1901

Sponsorship is available for the Vancouver City Council minutes from 1901.

Transcription of 1901 City Council Minutes is in progress. Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and include links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

Transcribers are Barbara Kearney-Copan, Darlene Ochotta, Carole Wilson, Judy Stewart, August Kirste-Yee, Joanne McCormick, Lisa Thorson, Lynn Shane, Gerald Soon, Carol Evans and Marie-Claude Tremblay.

1901 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1901-Jan-07Dominion of Canada asked to grant False Creek Tidal Flats east of Westminster Avenue Bridge to City; two unvaccinated passengers develop smallpox; B.C. Electric Railway Co. service unsatisfactory (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jan-14Horse from Fire Hall No. 1 killed; raincoat purchased for constable; permission requested for telephone wire from Telephone Company pole to City Hospital and Nurses Home (3 page PDF)
1st Meeting of the new Council and slate of members of Standing Committees approved (1 page PDF)
Original Minutes

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1901-Jan-21With deep regret, our Beloved Queen is rapidly passing to the great beyond (2 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jan-28Rector of St. James invites Council to attend funeral services for Queen; union labels and pay; agreement with Stave Lake Power Co.; new board for Free Library named; 1892 taxes on water works in arrears (12 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Feb-04Women’s Council supports erection of memorial to “our late beloved Queen.” Many petitions about the condition of roads, sidewalks, and drainage (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Feb-11City requests Supreme Court inquiry into Police Department regarding omission to take proper steps for suppression of gambling; Finance Committee recommends accepting proposition for consolidation of the B.C. Electric Railway Co’s leases provided lines extend to City Limits on Westminster Avenue and to Cedar Cove on Powell Street; Finance Committee also recommends that no agreement be entered into with Stave Lake Power Co. beyond 1918; Special Meeting of Fire & Police Committee to consider suspension of Officer McAllister by Chief of Police; Council petitions Legislature for more funding to fulfill new obligations under the Public School Act, to build Court House, Provincial Government & City Offices, to establish a Reformatory for boys and for the construction of a road from Howe Sound to the Squamish Valley (16 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Feb-15Consolidation of Street Railway agreements (2 page PDF)
1901-Feb-18No quorum (1 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Feb-25Cumberland Mine collapse; Letter Carriers 20% salary increase; agreement with Stave Lake Power Co.; Central Park petition; YMCA gets free water; concert given by Coloured Aristocracy Co. for Cumberland survivors (17 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-04Construction of the All Canadian Railway from British Columbia via Vancouver, Cariboo, Cassiar, Omineca and Aslin Districts to Dawson, and westerly boundary of Canada with connection by the proposed Alaskan Railway with the Trans Siberian Railway (now nearly completed); competitive plans called for two new Fire Halls and a City Jail; Wing Sung deposits plan of building for Dupont St.; reading of By-Laws regarding remuneration for Aldermen and Mayor (11 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-11City improvements; Street Railway Co.; Painters & Decorators Union; Ship Masters’ Union; Society for Civic Improvements; Stave Lake Power Co.; Vancouver New Westminster Northern and & Yukon Railway; Justice McColl; Mint in Vancouver; Fenton vs Cook and Dixon; Cemetery; tenders; Japanese; smallpox; cinder paths; Salvation Army Shelter; Football Club; Labor Day celebrations; Boys’ Band; School bill; railway from Kootenay to Coast; Ward By-Law: Water Rates and Water Mains By-Law (10 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-18Carnegie grant; Free Library; Court of Revision; investigation of Police; Chief Justice McColl; Veterinary surgeon (13 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-22Stave Lake Power Co. Agreement (1 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-25Distribution of wards; Joe Fortes; Experimental Far; Malkin Sues; Waterous and Silsby engines; Mint; Foreshore rights; saloon closure; Carnegie $50,000 grant (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Mar-281901 Estimates (12 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-02Joseph Fortes [IMAGE]; Library; Mint; Fire Halls & Jails; Police uniforms; Waterous Engine; viaduct telephone service; Dray licenses; Police officers eating and sleeping at station; steam road roller; foreshore rights; South Vancouver Council; City Charter printed; Painters and Decorators’ Union; Electricians; water services extension (6 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-09Cemetary Caretaker; tram services; road roller; Section 8 Laundry By-Lay; pauper burials (8 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-11Special meeting. Stave Lake Power Co.; death of J.C. McLagan (1 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-12Stave Lake Power Co. agreement (2 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-15Complaints against police; Joseph Fortes; site for library; tenders for police uniforms, & land purchases; bylaws for debentures & rates for AD 1900; buildings near City Hall removed (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-22B.C. Sugar, bicycle paths, Cemetery, City Band, Linton Shacks, mining recording, Stave Lake Power Co., tug boats (11 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Apr-29Lady Minto; Cottage Hospitals; Mining Recorder; Westminster Road improvements; Vancouver Property Owners Association; Brockton Point Association; Park commissioners; City debentures for sale; Canadian Club; Chinese gamblers arrested; Indian reserve unnecessary & undesirable (7 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-06Thomas Hooper; Joseph Martin M.P.P.; R.G. Tatlow M.P.P.; Joseph F. Garden M.P.P.; F. Gourdeane; Indian Reserve; Carnegie Library Grant; Foreshore rights; Ross & Howard; Mining recorder’s office; Brockton Point Athletic Association; B.T. Rogers (7 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-13Drill shed; Dept. of Indian Affairs; Vancouver Property Owners’ Association; Free Library site; B.C. Electric Co.; City of Vancouver Home Guards; Good Roads Association; C.P.R.; Granville Street Bridge; opium smoking; Dominion Steam Laundry; Jockey Club; water supply requests; lots for sale; Henderson Publishing Co.; City Printer suit; Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co.; Carnegie grant (6 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-20Indian Reserve; Weights and Measures; quarantine; Ironside & Griffith; B.B. Johnston & Co.; Empire Day Committee; Dr Maclean; Thomas Hooper; depredations by boys; playing in street prohibited; H.H. Blanchet; opium smoking restrictions; smallpox and measles; Good Roads Association; Granville Street Bridge; Free Library [now Carnegie]; Vancouver Home Guards; Vancouver Property Owners Association; drill shed; C.P.R. land (11 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-21City jail; W.T. Dalton; Fire halls; W.J. Whiteway (2 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-27Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators; South Vancouver Council; Board of Trade; A. St.-G. Hamersley; O.L. Spencer; North Vancouver Council; elevator rates; street watering; Liquor License By-Law; Bicycle By-Law; Water Main Assessment By-Law (7 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-May-31By-law to borrow; Water Works system (2 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jun-03J. M Stewart; right to vote; Brotherhood of Painters; Fairview Methodist Church; Waterous Engine Co.; street sprinkling; chain gang; tenders for walks; City Debentures; Bank of Hamilton, Canadian Bank of Commerce; Deputy Returning Officer; voting on new By-Laws (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jun-10Agricultural advantages; B.C. Electrical Power House; Council of Women; J. Israel Tarte; B.C. Electric Railway Agreements; Henderson Publishing Co.; Vancouver Exposition and Mid-Summer Carnival Association [known today as the Pacific National Exhibition or PNE]; City Ambulance; infectious diseases; Darcy Island leper station; Good Roads Association; Dominion Public Works; Court of Revision; Burrard St. slips; Street Watering By-Law; ex-Chief of Police (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jun-17J.E. Bernier & North Pole expedition; Alderman R. Fraser resigns; Vancouver Engineering Works; Vancouver Agricultural Society; Duke of Cornwall; City Hall repairs; Metropole Block; Delmonico Hotel; Holy Trinity Church; Lee Yuen & Co.; street watering; Settlers Association; Clark Park; Polling By-law; S. North Chief of police; Gutta Percha and Rubber Mfg. Co.; Free Library (9 page PDF)Original Minutes
1901-Jun-24Legal proceedings against C.P.R. re public access to ends of Cambie, Abbott and Carrall Streets; assistance to Settlers’ Association to advertise B.C. lands; report from Mayor on hospitals; infectious disease not reported (7 page PDF)The Province (image)
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1901-Jun-28Grant of $100 to Y.W.C.A.; change in process of quarterly notice of water rates; tenders for cement walks; counsel retained in case of Trythall vs City and City Clerk; July 2nd declared Civic Holiday (6 page PDF)Original Minutes

1902

Sponsorship is available for Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1902.

Transcription of 1902 City Council Minutes is in progress. Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and include links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

1902 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1903

Sponsorship is available for Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1903.

Transcription of 1903 City Council Minutes is in progress. Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and include links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

1903 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1904

Sponsorship is available for Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1904.

Transcription of 1904 City Council Minutes is in progress. Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and include links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

1904 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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1905

Sponsorship is available for Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1905.

Transcription of 1905 City Council Minutes is in progress. Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and include links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.

1905 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

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