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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Coast Lumber & Fuel Company Limited (Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company Limited) records.

Series consists of records of the Coast Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited and its predecessor body, the Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited. Includes the Memorandum and Articles of Association for the Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited, as well as financial and insurance records for Coast Lumber and Fuel Company, Limited. Series has been divided into sub-series based on these records categories.

Colbeck Book Collection and Colbeck Librarian records

Series consists of correspondence, invoices, budgets, and other financial documents, written reference queries, order forms, planning notes, segments of edited drafts of "A Bookman’s Catalogue" and the inventory to Colbeck’s manuscript collection, transcriptions of items in the Colbeck manuscript collection, minutes of meetings, research files on authors represented in the Colbeck book and manuscript collections, and other records generated by various individuals in their capacity as librarian in charge of the Colbeck collections.
Title based on contents of series.

Collected Campaign and Labour Ephemera

Series consists of Johnson’s collection of campaign and labour relations ephemera from the 1960s through the 1980s. Materials also include documents related to the Socialist International Congress and the International Council of Social Democratic Women, both held in Vancouver, B.C. in 1978.
Records consist of campaign brochures, newspaper clippings, labour and politics pamphlets, campaign posters, name badges, matchbooks, a plastic canvasers kit, publications, policy documents, conference materials and the like.

Collected Items

Series consists of items collected by Stacey out of general or personal interest rather than for a specific project. Most reflect his interest in BC industry, especially fisheries. Materials include postcards, envelopes, prints, photographs, pamphlets, government publications, and fish product labels.

Collected papers

The series contains materials belonging to Ian McDonald’s father, Leslie (Les) McDonald, and other figures involved in IBEW Local 213. Materials relate predominantly to the activities of IBEW Local 213, though some papers also relate to Les McDonald’s involvement in various sports and community organizations, his writings and his personal correspondence.

Materials within the series include notebooks, postcards, letters, newsletters, newspaper articles and issues, legal documents and photographs. Relative to the ‘Thesis Research’ series, many more materials are original or copies made at the time the originals were created.

Collected Publications

Series is made up of published materials collected by Anna Banana. Series was collected between 1970 and 2019, from before Anna’s beginnings in the mail art network up until the donation of the fonds to UBC.

Many items were created out of mail art collaborations, while others were collected because of reference to Anna’s work, reference to the mail art network as a whole, because the creators were friends or colleagues of hers or because the items held personal interest. Banana loosely divided this series into a number of different categories, which were the basis of the subseries found here: Zines, Periodicals, Books, Exhibit Catalogs, and “Best Examples of how Mail Art Evolved.” Items which do not fit into these specific categories have been set aside into a subseries labeled “Ephemera”.

Collected written material

This series contains drafts of essays not written byTom McEwen. Included in the series are: “The Mine Workers’ Union of Canada and the Great Pass Strike of 1932” by Allen Seager; “Basic Highlights of the Labor History – Lakehead and Canada”, by A.T. Hill; and a computer printout of an untitled work that describes events related to the confrontations between CPC Party members and Toronto police during the late 20s and 30s. The printout is dated September 4, 1976 and contains editing notes throughout. It is not known who wrote this piece. Also contained in this series are political and union essays: “Some Notes of the AHT Indians” by Morris Swadesh, “Strengthen the Struggle Against the Right Danger! (Statement of the Political Committee, Communist Party of Canada)”, and a few other writings which do not have titles.

Lastly, there is a collection of poems by Jake Bell which date from 1960 – 1965.

Materials are all typed, single page, on legal and letter-sized paper.

Colonial documents of British Columbia

Series consists primarily of documents from the colonial era of British Columbia, including material related to early settlers on Vancouver Island, the Fraser River and Cariboo/Yukon gold rushes, and the courts. The bulk of the series consists of correspondence, but also includes commission, coroner’s inquisition, court calendar, deposition, jury list, last will and testament, prospectus, receipt, and subpoena.

Columbia River Lumber Company, Limited records.

Series consists of records of the Columbia River Lumber Company, Limited, dating from before and after its acquisition by the Canadian Western Lumber Company, Limited. Includes financial records, insurance records, personnel records, and timber and logging records. Series has been divided into sub-series based on these records categories, arranged alphabetically.

Columns

There are three columns included: “Crawford Kilian Education” column,
“Opinion”, and a column which was first titled “Good Reading” and changed to
“Books” in 1971. Subjects include education, social and cultural issues,
economics, politics, and the environment.

Committee on Canadian Labour History libel suit

Series contains material relating to a libel claim submitted against Jack Scott and individuals associated with the Committee on Canadian Labour History by members of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), Hardial Bains, Charles Boylan, Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell, and Brian Sproule. The series contains the writ of summons, statement of claim, statement of defense, correspondence to and from the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ attorneys, and memoranda or statements regarding the charges. The series also contains Jack Scott’s writings and research on the plaintiffs in the case, primarily Hardial Bains and Charles Boylan, including critiques of their writings and positions, copies of Bains’s and Boylan’s speeches and writings, extracts from newspaper and journal articles, library search results on Bains, and other related documents. The series also contains ephemera related to the plaintiffs, including a book of poetry by and biographical material about Charles Boylan’s wife, Sharon Stevenson, Consensus magazine, a conference program, Words newsletter, and a pamphlet on the CPC(M-L) published by concerned feminist trade unionists. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Committee records

This series reflects the activities and functions of various of the standing and ad hoc committees of the BC New Democratic Party. Committees were a regular part of NDP organizational structure, most often mimicking the structure of the Party Executive, with elected Chairs, Secretaries, Table Officers, representatives and liaisons from other committees and organizations, Members-at-large, and in some cases, a paid Organizer who could devote all of their energy to accomplishing the objectives of the committee. Committees regularly prepared reports on their activities for convention (and sometimes to Provincial Council, just as each committee's Organizer would prepare reports on their activities between meetings. Most standing committees would articulate a mandate, mission statement, or constitution, and would prepare resolutions to be voted on at Convention.

This series contains the records of various committees of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia, including: the Computer Committee, the Constitution & Party Affairs Commitee, Labour Liaison Committee, the Democrat Committee, the Young New Democrats (YND), the Revenue Generation Task Force, the Standing Committee on the Environment, and more. Further subseries contain records relating to the Women's Rights Committee, the Policy Review Committee, and the Multicultural Committee are also included. Items include: meeting minutes and agenda, memos and correspondence, financial documents, clippings, strategy and constitutional documents, resolutions, notes, and other related material.

Committee records

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, and other records relating to the activities of the Education, Executive, Membership, Newsletter, Planning & Workshop, and Public Relations committees of the Community Health Nurses’ Group.

Committee records

The following committees made annual reports to the BCHNPPG. Series consists of textual, graphic, and audio records generated by and related to the committees of the BCHNPPG. Committee reports may be attached to the executive minutes or be filed with their respective committees.

Series is arranged in the following subseries:

  1. Executive
  2. Archives
  3. Biographical
  4. Editorial Board
  5. Membership Information and Lists
  6. RNABC Memorial Book
  7. Memorial Nursing Portrait Collection
  8. Oral History
  9. Pages of History
  10. Scholarship
  11. Website
  12. Treasurer
  13. Advisory
  14. Program

Committee series

Series consists of agendas, briefs, correspondence, minutes, notes, and reports of various committees that Rosemary sat on or was a board member of and is arranged alphabetically per committee.

Committees.

Series contains records relating to committees in the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of lists of committees under the CRCSA, list of committee members, and the association’s by-laws, which list the duties and responsibilities of the committees.

Committees

Series consists of minutes, agendas, reports, and notes from the following committees and boards: Boiler and Pressure Valve Review Board ; Labour Policy Subcommittee; Oil/Chemical Industries Trade Advisory Committee ; Piping Trade Advisory Committee; Legislative and Research Committee, Pumphouse Committee and Safety Committee.

Committees

The series contains records pertaining to the AUCE Provincial and Local 1 and CUE committees. Record types include agendas, minutes, correspondence, newsletters and other material of the following committees: Provincial Affiliation Committee, Provincial Health and Safety Committee, and Local One Committees of: Working Conditions Committee, Communications Committee, Grievances Committee, Merger Committee, and Strike Committee, and CUE Communications committee.

Records found in the Strike and Contract Committee files document the contract negotiations undertaken by Local 1 of the A.U.C.E., some of which resulted in members striking while negotiations continued.

Health and Safety Committee records contain pertinent information to occupational safety legislation and workers' compensation.

Communications Committee records predominantly consist of newsletters of AUCE Local 1, including the Local 1 monthly newsletter, bulletins for special membership meetings, and, post- 1985, the CUE newsletter.

Grievances Committee records contain the records of union members who reported a grievance to the union.

While the AUCE began as an independent union, for several years it was debated whether to affiliate with a larger union, and which one. Various members opposed or supported these efforts, for different reasons, and the records of the Provincial Affiliation committee relate to these differences between independent and national/international unions.

In 1985 the A.U.C.E. Local 1 seceded from the AUCE provincial, and merged with the CUPE to become the CUPE Local 2950; this process is described in the Merger Committee records. The physical order in which all records were received has been maintained; original order has been re-constituted intellectually.

Committees

Records in this series were generated through the work of the major committees of the FMCBC including the Smoke Bluffs Committee, the Safety Committee, the Research Committee, the Adopt-A-Park Committee, the Trails Committee, and the Recreation and Conservation Committee. Of these, the latter two are most well represented in the series. Information about the Smoke Bluffs land parcel is also available in the Lands and Parks series. Major record types include meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, and brochures, though other records, such as news clippings, photographs, and maps are present in the series as well.

Committees

Series consists of documents related to the various committees of the Nursing Educational Council of British Columbia.

Series consists of the following subseries:

  1. Nursing Education Council Committee
  2. Executive Committee
  3. Diploma Articulation Committee
  4. College Wide Youth Training Option Committee
  5. Curriculum Committee
  6. Task Committee on Competency Base Curriculum
  7. Task Committee on Mandatory Registration
  8. Committee on Recruitment/Counseling
  9. Entry to Practice Steering Committee
  10. Post Basic Education Committee

Committees and associations

Series contains records from the Council of Forest Industries committees. Materials include minutes, agendas, reports, and recommendations made by various committees including the Transition committee, the Steering Committee, CHIP Export Advisory committee, Canada’s Forest Philosophy Roundtable and the Shingle and Shake Promotion Committee and alternates.

Committees and Councils

Series reflects the Maracle’s participation in various Aboriginal committees and councils, including the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee and the Minister’s Advisory Committee on Indian Education. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, proposals, and financial records.

Communications

Series consists of various communication records that provide information on the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), their activities, and insight into the Japanese Canadian community. The series has been arranged into two sub-series: Internal Communications and External Communications.

Communications and Strategy Work

Series consists of records related to Johnson’s communications and strategy work on numerous political campaigns from the 1960s through the 1980s, including Johnson’s service on the 1985-86 B.C. NDP Election Planning Committee.
Records consist of campaign brochures, bumper stickers, buttons, name badges, photographs, agendas, minutes, policy documents, newspaper clippings, drafts of speeches, press releases, correspondence, polling data and the like.

Johnson, Ron

Community activities

Series consists of records related to Jean and Bernard’s involvement in various community organizations, particularly local arts, history and Indigenous cultural regeneration in the Okanagan.

Records relate to Jean’s leading role in the Okanagan Mainline Regional Arts Council and other regional arts councils, and their festivals, projects and arts advocacy. Records relate to Bernard and Jean’s involvement with the Okanagan Historical Society: Jean as editor of its annual report (1982-1988) and Bernard as president (1982-1991). Records relate to Jean’s involvement in University Women’s Clubs and Bernard’s roles with the Okanagan Summer School for the Arts and the Festival Concert Society. Records relate to Jean’s writing on local history, including Indigenous history as editor of Okanagan Sources.

Records in the series reflect the development of cultural policy in B.C., the linkages developed among arts and culture organizations through festivals and traveling exhibits, the expansion of provincial and federal cultural policy during the 1970s, and Indigenous artistic and cultural creation and the need to include Indigenous understandings of history in the evolution of the historiography of B.C.

The series includes business correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, research notes and drafts, articles, biographies, and related materials.

Community and political activity

This series consists of records that were created and received predominantly after the late 1970s that reflect Lee’s involvement with the Social Credit and Conservative parties of Canada as well as her work to organize as part of the Chinese Canadian community in Vancouver.
Records in this series include ephemera collected by Lee from events that she was invited to and attended as a result of her political and community involvement; correspondence between Lee and the politicians that she volunteered for and lobbied; meeting minutes and correspondence from her work with the Vancouver Chinese Canadian Activity Centre and its subsidiary groups, the Chishaun Housing Society and Plum Blossom Childcare Society; and several awards and certificates of recognition that Lee received for her contributions.

Community and political involvement documents.

Ron Bick Lee was an active and committed community leader. He collected documents related to his community involvement with various organizations including Vancouver Chinese Public School, Lee’s Associations, Chinese Merchants Association and so on. Bick Lee was also an active member of the Kuomintang Party in Vancouver. He was appointed as a delegate and a leader of the local Kuomintang Party several times. Documents are arranged into files according to the topic of the documents.

Community Development

Series consists of records that demonstrate the National Association of Japanese Canadian’s (NAJC's) actions at developing a strong Japanese identity in Canada predominately after the signing of the Redress Settlement in 1988, as well as developing relationships with other non-Japanese Canadian groups in Canada. Records in this series relate to the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation (JCRF), the administration and development of funds and awards, scholarships, education programs and curriculums, special projects, forums, and workshops. This includes application forms, proposals, grant requests, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) reports and minutes of the JCRF, other reports, pamphlets, booklets, correspondence, contracts, and other records related to the NAJC’s intent on developing community relations. The series may also include some financial information, especially in terms of fundraising and budget allocation, within reports, minutes, and correspondence records found in this series.

Community law

This series contains records from Ian Waddell's early career in Vancouver. Files include his time as the Legal Director for the Community Legal Assistance Society (a non-profit storefront law office located in Vancouver's east side that's generally believed to be the first community law office in the province) and participation with the Legal Services Commission and Consumer Action League, which also championed community and low-income access to legal support.

Records related to Waddell's involvement with the Alcohol and Drug Commission, which worked provincially to propose policies for regulation and treatment, and the Family Law Commission (specifically, a working group looking into a unified family court) are the majority of this series.

Files for related interests are also in the series. Records include correspondence, reports, newsletters, conference proceedings, research, speeches and lectures, press clippings, legislation, notes, minutes and agendas.

Community Living Coalition

The Community Living Coalition (CLC) was a group of people and organizations who supported individualized funding for people with intellectual disabilities. The group gathered together as an advocacy body to work with the B.C. provincial government to address cutbacks in community living services and support, develop new governance structures for community living, and promote individualized funding.

Series includes meeting minutes, reports, news releases, and correspondence created from the activities of the CLC and Jackie Maniago's participation in the CLC.

Community Living Society

The Community Living Society (CLS) was created by parents from the Woodlands Parents' Group in 1978. The purpose of the society was to provide support and services for Woodlands residents who were transitioning to community living, but has expanded its services to serve all those with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries. They provide personalized, flexible home and community opportunities, respecting the uniqueness of the person with a disability, families and networks.

Series includes records from the Community Living Society and its predecessor, the Community Living Board. Records include meeting minutes and agendas; reports, proposals, and projects authored and led by the Community Living Society; newsletters; correspondence; interviews; speeches; and the documentary, Breaking Through.

Compact Disc

Consists of one CD titled “Fullwrite Folder”-Crawford Kilian’s Electronic Files:
Books, Articles, Etc

Complaints and inquiries.

Series contains complaints and inquiries made to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of inquiries and complaints regarding the selling of British Columbia timber, information request about B.C. Lumber and Shingles from European countries, the Australian Tariff Board Enquiry lists of soft and hard wood varieties in British Columbia, and instructional booklets on a variety of different forestry related topics.

Conferences.

Series contains conference and convention documents relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of a submission to the British Columbia Round Table on the Economy and Environment from COFI and notes from a conference call regarding Meech Lake.

Conferences

Series consists of registration, booking, financial, and promotional records pertaining to C.D.C. participation in and co-sponsorship of various conferences on contemporary affairs in Chile. Records reflect C.D.C. relations with co-sponsoring bodies, including Amnesty International, the Fraser Valley Peace Committee, the MacKenzie Papineau Battalion Veterans, the Communist Party of Canada, and several labour unions, among others. Contents include invitations to participate, speaker notes, participant notes, itineraries, and travel and other financial records related to participation.

Conferences

Includes summaries of motions introduced and carried for the international arm of the W.I.L.P.F., conference discussion topics, abridged transcriptions of conference special speakers, and published newsletters relating to special conferences.

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