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X̱wi7x̱wa Library sous-fonds

With collections and services that reflect Aboriginal teaching, learning, and research approaches, the X̱wi7x̱wa Library is the centre of academic and community Indigenous scholarship. In the early 1970s, it began as the "Indian Education Resource Centre." In May 1993, the First Nations House of Learning Longhouse and Library facility opened with a $1 million donation from William and June Bellman. In 1995, Gene Joseph was appointed as the Library's first Head Librarian. The Library became a branch of the UBC Library in 2005.
The sous-fonds consists of records generated in the course of X̱wi7x̱wa Library activities and includes correspondences, reports, meetings' minutes and agenda, memos, budgets, applications, notes, class/course materials, conference materials, newsletters, journals, newspapers clippings, and photographs. It is divided into seven series – "Indian Education Resources Centre" (IERC), administration, programs and projects, committees, conferences, miscellaneous, and photographs.

Woodward Library sous-fonds

The building of the Woodward Library was made possible by a gift from the P.A. Woodward Foundation. Opened in 1964, it served as the new home of the Biomedical Library, established in 1957 in the Faculty of Medicine's Wesbrook Building after operating as a reading room since 1950. The Woodward Library maintains specialized research materials for the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the School of Nursing, and the various biological science programmes.
The sous-fonds primarily consists of records generated during the planning, construction, and initial operation of the Woodward Library and includes correspondence, reports, and architectural drawings. It also contains materials related to various committees and funds that the head librarian of Woodward Library chaired in the 1990s, including minutes, correspondence, financial documents, and memoranda.

Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference sous-fonds.

Sous-fonds consists of records documenting the planning and organization of the "Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives" conference, including correspondence, reports, minutes, and published materials. It is arranged in two series: Conference Proposals and Miscellaneous Files.

Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference

William Templeton Papers

The sous-fonds is predominantly composed of a partial manuscript of Under the Volcano, including annotated chapters and notes. Correspondence is from Lowry and people in the publishing industry whose employers either helped to publish or rejected Under the Volcano.

Templeton, William Loftus

William McConnell Papers

The sous-fonds consists primarily of correspondence and articles about Lowry’s works. McConnell kept up correspondence with Margerie Lowry and the Crowleys in particular which spanned several decades. Also included in the sous-fonds is a short story by McConnell based on a visit with the Lowry’s at the Dollarton shack, which was published almost thirty years after Lowry’s death.

McConnell, William

Wilfrid Sadler sous-fonds.

Sous-fonds consists of articles, addresses, lecture notes, correspondence, exams, conference programs, and publications pertaining to Sadler's professional life.

Sadler, Wilfrid

Victor Doyen Papers

The sous-fonds consists primarily of correspondence to and from Doyen, predominantly from early 1973. Contents include correspondence with publishers and agents who worked with Lowry (notably Conrad Aiken, Clarisse Francillon, and James Stern), Lowry’s brother Wilfrid Lowry, other Lowry scholars (including Brian O’Kill), the Leys School, which Lowry attended, and the Wallasey Public Libraries (Wallasey absorbed the town in which Lowry lived as a child). Also included is a copy of a newspaper article about the suicide of one of Lowry’s friends at Cambridge.

Doyen, Victor

Verna Huffman Splane sous-fonds

The records in this sous-fonds reflect Verna Huffman Splane's work for the World Health Organization, the federal government, and as a faculty member at UBC and the University of Victoria. These records include government reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, articles, course outlines and notes. In addition, personal records reflect Verna's social life and interest in social welfare outside her career. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.

Splane, Verna Huffman

Thomas Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of a manuscript, Tahiti: South Sea and Other Missionary Matters, 1788-1803, papers of T. Haweis transcribed and edited by Lionel Haweis (1942), a ministry certificate (1796) and other miscellaneous items.

Haweis, Thomas

Technical Services sous-fonds

Technical Services is the Library division responsible for cataloguing Library holdings and maintaining the computer hardware and software on which the Library’s catalogue exists.

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, budgets, legal agreements and reports documenting the functions and activities of Technical Services and technical manuals documenting the Library’s catalogue systems, disaster plans, digitization plans, and strategic plans.

Stephen Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous correspondence (1910-1951), documents/correspondence relating to a house in Florence (1920-1952), and poems (1928-1963).

Haweis, Stephen

Special Collections Division sous-fonds

The Special Collections Division was established in 1960 to preserve and make the Library's rare and valuable books, manuscripts, maps, and special subject collections available to researchers. However, its origins date to 1943 and 1945, when the private libraries of Judge Frederic William Howay and Dr. Robie Lewis Reid, respectively, were donated to the Library. These collections included thousands of books and other publications regarding the history of British Columbia and Canada and numerous maps, photographs, and manuscripts. They together surpassed the "Canadiana" holdings of almost every other Library in the country. Since 1960 the Division's holdings have grown to include graduate theses, university archives, cartographic and architectural materials, fine press books, and early children's books. The Division has been headed by Basil Stuart-Stubbs (1960-1964), Anne Yandle (1964-1991), Hans Burndorfer (1992-1996), Brenda Peterson (1996-2001), and Ralph Stanton (2001- ). In 1991 the name was changed to "Special Collections and University Archives Division" to reflect the increased operational and administrative importance of the University Archives within both the Division and the university.
The sous-fonds consists of records generated in the course of the Division's activities and include correspondence, reports, minutes, financial documents, and printed/published materials. They are arranged in the following series: Division and Library Records, U.B.C. Committees and Departments, External Correspondence, Special Collections Records (continuation of Division and Library Records), Correspondence - Incoming and Outgoing (continuation of External Correspondence), and Map Collections.
The early records in this sous-fonds complement and, to some extent, overlap those in the Basil Stuart-Stubbs series in the Librarian's Office sous-fonds, reflecting that Stuart-Stubbs was head of the Division immediately before he became University Librarian.

Sedgewick Library sous-fonds

A separate library for first and second-year undergraduate students was established in 1960 when the College Library was established in the new south wing of Main Library. In 1964 it was renamed the Sedgewick Library after former professor and head of the Department of English Garnet G. Sedgewick. The growth of both its collections and the University's undergraduate population made it necessary for Sedgewick Library to move to new facilities, and in 1969 Rhone & Iredale Architects were commissioned to design a new undergraduate library. The new Sedgewick Library was opened in January 1973 – it was located underground, beneath Main Mall and directly across from Main Library. The building received several awards: 1970 Best Design Award, Canadian Architecture Yearbook; 1974 First Award of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as the best building of all kinds built-in 1973; 1980 Honour Award, Architectural Institute of British Columbia. The continuing growth of the Library's collections eventually forced the ideal of a separate undergraduate facility to be abandoned, and in 1996 Sedgewick Library was absorbed into a new central facility, the Walter C. Koerner Library.
The sous-fonds consists primarily of records generated in planning and building the underground Sedgewick Library and includes reports, correspondence, drawings, minutes, printed materials, and photographs of the building nearing completion. These make up the Planning, Design and Construction series. There is also a series called Reports, which consists of reports on overdue books and related issues, and an Architectural Plans series.
Architectural drawings were transferred to the University Archives in 1988. They include original manuscript drawings, construction plans from the various contractors, proposals for alterations, and contractors' plans for alterations.

Science and Engineering Division sous-fonds

In 1960 the Reference Division was disbanded, and its staff and services were distributed among several newly-created subject divisions. One of these was the Science Division, located in the new south wing of the Main Library. Its staff was responsible for providing reference services in the physical sciences (except biological sciences, centred at Woodward/Life Sciences) and engineering. It was re-named Science and Engineering in 1992.
Sous-fonds consists of annual and other reports from the Science Division and floor plan drawings for parts of the Main Library where the Division and its collections were located.

Rudy Wurlitzer Papers

Sous-fonds contains typed copies of approximately 100 letters from Malcolm Lowry to various friends, editors, publishers, and translators of his works. Harold Matson, Albert Erskine, and David Markson are frequently recurring addressees. The only incoming letter to Lowry (also a typed copy) is from Arthur Lowry, Malcolm Lowry’s father.

The sous-fonds also includes a typescript of a prose text of uncertain authorship which in part details Lowry’s 1949 stay at a Vancouver hospital with a broken back and ribs. Excerpts of letters are also included in the prose account.

Wurlitzer, Rudolph

Richard Beverley Splane sous-fonds

Work records reflect Splane's work in Alberta, his time in the RCAF, his lengthy career in the federal government, and his time at UBC. Personal records reflect Splane's social life and interest in social welfare outside his profession. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.

Splane, Richard B.

Reference Division sous-fonds

Providing reference services for its patrons - helping them find research materials and teaching them how to use the Library - is one of the Library's core functions. In 1920 Frances Woodworth was appointed the first "Superintendant of Reading Room and Reference Librarian." Reference services expanded rapidly, and by 1937 a separate Reference Division, headed by Anne M. Smith, had been established. The Division was responsible for coordinating all reference services until 1960 when it was disbanded and its staff and services distributed among the newly-created subject divisions. There was an addition to this sous-fonds of 5 cm of textual material by Associate University Librarian, Research, Lea Starr, in January 2020.
The sous-fonds consists of the Division's monthly and annual reports and minutes of its staff meetings, bound into six volumes. Included with Associate University Librarian Lea Starr's materials is correspondence regarding the Tsilhot'in Archive, cIRcle Collections related files, Koerner Library renovations and terms of reference for the Art in the Library Task Group.

Reading Rooms Division sous-fonds

The Reading Rooms Division was responsible for departmental reading rooms until the 1983/1984 academic year. In 1983/1984, the Division was disbanded, and responsibility for reading rooms shifted to individual departments. The Library’s Serials Division assumed responsibility for ordering reading room subscriptions, paid for by the department, until 1997.

Sous-fonds primarily consists of correspondence between the Serials Division and departmental reading rooms.

Posthumous Letters of Sympathy sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consist of correspondence from Daniells' family after his death from friends. While many of these are laudatory or conventional, others contain interesting recollections. For this reason, they have been placed with the collection even though they are not, technically speaking, part of the Roy Daniells papers.

Photographs

Sous-fonds consists of over 1,000 photographs pertaining to Lowry. Many depict one or both of the Lowrys at Dollarton, their various residences in the USA, Europe, and Mexico, their friends, family, and literary agents and publishers.

Pegeen Brennan sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence to Brennan from Riddehough and Brennan and Doreen Nalos from Riddehough. These often included copies of his poetry. The series also includes correspondence to Brennan from Riddehough's acquaintances after his death and from the trust company concerning his estate.

Brennan, Pegeen

PATSCAN sous-fonds

In 1986 the Library obtained a grant through the Canada-British Columbia Subsidiary Agreement on Science and Technology Development to develop and operate a patent search service. PATSCAN was designed to promote patent literature as a source of information; expand easier and more effective access to Canadian patent literature, and provide a patent search service to faculty and students. Located in the Science and Engineering Division in Main Library, PATSCAN operated under the direction of Ron Simmer until 2004.
The sous-fonds consist of records generated in PATSCAN activities and includes correspondence, reports, examples of patent search results, PATSCAN newsletters, and printed materials (including course/training materials and brochures). The materials are arranged in three series: Reports, Printed Materials, and General.

Olav Slaymaker Sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous personal correspondence and notes regarding Dr. Slaymaker's research interests. The Miscellaneous series is the only series in the sous-fonds.

Slaymaker, Olav

Office of the Vice Presidency Sous-fonds

The sous-fonds of the vice president’s office consist of records made or received in fulfillment of the management and administrative requirements of the university. These records document the supervision of functions and activities of subordinate bodies; research, creation and elaboration of university programs, including academic development and community outreach; participation in presidential, university and various ad hoc committees; liaison with bodies internal to the university, such as faculty or the Alma Mater Society as well as external bodies, including, other universities, government and the private sector. The records also record budget preparation and correspondence regarding administrative matters.

There are six series in this sous-fonds dedicated to the following offices and office holders: Vice President Student and Academic Services 1986 - 2003; Vice President Administration and Finance - 1984 - 1987; Vice-President of Faculty and Student Affairs - 1975-1984; Deputy President and Bursar – William White - 1969-1984; Deputy Vice President – W.M. Armstrong - 1969-1974; Vice-President of University Academic/ Development/ Provost 1975-1985. In addition, the sous-fonds include the Vice Presidents Administrative Subject Files, 1981 series, Universities Council of British Columbia, 1974- 1983] series, and The Association of Commonwealth Universities series, 1978.

University of British Columbia. Office of Vice-President

Microfilm

Sous-fonds includes microfilmed versions of the following Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection sous-fonds: Malcolm Lowry Papers, Margerie Lowry Papers, William McConnell Papers, Earle Birney Papers, Harvey Burt Papers, Victor Doyen Papers, Anthony Kilgallin Papers, David Markson Papers and Markson’s 1952 graduate thesis, Einar Neilson Papers, William Templeton Papers, Carol Betty Atwater Papers, and the Lowry Family Papers. The sous-fonds also contains microfilmed versions of the following fonds related to the Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection not included under the Collection umbrella: Muriel C. Bradbrook (VF-0243a-c), Jan Gabrial (VF-0283), Michael Mercer (VF-0326), the National Film Board (VF-0256), Brian O’Kill (VF-0299), the Unitarian Church of Vancouver (VF-0333), Anton Myrer (VF-0430), and Howard Woolmer (RBSC-ARC-1634).

Mary Eliza Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of incoming correspondence (1880-1898), copies of manuscripts and other writings, and biographical information.

Haweis, Mary Eliza

Margerie Lowry Papers

The sous-fonds reflects Margerie Lowry’s relationship with husband Malcolm Lowry, their friends and family, and her own literary endeavours. The sous-fonds is predominantly textual records. Contents include: correspondence with friends, family, Lowry scholars, and publications, typescripts and manuscripts of Margerie’s novels, photographs, and some literary criticism about Margerie’s works.

Lowry, Margerie

Margaret MacKenzie (née Thomas) sous-fonds

The sous-fonds comprises genealogical materials related to Margaret’s family and materials created by or about her life. They have been arranged into two series received with the December 2016 donation. Personal Papers (1902-1987) and Family History ([1868]-1978).

MacKenzie, Marge

Malcolm Lowry Papers

The sous-fonds reflects Malcolm Lowry’s life and work. Contents include: correspondence (incoming and outgoing), manuscripts (poetry and prose), notes and notebooks, juvenilia and other material published by Lowry, and a variety of textual and audio-visual materials about Lowry produced by friends, family, and Lowry scholars. Within the Letters series, incoming and outgoing, Lowry’s literary agents and editors, including Albert Erskine and Harold Matson, feature prominently.

Poetry and prose manuscripts comprise the bulk of the Malcolm Lowry Papers. Manuscripts frequently include several drafts of a given work as well as notes and notebooks associated with that manuscript. Under the Volcano, October Ferry to Gabriola, and Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place are among the works included in these series.

The Personal Life series includes financial records, art prints which hung on the walls of the Dollarton shacks, notes on source characters by Lowry, and records about Lowry’s life and family collected by UBC.

Audio-visual records include the 1984 film adaptation of Lowry’s Under the Volcano as well as interviews with scholars and friends of the Lowrys and documentaries about Lowry produced by the CBC and National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Lowry, Malcolm

MacMillan Library sous-fonds

MacMillan Library, located in the H.R. Macmillan Building, provided Library services to the Forestry and Agricultural Sciences faculties from 1967 to 2007. Both the building and the branch library were named for H.R. MacMillan, first Chief Forester of B.C. and later CEO of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., in recognition of his generous donations to the University and the Library. When MacMillan Library was closed in August 2007, the bulk of its collections was transferred to Woodward Library. In addition, some forestry-related materials went to the Science and Engineering Division, while the Landscape Architecture collection went to Fine Arts (Art + Architecture + Planning).
Sous-fonds consists of correspondence and reports documenting MacMillan Library’s activities and policies and the circumstances leading up to its closure in 2007.

Lucy Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of miscellaneous correspondence (1927-1931), and a childhood scrapbook.

Haweis, Lucy

L.S. Klinck sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of material generated by Klinck and records accumulated after his death by his wife Elizabeth, who passed this material on to Eagles. In addition, the sous-fonds contains biographical information, addresses/speeches, subject files, and a personal material series.

Klinck, L. S.

Lowry Family Papers

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence between members of the Lowry family (brothers Russell, Stuart, Wilfrid, and Malcolm Lowry and their parents, Arthur Lowry and Evelyn Boden Lowry) and between Russell Lowry and the leads of various Malcolm Lowry-related books and films. Contents also include several narrative reminiscences by Russell Lowry on members of the Lowry family and on the Lowry family home, Inglewood. Several editions of the Malcolm Lowry Newsletter and its retitled continuation the Malcolm Lowry Review are included, along with a special Malcolm Lowry edition of Canadian Literature.

Lowry (family)

Lionel Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of incoming correspondence (1878-1941), correspondence collected and maintained as an autograph collection (1874-1926), sketches (1885-1890), draft manuscripts and poetry, scrapbooks and clippings, printed material, glass plate negatives of Stanley Park, Vancouver (ca. 1911).

Haweis, Lionel

Librarian's Office sous-fonds

The Librarian's Office is the administrative centre of the UBC Library, and in its early years, all administrative activities were based there. However, as the Library became decentralized, these activities were devolved to the relevant branches and divisions. At the same time, the University Librarian's administrative burden increased, so a series of Assistant University Librarians were appointed, each with defined areas of responsibility, including Public Services, Collections, Technical Services and Systems, and Administrative Services.
The sous-fonds consists of records generated by the Librarian's Office and include correspondence (both internal and external), reports, minutes, memorandums, notes, budgets and other financial records, architectural plans, published materials, publicity materials (brochures, newspapers clippings), scrapbooks, and photographs. The records are arranged in thirteen series, six of which are based on the tenures of University Librarians: John Ridington, W. Kaye Lamb, Neal Harlow, Basil Stuart-Stubbs, Douglas McInnes, and Ruth Patrick. Four other series are based on the Assistant University Librarian positions for Public Services, Technical Services and Systems, Administrative Services, and Collections. The series "Librarian's Office - General," consists of records that overlap the tenures of more than one University Librarian. Most series are, in turn, further subdivided into sub-series. Included at the beginning of the General series are loan request records from McGill University College of B.C library. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre series documents the Library's involvement in the planning and development of the Centre, which replaced the Main Library. The Development Office series documents the Library's fundraising function that supports various projects and programs of other branches and divisions. The Assistant University Librarian for Collections series was originally erroneously identified as the"Collections Division sous-fond."

Lemuel Robertson sous-fonds

Robertson would have met Geoffrey Riddehough while studying English and History at the Fairview campus. Riddehough wrote to Robertson seeking academic and professional advice. Robertson was also responsible for establishing the Classics Club, of which Riddehough was a member, which was maintained until the early 1990s. Sous-fonds consists of Riddehough's correspondence to Robertson during the years he studied overseas in London and Paris.

Robertson, Lemuel F.

Koerner Library sous-fonds

Koerner Library is a renovation of the prior undergraduate library - Sedgewick. The remodel and expansion began in 1995 and was completed in 1997. Koerner provides academic library services and materials in humanities and social sciences as housing the President’s office, the research commons, microform, government publications and various study spaces.

Sous-fonds consists of administrative records related to the development of the library, correspondence, architectural plans and schematics, committees associated with the library and its development, and other reports.

John Oliver Willyams Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of a sketchbook of drawings (the 1820s - 1880s), travel logs and sketches of two trips (1886, 1887) and a bust of Hugh R. Haweis as a boy by J.O.W. Haweis (n.d.).

Haweis, John O.W.

Jean Coulthard Sous-fonds

Sous-fonds arranged in the following series: Correspondence, Financial and Legal, Biography, Programmes, Publications, Press Clippings, Manuscripts, Sound recordings, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Performance Notes and Remarks, Musical Education and Workshops, Inspirations, Journals and Date Books, and Audio Visual.

James and Constance Daniells sous-fonds

James MacFarlane Daniells was born in England in 1867. He came to Canada before the turn of the century but returned to England after a short time. In 1910, after some business reverses, he emigrated with his family to Victoria, B.C. where he worked as a builder, first in James Bay, then on Cook Street, and eventually he built a home on Cochrane Street where he lived until his death in 1951. Mr. Daniells was an overseer in the Gospel Hall and was a devout student of the Bible. Constance Maynard Daniells, nee Stevens, was born in England in 1876. In 1901 she married James Daniells, and they had one son, James Roy Daniells, who was born in 1902. She died in 1957. Constance and James joined the Plymouth Brethren in Victoria. The Plymouth Brethren were a sect of Christian believers originating in the early 19th century in Ireland. Brethren ideas of baptism were differing (RD was baptised by immersion) and they expected the second coming of Christ. The Lord's Supper was observed each Sunday. The Brethren had a tendency to follow new leaders and to divide to form new congregations. They were basically fundamentalist and considered the Scriptures the only true guide. There were no officers in the Victoria Hall. James Daniells was one of the "overseers" for a time. The privileges and duties of the ministry depended on the ability of the members.
The sous-fonds consists of correspondence (including many letters from Roy Daniells), journals, legal documents, financial papers, maps, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, verses and family information of James and Constance Daniells. There is also a series of records relating to the Plymouth Brethren, both in London and in Victoria, B.C. including incorporation documents, tracts, sermons, notes, hymn books, bibles, booklets etc. Photographs and postcards have been kept with the Roy Daniells collections.

Information Services sous-fonds

Information Services is the office responsible for coordinating the Library’s public outreach and instructional services. In the 1990s, it also administered and promoted the Library’s internet-based reference services (e.g. Gopher, e-mail, WWW).
Sous-fonds consists of records generated during Information Services activities and includes correspondence, reports, notes, class/course materials, and photographs.

Hugh Reginald Haweis sous-fonds

The sous-fonds consists of incoming correspondence (1879-1900), copies of published articles, sermons and lectures (1864-1900), and other personal material. The sous-fonds also include a small collection of material from Haweis' connection with Giuseppe Garibaldi. Materials include correspondence from or relating to Garibaldi (1860-1897) and various other manuscripts, printed and published items, and other items used in the 1882 Garibaldi display in London.

Haweis, Hugh Reginald

Hedgerow Press - Loving The Difficult sous-fonds

This sous-fonds reflects Joan Coldwell’s role in Hedgerow Press relating to the publication of Jane Rule’s final book, Loving The Difficult. It includes correspondence, contracts, obituaries, memorial speech, publication and promotion materials, proofs, a digital and paper draft of the work, and the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for non-fiction.

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