The accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Kootenay-Okanagan District Office of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and its predecessors. Predecessors include: the Okanagan Agency, and the British Columbia Region.
Accession also contains one file from the Babine District Office. The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: band management, including complaints and petitions; engineering services, including water supply system, roads, electric power services, and irrigation; welfare equipment and supplies, including relief food assistance; farming equipment and supplies, including construction and industrial machinery, hay subsidy, feed, seed and fertilizer, machinery and wagons, implements, harnesses, and saddlery; office equipment and other supplies, including publications, motion pictures, stationery and sundries, office machines, triennial clothing, instruments, and tools; school supplies, including noon-day lunches for school children; farming, including fairs, land clearing, fencing, weed control, fruit farming, livestock, band farms, and insect and parasite control; law enforcement, including immorality, juvenile delinquency, assault, burglary and theft, accidents, drownings, manslaughter, intoxicants, deportation, indebtedness, game and fisheries laws, remission of sentence, trespassing on reserves, wartime regulations, taxation, registration of firearms, marriages, customs and excise regulations, traffic control regulations, lending institutions, and employment of counsel; economic development, including Indian Economic Development Fund grants and/or contributions, and industrial and business development; natural resources, including mining, traplines, hunting, wild life, tourist outfitting and guiding, fur marketing, timber, oil and gas, and reforestation; placement of labour, including relocation to employment, and employment training aids; office and other miscellaneous expenses; social activities, including associations; education, including joint schools, educational assistance, kindergarten classes, band control of education, and education program; transportation, including transportation for the destitute; welfare, including housing, and care of children; miscellaneous land matters, including range and pasture land. There is also included in the accession various maps and plans of the Arrow Lake Indian Reserve including a plan and field notes of Transmission line right of way through the reserve by the British Columbia Power Commission (1954) and a map of the reserve for the British Columbia Indian Reserve Commission signed by A. Vowell, Indian Reserve Commissioner (1902).
These records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.