistance to non-indigenous living on reserve, rehabilitation services, Canada Pension Plan, and work opportunity program; individual case files, including miscellaneous, and the mentally incompetent; veterans, including Veterans Land Act; property damage and protection, including fire protection, and forest and prairie fires; statistics, including public assistance, vital statistics, and annual reports; Federal-Provincial relations, including welfare services; cultural affairs; policy research and evaluation.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.