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Series consists of ledgers of accounts payable by the City.

Series consists of a monthly listing of vendors supplying the following products to the City: hardware, lumber, paint, leather goods, stationary, ship chandlery, electrical, groceries, meat, butter, sand and gravel, gasoline, and auto tires.

Minutes for this committee of Council are not held by the City of Victoria Archives.

Series consists of the main departmental records of the Parks Department.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee. Also includes some agendas originally filed with the City Clerk for information.

For an alphabetical index to the minutes of this Committee, see CR-0137.

See also CR-0028, Public Works Committee records (1926-1962).

Series consists of records created in the process of estimating annual revenue and expenditures, as published in the bylaws comprising CR-0243 (budget estimates). Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and spreadsheets.
There is a gap in this series for 1950.

Series consists of one sheet containing minutes 51-17 to 51-20 from the meeting of 15 August 1951.

For an alphabetical index to the minutes of the Building Committee, see CR-0140.

Series consists of agendas and minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the monthly tabulation of salary and benefits of the employees of each department.

Data elements include: pay roll number, department, salary, unemployment insurance city share/employees share, superannuation, income tax, B.C. Hospital, Canada savings bonds, M.S.A., City Hall union dues, Great West Life [Insurance Co.], Excel Life, Canada Life, C.E.H.A., fire union dues, police union dues, I.U.O.E. Local #918, London Life, V.F.M.B.S., advances, and net salary.

Series consists of a record of cumulative totals of funds entered against various accounts such as cash sales, rentals, tax sales, and agreements receivable.

Series consists of monthly payroll records for the Unemployment Relief Office.

Includes name of employee, position, monthly salary, deductions, and some remarks. Each volume includes a list of employees with addresses and telephone numbers at the end.

Series consists of mainly of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Includes minutes from two meetings of the Greater Victoria Transportation Committee, one in 1951 and one in 1952. Also includes copies of agendas for the last half of 1951 that were originally filed with the City Clerk for information.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

For an alphabetical index to the minutes of the this committee, see CR-0134.

Series consists of a daily record of money received for rent and sales of City properties.

Series consists of agendas and minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

For minutes of this committee see CR-0135.

Series consists of a bound volume documenting City owned properties and their assessed value.

These assessments were used as the basis of insuring City-owned property. Data elements include the item number, name of property, location or legal description, type of construction, risk number, and value of building and contents.
Series is arranged in three year blocks : 1940-1942; 1943-1945; 1946-1948; and 1949-1951.

Series consists of an index to the Buildings Committee minutes (CR-0038).

Series consists of a daily record of departmental expenses such as salaries, printing, car allowance, rents commissions, and advertising.

Series consists of bylaws pertaining to estimated revenue and expenditures. Includes bylaws regarding taxes and rates on land and property, boulevards, street lighting, and other matters, as well as votes of funds for departmental and other expenditures.

Series consists of records pertaining to operation and maintenance of the Johnson Street Bridge. Includes correspondence, maintenance files, and cement test results.

Series consists of a journal of applications by the City for certificates of title from the Land Registry Office.

Provides information on the date of the application, the vendor, a description of the parcel of land, the nature of the deed, the application number, and the date the certificate of title was received.

Series consists of recommendations to Council regarding City land sales for veterans and ordinary sales, offers to purchase land received, and a variety of other business dealing with such matters as demolitions and zoning.

Series consists of butterfat tests book (1939-1949), bacteriological tests book (1947-1950), and a copy of "Testing milk and its products" signed by Tomas Lancaster, City Sanitary Inspector.

Series consists of a special ledger dealing with the Victoria water works. The ledgers contain detailed information on specific water accounts.

Series consists of a yearly estimate of departmental expenditures compared with previous years' expenditures.

Series consists of a special ledger of departmental accounts of the City, which deals with every aspect of each departmental operating budget.

Series consists of a combination of assessment rolls and Collector's rolls, providing information on property values and taxation rates compiled for the purpose of assessing and collecting taxes on property and improvements.

Information on the creation, structure, and composition of the Collector's roll is provided below in three sections: context of creation, structure, and data elements.

Context of Creation

Until the establishment of the B.C. Assessment Authority in 1974, assessment and collection of property taxes were the responsibility of the City. Each year the Assessor drew up the assessment roll, sent out notices of assessment to relevant taxpayers, and then forwarded the roll to the City Clerk on behalf of Council. City Council, sitting as the Court of Revision, determined whether revisions to the returned assessment roll were required, made them if necessary, confirmed them, and authenticated the roll. Council then enacted a bylaw for setting yearly tax rates. Following this, the Clerk made out the Collector's roll and forwarded it to the Collector who gathered the taxes, returning his roll to the Clerk when finished, and forwarding the money collected to the Treasurer.

Structure

Records are arranged numerically by roll number. The numerical sequence reflects an ordering of lots into various sections throughout the City such as City Lots, Five Acre Lots, Beckley Farm, and Fairfield, like earlier assessment rolls. The following list from the 1921-1927 roll provides a general indication of the relation between the geographical location of a lot and its roll number (larger groupings of sections, indicated in the rolls by breaks in the numerical sequence, are separated by a dashed line):

        City Lots        1-2677
        Fort Property        2678-2793
        Section VI       2794-2850
        Lot Z            2851
        Christ Church Trust  2852-2968
        Five Acre Lots   2969-3702
        -----------------------------------
        Beckley Farm     3799-4910
        -----------------------------------
        Fairfield        5001-7083
        -----------------------------------
        Sections 19 & 68     7500-8490
        Sections 68 & 74     8491-9044
        Spring Ridge         9045-9638
        Finlayson Estate     9639-10140
        -----------------------------------
        Fernwood        10600-12438
        Section 48      12439-13340
        Section 8A      13341-13600
        -----------------------------------
        Sec. 4 (Hillside)   14100-17028
        Section 5 (Gorge)   17029-17427
        Section 7A (Gorge)  17428-17460
        -----------------------------------
        Section 25      18000-18238
        Oakland     18239-19365
        Sections 10 & 11    19366-19658
        Victoria West       19659-20775
        Water Lots      20776-20807
        -----------------------------------
        Sec. 119 (Songhees) 20900-21066

Data Elements: 1917 and 1921-1927 rolls.

    1917 roll

Title: Assessor's and Collector's roll of the Corporation of the City of Victoria, B.C., for the year 1917
Elements (sub-elements are indicated by indentation):

• Roll No.
• Remarks
• Name of person assessed
• Address
• Description of property
  Street
  Map No.
  Block
  Lot
  Sub-lot
  Measurement
  Price per foot frontage or acre
  Assessed value of land
  Assessed value of improvements
  Total
• Date notices sent
• Taxes on assessed value of land
  General, Board of Health and Hospital
  Mills, gross [ ... ]
  Net if paid by [ ... ] 1917
  Interest, sinking fund and school purposes
  Mills, net [ ... ]
• Special taxes
  Water frontage tax net
  Boulevard upkeep tax net
  Cluster lighting maintenance, net
  Sewer rental net
  Sewer construction tax net
• Net total of all preceding rates and taxes of 1917 if paid by [ ... ] 1917
• Arrears
  Amount [for years 1913-1916]
• Payments
  Amount
  Receipt
• Balancing
  Rebate added
  Excess payments
• Arrears
  Amount [for years 1914-1917]
• Payment on arrears
  Amount
  Receipt
• Local improvements

• Roll No.

  1921-1927 roll

Title: Assessor's and Collector's roll for the years as shown hereunder
Elements (sub-elements are indicated by indentation):
An asterisk (*) indicates that the data element is not found in the 1928-1934 assessment roll.

• Roll No.
  • Section
• Map No.
  • • Sub Lot
    • Lot
• Lots subdivided
  • Block
• Street
  • • Measurement
    • Year [1921-1927]
  • • Price per foot front or acre
    • Assessed value land
• Assessed value improvements
• Total
  • Registered owner in fee simple, or tenant for life
• Registered owner of last agreement for sale
  • • Holder of last agreement to purchase not registered,
      but filing document
• Date notice sent
  • Year [1921-1927]
• General rate
  • • Interest and sinking fund rate
  • • School purposes rate
  • • Total
    • Water frontage tax
• Boulevard upkeep tax
  • Cluster lighting tax
• Sewer rental
  • Sewer construction tax
• Total of all preceding rates and taxes
  • • [Prepaid tax memo /or/ local improvement 1]
  • • Discounts
  • • Net current taxes
    • Arrears
      Year
      Amount
    • Payments
      Amount
      Receipt
    • Percentage additions
• Excess payments
  • Arrears forward

Series consists of a journal describing details of cars and trucks purchased by the City.

Also describes, under "miscellaneous equipment," purchases of such things as cash registers, air conditioners, washing machines, lawn mowers, and other machinery.

Each entry describes the supplier, details of the product, and the cost.

Series consists of a journal describing details of equipment and supplies available for purchase from various suppliers and manufacturers.

The entries generally refer to goods other than vehicles and machinery (which are described in series CR-0248), such as flags, florist supplies, and fire extinguishers. Most entries describe the supplier, details of the product, and the cost.

Series consists of a register documenting the sale of City debentures.

Data elements include the file number, date of registration, by-law number, the debenture numbers, the name and address of the bearer, and the date of transfer of the debentures, if applicable.

Series consists of photographs pertaining to Victoria parks submitted in a City of Victoria-sponsored contest that was operated by the Victoria Camera Club.

Series consists of data and reports compiled for the Water Committee, including a variety of reports with plans on electrolysis damage.

Series consists of a journal documenting private properties sold by the City of Victoria for non-payment of property taxes.

Data elements include the legal description of the property, the total delinquent taxes, the name and address of the property owner, the method by which the owner was contacted, a description of the real property sold, the name and address of the purchaser at the tax sale, and an annotation stating whether or not the property owner redeemed the property.

The 1915-1945 volume consists of the tax sale record for 1915-1919 and aggregate tax sales information for 1915-1949 (the latter at p. 38).

Series consists of records documenting the results of elections, referenda, loan bylaws and other matters set to a public vote. These records provide the basis for the formal reports sent from the Deputy Returning Officers to the Returning Officer and from the Returning Officer to the City Clerk (CR-0019).

An internal index in the first volume provides some subject access for actions between 1906 and 1913.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the joint minutes of the Health Committee and the Relief Committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of copies of outward letters.

Series consists of a ledger of debenture accounts documenting the amount of interest due each month.

Data elements include the name of the debenture, the number of the corresponding bylaw, the amount of the loan, the rate of interest, the half-yearly interest, date of issue of the loan, date due, and the interest dates for each year.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of correspondence, reports, contracts, agreements, tenders, specifications, and resolutions apparently removed by the City Clerk's Office and retained in groupings by topic.

Material pertains to public utilities, transportation, and the B.C. Electric Railway Company (1938-1939); the Victoria and Sidney Railway 1892-1906); and the Songhees Indian Reserve (1884-1906).

Series forms part of earlier City of Victoria Archives' "Series IV, Special Reports and Projects," for which an item list is available.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of the minutes of this City Council committee.

Series consists of a ledger of the Esquimalt section of the Victoria water works. Accounts deal with all aspects of running the Esquimalt area water works.