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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections
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Administrative and executive

The series contains records pertaining to Vancouver Status of Women’s (VSW’s) administrative and executive activities. These activities fall into several categories: financial administration, which included grant applications to governments and other organizations, budgeting, tax payments, bill payments, and resource distribution amongst staff; committee administration; volunteer administration; employment offers and employee management; correspondence with other organizations, particularly women centers in Vancouver; and strategic planning for the organization as a whole. Records in the series range in date from the early 1970s to 2016.

The physical order in which records were received has been maintained; original order has been re-constituted intellectually. Record types represented in the series include the following: grant applications, correspondence with funding agencies, budgets, cashflow statements, receipts, invoices, committee meeting minutes, volunteer training materials, employment offer letters, staff correspondence about internal issues, correspondence with other organizations, and annual reports.

Outreach and promotion

Series encompasses material created as YWCA Metro Vancouver conducts activities to gain public awareness and drive community engagement. Activities represented include communications, product marketing, event planning, and compiling and presenting YWCA Metro Vancouver histories.

Records consist of newsletters, programs, brochures, videocassettes, audiocassettes, photographs, and other material arising from YWCA Metro Vancouver managing and communicating its image and to drive community engagement.

Series is arranged in three subseries: 1. Communications and marketing; 2. Events; and 3. YWCA Metro Vancouver history.

Events

Subseries documents events held by YWCA Metro Vancouver for current members, former members, and the broader Vancouver community. Events held by the YWCA include: anniversaries, reunions, and grand openings celebrating the YWCA, its services, and its membership; and awards and competitions during which the YWCA directly engages with the broader community. Activities represented include planning, marketing, and documenting events.

Records consist of programs, flyers, photographs, videocassettes, and other material arising from the planning, promotion, and actual event.

Slides and Photographs

Records consist primarily of slides along with several photographs. The slides reflect projects that Cardew designed and built, including key projects such as the CN Pavilion at Expo ‘86, Lignum Sawmill Offices, Crown Life Building (now known by its address at 1500 West Georgia), the Stone {Yunesit’in} Band School and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, as well as his most well- known exhibition Peter Cardew, Ordinary Buildings. There are also slides of various buildings that may have served as inspiration for his designs.

Architectural Drawings

Records include architectural drawings of some of Cardew’s most well-known projects including the Crown Life Building (now known by its address at 1500 West Georgia), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, the Calgary Folk Music Festival Hall, the CN Pavilion at Expo ’86, the Lignum Sawmill Offices, Reigning Champ Stores, and the Yunesit’in First Nation (also known as Stone Band) School, as well as private homes, offices and furniture. Drawings are both stapled and loose, hand drawn and printed, on a variety of media such as tracing paper, bond paper, plastic, and vellum.

Francillon and Nadeau Papers

The sous-fonds contains records relating to Malcolm Lowry accumulated by Clarisse Francillon, Lowry’s French-language translator, and Maurice Nadeau, who published several of Lowry’s works in French translation (Nadeau published Francillon’s translations of Lowry’s works). Contents include correspondence from Malcolm Lowry to Francillon, from Margerie Lowry to Francillon and Nadeau, from Harvey Burt and Victor Doyen to Francillon and Nadeau, photographs of Malcolm Lowry and a house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, typescripts and copies of published versions of The Last Address (Lunar Caustic), a typescript of The Bravest Boat, news clippings about Lowry and his works (mostly in French), a copy of Francillon’s translation of Lunar Caustic, and a French-language translation of Malcolm Lowry’s Collected Letters as prepared by Margerie Lowry and Harvey Burt and translated by Suzanne Kim.

Military service

This series consists of records that were created and received throughout Lee’s life that relate to her service in the St. John’s Women’s Ambulance Corps.

Records include original materials from Lee’s period of service such as her registration card and her copy of the elementary drill manual. The majority of this series is records relating to the commemoration and recognition of World War II and its veterans and Lee’s involvement in organizing to make such events happen. These records include correspondence and ephemera relating to her participation in Canada’s Memory Project; meeting minutes and ephemera documenting Lee’s involvement with the ANAVETS Pacific unit 280 and Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society groups; and several awards and certificates of recognition that Lee received for her service.

Heavenly Monkey publishing records

Series contains copies of books and ephemera issued by A Lone Press (1998-1999) and Heavenly Monkey (1999- 2010) and includes setting copies, detailed page layout schematics, dummy of final book, final printing schedule and sequence, proofs and impressions, make-ready copies, printing plates, printing blocks, photographs and various other documents used in the creation of each item.

Black Stone Press Collection

  • RBSC-ARC-1826
  • Collection
  • 1996 - 2020

The collection spans the full range of years that the press was in operation and demonstrates the breadth of their letterpress work.

It contains a series with books such as artists’ books and chapbooks that were printed by the press and another that collects ephemeral material such as greeting cards and promotional material for businesses.

Black Stone Press

Books

This series contains books that were printed and in some cases designed by the press. It covers a wide variety of styles of book, including artists’ books, exhibit catalogs, chapbooks, and experimentally designed and typeset versions of works in the public domain

Of particular note in this series are pre-published editions of several of the works of Vancouver artist Charles Mayrs, a selection of materials designed for and by the Alcuin Society, a group dedicated to book design, and a copy of the artist's book 'Loci' by Vancouver-based artist Allyson Clay.

Terry Simmons fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1853
  • Fonds
  • [Between 1960? and 1969?]-2004, 2020

The fonds illustrates Terry Simmons’ environmental activism and academic research, and also contains some personal records. Environmental activism records primarily reflect Simmons’ involvement in the ROSS Committee and include memoranda, correspondence, briefs, reports, and other material accumulated during the High Ross Dam Controversy. Academic research records include grey literature, correspondence, notes, and other material arising from Simmons’ research into environmental activism and international ecological issues. Personal records include material pertaining to Terry Simmons himself, and include assorted photographs, artifacts, and other material.

The fonds is arranged into three series: 1. High Ross Dam Controversy records; 2. Academic research records; and 3. Personal records.

Simmons, Terry

Personal records

Series consists of miscellaneous material about Terry Simmons and his activities falling outside of his involvement in ROSS and academics. It includes photographs from the 1971 Greenpeace voyage, photographic materials of the Skagit Valley and other environmental areas, and assorted other materials. The series also includes several photographs of the 1971 Greenpeace voyage featuring the Greenpeace crew with members of the Kwakwaka'wakw community, as well as a button reading “Oglala Nation, Wounded Knee.”

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