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The series contains textual records pertaining to the Klondike Gold Rush. The records reflect major activities such as commerce, travel, mining, and tourism in the Klondike. Legal records documenting the mining boom, including mining claims, grants, stock certificates, and court documents are present throughout the series. Records of individual miners and mining companies are included in the series as well as those of prevalent government bodies, including the office of the Gold Commissioner and the Department of the Interior. In addition to these activities, the series also reflects various works of individuals who journeyed north to the Klondike during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as promotional and informational material developed by travel and outfitting agencies. The series also contains records related to the Lind family’s personal connection to the Yukon, including the unpublished account of John G. Lind’s trip to the Klondike.

Significant record types include correspondence, receipts and checks, pamphlets and printed volumes, advertisements, postcards, diaries and journals, newspapers and newspaper clippings, sheet music, theatre programs, as well as guidebooks and souvenir books

Series is divided into three subseries: Correspondence; Financial records; and Manuscripts, biographical information, and other textual materials. Records include textual records such as business and personal correspondence (including fan mail); financial records and receipts; drafts of writing related to birds and Lansdowne's personal history; and other ephemera.

This book was an updated version of a 1999 publication entitled Canadian Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Teachers. This book was widely used across Canada in teacher education courses. The updated versions were PEP’s idea to maintain the book’s status and relevance in the market and to better compete against newer rival books. The first updated version completely replaced the original anthology. The title was changed slightly to The Anthology of Social Studies, and split the book into two volumes. The first volume focuses on elementary teachers, while volume 2 focuses on secondary teachers. Both volumes were published in 2008. PEP has since updated Volume 1 of the anthology, releasing it with the Updated Edition in 2013. As of 2013, Volume 2 had not been updated. Series consists of correspondence, drafts, editorial notes, and reviews.

Angela Case, Karen Holness, and Aubrey Arnason host the documentary The Blonde Mystique (2006), an investigation into opinions and stereotypes regarding fair hair. Directed and narrated by Sally Aitken, the program interviews ordinary Canadians and experts about the appeal of blonde hair and follows how the lives of the three hosts change after they dye their hair. Interview subjects include Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher and founder of Playboy Enterprises; Catherine Salmon, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology; and Gisele Baxter, Professor of Cultural History at UBC.

Series consists of a digital master tape, video and audio elements, and textual material relating to the development of the production.

The Boys of Buchenwald (2002) is a sixty-minute historical documentary focusing on the stories of some of the 1000 boys and teens liberated from one of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany on April 11, 1945, and the lives that they created for themselves in the aftermath of this experience. One group known as the Boys of Buchenwald was sent to Paris, where they were housed in a dormitory and forged friendships with the other children. Now grown up, they return to the homes in France which took them in after the war and reconnect with fellow survivors whose friendships helped to heal their devastating losses. Although the documentary focuses primarily on Vancouver resident Robbie Waisman, who survived Buchenwald and is the former President of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, it also includes interviews with survivors Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel, who became an acclaimed author and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1986, and Joe Szwarcberg, as well as two of their caregivers, Judith Hemmendinger and Gaby "Nini" Cohen. Other individuals interviewed include Yad Vashem, the author of Children of Buchenwald and former Prime Minister Jean Chretien. In addition to interviews, the documentary makes use of a sizeable array of archival photographs and film footage. The film was directed by Audrey Mehler and narrated by Saul Rubinek.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter (1993) is based upon a series of video diaries recorded by Dr. Peter Jepson-Young in the early 1990s about HIV and AIDS which documented his battle with the disease. Born in British Columbia in 1957, “Dr. Peter,” as he was more commonly known, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985. When he could no longer practice medicine, he began “The Dr. Peter Diaries,” video segments that aired on CBC until his death in 1992. The documentary is comprised primarily of these two-minute segments. The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter was directed by David Paperny and nominated for an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Documentary Feature. The documentary helped lead to the further establishment of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation in Vancouver.

Series consists of digital master tapes, video and audio elements, and textual material relating to the development of the production.

Series consists of photocopied materials from The Chinese World.

Series contains a contract, sketches, drawings, paintings, manuscripts, storyboards, materials describing layout, correspondence, reviews, clippings and publicity, which document the production, sale and critical reception of the book, <i>The Cottage at Crescent Beach</i>. Some oversized materials are housed in a separate container; please see the file list for further detail.

The Dealmaker (1998) is a sixty-minute biographical portrait of one of Canada's most affluent and famous men, Saskatoon-born, Vancouver-based entrepreneur Jimmy Pattison. Pattison is the chairman, president, CEO and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, the third largest privately held company in Canada and owner of several car dealerships, Overwaitea Foods, Save-On-Foods, Ripley's Believe It or Not, and radio and television stations in British Columbia and Alberta. Pattison also owned the World Hockey Association team, the Vancouver Blazers and acted as the CEO and president of the Expo 86 Corporation. Recipient of both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, he was listed as No. 194 on the 2006 Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. Featuring interviews with Pattison, his family, Bill Bennett, and Peter C. Newman, The Dealmaker provides an inside view into who Pattison is, what he owns, and how he stormed the walls of Canada's stuffy corporate world to become a formidable self-made tycoon. It is directed by David Paperny and narrated by Ann Medina.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

Series consists of financial accounts for The Golden Light, Power and Water Company, Limited, a subsidiary company of the Canadian Western Lumber Company.

The Golden Rose is a novel published by PEP in 1996. It is a historical fiction novel intended for young adults, most likely middle school age. There was also a teacher resource created to help teachers, which included various exercises and discussion questions. Series consists of editorial notes and correspondence.

This book was published in 2000 by PEP – its full title was The Impact of TIMSS on the Teaching and learning of Mathematics and Science. It consists of summaries of the impact of the Third International Science Study (TIMSS) in 29 of the more than 50 countries that participated in TIMSS. Due to the global nature of the book, there were numerous contributing authors from around the world – someone from that country wrote the chapter for each country. Series consists of drafts, editorial notes, and correspondence.

Directed by Audrey Mehler, The Life and Times of Henry Morgentaler (1999) is a biography of Holocaust survivor, social activist and abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Born in Poland, Morgentaler immigrated to Canada in 1950 and studied medicine. From 1967 to the present, he has been a pro-choice abortion activist and established clinics for women throughout the country. Although he spent time incarcerated for his work, he continued his crusade. He played a prominent role in influencing the Supreme Court of Canada's 1988 decision to strike down Canada's abortion law, making abortion legal. He was the first president of the Humanist Association of Canada from 1968 to 1999 and remained the organization's honorary president. The sixty-minute documentary follows Morgentaler and his son Bamie back to Poland to places of significance in his early life. It includes archival footage and interviews with close supporters, including Gertie Katz, writer/activist June Callwood, and political commentator Judy Rebick, counterbalanced with the views of pro-lifer advocates like Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life. Also included in the documentary is a visit to Bordeaux Jail in Montreal, where Morgentaler was incarcerated for 1tenmonths in 1975. Audrey Mehler received "The Bronze Plaque" for The Life and Times of Henry Morgentaler at the 48th Annual Columbus International Film and Video Festival in 2000.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

This series documents The Mountaineer, a newsletter published by the NDP Little Mountain Constituency. It includes issues, proofs, notes, and graphics.

Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and financial statements about Brink's membership in the Board of Directors of the Nature Trust, which he joined in 1984. The series is arranged chronologically.

Series consists of reports (published and unpublished), pamphlets, and clippings dealing with plans across Canada for establishing community colleges and adult education programmes.

Item is a pamphlet containing the paper that Cotsworth presented to the Royal Society of Canada . Sir Sandford Fleming's introductory address to the Royal Society of Canada is also included in the pamphlet. Cotsworth discusses the history of calendars, the difficulties inherent in the Gregorian calendar, and the benefits and ease of changing to a calendar having thirteen months of four weeks each.

The series consists of the final broadcast version of the Pocket Desert documentary on CBC Radio’s Ideas.

The series consists of recorded interviews and supporting documentation. Sound recordings feature interviews with experts, including Dr. Jeanette Armstrong, and Dr. Geoffrey Scudder. Further contributors are Elder Delphine Derickson of the Westbank First Nation and Herman Edward of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band. Production notes from 1993-2007 are also included. The textual documents contain articles relating to the creation of a documentary, interview notes and correspondence between producers. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to the geography and ecology in the Osoyoos and South Okanagan area. Brochures advertising Ideas on CBC Radio include a programming schedule as well as brief description of The Pocket Desert.

Series consists of materials documenting Chong's former rock group, The Redenbachers, and includes set lists, song lyrics, posters, and correspondence. Materials are undated. Kevin Chong provided the date range.

Series includes records from Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS), which was formerly known as The Roeher Institute and the National Institute on Mental Retardation (NIMR). The records in this series were created during the periods in which IRIS was known as NIMR (created in 1970) and The Roeher Institute (the name changed from NIMR ca. 1983).

NIMR/The Roeher Institute/IRIS promote the equality, participation and self-determination of people with intellectual and other disabilities, by examining the causes of marginalization and by providing research, information and social development opportunities. As a part of this, they studied and presented policy alternatives for those with intellectual disabilities.

Records included in this series are correspondence and publications produced by NIMR, and documents on Program Analysis of Service Systems (PASS) and Jackie Maniago's involvement in using PASS for assessing service quality at institutions in Canada. The series also has publications published by The Roeher Institute, but the majority of the records cover the time period when the organization was known as NIMR. There are no records in the series for when the organization changed its name to IRIS.

Series consists of records documenting the School's outreach program, "The School and the Community."

Records in this series indicate that Blades was unsatisfied with the publication of <i>Jacques the Woodcutter</i>, so therefore purchased her rights to the artwork back from the publisher, and collaborated with author Kit Pearson to re-tell the story in <i>The Singing Basket</i>, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 1990.
Series consists of research materials, contracts (including the contract for <i>Jacques the Woodcutter</i>), sketches, correspondence, reviews, royalty documents and artwork pertaining to the publication of <i>The Singing Basket</i>. Note that the final artwork for <i>The Singing Basket</i>, is also largely the final artwork for <i>Jacques the Woodcutter</i>. The artwork has been annotated by the creator to indicate which paintings were used in which publication.

Honorary degrees and awards removed from frames. Consists of honorary membership in societies and honorary degrees from various institutions, schools and societies.

Series consists of copies of a weekly newspaper column written by Soward for the Vancouver Morning Star. Series also includes copies of other newspaper articles written by Soward and some handwritten notes.

Series consists of photographic materials from the production of The Working Forest of British Columbia. The series is arranged into 3 files based on their media type: photographs, contact sheets, and negatives, and 1 sub-series of slides. The slides sub-series is divided into five files: master slides, The Working Forest slides, Southern Interior slides, Northern Interior slides, South Vancouver Island slides, North Vancouver Island slides, West Vancouver Island Slides, and Fire slides.

Series consists of articles, clippings, and memoirs of Frances Adaskin.

The series consists of handwritten and typed scripts for McWhirter's adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba.

Series consists of theses and papers about the Chinese community in Canada. The chart of the Yip family tree (file 26-33) was added in August 1996.

Series consists of Messenger's thesis presented to Cornell University and his doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of California at Berkeley (Box 13), including notes, correspondence, drafts and chapter notes.

Series consists of an undergraduate essay, M.A.s theses and Ph.D. thesis by Dorothy Blakey Smith.

Series consists of records about Messenger's participation in the Thesis Bibliography Series Project; this is an international bibliography of doctoral dissertations and masters' theses on selected writers. These records include correspondence and pamphlets.

The series contains materials collected by Ian McDonald for the purposes of writing his Master’s thesis on the history of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 213, from 1901 to 1961. Materials within the series include collective agreements, newspaper and journal articles, court case summaries, interview transcriptions, census tables, meeting minutes, correspondence and dissertations; most materials are photocopies rather than original documents, however.

Also included are materials that pertain to the Lenkurt strike of 1966, which McDonald omitted from his original thesis to limit its scope. He took up the events surrounding the Lenkurt strike in a later essay, “Spontaneity Went Out with Spartacus: IBEW Local 213, Les McDonald, and the Lenkurt Strike of 1966,” which McDonald regards as a continuation of his Master’s research; the essay is also part of the series.

Series includes James E. Thornton's theses; An Educational Program for Economic-Opportunity Migrants: A Case Study in Program Development in Adult Education (1971), An Exploratory Study of the Educational Deficiencies of Occupationally Unstable Economic-Opportunity Migrants (1967) & The Conceptualization of an Experimental Field Study in Adult Education: A Dissertation Proposal (1970).

The series consists of Ralston’s original proposal for his MA thesis and various drafts and related documentation.

The one-hour-long documentary Thirst for Life (2006) is hosted by Bob Blumer, host of Glutton for Punishment and the Surreal Gourmet, as he investigates the scientific proof of the health benefits of wine drinking. Interviews include Serge Renauds, the originator of the concept of the “French Paradox” and pioneer researcher in health and wine, winemaker and researcher J.L.Tesseidre Montpellier, Dr. Curtis Ellison Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health and director of the Institute of Health and Lifestyle, Boston, Dr. Eric Rim of the Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, and Dr. Joe Mazza, Senior Food Scientist, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre. Directed by Aynsley Vogel.

Series consists of a digital master tape, video and audio elements, and textual material relating to the development of the production.

Series consists of tickets for the 4th world reunion of the Johanneans. Series is arranged into six files.

Sub-series consists of timber licenses and scaled logs records for Fraser River Saw Mills, Limited, as well as a log record book and a tug record book for the Fraser River Lumber Company, Limited.

Series consists of a timber license book and timber value estimates and reports, some including blueprints.

The series consists of exercise books, cash books, journals, account books, record books or notebooks. Copan divided each book up into sections in order to keep a detailed account of his activities throughout the years. Entries include date, company worked for, ship name and/or wharf/dock location, type of shift and payment amounts.

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 a letter from Edward Belcher’s uncle, Timothy Lindall Jennison of Cambridge, New England, to a distributor of vaccines in London, England regarding a small pox vaccine.

Titans (2001) picks up where Peter C. Newman's 1998 book of the same title -- which chronicles the demise of the Old Establishment and the formation of a new brand of men and women who now run Canada's economy -- leaves off. Instead, the Titans documentary focuses on the critical leading members of the New Establishment and precisely what they are doing as individuals and within their tight networks. It gets behind the headlines and shows how volatile a world it is for today's business elite. The documentary is divided into four sixty-minute episodes: Part I, The New Titans, featuring Gerry Schwartz, Heather Reisman, James Allen (Jimmy) Pattison, and Isadore (Issy) Sharp and directed by Terry McEvoy; Part II, The Media Titans, featuring Ted Rogers, Israel (Izzy) Asper, Leonard Asper, Moses Znaimer, Michael McMillan, Robert Lantos, Peter Sussman, Phil Lind, Phyllis Yaffee, Peter C. Newman, and Daniel Richler and directed by Elliot Schiff and Moira Simpson; Part III Titans of Cash, featuring Charlie Baillie, Scott Patterson, Murray Edwards, Harrison McCain, and Rob Gemmell and directed by Moira Simpson; and Part IV Titans of Tech, featuring John Roth, Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridus, Terry Matthews, and Jozef Straus and directed by Andrew Burnstein. Judy Rebick narrates Titans.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

Series consists of correspondence, research notes, and copies of articles regarding the literary hoaxes of (Thomas James) T.J. Wise and how they are reflected in the Library's collections.

Directed by Audrey Mehler, the forty-five-minute documentary To Love, Honour and Obey (2001) explores the story behind the honour killing of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, a young Sikh woman from Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Sidhu was murdered at the request of her family for secretly marrying Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (nicknamed Mitthu) in India. In this documentary, the filmmakers travel to India to trace the cultural roots that dictate what's acceptable and what isn't in many young Canadians' lives and interview Mitthu and authorities connected to the case. The film examines the tradition of arranged marriages in India, the role of women in Indian culture, and how traditions are brought to Western countries such as Canadian and adapted. On a broader scale, it deals with the changing roles of women within all societies. Helen Shaver narrates the film; an alternate title used for the film is Princess.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

A sixty-minute historical biography directed by David Paperny, To Russia With Fries follows the flamboyant and tenacious George Cohon as he pursues "hamburger diplomacy." Cohon, an American-born businessman, is the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's of Canada and McDonald's of Russia. Cohon opened the first Canadian McDonald's in London, Ontario, in 1968 after purchasing the Eastern Canadian rights to the franchise for $70,000 in 1967. By 1971 Cohon was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1975 and has been an Officer of Canada since 1992. He is the founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Canada and Russia. In 1990, he opened the first McDonald's in Russia, credited with some of the recent changes and greater freedoms in Russia. He has received Russia's highest civilian honour, the Award of Friendship. In addition to interviews with Cohon, journalist Fred Weir, and Russian politician Vadim Bakatin, To Russia With Fries includes rare interviews and scenes with former Russian Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov (also a chair and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia Party). Vicki Gabereau narrates the documentary.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

Materials related to the writing and publication of Inventing Tom Thompson (2004), edited by Dr. Grace. Includes: correspondence, research materials, notes, lecture materials, photographs, and ephemera.

Series contains a contract, a storyboard, a document regarding cover layout, sketches, drawings, paintings, research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, notes, galley proofs, a trade catalogue, reviews and clippings, which document the production and critical reception of the book, <i>Too Small</i>. Some oversized materials are housed in a separate container; please see the file list for further detail. This series contains one restricted file.

Series consists of lists of topics and a print-out of the Bureau database pertaining to the engagement of speakers.