Fonds / Collection

District of West Vancouver fonds

Description Level

File

GMD

textual record

Date

1927

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. Some correspondence included in the file falls outside the specified date range. The file includes records regarding the following: A – requests for improvements (sidewalks, property access), A.E. Ames + Co. re: financial statistics, auto camp application, bylaw requests, quote for waterworks pipe, regulations on rabbit breeding industry, application and opposition to foxes (D.L. 1040); B – B.C. Telephone Co. (list of street light locations, fire alarm system updates, pole mileage, 1 b&w photograph of BC Electric Railway Co. Ltd. proposed sub-station, Theo. Korner Architectural drawing, 1927), tenders for Nelson Creek Water Supply, street paving and ornamental street lighting (1 b&w photograph – B.C. Concrete Co. Ltd decorative concrete street light), Barton application for rearing rabbits (zoning, building specifications), B.C. Bordessa (Temporary Engineer appointment), permission to erect business sign, property assessment and transfers, trade licenses, poll tax payments, camping permits, requests for improvements (roads, culverts, stump removal), trespassing on Y.W.C.A. Copper Cove camp; C – Westinghouse ornamental street light pamphlet, Capilano Timber Co., injury and damage claims, ferry passenger rescue, Good Roads League convention, Elk’s Day celebration and fundraising, requests for improvements (roads, driveway access, trees, street lighting), building permit monthly particulars, renegotiation of Ferry employee wages, subdivision application (D.L. 775); Circulars – correspondence sent to several persons re: property taxes, street right-of-way, employment, “waterfront park”, call for tenders, invitations; Councillors – internal correspondence to/regarding councillors re: meetings, phone calls, retirement, leave of absence, expenditures on Marine Dr. (August 1927); D – requests for improvements (roads, signs on private property, trees, sidewalk, boulevard), permit applications (building, beach fire), water main installation, garbage collection; Diamond Jubilee – Canadian Jubilee Celebration Committee; Dominion Government – income tax, Hollyburn Wharf repairs; Duncan, J. (Municipal Engineer) – reports; E – retail license, employment application (Assistant Engineer), requests for improvements (roads, water access), poll tax receipts, contract for municipal projects; Estimates – municipal estimates from 1925-1927; F – building permits, requests for road improvements and extension, fundraising permission; Ferries – correspondence with Captain A.N. Edwards (Ferry Manager) – employment, schedules, wage agreements, new boat, insurance policies, injury claims, financial accounts; G – requests for improvements (roads, flooding, sidewalks), death of Mr. Gintzburger, damage claim (Chas. Nelson), furnace replacement, poll tax, complaint re: care of Cenotaph, damage to Whytecliff P.G.E. station, fire truck tender (1 b&w photograph – Gotfredson fire engine), A. Gracey report on Hollyburn Ski Camp sanitation; H – Hollyburn Lumber Co. Ltd. lumber sales, 1926 building permit totals, Library Board grant request, taxation act amendment, requests for improvements (opening roads, road conditions, sidewalks, signs, tap at cemetery, resident-only traffic on Radcliffe Ave); Health – report from A. Gracey (Sanitary Inspector) effluent from Pauline Johnson School; Hospitals (Vancouver General and North Vancouver) – hospital grant, patient admissions, tag day request, payment of accounts; Housing Loan arrears – notices of outstanding payments; I – Inco Factory tour (Imperial Oil), timber sale inquiry; Insurance – municipal insurance policies, fire brigade, ferries and passenger busses, tenders; J – B.C. Telephone fire alarm service, requests for improvements (road conditions, removal of culvert), Confederation Jubilee Celebration Committee members, advocacy for Provincial Government Health Insurance measure; K – Ku Klux Klan resolutions, requests for improvements (roads, trees, grading, rock removal); L – Municipal Proportional Representation Act, population report to Vancouver Sun (8000), injury claim, request re: road, sign, grant for West Vancouver Baseball Club; Light – petitions/applications for streetlights, B.C. Electric Railway Co. extension details; Lions Gate Bridge – First Narrows Bridge Committee minutes, solicitor letter; M – West Vancouver Playgrounds Committee re: Memorial Park improvements, injury claim, stationary tender, requests for improvements (road conditions, sidewalk, stump removal, signs); Mc – building permits, First Narrows tunnel proposal, requests for road and lane improvements; N – municipal contract specifications, culvert crossing; North Vancouver Board of Trade – gas services; North Vancouver City (C.M.C. R. Archibald) – Eagle Lake water supply, exchange of bylaws, statement of accounts, Keith Road Bridge work, minutes of joint meeting West Vancouver, North Vancouver City and North Vancouver District; North Vancouver District (C.M.C. D.G. Tate) – accounts settlement, Keith Road bridge, number of pupils in schools; North Vancouver Stages Co. – license renewal; North Shore Hospital Board – joint meeting minutes Nov. 30, 1927; O – event invitations, requests for improvements (trees, private property improvements); P – Rat Portage Lumber Co. lumber tender, poll tax collection, request for improvements (road conditions, property water connection, street drainage), ferry insurance, estimates for Memorial Park improvements; Petitions – roads, public comfort station in Dundarave; Pacific Great Eastern Railway – right-of-way, directional signs; Police (F.W. Squires, Police Chief) – reports and actions by Police department, billiard room, West Vancouver Social and Athletic Club incorporation, response to sawmill operation complaint (zoning), Pacific Stage operations, parking and traffic, peddlers license, council enforcement of police uniforms, ledger of hospital admissions; Poll Tax – exemption claims, distribution of receipt books, two unused poll tax receipt books; Prince of Wales – invitation to visit West Vancouver, regrets sent by secretary; Provincial Government – correspondence with various departments includes materials from 1922-1926 relating to activities that extend into 1927, Highway classification – Marine Drive (1922-1923) and petition for reclassification 1927, water usage (1925-1927), highway signs (1926-1927), Better Housing Loan, Bill granting power to First Narrows Bridge Co Ltd re: collection of tolls, probate/estate office, trade licenses; Provincial Government: Marine Drive Extension – Caulfeild to Whytecliff (1924-1927), engineer reports (W.G. Swan), highway classification, expenditures, progress reports; R – requests for road improvements and available property, D.L. 237 subdivision plan (two maps), council directive to maintain West Vancouver as strictly residential, lumber tender, renewal of agreement: Engineer employees of the West Vancouver Municipal Ferries, opening of Memorial Park playground; District Registrar – sale of land for taxes, certificates of title; Robson, Gordon (Municipal Solicitor) – legal advice provided re: First Narrows Bridge, Bills, bylaw amendments and approvals, issuance of licenses, labour/employee agreements, liability claims, zoning; Rotary Clinic for Diseases of the Chest – patient information; S – requests for improvements (crossings to property, road conditions, parking, relocation of water main), Salvation Army grant; School Trustees – trustee resignation, requests for cheques (employee salaries, sidewalk improvements, tree removal), transport of children on P.G.E., health and safety; Stainsby, Dr. F. – monthly infectious disease report, patient condition reports; T – report outlining benefits of Lions Gate Bridge, business licenses and sign requests, requests for improvements (water connection, sidewalks, roads, boulevard fill and clearing); Tenders – submissions for municipal contracts (insurance, printing, bonds), circulars sent to businesses, quotes and particulars; Tender deposit receipts – receipts and statement of accounts for contracted tenders; Town Planning – Town Planning Institute of Canada convention, West Vancouver Town Planning committee re: zoning, surveys; U – relocation of Keith Rd in D.L. 890 (includes map plan), subdivision plans and map D.L. 772; Union of British Columbia Municipalities – draft constitution, meeting and convention, delegate travel arrangements, teacher pensions; V – correspondence with R.J. Verne re: operations of Hollyburn Ridge Ski Camp, Vancouver Publicity Bureau, Mother’s Pension, Vancouver Creosoting Co. Ltd. pamphlet; Vancouver City – correspondence with various agencies in Vancouver and C.M.C. W. McQueen, gasoline pumps on streets, minutes of Municipal Representatives (1926-1927), Lions Gate Bridge Committee meeting, Vancouver Board of Trade, British Columbia Library survey, automobile insurance; W – building permits, fundraising requests, injury and accident claims, requests for clearing of trees; West Vancouver Agricultural and Horticultural Association – grant request; West Vancouver Board of Trade – letter of support of Lions Gate Bridge, Ambleside Park project; West Vancouver Musical Society – invitation to event at Ambleside Hall; West Vancouver Ratepayers Association – resolutions, Ambleside Park project, Capilano Bridge and Marine Drive improvements, recommended amendments to Road and Bridge bylaw; Y – request for septic tank installation, United Church property assessment, J.S. Yates (Fire Marshall) sanitary report of Hollyburn Ski Camp;

Physical Description

36 cm of texual records, 3 b&w photographs

Reference Code

CA BWVA F060-S003-F016

Accession Number

2021-026

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

1600-05.016

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