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Video series

Series consists of video recordings of the presentations of the participating nations during the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements.

Video Tape series

This series consist of a recorded presentation given by Nicholls on October 29, 1975. The title of the presentation was "Social Policy Perspectives: The Green Paper on Population and Immigration."

Videocassettes

Series consists of videotapes accumulated by Barrett in the course of his political and personal activities.

Vietnam War

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.

Visiting Junior Scholars series

Series includes administrative files relating to the Visiting Junior Scholar Program and each scholar's files. The scholars' files include correspondence, CVs, research proposals, interest statements, and reference letters. The administrative files consist of correspondence, agendas, schedules, notes and University paperwork. Series is arranged chronologically by year of the program and then alphabetically by scholar.

Note: The Visiting Junior Scholar Program existed from 1999-2003 and has been replaced by the Wall Summer Institute for Research Program.

Visual Art and Literary Project Records

Series documents Mayrs’ visual art work—including his paintings, cartoons, and fine press limited edition books—and exhibitions that have featured it.
Records in this series include photographic reproductions of a large number of Mayrs’s paintings, drawings, books, and other artwork; promotional materials from exhibitions such as posters, flyers, exhibit catalogs; drafts and copies of both published and unpublished political cartoons; original and photographic reproductions of penwork, photographs, and other artwork created by Mayrs specifically for his books, including for un-published and in-progress works; and press clippings and correspondence specifically pertaining to Mayrs’s work in the visual arts.

Visual art projects

Series consists of visual art objects (collages, sculptures etc.), preparatory notes and sketches, photographs of visual art objects, and publicity related to Coupland’s art installations. Documents, photographs and objects related to the visual art projects spanning Coupland's career from 1983 to 2012.

Some of the projects covered in this series include:

Collages (1997 – 2009)
The Canada Pcictures (2000)
Canada House (2003)
Paper Nests (2004)
Canoe Landing Park (2009)
War of 1812 Monument (2008)
Digital Orca (2010)
Douglas Coupland's In Dialogue with Emily Carr (2010)
Group of Seven paintings series (2010)
Canadian Firefighters Memorial (2012)

Visual materials series

Photographs (prints, slides, transparencies and negatives), drawings, and published and unpublished maps. Series is divided into subseries: Americas, Africa & Oceanic, and original negatives. Visual materials can be found in other series, notably in the professional activities and research materials series. Items in Box 64 were acquired in 2021.

Visual Resource Management series

Series consists of textual and photographic records documenting the work of Sheppard and others with CALP in relating environmental and aesthetic concerns in public perceptions of forestry and forest management, focusing on Weyerhaeuser's cutting practices, including variable selection logging and other selective logging methods. Records include published studies, reports, correspondence, related textual materials, and slides showing aerial and landscape views illustrating forestry practices and environmental aesthetics used in public presentations.

Vladimir Krajina Records series

The Vladimir Krajina records series consists of Curriculum Vitaes, a list of publications, articles, correspondence, a letter of reference, newspaper clippings, notes, a legacy biography and an obituary. The correspondence is principally about Krajina's responsibilities as a professor at UBC, but a letter is present that references prison sentences of associates in 1979. Another letter is a photocopy from the Canadian prime minister's office addressed to Krajina dated 1977. Boxes: 9-10.

Volcano research series

Series consists of materials especially related to volcanic research, which have been filed based on specific topics such as neogene basalts, ironmask basolith, and andesitic volcanism. Otherwise, this series includes maps and drawings, related correspondence, hand-written notes, reference material, published and unpublished works, and one newspaper clipping.

Volkoff Family History series

Series consists of records documenting the history of the Volkov/Vokkoff family and includes correspondence, a cloth mail-bag which once held much of the correspondence, official documents such as passports and marriage certificates, hand-written accounts of family history by Mikhail Mikhailovich Volkoff, transcriptions of correspondence and family history manuscripts translated into English from the original Russian, and digital copies of these transcriptions stored on CDs. Files are arranged in chronological order. Many manuscripts, correspondence, and official documents are written in Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). Some official documents originating from Harbin, Manchuria, are written in Chinese. Some manuscripts are hand-bound.

Volleyball series

Newspaper clippings, team list for 1987-88, score sheets, and team plays make up the central extent of the records in the Volleyball Series. Further programs and statistics on volleyball at UBC can be found in the Media and Promotions Series.

Volunteer and Project Work

Series consists of records related to various volunteer positions in the areas of arms control and electoral reform, as well as material related to a book chapter written by den Hertog.
Series is divided into four sub-series: Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament, Book Chapter “Reconciling Our Origins, Facing Our Future in English Canada Speaks Out”, Royal Commission on Electoral Reform, and National Citizen’s Inquiry into Peace and Security.

den Hertog, Johanna

Volunteer involvement

Series reflects Mary Bishop’s volunteer service and membership in the various organizations she was connected with. The series is arranged into four sub-series according to the organizations in which she took part: International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF); Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC); Planned Parenthood Association of British Columbia (PPABC); and other volunteering and organizational membership.

Records contained within this series include organizational records of these various groups (such as meeting minutes, reports, financial records, and correspondence), as well as newspaper clippings, marketing and communication materials, brochures, and pamphlets.

Bishop, Mary F.

Voting records

Series consists of an electors list for the Electoral District of New Westminster, Municipality of Surrey, Urban Polling Division No.99, which included Zennosuke and Hatsuno Inouye and their son Arthur, which have signed enumerators notices.

W. Kaye Lamb series

Series consists of audiocassette recordings of an interview of W. Kaye Lamb by Stuart-Stubbs, and Lamb biographical material collected by Stuart-Stubbs.

Wartime Information Board series

The Wartime Information Board was established in 1942 to coordinate the government's existing public information services and supervise the release of information in or to any country outside of Canada. The Board wound up operations in September 1945.
The material covered 1942-1945 and was divided into two sections: 1942, 1944 and 1944-1945, when the Wartime Information Board became the Canadian Information Service. The two sections are independent of each other, and their different filing systems have been maintained. Each box contains correspondence much is of a general, functional nature and does not represent the official Chairman's correspondence. There are also minutes and working papers of the W.I.B./E.I.S., the Canada Aid to Russia and the Rehabilitation Committee. It is only through the minutes and working papers that the actual operation of the Board is reflected.

Welfare funds

This series consists of records of the United Fishermen's Welfare Fund (1964-1965), the Pilchard and Herring Welfare Fund (1957-1961), the Longliners Welfare Fund (1959), the Halibut Welfare Fund (1961), and several other smaller funds. Records include articles, by-laws, financial statements and correspondence. The folders are arranged by Fund names, with the smaller ones grouped together.

West Coast Christmas (New Classics Christmas Special) series

In this New Classics Christmas Special (2003), Chef Rob Feenie and sous-chef Marnie host West Coast Christmas at a beautiful and wild resort in Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Between surf lessons, beachcombing, and shopping, Rob and Marnie cook up a Christmas extravaganza using ingredients from local suppliers. Directed by Nijole Kuzmickas.

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

Westcoast Transmission Building.

Series consists of records pertaining to the development of the
Westcoast Transmission Building, completed by the Rhone & Iredale Architects, dated predominantly 1968 – 1971. Included are publications, newspaper clippings,circulars, slides and negatives.

Western series

Series contains mainly black & white film stills and colour lobby cards from western movies. Some film stills have been cropped. Ephemera includes press kits/catalogues offering promotional materials for films and clippings of film advertisements.

Wet'suwet'en Nation Trial Exhibits

At trial, the Wet’suwet’en people were represented by the 13 Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, whose territories during that time lay mainly in the watersheds of the Bulkley and parts of the Fraser-Nechako River systems and their tributaries. The original claims were altered and replaced with claims for aboriginal title and self-government, and eventually the individual claims by each House were amalgamated into two collective claims, one on behalf of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and the other for the Gitksan Nation. The Wet’suwet’en Exhibits consists primarily of records relating to Wet'suwet'en history, territory, and traditions. Series also includes Plaintiffs’ expert witness evidence, Wet’suwet’en genealogy information, photographs, oral histories, maps, letters, interviews and commission evidence.

Delgamuukw Trial

W.H. White and D.V. White correspondence

Series is composed of incoming correspondence and drafts and originals of outgoing correspondence to and from William Hale White and/or Dorothy Vernon White. The large majority of files are W.H. White's incoming and outgoing correspondence . Correspondents include W.H. White's literary and other friends, communications with publishers, and with family members. Some files include correspondence with both W .H. White and D.V. White.

W.H. White manuscripts

This series is composed of the manuscripts of published and unpublished material written by W. H. White. The notebooks sub-series includes the "Dorothy", "Black", and "White" notebooks, in which W. H. White documents his relationship with D.V. White. For the published materials sub-series, file titles and dates were supplied by D. V. White. With the exception of "Notes on Shelley" and "A Visit to Carlyle" these items were all included in "Last Pages from a Journal". "A Visit to Carlyle" was published in "Pages from a Journal".

Whisky Man: Inside the Dynasty of Samuel Bronfman series

The first Paperny Films independent production, Whisky Man: Inside the Dynasty of Samuel Bronfman (1996), is a documentary about the enigmatic founder of Seagram’s, the world’s largest distillery. Immigrating with his family to Saskatchewan and later Manitoba, Samuel Bronfman turned a family hotel and bar business into a brewery empire. Hosted by television journalist Ann Medina and directed by David Paperny. Interview subjects include several Bronfman family members, including Edgar Bronfman (son), Charles Bronfman (son), Sam Bronfman Jr. (son), Edgar Jr. Bronfman (grandson), as well as Canadian senator Leo Kolber, former Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres, Former Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek, and Scottish Whiskey Baron Ivan Straker.

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

White family papers

Series contains correspondence and other material created by or related to W.H. White' s parents, children, and grandchildren, including biographical information about various members of the Hale-White family and correspondence between members of the family and their friends.

White Pass & Yukon Route Files

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.

White River Lumber Company records

Series consists of legal records and miscellanea related to the White River Lumber Co. Legal records include permits, memoranda of agreement, tie notices, and land contracts pertaining to the company’s logging rights. Miscellanea include maps (mostly road maps of Wisconsin and Minnesota), press clippings regarding the company, and photographs.

Wilderness Advisory Committee series

Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, and published maps relating to the Special Advisory Committee on Wilderness Preservation, which advised the provincial government to manage wilderness areas in B.C., in particular, the Spatsizi-Stikine and Tatshenshini-Alsek regions.

Willemina's Christmas (unpublished) - production

This series consists of materials relating to the production and attempted publication of Willemina's Christmas, including the draft and final illustrations and manuscript, and photographs and letters sent to publishers.

William Blackley Bamford

The series consists of eight (8) “line a day” diaries and two (2) scrapbooks created by William Blackley Bamford between the years 1910-1946, reflecting his professional life as an agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, as well as his personal and family life. Bamford’s diaries document many aspects of his professional and personal life. Entries dealing with work life include information about time spent in the office, particular work projects, volume of work and work completed, business meetings and travel, and hirings made, among other topics. Entries related to personal life cover church attendance; visits made and received; birthdays and holidays; personal travel; leisure and recreational activities; purchases; banking and financial information and transactions; voting habits; household and garden chores and repairs; personal and family illness and death; moves and real estate transactions; organizational memberships and responsibilities; gifts received and given; important family events; and personal appointments. The diaries also include information of general interest, such as weather; local, regional, and world news updates, including war news; election results; and sports scores. Some diaries include inserts, such a list of political candidates and a church service program, and memoranda such as lock combinations. The diaries in the series begin when Bamford was residing in St. John, New Brunswick, and continue through a move to Nelson, British Columbia, where Bamford died.

Scrapbooks in the series contain newspaper clippings related to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; marriages and deaths of note; quotes and poems; pictures; and articles on topics of general interest, including Canadian and American news, society, and history; astronomy; popular entertainment; and the British royal family. Scrapbooks also contain business and personal correspondence and ephemera, including various programs, tickets, and invitations; menus; maps and guides; schedules and bulletins; membership cards and certificates; bills of lading; informational booklets and pamphlets; posters and notices; stamps; travel documents; bills and receipts; radio broadcast transcripts; sketches; statements of earnings; periodicals; and other material. Scrapbooks also contains some notes made by Bamford on Canadian Pacific Railway history. William Blackley Stanley Bamford’s diaries indicate that he worked on his father’s scrapbook after his death.

William Blackley Stanley Bamford

The series consists of ten (10) “line a day” or “five year” diaries and two (2) scrapbooks created by William Blackley Stanley Bamford between the years 1921-1966, reflecting his professional life as a banker with the Bank of Montreal, as well as his personal and family life. Bamford’s diaries document many aspects of his professional and personal life. Entries dealing with work life include information about time spent in the office; volume of work and work completed; a leave of absence taken; and transfers between branches, among other topics. Entries related to personal life cover marriage and raising a son; church attendance, services, and volunteer efforts; leisure and recreational activities; purchases and subscriptions; banking and financial information and transactions; voting habits; household and garden chores and repairs; personal and family health issues and deaths; moves, real estate transactions, and construction; organizational memberships and responsibilities; and family pets, among other topics. The diaries also include information of general interest, such as weather; local, regional, and world news updates, including war news; election results; and sporting results. As a career banker, Bamford made particular note of bank robberies in the news. Bamford also made a number of memoranda in the diaries, making note of insurance policy, bank account, and safety deposit box numbers; income tax figures; safe combinations; motorcycle and bicycle models and license numbers; planting diagrams; poems; transcriptions of correspondence; home remedy recipes; phone numbers and addresses; his son’s platoon number and rank; employment start date, salary, and bonuses from the Bank of Montreal; phone numbers and addresses; and birthdates. The diaries in the series begin when Bamford was residing in Toronto, and continue through a year’s leave from the Bank of Montreal, which he spent in Nelson, British Columbia, and a subsequent move to Vancouver.

Scrapbooks in the series contain newspaper clippings related to Canadian and American news, politics, society, and history; the United Empire Loyalist Association and the British royal family; deaths of note; church and religious matters; poems and pictures; and articles of general interest. Scrapbooks also contain business and personal correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to Bamford as well as his wife and son, including various programs, tickets, and invitations; visiting cards; cheques; ribbons; membership cards; certificates and licences; menus; informational brochures and pamphlets; receipts; and other material.

William Durie McLennan

The series consists of William Durie McLennnan’s correspondence, notebooks, and objects from the First World War; collected correspondence addressed to McLennan’s father-in-law, Frederic Lumb Wanklyn; and photographs of McLennan’s farm near Saint-Placide, Quebec, which was a compensation given to him as a result of his health issues arising from wartime gassing.

The series includes the following records created or collected by McLennan pertaining to his wartime service: a leather-bound notebook used in 1914; a typescript of the 1914 notebook; typed and handwritten personal correspondence; an article McLennan authored about the 5th Battery Association of 1914, published in the Montreal Gazette; a discharge certificate from the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces and war service badge certificate; various news clippings; and a metal screw used to remove the hair trigger on a Mannlicher gun. Other records in the series include black and white photographs; correspondence addressed to Frederic Lumb Wanklyn and signed by Wilfrid Laurier; and a copy of McLennan’s obituary, likely created by the 5th Battery Association of 1915.

William Huestis Bamford

The series consists of thirty-three (33) diaries and one (1) scrapbook created by William Huestis Bamford between the years 1962-2003, primarily reflecting his personal and family life. Only the first diary in the series, written between 1962 and 1964, touches on Bamford’s employment with Canada Post, including information about delivery routes and labour strikes. The subsequent daily diaries cover Bamford’s family and personal life in great detail, including part-time, temporary work at an insurance company; visits made and received; birthdays and holidays; household and garden chores and repairs; meals eaten; purchases and subscriptions; leisure / recreational activities and hobbies; personal travel; banking and financial information and transactions; voting habits; personal and family health issues and deaths; gifts received and given; important family events; personal appointments; and family pets, among other topics. The diaries also include information of general interest, such as weather, news updates, and sports results. Later diaries include extensive memoranda related to health appointments, treatments, surgeries, medications, etc. of Bamford and his wife, Esther, particularly related to her rheumatoid arthritis. Other memoranda in the diaries include lists of Christmas gifts, notes about sale and other tax increases, records of weight and weight loss, and more. Some diaries include inserts such as bookmarks; brochures and flyers; funeral service programs; postcards; tickets; theatre and event programs; invitations; coupons; and other ephemera and memorabilia.

Scrapbooks in the series contain photos, personal correspondence, notes, and ephemera, including travel-themed stickers; tickets; napkins; receipts; business cards; postcards; blood donor cards; ribbons; programs; greeting cards; grade reports; certificates; flyers; and travel documents.

William McLennan

The series contains photographs, textual records, and original artwork spanning the period 1710-1904, predominantly 1880-1903, related to the personal lives and interests of William McLennan and his family, including interests in family and Canadian history. Additionally, a sub-series contains records related to William McLennan’s work as a writer from the 1880s-1903.

Materials include full and partial drafts of published and unpublished articles, short stories, novels, and non-fiction works; research and reference materials; incoming and outgoing correspondence; legal and official documents; collected historical materials and documents; notes; sketches and a sketchbook; journals; newspaper clippings and ephemera; photographs; and other materials. Notable correspondents include Gustavus George Stuart, Marion Paterson McLennan, William Durie McLennan, Edward William Thomson, Pemberton Paterson, John Stewart McLennan, Francis McLennan, Bartlett McLennan, Neil Stewart, Hugh McLennan, William Kingsford, and the Royal Society of Canada, among others. Legal and official documents include copies of wills, notarial exams, and a certification of graduation.

Collected historical materials include ephemeral materials such as plates of historical figures and plans of famous battle locations, as well as tracings of famous Canadian autographs, bookplates, and reproductions of historical documents. Many of the original historical documents are related to the McLennan and Stewart families, including correspondence, business and financial documents, and ephemera related to Neil Stewart (1793-1881) and legal and financial documents related to John McLennan (1789-1866). The historical documents related to John McLennan are primarily agreements for land sales in Glengarry County, Ontario, where McLennan was a conveyancer. Other historical documents do not appear to have any particular connection to the McLennan family but may have been collected out of general historical interest. These documents include correspondence, loan agreements, commissions, land grants, letters patent, and a journal / memoranda book. While many of the documents relate to individuals of limited historical importance, others are related to more notable historical subjects including François Desjordy Moreau de Cabanac, Sir John Johnson, Joseph-Maurice Lamothe, Francis Baby, Jenkins Williams, Herman Witsius Ryland, Pierre-Amable De Bonne, John Mure, William Bacheler Coltman, John Stewart, John Gray, and Thomas Dunn.

Winemaking and viticulture

Series consists of records pertaining to winemaking and viticulture at Quails’ Gate Vineyard Estate and Winery. Series includes both analogue and digital records. Series includes records such as photographs, videos, maps, surveys, and tasting notes.

Winton/Kindertransport series

Series consists of materials documenting Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project and Schlesinger’s involvement in documenting and publicizing the Kindertransport many years later. Winton’s efforts rescued hundreds of Jewish children from European countries under occupation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and 1939 – Joe Schlesinger was one of them, and his name is on the list in File 9-7. Materials include scripts and transcripts for the documentaries Nicholas Winton: The power of good and Nicky’s Children, correspondence, copies of published articles about Winton and the Kindertransport, and related items. Files are maintained in chronological order.

WMST Administration series

Series consists of correspondence, proposals, reports, course evaluations, grades, budgets, and printed material about the proposal for and administration of the Women’s Studies undergraduate program.

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