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.