Series consists of photographic materials from the production of The Working Forest of British Columbia. The series is arranged into 3 files based on their media type: photographs, contact sheets, and negatives, and 1 sub-series of slides. The slides sub-series is divided into five files: master slides, The Working Forest slides, Southern Interior slides, Northern Interior slides, South Vancouver Island slides, North Vancouver Island slides, West Vancouver Island Slides, and Fire slides.

The series contains materials collected by Ian McDonald for the purposes of writing his Master’s thesis on the history of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 213, from 1901 to 1961. Materials within the series include collective agreements, newspaper and journal articles, court case summaries, interview transcriptions, census tables, meeting minutes, correspondence and dissertations; most materials are photocopies rather than original documents, however.

Also included are materials that pertain to the Lenkurt strike of 1966, which McDonald omitted from his original thesis to limit its scope. He took up the events surrounding the Lenkurt strike in a later essay, “Spontaneity Went Out with Spartacus: IBEW Local 213, Les McDonald, and the Lenkurt Strike of 1966,” which McDonald regards as a continuation of his Master’s research; the essay is also part of the series.

Sub-series consists of timber licenses and scaled logs records for Fraser River Saw Mills, Limited, as well as a log record book and a tug record book for the Fraser River Lumber Company, Limited.

Series consists of a timber license book and timber value estimates and reports, some including blueprints.

The series consists of exercise books, cash books, journals, account books, record books or notebooks. Copan divided each book up into sections in order to keep a detailed account of his activities throughout the years. Entries include date, company worked for, ship name and/or wharf/dock location, type of shift and payment amounts.

Series consists of a letter from Edward Belcher’s uncle, Timothy Lindall Jennison of Cambridge, New England, to a distributor of vaccines in London, England regarding a small pox vaccine.

Series contains a contract, a storyboard, a document regarding cover layout, sketches, drawings, paintings, research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, notes, galley proofs, a trade catalogue, reviews and clippings, which document the production and critical reception of the book, <i>Too Small</i>. Some oversized materials are housed in a separate container; please see the file list for further detail. This series contains one restricted file.

Series consists of correspondence between the BCLMA and the overseas departments regarding informational material such as articles, promotional material, extending trade of B.C. lumber to other areas of the world, and answers to inquiries form trade departments in various areas of the world.

Series contains records relating to the Edgewood trademark owned by the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Materials include correspondence with other forestry organization regarding the use of the Edgewood logo, correspondence with attorneys, the patent certificate for the registration of the trademark, request for re-registration of the trademark and examples of the proper use of the logo. Series also consists of an extensive collection of brand logos relating to lumber, shingles and shakes. These brands include: Seaboard Lumber Sales Co. Ltd., Keystone Shingles & Lumber Ltd., Handsplit Red Cedar Shakes’ Certi-Split Trademark, Victoria Brand Red Cedar Shingles, Huntting-Merrit brand Red Cedar Shingles, Flavelle Cedar brand, Horne Brand , Pluster, Grossman’s British Columbia Red Cedar Shakes and Shingles, Oklahoma Quality Brand red Cedar Shingles, Neverot Stained Shingles from United Mills Limited, Acme, Cardinal Handsplit Shakes, Alaska Pine Sales Ltd., Red Letter Brand Cedar Shingles, McCarter Shingle Co. Ltd., Black Hawk Grade, Superior Shingles Ltd., Circle “F” Brand, Stave Lake Cedar Ltd., Edgewood, Northwest Cedar Products Limited Haida Brand, Robert McNair Shingle Co. Ltd., Bestwood Cedar Shingle Co. Ltd., North Shore Shingle Co. Ltd., Great Central Sawmills Ltd., Capilano Shingle Co. Ltd., Mauk Seattle Lumber Co., and Thurston Lumber Co. Ltd.

Series consists of notes on teaching techniques, the science of education, and hospital administration; lesson plans, obstetrical manual from St. Michael's Hospital, pamphlets, and a syllabus used for training RCAMC nursing sisters who would be teaching during the 1950s.

Series consists of type- and hand-written transcript copies of original documents, dating from1598 to 1816, related to early Canadian and North American history.

Series consists of transcriptions by Beth McCann of taped interviews with nurses. These may have been done with the intention of gathering material for a history of UBC School of Nursing.

Series consists of transcripts of correspondence and other records in the fonds, as well as transcripts of a few items from other sources .

Series documents the work of Kathleen Kudo to translate Minoru Kudo’s diaries as well as the research performed by the Kudo family to document the history and experiences of the Mission City Japanese Community.

Records in this series include logs relating to the translation and photocopying activity of Kathleen Merken; her translation notes; additional documents related to ideas about publication and framing of the diaries and their historical value; and printed versions of the translations in various states of drafting. During the process of translation, Merken removed clippings and other ephemera that were initially preserved within the diaries of Minoru Kudo and placed them in their corresponding chronological place within the translations. As a result, these materials are also included within this series.

The series includes one subseries that contains the translation documents and a second that contains the research material.

The series contains records created or collected during Simons’ travels, especially from 1967-1968. Simons’ experiences while traveling were deeply influential in her literary works, particularly her dramatic works of the 1970s. Simons took three major trips in her life: a two-year tour of Europe, including England and France, from 1959-1961; a ten-week trip to Japan, Hong Kong, and India from 1967-1968, achieved with funding from a Canada Council travel grant; and several weeks in Hong Kong, Burma, India, and Japan in 1986. While abroad, Simons attended many plays, as well as several conferences and art shows. Simons collected programs from these events and generated some correspondence and notes during this period.

Records related to Simons’ travels have been grouped physically and in this finding aid. Files are ordered chronologically, and each contains programs and correspondence from a specific trip or country (e.g. Europe in 1960; Japan in 1967). Record types include programs, photographs, and personal and professional correspondence.

Series contains material on the various tree farm licenses owned and operated by Western Forest Products and their predecessors. Material covers the lifecycle of involvement the forestry company had with the tree farm license from application to final reports. The majority of the records pertain to the activities of MacMillan Bloedel from the 1970s to the 1990s. The series is divided into three subseries: Projects, Working and Management Plans, and Maps.

Series consists of clippings, correspondence, notes and legal documents related to the Trinity Western University v. British Columbia College of Teachers case heard in the Supreme Court of Canada in 2001. Berger represented the British Columbia College of Teachers, who had denied an application for teacher’s program from Trinity Western University, based on the grounds that the University did not allow homosexual students.

Series contains correspondence sent by Sir William Osler to various recipients. The majority of the letters deal with Osler’s interest in book collecting, while others discuss possible position appointments. There is also a copy of <i>A physician’s anthology of English and American poetry</i>.

Series consists of typescripts of two plays: "Antidote to Chaos" and The Jade Heart. The third item in this series includes a list of performers and pencil drawings of costumes for The Jade Heart. It contains an explanatory note: "The first three pages are from the original manuscript used for the first production at the Rudolf Steiner School."

Series consists of typed copies of dated and undated poems. Some poems are fastened in bound volumes or ring-bound folders. Most are final versions and thus contain few corrections or annotations.

Accrual adds to the existing series two notebooks of typed poems. One notebook is subdivided by year (1970, 1971, 1972) and the other notebook is subdivided by first by year (1973) and then by subject or “mood” (Poetic, Tranquil,Descriptive, Apperceptive, Turbulent, Humourous, and Personal.)

Series consists of paper-bound typescripts of the story "ShanLing or the Tale of the Celestial Tea-Pot (A Christmas Fantasy)" and the prose essays "Theirs by Adoption" and "A Question of Honour." Also included are two large ring-bound folders containing many short prose works. The first folder in the series includes: "This Side of East: Sketches from a Japanese Notebook," "Black, White and a Touch of Red," "The Ghost that Wasn't" and "The Unwanted Messenger." The second folder in the series includes: "Supplement to the Sutras of the Speechificators. Commonly Known as the Prayer Book by Hans Pusch," "The Imperial Reply. A Tragedy in One Act," "First Aid for Flowers," "The Souls of Flowers" and "Blossom Time in Canada."

Series consists of one lecture entitled "The Art of Flower Arrangement" given to the University Women's Club of Toronto on 19 Apr. 1940. It presents the symbolism and Zen Buddhist principles of Japanese flower arrangement.

Series consists of a small notebook containing typed copies of poems from Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, printed by Wildwood House, London. Also included in the notebook is Land of the Reed Plains: Ancient Japanese Lyrics from the Manyoshu, translated by Kenneth Yasunda.

Series consists of one volume containing loose-leaf typed copies of poems with handwritten corrections dated Sep. 1979. Also included is a single typescript sheet with handwritten annotations; the first line is "The poet knocks on the Pearly Gates and a voice says."

Series consists of loose-leaf typescript sheets of poems which have been lined through in pencil.

Series consists of a graduation of Edith at her UBC graduation, a UBC convocation program, a commencement program for the VGH Training School for Nurses, Class of 1929; a program for the VGH Training School for Nurses Graduating exercises of the Class of 1929, and photocopied photographs of a VGH Class of 1929 pin that has been donated to the VGH Nurses Alumnae Association Archives.

Series consists of publications, photographs, correspondence, overhead projector transparencies and miscellaneous records pertaining to the UBC Sedgewick Undergraduate Library, a project completed by the Rhone & Iredale, Architects.

Series consists of the records Miki’s involvement as a member of the UFFI (Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation) Action Association and includes correspondence, budgets, copies of completed application forms for the Canadian Home Insulation Program, handwriting notes, photographs, minutes of meetings, contact information for members, and association by-laws.

Series consists of correspondence, minutes, union cards and ephemera from Johnson’s period as an elected representative for the ILWU. Includes items related to the 1934 woodworkers strike which was successful in achieving significant wage and benefits gains for ILWU members.

Series consists of letters, telegrams and memorandums pertaining to the establishment of the Union Government in Canada in 1917. This includes correspondence primarily between Robert L. Borden and other Canadian politicians, both federal and provincial.
Title based on contents of series.

The series contains records pertaining to the activities of the International Woodworkers’ of America (IWA), IWA-Canada, IWA local chapters, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, the Federation of the Woodworking Industry, and the Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada.
Union activities fall into several categories: executive and administrative functions including elections, financial administration, audits, hearings of members in relation to their association with the Communist party, as well as organizing and bargaining efforts including negotiations, strikes, and conferences.

Record types represented in the series include the following: union constitutions and by-laws, minutes of meetings, correspondence, contracts and master agreements, reports, newsletters, bulletins, news-clippings, and convention and conference proceedings.

Series consists of minutes, memorandums, and hand-written notes relating to negotiations between the union and Imperial Oil Ltd., as well as records of union/management meetings covering a variety of topics, including grievances. Also contains Collective Agreements for 1981 and 1983.

Series consists of a file of correspondence regarding an inquiry proposed by the United Nations Environmental Programme (although not realized), notes related to the proposed inquiry, copies of international action plans and memoranda concerning whales and whaling, and a file of press clippings and journal articles assembled for reference.

Series contains course and lecture notes from Thomas’s teaching career as a professor of English. There are subject files on individual authors and subjects, correspondence from students and other materials related Thomas’s activities at UBC. The series also contains records related to committees that Thomas served on, including the Faculty Association, Academic Women’s Association and Sexual Harassment Policy Committee, which Thomas served as a mediator for from 1989-1993. (Sensitive material related to third parties has been deaccessioned.)

Series consists of two files, one related to business of the Ad Hoc Committee on British Columbia Native Indian People and Communities, appointed by University of British Columbia President George Pederson in 1983 and co-chaired by Thomas Berger and Verna Kirkness, including correspondence, minutes, reports and associated material, and a second file of material assembled for reference related to the establishment of an institute of native studies at the University.

Series consists of examinations and an essay (“The manufacture of sulphuric acid in the chamber process”) written by Frank Charnley while attending University of British Columbia.

The series consists of press clippings and copies of letters to newspaper editors relating to activity directed at raising public awareness of VANA by maintaining its presence in local print media.

Series documents the editing, design, and publication of Vancouver Anthology, an anthology of essays published by the Or Gallery. The collected essays by Stan Douglas, Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson, and Marcia Crosby were first presented in Fall 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled Vancouver Anthology: Lectures on Art in British Columbia, in which the authors presented their research in a forum to the local arts community before their papers were sent to print. The papers documented a range of Vancouver cultural practices, including the emergence of artist-run centres, experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture, painting, art criticism, and conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of Indigenous peoples’ cultures. Vancouver Anthology was first published in 1991 and re-published in its second edition in 2009.

Records consist of proofs, mock-ups, photographic materials, correspondence, and other material relating to the production of Vancouver Anthology’s first and second editions.

Series consists of records related to the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) including project proposals, committee meeting agendas and minutes, programs and posters from events, budgets, grant applications, photographs, correspondence, and event planning records.

Series consists of records related to Johnson’s own campaigns running as the NDP candidate for Federal Member of Parliament in the riding of Vancouver Centre. Materials in the series are predominantly related to his 1972 and 1974 campaigns.
Records consist of minutes, correspondence, photographs, campaign brochures, campaign buttons, campaign ribbons, name badges, newspaper clippings, and drafts of speeches.

Series consists of textual records related to the Chinese Cultural Centre (CCC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Materials include a guide to Chinatown-Strathcona, publicity materials related to events sponsored by the CCC, a media briefing, a photograph of Howe Lee (a former director of the CCC), and a speech by Dr. Wallace Chung.

Series consists of copies of Vancouver Downtown stadium proposal and supplementary materials, created by the Iredale Partnership, B.C., dated 1979, which primarily includes photographs, circulars, slides, and publications related to awards in the architectural field. W. Randle Iredale was professional advisor of the <i>Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1986 Awards Program</i>. Series is arranged into its original order.

Series includes documents relating to the Vancouver Harbour Commission. Materials consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning the Commission, its resolutions, and reports detailing meetings between representatives of the Harbour Commission and of Lumber in B.C.

Series contains material relating to the Vancouver Study Group (VSG), later the Red Star Collective (RSC). Material related to the administration of the group includes full group and committee reports, agendas, meeting minutes and summaries, and draft and final versions of internal and public documents. The series also includes critiques of other communist, socialist, and leftist organizations’ positions, including In Struggle! (En Lutte!) and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), as well as position and analysis papers written by RSC members. Material also includes papers, articles, notes, and discussion guides written by RSC and non-RSC members on various topics. Other material includes documents from seminars, workshops, and conferences organized or participated in by RSC; documents and correspondence from or about other communist, socialist, or leftist organizations; miscellaneous ephemera; photocopy of published material; an interview transcript; manuscripts of poetry by Joan McIntosh, text of speeches given by RSC honouring Jack Scott, and other materials.

Series consists of records pertaining to the Park Site 19 Project, which primarily includes business reports and correspondence with the Board of Parks, Recreation Department and Vancouver City Council, Park Site 19: Heritage Park Concept Plan publications, design guidelines and newspaper clippings. In addition, records pertain to Barclay Heritage Square 8573 and St. Francis Construction. A few business records are related to the Downtown Stadium.

Series consists of photographs that were originally arranged in two booklets featuring monuments in Vancouver related to nurses.

Governor General Georges Vanier and Madame Pauline Vanier founded the Vanier Institute of the Family in 1965. Vanier institute of the Family is a national charitable organization.
The organization funds research on demographic, economic social and health issues that effect contemporary Canadian life. In 1980, Blanche Howard was the Prime Minister's nomination for placement on the executive board of directors, for which she was duly elected.
The series contains two files, which include correspondence and board meeting minutes. The predominant subject of the series is a dispute involving members of the executive.

Series consists of an accounts ledger for the Vernon Box Company Limited.

Series consists of minute books, financial records, and albums of photographs of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Limited, and has been arranged into subseries according to these record types.