Fonds / Collection

District of West Vancouver fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

textual record

Date

1920

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence between C.M.C. [Clerk Municipal Council] James Ollason and various correspondents. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order within alphabetical sub-headings based on correspondent surname or organizational name. Materials related to a particular subject may not be consistently arranged alphabetically. Some correspondence included in the file falls outside the specified date range. The file includes records regarding the following: A - request for sign at Marine Drive, complaint re: dangerous conditions at Piccadilly and Dale Road, Better Housing Act supervising architect application, request for tax sale information, property tax; Advertising - tax sale notices listed in the Province, Sun, World and West Van-Courier; Assessment - complaints, results of Court of Revision; Applications - submitted applications and appointments for Office Assistant (Miss Ritchie) and Assistant Municipal Clerk (Mr. Cook), interview schedules; B – BC Electric Railway Company erection of poles, BC Tel connection expansion, petition for bus route extension (municipal ferry to Altamont Park), Burrard Inlet Tunnel and Bridge Co. annual meeting, request for road improvements, Elsie Howay and John Lawson (rent and removal of 18th St shack); Bank of British North America – coupons, statement of accounts, Victory Loan 1919 contribution, interest on loans; Bonds – solicitation, rates, offerings; Building Inspector – applications for building permits, collection of fees; Buildings on public property – listing of properties, letters of notification to owners; C – removal of dangerous trees, request for improvements (roads, signs), Capilano Timber Co. taxes and land deeds, census (Nov. 1, 1920); D – Dominion Securities Corp, report on temporary/permanent supply of water for Whytecliff (J. Duncan Water Works Engineer), request for opening and grading of roads, Chief J.S. Yates membership in Dominion Association of Fire Chiefs, J. Ollason income tax; Dominion Government – Report of Inspector of Municipalities 1919, municipal employee income tax, appropriation of Hollyburn Wharf and Marine Drive Bridge; E – property taxes, election results; Engineer (H.V. Bell) - Engineers reports, including requests for opening roads / sidewalks / trails, public conveniences, subdivision plan bylaw, report on restoration and protection of Capilano Bridge Marine Drive (E.C. Matheson, Consulting Engineer); F – petition for funding West Vancouver Volunteer Fire Department, petition re: Sylvan Trail (Nelson Ave/Old Keith Road); Farmer, J.G. (C.M.C. North Vancouver District) - Marine Drive bridge; Ferries (West Vancouver Ferry Company) - accidents/collisions, contract negotiations, ticket sales, insurance tenders and renewal, statement of operation (1916-1919); Fire - request for fire fighting equipment; G – request for opening of road, stump removal, sidewalks, building permit, destruction of tent caterpillar, Good Roads League of British Columbia convention and resolutions, subdivisions, license for Ambleside Hall; H – supply of dog tags, opening of roads in Whytecliff, request for available tax sale lands, hospital patient accounts; Health and Police (Dr. Stainsby, Medical Health Officer; F. Squires, Sanitation Inspector; H.V. Bell, Police, F.V. Guinan complaint, public damage in Caulfeild, outbreak of measles, public washrooms requiring attention, report on license for public dance in Ambleside Hall, analysis of milk sold in district; Hospitals - Vancouver General Hospital bills for patient care, admissions of residents, payment of fees; Housing scheme and loan - applications for loans under Soldiers Housing Scheme, approval letter, conditions of loan, letters of application resignation; I – Victory bonds; J – application for water service, felling of dangerous tree, request for improvements (road conditions); K – City of Kamloops re: highway connecting B.C. interior and coast, appointment of T. Korner architect under Soldier’s Housing Scheme, Kiwanis club; L – Ladies Auxiliary G.W.V.A. tag day, notification of J. Lawson re: 18th St building removal, Lion Shingle Mills Ltd. tramway; M – complaint re: stealing of stones, request for road extension, Dundarave sports club regatta; Minutes – notices, rules and regulations covering acquiring of land and building of dwellings for returned soldiers Mc – discrepancy on hospital account, complaint against assessment (McTaggart and Ellis) results of court of resolution; N – North Shore Hospital Committee; North Vancouver (C.M.C. City of North Vancouver R. Archibald - plans for North Shore Hospital, registration of birth, deaths, marriages, discussion re: amalgamation of North Shore Police forces; O – Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation bonds P – price list of municipal tax sale lands, post office mail contract, request for road improvements, Declaration of Incorporation of the North Shore Memorial Hospital; Pacific Great Eastern Railway – schedules, children playing on track; Petitions - sidewalk (Argyle and 21st St), P.G.E. station at 23rd St, public recreation grounds; Publicity - West Vancouver publicity department; Provincial Government – Report on returned soldiers commission, election results, approval of bylaw no. 134 extraordinary traffic regulation, Health Act re: sanitary control at lumber and mining camps, Better Housing Act, water works bylaw (no. 145), list of BC hospitals; R – request for sidewalk, replacement of floats and approaches Horseshoe Bay and Fisherman’s Cove, Caulfeild fire hose, business license fees; Registrar – certificate of payment of taxes rubber stamp, notices of 1920 tax sale; Robson, R.G. (solicitor for West Vancouver) – D.L. 557, memorial fund, separation, housing scheme loan conditions, Gintzburger tax sale; S – fire insurance, sinking fund statement, sidewalk petition Statistics - West Vancouver ferries passenger statistics (1920), sinking fund; Schools (West Vancouver Board of School Trustees) – statement of estimates, caterpillar infestation, request for street lighting; T – report on engineering profession, road extension request; Tax sale - certificates of title; Tenders – printers for financial statements; U – Union of British Columbia Municipalities conference, long-distance telephone tariffs; Statistics - Extracts from minutes between Collector and Assessor, appointment, duties, deadlines; Vancouver City - cooperation between water departments, Greater Vancouver Peace Celebration; V - Victoria Real Estate Exchange, voters list 1920, plan for Capilano Indian Reserve, Vancouver Harbour Commissioners; Workman’s Compensation Board – deductions from pay rolls; West Vancouver Land Company (George Hay) - sale of tax land; W - insurance, war memorial, Dundarave Wharf float, Colonel Whyte, soldier settlement; Y – request for land and building assessment;

Physical Description

39 cm of texual records

Reference Code

CA BWVA F060-S003-F009

Accession Number

2020-011

Creator

District of West Vancouver. Legislative Services

Creator Bio

View Administrative History and Biographical Sketch

Notes

Title based on the contents of the file. There are no headings for the letters Q, X, Z.

Copyright / Terms of Use

Records are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (RSBC 1996, ch. 165). However, records are eligible for release for the purposes of historical research under section 36(1)(c) – personal information relates to individuals who have been dead for 20 years; and section 36(1)(d) – the information is contained in records that are over 100 years old.

Repository

West Vancouver Archives

Other Reference Number

1600-05.009

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