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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
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
CA CVIC Series CRS-6 · 1956-1961 (predominantly 1960-1961)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence of this special committee of Council, which was created to investigate possibilities for development of a multi-purpose civic auditorium

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Special reports and projects
CA CVIC Series CRS-263 · 1884-1939
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series includes of correspondence, reports, contracts, agreements, tenders, specifications, and resolutions apparently removed by the City Clerk's Office and retained in groupings by topic. Material pertains to public utilities, transportation, and the B.C. Electric Railway Company (1938-1939); the Victoria and Sidney Railway 1892-1906); and the Songhees Indian Reserve (1884-1906).
Series forms part of earlier City of Victoria Archives' "Series IV, Special Reports and Projects," for which an item list is available

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Stock book
CA CVIC Series CRS-303 · 1916-1917
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a daily journal of goods purchased by the City. Includes order number and account name, amount purchased, unit pricing, ledger category, and total price per order for journal entry.

Victoria (B.C.). Stores Department
Suppliers list
CA CVIC Series CRS-284 · 1937-1947
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal describing details of equipment and supplies available for purchase from various suppliers and manufacturers. The entries generally refer to goods other than vehicles and machinery (which are described in series CRS 248), such as flags, florist supplies, and fire extinguishers. Most entries describes the supplier, details of the product, and the cost.
Arranged alphabetically by type of equipment or supply

Victoria (B.C.). Purchasing 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
Terence O'Grady files
CA CVIC Series CRS-123 · 1951-1969 (predominantly 1951-1965)
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of files from the office of City Solicitor Terence O'Grady (1956-1972). They include bylaws and correspondence on local improvements, legislative regulations, agreements and other matters as well as minutes of various committees with which the Solicitor was concerned.
The series is incomplete. According to O'Grady, his successor, J.S. de Villiers, discarded a great number of these files. The fact that the sequential numbering is complete suggests that the ordering may not be original.
See also CRS 119, CRS 121, CRS 122

Victoria (B.C.). City Solicitor
CA CVIC Series CRS-87 · 1928
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-36 · 1951
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of mainly of the minutes of this City Council committee. Includes minutes from two meetings of the Greater Victoria Transportation Committee, one in 1951 and one in 1952. Also includes copies of agendas for the last half of 1951 that were originally filed with the City Clerk for information

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Vehicle purchases journal
CA CVIC Series CRS-248 · 1934-1948
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a journal describing details of cars and trucks purchased by the City. Also describes, under "miscellaneous equipment," purchases of such things as cash registers, air conditioners, washing machines, lawn mowers, and other machinery. Each entry describes the supplier, details of the product, and the cost.
Arranged by department and, within each departmental section, by date

Victoria (B.C.). Purchasing 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
Water Committee minutes
CA CVIC Series CRS-89 · 1927-1934
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee. Some of the records in the 1927-1928 volume also pertain to the Advisory Water Board. The volumes, which include the minutes of several other committees, are not indexed.
Arranged chronologically.
There is a gap in this series from 1929 to 1933

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk
Water Works cost ledger
CA CVIC Series CRS-155 · 1949-1950
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a special ledger dealing with the Victoria water works. The ledgers contain detailed information on specific water accounts.
Title taken from the front of the ledger

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
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
Water Works workbook
CA CVIC Series CRS-288 · 1921-1933
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a set of technical working journals used for calculations and estimates relating to the water supply. Includes information on rainfall, reservoir capacity, pipes and mains, water usage, and other matters related to the supply and distribution of water

Victoria (B.C.). Water Works
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
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
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-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
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