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Desmond Power 'Boxer Uprising' Collection
The collection consists of a medal for bravery, likely awarded to a family member for meritorious service during the Boxer Uprising (義和團運動), which was a series of incidents in China with anti-imperialist and xenophobic roots that lasted from 1899 ...
Power, Desmond
The fonds consists of records related to the operation of Inverness Cannery. Records span from the early 1900s all the way through to the 1950s when the cannery was closed and turned into a fish camp. The cannery was owned by J.H. Todd and Sons Lt...
Inverness Cannery
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission collection
The collection consists of minutes of the Fraser River Canners' Association (1900-1909) and the British Columbia Canners' Association (1909-1923) and records from their members' canneries: Acme, Albion, Atlas, Colonial, Celtic, Dins...
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission
The collection consists of ledgers, account books, and sales receipts of merchants in Dawson City, Yukon, during the Klondike gold rush and correspondence, purchasing records and production records for several placer mining companies in and around...
University of British Columbia. Dept. of History
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Postcard Collection
The collection consists of postcards, memorabilia, photographs, printed articles, other printed material and a recruitment letter, 1929, relating to the activities of the force and its various anniversaries and highlights.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The fonds reflects Winch's various interests in the cause of humanity ranging from capital punishment to the protection of fur-bearing animals. The files also contain much valuable information on the activities of the C.C.F. and his role with...
Winch, Ernest Edward
The collection consists of diaries (1909-1922, 1924-1961), notebooks, copies of sermons, and miscellaneous materials related to Shimizu’s religious work and personal life. Many of the documents reflect his involvement with church congregations and...
Shimizu, Kosaburo
The fonds consists of photographs, documents and unpublished material relating to Swan's career and achievements, to the construction of light railways overseas during World War I, and to the construction of bridges, grain elevators, railway ...
Swan, William George
This fonds contains Ada Luise Richardson's research notes on music history and theory. Her research focused on Finnland and Russia and was conducted in the beginning of the 20th century. For her research Richardson collected Russian and Finni...
Richardson, Ada Luise
Personal and professional records of Kustaa Adolf Ketola, including personal documents, correspondence, International Woodworkers of America pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines. The personal documents include his passport and his military servic...
Ketola, Kustaa
Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau fonds
Fonds consists of administrative and operational records of the Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau, maintained by the B.C. office (formerly the British Columbia Division). Records include correspondence, circulars, incorporation document...
Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau
British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society collection
The collection contains two minute books from the British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society.
British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society
The fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and audiovisual materials, spanning the period 1905-2001, related primarily to Gordon Goichi Nakayama’s career with the Anglican Church of Canada and missionary work, religious and secular resear...
Nakayama, Gordon Goichi
Fonds consists of materials related to Roberts’ research work in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. In the first decades of the twentieth century there were several reconnaissance trips to the coal fields on Graham Island, British Co...
Roberts, Milnor, b. 1877
The fonds consists of photocopies of letters, reports, memorandums, maps and telegrams created and received by Robert L. Borden in his capacity as the Prime Minister of Canada. The fonds has been divided into four series: Politics, Railway Systems...
Borden, Robert Laird
The Norris fonds documents the legal and judicial career of the Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas G. Norris. The papers date between 1906 and 1976, with the bulk of records dating between 1930 and 1975 documenting his law practice and his years on the...
Norris, Thomas Grantham
The fonds consists of two separate streams of documentation. The first consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to the operations of a succession of sawmills and wood manufacturing plants founded by Stanley Merriam Simpson (b. ...
Fonds consists of records reflecting Fenton’s activities as the president of the Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in B.C. and the Executive Board representative of the First District of the Pacific District Council ...
Fenton, E. Tilford
Dorothy Burnett bookbinding tools collection
224 bookbinding tools and presses, ranging in age from 60 years old to 100 years old, used by Dorothy Burnett, the first independent craft binder to set up shop in Vancouver.
Burnett, Dorothy
Independent Order of Good Templars, Lodge Linnea No. 76 fonds
The fonds consists of the research materials for Irene Howard's book, Vancouver Svenskar which chronicles the history of Lodge Linnea No. 76, Vancouver. The fonds consists of minute books, financial records, membership lists, attendance recor...
Independent Order of Good Templars. Lodge Linnea No. 76 (Vancouver, B.C.)
The fonds consists of family documents (passports, U.S. education degrees), some correspondence regarding his initial business and photographs of the family entering Canada, their home in Vancouver, and the universities in the U.S. where family me...
Hundal (family)
Fonds reflects E.M. Delafield's career and interests as a writer and lecturer in the early decades of the twentieth century. Some of the items in the fonds were also made or received by persons related to E.M. Delafield. Textual records in th...
Delafield, E.M.
The Bush Family collection consists of records and objects gathered by various family members on specific holidays or during special occasions. George and Pearl Bush contributed memorabilia related to their family’s settlement in Vancouver, their ...
Bush (family)
Consists of George North's research material on the fishing industry in British Columbia, and on the organization of the fishermen's labour unions. The research material includes letters inward and outward concerning his commission by th...
North, George
The collection consists of material created by Lowry and others, including Margerie Bonner Lowry, Earle Birney, Dorothy Templeton, and Carol Betty Atwater pertaining to his life and work. It includes correspondence, signed autograph letters and po...
The fonds contains records related to Fahrni’s involvement withvarious organizations including the Kerala Balagram School, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Fahrni’s activities as a lecture at various conferences and ...
Fahrni, Mildred, d. 1992
The collection contains materials related to Ian McDonald's Master's thesis research on the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 213 “Class conflict and political factionalism: a history of Local 213 of the Inter...
McDonald, Ian
Collection consists of 38 examples of decorative luggage labels from hotels in various locales, including British Columbia, Asian and European cities.
H. Colin Slim Stravinsky collection
The collection consists of more than 250 items documenting the work and life of composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971) including autographed letters, postcards, musical quotations, miniature manuscripts, photographs, programs and other p...
Slim, H. Colin
Fonds consists of textual and graphic material related to the activities of the Fuller siblings as traveling musicians, particularly during their American tour from 1913 to 1917, including correspondence, financial documents such as contracts and ...
Fuller family
The collection consists of photocopied minutes of a drama society of the Finnish Social Democrats at Sointula (1912-1913) and a play adapted for use by A. Orjatsals. Also included are the minutes of the FSD.
Czartoryski, C.P.
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, pamphlets, academic papers, poems, research material, notes, transcripts, reports, submissions, agreements, minutes, programmes, photographs, and other material. Records relate to Miki’s writi...
Miki, Roy
Fonds captures the life of Jack Pearcey in British Columbia in the 1920s when he was an engineering student at the University of British Columbia (class of 1927) and when he traveled the province as part of his work for the Geological Survey of Ca...
Pearcey, John Guy
Fonds consists of textual material, graphic material and artifacts related to Ron Bick Lee’s activities as a businessman, a community leader and a member of his immediate and extended families in Vancouver and back in mainland China and Hong Kong....
Lee, Ronald Bick
Vancouver cultural events collection. Part 1, Theatre
A compilation of theatre programs, season brochures, flyers, newsletters, tickets, annotations, and newspaper clippings, all pertaining to performances held primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, by various companies and organizations.The follo...
Vancouver cultural events collection. Part 4, Film
A compilation of programs, guides, pamphlets, and advertisements all pertaining to events held primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia. The following organizations are represented in the collection: Amnesty International Film Festival, Avenue The...
The fonds predominantly consists of the Household Accounts series, which includes documents supporting the daily activities of the Ralston family from 1956-2003, including bank statements, life insurance documents, receipts, correspondence, and th...
Ralston Family
Martha May Beardmore collection
The majority of the collection consists of over 200 pencil handwritten copies of Martha May Beardmore’s accounts of her work during the First World War in Serbia and Salonika. There are also notes on a presentation she attended, newspaper clipping...
Beardmore, Martha May
Forest History Association of British Columbia fonds
Records primarily include research on various individuals involved in the forest industry of British Columbia from the 1930s to the 1970s. These research materials have been gathered and organized by members of the association and include original...
Forest History Association of British Columbia
The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and documents relating to the early career of Tom Wayman from 1962 to 1981. The files related to his career as a university student, printed collections of his own poetry, and printed collections ...
Wayman, Thomas Ethan
B.C. Provincial Police Port Essington Office fonds
The fonds consists of incoming letters to Constable A. Forsythe regarding fishing licences and other matters as well as his report on the spawning grounds at Babine Lake and other locations.
British Columbia Provincial Police. Port Essington Office
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, much of it by or addressed to Sheila Young, concerning various international issues. Among the addressees are Prime Ministers Trudeau, Pearson, and Diefenbaker; various cabinet ministers; international heads-o...
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The fonds consists of subject files, office files, printed material, videos, photographs, and slides relating to home economic topics such as cooking and kitchen and laundry planning presented by Beatrice Millar on behalf of the British Columbia H...
Millar, Beatrice
Fonds consists of manuscripts and typescripts of Niven’s work, as well as personal documents such as clippings, correspondence and photographs. Fonds has been arranged into two series: Manuscripts and research notes and Correspondence and personal...
Frederick Niven
International Woodworkers of America-Canada Research Collection fonds
The fonds consists of records collected by Clay Perry related to the International Woodworkers of America – Canada (IWA). It primarily consists of records generated by the union in the course of its operation, records created by the Royal Canadia...
International Woodworkers of America
The collection consists of typescripts, handwritten notes, clippings, correspondence, maps, and photographs created or accumulated by Mabel E. Jordon between 1955 and 1972 for her article, "Kootenay Reclamation and Colonization Scheme and Wil...
Jordon, Mabel E., 1908-1993
Political literature collection
Contains a sampling of municipal, provincial, and federal political literature from the Greater Vancouver Regional District and beyond. Most of the literature is related to election campaigns, but other material is included as well.
The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, subject files and other material relating to the political career and personal life of Angus MacInnis.
MacInnis, Angus
Fonds consists of records relating to Dr. Harry Mark Draggatt's philatelic interests and contains biographical information about Dr. Daggett including his birth certificate, grade school and high school report cards, University Diplomas, and ...
Daggett, Harry M.
The fonds primarily features Maxim Lieber’s personal correspondence, particularly from 1965-1985; correspondence with academics interested in aspects of his personal and professional life; and publishing contracts for his edited anthologies. Addit...
Lieber, Maxim