Contains a metal printing plate with a portrait of O.L. Jones.

File contains a 3 page typewritten speech by an unattributed candidate (no date provided either), in support of his candidacy in a provincial election riding, possibly North Okanagan.

File contains two issues (no. 1; no. 4) of a small circular, "The Rising Tide," a newsletter produced by the Mackenzie District Council CCF, as well as a copy of a CCF song print sheet, entitled "A Co-operative Canada."

File contains 2 CCF charters issued to district clubs, and 1 share certificate in the Commonwealth Printing and Publishing Company Ltd. issued to a local CCF club.

Contains the records of the Westview Social Study Group, whose name was amended in 1936 to the Westview CCF Club, including meeting minutes, correspondence, receipts, membership counts, and financial records.

Records in this series represent the functions and activities of the Director of Administration for the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

File 449-14, in the "Women's Rights Committee (WRC) records" series of this fonds, includes a document entitled "Provincial Office Staffing," that defines the Director of Administration's duties as pertaining to "Election finances, tax receipts and paper flow, Party finances, cash flow, accounting, budgeting, back-up to Provincial Secretary," as well as implying supervision of specific staff and projects. The Director of Administration would often join the Provincial Secretary as a member of the B.C. Council of Federal Ridings, and would manage records related to the Federal NDP, local constituency associations, clubs, and holding societies. The Director would also manage much of the correspondence sent to the Provincial Office.

The majority of records in this series have been created by two Directors; Lin Rubin, and Sherry Hyde, who took over the Director position ca. 1991. Records in this series include correspondence, memos, budget and finance documents, meeting agenda and minutes, notes, speech transcripts, clippings, and other related materials.

File contains an original lease from 1936, tax statements and other legal documents from the 1940's, correspondence from the 1950's, and further correspondence, legal documents, and budgetary documents from the 1980's relating to the Hillcrest Hall Commonwealth Society and its related holdings.

Contains several documents, including: a memo from the Co-operative Commonwealth Youth Movement (BC Section) to all CCF clubs in BC announcing the first province-wide CCYM Convention; a 1944 article entitled "The C.C.F. Victory Fund: How It Works"; and an undated copy of the "North Okanagan Riding Association C.C.F. (B.C. Section) By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations."

Contains meeting minutes, receipts, correspondence, budgetary information, and other related materials.

Contains a folder of CCF correspondence course materieals devoted to educational techniques, including study groups, literature, practical education, how to vary meetings, visual aids, radio, recreation, and CCF groups and policy.

This series contains materials related to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation's BC and Yukon chapter, as well as some early BC NDP materials.

The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), widely considered Canada's first socialist political party, was founded in Calgary, Alberta on July 31, 1932 by a gathering of socialist and labour groups, and political activists, brought together by the increasing challenges of the Great Depression. The party's first leader was James Shaver Woodsworth, a former Methodist minister, social activist, and outspoken Member of Parliament. The BC section of the CCF was formed in 1933 by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (BC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and other related organizations. In the 1933 provincial elections, the new provincial party managed to secure enough votes to become the official opposition until 1937. In 1961, the federal CCF changed its name to the New Democratic Party, following an alliance with the Canadian Labour Congress; most sections quickly followed suit.

Records in this series are by no means a complete portrait of CCF years; rather they appear represent stray records donated by retiring NDP members or found in the provincial office. Items in this series include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, clippings, CCF convention materials, budget documents, early NDP publications, and other related materials.

Contains meeting minutes, correspondence, receipts, budgetary documents, and other related materials.

File contains a mix of CCF and NDP materials, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, budgetary and membership records, certificates, and other related materials.

Planning for Freedom was a book published by the CCF in 1944, comprised of "16 lectures on the CCF its policies and program." The study outline contained in this file contains brief overviews of CCF policies and positions, accompanied by questions for reflection and discussion, and occasionally related activity proposals. Each chapter or overview has been authored by a different CCF member.

Contains minutes of the twelfth annual provincial CCF convention (1945), including reports, minutes, resolutions, and nominations, as well as related CCF memoranda and correspondence.

Contains vol. 6 no. 6 (March 15 1946) and vol. 6 no. 7 (April 1, 1946) of a publication, entitled "News Comment," produced by the Federal CCF in Ottawa.

Report book includes public addresses, resolutions, reports, financial summaries, minutes, and other related materials.

Contains minutes of the Provincial Executive Committee (predominant), the Provincial Council, and the Table Officers' meetings, as well as some financial statements and other related materials examined by the executive.

Contains minutes of the Provincial Executive Committee (predominant), the Provincial Council, and the Table Officers' meetings, as well as some financial statements and other related materials examined by the executive.

Contains minutes of the Provincial Executive Committee, the Provincial Council, and the Table Officers' meetings, as well as financial statements, policy and constitution drafts, and other related materials examined by the executive.

Contains minutes of the Provincial Executive Committee, the Provincial Council, and the Table Officers' meetings, as well as financial statements and other related materials examined by the members.

Contains minutes of the Provincial Executive Committee, the Provincial Council, and the Table Officers' meetings, as well as financial statements and other related materials examined by the members.

Subseries consists of records related to the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, its related organizations, and the various commissions and investigations into its activities, 1988-2001.

The Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (NCHS) was a non-profit organization created by the CCF in 1954 to hold properties, provide event spaces, and support the organizing efforts of what would become the New Democratic Party. One of its primary methods of fundraising was through bingos. The formation of the NCHS was largely assisted by David Daniel Stupich, a former chicken farmer and accountant, who was later elected as the Nanaimo MLA for the NDP in 1963. Stupich remained heavily involved in Nanaimo politics, acting as a provincial NDP MLA from 1963-1969 and 1972-1988, and then as a federal NDP representative for the Nanaimo-Cowichan district from 1988 until 1993.

Under provincial regulations at the time, at least 25% of a bingo’s gross revenues were to be donated to charity. However, in 1988 the RCMP received a tip from Frank Murphy, one of the directors of the NCHS Charities Society (NCHS C/S) concerning the misdirection of funds. The RCMP proceeded to investigate, but the case failed to proceed due to lack of evidence. In May of 1992, allegations about the NCHS’s redirection of charity funds reached the media, including allegations that some of these funds had been redirected for NDP use, and the event quickly became known among the press as “Bingogate”. This prompted the RCMP to re-open an investigation (dubbed "Project Enigma"), and in 1993 search warrants were obtained. The investigation led to charges against the NCHS and several of its related societies in 1994 but, on the recommendations of Special Prosecutor Ace Henderson, not against any individuals involved. As the details of the case came to light, the NDP faced increasing public pressure to account for its actions, and in 1994, the services of Ron Parks, a forensics accountant with Lindquist Avey Macdonald Baskerville, were engaged to further analyze the collected evidence. The Parks Report, as it became known, was submitted in May of 1995, and among many other allegations, it suggested that in 1983-1984, the NCHS had funneled money ear-marked for charities into the NDP-owned Democrat Publications, which the NDP then attempted to pay back in 1993 as the NCHS allegations reached the media. This led to public accusations of a cover-up on the part of the NDP, and following the submission of the Parks Report, Bill M 207, the “Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society Public Inquiry Act” was passed in the legislature in 1995, calling for a public commission to investigate the activities of the NCHS. Headed for the majority of its time by Murray Smith and publicly known as the Smith Commission of Inquiry, the public inquiry began in late 1996, and continued until 2001. In 1999, at the age of 77, David Stupich pleaded guilty to fraud and the illegal operation of a lottery. He died in February of 2006.

Subseries includes court documents (primarily related to the Smith Commission of Inquiry), media clippings and transcripts, correspondence, public communications, reports, drafts, and other related material.

Series consists of three subseries relating to court cases, commissions of inquiry, investigations, and related events that involved or significantly impacted the New Democratic Party or its members.

1) Files related to the David Stockell case
2) Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society records
3) Files related to Robin Blencoe

Contains a 5 page manual, authorized by the British Columbia CCF Organization Committee, 1958, entitled "A Manual for CCF Constituency Organization."

Includes public communications; drafts; legal correspondence and court documents; and other materials, including copies of documents relating to the purpose and direction of the Broadway Commonwealth Society (1961-1993).

Contains: a copy of the Parks Report (May 31, 1995); a copy of the Henderson Report (Report of the Independent Special Prosecutor, April 30, 1994); copies of two RCMP "Information to Obtain a Search Warrant" documents, originally submitted October 1995; and documents in support of allegations one through twelve, consisting primarily of financial statements and other related documents.

Contains general correspondence, correspondence from the 1996 Nemetz Commission of Inquiry, legal correspondence, media clippings and transcripts, and personal notes of Brian Gardiner, NDP Provincial Secretary.

Materials in this series cover BC NDP activities in support of elections held at the municipal, provincial, and federal level. Provincial elections covered by materials in the series include 1983, 1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001; federal elections covered include 1988, 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004. A separate subseries contains a large amount of Party candidate biographies dating predominantly from the 1970's, which were kept at the Central Office for reuse and reference. Though polls can be found throughout the series, a large concentration of them were received grouped together, and have been kept as such in their own subseries. Similarly, records related to the one-time activity around the Fisher Commission on Electoral Redistribution (1986-1989) have been placed in their own subseries.

As a political party, elections represent a primary activity and concern of the BC NDP, in which the Provincial Secretary would play an important role. In several cases, former Provincial Secretaries would be hired by the Party as Campaign Managers. The Director of Communications would also play a key role during elections, often acting as a member or the chair of a Communications Subcommittee of the Elections Planning Committee (EPC; also referred to as the Strategy and Elections Planning Committee or SEPC) and overseeing advertising, public opinion, and party messaging in conjunction with the Campaign Manager. The EPC or SEPC, a standing committee, was generally made up of members of the Executive, as well as important contractors (such as advertisement producers) engaged by the party to assist in its elections efforts. The Director of Organization was often a member of the EPC as well, and oversaw the coordination of campaign organizers in each electoral district. The majority of the records found throughout these subseries have been created either by the Provincial Secreatary or the Director of Communications.

Records include correspondence, notes and drafts, memos, public announcements, polls, media clippings, court documents, agendas and minutes, public communications, budgetary documents, candidate biographies and supporting materials, campaign literature, strategy and messaging documents, reports, schedules, and other related materials.

This subseries contains photographs and brief biographical portraits of NDP candidates, used prior to and during election campaigns. In most cases, after nomination, the Provincial Secretary would request photographs and a brief biography for use in the creation of promotional materials and press releases. These would often be updated before each election period. In some cases a standard form was used, which the candidate would fill out; in others, the candidate submitted their own documents. Records include those of many former Party leaders, including David Barrett, Ujjal Dosanjh, Michael Harcourt, Robert Skelly, and Robert Strachan. The subseries appears to have been added to by multiple Provincial Secretaries, and though different naming conventions were followed, a general alphabetic order was maintained.

Files in this subseries include items such as textual records, drafts, clippings, printed materials, photographs and related media.