Subject: Cranbrook Government Offices

Government Building - Cranbrook, BC

An early image of the Government building at the east end of Baker Street in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID:	0001.0001
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Provincial Government Building - Cranbrook, BC

When Cranbrook eclipsed Fort Steele as the business and financial centre of East Kootenay, pressure was brought to relocate the Provincial Government offices to Cranbrook. The successful result was the moving of the offices to Cranbrook after the official announcement on May 5th, 1904. Cranbrook had won the long inter-city feud. The result was the construction of this impressive building in the middle of Baker Street, generally in the area now taken up by the Safeway store.

Internal ID:	0003.0029
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1910

Cranbrook's Provincial Government Building

Located at the western foot of Baker Street, and in the middle of the street, this building served to show Cranbrook's growth as the government centre of East Kootenay.

Internal ID:	0007.0011
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1920

Provincial Government Building in Cranbrook

Cover image of a photographic book on Cranbrook. This is the Provincial Government Building on the east end of Baker Street. For a while it also held the city offices.

Internal ID:	0008.0027
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Baker Street, Cranbrook. Federal Post Office building.

Internal ID:	0018.0012
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Government Building and CPR Station, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used B&W printed postcard of two images of the Government Building and CPR station at Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back with Cranbrook circle date postal stamp May 5, 1911.

Internal ID:	0039.0085
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1910

Government Building and CPR Station, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used B&W printed postcard of two images of the Government Building and CPR station at Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back with Cranbrook circle date postal stamp May 5, 1911.

Internal ID:	0039.0086
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1910

Provincial Government Building, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used colour printed postcard of Provincial Government Building in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back dated May 17, 1910. addressed to Mr. A.H. Hoffer, Cranbrook, BC. Made in Great Britian

Internal ID:	0039.0089
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1910

Provincial Government Building, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used colour printed postcard of Provincial Government Building in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back dated May 17, 1910. addressed to Mr. A.H. Hoffer, Cranbrook, BC. Made in Great Britian

Internal ID:	0039.0090
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1910

Provincial Government Offices, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used B&W printed postcard of provincial government offices in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back. Cranbrook circle date postal stamp Aug. 12, 1924.

Internal ID:	0039.0091
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1920

Provincial Government Offices, Cranbrook, B.C.

Used B&W printed postcard of provincial government offices in Cranbrook, BC. Handwritten note on back. Cranbrook circle date postal stamp Aug. 12, 1924.

Internal ID:	0039.0092
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1920

Fernie Postal Cancellation

Fernie Duplex with wavy line killer (in use 1937-1951) this copy believed to be earliest known use of this cancel, postal cancel on envelope.

Internal ID:	0039.0416
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	1938

Cranbrook Electoral District

Fernie, Fernie postal cancel June 2, 1937 (fr. Alfred Brook Smith. addressed to Returning Officer, Cranbrook Electoral District, envelope front

Internal ID:	0039.0421
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	June 2nd 1937

Michel Postal Cover

Michel CDS postal cancel 1944 on envelope addressed to Local Ration Board, Cranbrook, B.C., envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0463
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1944

Michel Postal Cover

Michel CDS postal cancel 1944 on envelope addressed to Local Ration Board, Cranbrook, B.C., envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0464
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1944

Wardner Postal Cover

Wardner postal cancel CDS Oct.12, 1943 Registered cover to Cranbrook Ration Board, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0487
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	October 12th 1943

Wardner Postal Cover

Wardner postal cancel CDS Oct.12, 1943 Registered cover to Cranbrook Ration Board, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0488
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	October 12th 1943

Elko Registered Postal Cover

Elko postal registered cover addressed to Cranbrook, arttention the Ration Board.

Internal ID:	0039.0521
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1943

Elko Registered Postal Cover

Elko postal registered cover addressed to Cranbrook, arttention the Ration Board.

Internal ID:	0039.0522
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1943

Jaffray Postal Cover

Jaffray moto postal cancel Oct.23, 1947, addressed to Cranbrook, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0528
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	October 23rd 1947

Galloway Postal Cover

Galloway postal split ring cancel Nov.29, 1946 addressed to Cranbrook, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0531
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	November 29th 1946

Waldo Ration Card

Cranbrook & Waldo, Waldo postal CDS Sept.25, 1945. Waldo ration card addressed to Cranbrook, BC, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0538
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	September 25th 1945

Flagstone Postal Front

Ration report from Flagstone with Flagstone postal split ring cancel 1943 addressed to Cranbrook, envelope front.

Internal ID:	0039.0539
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1943

Coyote Bounty

From May 1st to October 31st 73 coyote pelts were presented to Cranbrook government office for a bounty of $7.50 each.

Internal ID:	0050.0751
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 30th 1930

Cenotaph Move

Cranbrooks Veterans monument moved to new site.

Internal ID:	0050.0801
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 19th 1926

Government Offices

The government offices for East Kootenay, south division, moved from Fort Steele to Cranbrook May 1904. Each department is listed out to what they have to deal with.

Internal ID:	0050.0929
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 1st 1904

School History

Detailing the growth of Cranbrooks school from a tiny shack to its present handsome structure.

Internal ID:	0050.0938
Medium:	Manuscript
Date:	December 1st 1910

Eneas Small Interview

Newspaper interview Eneas Small left PEI to move to British Columbia to see the place where men were finding yellow gold, lands laden with heavy timber and valley rich in agricultural possibilities.

Internal ID:	0050.0970
Medium:	Manuscript
Date:	August 10th 1905

Cranbrook - Firsts

Detailing some of the important events of Cranbrooks history.

Internal ID:	0050.0984
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 19th 1908

Cranbrook Promotion

Showing Cranbrook as the natural commercial, mining, lumbering and railway center of Southeast Kootenay.

Internal ID:	0051.0672
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 14th 1907

Cranbrook Autoists

Comings and goings of Kootenay locals and their visitors.

Internal ID:	0051.0801
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 28th 1936

Cranbrook Lake

Newspaper excerpt Moyie Leader - letter to their editor from Fort Steele doctor urging them to protest Cranbrook for wanting to steal water from Moyie lake, the same way Cranbrook stole Fort Steeles government offices and railway line.

Internal ID:	0052.0195
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 8th 1907

Doris Kershaw

Two Cranbrook misses throw social event of the season with a dance at Fort Steele in honor of Fred Ryckman of the Indian department being transferred from Fort Steele to new headquarters at Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0052.0630
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 13th 1922

New Government Building

Cranbrooks' Board of Trade secretary was instructed to call the attention of the minister of finance to a previous letter which embodied data relative to the need of a new government office.

Internal ID:	0052.0875
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 17th 1930

Government Building Fire

Cranbrook firemen respond to a fire on the roof of the government building probably cause by a spark from the chimney.

Internal ID:	0052.0877
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 17th 1930

Better Buildings

Cranbrook has a few new buildings made of brick and are modern in design, the urge is on to replace all the old wood buildings with brick or concrete structures, especially the government building, C.P.R. station building and the now condemned courthouse.

Internal ID:	0052.0896
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 1st 1930

Baker Street looking east Cranbrook, BC c.1928

Baker Street looking east from Van Horne Street Cranbrook, BC c.1928 Notice the Provincial Government Building at the end of the street.

Internal ID:	0140.0008
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1928

Baker Street looking east in Cranbrook, BC c.1964

Baker Street looking east in Cranbrook, BC c.1964 Notice the signs from Royal Bank, Scott's Drugs and Cranbrook Hotel. The Government Building can be seen at the east end of Baker Street.

Internal ID:	0140.0011
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1964

Cranbrook Provincial Government Building

The Provincial Government building in Cranbrook in the 1930s. It was situated at the east end of Baker Street, in the middle of the street with the road curving around it. Cranbrook's city offices were located here as well until the City hall was completed in 1909. Notice the cenotaph located in front of the western entrance.