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"Paldi New Townsite"
1996.8.4.70 · File · 1991-1994
Part of Chander Suri fonds

File consists of a water supply and sewage disposal study for the townsite of Paldi. Includes maps, correspondence, water licensing information and application, and Bayview Village advertising brochure.

Paldi correspondence
1996.8.4.71 · File · 1991-1998
Part of Chander Suri fonds

File consists of correspondence with multiple parties including Wright Parry Taylor & Fuller Engineering, Paldi Estates, and the Cowichan Valley Regional District. Includes notes, sewage and waste disposal assessments, state of title certificate, and applications.

1996.8.4.52 · File · [between 1970 and 1990]
Part of Chander Suri fonds

File consists of twenty one photographs of downtown Prince George, some taken from Connaught Hill, Cottonwood Park, and 6th Avenue as well as one photograph of the Pentecostal Tabernacle and a few going up Foothills to the Hart.

Chander Suri fonds
1996.8 · Fonds · 1954-2009

This fonds encompasses the planning career of Chander Suri. The head planner for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George from 1969 to 1977, Chander Suri embarked on numerous community plan projects in the Prince George area. Suri also worked as an independent planning consultant for local businesses and organizations. Chander Suri's records encompass numerous urban and rural projects facilitating population and industry growth within the RDFFG that spanned beyond Suri's career.

Textual records comprise official and draft planning documents, development reports, planning proposals, contracts, published regulations, socio-economic studies of regions near Prince George, financial and other studies for development sites, illustrated promotional packages/proposals for developments, regional/provincial guides and standards, and correspondence relating to Suri's professional consulting activities. The fonds contains a wide array of maps, architectural plans, and technical drawings ranging from municipal planning layouts, industrial land developments, and private property (commercial and residential) development projects, mainly from in and around Prince George.

These records are relevant to researchers of the subjects of land use, land development and land planning issues in the Prince George and Fraser-Fort George Regional District in the second half of the 20th century.

Series include:

  1. Maps and Plans relating to development projects in British Columbia, predominantly in the Prince George area
  2. Lower Mainland Planning material from Suri's early career period
  3. Regional District of Fraser Fort George Planning records and resource material collected by Suri during his employment at the RDFFG
  4. Planning Consultancy records relating to Suri’s independent planning consultancy work in his later career period
Suri, Chander