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)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1901-Jan-07 Dominion 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-14 Horse 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

Original Minutes
1901-Jan-21 With deep regret, our Beloved Queen is rapidly passing to the
great beyond (2 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Jan-28 Rector 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-04 Women’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-11 City 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-15 Consolidation of Street Railway agreements (2 page PDF)  
1901-Feb-18 No quorum (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-Feb-25 Cumberland 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-04 Construction 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-11 City 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-18 Carnegie grant; Free Library; Court of Revision; investigation of
Police; Chief Justice McColl; Veterinary surgeon (13 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Mar-22 Stave Lake Power Co. Agreement (1 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-Mar-25 Distribution 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-28 1901 Estimates (12 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-Apr-02 Joseph 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-09 Cemetary Caretaker; tram services; road roller; Section 8 Laundry
By-Lay; pauper burials (8 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Apr-11 Special meeting. Stave Lake Power Co.; death of J.C. McLagan
(1 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Apr-12 Stave Lake Power Co. agreement (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-Apr-15 Complaints 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-22 B.C. Sugar, bicycle paths, Cemetery, City Band, Linton Shacks,
mining recording, Stave Lake Power Co., tug boats
(11 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Apr-29 Lady 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-06 Thomas 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-13 Drill 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-20 Indian 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-21 City jail; W.T. Dalton; Fire halls; W.J. Whiteway (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-May-27 Brotherhood 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-31 By-law to borrow; Water Works system (2 page PDF) Original Minutes
1901-Jun-03 J. 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-10 Agricultural 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-17 J.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-24 Legal 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)
Original Minutes
1901-Jun-28 Grant 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
1901-Jul-08

Fishermen’s Union; Mayor Howland – Toronto ON;
Mayor Campbell – Tacoma WA; Library Board; Board of Trade;
library site; hog pens; Money By-Law; B.C. Electric Railway Co.;
Toronto Carbolineum; cement walks; Free Library; Linton Shacks;
B.C. Fruit Growers Association; Horticultural Society; Settlers’
Association; Isolation Hospital; Medical Board; shop hours;
appointment of officers; insurance rates; sale of lands; water
works; cemetery (9 page PDF)

 Original Minutes
1901-Jul-15 Hospital site; Library site; septic tanks; Linton Shacks; F.C. Allen;
Dominion Day Celebration Committee; municipal rights; J.B. Hart,
D.V.S.; cemetary clearing; James McGeer; early closing of shops
(10 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Jul-22 Canada Permanent and Western Canada Mortgage Co.; piggeries;
Manual Training School; Union Steamship Co.; Duke and Duchess
of Cornwall and York visit; cementing of sidewalks; Early Closing
By-Law; plebiscite on Free Library site; cemetery land
cleared (7 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Jul-29 Duke & Duchess of Cornwall and York; Vancouver Typographical
Union; Master Printers’ Association; R. Marpole; J.D. Prentice;
Fire Chiefs’ Convention Tacoma WA; Queen vs Brown;
Hunt and Foster; Manual Training School; Dominion Steam
Laundry; R.L. Llewellyn diving gear; sidewalks, sewer, etc.
requests (7 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Aug-05 Horticultural Society; library site; Early closing by-law;
Reunion of Societies; New York Continental Jewell Filtration Co.;
Thomas Hooper; Salvation Army Shelter Barracks; cemetery
clearing; Lady Aberdeen Association; special committee for l
ibrary created (5 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Aug-12 Linton Shacks; Cemetery; South Vancouver; Nurses quarters
(10 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Aug-26 Westminster, Vancouver, Northern and Yukon Railway Co.;
F. Gourdeau; Foreshore rights; Lands and Works Commission;
water main tax; Free Library; C.P.R. Co. ; Salvation Army;
Great Northern Cannery; New York Continental Jewell
Filtration Co.; sprinkling tax; Ceperley & Co.; hospital site &
repairs; Dominion Day Committee audited (13 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Aug-28 Westminster Vancouver Yukon and Northern Railway
(2 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Sep-03 Unwarranted expenditures; Library support; requests for
improvements; CPR service to Kamloops; Bank of Commerce;
Stanley Park crows; repairs to fire halls and pound; Water main
tax refunds; site Water Works Shops; Ministry of Marine &
Fisheries Ottawa; Land & Works Dept. Victoria; inducements to
establish factory; contract City Band; Library site; future
management of the Water Works System (11 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Sep-09 Dr. E. Drier; Duke of York visit; condemned fruit; C.P.R. track;
St. Michael’s Church; Ross and Howard; Dr. Poole ; clock tower;
issues with street lights (8 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Sep-16 President McKinley’s Death; Caledonia Iron Works;
Palace Hotel; adulterated jams & jellies; C.P.R. Reserve;
HRH the Duke of York; lecture on Tasmania;
Kelly Douglas Block; Hudson’s Bay Block (9 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Sep-23 Tasmanian birds donated; reports on lights unsatisfactory;
Y.M.C.A. Lacrosse team; Water Main Assessment Tax;
American Consul; Henderson Publishing Co.; Dr. Drier;
jams and jellies analysis; Dr. Fagan; Caretaker house cemetery;
care of private plots; Mason and Bradburn Solicitors; Heatley
Avenue Wharf; insufficient funds to pay teacher salaries
(7 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
1901-Oct-06 Consolidation of street railway agreements with the
B.C. Electric Railway Co. (1 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
     
1901-Oct-26 New By-Law regarding Free Library site (2 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)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1902-Mar-03 Provincial Hospital Committee; Lt. Col Worsnop; Oddfellows Lodges;
Masons; Licensing Board; cornerstone Carnegie Library; City Slip fees;
Orangemen; tenders uniforms; selling liquor to on duty policemen;
blinds in barrooms; Capilano River; Blacksmiths Union; foreshore rights;
Salvation Army; Vancouver Horticultural Society; Sinking Fund;
Bell Telephone Co. rents; remuneration for Council members;
Barber Shops (18 page PDF)		 Original Minutes
     
     
     

1903

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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)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1901-Jan-xx    
     
     
     

1904

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1904 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)

Date Title of Minutes Images
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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)

Date Title of Minutes Images
1905-Jan-xx