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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Hilda Thomas fonds Series
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Ephemera

Series contains anti-war posters, as well as campaign posters for the NDP. It also contains the 1977 Vancouver Women’s Calendar.

Everywoman’s Health Centre

Series contains correspondence, minutes, pamphlets, reference material and other records relating to the operations of the Everywoman’s Health Centre, an abortion clinic which Thomas helped found in 1988. Series also contains records from the British Columbia Coalition for Abortion Clinics (BCCAC), which originally operated the clinic.

Feminism Subject Files

Series contains printed material and notes on a variety of feminist subjects, including violence against women, pornography and rape.

Human Rights

Series contains records related to Thomas’s human rights activism, including subject files on Iranian refugees, Iraq, and prisoner’s rights.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia Standing Committee on Women’s Rights (Women’s Rights Committee or WRC)

Series includes records related to the Women’s Rights Committee (WRC), a committee which was created to “develop and strengthen the NDP policy on Women’s Rights. Thomas was an active member of WRC for a number of years. The WRC also published the feminist socialist newsletter <em>Priorites</em>, which Thomas was Coordinating Editor of from 1979-1981, and records related to the production of <em>Priorites</em> are included here. The series also includes records related to a report Thomas wrote for the Task Force for Technological Change.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia, Point Grey

Series contains records relating to the Provincial NDP, including records from the Vancouver Point Grey riding where Thomas ran for office in 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1983. The records from the 1989 Vancouver—Richmond Regional Conference pertain to a conference which Thomas organized. Series also contains records of the Point Grey NDP Constituency Association.

New Democratic Party of Canada

Series includes records relating to the New Democratic Party of Canada, including the Vancouver Quadra riding. Series also includes records from the electoral planning committee, and records relating to the Rosemary Brown leadership campaign in 1975, which Thomas was instrumental in organizing.

New Democratic Party Participation of Women Committee

Series contains records from the NDP Participation of Women Committee (POW), which Thomas was a member of for a number of years and chaired from 1981-1984. One of the main activities of the POW was the Task Force on Older Women in Canada, and records relating to the production of that report are included here.

Research on Malcolm Lowry

Series contains material related to Thomas’s 1965 thesis on Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and related research in later years.

Student Essays

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

University of British Columbia

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.)

Vietnam War

Series contains reference material about the Vietnam War, and material related to demonstrations against it. It also contains correspondence and minutes from the Vietnam Action Committee, of which Hilda Thomas was chair from 1968-1970.

Women and Peace

Series contains records, primarily printed material, relating to conferences Thomas participated in related to women in peace and anti-war activism. Series also contains handwritten notes by Thomas.