Sheila Zerr gave presentations at numerous nursing and other conferences. These records document much of this activity.

Series consists of Jean Rands’s personal and family records; it contains diaries and journals; personal correspondence; résumés and job application records; newspaper clippings of her participation in peace demonstrations; a manuscript of a book written by her father Stan Rands, Privilege and Policy, which was published posthumously; and a small number of photographs.

Series consists of records related to Narver’s postdoctoral research, predominantly from his time working at the Federal Biological Station in Nanaimo, BC, and Chignik, Alaska, while a student at the University of Washington. Contents include professional correspondence, primarily to other researchers, and PhD thesis work, including a bound manuscript of his final thesis.

Series consists of records related to Narver’s undergraduate or graduate studies, quasi-professional correspondence, and records related to his post-retirement life. Contents include: handwritten notes from undergraduate or graduate level university courses taken by Narver; correspondence with various individuals and organizations, all related to fishing, fisheries, and fish in some capacity, though not written by Narver in his official roles; transcripts and notes from speeches and presentations given by Narver, including the Living Blueprint Salmon Habitat Action Plan, or given by others and collected by Narver; and a typescript of Narver’s 2010 book, What Did You Do In Alaska, Grandpa? Seven Summers in Alaska: Salmon, Bears and Untouched Wilderness, with handwritten annotations. Photographs are mostly of posters and displays produced by the BC Fisheries and Wildlife Branch about salmonid and stream ecology.

Series contains promotional and educational materials, administrative records for LARA, project files, and newspaper clippings. Rachel Epstein was involved in establishing LARA. She began working with immigrant domestic workers through a Company of Young Canadians where she met with domestic workers and learned about their lives, the poor quality of their working conditions, and the uncertainty of their immigration status. Epstein helped domestic workers in Vancouver to organize and, through LARA, helped lobby the provincial government for changes to labour legislation to include and protect domestic and farmworkers.

Series contents include: promotional and educational materials (pamphlets, posters, and information booklets), administrative records (incorporation documents for LARA, meeting minutes, correspondence, fundraising and endorsement solicitation and receipt, and an application to Young Canada Works), individual project files (slide tape program, community awareness program), and several files relating to the establishment of the Farmworker Legal Information Service (FLIS).

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.

: 52 cm of textual records
Scope and content: Series documents Shimizu’s personal reflections on various activities and topics. The diaries cover the years 1909-1922, 1923-1944, 1948, 1959-1961. From 1909 to 1941 the diaries are written in Japanese, after which they are in English. Note that while the majority of the diaries are originals, those from 1942 onwards are photocopies.

Series documents Shimizu’s personal and professional appointments from 1935 until 1962. The series consists of photocopies of original appointment books.

Series consists of themed sermons given by Shimizu. They are arranged according by subject matter. All the sermons are written in Japanese.

Series consists of sermons written by Shimizu. They are arranged chronologically by year. All of the sermons are written in Japanese.

Series consists of Shimizu’s sermons that do not contain a particular theme or date. They are arranged by language, date, and whether they were broadcasted on radio.

Series reflects various aspects of Shimizu’s life, both personal and professional. Material includes notes on people’s deaths, newspaper clippings, information on the Japanese Committee, letters, and his wife’s notebooks.

Series consists of printed material on both religious and Japanese matters. It reflects some of the concerns of the Japanese during and after World War II.

Series consists of articles, newsletters, periodicals, catalogues, and newspaper clippings accumulated by Kogawa. Some of the material relates to Kogawa’s work.

Series consists of draft poems, correspondence, proposals, publicity, copies of artwork, and other records relating to Kogawa’s collaboration in the production of a performance piece and book titled <i>A Song of Lilith</i>.

Series contains records supporting the production of Joy Kogawa's nonfiction book "Gently to Nagasaki." Records include draft manuscripts, annotated drafts, notes, correspondence with editors, and extensive source materials. Source materials include magazines, newspaper clippings, and printouts of articles and books. Source materials relate to nuclear energy, nuclear bombs, the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese war atrocities, Japanese and Allied personal military accounts of World War two, issues of race, and genocide. Series is arranged by files according to original order.

Series contains notes and different stages of drafts for Mary McAlpine's books, articles, and short stories as well as those of other related authors that came included in her records.

The series contains records pertaining to the AUCE’s efforts to advocate for their members and bargain as a collective unit. Record types include agendas, minutes, and dockets of the Annual Conventions and Special Conventions held by AUCE, agenda and minutes of the meetings of the General Membership, contracts documenting the collective agreements between the workers and employers, and records of conferences, strikes, working conditions, news releases, as well as training records on stewardship, bargaining, striking and picketing.
While many of the records relate directly to equal pay, increased benefits, and cost-of-living increases, the advocacy and bargaining efforts of the union also changed in response to the changing provincial government and University of British Columbia administrative measures.
With the 1983 election and the introduction of the Social Credit Government, the union worked with other labor organizations throughout the province, forming the province-wide Solidarity Coalition to resist the conservative measures being proposed through legislation. The records also reflect the related efforts to defeat Bill 19, introduced by Bill Vander Zalm in 1987, which directly affected labour unions and their right to strike.
The union also directly opposed choices made by the UBC administration including a decision to bring in Ritchie & Associates, a management consulting firm to assess efficiency in the workplace, as well as budget cut-backs. This resulted in the formation of the UBC. Campus Community Alliance. These and other specific efforts are documented in the series.

Series includes records relating to the New Democratic Party of Canada, including the Vancouver Quadra riding. Series also includes records from the electoral planning committee, and records relating to the Rosemary Brown leadership campaign in 1975, which Thomas was instrumental in organizing.

Series contains records relating to the Provincial NDP, including records from the Vancouver Point Grey riding where Thomas ran for office in 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1983. The records from the 1989 Vancouver—Richmond Regional Conference pertain to a conference which Thomas organized. Series also contains records of the Point Grey NDP Constituency Association.

Series contains records related to the Vancouver NDP, including campaign literature and treasurer’s records.

Series contains minutes, newsletters and other records, including records related to the Dunbar—West Point Grey Information Centre.

Series contains reference material about the Vietnam War, and material related to demonstrations against it. It also contains correspondence and minutes from the Vietnam Action Committee, of which Hilda Thomas was chair from 1968-1970.

Series contains notes and printed material related to the BC Federation of Labour.

Series contains printed material and notes on a variety of feminist subjects, including violence against women, pornography and rape.

Series contains printed material and correspondence related to labour organizing in Vancouver.

Series contains anti-war posters, as well as campaign posters for the NDP. It also contains the 1977 Vancouver Women’s Calendar.

Records consist primarily of slides along with several photographs. The slides reflect projects that Cardew designed and built, including key projects such as the CN Pavilion at Expo ‘86, Lignum Sawmill Offices in Williams Lake, Crown Life Building (now known by its address at 1500 West Georgia), the Stone (Yunesit’in) Band School, False Creek Townhouses, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, as well as his best known exhibition, Peter Cardew, Ordinary Buildings. Project slides include images of drawings, plans, models, and completed structures. There are also slides of various buildings that may have served as inspiration for his designs.

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.

Records include architectural drawings of some of Cardew’s best known projects including the Crown Life Building (now known by its address at 1500 West Georgia), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, the Calgary Folk Music Festival Hall, the CN Pavilion at Expo ’86, the Lignum Sawmill Offices in Williams Lake, Reigning Champ Stores, the TNRD Public Library and Art Gallery, and the Yunesit’in First Nation (also known as Stone Band) School, as well as private homes, offices, and furniture designs. Drawings are both stapled and loose, hand drawn and printed, on a variety of media including tracing paper, bond paper, plastic, and vellum.

Series documents the Management Indicators for British Columbia College and Institute Learning Resources Centres Project, an initiative undertaken from 1977 to 1981 by the Council of Post-Secondary Library Directors (CPSLD) College Library Standards & Accreditation Committee and its Sub-Committee on Role Definition. Initially called the “Standards for B.C. College and Institute LRCs,” the project was initiated to draft standards (also referred to in the records as “guidelines” and “management indicators”), role statements, and a working definition of the term “Learning Resource Centre” (LRC) in the B.C. post-secondary context. CPSLD considered updated standards imminently necessary due to shifting budgetary and reporting procedures triggered by the Colleges and Provincial Institutes Act of 1977 and the allocation of LRC funding to the Management Advisory Council in November 1978. The project developed quantitative criteria based on the following six areas to inform standards: budget, collections, staff, services, A/V equipment, and facilities. A report on Phase I of the project, which gathered and analyzed material relating to community college standards and their development, was submitted by W. E. Hanafi and B. E. Husband in January 1979. This report was followed up by an interim report in January 1980 and final report in 1981, both by R. J. Welwood, which assessed individual B.C. LRCs compare to established standards and modified these standards for B.C. institutions.

Series consists of material created and gathered by the Management Indicators for British Columbia College and Institute Learning Resources Centres Project between 1977 and 1980. It includes standards, reports, budgets, questionnaires, role statements, notes, correspondence, and other material relating to Canadian and U.S. LRCs for the project.

The series consists of records generated and received by Lee in a wide array of public functions. Predominantly, the records highlight Lee’s devotion to and involvement in the Kuomintang starting in the 1920s up until the end of his life. They detail the high-profile positions Lee held in the Kuomintang as a representative in the National Assemblies and the National Congresses of the Kuomintang, as well as the substantial amount of work he carried out in promoting the Kuomintang agenda in the overseas Chinese community. As whole, the series offers illustrative insight into the political ideology and activities of the Kuomintang with consideration to the geopolitical turbulence in East Asia and beyond in the 20th century. Other records in the series show Lee’s prolific involvement in organizations and associations related to the overseas Chinese. Records include but are not limited to: reports, meeting documents, certificates, publications, newspaper clippings, written notes, telegrams, attendance tickets and passes, business and membership cards, permits, and stamps and memorabilia. Some records in this series were generated after Lee’s passing by associations related to and/or affiliated with Lee’s functions during his life.

The series consists of personal records generated and received by Lee and his family. Records detail Lee’s experiences with immigration and settlement in Canada and offer some general insight into the conditions of daily life for Chinese Canadians in British Columbia. They also pertain to Lee’s explorations of traditional Chinese medicine, his family relationships, and his passing. Records include but are not limited to: passports, immigration forms, maps, certificates, telegrams, Chinese medicine prescriptions, letters, newspaper clippings, receipts, business cards, postcards, paper advertisements, and menus.

Series documents constituency cases undertaken by or related to the NDP Little Mountain Constituency. It includes correspondence, memoranda, petitions, and other related material.

Series consists of research data, statistics, and bibliographies gathered by Knight for his thesis and other published works and articles . Research data includes notes, proposals, outlines, glossaries of terms, and reviews concerning various topics, including native peoples of Canada and the Cauca Valley, Columbia.

Series consists of transcripts and sound recordings of interviews conducted by Rolf Knight. Includes transcripts of interviews with Harvey Murphy and John Smith, and transcripts and sound recordings of interviews with Bob Chestnut.

Series documents the Or Gallery’s administration and operation, including its planning for various fundraising events. the Or Gallery’s Records include minutes, policies and procedures, correspondence, and other material documenting the administration of the Or Gallery as an organization and operations as a physical space.

Series documents the editing, design, and publication of Vancouver Anthology, an anthology of essays published by the Or Gallery. The collected essays by Stan Douglas, Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson, and Marcia Crosby were first presented in Fall 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled Vancouver Anthology: Lectures on Art in British Columbia, in which the authors presented their research in a forum to the local arts community before their papers were sent to print. The papers documented a range of Vancouver cultural practices, including the emergence of artist-run centres, experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture, painting, art criticism, and conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of Indigenous peoples’ cultures. Vancouver Anthology was first published in 1991 and re-published in its second edition in 2009.

Records consist of proofs, mock-ups, photographic materials, correspondence, and other material relating to the production of Vancouver Anthology’s first and second editions.

The series consists of records relating to the Scandinavian Cultural Society’s administrative functions. Records include the constitution of the society, correspondence, agendas and minutes from executive meetings, and financial reports.

Series consists of newsletters and other published material by the Scandinavian Cultural Society for purposes of reference and dissemination. Series also includes a run of the Swedish Press Magazine from 1986, which was used as reference material for the publicity for the Scandinavian Festival 1986.

The series consists of records relating to the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia’s (IABC) administration, mainly records related to its day to day business operation. Records include correspondence; financial records; and policies and procedures kept by the archives.

Series consists of records relating to the events organized by the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia (IABC), and Icelandic events attended by the IABC. Records include event planning material and promotions; posters, programmes, and brochures; correspondence and invitations; event ephemera and newspaper clippings; artifacts; and guest books of visitors to IABC events.

Series consists of the original collections acquired and preserved by the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia (IABC) during its existence.

Series consists of thirteen subseries, which correspond to the creators of the records or the research initiatives surrounding the creation of the records: the Emil Bjarnason collection, Ester Bridge collection, Magnus Eliason collection, Frances Hanson collection, Dora Hatton collection, Keith Hoff collection, Helga Howardson collection, Guðrun Johnson collection, and Lillian Sumarlidason collection, as well as the Point Roberts collection, and the New Iceland Research collection.

Luminous Sites was a large exhibition of Canadian video installations focusing on social forms of representation, curated by Daina Augaitis of the Western Front Gallery and Karen Henry of Video Inn. Works by ten artists were installed at galleries and public sites throughout the city. The exhibition was accompanied by Luminous Performance, curated by Glenn Lewis.

This series contains the records of the Media Arts and Video Art Program, including records from when the Media Arts Program was called the Video Program. Contents include administrative, funding, and grant application records (including operating grants), equipment purchasing records, artist files, project and organization files, and press clippings and promotional materials. The Western Front collaborated with many like-minded video organizations, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, and catalogues of Western Front Video Program and later Media Arts and Video Art Program holdings are included. Project files include, but are not limited to, Telecommunications Art projects from 1982-1991, The World in 24 Hours (1982), Text, Bombs and Video Tape (1991), and Infermental VI, VII, and VIII. Also in this series are records pertaining to the Media Arts and Video Art Program’s relationship with Vancouver Community Television Association.

This series consists of materials related to Brown's position in the White Pass & Yukon Corporation, with a significant portion concerning the building and launch of the M/V "Frank H. Brown," the M/V "Klondike," and the M/V "Clifford J. Rogers." Other notable inclusions are nearly then entire run of the White Pass Contact (employee newsletter) through 1975, nearly the entire White Pass Container Route News through 1975, and the run of White Pass Annual Reports through 1975.

This series consists of materials related to Brown's ten months as Deputy Minister for National Revenue for Taxation. All official records related to his position remain with the government of Canada, so the papers here are personal in nature, including invitations to events, letters upon his appointment and resignation, and large prints of two comics based on his time in office.

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.

Series consists of twenty years of incoming correspondence organized alphabetically by sender surname and, by sender, chronologically. Contents include: postcards, photographs, and handwritten and typewritten letters (originals, negatives, and copies). When included in the accession, envelopes are retained with the letters with which they came. The bulk of Lowry's incoming correspondence was composed between 1940 and 1954 while the Lowrys resided primarily in Dollarton.

Lowry corresponded with a wide range of family (his own and Margerie's), friends from across the Americas and western Europe, and professional contacts in the literary world. Albert Erskine, David Markson, Downie Kirk, and Harold Matson, for example, all kept up regular correspondence with Lowry for many years. Several files include only short correspondences pertaining to specific activities, generally publication of one of Lowry's poems or short stories, or the translating of his works into another language.

Series consists of miscellaneous records pertaining to the personal life of Malcolm Lowry. Contents include: financial records, art prints hung on the walls of the Dollarton shacks, Lowry’s notes on source character “Fernando” (Juan Fernando Marquez) and the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, and materials gathered by UBC, including copies of Lowry’s birth and death certificates, and newspaper announcements about the death of Arthur Lowry, Malcolm Lowry’s father, and the sale of the house where Lowry wrote the first draft of Under the Volcano.