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Water Works ledger
CA CVIC Series CRS-270 · 1873-1892
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal recording water works billing accounts. The billing of customers was performed on a bi-monthly basis.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-259 · 1920-1922
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a list of agreements of sale between the City and various parties for properties reverted to the City for default of taxes. Includes tax roll number, date, name, legal description, and purchase price.
Part of single volume including CRS 256, 257, and 258; located at pp. 120-121

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Register of tax sale deeds
CA CVIC Series CRS-258 · 1919
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a register of deeds owned by various parties as a result of purchasing tax sale properties from the City. Includes number, date, legal description, certificate number, and remarks.
Part of single volume including CRS 256, 257, and 259; located at pp. 62-81 (numbers 1-346) and pp. 100-112 (numbers 347-667)

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-257 · 1892-1956
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a register of agreements and leases between the City and various parties. Includes registration number, date, name, and nature of agreement.
Part of single volume including CRS 256, 258, and 259; located at pp. 82-99 (agreements 1-380, 1892-1927) and pp. 122-154 (agreements 380-471, 1927-1956)

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Register of real property
CA CVIC Series CRS-256 · 1872-1957
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a register of real property owned by the City. Includes registration number, date of purchase, legal description, size, purchase price, and remarks.
Part of single volume including CRS 257, 258, and 259; located at pp. 2-48

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Supplementary tax roll
CA CVIC Series CRS-238 · 1979-1993
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, copies of cheques, cheque requisitions, journal vouchers, journal entries, and supplementary roll changes used to document revisions to the assessment roll and any additional taxes or refunds due property owners
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Tax sale redemption receipts
CA CVIC Series CRS-237 · 1937-1986
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of receipts issued upon the redemption of properties scheduled for tax sale by the payment of back taxes owed to the City.
Arranged numerically by receipt number, which reflects the chronological order in which payment was received

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-233 · 1908-1909
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a list of trade license holders. It was used to record the amount of taxes that anyone operating a business (e.g. real estate agents, laundry operators, doctors, hack drivers) was required to pay to the City semi-annually. The roll records the names of trade license holders, their occupation or business, amount of tax paid, number of receipt, date paid, and notes.

Although by-laws 620 and 624, passed on 14 July 1909 and 2 August 1909 respectively, deal specifically with trade licenses, revenue bylaws beginning in 1866 dealt with raising money by taxation of businesses; schedules attached to these bylaws give the amounts that different types of businesses were required to pay. For the general bylaw closest in time to these records, see bylaw 321 (The Revenue Bylaw, 1900).

Trade licenses were the responsibility of the City Collector.
Arranged alphabetically by trade license holder

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Road tax receipts
CA CVIC Series CRS-231 · 1882
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of receipts issued for payment of yearly road taxes (one item only)

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-206 · 1961-1998
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of City expenditure details for employees and elected officials as required under Section 397 of the Municipal Act and the Public Bodies Information Act.
There are gaps in this series for 1963, 1995, and 1997

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Audited financial statements
CA CVIC Series CRS-205 · 1983-1997
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of yearly audited financial statements for the City.
There is a gap in this series for 1993

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Revenue journal
CA CVIC Series CRS-173 · 1892-1912
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal documenting revenue received from property taxes. The types of revenue received are described as revenue, real, wild land, personal, and interest. Data elements include a description of the revenue, from whom it was received, the amount, and the date received. At the end of each year the yearly revenue totals were paid into the City's treasury.
The title on the cover of the volumes is Form J.
Accession number is 99201-37

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Real Estate tax arrears
CA CVIC Series CRS-171 · 1867-1873
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a list of tax arrears owed to the City. Data elements include the legal description of the property, the owner's name, the overdue taxes for each year, and an annotation stating whether or not the taxes have been paid. Arrangement is by legal description.
Title taken from the front cover of the volume.
Accession number is 99201-37

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Assessment photographs
CA CVIC Series CRS-170 · [195-]
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of photographs created by the Assessor to assist in the assessment of taxes. Photographs depict both commercial and residential properties.
Arranged alphabetically by street name.
Records acquired as accession number 98202-19

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Voucher journal
CA CVIC Series CRS-169 · 1954-1955
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal documenting voucher purchases.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Fire insurance register
CA CVIC Series CRS-168 · 1940-1951
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a bound volume documenting City owned properties and their assessed value. These assessments were used as the basis of insuring City-owned property. Data elements include the item number, name of property, location or legal description, type of construction, risk number, and value of building and contents.
Series is arranged in three year blocks : 1940-1942; 1943-1945; 1946-1948; and 1949-1951.
Title taken from the front cover of the volume

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Tax sale record
CA CVIC Series CRS-167 · 1877-1945 (predominantly 1877-1929)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal documenting private properties sold by the City of Victoria for non-payment of property taxes. Data elements include the legal description of the property, the total delinquent taxes, the name and address of the property owner, the method by which the owner was contacted, a description of the real property sold, the name and address of the purchaser at the tax sale, and an annotation stating whether or not the property owner redeemed the property.
Descriptions are arranged chronologically in groupings by the date of the tax sale.
The 1915-1945 volume consists of the tax sale record for 1915-1919 and aggregate tax sales information for 1915-1949 (the latter at p. 38).
Title taken from the cover of the volumes

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Car allowance reports
CA CVIC Series CRS-166 · 1952-1957
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of monthly and annual accounts of car expenditures. Car allowance payments document monthly vehicle usage whereas car allowance mileage reports document monthly mileage costs.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-165 · 1950-1951
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the monthly tabulation of salary and benefits of the employees of each department. Data elements include: pay roll number, department, salary, unemployment insurance city share/employees share, superannuation, income tax, B.C. Hospital, Canada savings bonds, M.S.A., City Hall union dues, Great West Life [Insurance Co.], Excel Life, Canada Life, C.E.H.A., fire union dues, police union dues, I.U.O.E. Local #918, London Life, V.F.M.B.S., advances, and net salary.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Better Housing Act journal
CA CVIC Series CRS-164 · 1931-1935
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal documenting the Municipality's administration of the Better Housing Act (S.B.C. 1919, c. 8). This Act was passed by the Provincial Government to aid in the promotion of better housing. Series documents loans by the City to individuals. Data elements include date, total of money paid, principal, interest, taxes, insurance, and administration. Monthly totals are calculated and carried forward to the beginning of each month.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Bills payable journal
CA CVIC Series CRS-163 · 1911-1960
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a special journal documenting the bills payable of the City. Series deals primarily with accounts held by banks, most likely with debenture accounts. From 1911-1919, accounts are drawn up with the Bank of British North America and from 1919-1960 with the Bank of Montreal.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Registration of debentures
CA CVIC Series CRS-162 · 1923-1946
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a register documenting the sale of City debentures. Data elements include the file number, date of registration, by-law number, the debenture numbers, the name and address of the bearer, and the date of transfer of the debentures, if applicable.
Title taken from the front cover of the volume

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-161 · 1919-1931
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a daily journal compiled by the City Assessor. The journal documents daily appointments relating to the functional areas of assessment, building inspection, and purchasing. The journal was used originally in 1919 with other entries from the years 1920 and 1931

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Coupon record
CA CVIC Series CRS-160 · 1917-1940
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a ledger of debenture accounts documenting the amount of interest due each month. Data elements include the name of the debenture, the number of the corresponding bylaw, the amount of the loan, the rate of interest, the half-yearly interest, date of issue of the loan, date due, and the interest dates for each year.
Accounts are arranged roughly chronologically, in the order in which the debentures had been released to the public.
Title taken from the individual sheets. The title of the front cover is transfer binder, coupon sheets

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Boulevard maintenance ledger
CA CVIC Series CRS-159 · 1914-1916
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a ledger documenting boulevard maintenance taxes. These taxes were collected in accordance to By-law No. 956 which states that 'for the purpose of providing annually the required sum to defray the cost of maintenance and upkeep of the boulevards on all streets in the City now and hereafter to be boulevarded there is hereby assessed upon the real property and portions of real property fronting upon any boulevard now or hereafter constructed, and there shall be levied and collected in each year an annual rate of four-fifths of a cent. per square foot of the area included in such boulevards.' Ledger consists of a calculation of street frontage, legal description of the property, and rates by year.
Arranged alphabetically by street name

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department