WELLS ARCHIVES
RECORD GROUP 37

 

WRG 37 - Jennifer Iredale’s Thesis

Collection Dates, Series #1 of 1

Photographs included with this record group

Historical Data

This Thesis was presented by Jennifer Iredale as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Science in Historic Preservation at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, 1984.

 

This is a Proposal For Heritage Conservation and is seen as the heritage component of an overall settlement plan, yet to be developed by the legal planning body for Wells, the Cariboo Regional District.

 

Scope and Contents

The contents of this Record Group is information, photographs and drawings gathered by Jennifer Iredale.

 

WRG 37 - Jennifer Iredale’s Thesis

Series 1

In this Series:

1. = Maps

2. - Drawings

3. - Resource Material

4. = Correspondence and Notes

5. = Columbia University

6. = Interviews

7. = Legals

8. = Heritage Building Survey Sheets

9. = Research Information

10. = Photocopied photographs

 

1. MAPS

 

   1.1          (45)        -various maps - vintage to present day hand drawn 1933-1984

  

2. DRAWINGS

 

   2.1          (38)        -hand drawn sketches of Pooley and Saunders Street

          buildings. 

 

3. RESOURCE MATERIALS

 

   3.1          (8)          -heritage conservation branch Site Planning System

         -Richard Carr House (Recommended Future Use)

         -excerpts from Notre Dame Lawyer     1968-1969

         -The Effects of International Tourism:  A Bibliography   Dec., 1977

         -The Historic Resources of Livingston  - Kommers         June, 1979

          McLaughlin & Leavengood

         -Proposed Standards For The Adaptive Reuse of Existing            Sept., 1982

          Buildings - Province of BC

         -Canada Tourism March, 1983

         -Heriitage Conservation Planning in British Columbia     Sept. 1, 1983

          Municipalities

 

4. CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES

 

   4.1          (53)        -this file was left in the order found.  There is correspondence   1982-1984

         regarding assembling of material and comments on contents

 

5. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

 

   5.1          (32)        -(4) small sheets of hand written notes

         -(13)blank forms reguesting transcript information

         -Petition to Classify Nonimmigrant as Temporary Worker or

          Trainee information sheet

         -US immigration stamp           Jan. 14, 1982

         -Certificate by Nonimmigrant Student information sheet

         -Columbia University Student Program Notice     Autumn 1983

         -letter re:  thesis advisor

         -Instructions for Payment of Enclosed Bill    

         -Columbia University tuition information     July 25, 1983

         -Columbia Bulletin:  Master of Science Degree in

          Historic Preservation

         -letter acknowledging acceptance in to Graduate School of         May 6, 1981

          Architecture

         -empty envelope entitled “Visa stuff”

         -empty envelope entitled “Registrar Columbia University”

 

6. INTERVIEWS

 

   6.1          (31)        -interviews conducted by Jennifer Ireland for thesis background

          these are left in the order found.

         -hand written notes on Wells

          -biographies, interviews (some done by Sandy Mather)

            and comments are as follows:

   Archie and Dot White  Aug. 24, 1983

   letter (unknown author) - Vancouver  Oct. 31, 1983

   letter from Ed Richardson

   letter from CM (Colin McDonald?)   Oct. 29, 1983

   form filled out - no name 

   Richardson

   Isobel Boulding

   Richardson/Baynes      Feb. 1983

   Smith

   Arnie Drinkwater

   George Carlson

   Art Bishop

   Irma Rowland

   Dave and Doris Nichols        April 4, 1983

   Howard Black

   Len & Helen Marsh     March 11, 1983

   Dick & Christine Moore

   Dick Moore         March 19, 1983

   F. Nunn  Feb. 10, 1983

   J.H. Parliament          Mar. 23, 1983

   J.A. Pike

   Floyd and Irma Rowlands

   Oline Smith          Mar. 29, 1983

   E.W. Richardson

   Colin McDonald

   Mrs. Vera Peever (nee Campbell)         -newspaper article re:  Glee Club Concert    June 10, 1939

         -article copied from Province   Oct. 13, 1934

         -hand written notes

 

7. LEGALS

 

   7.1          (14)        -Crown Grant of lot 289 to Archibald McIntyre    Sept 2, 1898

         -map showing property

         -Transfer of  Crown Land to Mary Agnes Nason   1899

         -Indenture between Archibald McIntyre and

          George Benjamin Clark          Jan. 16, 1902

         -Indenture between Mary Nason ans John Hopp    1910

         -Tax Sale Deed of Land to the Lowhee Mining Co.           Sept. 9, 1931

         -Tax Sale Deed of Land between Edgar Lunn and

          The Lowhee Mining Company           Sept. 9, 1931

         -copy of the British Columbia Gazette containing

          notice of incorporation of town of Wells    Jan. 11, 1934       -transfer of property between The Lowhee Mining Co.

          and The Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company   January, 1934

         -Indenture between The Lowhee Mining Co.and The

          Wells Townsite and Fred Wells         January, 1934

         -”This Indenture” between The Lowhee Mining Co.

          and Fred Wells   July 3, 1935

 

8. HERITAGE BUILDING SURVEY SHEETS

 

   8.1          (25)        -blank sheets

 

9. RESEARCH INFORMATION

 

   9.1          (84)        -Photocopies of newspaper articles, hand written notes

          maps

         -copied excerpts from Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Co. Jan. 1976

          an inventory of the Records in The Library of the

          University of British Columbia

         -data on Fred  Wells and the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine

         -excerpt from Community Planning and Housing on

          “The Company Town”

         -Production Record           1933-1966

 

10. PHOTOCOPIED PHOTOGRAPHS

  

   10.1       (49)        -photocopies of  Wells buildings and the surrounding

          area

 

11. PHOTOGRAPHS