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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Bora Laskin and the Canadian Judicial Council

Series consists of clippings and correspondence related to Berger’s public remarks in 1981 regarding the failure of the Canadian government to include aboriginal treaty rights in the Canadian Constitution, the Canadian Judicial Council’s decision regarding these remarks, and Chief Justice Bora Laskin’s response. Series also contains records relating to Berger’s subsequent resignation from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Briefs.

Series contains briefs relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of briefs on the pulp industry in British Columbia, Canadian freight rates, and customs tariff on lumber between the United States and Canada.

Briefs.

Series consists of a brief to the Sloan Commission prepared by CRCSA on the past and present status of Red Cedar Shingle industry in British Columbia, a brief to the royal Commission of Enquiry into the Forest Recourses of British Columbia, a brief prepared for the United Kingdom on the exports of Western Red Cedar Shingle to the U.K, and briefs concerning merchandising techniques of shingles.

Briefs.

Series contains briefs relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of a briefing on the reorganization of COFI, brief concerning the Future History Project, and a debriefing concerning a meeting entitled “Canada’s Forest Philosophy.”

Briefs and Submissions

Series consists of a copy of a discussion paper prepared by the B.C. Government Ministry of Finance (1980), a copy of a report prepared by the B.C. Federation of Labour (1980), and a copy of the B.C. Federation of Labour presentation to a Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada (1981).

Britain and Europe

This series includes several 18th and 19th century legal documents with the autographs of British and other European political, military, and literary figures. There are indentures, letters, envelopes with addresses and signatures, introduction cards, news clippings, and records signed by royal figures. Also included are records relating to the First and Second World Wars, and the signatures of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), Lady Nancy Astor, and Sir Winston Churchill.

British Columbia Association of Non-Status Indians (BCANSI)

Series consists of records pertaining to the Maracle’s involvement with BCANSI. The organization worked towards providing non-status Aboriginals with a political voice to facilitate their upward social mobility and economic advance. Leonard was executive director of the organization from 1971 to 1973 and later served as treasurer. Kitty was involved as its executive secretary. In 1976, BCANSI evolved into the United Native Nations (UNN). Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, flyers, newsletters, notices, briefs, financial records, reports and proposals.

British Columbia Canners' Association Records

Series consists of records pertaining to the British Columbia Canners' Association, and Doyle's involvement with the Association. Includes records of the Fraser River Canners' Association, the Rivers Inlet Canners and other groups.
Title based on contents of series.

British Columbia Electric Railway Company Records

The series consists of records gathered by Peter Moogk relating to the British Columbia Electric Railway Company’s (BCER) interurban train lines. These records were originally created by the BCER, its successor (BC Hydro and Power Authority), and various photographers between 1909 and 1989. Special areas of focus in Moogk’s collection include streetcars and city buses in the Lower Mainland, Victoria, and Saanich; BCER employees’ social events; and civic events in Victoria.
The series preserves Moogk’s original order, in which files contain materials grouped by subject and documentary form. Record types include photographs—primarily black and white copy prints, in addition to a limited number of colour photographs and postcards; original BCER documents, including union agreements, timetables, BCER employees’ publications such as newsletters and magazines, land registry forms, employment applications, accident reports, insurance records, tickets and passes, transit tokens, internal correspondence, signs and posters from inside streetcars; and a copy of a CJOR radio script about the BCER for the program Salute to Industry.

British Columbia ephemera

This series contains paper ephemera, and a few photographs, representing a variety of events, activities, and work in British Columbia. Materials include restaurant menus, school reports, pageant rules and application, raffle information, bills and receipts, telegrams, cruise brochures, travel tickets and tokens, theatre programs, business correspondence, a souvenir set of Vancouver views with map, photos from nightclubs and supper clubs in souvenir envelopes, a collection of Vancouver Golden Jubilee commemorative stamps, and various Chinese textbooks. Photographs and negatives found in an original photo processing envelope includes aerial and sea views.

British Columbia Forest Products

Series consists of materials relating to British Columbia Forest Products, mainly from the time during which Burch was Chief Forester or Vice President of Timberlands and Forestry. The records include annual reports, forestry directories, documents relating to Tree Farm License 27 and ownership maps. Series is divided into six files: Tree Farm License 27, Ownership maps, Royal Commission on Forest Resources synopsis, Annual reports, Directories, Newsletters and reports.

British Columbia Packers' Association Records

Series consists ofrecords pertaining to the British Columbia Packers' Association and Doyle's involvement with the Association. Includes reports, statistics, correspondence, incorporation-related records, and directors' reports.
Title based on contents of series.

British Columbia Provincial Police records.

Series consists of four bound volumes of documents originating from the British Columbia Provincial Police (specifically the New Westminster
headquarters):

  1. General orders #1-390, 1923-1950: Two ledgers of memorandums circulated to the various district headquarters of the BCPP announcing changes in procedure, law, and policy and announcing personnel changes such as promotions, dismissals, reassignments, and deaths in the force. An index exists for general orders 1 through 271, bound in volume 2.

  2. Nominal roll and seniority list, 1926-1950: One ledger of nominal rolls, giving names and registration numbers of police officers and other personnel, organized by divisions and districts. Also contains seniority lists, which lists the names and registration numbers of personnel in all districts organized by hierarchy. Updates were sent to the various districts periodically.

  3. War circulars, volumes 1-8, 1939-1946: One ledger of circulars issued during World War II, giving special changes to procedure or reporting on relevant changes in law or orders in council which would affect policing during the war. Issues include fire arms possession and registration, status of First Nations people in the forces, rationing and oil supplies, and the registration of “enemy aliens.”

British Columbia Provincial Police

British Columbia records

This series contains Oscar Orr’s correspondence with prominent members of British Columbia, including letters and invitations received by Orr and autographed clippings and notes. There are legal records from the early 1900s with the signatures of early BC Premiers and Ministers; Members of the Legislative Assembly and Members of Parliament; Mayors of Vancouver throughout the 1900s; the Lieutenant Governor and BC Attorneys General.

The series also contains correspondence from and autographs of members from the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP; Vancouver Sun reporters and columnists; BC lawyers and judges; Orr’s 29th Battalion comrades, sergeants and officers. Notably, the series contains the records or autographs of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mr. Aulay Macaulay Morrison; early Mayors of Vancouver Louis D. Taylor and G.G. McGeer; Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal, Gordon M. Sloan; and Hon. Howard Green.

Broadsides and chapbooks

Series mainly contains textual records pertaining to the broadsheets and chapbooks published by Lazara Press predominately in the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. These records include drafts of the broadsides or chapbooks, and, in many cases, the final print edition of these works. Other records includes correspondence, layouts, art, drafts, proofs, and receipts. The photographs included in this series are images featured in the published edition of the work associated with the photos.

Brymer Belcher records

Series consists of a document regarding the organisation of The Victoria Society, a society established in England to provide employment for impoverished women. The document lists Reverend Brymer Belcher, Edward
Belcher’s nephew, as President of the society.

Bulletin

Series consists of two duplicate copies of the C.D .C . newsletter, <i>Bulletin</i>, dated Nov. 1973. While the newsletter was issued periodically, series only contains these two copies of the first issue .

Bulletins.

Series contains bulletins created by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of news bulletins, a bulletin regarding the wages of employees in the sawmill industry, bulletins that report on the logs, scaling, exports, the markets, and a bulletin relating to the BCLMA, SMA and BCLM lumber associations.

Bulletins.

Series consists of bulletins that discuss several topics include shares on British Columbia Red Cedar Shingle Export Association, meeting reminders for Board of Director meetings and BCLMA meetings, and general correspondence.

Business and concert documents

Series consists of documentation related to concerts and business matters, including documents such as contracts and receipts for business expenses such as printing and photography; concert documents such as reviews, playbills and programs; and requests for songs sent to the sisters. Documents are arranged into files according to
the form of document and topic.

Business documents.

For his Foo Hung, Grandview Greenhouses and other businesses, Ron Bick Lee kept various business documents such as business ledger books, assigned cheques, invoices, catalogues and so on. Documents are arranged into files according to the topic of the documents.

Business, Personal, and Academic records

The Business, Personal, and Academic Records series contains materials related to Williams' business endeavors working as a town planning consultant, his tenure as a member of the board of VanCity Credit Union, and his academic work as both a student and a professor.

Records consist primarily of copies of reports and studies Williams created working as a town planner in British Columbia. Correspondence and handwritten notes are also featured throughout the series, along with course materials such as syllabi and assignments.

By the Sea: An Alphabet Book - Production, Publication

This series consists of materials related to the production and publication of By the Sea: An Alphabet Book, including correspondence, draft illustrations, and information regarding the sale of the original materials. In 1986 Blades received the Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Canadian picture book award for By the Sea for the "best illustrated Canadian picture book in 1985." The manuscript and illustrations were sold to the National Library (now Library and Archives Canada) in Ottawa in 1987, but photocopies of these materials are included.

By-laws and constitutions.

This series contains the by-laws and constitution of the British Columbia Loggers Association. The records include a by-law from 1926 and the 1949 amended by-law for the Association. The series also includes the Logger Association’s membership Act, the Benevolent Societies Act, Extraordinary Resolutions, and amendment to the Criminal Code with a particular attention to the theft of logs.

Campaign records

Series includes reports, advertisements, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to various regional educational campaigns, targeted at the public, which were carried out by the Stichting Greenpeace International Council. These campaigns are related various environmental issues, including, but not limited to the following: nuclear energy, environmental toxics, alternative sources of energy, atmospheric conditions, oceanic wildlife, extinction, and terrestrial ecology.

Canadian Association for Community Living

The Canadian Association for Community Living is an organization that supports people with intellectual disabilities and their families and promotes community inclusion for those with intellectual disabilities. They provide education, community outreach, support research, and political advocacy.

Series includes records created by the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), which was formerly known as the Canadian Association of Mental Retardation (CAMR).

The organization was originally known as Canadian Association for Retarded Children (began in 1958). The name was changed to CAMR in 1969 and again to CACL in 1985. The records in this series were created when the organization was either known as CAMR or CACL.

Records include conference proceedings, meeting minutes, publications by the organization and its provincial organizations, Jackie Maniago's participation in the COMSERV Experimental and Demonstration projects, newsletters, and press releases.

Canadian Authors' Association

Series consists primarily of correspondence, in addition to other documents related to the Canadian Authors' Association and Hood's various roles in its membership, including President of the Vancouver branch. Also included is a scrapbook containing photos, clippings, and printed materials related to the CAA.

The correspondence files include both incoming and outgoing, and are arranged chronologically.

Canadian Books for Children - production

This series contains materials related to the creation of a cover for Canadian Books for Children, including several drafts and commentaries on them, sketches, and a mock cover. A copy of the published book has been removed from the series and may be found in the main library catalogue.

Canadian Fishing Company

Series consists of administrative and financial records of the Canadian Fishing Company, including: correspondence with Head Office and various branches; store accounts; Worker’s Compensation Board records and incident reports; Unemployment Insurance records; agreements with the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union and the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, which agreements include sections pertaining to Chinese and women workers; accounts and budget records; records pertaining to the creation of the Western Trollers Co-operative Association; and Wartime Prices and Trade Board (WPTB) records concerning the mess hall operations of the various plants.

Canadian Fishing Company

Series consists of items from the Canadian Fishing Company, including administrative materials, technical drawings, photographs, and ephemera. The Canadian Fishing Company was established in 1905 in Vancouver to supply halibut to the New England Fish Company and other distributing companies. Canfisco began to can salmon in 1918 and this operation soon became its primary activity. In 1945 the Company became a major producer in the herring and pilchard industry through its acquisition of the Nootka-Banfield Company and its associated operations. As of 2014, the company is still a packer of canned salmon, and a national distributor of Gold Seal canned salmon and tuna, and other seafood products.

Canadian Forest Inventory Committee

Series consists of documents related to Bunce’s work on the Canadian Forest Inventory Committee (CFIC), of which he was a member for 30 years. CFIC is a national committee tasked with standardising and making recommendations regarding operational procedures, measurement standards, terminology, and data acquisition and handling in the forestry sector.

Materials in this series include correspondence, meeting minutes, other meeting documents, newsletters, and documents from the terminology and biodiversity sub-committees.

Canadian Forestry Service documents

Series consists of correspondence, memos, agreements, performance evaluations, and other documents related to Reed's role at Environment Canada as an Assistant Deputy Minister with the Canadian Forest(ry) Service, and the establishment of the federal Department of Forestry. Also included are (mostly photocopied) research materials, reports, and Reed's own written account of his involvement with the CFS.

Canadian Judicial Council subject files

Series consists of subject files, arranged alphabetically, related to the Canadian Judicial Council’s investigation of a complaint in 1981 concerning Mr. Justice T. R. Berger, including files pertaining to the complaint by Mr. Justice Addy, correspondence of Berger with Bora Laskin, President of the Council, and with Mark MacGuigan, Minister of Justice, letters of support for Berger, press clippings, and copies of the report of the Council and of Berger’s statement of resignation from the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1983.

Canadian Navy

Series consists of photographs and clippings in scrapbooks which relate to Grace Brodie's duties at various stations.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Series consists of records related to the operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which was incorporated in 1881. The Chung Collection contains a wealth of unique materials related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and details its extensive operations ranging from the construction of the transcontinental railway to the development of new divisions to the experiences of travellers on C.P.R. ships, trains, and planes. The records in this series include photographs, historical documents, books, maps, pamphlets, and artefacts, and include a number of very rare items such as Alfred Waddington's "Overland Route through British North America" (1868).

This series has been arranged into eight subseries: the Canadian Pacific Railway, C.P.R. Steamships, Travel and Tourism with the C.P.R., the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service, Artwork and images of the C.P.R., C.P.R. artefacts, Working for the C.P.R., and the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company.

Canadian provinces and politics

This series consists of correspondence Orr had with premiers of other provinces and mayors, as well as early 19th century records relating to the Canadian political landscape. There are records concerning the early Prime Ministers of Canada: John A. Macdonald, Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Sir Robert Laird Borden. Later records are documents of Orr’s with autographs of prominent MLAs and MPs, Canadian politicians and lawyers, businessmen, soldiers and officers.

Canning

Series contains records of the Canadian Fishing Company's multitude of canning operations. These records include correspondences, fish information, and canning techniques and technologies of the time.

Career

Series consists of records related to Narver’s three-decade career, including in his capacity as Anadromous Fisheries Coordinator, Acting Chief of Fisheries Management, and Director of the Fisheries Branch (alternately Director of the Recreational Fisheries Branch). Contents are primarily reports (research and administrative), correspondence, and transcripts of presentations and speeches. Reports include research findings, mostly concerning Steelhead Salmon, and planning and policy documents prepared by Narver and others for the Provincial and Federal governments. Minutes of Fisheries Branch meetings are also included. Correspondence is primarily with other researchers, though some from his time working for the Ministry of Environment are with members of the public concerning various Ministry initiatives. Some press coverage of the Carnation Creek research and rehabilitation project, which Narver headed, is included. Presentations and speeches by Narver generally concern Narver’s area of specialization, salmonid conservation and stream ecology, with a selection concerning recreational fishing. Speeches not by Narver cover a variety of subjects related to his professional area of expertise in some capacity. The series also contains materials related to Narver’s posting at the New Brunswick Federal Biological Station, where he was stationed in the early 1970s for professional development purposes, largely to increase his knowledge of Atlantic Salmon. New Brunswick records include photographs, research reports, and a personal notebook. Photographs are predominantly charts and graphs of research data, with a minority of personal photographs of unknown individuals, mostly at rivers or lakes outdoors.

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