Transcribed in 2021

November – December 2021:

Leah Minuk has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• July 20, 1896 – Champion Sculling Race Cancelled

Gerald Soon has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• June 22, 1896 – $1,000 Restored to Dominion Day Grant
• June 29,1896 – Telephone Switchboard Worth $2,000
• July 6, 1896 – Police Magistrate’s Salary Reduced

Hal Bell-Irving has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• June 8, 1896 – Dominion Day Celebrations In Question

Anonymous has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• July 13, 1896 – Proposal to Prevent Flooding Along The Fraser River

October 2021:

Anonymous has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1895:

• December 23, 1895 – Vancouver Owed $30,000 in Unpaid Taxes
• December 30, 1895 – Archie Robinson Appointed Market Clerk
• December 31, 1895 – Special Meeting Wraps Up 1895

Anonymous has also transcribed these Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• January 2, 1896 – Special Meeting Yields No Results
• January 3, 1896 – Second Meeting of Year Also Unsuccessful
• January 6, 1896 – Hamersley Must Return All Sinking Fund Commissions
• January 13, 1896 – Special Meeting Wraps Up Business from 1895

Joanne McCormick has transcribed these Vancouver City Council minutes from 1897:

• November 29, 1897 – C.P.R. Continues to press for Tax Exemption

September 2021:

Gerald Soon has transcribed these Vancouver City Council minutes from 1895:

• December 2, 1895 – Council Passes Lands to Vancouver Improvement Co., C. P. R.
• December 3, 1895 – Foreshore Rights Committee Struck
• December 9, 1895 – Weekly Market Established

Anonymous has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1896:

• December 16, 1895 – J. G. Jonah Appointed Fire Department Engineer

June / July 2021:

Gerald Soon has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from 1895:

• October 14, 1895 – “Not Legal” for Vancouverites to Trade Work for Taxes
• October 21, 1895 – Hospital Verandahs Need Repair
• October 23, 1895 – Special Meeting
• October 28 1895 – City Sidewalk Labour Free: Materials Must Be Found
• November 4, 1895 – City Solicitor Hamersley Resigns
• November 8, 1895 – Special Meeting to Settle Market Lease
• second meeting on November 8 – Second Meeting on Market Lease Yields No Results
• November 11, 1895 – False Creek Filling Up Fast
• November 18 1895 – Special Meeting to Discuss Street Lighting Contract
• November 19, 1895 at 10:00 am – Second Meeting to Review Lighting Contract
• another meeting later the same day November 19 at 7:30 pm – Discussion Continues on Lighting Contract

Hal Bell-Irving has transcribed Vancouver City Council meeting minutes from

• October 7, 1895 – City Council Declares Holiday to Attend New Westminster Fair

Joanne McCormick has transcribed Vancouver City Council meeting minutes from 1897:

• November 1, 1897 – Mount Pleasant, Fairview Need Sewerage Systems 
• November 8, 1897 – Pender Street in Unsafe Condition
• November 15 1897 – City Council Spends $2,000 on Klondike Advertising
• November 19, 1897 – McKinnon Block’s Roof to be Altered
• November 22, 1897 – Linton’s Cabins Now Rebuilt
• November 24, 1897 – CPR Asks for Tax Exemption

• Cathy Harmer has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from March 25 1895
• Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from September 3, 1895 and April 20, May 4, May 11, May 18, & June 1 1896
• Gerald Soon has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from April 29, May 13, & September 3 1895
• Hal Bell-Irving has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from September 4 1895
• Joanne McCormick has transcribed minutes from May 11 & May 18 1896 and September 13 & September 20 1897
• Krystyna Richards has transcribed Vancouver City Council minutes from March 30, 1896

April / May 2021:

• August 26, 1895 – Granville Street Car Service to Run Every Twenty Minutes
• September 30, 1895 – Vancouver Asks Victoria for Deadman’s Island

January 2021:

• Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance transcribed minutes from July 29 and August 5, 1895 and from February 24, March 2 and March 9, 1896

December 2020:

• Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance transcribed minutes from June 3, 10, 17, July 18 and 22, 1895
• Joanne McCormick transcribed minutes from June 24, July 2 and 8, 1895

November 2020:

• Rachel Tsui transcribed minutes from May 2, 1895
• Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance transcribed minutes from May 6, 2 & 27, 1895