[Plan of] Indian Reserves in the Lytton Land District and on the Similkamen and Spellum-cheen Rivers [mylar copy]

Surveyed by John Trutch and drawn by J.B. Launders, 1870. [Not signed by Superintendent of Indian Affairs.] Mylar copy of a map showing Reserves along several rivers in the Lytton District and on the Similkameen and Spellum-cheen rivers. Reserves numbered 14-20: 14 - Nicamoen Indian Reserve situated on the left Bank of Fraser River between the 67 + 68 mile posts on the Yale-Lytton Road; 15 - Indian Reserve situated at the mouth of the Nicola River; 16 - Spellum-cheen Indian Reserve situated in a small Valley about one mile from the left bank of the Spellum-cheen River No. 1 Res.; 17 - Spellum-cheen Indian Reserve situated on the left bank of Fraser River; 18 - Similkameen Indian Reserve situated at a place known as the Potato Gardens on the left bank of the Similkameen River about halfway between Princeton + Keremeous; 19 - Albert Flat Indian Reserve situated on the right bank of Fraser River abt, 4 miles below Yale; 20 - Skoivall Indian Reserve situated on the right bank of Fraser River abt. 7 miles below Hope. Land cover and features described on the map includes barns, cabins, streams, timber, prairie, trails, telegraph lines, bench land, boulders, houses, potato patches, and sloughs.

In Collection:

• Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia: Indian Reserve Maps

Creator

• Surveyor General of British Columbia

Contributor

• Launders, James Benjamin, -1878

Subject

• Land cover
• Land titles--Maps
• Land titles
• Indian reservations
• Land use
• Indigenous peoples

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Plan Number: 05TR-1A-IR (mylar copy)
• LTSA SGD Microfilm Image Number: 106555
• Plan Barcode: Z0366556
• LTSA Inventory No.: LTSA6178

Keyword

• Lytton Division of Yale Land District
• Indian Reserve Plans
• Kamloops Division of Yale Land District (KDYD)

Date created

• 1870

Relation

• Natural Resources Canada provides access to the federal copies of these and other Indian Reserve plans through the Canada Lands Survey Records registry ( https://clss.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/). The BC Archives holds IRC maps under Series GR-2982 - Minutes of decision of Joint Indian Reserve Commission ( https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/minutes-of-decision-of-joint-indian-reserve-commission).

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 sheet

Alternative title

• Indian Reserves Situated in the Lytton District and on the Similkameen & Spellum-cheen Rivers

Geographic coverage

• North America--Similkameen River
• British Columbia--Fraser River Valley
• British Columbia--Shuswap River
• British Columbia--Nicola River
• British Columbia--Nicoamen River
• British Columbia--Fraser River
• British Columbia--Lytton
• British Columbia--Thompson River
• British Columbia--Thompson-Nicola Regional District

Coordinates

• 50.43305, -121.31926
• 50.23304, -121.58589
• 49.5164, -121.41925
• 50.71651, -119.05234
• 50.26645, -121.40257
• 50.22582, -121.57079

Additional physical characteristics

• Scale: 6 inches = 1 statute mile

Physical repository

• Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia

Collection

• Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia: Indian Reserve Maps

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• maps (documents)
• historical maps
• land surveys

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata: Provided by the LTSA and adapted by University of Victoria Libraries to their requirements.

Rights

• For permission to publish or otherwise reproduce, or to purchase a high-resolution digital file, please contact the LTSA at orderdesk@ltsa.ca. Reproductions must credit the LTSA as source and cite the Surveyor General Vault map number or other unique identifier listed on this catalogue record.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/d701-6j34

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