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 Thompson River District Office, the Kamloops Agency, the Nicola Agency, the Kamloops-Okanagan Agency, the Okanagan Agency, the Vancouver District Office, the Fraser District Office, the Fraser Agency, the Lytton Agency, the Vancouver Agency, the New Westminster Agency, the Fraser River Agency, the Williams Lake District Office, the Williams Lake Agency, the South Island District Office, the Nanaimo District Office, the Cowichan Agency, the West Coast Agency, the Vancouver Island District Office, the Central Interior District Office, the Kootenay-Okanagan District Office, the Kootenay-Okanagan Agency, the Kootenay Agency, and the Southern Interior Education District Office.
The accession includes, but is not limited to records relating to: organization including methods and procedures, liaison, and school establishment; band management, including membership, enlistments, complaints and petitions, claims and disputes, elections, deputations, minutes of council, and by laws - band council; administration buildings, and rented accommodation; school buildings, including staff residence, farm buildings, schools, auditorium and gymnasium, and survey; miscellaneous buildings and projects, including council or community hall, churches, woodworking factory, and band buildings; engineering services, including bridges, government contracts and specifications, irrigation, electric power services, roads, and water licences; welfare equipment and supplies, including fishing and hunting equipment, clothing and blankets, camping equipment, canoes and boats, fire-fighting equipment, and relief fuel; equipment and supplies - farming, construction and industrial machinery, including feed, seed and fertilizer, machinery and wagons, and miscellaneous farming supplies; equipment and supplies, office and miscellaneous, including non-technical equipment, motion pictures, and publications; school supplies, including schoolroom supplies, school sports equipment, school furnishings and appliances, audio-visual aids, and mechanical; welfare, including aged allowances, arts and crafts; farming, including fairs, land clearing, fencing, weed control, gardens, fruit farming, livestock, veterinary services, band farms, and insect and parasite control; finances, including audit reports, estimates, accounting and debts, miscellaneous accounts, encumbrance certificates, and capital management; health services, including health insurance, treatment services, sanitation, doctors' accounts, hospital accounts, nutritional projects, and admissions and discharges, medical installations; law enforcement, including accidents, drownings, manslaughter, assault, burglary and theft, intoxicants, dogs, indebtedness, game and fisheries laws, trespassing on reserves, trading on reserves, immorality, child maintenance, non-support, taxation, truancy, impounding of livestock, marriages, divorce, separation and annulment, juvenile delinquency, loans, lending institutions, RCMP detachments, and employment of counsel; economic development, including research and surveys, resettlement, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, Indian Economic Development Fund loans and/or guaranteed loans, cooperative enterprises, band economic development; natural resources, including fishing, gravel and sand, hunting, mining, oil and gas, timber, commercial recreation development, fur conservation, traplines, reforestation, fur marketing, fur conservation projects, tourist outfitting and guiding, wildlife; placement of labour, including consultation for employment opportunities, relocation to employment, employment training aids, Winter Works, seasonal and casual employment, and employment on special projects; office expenses, including fuel and light -schools, telephones, telegrams, school janitor services, and char service; reports and returns, including counsellors quarterly returns, superintendents' semi-annual reports, school inspection reports, regional monthly returns, vocational and professional programs, principals' monthly reports, revenue returns, quarterly returns residential schools, monthly capital management reports, reports - social workers, annual reports, parliamentary questions, employment and relocation reports, and annual reports on housing; social activities, including associations, sports, homemakers' clubs, social leaders, 4-H club, brass bands; education, including educational assistance, admission and discharge of pupils, residential schools, admission and discharge of pupils, residential schools for family allowances, practical arts, joint schools, student residence, kindergarten classes, high school education, adult education, in-service training of teachers, non-Indian pupils in Indian schools, education research, pupil guidance, school committees on reserves; transport, including agency motor vehicles, and boats, launches and ferries; transportation, including freight or express, patients, school supplies, the destitute, school children, warrants, and air transport; social development, including care of children, aged allowances, community development, family allowances, the blind, miscellaneous assistance, income support, assisted living, welfare and education assistance to non-Indigenous living on reserves, rehabilitation services, Canada Pension Plan, house, and Work Opportunity Program; surveys and reserves; rights-of-way, including railroad, power line, roads, telephone lines, and foreshore rights; leases; sale of land; individual land holdings; miscellaneous land matters, including school land, cemetery sites, and federal, provincial and municipal land agreements; individual case files, including estates, enfranchisements, guardianship cases, the mentally incompetent, and on reserve housing loans; statistics, including vital; veterans, including burial of veterans, Veterans Land Act, disability pensions, pensions to dependents of deceased veterans, and soldier settlers; property damage and protection, including damage to property by causes other than fire, and forest and prairie fires; federal provincial relations, including welfare services; cultural affairs, including exposition; and policy research and evaluation, including meetings of band chiefs and finance.
The records can be consulted in Vancouver, B.C.
