Series consists of technical reports authored by George Volkoff and others. Although most of the reports are unpublished, some were originally “classified” and are about various aspects of experimental and theoretical work done at the Montreal Laboratories for the Manhattan Project during and after World War II. There is also one report to the Canadian Association of Physicists co-written by Volkoff. Files are arranged in chronological order.

Series consists of records documenting the history of the Volkov/Vokkoff family and includes correspondence, a cloth mail-bag which once held much of the correspondence, official documents such as passports and marriage certificates, hand-written accounts of family history by Mikhail Mikhailovich Volkoff, transcriptions of correspondence and family history manuscripts translated into English from the original Russian, and digital copies of these transcriptions stored on CDs. Files are arranged in chronological order. Many manuscripts, correspondence, and official documents are written in Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). Some official documents originating from Harbin, Manchuria, are written in Chinese. Some manuscripts are hand-bound.

Sub-series consists of written work by Schlesinger, in the form of clippings, periodicals, website printouts, and manuscripts.
Includes a print-out copy of Schlesinger’s Globe & Mail obituary for his wife, Myra Eileen (Mike) Schlesinger.

Series consists of materials documenting the publication and promotion of Schlesinger’s memoir Time Zones: A Journalist in the World, and includes correspondence, clippings, itineraries and brochures for Schlesinger’s promotional tour in support of his book. Files are maintained in chronological order.

Series consists of materials documenting Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project and Schlesinger’s involvement in documenting and publicizing the Kindertransport many years later. Winton’s efforts rescued hundreds of Jewish children from European countries under occupation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and 1939 – Joe Schlesinger was one of them, and his name is on the list in File 9-7. Materials include scripts and transcripts for the documentaries Nicholas Winton: The power of good and Nicky’s Children, correspondence, copies of published articles about Winton and the Kindertransport, and related items. Files are maintained in chronological order.

Series consists of photographic prints documenting Schlesinger’s life, career, and travels. Some photographs were taken by Schlesinger, but most were taken by others and show Schlesinger either on foreign assignment or at other events.

Series consists of digital media (3½” floppy disks, CDs, CD-Rs and DVDs) containing items documenting Schlesinger’s life and work, including TV scripts, interview transcripts, typed manuscripts, photographs, and digital video recordings. Various formats, including generic file formats, Word Perfect 5.0, doc (97-2003), tif, jpg, mp3, MPEG, and pdf, are present. In addition, an item inventory is available for each floppy disc and optical disc. Please ask UBC Archives staff for more details.

This fonds is arranged into three series that track Symonds' various roles as an urban planning professional. The Urban Education/Teacher in the City series contains records created or received by Symonds while she served in the Continuing Education department at UBC, including her seminal effort to publish The Teacher and the City. The second series, Commissions and Committee Work, details Symonds' service on the Vancouver City Planning Commission and other planning-related committees she chaired or participated in for both the local B.C. context and internationally. The final series, Planning Publications, Speeches, and Writings, focuses on writings or pieces created by Symonds or publications she set aside for her purposes. These date from the early beginnings of her urban planning career in the 1950s to well after her retirement in 1983. The records included in the fonds are correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, journal articles, newspaper clippings, brochures, memoranda, reports and invitations.

Records in this series relate to Symonds role as the Director Urban Affairs Programs, Continuing Education at UBC in addition to her editing work on the Teacher and the City book. Multiple drafts of the book are included in addition to reports on the book’s progress and correspondence between Symonds and her publisher Methuen.

Fonds consists of records documenting the administration of TRIUMF and includes Board of Management minutes and meeting dockets, committee minutes, and reports. Also included are reports and published proposals documenting the origins and ongoing development of TRIUMF. The records are arranged in the following series: Board of Management, Finance Committee, Audit Committee, and Reports.

Series consists of records documenting the symposium “Linking Sustainability to Aesthetics: Do people prefer sustainable landscapes?” sponsored by UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), and the resulting book Forests and Landscapes: Linking ecology, sustainability and aesthetics, which was supported by a significant thematic grant from the PWIAS. Materials include correspondence, written notes, brochures and other promotional materials, and grant proposals. Also included are typescript drafts of the articles, with peer-review comments from the symposium that were collected and published in the book. The series is arranged into two sub-series: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Articles for Publication.

Series consists of textual and photographic records documenting the work of Sheppard and others with CALP in relating environmental and aesthetic concerns in public perceptions of forestry and forest management, focusing on Weyerhaeuser's cutting practices, including variable selection logging and other selective logging methods. Records include published studies, reports, correspondence, related textual materials, and slides showing aerial and landscape views illustrating forestry practices and environmental aesthetics used in public presentations.

Series consists of textual, photographic, digital, and audiovisual records documenting research in forest and landscape management, both within and outside CALP’s programmes, in Metro Vancouver, Squamish, North Cowichan, and other locations. Materials include reports, published sources, data, correspondence, photographic slides, digital data on CDs, and a DVD recording of a CBC TV interview with Stephen Sheppard on climate change in Delta. The series is arranged into five sub-series: CALP UBC research publications, Local UBC studies, North Cowichan Community Forest, Clayoquot Reference Materials, and General.
The Clayoquot Reference Materials sub-series was not created by Dr. Sheppard but was included with his papers and has been retained for reference and research purposes.

Fonds consists of records documenting a review of the Department of Philosophy in 1988 and the Department’s response to that review, and the development of a five-year plan for the Department (1989-90).

Series consists of 900 35-mm negative strips. These images document a wide variety of important people, events and activities at the University of British Columbia between 1980 and 1991. The photographs were created by Information Services and Community Relations and were transferred to the University Archives by the Public Affairs Office in April 1998. Please see box 3 for digital-born photographs on optical discs.

Series consists of video and audio recordings of events on campus both in Vancouver and Okanagan, including copies of media clips, promotional videos, and stock footage.

The fonds consists of notes, manuscripts, drafts, galleys, and correspondence relating to McWhirter's published and unpublished novels, short stories, poetry, and radio plays. It also includes biographical and autobiographical information, non-fiction manuscripts, book reviews, material regarding McWhirter's editorship of "Words from Inside", translation records, teaching material, records relating to his time as Head of the Creative Writing Department and other personal and professional correspondence.

Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, artifacts, publications, legal documents, notes, transcripts of lectures and broadcasts, examinations, certificates, and other miscellaneous items. Most of the material was created and collected by Sedgewick himself and a small amount was collected by friends including Robert apRoberts after Sedgewick's death.

The series includes examinations, lecture notes, and manuscripts from Sedgewick's academic and teaching career.

The records document Chambers' activities in three research projects that all attempt to reconcile the disputes between preservation and development interests in resource management. The first project is documented extensively. The last two projects offer only a glimpse into the response of the Nazko-Kluskus First Nations to the issues raised in the Purcell study. These papers offer valuable evidence of the continuing conflict surrounding resource management and First Nations land rights in B.C. and Chambers's role in attempting to find a resolution. There are three series of records that correspond to these three projects. Because the original order has been lost, it has been reconstructed with reference to the functions and activities of each project. Files within each series have been arranged in chronological order. Undated documents have been placed at the back of each file.

Series consists of correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings and reference reports about Chamber's role as Special Assistant to the Ministry of Forests in the 1977-78 investigation into the conflict between logging interests and the Nazko-Kluskus First Nation.

The series consists of records relating to teacher education in British Columbia, the early history of the UBC Faculty of Education, and teacher education in general. The materials include correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, and written speeches by Johnson.
The material relating to B.C. education has been arranged by form and filed chronologically, following Johnson's filing system to a great extent.

Fonds includes correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, photographs, drafts of Johns' unfinished autobiography and related papers, and manuscripts of a considerable number of her articles and speeches the majority of which were published. Among the letters here included are those which Johns wrote to Eileen C. Flanagan during the period 1949-1967, and which the latter has donated.

Series consists of drafts and outlines of manuscripts, certificates, diplomas, curriculum vitae, addresses, published articles, correspondence, handwritten and typed excerpts, interviews, and notes pertaining to various manuscripts written by Johns. Series contains three subseries: Autobiography, Personal Papers, Articles and Speeches, and History of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing subseries.

Series consists of manuscripts and associated research material arising from Johns' A Study of the Present Status of the N-gro Woman in Nursing (1925).

The series consists of drafts and manuscripts of Rule's published novels and collected short stories. The material is arranged by the title of the publication.

Sub-series consists of professional, business, and personal correspondence addressed to Jane Rule. It includes correspondence and some manuscript material from writers (both professional and aspiring) and correspondence from other artists, publishers, organizations (professional and political), and fans. Files also contain greeting cards, postcards, and clippings. Files are arranged primarily alphabetically by correspondent. The writers and other artists represented are Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Earle Birney, June Callwood, Anne Cameron, Donna Deitch, Timothy Findley, John Koerner, Mary Miegs, Kate Millett, Almeta Speaks, Aritha Van Herk, Eleanor Wachtel, and David Watmough.

Series consists of miscellaneous material such as notes, letters, calendars, catalogues, etc.

The series consists of audio recordings of Rule's stories, reviews, conversations and interviews. Cassettes are located in the Archives vault; please ask archives staff about access.

The series consists of undated handwritten notes and printed material about Turnbull's classes at UBC.

Series consists of correspondence between Maillard and other writers, arranged by individual or organization, fan mail, and personal mail.

Series consists of publications (mainly "underground" newspapers), manuscripts, notes, and audio recordings of Maillard's radio show The Underground News on WBUR Boston University Radio. Material is arranged in four sub-series: Underground Writings, Reference, Correspondence, and Audio Recordings.

Series consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and notes regarding a proposed book by Maillard: a series of critical biographies of British Columbia authors who write in the style of "magic realism."

Series consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and materials related to the book and general publicity. It also contains general personal files. Material arranged in two sub-series: Files, Audio Recordings, and Video Recordings

The series consists of ephemera of Keith’s father, Eugene C. Maillard. It includes correspondence, audio recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, society memberships, financial records, the final will, and other personal information. Information from this series was used to create Keith’s memoir Fatherless. Material arranged in two sub-series: Files, Photographs and Audio Recordings.

Series consists of minutes on the Annual General Meetings of the Faculty Club.

Series consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence about the various Faculty Club committees. The series contains four subseries: Finance Committee, House Committee, Membership Committee, and Other Committees (Ad Hoc) subseries.

Series consists of correspondence relating to special events in which the Faculty Club was involved.

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings relating to the activities and programs of the Department of Psychology, and photographs of Department Heads and prominent faculty members. Some records date from before the formation of the Department, when the psychology program was still part of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. Also included are audio recordings of interviews (with typed transcripts) documenting the Department's historical development.
The material is arranged in six series: Administration, Departmental Committees, Departmental Programs, External Correspondence, Historical Files, and Oral History Project. The Historical Files series consists of textual records which document the Department's formative years, and photographs; they had been placed in a box and stored separately from the Department's other records until transferred to the Archives.

Series consists of photographs portraying various Professors and Department Heads within the Department of Psychology.

Interviewees discuss their careers and relationship with the Department of Psychology including its development.

Series consists of minutes and agendas from departmental and committee meetings, arranged into two sub-series.

Series consists of correspondence about the Association's relations with the AMS, the Western Canada Intercollegiate Athletic Union (WCIAU), other University athletic clubs, and other bodies. Includes financial records and some minutes.

Series consists of correspondence about the receipt of awards by University athletes.

Series consists of the constitution and bylaws of the Musical Society and lists of executive members.

These sound recordings are radio advertisements produced to promote UBC Musical Society productions "Can can," "Hello Dolly," "No, no Nanette," "Word with music" and"Good news".

Series consists of correspondence and reports concerning persons and institutions with which Dr. Larkin was in regular contact but did not necessarily directly relate to his work. Includes material on the "Kemano Completion" project and the Royal Society of Canada and correspondence with H.R. MacMillan.

Series consists of lecture notes, newspaper clippings, CVs, and correspondence of a personal nature to Dr. Larkin. Included is a notebook containing notes for his Oxford D.Phil. thesis on moles, and letters of congratulation on his appointment as a University Professor.

Subseries consists of scrapbooks containing photographs and newspaper clippings documenting the early history of the Institute.

Series consists of correspondence and reports relating to the Rawson Academy of Aquatic Science and Dr. Larkin's involvement with it.