Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, accounts and contracts relating to the Royal Oak War Agricultural Committee, later the Saanich Peninsula Farm Labour Committee. Collection includes four rubber stamps.
Royal Oak War Agricultural CommitteeFonds consists of correspondence, reports, minutes and other material documenting the operation and activities of the Administration Department of Saanich from 1956 to 1983. Includes records relating to such topics as budgets and finance, special events, land disposition, capital projects and engineering, by-laws, school boards and libraries, recreation and recycling.
District of Saanich - Administration DepartmentFonds consists of contracts and documents relating to the construction of roads, purchase of lands, oaths, regulations governing soldiers’ home sites, and expropriation notices. Includes contracts for Shelbourne Street, Saanich Road, East Saanich Road, Burnside Road, Douglas Street, Carey Road, Gorge Road, North Quadra Street, and Lake Road and the purchase of land from James Pim in 1907, site of the first municipal hall.
District of SaanichFonds consists of files created by the Saanich Mayor’s Office from 1915 to 1984. Fonds includes correspondence, committee minutes, reports, proposals and studies generated or acquired during the course of daily operations. Also included are invitations to community functions, directives to staff, and replies to residents’ letters. Records are primarily from the administrations of Stanley Murphy (1962-1964), Hugh Austin Curtis (1965-1973), Edward Fook Lui Lum (1974-1977) and Municipal Administrator William Tremayne (1973-1985). Also included are various Police Commission records from 1915 to 1984.
Saanich Mayor's OfficeThe Planning Files are largely text, with maps, plans (some of these hand-drawn by petitioners to the Board of Variance) and a few reports used or produced by the Planning Department. The records consist mainly of correspondence between planning staff and members of the public or developers. Typical letters addressed to the Planning Department request permission to subdivide, rezone or purchase property, or to contravene setback and height restrictions. There are also a number of petitions from local area citizens' groups protesting decisions made by the municipality, excerpts from committee minutes, decisions written by officials, and copies of pertinent by-laws.
Saanich Planning DepartmentFonds consists of Saanich Public Works documents and includes plans, petitions, correspondence and copies of legal documents relating to such topics as subdivisions, road and sidewalk construction, sewers and drainage. Fonds includes a number of photographs relating to Public Works issues.
Saanich Public Works DepartmentFonds consists of records originating from the CCF Hall on Douglas Street and relating to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (local, provincial, and federal groups) and to its successive form, the New Democratic Party (NDP). The fonds includes club constitution and by-laws, minutes, legal documents, financial records, correspondence, maps of polling areas, local charter certificates, event posters, news clippings and a scrapbook, organizational publications, photographs and sound & video recordings. The fonds is arranged into 12 series: Constitution & By-laws, Minutes, Legal Documents, Financial Records, Correspondence, Polling Areas, Certificates, Ephemera, News Clippings, Publications, Photographs, and Sound & Video Recordings.
Co-operative Commonwealth FederationFonds consists of personal records relating to Fred Webb and Eleanor Baran Webb, as well as general collected material, and includes bank books, invoices and other financial records; education certificates; report cards, brochures, programmes and other ephemera; a journal; newspaper clippings; assorted books; and a photograph.
Webb, Frederick ArthurFonds consists of material relating to Helen Elliott’s work for the District of Saanich and includes photographs, correspondence, ephemera, news clippings, 2 certificates, and 2 ledgers.
Elliott, HelenThese records were created by the Saanich Business Licence Department, and consist of applications to carry on trade or business, correspondence and forms relating to the issuance of licences, business license cards, and correspondence and documents relating to the administration of the Business Licence Department.
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