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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
Operational files 2
CA CVIC Series CRS-23 · 1961-1971 (predominantly 1964-1971)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of records created by the second City Manager. They pertain to virtually all areas of City activity. Earlier Manager's records are described in CRS 22 (predominantly 1950-1963), while later ones are described in CRS 124 (predominantly 1970-1977).
The files are arranged by subject within an overall numeric classification scheme. There are three general sequences of files in this series, with some overlap in dates and variations in the classification scheme: 1963-1965, 1966-1968, and 1969-1971. File classification lists are located at 1 A 1, folder 1

Victoria (B.C.). City Manager
Chinatown files
CA CVIC Series CRS-229 · [ca. 1903-1910]
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series includes plans of Chinatown consistent with, but somewhat earlier than, the corresponding sheets in the 1903-1909 set of fire insurance plans (F0006). The plans provide lot numbers as well as street addresses and descriptions of building use. Also included are photographs of the interior and exterior of buildings on Store and Fisgard Streets

Victoria (B.C.). Sanitary Inspector
Methodist Church plans
CA CVIC Series CRS-228 · 1924
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of original linen and blueprint plans of various Victoria Methodist churches, as surveyed by the Engineering and Surveys Division.
Microfilm copies are with the Engineering Department

Victoria (B.C.). Engineering Department
Minutes
CA CVIC Series CRS-227 · 1912-1928
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the minutes of the Board of Supervisors, which was constituted under bylaw 1301 (Building Bylaw, 1912), section 2, to hear appeals of decisions by building inspectors against proposed buildings

Victoria (B.C.). Board of Supervisors
Correspondence outward
CA CVIC Series CRS-226 · 1966
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of copies of general correspondence outward, much of it dealing with planning issues of the day

Victoria (B.C.). Community Development Department
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
CA CVIC Series CRS-224 · 1914-1950
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal of applications by the City for certificates of title from the Land Registry Office. Provides information on the date of the application, the vendor, a description of the parcel of land, the nature of the deed, the application number, and the date the certificate of title was received.
Arranged chronologically by date of application

Victoria (B.C.). City Solicitor
Day book
CA CVIC Series CRS-223 · 1877
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a daily journal of activities of a Water Works official

Victoria (B.C.). Water Works
Traffic Subcommittee records
CA CVIC Series CRS-221 · 1967-1969
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports of this subcommittee of Council's Group "B" Committee, which was created to investigate traffic and transportation issues and provide recommendations for changes to Council.
See also the records of the Traffic and Transportation Committee (CRS 220), a special committee of Council which preceded this committee

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
CA CVIC Series CRS-220 · 1965
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of this special committee of Council, which was created to investigate traffic and transportation issues and provide recommendations for changes to Council through its Group "B" Committee.
See also the records of the Traffic Subcommittee (CRS 221), which took over the functions of this committee

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Operational files 1
CA CVIC Series CRS-22 · 1938-1965 (predominantly 1950-1963)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of records created by the first City Manager. They pertain to virtually all areas of City activity. Later Manager's records are described in CRS 23 (predominantly 1964-1971) and CRS 124 (predominantly 1970-1977).
Files are arranged primarily by subject within a sequential numerical scheme reflecting a general alphabetical order. Individual descriptions include original file numbers, which range from 1 to 329. Unnumbered files are described after those so numbered.
See also CRS 142

Victoria (B.C.). City Manager
CA CVIC Series CRS-219 · 1967
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and plans of this special committee of Council, which was created to investigate the feasibility of a new convention centre

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Miscellaneous Council files
CA CVIC Series CRS-217 · 1926-1965
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of correspondence, briefs, declarations, petitions, briefs, and certificates relating to Council business that were either orphaned from their original filing systems or retained by the Clerk because they did not fit within the regular series of Council records

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
CA CVIC Series CRS-215 · 1951-1963
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of bylaws, notices to residents, correspondence, newspaper advertisements, and reports from the City Engineer and City Assessor regarding proposed local improvements such as sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and crossings.
All that remains of this series are the files for streets in the F-G alphabetical range. Specific streets included are Foul Bay, Frances, Gamma and Delta, Garden, Gladstone, Glasgow, and Gonzales

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
CA CVIC Series CRS-214 · 1962-1974
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of monthly reports submitted by the Engineering Department to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The information provided includes (where appropriate) name of building owner or applicant, location, type of use, kind of work to be done, value of construction, and number of new dwellings created

Victoria (B.C.). Engineering Department
Operational files
CA CVIC Series CRS-212 · 1951-1970
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of records created as a result of the City of Victoria's participation in the Capital Region Planning Board, which was constituted in 1951 under Provincial legislation and served as an advisory board for regional planning until its functions were taken over by the Capital Regional District in the late 1960s. The records include correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining to City planning, historical buildings, transportation, statistics, urban renewal, subdivisions and urban sprawl, street numbers and names, and parks.
For related records, see CRS 125 (Mayor's operational files)

Victoria (B.C.). Capital Region Planning Board of British Columbia
Operational files
CA CVIC Series CRS-211 · 1973-1974
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series includes minutes, agendas, and reports

Victoria (B.C.). Landlord and Tenant Advisory Bureau
Milk Inspector's records
CA CVIC Series CRS-210 · 1939-1950
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of butterfat tests book (1939-1949), bacteriological tests book (1947-1950), and a copy of "Testing milk and its products" signed by Tomas Lancaster, City Sanitary Inspector

Victoria (B.C.). Board of Health
Voters list
CA CVIC Series CRS-21 · 1865-1992 (predominantly 1908-1992)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of lists of all eligible voters. The lists were updated annually at first and later semi-annually. The only voters lists available before 1908 are those for 1865, 1885, and 1896.
By law, only records older than 20 years are available, and records that are available can be viewed but not copied

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk