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Amy Dalgleish fonds
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Activism and correspondence

The series consists of correspondence related to Ms. Dalgleish’s political engagement on various issues, including the rights of the poor and working class, Innu land rights, and the 1990 Kanesatake Resistance. The series also contains legal records related to the estate of her mother Amelia Caroline Dalgleish, which reached the B.C. Supreme Court and resulted in a decision which affirmed the right of a woman to use her maiden name on probate documents. Record types include correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and court decisions.

Dalgleish, Amy

Amy Dalgleish fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1156
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1990

The fonds consists primarily of subject files created and accumulated by Amy Dalgleish relating to various organizations in which she was involved such as the New Democratic Party and the Vancouver Society of Friends for the Elderly as well as social issues such as breastfeeding. The fonds also contain records from Ms. Dalgleish’s 1956 legal case before the B.C. Supreme Court on the right of a woman to use her maiden name on probate documents, as well as correspondence related to her various areas of political engagement.

Dalgleish, Amy

NDP

  • RBSC-ARC-1156-10-8-10
  • File
  • 1960-1961, 1965-1966, 1969, 1972, 1978-1982, 1990-1991

    • Part of Amy Dalgleish fonds

Re Dalgleish Estate

Includes a 1956 judgement written by B.C. Supreme Court Justice H. W. McInnes upholding the right of a woman to use her maiden name on probate documents.

Subject files

Series consist of files created by Ms. Dalgliesh relating to her work with different organizations which she was a part of including Agora, the Broadway Commonwealth Society, Conscience Canada, the Council of Canada, humanists, the NDP (New Democratic Party), and WILPF (Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom). The files regarding breastfeeding contain various records which portray both Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in the subject and her involvement with INFACT. Other files in the series contain records depicting Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in various subjects such as British Colombian native people, the (CBC), daycare, chiropractic, Dying with Dignity, the environment and recycling, family law, forestry, Grapes, midwifery, Nanoose, peace, Rolf's plan, theology, and women's issues. Two of the files contain records regarding her trips to both China (1980) and Nicaragua (1982). The financial records relate to Ms. Dalgliesh's interest in withholding the percentage of her income tax that, she believed, was being used by the Canadian government to support the military.

The other files contain audit and offices procedures, correspondence: both incoming and outgoing with others who were also interested in various social issues, information on Dorothy Gretchen Steeves, and an essay on capitalism (notes and drafts). The miscellanea files contain various periodicals and files of information regarding many subjects which Ms. Dalgliesh designated as miscellanea.