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Sinking fund ledger
CA CVIC Series CRS-158 · 1909-1937
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a ledger of sinking fund accounts. Each sinking fund account documents the annual accumulation of interest.
There is an index at the front of the volume

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
Sewers roll
CA CVIC Series CRS-129 · 1898-1910
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series records assessments made and taxes charged and collected on sewer connections in the City under bylaws enacted to raise funds for extending the sewer system. The rolls were compiled by the City Engineer and filed in the office of the Treasurer for collection of taxes levied. See bylaws 284, 341, 400, 402, 424, 456, 516, 557, 592, 616, and 728.

Entries are arranged alphabetically by name of person assessed, and provide information on the number and kinds of buildings on a property, the kinds of sewer connections, the foot frontage of the property, and the relations between owners and occupants. Each page contains a list of abbreviations used for data entry. There is a gap in this series for 1905.

Sample of data elements taken from 1903 roll:

Title: Sewers By-law, 1902 - Roll for 1903

  • Owner's name and address, if outside the City or 'City' address insufficient
  • Occupier's name, if tenant to owner, or other than owner, and address (if not resident on the land or in the City or 'City' address insufficient)
  • Street, or streets, containing sewer on which land fronts
  • Whether connected with main or branch sewer
  • Subdivision
  • Lot
  • Block
  • Section
  • Number of buildings (if any)
  • Class of buildings (if any)
  • Number of closets
  • Number of wash houses
  • Number of livery stables
  • Feet frontage
  • Date of notice pursuant to S.S.D. of Sec. 3
  • How notice sent
  • Total amount assessed
  • Date of demand made on occupier
  • Date of demand made on owner
  • Amount paid
  • Date of payment
  • Number of receipt
  • Remarks
Victoria (B.C.). Treasurer
Sewer easements
CA CVIC Series CRS-225 · 1916-1923
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, and agreements pertaining to sewer easements sought by the City. This fragment of the original series comprises files 72-75

Victoria (B.C.). City Solicitor
Scrapbook
CA CVIC Series CRS-204 · 1947-1963 (predominantly 1948-1952)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a photocopied scrapbook of news clippings pertaining to the Victoria Police Department

Victoria (B.C.). Police Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-82 · 1927-1931
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee. The volume, which includes the minutes of several other committees, is not indexed.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
CA CVIC Series CRS-235 · 1886-1994
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the City's copy of burial permits. Each permit originally consisted of three parts: the City copy, the family copy, and a receipt. Each permit is numbered and captures the following information: name, age, where born, where died, date of death, day and hour of burial, officiating clergy, block, plot and road, undertaker, reserve plots, and fees.

The earliest permits are contained in bound volumes and date from December 1886 to October 1915. In October 1915 the system was changed to a three-part carbon-copy form. And the data collected changed slightly to include cause of death, re-opening, interment, exhumation, and total cost.
Other forms related to the burial may be attached to the burial permit, such as Order for Interment of Body, Medical Certificate of Death, Warrant to Bury After a View, Certificate of Cremation, and other forms and correspondence related to the transportation of remains.
Arranged by permit number.
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, only permits older than 20 years may be viewed.

Victoria (B.C.). Parks Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-266 · 1929-1990
Part of City of Victoria fonds

The series consists of receipts for a contract for the maintenance of grass plots in Ross Bay Cemetery. Each license consists of two parts, a duplicate that remained in the volume, and an original that was retained by the applicant. Each record contains the following data elements: license number, name, address, amount paid, location of plot(s) purchased, date and was signed by both the Secretary of Ross Bay Cemetery and the undertaker or purchaser.

The maintenance of grass plots was established by bylaw 2452 "Ross Bay Cemetery Grass Plots, Maintenance Fund bylaw, 1928" and adopted by a resolution of Council 29 April 1929.

Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, only permits older than 20 years may be viewed

Victoria (B.C.). Parks
CA CVIC Series CRS-178 · 1895-1955
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of receipts for licenses for plots in Ross Bay Cemetery. Each license consists of two parts, a duplicate that remained in the volume, and an original that was retained by the applicant. Each record contains the following data elements: license number, name, address, amount paid, location of plot(s) purchased, date and was signed by both the Secretary of Ross Bay Cemetery and the undertaker or purchaser.
Starting in volume 5, copies of "Application for a deed of cemetery plot" and correspondence are often attached to the license

Victoria (B.C.). Parks Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-234 · 1873-[ca. 1932]
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of records of ownership and usage of burial plots in Ross Bay Cemetery. There are five volumes in this series. Each volume contains the following data elements: block, folio, road, plot, name and remarks. The folio number refers to the page on which the name appears in the plot books (CRS?), the name section shows what person is interred in each grave, and the remarks section contains notes on the transfer of plots, reserve plots, exhumations, re-interments, and depths.

The organization of the volumes reflects the layout of the cemetery, a grid system that uses alphanumeric designations for the blocks, roads, direction, and plots.
The first volume, dated 1873 to ca. 1907, covers blocks A through M (not always in order). The other four volumes contain the same information as the earlier book, but have been updated. Volumes 2 and 3 contains blocks A through R. Volume 4 includes blocks S through W as well as additions to blocks Q and N and Sections 1 and 2, which were new areas of the Cemetery opened up around the time of the first World War. Volume 5 has the addition of sections 3 and 4, which were new areas of the Cemetery, opened up in the 1920s. Volumes 3 and 5 are a set.

The blocks were owned by either a church or the City. For example, blocks A, B, and F where owned by the Episcopal Church, block C and D by the Catholic Church, blocks E, F, K, L, and M by the City, block G by the Weslyan Church, and block H by the Presbyterian Church.

Victoria (B.C.). Parks Department
CA CVIC Series CRS-264 · 1883-1938
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of records of interments in Ross Bay Cemetery. There are eight volumes in this series. The first three volumes (1883-1890) contain the following data elements: name, age (yrs/mos.), where born, where died, date of death, day and hour of burial, officiating clergyman, block, plot, road, undertaker, and remarks. The data elements in volumes 4 and 5 (1890-1908) were changed slightly and include permit number, name, age (yrs./mos.), where born, where died, day and hour of burial, officiating clergyman, block, East or West, plot, road, undertaker, and remarks.

>From 1883 to 1908 the volumes are organized bi-monthly. The first volume contains burials for January, March, May, July, Sept and November 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886 and January and March 1887. The next volume contains burials for February, April, June, August, October, December 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889 and January 1890. The information entered into these registers is not always complete and was updated. After March 1908, volumes 6, 7 and 8, the months are sequential in a single volumes.

The purpose for the unusual organization of the early records is not self evident. It is possible that the information recorded in these registers was entered at the cemetery by the caretaker. At the end of each month, the register may have been forwarded to the secretary of Ross Bay Cemetery at City Hall so the information could be entered into the Burial Register. During the time that the register was away from the cemetery, the caretaker could have recorded the burials in a second volume until the end of the month when the first register was returned and the second one sent to City Hall

Victoria (B.C.). Parks
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-281 · 1951-1956
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a register of applications to Council for rezoning land. Includes information on the application number, date, street, legal description of property, nature of the rezoning applied for, name of the applicant, and whether or not the application was approved.
Indexed numerically by application number and alphabetically by name of applicant

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
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
CA CVIC Series CRS-254 · 1889-1917
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal recording payment of licence fees for wholesale liquor distributors. Includes name of licensee, name of premises, street, payment details, and remarks.

Bylaw 503 indicates City Treasurer provenance from July 1907.
In same bound volumes with CRS 253, Wholesale Liquor Licences (volumes printed tete-beche).
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Returning Officer's reports
CA CVIC Series CRS-19 · 1890-1976
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of official reports sent from the Deputy Returning Officers to the Returning Officer and from the Returning Officer to the City Clerk documenting the results of elections, referenda, loan bylaws and other matters set to a public vote. The reports are based on the election record book (CRS 18)

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
CA CVIC Series CRS-102 · 1912-1936
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of letters sent from the Engineering Department to City Council and its Committees. Earlier reports to Council form part of the letterbook series (CRS 100).
Each volume includes an alphabetical index to subjects and correspondents

Victoria (B.C.). Engineering Department
Resolutions
CA CVIC Series CRS-7 · 1885-1977
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of formal statements of City Council agreed to after the consideration of a motion.
For indexes to the resolutions, see CRS 8

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Relief Committee minutes
CA CVIC Series CRS-81 · 1932
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee. The volume, which includes the minutes of several other committees, is not indexed.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
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
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-255 · 1915-1917
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a listing of persons applying for bartending licences and the status of their application. Includes application number and date, applicants name and address, and remarks. See bylaws 1728 and 1861.
Arranged chronologically

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
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