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Class of 1935 Collection / Dorothy B. Osborne (née McRae) (collector)

  • UBCA-ARC-1454
  • Collection
  • 1935-1997

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newsletters, and other materials related to the UBC graduating class of 1935 and the various reunions and alumni activities associated with that class.

Dorothy Beatrice Osborne (collector)

Conference of Learned Societies Committee on Arrangements fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1459
  • Fonds
  • 1963-1965

Fonds consists of textual records created and acquired by the Committee on Arrangements in the course of its activities, and includes committee minutes, conference statistics, sample forms, and assorted printed material.

University of British Columbia. Conference of Learned Societies Committee on Arrangements

Current Anthropology fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1460
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1985

Fonds consists of editorial files and materials accumulated by Cyril Belshaw as editor of Current Anthropology. The materials include correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, publications, manuscripts (accepted and rejected), and financial statements. They are arranged in the following series: Sol Tax (Editor), Rejected Articles, Accepted Publications, Duplicate Files, Editorial Files, CA - General, CA - Accounts, and University of Chicago Press.

Current Anthropology

Mabel Clara Taylor fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1805
  • Fonds
  • 1923 - 1956

The fonds consists of materials related to Mabel Taylor's nursing career and international travels. The materials document the professional life and world travel of an independent woman in the first half of the twentieth century. Record types include diplomas and certificates of nursing, travel documents including Taylor's passport and visas, correspondence related to job openings, as well as Taylor's written exam for obtaining a drivers' license in Durban, South Africa.

Taylor, Mabel Clara

Joan Coldwell fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1492
  • Fonds
  • 1977-2008

Fonds consists of materials created and collected by Joan Coldwell through her relationship and her business dealings with Jane Rule. It includes incoming personal correspondence from Jane Rule and Helen Sonthoff to Joan Coldwell and Ann Saddlemyer. Also included is a sous-fond, Hedgerow Press – Loving The Difficult, arising from the Press’s publication of Jane Rule’s final book.
It consists of correspondence, contracts, obituaries, publication and promotion materials, including photographs of the book launch on Galiano Island, a digital copy of the work, a bound paper draft, and the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for non-fiction.

Coldwell, Joan

John Gordon Spaulding fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1493
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1993

Fonds consists of materials documenting John Gordon Spaulding's academic scholarship and career, in particular his Pulpit Publications project, and includes notes, correspondence, published articles, drafts (both handwritten and typescript), computer codes, computer printouts (bound and unbound), and related records. The fonds is organized in three series: College And University Papers (including the sub-series Pomona/Stockton Numbered Files, Other College Files, Toward Dissertation & Dissertation I, and Lectures and Other Professional Papers), Personal Papers, and Cooke / Pulpit Publications (including the sub-series Correspondence, Provenance Studies, General Notes, Drafts, and Printouts, and Bound Computer Printouts). Where Spaulding's original arrangements were still apparent and considered practical, they have been retained – otherwise the files are arranged in chronological order.

Spaulding, John Gordon

Keith Ralston fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1497
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1997

Fonds consists of textual records and published materials produced or acquired by Keith Ralston primarily through his historical research and other professional activities, along with a small selection of personal materials. It is arranged in the following ten series, which largely reflect how the records arrived in their original order: Department of History, Thesis, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Cowichan Fishing Case, Public Record Office, Hudson’s Bay Company Research, Research, Associations, Personal, and Day Books.

Ralston, Keith

L’Ordre du Radis Manifique fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1499
  • Fonds
  • 1960-1977

The fonds consists of signed menus and meeting notices (1960-1972), membership lists (1961-1970), correspondence (1961-1977), undated poems written by Roy Daniells about Radish members, and miscellaneous documents.

L’Ordre du Radis Manifique

Laurence Meredith fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1501
  • Fonds
  • 1863-1990

The fonds consists of records and ephemera pertaining to John Laurence Russell Meredith and his family from 1863 to 1990. Records and ephemera pertaining to his father’s life are of genealogical interest as they provide insight into who he was. Records pertaining to his sister’s death show the painstaking detail the family took in providing a meaningful burial for her. The UBC ephemera provides a glimpse into Laurence’s social life at UBC. The music and theatre programs show his interest in the arts from a young age. The photographs provide valuable information on who his family was, what Laurence liked to do, and the activities in which he participated. His diary, letters received by him, and a list containing the translation of various words and phrases of the language of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation provide insight into who he was as a person.

Meredith, Laurence

Lawrence Lowe fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1502
  • Fonds
  • 1860, 1939-2013

Fonds consists of academic and personal works of Dr. Lawrence Lowe, by himself or in collaboration with others. Also included are a collection of genealogical materials pertaining to the Burpee and Lowe branches of his family along with a copy of Lowe’s 1994 curriculum vitae.

Lowe, Lawrence E.

Lorne and May Brown fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1506
  • Fonds
  • 1957-2018

Fonds consists of materials documenting the lives and careers of Lorne and May Brown and includes two self-published biographies (Lorne Brown Remembered and May Brown – A collection of stories), four photographs of Lorne Brown, a newspaper clipping about Camp Deka, and some of Lorne Brown’s UBC personnel records.

Brown, May

Office of Research Services fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1516
  • Fonds
  • [1966]-1991

The fonds consists of correspondence, memos, minutes, agendas, notes, blank forms including those required for legal documentation, guidelines, newsletters, reports, copies of published newspaper and journal articles and copies of book extracts, a notebook, brochures, CV copies, a workshop summary, posters for public lectures, a course outline, copies of advertisements, and research protocols.

University of British Columbia. Office of Research Services

Ronald Seal fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1524
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1979

Fonds consists of UBC course notes, written and organized by Ronald Seal for classes that he taught at UBC in Industrial Arts Teacher Training. Interspersed with these materials are Seal’s personal notes from his teacher training at the Normal School in Victoria in the 1930s.

Seal, Ronald

Sauder School of Business fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1525
  • Fonds
  • 1957-2015

Fonds consists of textual and audiovisual materials that document the programmes and activities of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration / Sauder School of Business. It includes correspondence (internal and external), minutes, reports, published materials, press clippings, architectural drawings, course curricula, and one VHS video recording. It is arranged in the following series: Dean’s Office – Historical, Dean’s Office – Michael Goldberg Correspondence, Dean’s Office – Subject Files, International Relations, UBC Administration, Faculty Advisory Board, Committees (with one sub-series), Programmes, Faculty/Programme Reviews, UBC Okanagan, Public-Private Partnerships, Commerce/Sauder Name Change, Alumni Relations, Angus Building Redevelopment, UBC Consultancy Project – Kuwait Institute of Business and Technology (with four sub-series), Publications, and Marketing and Communications.

University of British Columbia. Sauder School of Business

School of Audiology and Speech Sciences

  • UBCA-ARC-1526
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2011

Fonds consists of reports on programmes and activities for the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, resulting from the School’s five-year academic reviews (1988-1992, 1992-1997, 1999-2005, 2006-2011).

University of British Columbia. School of Audiology and Speech Sciences

St. John’s College UBC fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1535
  • Fonds
  • 1874-2015

Fonds consists of records reflecting the Johanneans’ activities, ultimately spanning approximately from 1879 to current, predominant 1990 to 2015. These records are arranged in roughly chronological order. Textual records in the collection primarily consist of books, journals, magazines, newsletters, newspaper clippings, rosters, materials pertaining to St. Mary’s, materials to the St. John’s College principals, and unbound materials.The collection is arranged into the following nineteen series: newsletters, journals, artifacts, stamps, magazines, world reunions, tickets, St. John’s College, rosters, CDs, DVDs, multimedia materials, photographs, negatives, St. John’s & St. Mary’s Institute of Technology, St. John’s College principals, Shanghai archives, unbound materials and books.

St. John’s College UBC

Sybren Henrik de Jong fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1537
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1977

The fonds consists of personal and professional materials created and collected by Sybren de Jong. The fonds is divided into five series:
• Publications (1940-1975)
• Lectures and Course Notes (1944-1975)
• Projects series (1955-1966)
• The Professional Life series (1960-1977)
• The Photographs series (1954)

De Jong, Sybren Henrik

UBC Performing Arts Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1541
  • Collection
  • 1928-2011

Collection consists primarily of event flyers, programmes and calendars published to promote various performing arts productions at UBC. Also included are companion guides for some theatre productions. Materials are arranged in three categories: Theatre Productions, Musical Productions, and Performing Arts – General. Within each category the materials are organized by department, organization, or production series.

William Bruneau fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1549
  • Fonds
  • 1962-2006

Throughout his education and political careers, the records were generated by William Bruneau and relate both to personal and professional interests.
The fonds is divided into seven series: correspondence, diaries, research, department of education, history of education quarterly, papers and publications, certificates. The research series is sub-divided into four sub-series. Materials include notes, correspondence, memoranda, papers, diaries, certificates and publications.

Bruneau, William

Westcoast Women’s Network fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1453
  • Fonds
  • 1980 - 1990

Fonds consists of textual records documenting the origins and early history of the Vancouver/Westcoast Women’s Network and includes the organization’s constitution, copies of its newsletter (1981-90), membership directories, brochures and other promotional material, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and meeting agendas and minutes.

Westcoast Women’s Network

E. Margaret Fulton fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1472
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 2008

Fonds consists of textual material primarily relating to Fulton’s social activism and some personal materials. The fonds has been arranged in eight series: Conferences and Committees series, Personal Series, Speaking Engagements series, Women’s Studies series, Miscellaneous series, Reports series, Publications series, and Audiovisual series.

Fulton, E. Margaret

Infrastructure Development fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1487
  • Fonds
  • 1996 - 2003

Fonds consists of records documenting the functions and activities of UBC Infrastructure Development and older records documenting those functions, development and management of institutional facilities within the former units of UBC Utilities and Campus Planning and Development. Records include correspondence, technical diagrams, meeting minutes and information, strategic planning reports, news clippings, consultation documents.
Records related to development projects were kept in their original order in the Project Files and Development series. However, other documents had no discernible order and were arranged into the other series presented.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Infrastructure Development

Institute for Computer, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1488
  • Fonds
  • 1986 - 1996

The fonds consist of various committees' records associated with CICSR between 1986 and 1996. These are advisory committees that report on academic and campus computing, science education and continuing education at the University of British Columbia.
The fonds is maintained in the original order in which it was received. It is divided into seven files according to the subject matter. The fonds consist of textual materials including memoranda, correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, written notes and other printed materials.

University of British Columbia. Institute for Computer, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)

Stephen Sheppard fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1572
  • Fonds
  • 1982-2017

Fonds consists of records documenting Stephen Sheppard’s professional and academic activities while he was at UBC. They include textual records (correspondence, reports, written notes, data sets, and published materials), audio-visual recordings, photographs, and digital media. The records are arranged in the following series: Aesthetics And Sustainability (sub-series Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and Articles for Publication), Visual Resource Management, Multi-Criteria Analysis, Local Climate Change Visioning, and Forest Management Research (sub-series CALP UBC research publications, Local UBC studies, North Cowichan Community Forest, Clayoquot Reference Materials, and General).

Sheppard, Stephen

Volkoff Family fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1577
  • Fonds
  • 1906-2019

Fonds consists of records documenting the history of the Volkoff family, in particular the life and career of George Volkoff. It includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, academic records and other official documentation, certificates, published items, photographs (black and white prints of various sizes, black and white 35mm negatives, and digital scans from original prints), memorabilia, and digital media. The fonds is arranged in the following series: Personal – George and Olga Volkoff, Research and Reports, Published Articles, Volkoff Family History, and Photographs.

Volkoff, George

Margaret McLean fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1564
  • Fonds
  • 1961, 1965

Fonds consists of newspaper clippings about Homecoming 1961, and programmes documenting 1965 graduating class events and activities.

McLean, Margaret

Ann Micou fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1565
  • Fonds
  • 2003 - 2007

The fonds consists of seven incoming letters from Jane Rule to Ann Micou dating from 2003 to 2007. The last letter is dated October 8, 2007, and was written a little over a month before Jane Rule’s death. The fonds also includes four CD’s featuring Jane Rule reading a selection of her short stories including “House,” “A Chair for George,” “Seaweed & Song,” “You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin by the Smile Upon His Face,” “A Migrant’s Christmas,” “If There is No Gate,” “Home Movie,” “Blessed are the Dead,” and “Dulce.” Apparently, the recordings were produced in a small number for distribution to family and friends. The fonds also includes a copy of a videotape entitled Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (Eds. Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman).

Micou, Ann

G.W.H. Norman fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1567
  • Fonds
  • 1923, 1976

Fonds consists of a “transit book” – a bound notebook used by Hal Norman for notes and measurements taken during his Surveying course in 1923 – and three maps of UBC’s Fairview and Point Grey campuses, hand-drawn in 1923 and plotted in 1976.

Norman, G. W. H.

Hans Ronimois fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1568
  • Fonds
  • 1945 - 1977

Fonds consists of documentation of Hans Ronimois’ personal and professional life. Included is documentation of his first wife’s grave (in Swedish), his Canadian citizenship certificate dated 1961, CVs, publication lists, lecture notes, newspaper clippings, and a typescript copy of the first chapter of a report written by Ronimois titled Soviet Economic Organization (1951).

Ronimois, Hans

Joe Schlesinger fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1163
  • Fonds
  • 1940, 1955-2019

Fonds consists of materials in various media created or acquired by Joe Schlesinger in the course of his professional career, along with materials documenting or commemorating the Kindertransport programme, and a few items of a more personal nature. It includes textual records such as scripts for his news reports and speeches, correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings, honorary degrees and other awards, published items, posters, and miscellaneous writings. Also included are photographs, audiovisual recordings, and digital files.
The fonds is arranged in the following series: Scripts, Speeches, Correspondence, Notebooks, Scrapbooks, Clippings (sub-series Pieces by Schlesinger, Pieces about Schlesinger, and Other Pieces), Awards and Recognition, Time Zones, Winton/Kindertransport, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Audiovisual, and Digital Media.

Schlesinger, Joe

Zonia Sekora fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1582
  • Fonds
  • 1954-1955

Fonds consists of ephemera collected by UBC Alumus Zonia Sekora, including English Lit 100 & 101 exam papers, Mathematics 101, Notice of Admission, Frosh Orientation schedule, Panhellenic Rushing at UBC and miscellaneous ephemera, including non-UBC items.

Sekora, Zonia

Mary F. Bishop fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1034
  • Fonds
  • [1920s?]-1990, predominant 1965-1985

The fonds reflects Mary Bishop’s interests in the social and political issues surrounding family planning, access to birth control, and population planning, primarily in Canada, as well as in south Asia and globally. She accumulated a large number of subject files to support her research in these areas on topics including human sexuality; abortion; fertility; welfare of children and families; and the influence of organized religion and Eugenics movements on birth control access. The fonds also reflects Bishop’s dedication to voluntary service with local, national, and international organizations focused on family and population planning. A small number of personal records are also included.

Bishop’s records are arranged into three series: population and family planning research; volunteer involvement; and personal files. The fonds consists primarily of newspaper clippings and research notes on topics of interest to Bishop; government and NGO reports and publications on population policy and family planning issues; pamphlets and flyers; and drafts of articles and speeches authored by Bishop. The fonds also includes recordings and transcripts of a series of interviews conducted by Bishop in the late 1970s with individuals relevant to the history of the birth control movement in Canada, including physicians, activists, religious leaders, couples, and individual women. Some organizational records for the various groups Bishop was part of (e.g., agendas, meeting minutes, annual reports, committee reports, correspondence, financial records) are also present in the fonds.

Bishop, Mary F.

Morris Panych fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1165
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2006

The fonds consists of typescripts, handwritten drafts, notes and reviews relating to plays written, performed, or directed by Panych. Also included are photographs relating to his theatre career and biographical material, including school transcripts and video cassette tapes of an episode of Da Vinci's Inquest that Panych directed. The fonds comprises four series: Scripts and Manuscripts, Personal, Photographs and Audio/visual.

Panych, Morris

Anne Smith fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1169
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1967

Fonds consists of both office and personal records that span much of Smith's long career with the U.B.C. Library, and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, course materials, publications, and newspaper clippings. The records are arranged in the following series: Reference Correspondence, Subject Files Personal and Office (Campus and Off-Campus), Subject Files Library, Miscellaneous Reference Subject Files, Canadian Library Association, and Library Education.

Smith, Anne M.

Agricultural Engineering and Farm Building Collection

  • UBCA-ARC-1172
  • Collection
  • 1953-1976

The collection consists of minutes, correspondence and reports arising from two committees on which Leonard Staley (Professor of Agricultural Mechanics) was a member, the National Committee on Agricultural Engineering and the Farm Building Standards Committee. The latter was formed in the early 1960s as a standing committee that contributed to the development of the National Building Code of Canada.

Academic Women's Association fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1174
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1996

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes of the Association's Annual General Meeting and its Executive Committee, reports by the Association and other organizations, published materials, questionnaires, and copies of the AWA constitution and administrative history.

University of British Columbia. Academic Women's Association

Women's Undergraduate Society fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1184
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1933

Fonds consists of minutes of meetings, reports, budgets, and correspondence documenting the activities of the Women's Undergraduate Society during the 1932/33 school year.

University of British Columbia. Women's Undergraduate Society

Convocation fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1201
  • Fonds
  • 1890, 1912-1960

The fonds consists of the minutes of the original Convocation of UBC held in 1890, minutes of Convocation (1912-1960), election information and programs (1912) and printed material. The minutes and one letter from the 1890 meeting have been placed with the official records of Convocation properly constituted in 1912.

University of British Columbia. Convocation

Department of Agronomy fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1204
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1952, predominant 1936-1952

The fonds consists of the correspondence series, which is all that remains of the records of the Department of Agronomy. During its early years, the Department concentrated mostly on public education and outreach, and the material reflects this, for it includes a large number of inquiries from local farmers and gardeners regarding their crops. It is arranged in an identifiable classification system that is consistently used and developed throughout the years.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Agronomy

Department of Chemistry fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1208
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1981

The fonds consists of minutes of departmental meetings (1949-1957), correspondence (1945-1956), student records (1948-1957), course records (1948-1957), examinations (1931-1957), material from the President's Committee on Research (1947-1955), applications for positions (1948-1955), departmental subject files (1943-1956), journal reprints and photographs.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Chemistry

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1216
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1986, predominant 1955-1982

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, financial material, printed material, minutes of meetings, statistics, photographs, and architectural plans about the Faculty of Agriculture administration and departmental activities. Fonds is arranged in the following series: Scrapbooks (1918), General Administration (1953-1972), Dean's Office Files (1955-1975), General correspondence (1968-1980), Minutes (1947-1986), Financial records (1966-1982), Faculty affairs (general) (1966-1976), Departmental affairs (1966-1983), Curriculum (1966-1980), Space (1968-1978), Land (1967-1977), Survey and statistics (1969- 1978), Oyster River (1967-1984), Botanical Garden (1966-1973), Interior Program (1978-1984), Subject file (1966-1982), Pamphlet (1917-1946), Photograph (192-?-193-?) and Architectural Plans (1917-1983).

University of British Columbia. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

Faculty of Forestry fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1218
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1995

The fonds consists of the following series: Dean's correspondence (1968-1981); committee records (1966-1981); staff meetings (1955-1981); course and student records (1970-1981); printed lectures (1950-1982); Federal Government (1976-1982); University Research Forest (1937-1981); Royal Commission on Forest Resources in B.C. (1975/76); Printed Material (1956-1982); Departmental Reviews (1991-1995); Alumni Matters (1971, 1988-1992); Safety Reports and Inspections (1990-1993); Other Institutions (1985-1993); Subject Files (1984-1993); and Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Unit [FEPA] (1988-1991).

University of British Columbia. Faculty of Forestry

Guided Independent Study fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1222
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1987

Fonds consists of course manuals, workbooks, and audio cassette tapes issued by Guided Independent Study/UBC Access. They are arranged by course number and then by year of publication; in many cases, several editions are issued over the years for each course. Manuals and audio-tapes are listed and stored separately.

Institute of Industrial Relations fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1227
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1977

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial materials, proceedings, research materials, and subject files pertaining to the overall activities of the Institute of Industrial Relations.

University of British Columbia. Institute of Industrial Relations

UBC Summer Session Association fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1122
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1929, 1941-1994

Fonds consists of minutes (1965-1989), copies of the Bulletin (1941-1975), drafts of constitutions and by-laws, financial records (1968-1994), photographs and printed material. Also included are correspondence, reports and schedules relating to S.S.A. sponsored concerts and film festivals.

University of British Columbia. Summer Session Association

Walter D. Young fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1128
  • Fonds
  • 1919, 1937-1983

Fonds consists of materials that document Walter Young's personal life, academic career, and political interests. It includes correspondence, minutes and agendas, reports, lecture notes and other course materials, financial statements, manuscripts, index cards, audio recordings, and publications (including books, newspapers, magazines, journals, pamphlets, and clippings). They are arranged in two series, Personal Papers and Research. Their original order has largely been maintained.

Young, Walter D.

Watson Thomson fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1131
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1969

The fonds consists of correspondence (1937-1968), manuscripts and drafts for books and articles, copies of radio talks (1937-1955), speeches (1943-1957), printed material, clippings and two scrapbooks (1937-1965).

Thomson, Watson

Dick Martin fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1136
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1977

The fonds consists of material relating to the founding and early history of the AUCE on campus.

Martin, Dick

Joseph Lawrence fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1139
  • Fonds
  • 1952-1966

The fonds consists of both research notes relating to Lawrence's 1957 M.A. thesis Markets and capital: a history of the lumber industry of British Columbia (1778-1952); and later notes, clippings, and publications dealing with politics and the B.C. forest industry which were inter-filed with the thesis material.

Lawrence, Joseph

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