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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Supreme Court of Civil Justice

The Supreme Court of Civil Justice was originally established as the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1857 by Governor James Douglas to deal with the increasing number of petty claims in Victoria. The court was renamed in 1860. Series consists of records including writs, testimony, judgements, and other pertinent documents related to various cases. These records were produced by magistrates, defendants, claimants, and other relevant (and in some cases historically significant) parties including the first judge in BC, the first Attorney General, the earliest clergy, businessmen, and other prominent figures from this period in British Columbia's colonial history. The materials in this series represent a firsthand look at the business and legal proceedings from the colony's early justice system.

Supporting Documentation

Series contains reference materials supporting the Regional District Review Committee’s Mandate to examine the functions and roles of the Regional Districts. Files consist of maps, reports, press clippings, background materials to the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s submission to the RDRC, and a selection of acts and bills.
Maps includes three maps of restricted development areas, two in Calgary and one in Edmonton.
Reports consist of studies or other written materials on diverse topic including summaries of regional districts, annual reports, assessments of the regional district governance model, and reports of services and industries. Also includes small booklets and pamphlets.
Press clippings is a collection of photocopied newspaper and magazine articles pertinent to the Regional District Review Committee’s examination.
The Greater Vancouver Regional District’s background materials includes information related to budget, services, staff and board members, and proposal to deal with future growth and to develop a light rail transit system.
The selection of acts and bills include acts of the Province of British Columbia pertinent to the regional district system of governance, proceedings in the legislative assembly of the Province of British Columbia, environmental regulations of Alberta, and the municipality of metropolitan Toronto act.

Supporting Court Materials

Series consists primarily of evidence presented by expert witnesses and background research materials that the lawyers used in the Delgamuukw Trial case. There are mainly submissions by the Defendants, including affidavits, maps, Department and Ministry annual reports, extracts from various news sources, census documents, and historical materials relating to the land claim area in British Columbia. Transcripts of cross-examinations, data sheets, proclamations and ordinances, Land Title Office documents, and early settlers' correspondence are also included.

Delgamuukw Trial

Support and Education

The series contains resources and materials that the Positive Women’s Network (PWN) created and collected to support and educate its members and the larger community. PWN's support and education activities fall into several categories including: the production and distribution of a bi-monthly newsletter, The Positive Side, and quarterly magazines with members' personal stories, advice, resources, and columns; training in retreat planning, and organizing and participating in retreats; organizing and participating in workshops on topics such as peer training, diabetes and HIV, boundaries, body mapping, massage therapy and more; developing educational content including tool-kits for members and the community such as the Peer Support Training toolkit and The Women and HIV Education toolkit; engaging in community research projects; collecting resources such as the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) magazine, also called The Positive Side, various educational films, and news-clippings about the PWN and HIV/AIDS in the larger community; documenting, memorializing and celebrating PWN achievements as well as the lives of friends and family who had passed away; and participating in conferences.

Record types in the series include the following: the PWN Positive Side Newsletter, PWN Quarterly Magazine, research reports, posters, banners, awards and certificates, news-clippings, retreat planning tool-kits, Women and HIV Education tool-kits, workshop and retreat fliers, agendas, and evaluations, conference materials, educational films, and films and photographs of PWN members and events.

Supplier products

Series contains advertising and technical publications from the manufacturers of various products used in the construction of vessels. These publications include brochures, specifications and technical drawings of products including engines, cranes, metals, PVC pipes, marine stoves, doors, and lights.

Subject Series

Contains files with correspondence, personal handwritten notes, legal documents and other material from McPherson’s working life. The series has been organized with the same three distinct periods of employment as McPherson organized his scrapbooks.

Subject files series.

This series contains material collected by Butler while doing background research for his proposed bibliography of Haig-Brown’s works.

Subject files related to party politics

Series consists of subject files related to Berger’s leadership of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of British Columbia and electoral campaign of 1969, arranged by exisiting file classification numbers, together with several scrapbooks and files containing press clippings, arranged chronolgically, related to Berger’s political life and campaigns from 1960 to 1969, as NDP Member of the House of Commons for Vancouver-Burrard in 1962, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Burrard in 1966-1967, and NDP leader in 1969.

Subject files regarding aboriginal peoples, the Arctic and the north

Series consists of subject files assembled for reference regarding various themes related to aboriginal peoples and their rights in Canada, the United States and Australia, native land claims, Arctic environment and settlements, and development of natural resources in the north of Canada. The files include correspondence, notes, and speeches; a large proportion of the files is comprised of government and corporate publications and other published material.

Subject Files

Series consists of correspondence, clippings, postcards, photographs, newsletters,
and other printed material on a variety of subjects primarily related to the
W.R.C.N.S. These subjects include administration, women and women's services,
files on persons, ships, uniforms, reports, the Royal Canadian Navy, publishers,
poems, prayers, various cities in Canada, and music.

Subject Files

Series consists of material that relates to subjects not covered in other series. Includes predominantly miscellaneous correspondence and the personal files of society members. Correspondence is interfiled throughout all personal papers in this sub-series. Early printed reference material has been organized alphabetically according to author/publisher.

Subject files

Series consists of files of correspondence, notes, and printed material pertaining to various subjects, such as agriculture, fisheries, and education, assembled by Shepherd.

Subject files

Series consists of 16 subject files: capital punishment; genesis of the Society for Population Control; income tax return; lecture notes; letters from readers; memorabilia; miscellany - theatre, odds and ends; Okanagan Summer School of the Arts; progressive education; Reginerazione; royal visit to Fiji; UBC memorabilia; UBC research materials; Vancouver foundation battle; west coast writers.

Subject files.

Series contains subject files which includes newspaper clippings, reports, annotated articles, and correspondences related to a variety of subjects of interest to Greenpeace including but not limited to mining, nuclear energy, whale capture, and seal hunting.

Subject files

Series consist of files created by Ms. Dalgliesh relating to her work with different organizations which she was a part of including Agora, the Broadway Commonwealth Society, Conscience Canada, the Council of Canada, humanists, the NDP (New Democratic Party), and WILPF (Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom). The files regarding breastfeeding contain various records which portray both Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in the subject and her involvement with INFACT. Other files in the series contain records depicting Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in various subjects such as British Colombian native people, the (CBC), daycare, chiropractic, Dying with Dignity, the environment and recycling, family law, forestry, Grapes, midwifery, Nanoose, peace, Rolf's plan, theology, and women's issues. Two of the files contain records regarding her trips to both China (1980) and Nicaragua (1982). The financial records relate to Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in withholding the percentage of her income tax that, she believed, was being used by the Canadian government to support the military.

The other files contain audit and offices procedures, correspondence: both incoming and outgoing with others who were also interested in various social issues, information on Dorothy Gretchen Steeves, and an essay on capitalism (notes and drafts). The miscellanea files contain various periodicals and files of information regarding many subjects which Ms. Dalgliesh designated as miscellanea.

Subject Files

Series consists of records generated by Beatrice Millar in her employment at B.C. Hydro, with predominant coverage of various outreach programs coordinated by Beatice Millar. Also includes 12 architectural plans for various industrial kitchens, documentation of activity with professional associations, and materials related to various presentation, and television and radio appearances.

Subject files

Series contains material collected by Jack Scott relating primarily to other communist, socialist, leftist, or social justice organizations and arranged by subject either by Jack Scott or by his acquaintances following his death. The groups represented in the series include the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), Vancouver Student Movement (VSM), Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) [CPC(M-L)], Partisans, Yenan Collective, United Front, Committee to Defeat Revisionism for Communist Unity (CDRCU), Canadian Student Movement, Students for a Democratic University, and various unions. Individuals represented in the series include Norman Bethune, Homer Stevens, Hugh Hardyman, James and Mary Endicott, Robert F. Williams, Jim Stanford, John F. Kennedy, and W. Kashtan. The material in the series includes photocopies and originals of letters, writings, and other documents; statements, commentaries, bulletins, and other group literature; ephemera, such as posters, newspaper clippings, flyers, newsletters, and pamphlets; and speech texts.

Subject Files

This series consists of files related to Brown's various interests. Major topics include companies similar to those for which Brown was a director, interests in Hawaii, materials related to the Yukon, and various groups in which Brown was involved, including several cancer research societies, the Metropolitan Opera (New York), and social clubs in Canada.

Subject files

Series consists of subject files compiled by Forbes pertaining to various priests, churches, and other religious subjects. Includes notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, papers, articles, pamphlets, programmes, correspondence, photographs, and other documents. Subject files are arranged alphabetically according to subject.

Subject Files

Series contains files related to the activities of queer organizations and activists in Vancouver, Toronto and other parts of Canada and the United States. A significant portion of this series is related to the political activities of Randy Notte, a contributor to the collection. Contents include informational pamphlets and brochures, legal cases, reports and statement papers, political materials, meeting minutes, organizational ephemera, newspaper clippings, periodicals, newsletters, and posters.

Subject files

Series consists of subject files pertaining to Japanese Canadian history, the Japanese Canadian Redress campaign, multiculturalism and human rights, as well as organizations, task groups, and campaigns in which Kogawa was involved.

Subject Files

Series consists of records collected and curated by Jackie Maniago on various topics of interest. Topics include religion, the Pro-Life movement in British Columbia, homosexuality, normalization, education for people with disabilities, parenting, and deinstitutionalization in British Columbia. Records include newspaper and magazine articles, personal correspondence, reports, information sheets, and newsletters.

Subject File series

Series consist of research notes, articles and newspaper clippings, brochures and reports pertaining to an assortment of topics and issues that framed Rosemary’s opinion on a number of issues, which includes affirmative action, education on issues of racism and immigration, labour and women’s equality, pornography and sexual assault, technology, as well as, a number of issues that affected women such as sexism and discrimination. Most of the subject files were arranged by their broad topics, such as ‘Women’ and followed by the file title. The subject file titled ‘Women’s Studies,’ which relates to miscellaneous research material Rosemary used to form her lectures from when she taught Women’s Studies at both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.

Subject file

Consists of 36 subject files, with correspondence related to the following: family, friends, paintings, <span style="text-decoration:underline">The Painted Cougar</span>, the film "Hoppy," and miscellaneous activities of Hopkins. Also included is information about Gerard Manley Hopkins and Frances Ann Hopkins, and articles about Elisabeth Hopkins or by her relatives and friends. Correspondents include David Robinson of Talon Books, the painter Molly Bobak, and various friends and family. Ms. Hopkins' birth, baptism and citizenship certificates, her unfinished autobiography "The Rolling Stone Nurse," copies of her stories <span style="text-decoration:underline">The Painted Cougar</span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline">Pig Tale</span>, and records of painting sales are also in this series.

Subject file

Series is largely composed of correspondence files regarding publication of W.H. White's books, especially publication of subsequent editions with various publishers. Some files in the series relate to controversies with which W.H. White was involved.

Subject Case Files

Series consists of records pertaining to two Aboriginal people, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell and Fred Quilt. Records include minutes of court proceedings and reports. Fred Quilt's files include three volumes of the inquisition into his controversial death.

Subject

Series consists of files created by the author pertaining to the writing of his novel but not to specific chapters. With the files there are handwritten notes, pictures, court documents, and newspaper clippings.

Student Papers

Series consists of papers on various topics by UBC School of Nursing students, mostly upper level or graduate. Many are for courses, particularly Nursing 440 (Nursing Care of Adults and Families), offered by Ethel Warbinek or Denise Fargey. Five of the papers are by Anne Wyness.

Arranged alphabetically by name of student.

Student Information

Series consists mainly of general information related to students in the nursing
program. Some information on individual student marks is also included. List of UBC SON graduates from 1920-1989 are included.

Student Essays

Series contains essays Thomas wrote as a student, primarily while completing her M.A. at UBC, which she received in 1965.

Statistics.

Series contains statistics relating to the Council of Forest Industries activities. Material consists of statistics regard the shingle and shake and lumber exports from Canada to the United States, statistics of Certigrade Shingles and Certi-Split Shake production by grade and type, Red band Shingle Conversion Table, figures on the
shipment of shingle and shakes to external markets, shingle and shake export figures, and shingle and shake exports by country.

Statistics.

Series includes statistics relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of a comparison of logging and sawmill workers by nationality and statistics from the Bureau of Economics on commodities from British Columbia that are exported to foreign countries.

Statistics

Series consists of various fisheries statistics gathered by Doyle. Includes statistics for individual British Columbia canning, packing, and other fishing industry companies, as well as general statistics regarding various subjects.
Title based on contents of series.

Statistics.

Series contains records relating to statistics used by the Consolidation of Red Cedar Shingles Association of British Columbia. Material consists of correspondence with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and statistics relating to the import of shingles into Canada from the United States.

Statistical Charts and Graphs

Series consists of hand drawn and machine produced statistical charts and graphs. The main areas of everyday life that Cotsworth analysed were: business, schools, production, customs and duties, hotels, post office, retail stores, and railways. He used these statistical analyses to show that there would be fewer inconsistencies in the data if the months were made up of four weeks/twenty-eight days. The series also consists of charts and diagrams/maps (of Canada) showing values for mean rainfall.

Standing Committees

Standing Committees of the UBC School of Nursing were responsible to the Faculty Caucus through the Internal Committees.

Series consists of records of a number of these committees, which in 1980 numbered thirteen. Not all committees are represented, and some are represented by only a small portion of their records. Most include some minutes, and some include other records relevant to their operations.

Series is arranged in the following subseries.

  1. Student Affairs Committee.
  2. Coordinators’ Meeting Minutes
  3. Instructional Resources Committee
  4. Education, Practice Interrelationships Committee
  5. Entry to Practice Ad hoc Committee
  6. Criteria Evaluation of Faculty Committee
  7. Nursing Outreach Committee
  8. Committee on Instruction in Service
  9. Program Orientation: Strategic Planning
  10. Faculty Status Subcommittee
  11. Faculty Organization Committee

Stamp collection and related records

The Stamp Collection and Related Records series consists of philatelic records and catalogues, correspondence, price lists, and publications. Also included in the series are records related to postal history in general, particularly that of British Columbia.

Stage

Series consists of three sub-series relating to his scripts for performances on stage: stage plays, stage revues, and a stage monologue. The stage play sub-series is arranged alphabetically by title of plays, and the stage revue sub-series is arranged alphabetically by title of shows.

Speeches series

Series consist of speeches, drafts and notes that Rosemary gave throughout her public career. Many of the speeches were originally organized in a numeric chronological sequence, which has been maintained. Within this sequence, some numbers have multiple speeches and some speeches have multiple numbers. Speeches that had no number associated with it have been arranged chronologically and grouped by year.

Speeches and Writings

Series consists of speeches and other writings by Doyle and others relating to the British Columbia fishing industry.
Title based on contents of series.

Speeches and addresses.

Series contains remarks and speeches made by the president of COFI. Material consists of remarks made by Mike Apsey as President of COFI at the signing ceremony to launch the cooperative Industrial and Market Development Program.
Photographs include the signing of the $6.85 million agreement between the wood products industry and the B.C. Government. Included in the photo are Ted Cameron, hon. John Jansen, Hon. Frank Oberle and Mike Apsey.

Speeches

Series consists of files assembled for speaking engagements and speeches as well as speaking tours undertaken or planned by Thomas Berger from 1977 to 1994, arranged by the records’ creator in four subseries corresponding to four periods: 1977-1984, 19851986, 1987-1989, and 1990-1994. Files within each subseries are arranged alphabetically by event, place, or host of the speaking engagement. The files include texts and drafts of speeches, notes, articles prepared for publication, conference agendas and related material, and also correspondence, press clippings of events, and material assembled for reference in writing speeches.

Speeches

Series consists of political speeches by Shepherd and others concerning economic and social issues. Includes speeches concerning agriculture, capitalism, veterans, and the citizenship of native peoples.

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