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.

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.

File consists of 14 pages (front and back) of lined paper taken from Freedman's "little red workbook" of notes for To The Bridge.

File consists of four pages (front and back) of lined paper taken from Freedman's beige workbook of notes for To The Bridge.

File consists of ten pages (front and back) of lined paper taken from Freedman's orange workbook of notes for To The Bridge.

File consists of 24 pages (front and back) of unlined paper taken from Freedman's blue Japanese workbook featuring handwritten notes and sketches for Concerto Now and Then.

File consists of ten pages of unlined paper taken from Feedman's black workbook featuring green, pink, and black line sketches and some handwritten notes for Concerto Now and Then.

File consists of six pages (front and back) of the earliest version of Freedman's To The Bridge musical score, handwritten notes and edits, and sketches.

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.

The fonds reflects Peter Cardew’s professional career as an architect, predominantly since 1966, the year that he emigrated to Canada. Over his career, Cardew designed schools, exhibition buildings for Expo ‘86 held in Vancouver, B.C., condominiums, private homes, office buildings, libraries, art galleries, retail establishments and furniture. Records include slides and photographs of buildings that may have served as inspiration for his designs, as well as those that he designed and built. Records also include building permits for select projects, and an exhibit catalogue for one of his best known exhibitions: Peter Cardew, Ordinary Buildings, an exhibition of his drawings first held in the Charles H. Scott Gallery at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. Records also include numerous awards that Cardew received for his designs, certificates which document his membership in various professional associations, as well as posters for various speaker series in which he participated. The fonds also includes records related to the operation of Cardew’s firm, Peter Cardew Architects, such as account ledgers, stamps, and the firm profile.

The fonds is divided into three series: Slides and Photographs, Professional Documents and Other Materials, and Architectural Drawings.

Records consist of slides, photographs, negatives, legal documents, building permit applications, awards certificates and medallions, exhibit catalogues, magazine profiles, posters, newspaper clippings, account ledgers, diplomas, furniture designs, and architectural drawings.

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 in Williams Lake, Crown Life Building (now known by its address at 1500 West Georgia), the Stone (Yunesit’in) Band School, False Creek Townhouses, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, as well as his best known exhibition, Peter Cardew, Ordinary Buildings. Project slides include images of drawings, plans, models, and completed structures. There are also slides of various buildings that may have served as inspiration for his designs.

Records include architectural drawings of some of Cardew’s best 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 in Williams Lake, Reigning Champ Stores, the TNRD Public Library and Art Gallery, and the Yunesit’in First Nation (also known as Stone Band) School, as well as private homes, offices, and furniture designs. Drawings are both stapled and loose, hand drawn and printed, on a variety of media including tracing paper, bond paper, plastic, and vellum.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

File consists of two pages of handwritten edited musical score of composer's Il divertimento barocco.