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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Promotion and distribution

Series contains textual records related to the promotion and/or distribution of Lazara Press publications. The records include flyers, order forms, correspondence, catalogues, media contacts, mailing lists, advertising rates, layouts, and documentation related to Poetry in Transit.

Projects: refused and funded

This series contains records relating to the selection and administration of funding for projects supported by the Boag Foundation. Material primarily includes application documents, inquires and correspondence.

Projects and Protests

Series includes records generated from planning and putting into action protests against militarization, such as the protest launched by the Committee Against Scientific Warfare; and also planned human-rights driven projects, such as a letter-writing campaign coordinated with Amnesty International and coordinating the Freedom from Hunger Campaign with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.

Projects and lobbying activities

The series contains records related to the projects and lobbying activities undertaken by Vancouver Status of Women (VSW) in BC from the early 1970s to 2015. Significant projects completed during this period include the publication of Kinesis, which was released ten times a year from 1974-2001, the Single Mother’s Resource Guide, which was released every two years beginning in 1991, reports on a range of topics, and the production of anti-gender role stereotyping kits for daycare and preschool workers. In addition, VSW offered a range of services to women, including research assistance, information gathering and dissemination, a library, a lawyer referral service, counselling referrals, community information and women’s movement referrals, endorsements and support letters, and advocacy on behalf of individuals. The organization put on a number of events: training on public speaking, assertiveness, financial management, and advocacy/organizing; workshops on useful tools for single mothers; panels and lectures; picnics; and annual parties. VSW also lobbied its municipal, provincial, and federal governments and other organizations about issues affecting women in Canada, encompassing such diverse topics as welfare, family law, sexual assault, and housing.

The physical order in which all records were received has been maintained; original order has been re-constituted intellectually. Record types in the series include the following: VSW briefs, press releases, submissions to governments, and research reports; correspondence with members of the public, members of governments, and other women centers; songs, stories, and photographs for anti-gender role stereotyping kits; copies of the Single Mother’s Resource Guide; Kinesis back issue indexes, editorial board correspondence, events' brochures and posters, reader surveys, volunteer training kits, and volunteer applications.

Projects.

Series contains special projects conducted by the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material contains photographs of the re-shingling of the Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent’s home on Sussex drive in Ottawa and includes correspondence on the progress of the project and background information. Also included are correspondence, letters, reports relating to the use and the promotion of the Colt shingles by W.H. Colt Limited, correspondence with the Handsplit Mill Museum, information concerning the Los Angeles fires and their relationship to shingles, correspondence and inquiries into the re-roofing of St. Peter’s Church in England with B.C. shingles.

Projects.

Series contains of records related to different projects undertaken by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of correspondence requesting films about the forestry and lumber industry, a discussion of caption for a forestry related film, an extract from an article on Fire Proofing Wood, correspondence requesting information on the preservative treatment of timber, and a request for a speaker to present his knowledge of wood chemistry.

Projects

This series contains records relating to the projects undertaken and supported by the Boag Foundation. Projects include assistance in publication for authors, workshops and school programs and some initial records relating to the Social Calendar.

Project records.

Series documents project activities by region including interactions between TRAS and the persons involved with projects they supported. The series is organized into four sub-series as follows: North India Projects (1964-1986); South India Projects (1968-1988); Indo-Chinese Refugees (1979-1982); and other project records (1977-1997).

Project files.

Series consists of project files related including material related to shingle and shake promotion project the Brügman BAU Exhibition in Germany. Records include correspondence, pamphlets, and brochures on shingles and shakes in Germany.
Photographs are of the Brügman exhibition stand at fair BAU in Munich. The exhibition stand is roughly 400 square meters. The fairs dominant feature was its Shingle and Shakes. Another photograph is of Mr. Ravens –British Columbia’s housing minister –standing before a totem pole.

Progressive Workers’ Movement

Series contains material relating to the administration of the Progressive Workers’ Movement (PWM) of which Jack Scott was a founding member, as well as to events leading up to the founding of the PWM, PWM’s eventual break with the Toronto section of the party, and Scott’s expulsion from the New Democratic Party (NDP). The series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence related to subscriptions and fulfillments, as well as other party business and personal correspondence to Scott. Correspondents include Jack Scott, Jerry LeBourdais, Joe Hendsbee, Al Birnie, Norman Endicott, Cliff Gunter, Ernest Hall, Roger Perkins, and various circulation managers. The series also contains PWM ephemera and publications; collected material and ephemera from other communist, socialist, and leftist organizations; drafts and notes, possibly of writings for the PWM’s journal; photographs and newspaper clippings, primarily related to the creation of the PWM, and profiles of Scott. The series also includes PWM internal and public documents, such as position papers and opinion pieces, statements, text of speeches, proposals and responses, constitution drafts, mailing lists and contact cards, lists of tasks and priorities, reports, conference documents, policies, minutes and agendas, and other documents.

Programs and Projects

Series reflects the Maracle’s involvement and interest in several Aboriginal programs and projects, such as the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium Centennial and Maritime Museum: Indian Heritage Project. Records include newsletters, proposals, flyers, application forms and publications.

Programs and Projects

The series contains records related to specific programs and projects launched by the Positive Women's Network from the mid 1990’s to 2017. The series is divided into sub-series based on the specific program or project. Across all sub-series, record types include project work plans, timelines, correspondence, budgets and cash flow, project reports, including financial, progress, narrative, and evaluative reports, and applications and contracts for program and project-specific funding.The series contains the following subseries:

-Women’s initiatives for support and education (WISE)
-Women & AIDS virtual education (WAVE)
-Healthcare provider and physician education (HPEP)
-Pocket guide for HIV+ Women
-Positive Players project

Programs

Series consists of records relating to the programs that the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia (IABC) has implemented during its existence, notably its language learning program, and oral history and community biography collection program. Records related to IABC programming include: correspondence; language learning material; obituaries; personal and family histories; historical typesetting story notebooks; ephemera and newspaper clippings; and audio cassettes containing the biographies and stories of community members.

Programming

Series encompasses YWCA Metro Vancouver’s programming for YWCA members and YWCA program participants. Activities represented include the planning, promotion, operation, documentation, and evaluation of programs.

Records consist of programs, reports, brochures, photographs, meeting minutes, and other material arising from the management of YWCA programs.

Series is arranged in three subseries: 1. Fitness and adult education; 2. YaWaCa; and 3. General programming.

Program and policy - CCF

Series consists ofpamphlets, reports, and other textual material outlining the program and policies of the Co-operative Commonwealth Association, both provincially and nationally . Includes a memorandum on CCF agricultural policy, 1943, and a 1941 campaign brochure for Shepherd outlining the CCF program.

Professional Documents and Other Materials

Records consist primarily of building permit applications, newspaper clippings, awards, diplomas, certificates of membership in professional organizations and posters of various lecture series in which Cardew participated. The series also includes records related to the operation of Cardew’s firm, Peter Cardew Architects, such as account ledgers, stamps, an embossing machine, the firm profile and an exhibition catalog for his best known exhibit Peter Cardew, Ordinary Buildings.

Professional correspondence

This series contains a variety of Blades' professional correspondence, from the publication of her first book to recent correspondence with other authors. General categories of correspondence include letters to and from publishers, agents, and other authors, letters to various funding and granting agencies, and letters discussing her interest in or lack of time for various illustration and presentation jobs.

File 19-03-04 is particularly notable for her correspondence with other authors.

Professional Career

Series consists of correspondence pertaining to Richmond’s role as Director of Educational Resources at the RJH and to her consulting work for the University of Victoria's nursing program; a copy of her curriculum vitae; teaching materials developed while serving as assistant professor at McGill University; and photocopies of plaques received.

Professional Associations

Series consists of documents related to Bunce’s involvement with several professional associations, including the Forest History Association of BC, the Association of BC Professional Foresters, and the British Columbia Forestry Association.

Professional and Personal Records

The series contains records related to the business aspects (financial and administrative) of Simons’ professional career as writer and records from her personal life. Records have been maintained in one series because of their physical indivisibility. Professional records range in date from the early 1970s to 2012; personal records span the mid-1950s to 2012.

Simons’ professional activities fall into the following categories: financial administration, primarily grant applications and the receipt of publication royalties; publication and production administration, which involved the negotiation and signing of publishing contracts and play distribution and production; submissions, which included sending drafts of various literary works and curriculum vitaes to a range of potential producers and publishers; promotion, often giving readings at various events, serving as artist in residence at the University of Lethbridge in 1984, managing the production and distribution of a videotape version of Crabdance (c. 1977, Access Alberta), participating in interviews with members of the press, and corresponding with academics; and service, especially in the form of mentoring younger writers, and, on occasion, adjudicating writing or grant competitions. Simons’ personal records include correspondence with friends and family and records pertaining to her divorce (1984-1991).

The archivist maintained the physical order in which records in this series were received. Some files are arranged in chronological order, while others, particularly subject files, have no discernible order. Record types in the series include the following: grant applications and follow-up reports; royalty reports from Talonbooks; letters accompanying manuscript submissions; acceptance and rejection letters; correspondence regarding permissions, publication, and productions; endorsements and comments on Simons’ publications from various academics, producers, publishers, and writers; academic treatments of Simons’ work, particularly master’s theses by Gyllian Raby (1982) and Amanda Lockitch (2005) and an issue of Canadian Theatre Review (1976) devoted to Simons’ dramatic works; drafts of Simons’ curriculum vitae; copies of Simons’ colleagues’ and mentees’ works; texts of remarks delivered at promotional readings; newspaper clippings, likely used for background research; professional headshots of Simons; divorce affidavits; personal correspondence, both handwritten and in email form; recordings on cassette tape and VHS cassettes of lectures and readings given by Simons; and a seven inch 33 1/3 LP record bearing recordings of sound poetry from The Capilano Review.

Professional activity records

Series includes newspaper articles and lecture notes written by Milroy on the subjects of letterpress printing and the book in the digital age, as well as photographs and a negative strip.

Production and Distribution

This series contains records relating to the Women in Focus Society’s efforts to produce and distribute feminist video and film. Production records include: meeting minutes, documents, and information relating to the production committee; subject files relating to various individual productions; and publicity for WIF productions, including pamphlets, leaflets, and newspaper and magazine clippings of advertisements and reviews.

Distribution records include: monthly and yearly distribution statistics; Women in Focus film catalogues, catalogue updates, and inventory lists; shipping records; and distribution correspondences. Distribution records also contain research and information about films that Women in Focus sought to distribute, including: newspaper clippings of reviews; catalogues of other organizations; artist profiles including producers and directors; distribution questionnaires; and correspondences with feminist film distributors from other countries.

Production

Series contains materials related to the two-year production phase of the creation of the film Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (entitled “Taking Health to the Streets” during production).

Materials include included printed annotated transcripts, a printed teaching manual, a domestic stereo mix, edited versions of footage, final copies of the interactive DVD and teaching manual, and CDs containing French translations of the teaching manual.

Prior v. Revenue Canada

Series consists of clippings, legal documents, pamphlets and case law related to the Dr. Jerrilyn Prior’s case, heard in the Federal Court of Appeal in 1989, regarding the refusal to pay taxes toward military expenditures based on freedom of conscience and religion.

Prints, negatives, and transparencies

Series consists of negatives, prints, and transparencies of Dorse’s images, featuring scenes from around British Columbia. Material is arranged in folders that maintain their original grouping, order, and labeling. It is not clear if this grouping was that of Dorse or Mr. Lanz. Most folders are identified by the place shown in the images.

Items have been removed from their original envelopes and re-housed for preservation purposes. Any information that was on the original envelopes is included in the file descriptions.

Printmaking research files

Series consists of research compiled by Patricia about printmaking, used for exhibitions and writing. Material includes research notes and correspondence related to printmaking in general, specific types of printmaking, printmaking in Canada, and printmaking internationally. Additional material related to printmaking, but connected to specific projects, can be found throughout the fonds.

Printed work

This series contains printed work. The majority of the material is the work of Robert Reid and includes business stationery and cards, certificates, greeting cards, posters and pamphlets. Material was printed under a number of pressed that employed Reid and under the presses owned and operated by Reid.

Also present in this series is the printed work of other publishers, designers and printers. Often, the creators of these works are unspecified.

Printed Materials, Works By Lowry

Series consists of published works by Lowry organized by publication date. Contents include: juvenilia, published primarily in the Leys Public School's journal, the Leys Fortnightly, poetry and short stories published in anthologies, and poetry and short stories published in magazines and journals, during Lowry's lifetime and posthumously. Posthumous publications were predominantly the result of submissions and requests made by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry to various magazines and journals, though in many cases Lowry's work was sought out for publication in anthologies and collections of poetry and short stories, and for spotlight features about Lowry (see the Earle Birney Papers sous-fonds for correspondence about some posthumous publication of Lowry's writing).

Printed Materials, Works About Lowry

Series consists of published materials about Lowry and his works, organized by medium and, within medium, chronologically. Contents include: reviews, in various languages, of Lowry's works and collections of selected letters and poetry published posthumously, academic articles and papers about Lowry's works, including some presented at the 1987 Lowry Symposium and 1997 Lowry Conference, newspaper and magazine clippings, and excerpts from Lowry biographies. Series is predominantly scholarship and criticism with a secondary focus on biographical works. The collection of newspaper clippings is comprehensive, but source publications and dates are often unclear.

Series also includes several reels of audio recordings, predominantly interviews with Lowry’s friends and Lowry scholars.

Printed materials series.

This series contains secondary material collected by Butler. It is made up of clippings of articles either by or about Haig-Brown or his works.

Printed materials: pamphlets and broadsides.

This series consists of pamphlets, brochures, cartoon fliers and mass addressed letters relating to the charges against George Gee, his dismissal from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.), and the public reaction to the events.

Printed Materials

Series contains flyers, pamphlets and newsletters produced by the W.I.L.P.F. Most of the publications were created by the Vancouver branch, but others were produced in other Canadian cities and also Geneva, Switzerland. The series also contains copies of, and source material for the quarterly newsletter Peace Lines from 1991 to 2002, and then 2005 to 2012.

Printed materials

Series is divided into two sub-series: Magazines featuring Lansdowne’s artwork and Newspaper and magazine clippings. Records include copies of magazines in which Lansdowne’s artwork is featured, along with newspaper and magazine clippings featuring articles about Lansdowne’s life and career. Also included are a small number of photographs.

Printed materials.

Series contains various printed materials generated or acquired by the LHA. All of the materials in the series were published by the LHA, with the exception of a single issue of <i>The History and Social Science Teacher</i>.

Printed materials

Series consists of a collection of periodicals, mainly of fantasy and science fiction. Most periodicals include only one or two issues of that periodical . In addition, the series includes science fiction convention programs, a newspaper, magazines, science fiction convention programs, and book covers.

Printed Materials

Series consists of the printed materials and other publications of the Technocracy Movement, including article reprints, notes, digests, information briefs, pamphlets, booklets and posters.

Two copies of the Technocracy Study Course book, 1938 and 1945 editions are located in Box 1.

Printed Material, Audiovisual Materials and Miscellaneous

Series consists of various publications, other printed materials, audiovisual materials and miscellaneous objects and ephemera either created or collected by Leonard and Kitty, or their daughter Aiyyana Maracle. Records include books, booklets, magazines, magazine clippings, pamphlets, newspapers, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs and negatives, birthday cards, personal correspondence (including a letter to Kitty from Margaret Trudeau dated 1975), postcards, calendars, notebooks, a scrapbook, and audio recordings on magnetic tapes. Ephemeral and miscellaneous materials include a bumper sticker, a souvenir coin and scrap bits of paper, in addition to unidentifiable materials.

Printed Material series

Series consist of articles written about Rosemary Brown and articles that Rosemary had published in the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, numerous other publications including radio spots on CKWX; as well as, publisher correspondence and agreements. The series also consists of correspondence, publicity and other material pertaining to the National Film Board documentary, “No Way! Not Me” that featured Rosemary; and in addition the script and shooting schedule for the film documentary, “Women in Politics”. This series contains two sub-series: Being Brown: Autobiography and African Canadians.

Printed material series

Series consists of 10 copies of a half-yearly journals published by Gee How Oak Tin Association, Vancouver, from 1973-1983, 1 special commemorative edition by Wo Chock On Fong in 1980, 3 Chinese year books of B.C. Mainland from 1968-1972, and other material relating to the Chinese community in B.C.

Printed Material Re Lowry

Series consists of articles about Lowry’s life and works. Articles from Les Lettres Nouvelles cover Under the Volcano, October Ferry to Gabriola, and Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, and an announcement about a film on Lowry. Other articles range in topics, including Lowry’s time as a crewman on the S.S. Pyrrhus in 1927.

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