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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections British Columbia Fonds Communications
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Anti-Apartheid Network fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1867
  • Fonds
  • [1981?]-[1997?]

Fonds documents the Anti-Apartheid Network’s (AAN) operations from 1985 to 1990, including its meetings, coordinated activities and campaigns, and communications with other anti-apartheid organizations. It consists of memoranda, correspondence, news clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, flyers, posters, pins, and other material produced as the AAN coordinated anti-apartheid action undertaken in B.C.

Fonds is arranged into three series: Administration; Activities; and Publications, readings, and other materials.

Anti-Apartheid Network

Jim Wong-Chu fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1710
  • Fonds
  • [191-]-2017; predominate 1970-2010

The fonds consists of records produced by Jim Wong-Chu, records associated with Jim Wong-Chu's involvement in various cultural and artistic communities in Vancouver, British Columbia, San Francisco, California, and other areas in the northwestern United States and Canada.

In particular, the fonds includes records related to: Canadian cultural and literary communities; Asian Canadian writers; social justice and historical issues related to discrimination of Chinese and other Asian ethnic groups; and Canada and Vancouver's Chinese and other Asian cultural communities.

The fonds has been arranged into the following 9 series: Asian American communities; Asian Canadian communities; Asian Canadian Writers Workshop; Correspondence; Go for Broke Festivals; Manuscripts; Personal works; Personal Records; Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society; and Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre.

In addition to the series listed above, there is one sub-fonds which includes records created by Garrick Chu, a close-friend and colleague of Jim Wong-Chu.

The main types of records within the fonds include correspondence, meeting minutes, schedules, manuscripts, posters and event flyers, photographs, event programs, financial statements and budgets, publications and articles, reports, conference proceedings, and speeches.

Wong-Chu, Jim