1886
Sponsponship is available for the Vancouver City Council minutes from 1886Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Margaret Sutherland and by Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance.
1886 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
1886 Research on Vancouver Voters (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1886-May-10 First meeting of Council (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-12 Vancouver wants Coal Harbour Peninsula for a public park (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-13 Council adjourned to attend public meeting (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-17 Applications for liquor permits received (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-18 By-law No 1. passed for duties of Vancouver city employees (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-25 By-law passed to restrain and punish vagrants (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-May-30 The ward system in Vancouver, 1886 (1 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1886-May-31 Vancouver divided into five wards (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jun-07 Vancouver has no money for improvements (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jun-10 Liquor by-law made official (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jun-22 City debentures to be sold to finance fire engine (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jun-28 Vancouver purchases Fire Engine (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jun-30 Engineer’s report re Water Street adopted (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-05 Police Court fines to date total only $89 (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-14 Vancouver seeking a Treasurer, salary $25 per month (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-19 Board of Works authorized to remove fire hazards at property owners’ expense (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-21 Police inquiry to be held (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-26 Vancouver Fire Hall plans to be drafted at once (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Jul-28 Police Magistrate J. Boultbee cleared of charges (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-02 Special meeting authorizes payment of Fire Engine freight charges, 3:00 pm (1 page PDF) Four lots donated for Vancouver City Hall by D. Oppenheimer, 7:30 pm (3 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1886-Aug-03 Property owners will be billed for their share of clearing expenses (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-06 Fire engine arrives in Vancouver (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-09 Vancouver Council off to Victoria to find a $8,000 loan (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-13 Water, fuel to be held ready for fire engine at each wharf (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-23 Vancouver has found $10,000 loan (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Aug-30 Vancouver city hall, fire hall, lockup will be built right away for $2,000 (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Sep-06 Sidewalk obstruction by-law is not popular (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Sep-08 Many Vancouver tax assessments reduced (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Sep-13 Fire Engine not working well, CPR offers hospital beds (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Sep-20 Contracts awarded for Hastings, Water streets (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Sep-27 No raised sidewalk for Cordova Street (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Oct-05 Post office must be moved “before the rainy season sets in” (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Oct-07 Vancouver will soon vote on $21,000 of debentures for fire engine, improvements (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Oct-11 Vancouver’s fire bell to ring four times daily (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Oct-15 Carrall Street wharf will be built by David Oppenheimer (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Oct-18 Vancouver’s city hall is complete (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Nov-01 New fire hall can be rented to “suitable” groups (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Nov-08 Council’s first meeting at the new City Hall on Powell Street (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Nov-16 Election date set for Council of 1887 (4 page PDF) Political Factions in Early Vancouver (video) Original Minutes 1886-Nov-22 County court to be held monthly at Vancouver’s new city hall (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Nov-29 Vancouver to co-operate with Holy Rosary Cathedral in building sidewalk to church (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Dec-20 City hall upper floor to be offices for Mayor, City Engineer & Assessment Commissioner (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Dec-27 Vancouver street improvements will continue in 1887 (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1886-Dec-29 Vancouver’s $4,700 debt will be paid in order of approval (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1887
Bill Boultbee / Boultbee Realty sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes for 1887.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Margaret Sutherland, Chris Stephenson, and Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance.
1887 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1887-Jan-03 Vancouver Committees for 1887 formed (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jan-10 Charles G. Johson and John Devine to audit Vancouver’s 1886 accounts (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jan-17 Vancouver to set aside $2,400 for hospital, seeks property owner to donate site (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jan-24 J.H. Carlisle appointed Vancouver’s License, Fire & Health Inspector (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jan-31 Police Magistrate refuses to act, charges Stewart (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-08 Vancouver cannot grant money to City Band (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-11 Council meets to make changes to the City Charter (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-14 Hudson’s Bay Co. refused liquor license (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-17 Lawyer J. Boultbee appointed to take Charter changes to Victoria (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-21 Water Works proposals for Vancouver due in two weeks (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Feb-28 Correspondence from Yung Chung asking for “protection from mob” (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-01 Vancouver opposes provincial takeover of city police (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-04 Health By-law for Vancouver finalized (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-07 Vancouver holds itself not responsible for mob damage (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-14 Vancouver requests B.C. to appoint Commissioner of Inquiry on “alleged Chinese Riots” (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-15 Council sits to review appeals on tax assessment (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-21 Coquitlam Water Works to supply Vancouver’s water (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Mar-28 Vancouver wants False Creek portion east of Main Street (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-04 Vancouver City Officials’ salaries will total $12,600 this year (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-11 C.P.R needs more room for switches (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-15 San Francisco engineer Schussler asked to examine Vancouver’s Water Works (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-18 Vancouver forms a Board of Commissioners of Police (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-21 Council goes over CPR agreement, sets date for referendum (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Apr-25 Vancouver civic scavengers appointed (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-May-02 Clark’s Park offer rejected by Vancouver (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-May-06 Vancouver Mayor and Aldermen review $28,000 Water Works acquisition (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-May-09 Vancouver sends $500 to the Nanaimo Relief Fund after mine explosion (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-May-16 Well and drain to be put in at the foot of Carrall Street (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-May-23 Vancouver commemorates arrival of the first train (2 page PDF) First Train (photo) Original Minutes 1887-Jun-06 Board of Works promotes Granville Street horse racing (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jun-15 Standard loaf of bread in Vancouver will be 1.5 pounds (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jun-20 Grant sues City of Vancouver for “wine drank by the police” (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jun-27 Vancouver’s sewers to have cast iron junctions (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jul-04 Contractors must complete work for City of Vancouver on time, or pay (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jul-11 City of Vancouver needs a road from Fraser River to False Creek (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jul-18 Owen Hughes rewarded $25 for fire bravery (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Jul-25 Baseball team may put up caretaker’s building in Stanley Park (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Aug-01 Fifty foot fire hose needed for Vancouver (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Aug-08 Dupont Street well will be allowed until Council needs it filled in (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Aug-16 Standard Oil wants to build a warehouse in Vancouver (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Aug-22 Imperial Oil also granted permission to build fuel warehouse in Vancouver (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Aug-29 Dunlevy Avenue being used as a “dumping ground,” says Tatlow (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Sep-05 60 Vancouver street corners to have electric lights (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Sep-24 Vancouver Iron Works Company gains 10 year tax exemption (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Oct-03 Vancouver Fire Department to build its own stable (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Oct-10 Vancouver seeks tenders for construction of hospital, road around Stanley Park (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Oct-17 Vancouver Fire Brigade to get $500 grant (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Oct-24 Vancouver to buy lots for hospital, school recreation grounds (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Nov-07 Cemetery caretaker to live on grounds (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Nov-14 Pawn brokers and second hand stores to be licensed at once (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Nov-21 Vancouver street names to be posted at each corner (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Nov-24 Canada’s Minister of Defense Sir A. Caron to visit Vancouver (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Nov-28 Vancouver must stop boarding chain gang prisoners in private homes, say Police Commissioners (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Dec-05 Trounce Alley improvements must wait as Works budget for 1887 exhausted (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Dec-12 Many City hospital contracts awarded, but plumbing & gas fitting must wait (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Dec-19 Contractor William Harkins’ employees cry foul at Council meeting (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Dec-27 Budget requested to build bridge across False Creek (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1887-Dec-30 Outgoing Mayor M. A. MacLean granted seven hundred fifty dollars (3 page PDF) Original Minutes
1888
The Oppenheimer Group sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes from 1888
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Margaret Sutherland and Joy Marie Vasquez.
1888 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
1889
Shirley Barnett sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes from 1889.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Margaret Sutherland, Joy Marie Vasquez and by Darrin Pezer / Proactive Building Maintenance.
1889 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
1889 Election results for Vancouver City Council (2 page PDF) | Original Minutes
Date Title of Minutes Images 1889-Jan-07 Council of 1888 wraps up, 11:30 am (2 page PDF) Council for 1889 begins its work, 12:00 pm (5 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes1889-Jan-14 Readjustment of Council Committees overturned, 3:00 pm (6 page PDF) Portuguese Joe to get $150 compensation, 7:30 pm (6 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes1889-Jan-21 Vancouver Water Works Company given last chance (9 page pDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jan-28 Council wants $15,000 more for Court House building (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Feb-04 “Fraudulent absconders” must be stopped, say merchants (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Feb-11 Mount Pleasant streets to be named and registered (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Feb-18 Business suspended while Councillors wrangle 9 (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Feb-20 $50 Exhibit fund granted to Mayor Oppenheimer (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Feb-25 Aldermen’s absence cancels meeting (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Mar-01 Legal opinion needed re: Mayor’s vote (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Mar-04 Stanley Park lodge to be built, deadwood removed (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Mar-11 Continual damage to fire engines intentional? (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Mar-18 Council opposes draining of Burnaby Lake (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Mar-23 Mayor to take Charter of Amendments to Victoria (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Apr-01 Alderman J.M. Lefevre resigns (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Apr-08 Vancouver accountant and street superintendent hired (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Apr-15 Post office boxes needed in Mount Pleasant, West End “suburbs” (9 page PDF) Original Minute s1889-Apr-23 Electric lights for Fire Hall No. 1 (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Apr-29 Stray cattle and horses to be curbed, verandah damaged by runaway team (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-May-06 Vancouver police get uniforms, batons, handcuffs, and whistles (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-May-13 Race Course planned for Hastings Park (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-May-20 Future of City Wharf uncertain (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-May-27 Aldermen to meet with Vancouver Wharfage and Storage Co. (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jun-03 Chinese residents to be evicted from Stanley Park (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jun-07 Vancouver sends $1,000 to relieve Seattle fire victims (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jun-10 Richmond hedges on its bridge contribution (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jun-17 Market plans take shape, Board of Works budget exhausted (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jul-15 Vancouver street improvements approved for each ward (13 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jul-22 Sansom & Dawson win City Market contract (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Jul-29 Stanley Brothers may put a photo studio on the roof of London House (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Aug-05 Knights of Labour want nine hour day (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Aug-12 Time limits for smelting company, street railway both extended (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Aug-19 Wanted: one Fire Chief, two Engineers, two Drivers, and two Stokers (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Aug-26 Mr. Clark donates park to Vancouver (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Sep-02 Salaries set for firemen, nurses (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Sep-09 Special audit of Vancouver Police Court Accounts called (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Sep-16 Chain gang set to work on police officer’s private property, report alleges (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Sep-23 Vancouver to acquire Water Works, electric street lights (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Sep-30 Street railway construction will close Westminster Bridge for 15 days (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Oct-07 Westminster Ave. to be repaired, bridge closure still pending (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Oct-14 All building materials and debris to be removed from Vancouver streets (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Oct-21 Fire department gets new team of horses (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Nov-02 Constable accepted bribes from prostitutes, night policemen dine on the job (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Nov-04 Park leases to Athletic Club, Jockey Club finalized (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Nov-11 John Devine resigns as City Auditor (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Nov-18 Board of Works, Finance Committee debate fountain purchase (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Nov-21 Sewer contract decision postponed (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Dec-11 City solicitor, two police officers resign (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Dec-16 Vancouver volunteer militia approved (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Dec-23 Former city solicitor Devine files charges against Vancouver Mayor and Aldermen (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1889-Dec-30 Smelting works contract forfeit (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1890
Arnold Silber sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes from 1890.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Margaret Sutherland, Joy Marie Vasquez, Chris Stephenson, and Donna Kynaston.
1890 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
1890 Election Results for Vancouver Mayer & Aldermen (2 page PDF) | Original Minutes
1891
Shirley Barnett funded the Vancouver City Council Minutes of 1891.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
The transcriptions were made by Donna Kynaston, Mary Norris, Devon Harlos, Chris Stephenson, Martha Hazevoet, Chris Mizzoni, Leah Minuk, Linda Evans, Jordan Cripps, Bronwyn Cripps & Anonymous.
1891 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1891-Jan-05 Final reports received, Council of 1890 concludes 10 a.m. (1 page PDF) Committees established for 1891 12 p.m. (3 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1891-Jan-12 Garden resigns council, Brighouse now Works chairman (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jan-14 Progress in drydock negotiations (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jan-19 Old floating quarantine to be burned (7 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1891-Jan-26 Second exit to be added to market building (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jan-27 Vancouver to acquire its own water works (8 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1891-Feb-02 Rogers’ sugar factory complete (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Feb-10 Vancouver Health Departmnt page 185 [missing] Original Minutes 1891-Feb-12 C.P.R. denies responsibility for street crossing safety (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Feb-16 Vancouver sends condolences re New Westminster fire (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Feb-23 Mayor walks out re City Engineer firing (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Feb-24 Vancouver sends $500 for Springhill mining disaster relief (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Feb-28 Committee off to Victoria to oppose Water Works amendments (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Mar-09 Six aldermen walk out, leaving no quorum (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Mar-16 Oppenheimer obliged to sign minutes (14 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Mar-20 Tracy voted city engineer (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Mar-23 Mayor protests “illegal” appointment of Tracy (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Mar-31 Warren to contest Tracy appointment (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Apr-06 Women’s & Children’s hospital to go ahead (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Apr-13 Fire Department given raises (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Apr-20 Battle re City Engineer continues (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Apr-22 Browning named to Water Works arbitration panel (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Apr-29 Browning appointment finalized (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-May-04 Thomson building at Howe & Pender must be removed (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-May-09 By-law no. 118 altering Vancouver’s ward boundaries (2 page PDF) Water Works by-law complete 2 p.m. (1 page PDF) Metro Vancouver Urban Planning History Explained: Living in Gunter’s World (video) Original Minutes 1891-May-11 Clark Park to be seeded over (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-May-18 Street lights not to be lit during full moon (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-May-26 Brighouse blocks Council resignation (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-May-27 Warren’s wrongful dismissal suit could cost the City $5,000 (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jun-01 No signs of leprosy within City of Vancouver (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jun-08 Council meeting adjourned to mark the passing of Sir John A. Macdonald (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jun-15 Vancouver taxes will increase 2% to fund school (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jun-22 Mayor Oppenheimer’s $500 expense account called into question (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jun-29 Regulations formed for the sanitary storage & transportation of the deceased (11 page PDF) Vancouver By-Law 121 : a by-law to establish rules, regulations, etc. for the interment of the dead in cemeteries and burial places controlled by the City of Vancouver (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jul-06 Brown, Macgowan, Murray and Baldwin elected school trustees (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jul-15 Police “cannot interfere” with children playing on railway tracks (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jul-20 Phone brought in to Mountain View Cemetery (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Jul-27 Ratepayers protest Isaac Hallett’s continuing as Police Magistrate (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-03 Water Works worth $330,081.93 (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-06 Street railway construction halted (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-10 Police to enforce tramway construction ban (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-06 Street railway construction halted (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-13 Tramway agreement reached, construction to resume (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-17 Tramway back on track, business as usual (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Aug-31 Nine hour day reaches City Hal (10 page PDF Original Minutes 1891-Sep-07 Post Office obstruction on Granville Street to be removed (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Sep-14 C.P.R. Terminal at foot of Granville Street to be built (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Sep-28 Vancouver plans exhibit at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Oct-05 C.L. Brown wins seat in Ward 5 (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Oct-12 Hallett resigns as Police Magistrate (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Oct-19 Champion and White to oversee garbage burning (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Oct-26 Vancouver’s population is more than 18 thousand (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-02 Water Works total tops $452,000 (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-09 Leprosy correspondence to be made public (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-13 Council to meet with Victoria City Council to decide the leper matter (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-16 Lepers to be moved to Darcy Island (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-18 Council selects new Police Magistrate (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-23 Police Magistrate appointment delayed, $500 for free library (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Nov-30 G.A. Jordan new Police Magistrate (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-07 Sidewalk to be put in for Baptist Church (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-10 Water Works debentures sold at 96% (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-11 Several new by-laws formed (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-14 More pipes needed to extend the Water Works (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-16 City may acquire Electric Light and Street Railway (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-21 One Vancouver leper placed on Darcy Island (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1891-Dec-28 Street railway proposition lost; Council wraps up business (5 page PDF) Original Minutes
1892
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
Kip Woodward sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes for 1892.
The transcriptions were made by volunteers Martha Hazevoet, Bronwen Cripps, Sue Bryant, Christine Cathcart, Krystyna Richards, L. Ellema, David Laing, Susan M. Willows, Gerald Soon, Brenda Chapman & Anonymous.
1892 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1892-Ja n-03 Fire, Water & Light Committee’s recommendation overturned; Street Railway Committee’s report adopted (6 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Ja n-16 Council for 1892 wraps up remaining business 11:00 a.m. (5 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Ja n-18 Last Year’s Civic Overspending Tops $66,000 – Jan 18, 1892 (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Ja n-25 Committee Meetings to be held in private – Jan 25, 1892 (7 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Feb-01 $250 donation Sir John A McDonald memorial fund overturned (9 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Feb-02 Bell-Irving and Paterson get Water Works contract (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Feb-08 City Hospital staff reappointed, slaughterhouses all “in order” (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Feb-15 Projected new oil warehouse alarms neighbours (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Feb-22 Alderman Scoullar’s Seat on Council declared vacant (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1893-Feb-24 Special meeting of Council to arrange funding for water works purchase (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Feb-29 Popular Aldermen Get Two-Year Term (7 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Mar-14 Vancouver asks Canadian government to establish steamship postal service as far north as Comox (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Mar-21 Joseph Huntly appointed Health Inspector: M. G. MacLeod both License Inspector & Gaoler (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Mar-24 Nothing Decided on Railway Bonus Question (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Mar-28 Pardon for Sam Greer? (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Mar-29 Council goes over draft contract with the railway (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Apr-04 Liquor license by-law amended (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Apr-11 MacLean for Sheriff; City to buy Studebaker street sprinkler (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Apr-19 Gravel price increased to $1.75 per yard (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Apr-25 Foreshore shacks again threatened (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-02 Selected city streets to be paved (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-09 Council will meet again on Thursday to consider 1892 budget (7 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-May-12 Rates for 1892 will be 2 1/4 percent with 20% off (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-16 Money to be found, but not for Oppenheimer (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-23 Smallpox, vaccination and quarantine house matters dominate Council agenda (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-26 Local improvement bylaw passed (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-May-30 “More stringent and effective” health inspection needed for incoming ships (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jun-06 Board of Works to find a new quarantine site (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jun-13 English Bay bath houses may never be built (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jun-20 Reward for Conviction of Tree Vandals Increased to $300.00 (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jun-27 Deadman’s Island not to be used for quarantine (13 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-04 Water main replacement to go ahead across First Narrows (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-09 Vancouver and New Westminster Councils urge formation of Provincial Board of Health (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-11 No quarantine laid on Victoria steamers, at least for now (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-13 Dr. Harold appointed Vancouver health officer (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-18 Labour Day to be granted as public holiday (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-22 Council unanimously backs smallpox quarantine against Victoria (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-23 New Westminster to lift smallpox quarantine on Monday (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-25 Vancouver will crack down on prostitution at once (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-27 Quarantine decision delayed until tomorrow (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Jul-28 Smallpox quarantine lifted (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-01 Deadline for 20% tax rebate extended to August 15 (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-08 Additional quarantine buildings needed within the week (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-10 Council proposes $300,000 bonus to Burrard Inlet & Fraser Valley Railway Co. (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-15 Steamer Sunbury given a $25 weekly bonus (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-22 Vancouver objects to paying salary for trains health inspector (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Aug-29 Vancouver & North Vancouver co-operate to build a road along Capilano water works pipeline (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Sep-05 Water Works Superintendent Nickson dismissed (6 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1892-Sep-07 $2,000 bonus granted to the B. C. Iron Works Company (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Sep-12 B.C. Iron Works bonus question delayed for one week (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Sep-19 Lots at the foot of Main Street to be expropriated for street expansion (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Sep-26 $300,000 Railway Bonus By-Law receives third reading (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-03 New Local Improvement By-Law Passed (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-05 Costello and Munro give up Water Mains contract (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-10 Westminster Ave. purchase delayed six months (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-17 Cemetery road must be repaired, Vancouver & South Vancouver tell Victoria (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-24 City to hire Building Assessor (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Oct-31 Dry dock needed in Vancouver, says Board of Trade (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Nov-03 Taxpayers will soon vote on $300,000 Railway Bonus (4 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Nov-08 Vancouver Council to look into City staff cuts (5 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Nov-14 No additional City layoffs needed, Committee finds (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Nov-21 Vancouver Library and Reading Room to move to larger quarters (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Nov-28 Vancouver Fire Hydrants to be made locally (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Dec-05 Huntly cleared of charges (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Dec-12 G. A. Stevenson to buy Local Improvement Debentures (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Dec-19 Election set for Mayor and Council of 1893 (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1892-Dec-27 Mr. Pitt not to be compensated for loss of his leg (6 page PDF) Original Minutes
1893
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
Sponsorship is available for the 1893 Vancouver City Council Minutes.
The transcriptions were made by volunteers Gerald Soon, Mary-Ann Capistrano, Krystyna Richards, Joanne McCormick, Cathy Harner, Linda Evans, Leah Minuk & anonymous.
1893 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
1894
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
Sponsorship is available for the 1894 Vancouver City Council Minutes.
The transcriptions were made by volunteers Gerald Soon, Krystyna Richards, Linda Evans, Sharon Mowat, Joanne McCormick, Michelle C., Rachel Amanda Hennessy, Chris Mizzoni, Cathy Harmer, Jane Edmonds and Darrin Pezer/Proactive Building Maintenance
1894 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1894-Jan-02 Mass firing averted; referred to next Council (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jan-08 No pay for injured water main worker (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jan-15 Final meeting for Council for 1893 11:00 a.m. (2 page PDF)Committees formed for 1894 12:00 p.m. (2 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes 1894-Jan-22 Vancouver needs to borrow $50,000 Original Minutes 1894-Jan-29 Vancouver officially requests “tide lands of False Creek” from BC (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Feb-05 Future Vancouver street lights to be powered with hydro electricity (7 page PDF)VCCMIN (photo)Original Minutes 1894-Feb-06 $5,000 public works project created (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Feb-12 Relief street work to begin on Friday (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Feb-19 Job Layoffs, Salary Cuts for City Employees (11 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1894-Feb-26 Champion & White ousted from city crematory (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Mar-05 Council empowered to borrow $100,000 (8 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Mar-08 Vancouver asks BC to incorporate High Schools, build University here (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Mar-12 Crushed rock confined to Powell Street (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Mar-18 Cambie Grounds Cleared for Football Team (8 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1894-Mar-19 East End race track closed except by special permission (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Mar-27 New Women’s Ward in hospital will cost $10,000 (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-02 City takeover of Vancouver’s streetlights moves forward (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-09 Council supports petition for East End post office (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-16 Health Committee reviews costs (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-19 Street Railway Company must repair its tracks (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-23 Market scales’ measure called into question (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Apr-30 City Reviews Estimates of Costs and Revenues (14 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1894-May-07 Fire Department to buy new Team (7 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1894-May-10 Aldermen Shaw and William Brown added to the Street Railway purchase committee (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-May-14 Cemetery needs draining, fence repair (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-May-21 Kendal’s crushed rock no longer wanted (12 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-May-28 Finance Committee regrets no funds available to provide public parks (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jun-04 More street railway tracks to be built on Granville Street (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jun-11 Dupont Street sewer request under review (8 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jun-18 Arcade Building plans sent back (12 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Jun-25 Street Railway By-Law to “Take its Course” (8 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-09 Street Railway Purchase By-law overturned (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-16 Columbia Avenue lowlands must be drained (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-30 Alexandra Hospital needs better drainage (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Aug-06 All Vancouver Fire Halls to Hear Every Fire Alarm (6 page PDF)Fire Hall No. 1 (photo)Original Minutes 1895-Aug-13 $100,000 for Vancouver Street Lighting? (4 page PDF)Street Lighting (photo)The Narrows (photo)Original Minutes 1895-Aug-20 Wilfred Laurier to Receive Official Welcome to Vancouver (7 page PDF)Sir W. Laurier (photo)Original Minutes 1895-Aug-27 Iron & Steel bonus decision delayed (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Sep-04 $100,000 Electric Light By-Law Given Second Reading (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Sep-10 Injunction Forbids Vancouver to Pay for Street Rails (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Sep-17 Street Railway Track Needs Improvements (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1894-Sep-24 New City Assessor Appointed (4 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1894-Oct-01 “Fire Escape Act” mandatory for all new buildings (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Oct-04 $100,000 raised for Electric Light (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Oct-08 Electric Lighting By-Law to Go Ahead (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Oct-15 Sumas-Vancouver Railway Report Filed, But Not Adopted (9 page PDF)Sumas Railway Substation (photo)Original Minutes 1894-Oct-22 Granville Street to be Paved Between Hastings & Cordova (7 page PDF)Granville Cordova (photo) Original Minutes [missing]1894-Oct-29 City Staff to “Make Due Provision” against Sickness Or Death (6 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1894-Nov-05 West End Streets Not To Be Opened (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Nov-12 North Vancouver Wants Three Years’ Road Tax (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Nov-19 Robson Street railway permission repealed (9 page PDF)Robson St Railway (photo)Original Minutes 1894-Nov-26 Lands for CPR, Street Railway Identified (5 page PDF)Sugar Railway (photo)Original Minutes 1894-Dec-03 Seized gambling funds to be used for Mayor’s social service fund (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1894-Dec-11 Future Council Members May Not Hold City Contracts (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Dec-17 Vancouver to insure against fire (13 page PDF)Original Minutes 1894-Dec-24 Council Denies Secret Amendments to Charter (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1894-Dec-31 James McGeer new milk inspector (6 page PDF)Original Minutes
1895
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1895 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1895-Jan-07 Incoming Council will have to provide relief (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jan-14 Council for 1894 Wraps Up Business 10:00 am (6 page PDF) 11:00 am [missing]New Council squabble over Board of Works seat 12:00 pm (3 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes Original Minutes 1895-Jan-21 Churches unite to appeal for relief work (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jan-28 Relief work rates settled (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Feb-04 $150,000 needed for Vancouver’s expenses this year (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Feb-11 Crazy George, Sullivan child to receive City aid (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Feb-18 Alderman McCraney’s resignation refused (11 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Feb-25 Vancouver to Borrow $150,000 (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Mar-04 Streetcars coming to Granville, Hastings streets, but not to Robson (7 page PDF)Streetcars and Metro Vancouver: Urban Planning History Explained (Video) Original Minutes 1895-Mar-11 City Band funding cut off (7 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Mar-12 Several City Departments amalgamated (3 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Mar-15 Baldwin, Scoullar get city appointments (3 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Mar-18 [missing] Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Mar-25 City Band Found in Good Order (8 page PDF)Band (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Apr-01 More relief work granted (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Apr-08 Sgt. Haywood’s name is cleared (12 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Apr-17 Aldermen vote themselves $300 annual salary (11 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Apr-22 South Vancouver’s part of North Arm Road ‘nearly useless for traffic’ (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Apr-25 Special Meeting considers terms for street railways (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Apr-29 Vote on Sunday Closing Delayed (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-May-02 Council Reviews City Budgets (8 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-May-06 City Employees’ Salaries Cut (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-May-13 Road to Hastings Mill in Poor Condition (8 page PDF)Hastings Mill (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-May-20 Liquor, Gambling Fines Totals Demanded (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-May-27 Half Holiday June 3 for Grand Lodge’s Visit (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jun-03 Two New Firemen Needed (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jun-10 Bars and Saloons Must Close Over Sundays (11 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jun-17 Opium Tax to be reduced? (11 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jun-24 Morley, Butler Get Sunbury Reward (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-02 Council Meeting Cancelled Due to Lack of Quorum (1 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1895-Jul-08 All Police To Stay In Office For Now (8 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-18 By-Election Set For August 2 (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-22 No Additional Money for School Board (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Jul-29 No Final Word on Police Dismissals (20 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1895-Aug-01 Council Seeks Power to Remove “Undesirable” Buildings from Stanley Park (6 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1895-Aug-05 Clandenning, Sanders and McDonald Take Their Places on Council; McLaren, Haywood and McLeod Dismissed from Police Force (6 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Aug-12 English Bay Swimming Improvements Pursued (13 page PDF)English Bay 1911 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1895-Aug-19 City Demands Details on Reservoir, Robson Street streetcar (8 page PDF)By-law No. 233 altering the subdivision of Wards (2 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Aug-26 Granville Street Car Service To Run Every Twenty Minutes (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Sep-03 Consolidated Railway & Light’s Wires Must Come Down (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Sep-04 William Ward Appointed Police Chief (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Sep-09 Pioneer Place deeded to Vancouver by the C.P.R. (9 page PDF)Pioneer Place Map (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Sep-16 Council Accepts Consolidated Railway & Light’s $250 Offer For Robson Street (10 page PDF)Foreman Grocers, Vancouver 1895 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2, Part 31895-Sep-23 Improvements Voted for Granville Street (7 page PDF)1895 Picnicers aboard the Cutch (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Sep-30 Vancouver Asks Victoria for Deadman’s Island (9 page PDF)Squatters and boats on Deadman’s Island 1895 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Oct-07 Council Declares Holiday to Attend Fair (6 page PDF)New Westminster Agricultural Fair 1904 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Oct-14 “Not Legal” for Vancouverites to Trade Work for Taxes (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Oct-21 Hospital Verandahs Need Repair (5 page PDF)Hospital Balcony (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Oct-23 Special Meeting (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Oct-28 Sidewalk Labour Free: Materials Must Be Found (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Nov-04 City Solicitor Hamersley Resigns (10 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1895-Nov-08 Special Meeting To Settle Market Lease (1 page PDF)Second Meeting on Market Lease Yields No Results 5pm (1 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes 1895-Nov-11 False Creek Filling Up (10 page PDF)False Creek Vancouver ca 1891 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 [missing], Part 3 1895-Nov-18 Special Meeting to Discuss Street Lighting Contract (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Nov-19 Second Meeting to Review Lighting Contract 10:00 am (1 page PDF)Discussion Continues on Lighting Contract (1 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes 1895-Nov-22 City Lighting Contract Still Under Consideration (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Nov-25 Beattie Must Give Up Lease on Market (14 page PDF)Vancouver Market Interior 1888 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1895-Nov-27 Meeting Postponed Till Next Day (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Nov-28 Mayor Authorized to Sign Light Bill (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Dec-02 Council Passes Lands to Vancouver Improvement Co., C.P.R. (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Dec-03 Foreshore Rights Committee Struck (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1895-Dec-09 Weekly Market Established (11 page PDF)Vancouver Market 1910 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1895-Dec-16 J. G. Jonah Appointed Fire Dept Engineer (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1895-Dec-23 Vancouver Owed $30,000 in Unpaid Taxes (16 page PDF)Georgia Street (photo) Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6, Part 7 1895-Dec-30 Archie Robinson Appointed Market Clerk (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1895-Dec-31 Special Meeting Wraps Up 1895 (1 page PDF)Original Minutes
1896
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
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1896 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1896-Jan-02 Special Meeting Yields No Results (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Jan-03 Second Special Meeting Also Unsuccessful (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Jan-06 Hamersley Must Return All Commissions (9 page PDF)Firemen Responding (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Jan-13 Special Meeting Wraps Up Business from 1895 11am (2 page PDF)Council for 1896 establishes Committees (2 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes 1896-Jan-20 Library Board, City Solicitor appointed (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Jan-27 $150,000 Loan By-Law debated (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Jan-29 Council wrangles over John Grady’s hire (13 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Feb-03 Vancouver moves to “protect its interests” against railway expropriation (12 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Feb-10 All requests for street improvements on hold (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Feb-17 Mayor to oppose Railway & Light Bill in Victoria (12 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Feb-24 Sunday Shop Opening Remains in Question (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Mar-02 Properties to be sold for back taxes (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Mar-09 No bridge to be built across the Fraser River at present (5 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Mar-13 Friday 13th Council Meeting Overturns Sunday Closing By-Law (9 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Mar-16 Recreation area planned for Stanley Park (5 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Mar-23 City Lighting Contract Cancelled (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Mar-30 Vancouver Seeks Authority to Make Grant s (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Apr-07 Vancouver Seeks Market Day Steamship Service (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Apr-10 Estimates Reviewed (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Apr-13 False Creek Bridge “In A Dangerous State ” (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Apr-17 Liquor License Fees Reduced (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Apr-20 Vancouver Budget totals $362,138 (23 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 1896-Apr-27 Compensation of Mayor & Aldermen Now A Reality (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-May-04 Vancouver Council “Cannot Refuse” Laundry License (7 page PDF)Cordova Street (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-May-11 Repairs to Bridges, Ditches Needed (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-May-18 Bicycling By-Law Gets First Reading (9 page PDF)Terminal City Bicycle Club (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jun-01 Steamers Unavailable for Twice A Week Market Service (10 page PDF)Men and women on Captain William Watts’ gasoline launch “Ruth” at bank of Lynn Creek, ca. 1896 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Jun-08 July 1 Celebration in Question (7 page PDF)Regatta (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jun-15 Dominion Day Celebration Funds Reduced by $1,000 (7 page PDF)Child Dominion (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jun-22 $1,000 restored to Dominion Day grant (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Jun-29 Telephone Switchboard worth $2,000 (7 page PDF)Switchboard (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jul-06 Police Magistrate’s Salary Reduced (5 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jul-13 Proposal to prevent flooding along the Fraser River (10 page PDF)Flood (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Jul-20 Champion Sculling Race Cancelle d (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Jul-27 Water Committee’s Agreement Overturned (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Aug-03 Cowderoy appointed City Accountant (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Aug-10 Granville St. Grading Obstructs Several Doorways (9 page PDF)Construction on Granville Street (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Aug-17 Carnival Liquor Sales Get Green Light (10 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Aug-24 Vancouver Favours Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Flood Protection (10 page PDF) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Sep-08 Water Will Be Cut Off If Bill Not Paid (5 page PDF)English Bay (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Sep-14 Sun Life Water Rebate Turned Down (6 page PDF)Vermilyea Block, 869 Granville Street (photo)Original Minutes 1896-Sep-21 “Nuisance Shacks” To Be Demolished (5 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1896-Sep-28 Rae appointed Pound Keeper (7 page PDF)Rae Pound Keeper (photo)Original Minutes 1896-Oct-05 Wiffin Denies His Cabins Unsanitary (4 page PDF)CVA SGN (photo) Original Minutes 1896-Oct-12 Council to Regulate Stables Within City Limits (6 page PDF)Original Minutes [missing] 1896-Oct-19 Four Prisoners Break Out (7 page PDF)Gaoler’s Mews (photo)Original Minutes 1896-Oct-26 John Devine Appointed City Assessor (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1896-Nov-02 J. M. Stewart Appointed Chief of Police (2 page PDF)J.M. Stewart (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Nov-09 New City Hall in Market Building? (6 page PDF)Market Building (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Nov-16 Vancouver Police Men Need New Raincoats (5 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Nov-23 Brush By-law Will be Enforce d (4 page PDF)Original Minutes 1896-Nov-30 Fire Department Needs A New Team (6 page PDF)Fire Horses (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Dec-07 McAllister & Fulton Appointed to the Police Force (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Dec-14 Additional Cemetery Needed (7 page PDF)Vancouver East (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Dec-21 City Salaries Will Be Paid Before Christmas (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1896-Dec-28 Detective Added to Police Force (5 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2
1897
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
1897 Vancouver City Council Minutes is sponsored by Arnold Silber.
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1897 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1897-Jan-04 Armstrong & Morrison’s Steel Pipe Approved (3 page PDF)Pipes (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Jan-11 Amendments to Polling By-Law Introduced (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Jan-18 Final Meeting for Council of 1896 10:00am (4 page PDF)Committees Formed Among 1897 Council 12:00pm (3 page PDF)Original Minutes Original Minutes 1897-Jan-25 Vancouver Wants Industrial Railway to the Coast (9 page PDF)Rail Bridge (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 [423-425 missing], Part 3 1897-Jan-28 Drill Shed Needed for Vancouver’s Artillery Companies (4 page PDF)Drill Shed (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Feb-01 Proposed By-Law to Raise $70,000 for Schools (13 page PDF)Central Shool (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1897-Feb-08 Fish Peddling, the Corpse, and the Pound Keeper (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Feb-15 Safe Jail Accommodation Called For (11 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Feb-22 Tidal Flats to be Filled in? (10 page PDF)False Creek (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Mar-01 Married Women as School Trustees? (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Mar-04 Selover’s Smelter Proposed Rejected (3 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Mar-08 Liquor By-Law Amended (7 page PDF)Balmoral Saloon (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Mar-15 No Bicycle Roads To Be Built (9 page PDF)Bicycle Group (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Mar-22 “Dangerous” Dwellings Ordered Cleaned or Demolished (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Mar-26 Vancouver to Hold Referendum on Smelter Bonus (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Mar-29 Dogs’ Feed Costs Pound Ten Cents per Day Each (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Mar-30 Estimates Granted (3 page PDF)New City Hall (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Apr-02 Estimates For 1897 Finalized (8 page PDF)Vancouver Budget Finalized (15 page PDF)Bear Pit (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Apr-05 Electric Poles on Barnard Street Must Be Moved Aside (7 page PDF)Electric (photo( Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Apr-12 Vancouver Will Employ Only British Subjects, Effective Immediately (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Apr-20 No Music Hall Licenses to be Issued At Present (9 page PDF)Bicycle Timms (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Apr-26 Bicycle Parking Granted for Trial Period (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-May-05 Prisoners Board: 50 Cents Per Day Too Much? (9 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-May-10 New Women’s Ward Reduced to 2 Stories (7 page PDF)City Hospital (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-May-17 Street Railway Company Must Build Waiting Room (11 page PDF)Marpole Station 1921 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1897-May-21 Council Reviews Street Railway Agreement (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-May-25 New Streetcar Route for Robson, Denman, Georgia (10 page PDF)Robson Streetcar (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-May-31 Pender Street to be Widened at Burrard (9 page PDF)Pender Burrard (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Jun-07 YWCA To Give Magic Lantern Show (8 page PDF)Magic Lantern Projector (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Jun-14 Council Divided on Funds for Swimming Facilities (12 page PDF)English Bay (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1897-Jun-18 Special Meeting To Consider Smelter Proposition (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Jun-28 New Medical Health Officer Halts Dumping On To Tidal Flats (10 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Jul-05 Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal Received (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Jul-06 No Conclusion Reached on Mr. Hogue’s Smelter Proposal (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Jul-12 Temporary Tracks To Be Laid at Granville & Pender (7 page PDF)Pender Granville (photo) City Wharf (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Jul-19 Notice Given to Tenants of City Market (7 page PDF)Handwritten Clip (photo) News Clipping (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Jul-26 Ward 1 By-election Set (6 page PDF)St Luke’s Home (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Aug-02 3 Additional Fire Alarm Boxes for Vancouver (9 page PDF)Gamewell Fire Alarm Box (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Aug-09 Jockey Club’s 10 Per Cent to Improve Grounds (6 page PDF)Horse (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Aug-13 City Will Not Buy Gas Works at $265,000 (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Aug-16 Fenders Needed on Public Streetcars (7 page PDF)Carter House Hotel (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Aug-23 Vancouver Objects to Federal Government Cuts to Leper Colony Funding (6 page PDF)Leper, D’Arcy Island (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Aug-30 Vancouver’s First Water Conservation Rules (7 page PDF)Sprinkler (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Sep-07 Train Noise to be Quieted (3 page PDF)Canned Salmon Train Load (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Sep-10 Alderman Coldwell Dead (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Sep-13 Swing Span for Granville Street Bridge considered (7 page PDF)Obituary (photo) Granville Bridge (photo) 1897-Sep-20 Water Street in “Disgraceful Condition” (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Sep-27 Tremont Hotel Verandah to be Removed (6 page PDF)Sunnyside Hotel (photo) Vancouver Daily World (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Oct-04 Ex-Mayor Fred Cope Dead (5 page PDF)Fred Cope Residence (photo) Fred Cope (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Oct-11 Council Excludes Street Light Near Catholic Church (7 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Oct-12 Special Meeting to Review Smelter Proposals (2 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Oct-14 Second Special Meeting to Discuss Smelter Matters (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Oct-15 Council Forward Smelter Report to Rothschild Representative (1 page PDF)Original Minutes 1897-Oct-18 Board of Trade Criticizes Lack of Places of Amusement in Vancouver (7 page PDF)Vancouver City Wharf 1897 (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Oct-25 Typhoid Fever in Mount Pleasant (5 page PDF)Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Nov-01 Mount Pleasant, Fairview Need Sewerage Systems (6 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Nov-08 Pender Street in Unsafe Condition (5 page PDF)Pender at Burrard St (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Nov-15 City Council Spends $2,000 on Klondike Advertising (8 page PDF)Klondike Ad (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1897-Nov-19 MacKinnon Block Roof to be Altered (1 page PDF)Linton’s Yacht (photo) Masonic Hall (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Nov-22 Linton’s Cabins Rebuilt (6 page PDF)Start Paper Fastener (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Nov-24 C.P.R. Asks for Tax Exemption – Vancouver (1 page PDF)CPR Dock (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Nov-29 C.P.R. continues to press for tax exemption (8 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1, Part 2 1897-Dec-03 CPR Properties to be Exempted from Taxes for 20 Years (2 page PDF)CPR Steamer (photo) Original Minutes 1897-Dec-06 Local Council of Women Request the Appointment of a Police Matron (5 page PDF)Robertson & Hackett Sawmills (photo) Vancouver Daily News Advertiser (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Dec-13 Streetcar Will Run to New City Hall (7 page PDF)Robertson Hackett (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Dec-20 Westminster Avenue Laundry Under Investigation (8 page PDF)Wah Chong Laundry (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Dec-27 Year’s Accounts Wrapped Up (5 page PDF)Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1897-Dec-30 Draft CPR Bylaw Sent to Company Director s (1 page PDF)Original Minutes
1898
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1898 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1898-Jan-03 Council Adjourned In Memory of David Oppenheimer (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Jan-10 Council for 1897 Wrap Up Business (8 page PDF) Imperieuse (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1898-Jan-17 Council of 1897 Vote Condolences to Templeton Family, 10:00 am (1 page PDF) Council for 1897 Stand Adjourned, 12:00 pm (1 page PDF) JF Garden (photo) Templeton Home (photo) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1898-Jan-20 Committees formed for 1898 (7 page PDF) Klondike Scow (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1898-Jan-24 Committees Begin the Work of 1898 (6 page PDF) Panoramic View (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 1898-Jan-31 Library Board Selected (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Feb-01 Vancouver Wants Out of the Municipal Clauses Act (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Feb-07 Council Disagrees About Taxes Rebate (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Feb-14 Will Licensed Music Halls Be Allowed? (10 page PDF) Fire Department (photo) Original Minutes Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 1898-Feb-21 Jail Expansion Approved, Music Hall Vote Looming (10 page PDF) Jewish Cemetery (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Feb-28 Gold Rush Traffic Jeopardizes Coal Harbour Safety (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Mar-07 Colonel Warren Asks for Repairs (12 page PDF) Colonel Warren (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Mar-14 Vancouver Supports Letter Carriers’ Demand for $2 per Day (10 page PDF) Post Office (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Mar-21 By-Law Introduced for Wood Block Paving (9 page PDF) Street Car Track and Wood Block Paving (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Mar-28 Fifty Applications Received for Two Firefighter Positions (9 page PDF) Efficient Firemen (photo )Original Minutes 1898-Mar-29 Council Considers the Estimates (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-01 Vancouver’s Budget for 1898 Established at $404,344.95 High School (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-04 $650 Granted to Children’s Home (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-12 Council Has Questions for the C. P. R. (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-18 Home Phone Approved for the Chief of Police (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-22 Council Reviews Tramway Agreements (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-25 City Bathing Sheds Come Down May 1 (7 page PDF) Bathing Shed (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Apr-26 Council Reviews Conditions for Smelter, Police Magistrate (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-May-02 Police Committee to Investigate Police Court Business (10 page PDF) Sidewalk (photo) Original Minutes 1898-May-04 Smelter Agreement Will Go To Vote (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-May-09 Police Magistrate Should Not Be In Active Practice (11 page PDF) MV Cemetery (photo) Original Minutes 1898-May-13 Will Council Fund World’s Champion Rowing Race? (2 page PDF) Row Club (photo) Rowing (photo) Original Minutes 1898-May-16 Street Watering By-Law Passed (11 page PDF) Watering (photo) Original Minutes 1898-May-23 City Hospital Not to House “The Old” (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-May-30 Consuls Want Improvements to Dunsmuir & Howe (7 page PDF) Japan Consul 1899 Original Minutes 1898-Jun-07 Steamer James Domville Opens Granville Street Bridge (8 page PDF) Steamer Domville (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Jun-13 New Contract With BC Electric Railway To Be Signed (8 page PDF) Street Car Four Wheel (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Jun-20 Brick Barn Allowed on Hastings Street (9 page PDF) Ideal Grocery (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Jun-27 John Pace Appointed Crematory Caretaker (6 page PDF) Palace Stables (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Jul-05 Brick Kitchen Approved for Wing Sang & Co. (5 page PDF) Wing Sang (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Jul-11 Rate of speed for street cars increased; St-Paul’s Hospital & St-Luke’s Home asking for compensation due to quarantine; infrastructure improvements on-going (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Jul-18 Hospital Nurses “Shall Obey” Miss Pirk (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Jul-25 Vancouver Has “No Power” to Authorize Bicycle Parking (10 page PDF) Lady Hastings Cambie (photo) Lady Aberdeen (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-01 Council Seeks Power to Remove “Undesirable” Buildings from Stanley Park (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-08 Council Adjourns Till The Next Day (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-09 Fish Offal Polluting English Bay Beach (7 page PDF) Cannery Interior (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-15 Provisional acceptance of tender from Dominion Bridge Co. re Granville St. Bridge Street span & swing; Pound Limit extended so straying cattle may be impounded; infrastructure improvements on-going; Salvation Army contests taxes (5 pages) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-22 Vancouver to Raise $93,300 for Paving and Grading (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Aug-29 A Few Policemen to Be Available for Night Call (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-06 Council Plans More Recreation Grounds, Direct Steamship Service to San Francisco (9 page PDF) English Bay (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-12 Meeting adjourned to next day (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-13 Vancouver Sends “Sincere Sympathy” to New Westminster following Fire (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-19 Increased Vessel Traffic in Port of Vancouver (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-20 Council Marks the Death of C. L. Brown (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Sep-26 Council Debates the Utility of “Dolphins (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Oct-03 Stempel Fire Extinguishers Offered to Council for Purchase (7 page PDF) Stempel Extinguisher (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Oct-10 Health Committee Reorganizes the Crematorium (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Oct-17 Vancouver “Has No Authority” To Pay for Officer’s Wounds Received On Duty (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Oct-24 Colonel Domville Entitled to Refund for Steamer Access to Bridge (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Oct-31 Vancouver Wants Foreshore Rights Adjacent to BC Sugar (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Nov-07 Street Preachers Causing “A Nuisance” (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Nov-14 Curfew Bell Contemplated for Vancouver (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Nov-21 City Supports Plan for Steamers North and South from Vancouver (8 page PDF) Dupont St (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Nov-22 Council Mulls Over Changes to City Charter (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Nov-28 St. Paul’s Church On The Move (7 page PDF) Moving St Pauls (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-05 YMCA Building Reports Library “In Unsafe Condition” (7 page PDF) YMCA Building (photo) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-06 Street Railway Co. May Build Double Tramway on Davie Street (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-12 Vancouver Library Premises Confirmed “Unsafe” (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-13 CPR Exemptions & Heatley Ave. Wharf Finalized (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-19 Officer McKeown’s Name Cleared (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-20 New Hospital Rules Sent to Medical Staff (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1898-Dec-27 Street Railway Supplies to be Bought in Vancouver (9 page PDF) Original Minutes
1899
Richards Buell Sutton LLP (RBS) sponsored Vancouver City Council Minutes for 1899. Founded in 1871, RBS is the oldest law firm in British Columbia and one of the oldest law firms in Canada.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files.
Transcription is still in progress. To date, transcripts have been made by volunteers Joanne McCormick, Marie-Claude Tremblay, and Carole Wilson
1899 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1899-Jan-03 Polling By-Law & Water Works Loan By-Laws Complete (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-07 Vancouver Hospital Rules Amended (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-09 Water Works Contract Approved (7 page PDF) Water Works (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-16 Final Meeting of Council for 1898 (8 page PDF) Membership on the 1899 Standing Committees of Council, 12pm (2 page PDF) Abray Cosmopolitan (photo) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1899-Jan-21 New Rules & Regulations for governance of City Hospital; House Surgeon & Matron asked for resignations; reorganization of hospital staff & Matron’s quarters (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-23 Matron Macfie takes offense to newspaper story; suitable quarters needed for isolating smallpox patients & Free Library; Japanese exclusion on Voters’ list; acquisition of head of False Creek (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-30 Purchases for VFD & new fire hall; Isolation Hospital; applications for police officers, House Surgeon & Head Nurse; site for Free Library; City Scales considered inaccurate (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jan-31 Council considers Street Railway By-Law and Agreements. Street Railway Agreements to terminate on same date in 1918. Double track for Granville Street (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-03 Council considers By-Law and Agreements with B.C. Electric Co; motion carried that all signed agreements terminate on 26th December 1918 subject to rights of purchase (3 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-06 Civic funeral for late Mr. J.J. Blake – compiler of original City Charter and Vancouver’s first City Solicitor (8 page PDF) John Blake newsclipping (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-13 Johnston Kerfoot Block plans submitted and approved. Application for mill site on Deadman’s Island received. N.W. Caulfield suggests certain lots around Court House be purchased for civic purposes (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-20 Division in Council over fate of Deadman’s Island; Stanley Park Lease approved and forwarded to His Excellency the Governor in Council. New house surgeon, head nurses, nurse & housekeeper appointed to hospital (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-24 Mayor to take necessary steps to maintain City rights regarding Military Reserve (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Feb-27 Firefighting Equipment Finalized, Three Policemen Hired (10 page PDF) Estimates for the year 1899 approved, 11:00 am (8 page PDF) Waterous Engine (photo) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1899-Mar-06 Lighthouses; crusher at quarry; hogs in slaughterhouses; City cleanup & infrastructure issues; car barn for streetcars; new Hospital Matron and nurse; new chemical engine; assorted By-Laws discussed & grants approved (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Mar-13 More Street Numbering to Come to Vancouver (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Mar-20 Animal Cruelty Fines to be Paid to S.P.C.A. (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Mar-27 Vancouver to Acquire False Creek, Coal Harbour Waterfronts (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Apr-04 Vancouver to Have a Wiring Inspector (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Apr-10 Jockey Club Granted $250 To Improve Hastings Track (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Apr-17 All Quotes for Gravel Found Too High (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Apr-24 Mount Pleasant Cow Infected With TB (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Apr-25 Lease of Deadman’s Island Debated (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-May-01 Agreement to be signed between City and C.P.R. Co. exempting certain lands. Council asked to resign en masse. Pump for fire boat insufficient. Meat supply to jail discussed (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-May-05 Council appoints Mayor and City Engineer to visit Champaign, Illinois to report on sewage system used there (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-May-08 City Solicitor to have Foreshore Inspected (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-May-15 Two Bicycles Purchased for Vancouver Police (12 page PDF) Massey Bike (photo) Original Minutes 1899-May-22 Acquisition of foreshore rights and securing of False Creek flats; lighthouse sites in Stanley Park; cans of salmon and condensed milk condemned; Canadian Mining Institute; slaughterhouse issues; alien labour and union labels (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-May-29 Slaughterhouses to Stay on the Shores of False Creek (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jun-05 Council Trades Use of Wharf for Support of Rogers Sugar Foreshore Claim (9 page PDF) Rogers Sugar (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jun-12 Vancouver Claims Rights to Deadman’s Island, Foreshore (11 page PDF) Police Deadmans (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jun-21 Coal and Wood Measurements Need Enforcement (8 page PDF) SS Joan (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jun-26 Sunday Street Sprinkling to Go Ahead (9 page PDF) Street Sprinkler (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jun-28 Celebration Funds Released, Sewerage Considered (2 page PDF) Dominion Day (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-03 Council Reviews Lists of Accounts (6 page PDF) Evans Coleman (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-10 Approval to petition Dominion Government to cede Indian Reserve south of False Creek and close to Jericho to City and present Indians be placed with Squamish Indians; infrastructure: rails, macadamizing, lights, sewers (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-17 Council Split Over $2,000 Settlement Offer (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-21 Consideration of Sewerage By-Law with amount of the loan fixed at $150000;properties to receive sewers determined (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-24 Sewerage, sidewalks, paving, curbing, grading, watering; opening up lanes and streets; Bylaw to regulate bathing; cans seized unfit for human food; slaughter houses; Brockton Point Association, Jockey & Football Clubs (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Jul-31 Special Meeting [missing]New Rules and Regulations for Fire Department referred back for assessment; requests for sidewalks, water service, hydrants, sewers, lights, etc.; plans Akroyd Block on Cordova Street approved (8 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1899-Aug-07 Barrel of whiskey for hospital (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Aug-14 Council Offers Court House Free Water For A Fountain (9 page PDF) Court House (photo) Original Minutes 1899-Aug-21 City infrastructures; complaint against Health inspector; City Hospital; Labor Day; ambulance; dolphins removed; piers & wharves; lighting contract; Canada Press Association visit (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1899-Aug-22 Special meeting to discuss Granville Street Bridge Pier (1 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1899-Aug-24 Special meeting regarding work on new pier for Granville Street Bridge (1 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1899-Sep-05 City petitions Provincial Legislature for power to tax bicycles for construction and maintenance of bicycle paths. Slaughterhouse owners ordered to clean up operations or face demolition of premises (9 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing]
1900
Bruno Wall sponsored the Vancouver City Council minutes for 1900.
Transcribed minutes are available as PDFs and includes links to original handwritten minutes. Related photos, if available, are also available as image files
Transcription is still in progress. To date, transcripts have been made by Sara Keay, Mary Ann Capistrano, Janet Von Siemens, and Anonymous.
1900 Vancouver Mayor and Council (1 page PDF)
Date Title of Minutes Images 1900-Jan-02 Granville St. Bridge to Be Examined (14 page PDF) Granville Bridge (photo) Powells Map (photo) Original Minutes 1900-Jan-15 Council for 1900 sworn in, Committees Established (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Jan-22 Alderman resigns; securing foreshore rights and Coal Harbour & False Creek flats; Arcade Building; Dufferin bereavement; suppressing gambling; Williams Directory; City infrastructure; completion Granville Street Bridge and slaughterhouse nuisances (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Jan-29 Chief of Police Stewart on bereavement leave; Bank of BC manager applies for foreshore rights; Committee seeks legal opinion on City’s foreshore rights; amendments to City Charter; employment of Ward Foremen (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-05 Vancouver’s Dolphins “Impede Navigation” in Harbour (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-12 Vancouver’s legal reps to examine public access to foreshore (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-19 Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Association asks cooperation of the in building structure entirely of British Columbia Wood; team of horses for Water Works Department; estimate of cost to convey and dump City refuse and garbage out to deep water instead of burning (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-20 Special Meeting of the Council held to consider purchase of a portion of land, for the purpose of straightening out Eight Avenue East (2 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-26 City Accountant furnished Financial Statement for A.D. 1899; new fireman and assistant health inspector engaged (10 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Feb-28 School trustees ask for a By-Law for purchase of new school sites and needed improvements (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-05 Daughters of England; Florists request; Fraser case; Spicer Mill sale; diving suit; gambling raids; alien Longshore men; City Charter; H.B.C. Block addition; Ferneaux plan (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-06 City Engineer’s Department discussed. Council request City Engineer give tabulated report from each ward reducing cost of the different kind of work to a week and comparing them (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-12 Tenders for uniforms subject to union labor and scale of wages; sanitary conveniences at new buildings; damages claimed due to flooding; purifiers in slaughterhouse required (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-15 1900 Estimates considered and adopted (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-19 Streetcar service, Stanley Park, valves & hydrants, diversion of water from natural courses, amendment City Charter and sidewalks, flooded cellars, sewers & street improvements (6 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-23 Special meeting called to consider charges against City Engineer (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Mar-26 City Engineer investigation continues, 1st meeting (1 page PDF) Fire in Kuskonook; Stanley Park; water lots; Heatley Ave. wharf completed; rate for 1900 struck; new bylaws discussed; visits to new crushing and cemetery sites; Free Library lease renewed (9 page PDF) Original Minutes Original Minutes 1900-Apr-02 Lord Strathcona and Strathcona Horse for South African service; Y.M.C.A.; tenders for police and firemen’s uniforms; cattle impounded; Second hand dealers; Heatly Avenue Wharf; B.C. Electric Co. using wrong style and weight of rail (12 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Apr-09 Contribution to patriotic fund; employment on streetcars & more rails approved; infrastructure issues; Wave publication; City Hospital issues; leper colony; isolation grounds; Coal Harbour; flush tank; foreshore rights (7 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Apr-17 Vaccinations; tenders for leasing of City Wharf; Chaingang to clear stumps and level lots at Alexandra Orphanage; Mayor and Alderman Grant to interview Municipal Council of South Vancouver to secure cooperation in construction of sidewalk to Cemetery (11 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Apr-23 Vaccination of school children; supplying of water to cemetery; leasing of Heatley Avenue Wharf; crossing to Alexandra Orphanage approved; tenders for West End and Mount Pleasant Sewers; Jeffries and Gray turn over plant to City (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Apr-26 Construction of sewers, ratepayers vote bylaw, amount insufficient (1 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Apr-30 City water carried to the corner of Arbutus St. and 3rd Ave.; Water Committee advise of laying on water westward on Arbutus St. and number and location of houses to be served. J. Morton, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee, asked for list of Nationalities of all prisoners during past 12 months. Mr. W. Bell, who was injured on Granville Street Bridge through the slipping of the cable, was allowed to retain his pay for the half time during the period he was laid off, amounting to $28.00 (9 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Aug-06 The Government is requested to nominate these gentlemen as first Governors of the City Hospital (12 page PDF) Original Minutes [missing] 1900-Sep-11 Squalid Hovel their Prison (3 page PDF) News Clipping Vancouver Daily World Sep 18 1900 (photo) Original Minutes [missing]1900-Dec-30 1900 Vancouver Police Court proceedings re Board of Health matters (8 page PDF) Original Minutes 1900-Dec-31 1900 Vancouver Board of Health record of work done (9 page PDF) Board of Health Records Book Cover (photo) Original Minutes