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 There's this book in the Provincial Legislative Library that is a must read that covers the topic of Libraries, throughout the Province of British Columbia, starting way, way, back in time.

Author:  Marjorie C. Holmes   1959

Library Service in British Columbia
A Brief History of its Development

 HISTORY

Public library service in British Columbia is not a thing of recent growth. We find in reading the journals of the fur-traders that books were playing a prominent part in their lonely lives even as early as 1786.

At that time John McKay, surgeon in the Experiment, one of two ships under command of the explorer James Strange, had his library with him when he remained for some time at Nootka Sound making a study of the native Indians of that region.

Daniel William Harmon, trader with the North West.Company in 1801, makes frequent mention of his pleasure in reading during his years spent at posts in what are now the three western Provinces. The company made a practice of supplying books to its northern posts. As Harmon says in 1813, writing from Stuart Lake, ". . . there are few posts, which are not tolerably well supplied with books. These books are not, indeed, all of the best kind; but among them are many which are valuable."

The Hudson's Bay Company also supplied books to its more remote posts. Many of these volumes are now preserved in Hudson's Bay House at Winnipeg.  SNIP

 Ahhhhh, North Vancouver

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City of North Vancouver

Founded in 1924, North Vancouver began with a library of donated books. Membership was free and it functioned with volunteer help. The city gave a small grant for book purchases,  which were supplemented by books from the Travelling Libraries. In 1926 the association owned about 1,300 books and had also changed its quarters several times. At this period a membership of $1 was found to be necessary as funds were scarce, and the Government grant amounted to the large sum of $21.89. The association held book teas to raise funds, and mending bees to keep the books "alive" a little longer. In the thirties the city  discontinued its grant, but later, happily, it was renewed.

Twice between 1945 and 1950 the library moved, and then found the building in which it is now housed. In December, 1950, the ratepayers voted on the question: "Are you in favour of the Council granting to the North Vancouver Public Library aid out of general revenue in a sum not exceeding the equivalent of $1.00 per capita of population of the city according to the last Canadian census?" It passed with a 1,500 majority.

In 1956, North Vancouver appointed its first professional librarian, Mrs. Hero Heyworth, and in that year also it was agreed to spend the North Vancouver Centennial grant on a new library building.  Snip

 And since the non-Premier has called into question the costs of our Justice system going up, and crimes going down....AND the Feds are cutting back on Gaols too, therefore they must have seen similar crime statistics going Down as well.........

Why not do a little research on the internet for Keywords in the Reference of a book?

Why?  Why would the First document in the Reference section of this book have to do with the Inspector of Gaols?     Starting on the bottom of page 23 is a very large section on Institutional Libraries and Conrad Black will be out walking the streets of North America... a FREE man, on Friday.

Without a library in a prison Conrad Black wouldn't have gone stir crazy.

REFERENCES

British Columbia. Inspector of Gaols. Annual report. 1945-1956. Victoria, 1946-1957.

Snip ....A small beginning of library service to institutions in the Province was made as early as 1922, when books in print and in raised type were lent to the School for the Deaf, the Dumb, and the Blind, and pictures were given by the Library Commission to the school.

 Books were also sent to the Boys' Industrial School under the usual Travelling Libraries regulations. Tranquille Sanatorium library was well supplied with books of its own, but help was given by the Public Library Commission staff in reorganizing it.

Except for the occasional mention that more books had been sent to the Boys' Industrial School, institutional libraries were not very seriously considered until about 1940. At that time several informal discussions had been held with the Provincial Secretary and the Attorney-General, stressing the need for organized library service in the institutions. In 1942 the Annual Report of the Public Library Commission stated:-

"Very little progress has been made in the matter of library service for Provincial institutions, but a preliminary investigation was made of library facilities at present available, and a memorandum submitted to the Minister of Education. This was also supplied to the Provincial Secretary and the Attorney-General, under whose respective jurisdictions most of the Provincial institutions are  administered. Some interest was evinced in the report but no concrete result had been attained by the end of the year."

In 1943 it was reported that" with the keen interest and appreciated co-operation of the Attorney-General, the Honourable Gordon Wismer, it was possible to start on a project long cherished by the Commission for improvement of reading facilities at Oakalla Prison Farm." For some time past a group of women in the Elizabeth Fry Society had been providing books for the women's ward of the Provincial Goal, but both they and the Commission felt that the library should be the direct responsibility of the prison authorities, and that books should form part of the equipment of the institution and of the rehabilitation process.

This view was shared by the Attorney-General, and in 1943 a start was made and a carefully selected list of books chosen and added to the existing stock. The library was placed under the direction of a trained librarian experienced in penal institution library work, and the cost paid for out of the vote of the Attorney-General's Department.

The library in the men's gaol was not satisfactory from any viewpoint, a fact which was fully realized, but in 1943 efforts were concentrated on bringing up the library in the women's gaol to a proper standard before tackling the situation in the men's gaol. This was commenced in 1944, and the change was immediately apparent.

ETC.

British Columbia. Legislative Library. Reports. 1894, 1898, 1899/1900, 1900/1901, 1902/1903, 1904, 1907, 1909. Typewritten.

British Columbia. Provincial Library and Archives. Reports. 1915/1916, 1916/1917, 1918, 1919, 1921. Victoria, 1916- 1921.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. British Columbia Library Survey, 1927-1928. Victoria, 1929.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. Libraries in British Columbia, 1940. Victoria, 1941.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. A preliminary study of adult education in British Columbia. Victoria, 1941.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. Programme for library development in British Columbia, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1956. Mimeographed.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. Reports. 1919-1926. Typewritten. 77

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. Reports. 1926/1927- 1957. Victoria, 1927-1958.

British Columbia. Public Library Commission. Survey of union libraries in British Columbia. Victoria, 1956.

British Columbia. Travelling Libraries. Reports. 1911-1918. Typewritten.

British Columbia. Public Libraries Act. Victoria, 1947. Mimeographed.

British Columbia Historical Quarterly, July, 1947. Victoria, 1947.

British Columbia Library Association. Bulletin. 1938-1956.

British Columbia Library Association. Quarterly. 1957-1958.

British Columbia Library Association. Looking backward, 1936-191l. Typewritten.

Canadian Library Association. Bulletin. July, 1951; February, 1954; April, 1956.

Cotton, Miles. History of the Vancouver Public Library. 1926. Typewritten.

History of the New Westminster Public Library. n.d., n.p.

Library Journal, v. 78, no. 12, June 15, 1953.

Lowe, John Adams, and Richards, John S. Report of a survey of the Vancouver (British Columbia) Public Library to the Board of the Vancouver Public Library. Chicago, A.L.A., 1949.

Miyazawa, Jean. A study of the extension services of the British Columbia Public Library Commission. Thesis, University of Washington, 1956.

New Westminster Public Library. Reports. 1950-1956. Mimeographed.

Okanagan Historical Society. Story of libraries in the Okanagan, by Muriel Page Ffoulkes. 19th annual report, 1955.

Smith, Brian. A social history of early Nanaimo. Thesis, University of British Columbia. 1956.

The Vancouver Public Library, report on a brief survey. Chicago, Public Administration Service, 1957.

Victoria Public Library, past, present, and future, n.d. Mimeographed.

Victoria, B.C. Annual reports, 1882-1956.

Correspondence files of the Public Library Commission, Victoria.

Powell River Digester.

Trail Daily Times.

Victoria Daily Colonist.

Victoria Daily Times.

Vancouver Daily Province.

Vancouver Daily Sun.

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Oil tankers, and if there is a spill, who will pay these guys "1403300 2403035 193432 1406628"?

Four sets of numbers, gleaned from the internet, after NOT looking for them in any particular way.  I started out this morning looking through several Directories on my hard drives of "items" that I have saved (BookMarked) for a rainy day.  Today it wasn't raining, but it sure looked like it might, so, I went and did some house keeping.

Google Search Criteria   1403300 2403035 193432 1406628   generates six Results.

Third and Fourth are the same, Third in English, Fourth in French, Fifth makes you stop, and wonder.

Just what is the BC Liberal Government doing, to protect our coastal waters from the north end of Vancouver Island and all points SOUTH, if Premier Christy Clark is not going to take a stand against Oil Tankers and Pipelines from Alberta?    Is she going to hop on her Government Jet plane, with floats, and hop from one island to another claiming AFTER the FACT, that she will be there for US?....... after disaster strikes like that which has been happening up in Burns Lake and Prince George Saw Mills?

It isn't just the pristine waters of Burrard Inlet that is at stake here, its Wild Salmon too which are not marked on any map that I've found today.

"Marine Finfish  Aqualculture (with LF)" .... slow loading but lots of detail and inside the PDF file its called differently, once the file is opened up on your monitor:

"Saltwater Aquaculture Facilities in British Columbia   December 2010 (with Crown Land Fish Number)" or there's this:

another source for the same sort of information but with a different  title altogether

0 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers - Ministry of Agriculture and Lands ...

 Shades of Boss Power settlement, Energy Minister Rich Coleman will take care of it, he knows the procedures on how to settle on the Court House steps.

Now compare this image with the one above, and then go to this Blog of Alexandra Morton's  who created the image/document below for more information.  

 Update:   April 29, 2012

CURRENT VALID MARINE FINFISH BRITISH COLUMBIA AQUACULTURE LICENCE HOLDERS

This spreadsheet has been sorted by Crown Landfile numbers



Laugh Out Loud


      the file is dedicated to the Aquaculture Management team of Fish Farmers who see themselves as "Ensuring Sustainable Fisheries"....... as their product is decimating the natural habitat!!!!    Did they get their spin doctoring degree from Master Spin Doctor Rich Coleman when he was busily planting the Province's Six Billionth Tree and then continued to watch our Province's forests being decimated by the Mountain Pine Beetle..... and then..... and then...... hasn't a word to say on two explosions in two Saw Mills?

Oh yeah, he passed the portfolio file onto Steve Thomson the New Minister of Forests.... and where is he, Thomson, on the two explosions in the Saw Mills?  Was he pre-empted by Christy for another one of her Photo-Operations.

All those rules regarding FOIs to the BC Government and are stymied by Cabinet Privilege

201 - COMMITTEES - CABINET

Records relating to the establishment, organization, and functions of Cabinet committees and related deputy ministers’ committees. This primary also includes ministry and agency submissions prepared for Cabinet or its committees, with the exception of Treasury Board.
Records types include correspondence, submissions, draft submissions, supporting documentation, notices, agendas, minutes, records of decision, reports, presentation handouts, and other types of records as indicated under relevant secondaries.
NOTE: The retention period in this primary takes precedence over those in the Special Schedule for Executive Records (102906).
NOTE: Cabinet Operations holds the master versions of Cabinet submissions. It is the policy of Cabinet Operations that ministry copies of Cabinet submissions and draft submissions are to be kept secure to ensure no unauthorized access. Substantial drafts should be kept locked in the deputy minister’s or minister’s office.
Requests from the public under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for information filed under this primary must be referred to your manager of information and privacy who will refer the request to Cabinet Operations.
For Cabinet directives, see secondary 195-02.
For deputy ministers’ committees not related to Cabinet, see secondary 200-20.
For Treasury Board submissions, see primary 1250.
non-OPR NOTE: Offices will retain non-OPR copies of records for SO nil DE

Primary- Secondary	Records Series	OPR
		A	SA	FD
201-00	Policy and procedures FR = Cabinet-related policy and procedures will be fully retained by the government archives because they document ministry/agency-specific policy, procedures, guidelines, and instructions regarding the Cabinet submission process. The records have significant evidential and informational value.	SO	nil	FR
201-01	General	CY+3y	12y	DE
201-02	Cabinet submissions (from other ministries)	SO	nil	DE
201-20	Cabinet committees	CY+3y	12y	DE
201-30	Deputy minister Cabinet-related committees DE = Upon authorization of the Records Officer, cabinet and deputy minister Cabinet-related committee records are eligible for destruction. Records of Cabinet committees and deputy minister Cabinet-related committees are fully retained under the Office of the Premier and Executive Council ORCS (881099).	CY+3y	12y	DE
201-40	Ministry/agency cabinet submissions (includes final drafts of submissions, developmental drafts, correspondence, working papers, and other records leading to the preparation of cabinet submissions by the ministry or agency) FR = The government archives will fully retain Ministry/agency Cabinet submissions because they document the development of information that goes before Cabinet or its committees or that is incorporated into a Cabinet submission or used as the basis for developing a Cabinet submission. The records have significant evidential value. 15y = The retention period ensures that records of the deliberations of the Executive Council or its committees are retained by the ministry or agency until such time as the records no longer qualify as exceptions under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA) (RSBC 1996, c. 165, ss. 1 & 2). The retention period takes precedence over those in the special schedule for executive records 102906. FOI: In accordance with FOIPPA, the head of a public body must refuse to disclose to an applicant information that would reveal the substance of deliberations of the Executive Council or any of its committees until the information has been in existence for 15 or more years. This includes advice, recommendations, policy considerations, or draft legislation or regulations submitted or prepared for submission to the Executive Council or any of its committees. NOTE: In the event of a change of government, the records of the previous Executive Council and its committees will be accepted by the central records management agency for semi-active storage immediately and retained with authorized access limitations for a combined total active and semi-active retention period of 15 years, at which time they will be ready for final disposition.

So in 2013...... backtrack here..... in 2001 plus 15 years, makes 2016!  BC Liberals came to power, therefore the records of the Executive Council of the NDP still exist to 2016!   In 2013 the Executive Council records of the BC Liberals will remain intact for a "combined total" until 2028.... I mention all this because I'm getting really curious about what John van Dongen is talking about when it comes to the SALE of BC Rail.

Cabinet Office on 881099 link above

You and I can't look at the documents in storage but...... if someone is granted AUTHORIZED ACCESS RESTRICTIONS, hmmmm.... you mean like the Auditor General rather than a Royal Commission, or both.....

Historical Firsts for Women in BC Politics without an Honourable Mention being made of those in close support

Only in British Columbia, you say?       Last updated April 2010

 Women Members of the Legislature of British Columbia (1991)

 
Historical Firsts

1 First woman MLA in BC Mary Ellen Smith Jan. 24, 1918 (B)

2 First woman Independent MLA in BC Mary Ellen Smith (Bio Aug, 16, 2013) Jan. 24, 1918 (B)

3 First woman to be elected Liberal MLA in BC Mary Ellen Smith Dec. 1, 1920

4 First woman cabinet minister Mary Ellen Smith Mar. 24, 1921 without portfolio in the British Empire

5 First woman to act as Speaker in BC Mary Ellen Smith Feb. 22, 1928

6 First general election no women were elected July 18, 1928. since franchise extended to women in 1917

7 First woman CCF MLA in BC Dorothy Gretchen Steeves July 14, 1934 (B)

8 First woman Conservative MLA in BC Tilly Jean Rolston Oct. 21, 1941

9 First woman BC MLA to run federally Dorothy Gretchen Steeves June 27, 1949

10 First woman elected Speaker in Commonwealth Nancy Hodges Feb. 14, 1950

11 First woman MLA to cross the floor in BC Tilly Jean Rolston Mar. 29, 1951 (Mary Ellen Smith, who had been elected in 1918 as an Independent, ran as a Liberal in 1920, but did not apparently "cross the floor")

12 First woman Social Credit MLA in BC Tilly Jean Rolston May 2, 1952 (Joined the Social Credit Party) June 12, 1952 (Elected as a Social Credit member)

13 First woman cabinet minister with portfolio Tilly Jean Rolston Aug. 1, 1952 in Canada

14 First woman BC MLA to die in office Tilly Jean Rolston Oct. 12, 1953 (She had lost the 1953 election but was still in the Cabinet.) Buda Hosmer Brown Aug. 12, 1962 (She was sitting as an elected Member and Cabinet Minister.)

15 First woman BC MLA to become a Canadian Nancy Hodges Nov. 5, 1953 Senator

16 First woman NDP MLA in BC Margaret Frances Hobbs Sep. 4, 1962 (B)  (The name of the CCF 8 party was changed in 1960 to "New Party" and in 1961 to New Democratic Party. Some candidates ran as New Democratic Party-CCF to ensure that voters knew who they were.)

17 First woman BC MLA to run federally and win Winona Grace MacInnis Nov. 8, 1965

18 First black woman elected to a provincial Rosemary Brown Aug. 30, 1972 legislature in Canada

19 First woman to be acting President of the Eileen Elizabeth Dailly Sep. 26, 1972 Executive Council in BC

20 First woman to be appointed Deputy Premier Grace Mary McCarthy Dec. 22, 1975 in BC

21 First woman BC MLA to become a federal Kim Campbell Jan. 30, 1989 cabinet minister for Canada (Minister of State) (Minister of Justice) Feb. 24, 1990 (Minister of Defence) Jan. 4, 1993

22 First woman Premier in Canada Rita Margaret Johnston Apr. 2, 1991

23 First woman MLA of East Indian-Canadian descent Judeline Kim Mary Tyabji Oct. 17, 1991

24 First MLA to give birth while in office in Judeline Kim Mary Tyabji Mar. 14, 1992 British Columbia

25 First woman BC MLA to become Prime Minister Kim Campbell June 13, 1993

26 First women MLAs of Chinese-Canadian descent Ida Chong May 28, 1996 Jenny Wai Ching Kwan May 28, 1996

27 First woman MLA subject to Recall petition Evelyn Marie Gillespie Feb. 12, 1998 (petition failed)

28 First BC Cabinet Minister to give birth Christy Clark Aug. 26, 2001 while in office

29 First woman Democratic Reform B.C. MLA in BC Brenzinger, Elayne Jan. 27, 2005

30 First openly lesbian BC MLA McGinn, Jenn Oct. 29, 2008 (B)

31 First woman MLA with a disability Cadieux, Stephanie May 12, 2009

- Author: Janet Frost - Reference Librarian for the BC Legislative Library


With the links attached to each name, readers can now gain more insight into the politicians of yore. For example, Mary Ellen Smith's husband was the Liberal Government's Finance Minister:

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 Mary Ellen Smith was the first woman elected to the B.C. legislature, winning a by election following the death of her husband Ralph Smith, the Liberal government’s finance minister. The daughter of a copper miner, Smith won re-election in 1920 and 1924, becoming the first female cabinet minister in the British Empire in 1921 (minister without portfolio) and the first female Speaker of a legislature in the British Empire in 1928. Snip  - Vancouver Sun  "This day in history: January 24, 1918" Research by The Sun’s news library

Ralph Smith served as Minister of Finance in the government of Premier Harlan Carey Brewster, and died in office on February 17, 1917. His wife, Mary Ellen Smith, succeeded him in the subsequent by-election (held January 1918) as an Independent Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). She subsequently became the first female cabinet minister in the British Empire.   Ralph Smith was a supporter of women's suffrage, which was enacted in the province shortly after the Liberals came to power after ten previous attempts over the years had failed.  wikipedia