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UBC Technical Committee on the Endowment Lands fonds
Fonds consists of textual materials which document the responsibilities and activities of the Technical Committee on the Endowment Lands, and includes correspondence, agendas and minutes, reports, and published materials.
University of British Columbia. Technical Committee on the Endowment Lands
The fonds consists of Ujjal Dosanjh’s private records from 1977 to 2015, comprising of all aspects of Donsanjh’s life in Canada. A prominent portion relates to his lifelong advocacy of Indo-Canadian issues. Particular matters addressed include Sikh extremism, the Khalistan movement, the bombing of Air India flight 182, and the Komagata Maru incident. Many records of a long political career, split between the provincial level; as a BC MLA, attorney general, and premier; and the federal level in the roles Minister of Health and a member of parliament; document the years between 1979 to 2011. These records are wide ranging and diverse in terms of their topics and functions. An extensive collection of scrapbooks contains contemporary media reaction related to Dosanjh's political and community work.
The fonds is arranged into six series: Media and Publicity, Authorship, Advocacy and Indian/South Asian Issues, General Correspondence, Provincial Political Career, and Federal Political Career.
Dosanjh, Ujjal
United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, legal documents, financial records, plans, sound recordings, published and printed material generated by the UFAWU, its locals and predecessor organizations including the United Fishermen's Federal Union, the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union, and the Fish, Cannery and Reduction Plant and Allied Workers Union, as well as office files from former Presidents William Rigby, Homer Stevens, and Jack Nichols.
United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union
United States Civil War collection
The collection consists of five letters (1863-1871); a diary belonging to Charles O. Eaton of Boston; a list of clothing and other garrison camp equipment of Lt. William McKinley, Jr.; two broadsides; a printed report of a meeting of the citizens of Bobb County, Georgia (1860); a publication of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society; a lock of Mrs. Robert E. Lee's hair and an engraving of General Ulysses S. Grant and family.
United Transportation Union, Local 422 fonds
The fonds consists of handwritten notes, printed material and subject files made or created in the course of practial activities by the UTU, Local 422. In addition, the fonds consists of the records of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (.27 m, 1942-1968), the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (5.25 m, 1919-1969), the Vancouver Joint Council of Railway Unions (.55 m, 1971-1984), and the Vancouver Rail Task Force, (1 m, mainly 1977-1982).
United Transportation Union. Local 422 (Vancouver, B.C.)
University Campus and University Endowment Lands Maps and Plans Collection
The collection consists of maps and plans of the University campus and the University Endowment Lands (now Pacific Spirit Park). The collection was started by UBC Library and is now continued by the UBC Archives. The collection is arranged in several series. Maps are filed in either map cabinets or with vertical files, depending on their dimensions. Please see the finding aid for an inventory of maps.
University Climatological Station Committee fonds
Fonds consists of annual reports from the Committee, summaries of climatological data from the Station, and correspondence.
University of British Columbia. University Climatological Station Committee
University Endowment Lands collection
The collection consists of a combination of materials relating to the University Endowment Lands collected and acquired over the years by the UBC Archives. It includes notes, printed material, reports, correspondence, photographs, and clippings.
University Graduates' Society fonds
The fonds consists of the minutes of nine meetings of the University Graduates' Society in 1904.
University Graduates' Society
University Hill Book Club fonds
The fonds consists of reports from the annual meetings of the Club, which include minutes, treasurer's reports, financial records and lists of book selections (1946-1984). The fonds also includes minutes of meetings of the Book Club and related material for the period 1946 to 1984.
University Hill Book Club
University Hill Ratepayers' Association fonds
The fonds consists of two sets of 1931 minutes (April and June) of the Association.
University Hill Ratepayers' Association
University Lectures Committee fonds
The fonds consists of minutes of committee meetings, financial reports, correspondence, curriculum vitae, lists of lectures, newspaper clippings from the Ubyssey and the Vancouver Sun, posters, speeches, songs, photographs and an audio tape. This fonds also contains records of the Dal Grauer Lecture Series. The fonds is arranged in five series: Administrative, General Lectures, J.V. Clyne Lectures, Audio Tape and Photographs.
University of British Columbia. University Lectures Committee
University of British Columbia Librarians and Archivists Association fonds
Fonds consists of materials created or received by the UBC Librarians and Archivists Association in the course of its activities, and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, and written notes. It is arranged in four series: General, Salary / Collective Bargaining Committee, Travel Grants Committee, and Subject Files.
University of British Columbia. Librarians and Archivists Association
University Research Forests fonds
The fonds consists of records chronicling the history and development of UBC's Research Forests at Point Grey, and Haney, and B.C.'s interior (Cariboo) region. The fonds includes correspondence, reports, proposals, financial records, maps, surveys, blueprints, photographs, and meteorological data. The records also contain information about the operation of the Summer Camp for forestry students (1948-1986).
University of British Columbia. Research Forests
The fonds consists of biographical material, correspondence, constitutions, lists, and financial records. It also contains printed material which includes manuscripts of poetry and prose, announcements and programmes for the Vagabond Club (1915-1921), as well as ephemera and photographs. Also included are sous-fonds relating to the Comrades Club and Charles Hill-Tout (1892-1944). Fonds includes material relating to club history created by Jackie Hooper.
Vagabond Club
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records and related material (1897-1910).
Quinn, Valentine G.
The collection consists of several of Roderick Haig-Brown's manuscripts as well as editors' working papers and printers' proofs of a number of his articles and other publications. In addition, there are reviews of his writings and magazine articles about him as well as incoming and outgoing correspondence. The collection also includes correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, and subject and clippings files related to Valerie Haig-Brown's work as literary executor of the estate of her father and as author of Deep Currents, a biography of her parents.
The fonds consists of Haig-Brown’s memorabilia from her time at UBC from 1953 to 1956 and includes printed/published materials and ephemera.
Haig-Brown, Valerie
Vancouver and District Labour Council fonds
The fonds consists of minute books of both regular meetings (1889-1956) and other Council Executive Board (1907-1920) of the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (VTLC), affiliated union files and subject files of the Vancouver and District Labour Council (1956-1983). Fonds also includes minutes from the B.C. Federationist (1912-1922), the Vancouver Labour Temple Company (1909-1920), the Oil Refinery Workers' Union (1918-1921) and an address book with clippings from the British Columbia Federation of Labour (CLC).
Vancouver and District Labour Council
Vancouver Area Council of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia fonds
The fonds consists of minutes of meetings (1974-1976), campaign reports, correspondence and printed material relating to the Council's activities (1972-1976).
New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Area Council
Vancouver Burrard New Democratic Party Constituency Association fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed material relating to the activities of the constituency office and two of its elected members, Rosemary Brown and Norman Levi.
New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Burrard Constituency Association
Vancouver Centennial Labour History Project fonds
The fonds consists of records created or received by the committees and individuals working for the Labour History Project under the Centennial Commission and Centennial Labour Committee. Fonds includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, publications, posters and other advertisements for events and meetings, reports, newspaper clippings, typescripts and manuscripts, including a graduate thesis on union history. All type- and manuscripts are related to the history of various unions in Canada and British Columbia.
The fonds is divided between two series: Operational Records, and Manuscripts.
Vancouver Centennial Commission. Vancouver Centennial Labour History Project
Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Poetry Association fonds
The fonds consists of press releases, correspondence, cassette tapes of poetry readings, newsletters, forms, membership lists, statements, agendas, minutes, circulars, journals, a constitution, pamphlets, and floppy disks.
Canadian Poetry Association. Vancouver Chapter
Vancouver Cooperative Radio fonds
The fonds consists of 129 reel-to-reel tapes relating to the production of radio programmes on labour including the proceedings of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, Oct., 1977 - May, 1981 (32 tapes) proceedings of British Columbia Federation of Labour conventions, 1975-1979 (64 tapes), proceedings of various union meetings or discussion on specific unions (20 tapes) and other topics relating to the activites of labour such as democracy in Chile (13 tapes).
Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Vancouver Council of Women fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, scrapbooks, subject files, reports, briefs, lists, printed material (including annual reports) and photographs pertaining to the activities of the Vancouver Council and of the Provincial and National Councils of Women. Fonds includes photograph album of Sylka Okovick, Man Media Chairman, 1982-1985.
Vancouver Council of Women
Vancouver Fishermen's Settlement Service fonds
Contains the operational records of the Vancouver Fishermen's Settlement Services from 1943 to 1974. Records include annual and monthly financial summaries, meeting minutes, manager's reports, insurance agreements, and correspondence.
Vancouver Fishermen's Settlement Service
The fonds consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, financial records, programs, scrapbooks, speeches, membership lists, clippings, and assorted other material relating to the administration of the organization. In addition, the fonds includes recording of lectures delivered to the Vancouver Institute. It is arranged in the following series: history, constitution, minutes, correspondence, financial records, programs, membership records, newspaper clippings, series papers, and lectures.
Vancouver Institute
Vancouver Irish Prisoner of War Committee fonds
The fonds primarily contains the organizational, administrative, and operational records of the V.I.P.O.W.C. and the Irish Solidarity Committee dating from 1977 to 1994. The fonds also includes 165 audio cassettes of Saoirse Eirleann. The fonds divides into three series: The Textual Material Series, the Saoirse Eirleann Audio Cassette Series, and the Events Material Series.
Vancouver Irish Prisoner of War Committee
Vancouver Labour Committee for Human Rights fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings and activities of the Vancouver Labour Committee for Human Rights.
Vancouver Labour Committee for Human Rights
Vancouver Law Students’ Society fonds
The fonds consists of a 2-page typescript constitution (ca. 1907) and a minute book containing handwritten Society minutes (1907-1911).
Vancouver Law Students’ Society
Vancouver Local No. 55 of Finnish Organization of Canada fonds : 1910-1969
The fonds consists of photocopied minute books of the Finnish Workers' Association "Raivaija" (1910-1918), Finnish Organization of Canada, Local No. 55 (1934-1969), and Webster's Corner Socialist Local (1922-1955). The fonds also includes photocopies of financial records of Local No. 55 (1949-1957) and of subject files pertaining to the development of the Finnish culture in Canada.
Finnish Organization of Canada. Vancouver Local No. 55
Vancouver Merchants' Association fonds
The fonds consists of annual statistical reports for the Vancouver Merchant's Exchange (later Vancouver Merchant's Association) from 1965 to 1967. The reports include statistics on Vancouver ship arrivals and departures, commodity exports and imports.
Vancouver Merchants' Association
Vancouver Rifle Association fonds
The fonds consists of bound, handwritten minutes of the Vancouver Rifle Association.
Vancouver Rifle Association
Vancouver Status of Women fonds
The fonds consists of records related to Vancouver Status of Women’s (VSW’s) administrative activities, projects and lobbying endeavours, production, marketing, and distribution of Kinesis, their activities related to their advocacy function, and research and reference resources. Although the nature of VSW’s activities has changed over time, the organization has consistently maintained a commitment to addressing social issues related to women, including gender discrimination, pay equity, familial violence, racism, and many more topics. VSW has addressed these issues through a variety of avenues, including publications, press releases, lobbying of governments, a television program, workshops, and services for individuals in Vancouver. The fonds reflects these diverse organizational interests and activities in six series: 1. Administrative and executive; 2. Projects and lobbying activities; 3. Research and reference resources; 4. Advocacy; 5. Kinesis; and 6. Kinesis photobank and production room materials. Additionally, the fonds contains alphabetized subject files dating predominantly 1971-1978. The initial accession and first accrual are grouped into sets and described in the attached PDF finding aid.
The Administrative and executive series contains records pertaining to operational and executive activities including finance, committee and volunteer administration, employee management, correspondence, and strategic planning for the organization. Record types include grant applications, correspondence, invoices and receipts, meeting minutes, training materials, and correspondence.
The Projects and lobbying activities series features the records of VSW’s numerous and diverse projects and lobbying activities. Record types include VSW briefs, press releases, submissions to government, research reports, publications, correspondence, indexes for back issues of Kinesis, and volunteer applications.
The Research and reference resources series comprises materials from third parties that VSW collected to support its research projects and the needs of its visitors. The series also contains VSW briefs, press releases, and reports inter-filed with research materials. Record types include briefs and reports from other organizations, newspaper and magazine clippings, VSW correspondence, grey literature, copies of academic journals, and cassette tapes in honour of International Women’s Day.
The Advocacy series features records related to VSW lobbying and advocacy activities. These activities primarily included organizing and participating in committees and task forces set up by all levels of government, lobbying, and preparing briefs on legislative documents and materials. Record types include: correspondence with the Ministry of Justice and different coalitions such as BC Coalition of Women Centres and the 52% Coalition; meeting agendas and minutes; information sheets and brochures; event invitations; and other materials arising from VSW’s lobbying and advocacy work.
The Kinesis series includes records related to production, publication, marketing, and distribution of Kinesis, Vancouver Status of Women’ most significant publication in BC. Record types include design sketches and proofs, advertising, readers’ correspondences and surveys, volunteer training manuals, staff self-evaluations, and monthly activity reports.
The Kinesis photobank and production room materials series contains materials from the production room of Kinesis. These materials predominantly reflect the production cycle of the magazine and its records organization system for photographic and graphic materials that were used in or collected for future use in the magazine. Records include photographs, negatives, contact sheets, ephemera, and administrative records.
Vancouver Status of Women
Vancouver Town Planning Commission fonds
Fonds documents the Vancouver Town Planning Commission’s involvement in town planning and zoning regulations. It consists of material produced through the Commission’s discussions and recommendations regarding planning and zoning both for the city and for individual developments.
Meeting minutes record meetings held by the Commission’s executive committee and sub-committees, as well as public hearings held by the Commission. They address planning and zoning applications, planning and zoning by-laws and proposed amendments, and city infrastructure proposals and program progress. Zoning applications and development permits include information on specific developments, property history, and correspondence.
Fonds includes meeting minutes, development and zoning applications, by-law documents and drafts, correspondence, architectural drawings, maps, reports, and other material produced as part of the Vancouver Town Planning Commission’s business. Material is arranged chronologically.
Vancouver (B.C.). Town Planning Commission
Vancouver Union Label Trades Council fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, subject files, photographs, buttons, badges, and union labels relating to the activities of the Council.
Vancouver Union Label Trades Council
Vancouver Vietnam Action Committee fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed material from various Vancouver-based organizations (including the Vancouver Vietnam Day Committee and the Vancouver Committee to End the War in Vietnam) opposed to the war in Vietnam (1966-1972).
Vancouver Vietnam Action Committee
Vancouver Women in Focus Society fonds
The Vancouver Women in Focus Society fonds reflect their activities in video production and distribution, gallery exhibitions, activism and lobbying, community engagement, and research. Materials include correspondence, office files, newsletters, grant applications, sales and rental records, legal documents, catalogues and bibliographies, clippings, posters and flyers, meeting minutes, books, newspaper clippings, and financial records. The fonds also contains several non-WIF records relating to feminist and women’s issues, general art and film, as well as local and federal politics that reflects the context of the time and place in which Women in Focus were operating.
Records relating to the first series, the Administrative series, includes files dealing with the maintenance and upkeep of the society such as: meeting minutes, sales and rental agreements, artist contracts, artist resumes, notes, lease information, WIF newsletters, and legal and court documents. The series also consists of two subseries: Financial and Correspondence.
Records relating to the second series, the Production and Distribution series, include files dealing the Women in Focus Society’s production and distribution of feminist video and film. Production records include: meetings and records from the production committee; files relating to various individual productions; and publicity for WIF productions. Distribution records include: distribution statistics; catalogues; distribution information and research; and distribution correspondences.
Records relating to the third series, the Gallery series, include files dealing with the Women in Focus Society’s art gallery events. Gallery records include: records relating to the gallery committee; artist submissions; publicity for gallery shows; research into potential gallery shows; gallery guides; information relating to specific shows; and gallery sign in books.
Records relating to the fourth series, the Events series, include files dealing with the Women in Focus Society’s various events that they hosted or participated in. Event records include: publicity for events; project budgets and logistics research; correspondences and press releases about events; documents relating to workshops; research relating to participating in other events. Many records in the Events series relate to project-specific grant applications in the Administrative series.
Records relating to the fifth series, the Resources and Reference series, include files dealing with the Women in Focus Society’s research into related organizations and various of topics of interest. Records related to other organizations include: publicity for non-WIF productions; newsletters from other organizations; and artist profiles. Records relating to topics of interest cover political and social issues as they relate to women and/or art. These records range from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. These files include: government publications; magazines; newsletters; newspapers; zines; pamphlets; and photocopies of books.
Vancouver Women in Focus Society
Vancouver Women's Committee of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia fonds
The fonds consists of records of the Vancouver Women's Committee of the NDP (1961-1963). It consists of a handwritten minute book into which have been inserted some loose typed and handwritten material, chiefly correspondence, and some lists of names.
New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Women's Committee
The fonds consists of a typescript history of the Vancouver YMCA, four volumes of minutes (1899-1921, 1940-1945) and two volumes of minutes of the Y's Men's Club (1922-1925). Some printed material is interleafed with the first minute book.
Vancouver Young Men's Christian Association
Vancouver, New Westminster and District Union Label Trades Council fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, subject files, photographs, buttons, badges, and union labels relating to the activities of the Council. Includes records pertaining to Josephine Hallock's involvement with the Council, 1939-1979.
Vancouver, New Westminster and District Union Label Trades Council
The fonds consists of logbooks, trip register, meeting minutes, and photograph albums. The logbooks and trip registers chronicle the general activities of the Varsity Outdoor Club and the activities at their various cabin locations, with comments by many who use the facilities. The files on meeting minutes contain minutes and sometimes copies of the VOCene, the club's newsletter, or advertisement and informational material related to the organization's activities. The photograph albums include black and white and coloured prints from several decades of the club's existence.
University of British Columbia. Varsity Outdoor Club
The fonds consists of typed manuscript copies of two works written by Hemeke. "The Expulsion of Verle F. Hemeke from Local No. 562, The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, A.F.L., 1954", which forms the eighth chapter of his unpublished book "Some Political and Historical Events in the Life of Verle F. Hemeke, 1935-1955". The second manuscript is a typed address to the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Meeting in Vancouver (1987).
Hemeke, Verle F.
The Kirkness fonds consists of speech and presentation texts and notes and copies of published articles and a report.
Kirkness, Verna Jane
Fonds consists of records which reflect Brink's participation on the Environmental Assessment Panel (1973-1983) and The Nature Trust (1984-1987). The papers include material arranged in the following series: correspondence, teaching and research. The papers also include reference booklets and pamphlets. Each series is arranged in chronological order. The records primarily contain one large correspondence series from 1953 to 1975, with bulk dates of 1961 to 1971. The correspondence contains Brink's faculty papers intermingled with the Division of Plant Science's central office files.
Brink, Vernon C.
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms Lower Mainland Branch fonds
The fonds consists of material relating to the administration, communication and operational activities engaged in by executive members of the Lower Mainland Branch., both independently and in co-ordination with VANA as a whole. The material consists of correspondence files, publications, records relating to lobbying government, newsletters, records relating to speaking engagements, special event files and appointment scheduling diaries.
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms. Lower Mainland Branch
Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company fonds
The fonds consists of an incomplete run of annual reports (1906-1950) for the Victoria Lumbering and Manufacturing Company in Chemainus, B.C.
Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company
Vivaxis Energies Research International Society fonds
The fonds consists of a copy of the society's constitution (1976), newsletters (1970-1997), correspondence (1973-1985), publications (1969-1984), and audio and video tapes and films (1975-1983).
Vivaxis Energies Research International Society
Fonds consists of records documenting the history of the Volkoff family, in particular the life and career of George Volkoff. It includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, academic records and other official documentation, certificates, published items, photographs (black and white prints of various sizes, black and white 35mm negatives, and digital scans from original prints), memorabilia, and digital media. The fonds is arranged in the following series: Personal – George and Olga Volkoff, Research and Reports, Published Articles, Volkoff Family History, and Photographs.
Volkoff, George
The fonds consists of photographs, documents and unpublished material relating to Swan's career and achievements, to the construction of light railways overseas during World War I, and to the construction of bridges, grain elevators, railway branch lines and other facilities in British Columbia.
Swan, William George