there should be a Mines and Resoursed office in Pentiction or at the least in Trail. i would call the Penticton Library and they might help. there were not many mines around Cranbrook but closer to Alberta border and lots just across the line. it wasn't considered much of a border in the 1900's. best of luck larry dodds, searching DODDS, CORBETT HALL, LAWRENCE, MARTIN, MANN, call 1-204-785-2531, e-mail - ldodds@mb.sympatico.ca -----Original Message----- From: Peter Morgan MorganNews <pmorgan@Morgan-News.com> To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: re: [CAN-BC] Land Claims and Mine Claims ? >On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:54 PM, Diane at <hallborg@telus.net> wrote: > >> My mom has memory's of seeing documents of papers stating that her father had >> either owned or had shares in Land and or Mine Claims , here in B.C . Now her >> father lived in Cranbrook . These I can only guess would go as far back as >> before 1935 ... Can anyone give me an idea where I would look something like >> this up ? > >Diane, if you can come up with the names of the companies involved in the >claims, or maybe even a key portion of the names, you might enlist the help >of the librarian at the Canadian Venture Exchange, which used to be the >Vancouver Stock Exchange, which used to be... > >They either have the actual records of companies, or can aid you in pointing >to other resources for tracking down the info. > >The contact page, with e-mail and phone numbers, etc., is: ><http://www.cdnx.com/Top/Contact.htm> > >***** > Peter Morgan * Morgan:Newsletters * 604.683.3241 * pmorgan@morgan-news.com > News that sells * #118, 970 Burrard St., Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 2R4, Canada > Way less than 1 billion served. > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >Check the list's archives out at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html >