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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Subseries
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Internal Communications

Sub-series consists of communication records that do not appear to have been shared with the public outside the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) at the time of their creation; the sub-series reflects the internal activities of the NAJC. Records include an extensive amount of correspondence (which includes interoffice correspondence, correspondence between NAJC members and members of the Canadian government, correspondence between different chapters of the NAJC, and correspondence between the NAJC and various other individuals) on topics such as the redress campaign, the success of achieving settlement, financial operations, implementing compensations after settlement, information and updates on various meetings, conferences and events, the passing of motions, contract proposals, collaboration with and support of other groups (such as the Indigenous peoples of North America), the Nikkei Voice, funds, and other topics. Records also include cards, reports, newsletters, faxes, memos, printed emails, and letter files.

International Art Post

Subseries documents International Art Post, an artistamp publication. Anna Banana published International Art Post (IAP) from the late 1980s to the early 2010s. The International Art Post was made up of periodically published artistamp editions, which were funded by contributing artists. Artists would provide Banana with small scale artworks to be transferred in full colour to perforated gum-paper. These stamps were then given back to the artists for their own use. Files contain predominantly artistamps, but also include advertising materials and preparatory documentation and sketches.

International History of Nursing Conference

The International History of Nursing Conference was co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and the B.C.History of Nursing Group. The conference was held June 12-15, 1997 in Vancouver at St. Paul’s Hospital. Both sponsoring groups aim to discover, disseminate, and preserve nursing history in Canada and British Columbia. The conference was held just prior to the meeting of the International Council of Nurses 21st Quadrennial Congress.

The conference attracted 144 people from 18 countries. Sixty papers were presented on topics including the impact of the World Wars on nursing in Canada, the U.S., Poland, Slovenia, and Germany; religious traditions in nursing; black nurses’ struggles; the impact of traditional Chinese medicine on nursing in China; epidemics; psychiatric nursing development; nursing education; and Florence Nightingale.

Subsubseries consists of delegate packages, schedules, presentations and other related materials. A commemorative scrapbook with 53 photographs is also included, and one wall hanging.

International Planned Parenthood Foundation

Sub-series reflects Mary Bishop’s involvement with the International Planned Parenthood Foundation. Bishop was appointed to a Laws and Policy Panel by the Western Hemisphere Board of the International Planned Parenthood, and served as a representative in at least five international conferences between 1976–1984.

Records in this sub-series include reports, policy documents, and other grey literature on family planning topics; newsletters; draft writing and speeches; correspondence; and newspaper clippings.

Bishop, Mary F.

International work

Subseries consists of documents related to Reid, Collins and Associates work in Pakistan, China, Indonesia, and Brazil.

Interviews

Sub-series reflects a set of interviews conducted by Mary Bishop in the late 1970s relating to her long-term project of documenting the history of the birth control movement in Canada between 1920 and 1980. Bishop interviewed several individuals with lived experience connected to this history, including physicians; religious leaders; and women and couples who spoke about their experiences seeking reproductive healthcare. The interviews were funded by a grant from the Explorations Programme supplied by the Canada Council.

Records in this sub-series include interview transcripts; typed and handwritten notes; interview releases; accompanying documentation on the history of birth control and dissemination of information about family planning; and one photograph.

Bishop, Mary F.

Investments & Trusts

Subseries consists of records related to Manson's personal investments, investments made on behalf of others, and trusts managed by Manson. These trusts include the Alexander Malcolm Manson Trust (often abbreviated as AMMT), the Beckwith Trust, the Stella Manson Trust, and the M. M. Trust. The earliest records in this subseries were created while Manson was attending law school and continue until shortly after Manson's death.

Records in this subseries include stock certificates, annual reports, shareholder reports, licenses, leases, land and road surveys, statistics, meeting minutes, statements of return, balance sheets and ledgers, and correspondence with trustors and with companies. Mining companies are particularly well-represented among Manson's records, most notably Germansen Mines Limited. Other investments represented include oil companies and laundries.

Jack Anawak

Subseries contains textual records pertaining to Jack Anawak's "Who is Equal? The Passage of Nunavut's First Human Rights Act" publication in Lazara Press' Discussion Series. The subseries contains drafts of the publication, as well as the final copy. Other records include correspondence related to the chapbook.

Jacqueline Marcus

Subseries contains textual records pertaining to Jacqueline Marcus' poetry chapbook titled <i>No Excuses</i>. The records include drafts of the chapbook, as well as the published edition, and copies of correspondence between Marcus and Lazara Press.

Jane Rule

Subseries contains textual records pertaining to Jane Rule's "Detained at Customs" publication in Lazara Press' Discussion Series. This essay discusses the Little Sisters Bookstore vs Canadian Customs court cause in 1986. The subseries contains a copy of the published edition of the chapbook. Other records included in the subseries include newspaper and magazine clippings about Rule and/or her publication, correspondence, court transcripts, and Rule's obituary/celebration of life. The CD-ROM is a brief video clip depicting Margaret Atwood speaking about Rule after Rule's death in 2007.

Janis Bowley

Subseries documents the curator files of Janis Bowley, Director/Curator of the Or Gallery from January 1994 to April 1996.

Exhibitions represented in this subseries include:

  • Michael Banwell, “Development and Desire” (January 15 – February 12, 1994)
  • Douglass Scott, “July, August, September” (February 19 – March 19, 1994)
  • Kati Campbell, Daniel Laskarin, Phillip McCrum, “New Works”, co-curated with guest curator Warren Murfitt (March 22 – April 16, 1994)
  • Laura Vickerson and Helen Sebelius, “Camera Florae” (April 23 to May 21, 1994)
  • David Acheson, “Zoophytes” (May 28 – June 25, 1994)
  • Gwen Boyle, “Arc” (July 2-30, 1994)
  • Sheila Ayearst, Laura Baird, Bob Boyer, Naoko Furue, Mindy Van Miller, Louise Noguchi, Ted Rettig, Robert Windrum, “Textiles, That is to Say”, co-curated with guest curators Sarah Quinton and John Armstrong (September 9 – October 7, 1994)
  • Doug Buis, “Home and Oasis” (October 15 – November 12, 1994)
  • Julie Andreyev, “Katabasis” (November 26 – December 23, 1994)
  • Donna Brunsdale, “Ambivalencia” (January 7 – February 4, 1995)
  • Stan Denniston, “fictions” (February 11 – March 11, 1995)
  • Luke Blackstone, “Not to Code” (March 18 – April 15, 1995)
  • Gillian Collyer, Catherine Heard, Germaine Koh, Roxane Permar & Wilma Johnson, Ruth Scheuing, Needle Arts Show (April 22 – May 20, 1995)
  • Reid Shier, “Cheap” (May 26 – June 24, 1995)
  • Kevin Kelly, “Building Natural History” (September 9 – October 7, 1995)
  • Carole Itter, “The Float” (October 21 – November 18, 1995)
  • Gaye Jackson “Travelogue”, Monique Dykstra, “Too Thick To Drink, Too Thin To Plow” (November 25 – December 23, 1995)
  • Margaretha Bootsma and Jill Sabre, “Alterations: Reprotecting the Space” (January 6 – February 3, 1996)
  • Anne Mosey, “A Paradise, A Veritable Garden” (March 16 – April 13, 1996)

Japanese Canadian Centennial Project (JCCP) redress committee

Sub-series consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, notes and a notebook, drafts, news clippings, transcripts and audio recordings of symposia proceedings, a grant application, and other records related to Miki’s participation in the Japanese Canadian Centennial Project, a project which aimed to document and celebrate the history of Japanese presence in Canada. The sub-series also contains a book on Japanese Canadian history prepared and published by the JCCP.

Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association

Series consists of a transcript of an interview with Mrs. Kabayakawa, a prominent member of the Japanese Canadian Citizen Association (JCCA), a copy of the program from her funeral and speech given by Miki in her honour as well as photographs of Mrs. Kabayakawa as a young woman. The series also contains a copy of the “Redress for Japanese Canadians Information Package” created by the Vancouver Chapter of the JCCA which includes membership information, donation forms, volunteer applications, a chronological fact sheet of “pre-war discrimination, wartime interment, and redress for Japanese Canadians” from 1877-1980, an update on Redress written in 1984, newsletters of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and photocopies of articles related to Redress. The series also consists of recordings of NAJC meetings. For other relevant records from previous accruals see earlier finding aids.

Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association (Greater Vancouver JCCA)

Sub-series consists of agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda, reports, notes, news clippings, transcripts of forum proceedings, published guides, financial reports, proposals, and other records related to Miki’s involvement with the Greater Vancouver JCCA. 7 photographic contact sheets illustrate the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Kaslo, British Columbia. The sub-series also contains audio recordings of community meetings and forum proceedings, Greater Vancouver JCCA Redress Committee meetings and elections and general JCCA meetings, and broadcast interviews relating the activities of the JCCA. Miki sat on the Greater Vancouver JCCA Board of Directors and served as Chair of the Greater Vancouver JCCA Redress Committee between 1984 and 1988. The sub-series documents Miki’s activities in both these capacities in particular, and the activities and campaigns of the organization in general. Board of Directors records and Redress Committee records are arranged chronologically followed by alphabetically arranged subject files.

Jaqueline Oker

Subseries contains textual records related to Jacqueline Oker's broadside poem titled <i>Remember</i>. The records include drafts of the poem, as well as the published broadside. Other records include Oker's biographical information, correspondence, and copies of other unpublished poems written by Oker.

Jo Corrello

Subseries contains textual records pertaining to Jo Corrillo's broadside poem <i>And When You Leave Take Your Pictures with You</i>. Records include drafts and the final published edition of the broadside, as well as correspondence, invoices, and receipts.

Jonathan Middleton

Subseries documents the curator files of Jonathan Middleton, Director/Curator of the Or Gallery from September 2007 to September 2017.

Exhibitions represented in this subseries include:

  • Cedric and Nathan Bomford, “For Fools and Traitors – Nothing”, co-curated with guest curator Michèle Faguet (September 7 – October 13, 2007)
  • Johanna Unzueta, “Work Dignifies”, co-curated with guest curator Michèle Faguet (11 January – February 23, 2008)
  • Alejandro Cesarco, Germaine Koh, Micah Lexier, “This Particular Day of June” (May 9 – June 14, 2008)
  • Aaron Carpenter, Steven Hubert, Kathy Slade, “Hold On” (June 6 – July 13, 2008)
  • Laiwan, “Loose Work” (August 8-23, 2008)
  • Miguel da Conceicao, Devon Knowles, Claude Zervas, “In the diagram below, line AB and line GH intersect at point D” (September 6 – October 11, 2008)
  • Mat Bushell, Guido Molinari, Monique Mouton, Richard Tuttle, “Making Real”, co-curated with guest curator Eli Bornowsky (October 17 – November 22, 2008)
  • Adel Abidin, Abbas Akhavan, A.S. Dhillon, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Gail Wight, Retort, “shrink-wrapped”, co-curated with guest curator Alison Rajah (December 6, 2008 – January 24, 2009)
  • Ahbyah Baker, Jason Froese, Dana Hawkes, Eric Roddy, Darius Stein, Dylan Wolney, “Danger in Paradise”, co-curated with guest curator Dana Claxton (January 31 – March 7, 2009)
  • Lutz Bacher (Berkeley), Drakkar Sauna (Lawrence, Kansas), Heather and Ivan Morison (Wales), Oscar Tuazon (Paris/Tacoma), Jordan Wolfson (New York/Berlin), “Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods”, co-curated with guest curator Eric Frederickson (March 13 – April 18, 2009)
  • Tacita Dean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Jason Hendrickson, David Horvitz, Donald Lawrence, “The Wild So Close”, co-curated with guest curator Jennifer Cane (April 25 – May 30, 2009)
  • Brady Cranfield, Robert Filliou, Mark Nakamura, Nicole+Ryan, Håvard Pedersen, Kate Sansom, Holly Ward, “Science Fiction 01” (June 27 – August 1, 2009)
  • Debra Baxter, Dawn Cerny, Barb Choit, The Goggles (Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge), “Death & Objects” (September 12 – October 17, 2009)
  • Mariana Castillo Deball, Michele Di Menna, Until We Have A Helicopter, “Ginger Goodwin Way”, curated by Jesse Birth (January 27 – March 27, 2010)
  • Rebecca Belmore and Terrance Houle, “Friend or Foe,” co-curated with guest curator Darrin Martens (April 24 – Mary 29, 2010)
  • Kristina Lee Poseva, Brown Globe, at No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern (May 14-16, 2010)
  • “Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive”, co-curated with guest curator Allison Collins (June 5 – July 10, 2010)
  • Aleesa Cohene, Alex Da Corte, Jon Pylypchuk, Markus Vater, “Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”, curated by Kim Nguyen (September 11 – October 23, 2010)
  • C\R\I\T\I\C\S, Josh Rose, Absurdus, Christian Nicolay, Ya-chu Kang, “Clamour and Toll”, co-convened with guest curator Eli Bornowsky (February 17, 2010)

Journals

Sub-series consists of originals and copies of journals detailing Belcher’s travels during the period 1821-1827, including his travels in Britain in 1821 and as part of the crew of the HMS Blossom during the Beechey expedition, 1825-1827.

Journals

Subseries consists of four coil bound notebooks titled “Moving pages” and containing notes for writing. While they are numbered 1 to 4, some of the material in Notebook 4 is dated 1993.

Justice in our time: the Japanese canadian redress settlement

Sub-series consists of correspondence, research notes, photographs, and publicity materials related to a pamphlet, Justice in our time: the Japanese Canadian redress settlement, published in 1988, and to a book of the same title published in 1991. Mild co-edited the pamphlet and the book with Cassandra Kobayashi. The series contains drafts of the pamphlet and records relating to its Japanese translation, as well as successive drafts of sections of the monograph and the entire manuscript. The photographs contained in this series are reproductions of images of Japanese Canadians from throughout the twentieth century, many of which appear in the book Justice in our lime.

Keiko Miki

Sub-series consists of records that predominately relate to Keiko Miki’s activities as the Chairperson of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) Human Rights Committee and some records that reflect her role as the President of the NAJC. Records reflect the focus of her leadership as centering on human rights issues, ant-racism and other human race relations for Japanese Canadians and for other ethnic groups. This includes correspondence, Human Rights legislation in Canada, journal publications and articles by various writers, conference summaries and reports, Annual General Meeting (AGM) reports, Human Rights Committee reports, evaluations, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings.

Keith Hoff collection

Subseries contains genealogical records of Keith Hoff, a photo of Hoff, and transcriptions of oral histories made by him and his relatives. The subseries also includes a passenger list of the S.S. St. Patrick of the Montreal Ocean Steam-Ship Company on September 23, 1874.

Kobayashi, Cassandra

Sub-series consists of records made or received by Cassandra Kobayashi which she transferred to Miki for research purposes. The sub-series contains agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda, notes, reports, research material, financial documents, and other records that Kobayashi produced in her capacity as secretary of the Greater Vancouver JCCA Redress Committee, as assistant to Miki during his term as National redress coordinator, and related to her work on the Strategy Committee of the NAJC.

Kootenay School of Arts

Records in this subseries relate to Kujundzic's time spent in the Okanagan, including teaching materials from his time as an educator at the Kootenay School of Arts, photographs, correspondence, and records relating to his development of the Arts Centre in Nelson, B.C.

Laurie Nerman

Subseries contains a copy of Laurie Nerman's broadside <i>When Activism Stops</i> and correspondence.

Law Firm

Subseries consists of records related to Manson's law firm and legal practise. This subseries includes records created both while Manson was based in Prince Rupert as well as after he had relocated to Vancouver. The records in this subseries predominantly pertain to the operation of the firm, such as purchasing furniture, rather than to specific legal cases.

These records include legal documents created by the firm, legal cases and court proceedings, financial records (including profits, budgets, and taxes), and correspondence.

Law Societies & Bar Associations

Subseries consists of records related to Manson's participation in law societies and bar associations in Canada and British Columbia. These records date from after he became a judge.

These records include meeting minutes, memoranda, memorabilia, and correspondence.

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