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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Campaign records

Series includes reports, advertisements, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to various regional educational campaigns, targeted at the public, which were carried out by the Stichting Greenpeace International Council. These campaigns are related various environmental issues, including, but not limited to the following: nuclear energy, environmental toxics, alternative sources of energy, atmospheric conditions, oceanic wildlife, extinction, and terrestrial ecology.

By-laws and constitutions.

This series contains the by-laws and constitution of the British Columbia Loggers Association. The records include a by-law from 1926 and the 1949 amended by-law for the Association. The series also includes the Logger Association’s membership Act, the Benevolent Societies Act, Extraordinary Resolutions, and amendment to the Criminal Code with a particular attention to the theft of logs.

By the Sea: An Alphabet Book - Production, Publication

This series consists of materials related to the production and publication of By the Sea: An Alphabet Book, including correspondence, draft illustrations, and information regarding the sale of the original materials. In 1986 Blades received the Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Canadian picture book award for By the Sea for the "best illustrated Canadian picture book in 1985." The manuscript and illustrations were sold to the National Library (now Library and Archives Canada) in Ottawa in 1987, but photocopies of these materials are included.

Business, Personal, and Academic records

The Business, Personal, and Academic Records series contains materials related to Williams' business endeavors working as a town planning consultant, his tenure as a member of the board of VanCity Credit Union, and his academic work as both a student and a professor.

Records consist primarily of copies of reports and studies Williams created working as a town planner in British Columbia. Correspondence and handwritten notes are also featured throughout the series, along with course materials such as syllabi and assignments.

Business documents.

For his Foo Hung, Grandview Greenhouses and other businesses, Ron Bick Lee kept various business documents such as business ledger books, assigned cheques, invoices, catalogues and so on. Documents are arranged into files according to the topic of the documents.

Business and concert documents

Series consists of documentation related to concerts and business matters, including documents such as contracts and receipts for business expenses such as printing and photography; concert documents such as reviews, playbills and programs; and requests for songs sent to the sisters. Documents are arranged into files according to
the form of document and topic.

Bulletins.

Series contains bulletins created by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of news bulletins, a bulletin regarding the wages of employees in the sawmill industry, bulletins that report on the logs, scaling, exports, the markets, and a bulletin relating to the BCLMA, SMA and BCLM lumber associations.

Bulletins.

Series consists of bulletins that discuss several topics include shares on British Columbia Red Cedar Shingle Export Association, meeting reminders for Board of Director meetings and BCLMA meetings, and general correspondence.

Bulletin

Series consists of two duplicate copies of the C.D .C . newsletter, <i>Bulletin</i>, dated Nov. 1973. While the newsletter was issued periodically, series only contains these two copies of the first issue .

Brymer Belcher records

Series consists of a document regarding the organisation of The Victoria Society, a society established in England to provide employment for impoverished women. The document lists Reverend Brymer Belcher, Edward
Belcher’s nephew, as President of the society.

Broadsides and chapbooks

Series mainly contains textual records pertaining to the broadsheets and chapbooks published by Lazara Press predominately in the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. These records include drafts of the broadsides or chapbooks, and, in many cases, the final print edition of these works. Other records includes correspondence, layouts, art, drafts, proofs, and receipts. The photographs included in this series are images featured in the published edition of the work associated with the photos.

British Columbia records

This series contains Oscar Orr’s correspondence with prominent members of British Columbia, including letters and invitations received by Orr and autographed clippings and notes. There are legal records from the early 1900s with the signatures of early BC Premiers and Ministers; Members of the Legislative Assembly and Members of Parliament; Mayors of Vancouver throughout the 1900s; the Lieutenant Governor and BC Attorneys General.

The series also contains correspondence from and autographs of members from the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP; Vancouver Sun reporters and columnists; BC lawyers and judges; Orr’s 29th Battalion comrades, sergeants and officers. Notably, the series contains the records or autographs of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mr. Aulay Macaulay Morrison; early Mayors of Vancouver Louis D. Taylor and G.G. McGeer; Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal, Gordon M. Sloan; and Hon. Howard Green.

British Columbia Provincial Police records.

Series consists of four bound volumes of documents originating from the British Columbia Provincial Police (specifically the New Westminster
headquarters):

  1. General orders #1-390, 1923-1950: Two ledgers of memorandums circulated to the various district headquarters of the BCPP announcing changes in procedure, law, and policy and announcing personnel changes such as promotions, dismissals, reassignments, and deaths in the force. An index exists for general orders 1 through 271, bound in volume 2.

  2. Nominal roll and seniority list, 1926-1950: One ledger of nominal rolls, giving names and registration numbers of police officers and other personnel, organized by divisions and districts. Also contains seniority lists, which lists the names and registration numbers of personnel in all districts organized by hierarchy. Updates were sent to the various districts periodically.

  3. War circulars, volumes 1-8, 1939-1946: One ledger of circulars issued during World War II, giving special changes to procedure or reporting on relevant changes in law or orders in council which would affect policing during the war. Issues include fire arms possession and registration, status of First Nations people in the forces, rationing and oil supplies, and the registration of “enemy aliens.”

British Columbia Provincial Police

British Columbia Packers' Association Records

Series consists ofrecords pertaining to the British Columbia Packers' Association and Doyle's involvement with the Association. Includes reports, statistics, correspondence, incorporation-related records, and directors' reports.
Title based on contents of series.

British Columbia Forest Products

Series consists of materials relating to British Columbia Forest Products, mainly from the time during which Burch was Chief Forester or Vice President of Timberlands and Forestry. The records include annual reports, forestry directories, documents relating to Tree Farm License 27 and ownership maps. Series is divided into six files: Tree Farm License 27, Ownership maps, Royal Commission on Forest Resources synopsis, Annual reports, Directories, Newsletters and reports.

British Columbia ephemera

This series contains paper ephemera, and a few photographs, representing a variety of events, activities, and work in British Columbia. Materials include restaurant menus, school reports, pageant rules and application, raffle information, bills and receipts, telegrams, cruise brochures, travel tickets and tokens, theatre programs, business correspondence, a souvenir set of Vancouver views with map, photos from nightclubs and supper clubs in souvenir envelopes, a collection of Vancouver Golden Jubilee commemorative stamps, and various Chinese textbooks. Photographs and negatives found in an original photo processing envelope includes aerial and sea views.

British Columbia Electric Railway Company Records

The series consists of records gathered by Peter Moogk relating to the British Columbia Electric Railway Company’s (BCER) interurban train lines. These records were originally created by the BCER, its successor (BC Hydro and Power Authority), and various photographers between 1909 and 1989. Special areas of focus in Moogk’s collection include streetcars and city buses in the Lower Mainland, Victoria, and Saanich; BCER employees’ social events; and civic events in Victoria.
The series preserves Moogk’s original order, in which files contain materials grouped by subject and documentary form. Record types include photographs—primarily black and white copy prints, in addition to a limited number of colour photographs and postcards; original BCER documents, including union agreements, timetables, BCER employees’ publications such as newsletters and magazines, land registry forms, employment applications, accident reports, insurance records, tickets and passes, transit tokens, internal correspondence, signs and posters from inside streetcars; and a copy of a CJOR radio script about the BCER for the program Salute to Industry.

British Columbia Canners' Association Records

Series consists of records pertaining to the British Columbia Canners' Association, and Doyle's involvement with the Association. Includes records of the Fraser River Canners' Association, the Rivers Inlet Canners and other groups.
Title based on contents of series.

British Columbia Association of Non-Status Indians (BCANSI)

Series consists of records pertaining to the Maracle’s involvement with BCANSI. The organization worked towards providing non-status Aboriginals with a political voice to facilitate their upward social mobility and economic advance. Leonard was executive director of the organization from 1971 to 1973 and later served as treasurer. Kitty was involved as its executive secretary. In 1976, BCANSI evolved into the United Native Nations (UNN). Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, flyers, newsletters, notices, briefs, financial records, reports and proposals.

Britain and Europe

This series includes several 18th and 19th century legal documents with the autographs of British and other European political, military, and literary figures. There are indentures, letters, envelopes with addresses and signatures, introduction cards, news clippings, and records signed by royal figures. Also included are records relating to the First and Second World Wars, and the signatures of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), Lady Nancy Astor, and Sir Winston Churchill.

Briefs and Submissions

Series consists of a copy of a discussion paper prepared by the B.C. Government Ministry of Finance (1980), a copy of a report prepared by the B.C. Federation of Labour (1980), and a copy of the B.C. Federation of Labour presentation to a Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada (1981).

Briefs.

Series contains briefs relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Material consists of briefs on the pulp industry in British Columbia, Canadian freight rates, and customs tariff on lumber between the United States and Canada.

Briefs.

Series consists of a brief to the Sloan Commission prepared by CRCSA on the past and present status of Red Cedar Shingle industry in British Columbia, a brief to the royal Commission of Enquiry into the Forest Recourses of British Columbia, a brief prepared for the United Kingdom on the exports of Western Red Cedar Shingle to the U.K, and briefs concerning merchandising techniques of shingles.

Briefs.

Series contains briefs relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of a briefing on the reorganization of COFI, brief concerning the Future History Project, and a debriefing concerning a meeting entitled “Canada’s Forest Philosophy.”

Bora Laskin and the Canadian Judicial Council

Series consists of clippings and correspondence related to Berger’s public remarks in 1981 regarding the failure of the Canadian government to include aboriginal treaty rights in the Canadian Constitution, the Canadian Judicial Council’s decision regarding these remarks, and Chief Justice Bora Laskin’s response. Series also contains records relating to Berger’s subsequent resignation from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Books and miscellaneous records

This series contains books, newspapers, photographs and other records from Orr’s collection that relate to his interest in history. The news clippings relate to the two world wars, and several records relate to the military in Canada and in Vancouver. The series also contains two pieces of Japanese paper fire and bomb balloon that landed in BC during the Second World War.

Books

Series consists of typescripts of books. Some files contain reference materials, notebooks of handwritten drafts, correspondence and other related materials. The Vancouver file and Dickens of the Mounted file include photographs. The series is arranged alphabetically by title.

Books

Series consists of time books, journals, coupon ticket books, information books (activity logs), pay logs, and pilot house log books. There are also notices, agreements, rule and regulations, and applications, and material concerning railway development, equipment, fitting and service profiles. In addition, there is a copy of The Quebec Central Railway Act and Slater’s (confidential) Telegraphic Code. The material is associated with several different railway companies, Victoria R & N.C., the Kettle Valley Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and many different areas such as Penticton, Okanagan Landing, York, S. Britain, Vancouver and Victoria.

Books

Series consists of manuscripts of books written by Spider and Jeanne Robinson. The manuscripts consists of holograph, carbon, typescript, and computer generated drafts (first and final) and corrections to the various works. There is also an introduction by another author included.

Books

This series contains books that were printed and in some cases designed by the press. It covers a wide variety of styles of book, including artists’ books, exhibit catalogs, chapbooks, and experimentally designed and typeset versions of works in the public domain

Of particular note in this series are pre-published editions of several of the works of Vancouver artist Charles Mayrs, a selection of materials designed for and by the Alcuin Society, a group dedicated to book design, and a copy of the artist's book 'Loci' by Vancouver-based artist Allyson Clay.

Books

Series consists of books previously owned or used by Shimizu. They reflect both his interest in religion and Japanese and English communication.

Books

Most manuscripts are typed, with handwritten corrections and notes on many.
There are ‘background notes’, ‘author galleys’, ‘page proofs’, ‘copied edited
versions’, and ‘first drafts’. Several are incomplete or without titles. All of
Kilian’s major publications are included.

Book reviews

Series consists of book reviews, including reviews of Knight's publications and Knight's reviews of other authors' books. Includes related correspondence and other material.

Book Review

Series consists of a copy of a review of Edward Hoagland’s book Notes From the Century Before: A Journal From British Columbia. Some of the notes in question are Margerie’s from the notebooks in the Malcolm Lowry Papers.

Book and Manuscript Collecting Records

Series consists of notebooks, transcripts of literary works, a card catalogue, manuscripts, correspondence, financial documents, prospectuses, newspaper clippings, certificates, and other documents made or received by Colbeck in the course of his many activities as a book dealer and book collector and in his work at the University of British Columbia Library.
Title based on contents of series.

Blueberry River Band v. Canada

Series consists of the Appellant’s Factum in the Blueberry River Band v. Canada, (also known as Apassin v. Canada) treaty rights case of 1988. The Blueberry River Band was previously known as the Beaver Band.

Blue Mountain Woodlot

Series consists of documents related to the management of the Blue Mountain Woodlot, of which Bunce was part owner. This woodlot was located near Maple Ridge, BC. Throughout the documents, it is also referred to as Woodlot 38. Material includes forest development plans, fire plans, a forest strategy report, recreation management strategy, correspondence and other administrative documents. Also included are articles written by Bunce that address Blue Mountain Woodlot work.

A number of documents containing personal and financial information related to the other owners of this Woodlot were removed because of their confidential nature.

Biographical records

Includes both records and newspaper clippings which detail Harris’ birthday announcements, information regarding his connection to community of Sandon, B.C., his role in its development, silver mining, and his death.

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