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John Conway fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1111
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2016

The fonds consists of minutes, reports, correspondence and published material generated by various organizations with which Conway has been associated. Records represented in the papers include Student Christian Movement (1956-2013), World University Service of Canada (1957-2009), United Nations Association (1959-1990), Canadian Council for International Cooperation (1967-1978), Canadian University Service Overseas (1961- 1991), Vancouver Refugee Council (1985-1989), Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1971-78, 1987-2000), Tibetan Refugee Aid Society (1985-1989), and Canadian Cross Roads International (1966-1990), among others. Other administrative records include material from the Faculty of Arts (1968-1991) and the Department of History (1958-2009). The papers include documents from the William G. Murrin Fund Committee (1979-1993), allocating funding to religious organizations at UBC. John Conway's professional correspondence (1963-2016) is also included.

Conway, John S.

Andrew Hutchinson fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1112
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1965

Fonds consists of course materials, correspondence, subject files, reports, clippings, printed material, and index cards, relating to Hutchinson's work with the UBC Department of Biology and Botany. The fonds reflects his research interests, which included studies of conifers, forest ecology and tree genetics, particularly of the Douglas fir; to a limited extent, his personal life is also documented. The fonds also includes approximately 3,600 photographic negatives and prints (most black and white, some in colour), 1,200 lantern slides, and some transparencies. The photographs are mainly microscopic images of plants and trees in British Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Florida and South Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. There is also a photograph album accompanying Hutchinson's report Grazing Lands in British Columbia. Finally, there are maps, charts, and diagrams, which are listed and stored separately.

Hutchinson, A. H.

Wilhelm J. Maier fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1113
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1976

Fonds consists of textual materials which document Wilhelm Maier's professional activities and interests, along with some related to his activites after his retirement. It includes technical manuals, journals and other publications, correspondence, technical diagrams, patent drawings, home workshop information, and correspondence school materials. Much of the material is written in German.

Maier, Wilhelm J.

Vancouver Institute fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1114
  • Fonds
  • 1916-2015

The fonds consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, financial records, programs, scrapbooks, speeches, membership lists, clippings, and assorted other material relating to the administration of the organization. In addition, the fonds includes recording of lectures delivered to the Vancouver Institute. It is arranged in the following series: history, constitution, minutes, correspondence, financial records, programs, membership records, newspaper clippings, series papers, and lectures.

Vancouver Institute

Labour Relations Research Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1116
  • Collection
  • 1967-1996

The collection documents Mark Thompson's involvement in the arbitration of labour disputes in British Columbia. It consists of published conference proceedings (1967-1979), copies of various collective agreements, arbitration and mediation case files (1973-1988), and reviews of the Employment Standards Act (1990-1996), and includes correspondence, reports, legal documents, notes, and published materials.

Lloyd F. Detwiller fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1117
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1986

Fonds consists of correspondence, reports, course materials, minutes and agendas, published materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials. It is arranged in fifteen series: Personal Material (1943-1986); Correspondence (1958- 1982); Articles, Speeches, and Reports by Detwiller (1952-1982); Courses Taught (1953-1980); Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops (1964-1984); Greater Vancouver Regional Hospital District (1953-1984); UBC Health Sciences Centre (1946-1986); Hospital Equipment Mission (1967-1980); Study Tour of Australian Health Systems (1972-1979); Publications, Speeches, and Conferences (1953-1984); UBC (1974-1985); B.C. Hospital Insurance Service (1949-1973); Miscellaneous Organizations (1968-1986); Research Collection (1943-1985); and Tapes and Photographs series (1964-1984).

Detwiller, Lloyd F.

Gideon Rosenbluth fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1119
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1986

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, and minutes which document Rosenbluth's involvement with various associations and committees including the UBC Board of Governors and the Canadian Economic Association. The bulk of the material consists of files from the 1960s when he was chairman of the Salaries Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

Rosenbluth, Gideon

Faculty Association of the University of British Columbia fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1121
  • Fonds
  • 1920-2004

The fonds consists of records generated by the Faculty Association in pursuit of its mandate to promote the welfare of the Faculty and the University of British Columbia. The records were organized according to several filing schemes, which were alphabetical, and constantly changing. Lack of consistency in the arrangement of the records impeded access. The archivist grouped the files into fifteen identifiable series. The original file titles have been retained.

University of British Columbia. Faculty Association

UBC Summer Session Association fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1122
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1929, 1941-1994

Fonds consists of minutes (1965-1989), copies of the Bulletin (1941-1975), drafts of constitutions and by-laws, financial records (1968-1994), photographs and printed material. Also included are correspondence, reports and schedules relating to S.S.A. sponsored concerts and film festivals.

University of British Columbia. Summer Session Association

E. L. Watson fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1126
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1979

Fonds consists of minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, printed material, and publications pertaining to Watson's professional activities and affiliations. Fonds includes materials pertaining to the Engineering Science Leads Committee of the B.C. Agricultural Sciences Co-ordinating Committee (BCSCC) on which Watson sat for the period 1967-1978. Composed of representatives of the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, and the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the Committee advised the Minister of Agriculture and allotted research funds for research projects within the province.

Watson, Ernest L.

Walter D. Young fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1128
  • Fonds
  • 1919, 1937-1983

Fonds consists of materials that document Walter Young's personal life, academic career, and political interests. It includes correspondence, minutes and agendas, reports, lecture notes and other course materials, financial statements, manuscripts, index cards, audio recordings, and publications (including books, newspapers, magazines, journals, pamphlets, and clippings). They are arranged in two series, Personal Papers and Research. Their original order has largely been maintained.

Young, Walter D.

George Woodcock fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1130
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1949, 1954-1956, 1976, 1992.

The fonds consists of copies of radio scripts from Woodcock's radio broadcasts, correspondence with George Orwell and poet Lance Godwin, and examples of Woodcock's early poetry.

Woodcock, George

Graduate Student Society fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1133
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1998

Fonds consists of records relating to the activities of the Graduate Student Society and its predecessor bodies and is arranged into the following series: Constitution, Bylaws and Related Records series (1969-1988), General Correspondence series (1973-1994), Committees series (1961-1995), Board of Directors (Graduate Student Society) series (1970-1982), Council (Graduate Student Society) series (1983-1998), Graduate Representative Assembly series (1968-1982), Board of Directors (Graduate Student Centre) series (1970-1982), Board of Governors (UBC) series (1969-1982), Faculty of Graduate Studies series (1969-1983), Financial Records series (1968-1990), Membership Records series (1961-1984), Events and Activities series (1961-1984), General Administrative Records series (1977-1991), Food Services series (1985-1986), Surveys, Reports and Reviews series (1975-1995), Publications series (1966-1984), and Subject Files series (1973-1998).

University of British Columbia. Graduate Student Society

Skagit Valley Research Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1134
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1982

The collection consists of correspondence, briefs, reports, speeches, clippings, and photographs relating to the history of the Skagit Valley project and the subsequent lobbying on the part of the ROSS (Run Out Skagit Spoilers) Committee (1969-1982).

Wilfrid Sadler fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1135
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1938

The fonds consists of correspondence, lecture notes, reference clippings, student notebooks, programs, newsletters, certificates, musical scores, receipts, pamphlets, and books produced and received by Wilfrid Sadler during his student days at Macdonald College and his professional activities as a professor in the Department of Dairying from 1918. The Department of Dairying was part of the Faculty of Agriculture from 1916 to 1955.

Sadler, Wilfrid

Leonard Marsh fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1137
  • Fonds
  • 1918, 1930-1983

The fonds consists of textual materials focusing on Leonard Marsh's professional research and personal interests and includes correspondence, reports, notes, published materials and clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and index cards. It is organized in the following series: Education, Music, Personal Papers, Search for Sanity, Social Prophecy, Social Security, Social Work, United Nations, Urban Planning, Miscellaneous, and Scrapbooks.

Marsh, Leonard

Lester Winston McLennan fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1141
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1978

The papers consist of McLennan's reminiscences of his Fairview days and life as a Rhodes scholar. Also included is a series of correspondence dating from 1924 to 1976. The correspondence has been arranged in two ways. The general correspondence has been simply arranged chronologically while other letters and cards, which McLennan sent to the Archives as identified groups, have been maintained as such. The papers also include printed material from the Canadian Association of Rhodes Scholars and Balliol College.

McLennan, Lester Winston

Margaret Ormsby fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1142
  • Fonds
  • 1839-1996

The fonds consists of correspondence, drafts, essays, lecture notes, course outlines, clippings and research materials created and collected by Ormsby in her diverse roles as student, professor, researcher and author. Also included are records generated between 1957 and 1967 by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

Ormsby, Margaret

John Dennison fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1148
  • Fonds
  • 1962-1980

Fonds consists of correspondence, reports, course materials, minutes and agendas, published materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials. It is arranged in fifteen series: Personal Material (1943-1986); Correspondence (1958- 1982); Articles, Speeches, and Reports by Detwiller (1952-1982); Courses Taught (1953-1980); Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops (1964-1984); Greater Vancouver Regional Hospital District (1953-1984); UBC Health Sciences Centre (1946-1986); Hospital Equipment Mission (1967-1980); Study Tour of Australian Health Systems (1972-1979); Publications, Speeches, and Conferences (1953-1984); UBC (1974-1985); B.C. Hospital Insurance Service (1949-1973); Miscellaneous Organizations (1968-1986); Research Collection (1943-1985); and Tapes and Photographs series (1964-1984).

Dennison, John

Eileen Flanagan fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1149
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1984

The fonds consist of 15 incoming letters from Ethel Johns (1948-1950, 1961-1965), Director of Nursing Services and Education at Vancouver General Hospital, and the new nursing program at UBC. Under Johns' guidance, the five-year plan established the B.Sc. in Nursing. The fonds also include biographical information and records relating to Flanagan's various awards, including an honorary doctorate from McGill University (1977).

Flanagan, Eileen

Margaret Friesen fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1151
  • Fonds
  • 1971-2011

The fonds consists of the following series: Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center (1972-1984), British Columbia Library Association (1983-1987), B.C. Newspaper Project (1983-1988), B.C. Post Secondary Interlibrary Loan Network (1974-1995), Pacific Northwest Library Association (1978-1986), Interlibrary Loan; General (1976-1995), Miscellaneous (1981-1994), and Librarians Representative on Senate (2002-2011).

Friesen, Margaret

John Gibbard fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1152
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1986

The fonds consists of Gibbard's research notes for his M.A. thesis entitled, "The History of the Fraser Valley, 1808-1885" (ca. 1937), copies of his book reviews (1974-1986), a typescript of "Living together in our modern world" and other material collected by Gibbard.

Gibbard, John E.

Margaret Hood fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1156
  • Fonds
  • 1952-1973

The fonds consists of records which document the historical development of the School of Rehabilitation Medicine. The fonds includes records from the Cooperative Committee Towards a School of Rehabilitation Medicine (1956-1961), Hood's notes on course and curriculum development (1961-1963), correspondence (1962-1973), and printed material relating to occupational therapy and rehabilitation medicine.

Hood, Margaret R.

Institute of Pacific Relations fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1157
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1989, predominant 1950-1960

The fonds consist of correspondence, minutes, manuscripts, annual reports, and financial records relating to the Institute of Pacific Relations activities, particularly William Holland's varied roles as I.P.R. Research Secretary, AIPR Executive Secretary I.P.R. Secretary-General, and Editor of Pacific Affairs. Also included are court documents, transcripts, reports and publications relating to the investigations of the I.P.R. and its staff completed by the United States government, including photocopies of F.B.I. files, reports of the McCarran Subcommittee, and publications of the Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations.

Institute of Pacific Relations

S. Wah Leung fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1158
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1962

The fonds consists of personal correspondence (1951-1962) and copies of papers and articles about dentistry prepared by Leung (1950-1962) and miscellaneous material.

Leung, S. Wah

John F. McCreary fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1159
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1976

The fonds consists of correspondence and other materials which document McCreary's personal and professional life and some of the organizations with which he was associated.

McCreary, John F.

John Montague fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1162
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1968

The fonds consists of addresses, correspondence, subject files, and economics course records generated between 1961 and 1968.

Montague, John

Anne Smith fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1169
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1967

Fonds consists of both office and personal records that span much of Smith's long career with the U.B.C. Library, and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, course materials, publications, and newspaper clippings. The records are arranged in the following series: Reference Correspondence, Subject Files Personal and Office (Campus and Off-Campus), Subject Files Library, Miscellaneous Reference Subject Files, Canadian Library Association, and Library Education.

Smith, Anne M.

Agricultural Engineering and Farm Building Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1172
  • Collection
  • 1953-1976

The collection consists of minutes, correspondence and reports arising from two committees on which Leonard Staley (Professor of Agricultural Mechanics) was a member, the National Committee on Agricultural Engineering and the Farm Building Standards Committee. The latter was formed in the early 1960s as a standing committee that contributed to the development of the National Building Code of Canada.

Academic Women's Association fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1174
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1996

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes of the Association's Annual General Meeting and its Executive Committee, reports by the Association and other organizations, published materials, questionnaires, and copies of the AWA constitution and administrative history.

University of British Columbia. Academic Women's Association

Warren family fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1176
  • Fonds
  • 1777-1998

The fonds consists of family papers, genealogical material, manuscripts and correspondence documenting the history of the Warren family in England. Some of the family members represented in the fonds are Reverend Dawson Warren, Falkland G.E. Warren, and Charlotte Jackson. The fonds also includes biographical information about Harry Warren and copies of his publications to 1978.

Warren (family)

Jacob Zilber fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1177
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2003

The fonds consists of personal and professional materials created and collected by Professor Jacob Zilber. The fonds consists of screenplays, manuscripts, drafts, notes, and correspondences relating to Jacob Zilber's published and unpublished materials. The fonds also includes biographical and autobiographical material, clippings, teaching records and course materials. It also contains manuscripts by students, materials related to musician and composer Michael Zilber, Department of Creative Writing administrative records as well as various UBC committee records.
The fonds is divided into five series: Manuscripts, Screenplays, Monologues series (1950-1999); Administrative and Teaching Materials series (1964-1989); Personal Materials series (1950-1997); Photographs series (1947-1989); and Audiovisual Materials series (196?-1985).

Zilber, Jacob

Mary Hill fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1178
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1979

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports pertaining to the Committee on Gerontology from 1973 to 1979. The material primarily chronicles the efforts of the committee to secure a Centre for Gerontological Research at UBC.

Hill, Mary A.

Men's Undergraduate Society fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1179
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1933

The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, reports and correspondence relating to the activities of the Men's Undergraduate Society (1926-1933).

University of British Columbia. Men's Undergraduate Society

Library Assistants' Association fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1183
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1975

Fonds consists copies of the constitution, minutes (1965-1975), correspondence (1965-1975), membership records (1967-1974), accounts and financial reports (1966-1973) and various newsletters and reports. A subject series is also present.

University of British Columbia. Library Assistants' Association

Western Universities Battalion "D" Company collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1186
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1972, predominant 1916-1918

The collection consists of pamphlets, correspondence, addresses, menus, publications, diagrams, maps, and photographs assembled by members of the Western Universities Battalion, "D" Company.

Jean Elder fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1187
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1990

The fonds consist of correspondence and other records relating to the University Senate's activities, the President's Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment, the Faculty Association's Status of Women Committee, and the Historical Association (Vancouver Branch). There are also a limited number of records about the Academic Women's Association, the Archival Studies Committee, and several other University bodies and granting an honorary degree to Expo 86 commissioner Jimmy Pattison.

Elder, Jean

Charles A. Rowles fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1188
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1982, predominant 1954-1979

Fonds consists of records generated by the Department of Soil Science in the course of its administrative and academic activities, and by Dr. Rowles relating to his academic, professional, and personal activities. They contain information regarding the administration of the Department; courses offered by the Department; committees with which Dr. Rowles was involved, in particular those which he chaired; his extension courses, workshops, lectures, and other outside activities; and some personal correspondence.

Rowles, Charles A.

UBC Bookstore fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1190
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1946, 1953-1954

The fonds consists of correspondence, inventories of books, order forms and invoices which document the bookselling operations of the business.

University of British Columbia. Bookstore

G. Harry Cannon fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1191
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1976

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, and curriculum material relating to Cannon's role as an UNESCO advisor in science teaching at the British Solomons Training College in Honiara, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

Cannon, G. Harry,

Senate fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1195
  • Fonds
  • 1912-2010

The fonds consists of minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence and proposals created by the Senate and its various committees. In addition, the fonds includes materials relating to the election and appointment of individuals to the Senate. Also included are minutes, correspondence, reports and other records created by affiliated agencies, including the Committee of Military Education of McGill University College (1915), the U.B.C. Faculty Council (1927-1973), and the Executive Council of Convocation (1964-1965). Fonds is arranged in nine series: Senate minutes (1916-2005), Senate reports (1929-2010), Correspondence (1931- 1982), Senate elections (1912-1963), Board of Governors' approvals (1966-1983), Subject files (1915-1981), Affiliation of theological colleges (1921-1984), Senate committees (1915-1990), and External agencies (1915-1973).

University of British Columbia. Senate

Ann Micou fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1565
  • Fonds
  • 2003 - 2007

The fonds consists of seven incoming letters from Jane Rule to Ann Micou dating from 2003 to 2007. The last letter is dated October 8, 2007, and was written a little over a month before Jane Rule’s death. The fonds also includes four CD’s featuring Jane Rule reading a selection of her short stories including “House,” “A Chair for George,” “Seaweed & Song,” “You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin by the Smile Upon His Face,” “A Migrant’s Christmas,” “If There is No Gate,” “Home Movie,” “Blessed are the Dead,” and “Dulce.” Apparently, the recordings were produced in a small number for distribution to family and friends. The fonds also includes a copy of a videotape entitled Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (Eds. Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman).

Micou, Ann

Board of Governors fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1193
  • Fonds
  • 1913-2007

The fonds consists of Board minutes 1913-1963 (8 reels of microfilm); minutes of open Board meetings, 1975-1994; records arising from the investigation and subsequent report of Judge Peter Lampman (1931-32); Alumni Development Fund records (1948-1949) in a scrapbook; correspondence and manuscript relating to the history of the university (1953-1961).

University of British Columbia. Board of Governors

Department of Agronomy fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1204
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1952, predominant 1936-1952

The fonds consists of the correspondence series, which is all that remains of the records of the Department of Agronomy. During its early years, the Department concentrated mostly on public education and outreach, and the material reflects this, for it includes a large number of inquiries from local farmers and gardeners regarding their crops. It is arranged in an identifiable classification system that is consistently used and developed throughout the years.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Agronomy

Department of Animal Husbandry fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1205
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1967

Fonds consists of correspondence, inventories, budgets, articles, clippings, printed material, awards, ownership papers, photographs, and an album about the Department of Animal Husbandry administration and judging competitions. Fonds includes materials regarding the livestock breed by the department and the much-acclaimed cattle herds.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Animal Husbandry

Department of Botany fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1207
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1981, 2015

Fonds covers an extended period, beginning with administrative material, which includes departmental budgets dating back to the early 1920s and continuing through the 1950s. There are also some departmental minutes from the 1940s and 1950s and most of the 1960s. There are records about the construction and renovation of the Biological Sciences Building, minutes from the various committees on which department heads sat, and material about UBC's Botanical Garden. There is also a brief but useful series of records concerning the Life Sciences Council's implementation and early history.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Botany

Department of Chemistry fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1208
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1981

The fonds consists of minutes of departmental meetings (1949-1957), correspondence (1945-1956), student records (1948-1957), course records (1948-1957), examinations (1931-1957), material from the President's Committee on Research (1947-1955), applications for positions (1948-1955), departmental subject files (1943-1956), journal reprints and photographs.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Chemistry

Japanese-Canadian Commerce Students Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1209
  • Collection
  • 1940-1950, 1982-1983

The collection consists of student records and correspondence between E.H. Morrow and Fred Sasaki, Oyama Kazuhiko, David Shiozake, Peter Yamada and George Yamashita (1940-1950). The correspondence files provide an account of the treatment accorded Japanese-Canadians in the 1940s. There is also a copy of an article from Viewpoints inspired by the information in the files, as well as some follow-up correspondence with the former students.

Department of Geography fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1212
  • Fonds
  • 1967-2008

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, agenda, calendars and printed materials pertaining to the activities of the Department of Geography and its Head (1969-1986). The fonds also contains the Olav Slaymaker Sous-fonds (1975-1976).

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Geography

Olav Slaymaker Sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous personal correspondence and notes regarding Dr. Slaymaker's research interests. The Miscellaneous series is the only series in the sous-fonds.

Slaymaker, Olav

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