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 Bella Coola Agency.
The accession includes but is not limited to records relating to: welfare, including housing, funerals, and care of handicapped Indians; band management, including membership, bylaws, elections, minutes of council, and census; trust accounts, including budgets and authorities for expenditure (revenue and capital accounts), winter works incentive program, audits, and interest distribution; administration, including conference, field manuals and instructions, school establishment, publicity, methods and procedures, purchasing regulations, and liaison; buildings and projects, including band buildings and community halls; engineering services, including water supply systems, roads, sewage disposal systems, physical planning of communities, and electrical power services; arts and crafts; reports and returns, including superintendent's semi annual reports, statistical reports, returns on vocational and professional programs, principal's monthly reports, adult education, annual reports, parliamentary questions, and school attendance; economic development, including Indian Economic Development Fund loans, and industrial and business development; timber; land matters; placement of Indian labour, including employment training aids, employment on special projects, community employment program, and high school summer employment; school buildings, including the staff residence at Bella Bella residential school; miscellaneous case files; federal provincial relations; equipment, including fishing and hunting equipment, machinery and wagons, and inventory control; livestock; finances, including estimates and audits; health services, including hospital board meetings, sanitation, and mental diseases; law enforcement, including indebtedness, accidents, drownings and manslaughter, assault, burglary and theft, complaints re: liquor referendum, dogs, game and fisheries laws, trespassing on reserves, and trading on reserves; social activities, including social leaders activities, dances, and sports; transportation, including transportation of Indian patients and school children; statistics, including vital statistics and public assistance; and policy research and evaluation, including meetings and the Interdepartmental Liaison Committee on Indian and Inuit Policy.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
