The series consists of records relating to the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia’s (IABC) administration, mainly records related to its day to day business operation. Records include correspondence; financial records; and policies and procedures kept by the archives.

Series consists of records relating to the events organized by the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia (IABC), and Icelandic events attended by the IABC. Records include event planning material and promotions; posters, programmes, and brochures; correspondence and invitations; event ephemera and newspaper clippings; artifacts; and guest books of visitors to IABC events.

Series consists of the original collections acquired and preserved by the Icelandic Archives of British Columbia (IABC) during its existence.

Series consists of thirteen subseries, which correspond to the creators of the records or the research initiatives surrounding the creation of the records: the Emil Bjarnason collection, Ester Bridge collection, Magnus Eliason collection, Frances Hanson collection, Dora Hatton collection, Keith Hoff collection, Helga Howardson collection, Guðrun Johnson collection, and Lillian Sumarlidason collection, as well as the Point Roberts collection, and the New Iceland Research collection.

Luminous Sites was a large exhibition of Canadian video installations focusing on social forms of representation, curated by Daina Augaitis of the Western Front Gallery and Karen Henry of Video Inn. Works by ten artists were installed at galleries and public sites throughout the city. The exhibition was accompanied by Luminous Performance, curated by Glenn Lewis.

This series contains the records of the Media Arts and Video Art Program, including records from when the Media Arts Program was called the Video Program. Contents include administrative, funding, and grant application records (including operating grants), equipment purchasing records, artist files, project and organization files, and press clippings and promotional materials. The Western Front collaborated with many like-minded video organizations, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, and catalogues of Western Front Video Program and later Media Arts and Video Art Program holdings are included. Project files include, but are not limited to, Telecommunications Art projects from 1982-1991, The World in 24 Hours (1982), Text, Bombs and Video Tape (1991), and Infermental VI, VII, and VIII. Also in this series are records pertaining to the Media Arts and Video Art Program’s relationship with Vancouver Community Television Association.

Series documents the Anti-Apartheid Network’s (AAN) anti-apartheid activities and campaigns from 1985 to 1990. Particularly represented in the series are: the Shell boycott, which included pickets at Shell stations and a successful proposal for the Vancouver City Council to boycott the City buying Shell products for its vehicles; and AAN’s purchase of a billboard at the intersection of Broadway and Cambie for Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, as well as a birthday party that shut down the streets with its several hundred attendees. Other actions undertaken by AAN are also represented, including boycotts, protests, letter-writing campaigns, speaker events, and workshops.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, memoranda, flyers and leaflets, notes, posters, pins, photographs, reports, and other material created as part of organizing AAN activities and evaluating the public response.

Series documents the organizational structuring of and meetings held by AAN. Meetings were held monthly and were open to the public. At these meetings, members generally provided updates on ongoing campaign and protest actions, planned future activities, evaluated previous events, suggested targets for action, reviewed finances and grant applications, and addressed any other business relevant to AAN’s activities.

Series consists of meeting minutes, memoranda, notes, by-laws, and other material arising from AAN’s monthly and annual meetings.

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.

This series consists of materials related to Brown's ten months as Deputy Minister for National Revenue for Taxation. All official records related to his position remain with the government of Canada, so the papers here are personal in nature, including invitations to events, letters upon his appointment and resignation, and large prints of two comics based on his time in office.

Series is divided into two sub-series: Magazines featuring Lansdowne’s artwork and Newspaper and magazine clippings. Records include copies of magazines in which Lansdowne’s artwork is featured, along with newspaper and magazine clippings featuring articles about Lansdowne’s life and career. Also included are a small number of photographs.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie at Dollarton, Bowen Island, Sicily, Mexico, Haiti, and England among other places. Friends and family, including Earle Birney, Priscilla Woolfan, and the Burts, also appear. Series also includes picture postcards, predominantly from Mexico and France, and tickets for museum exhibits and cultural heritage sites in Mexico. Some photographs have Margerie or Lowry’s handwriting on the reverse; where titles of photographs are expository, the title is a direct transcription of Margerie’s notes on the reverse of that photograph. 732 of the photographs are taken from three photograph albums; see file-level entries for descriptions of album contents. Also included are pages of scanned copies of the contents of the three photo albums mentioned in the Photographs sous-fonds level arrangement note.

Series consists of Chinese Immigration (C.I.) registration and identification certificates related to implementing Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act that was law from 1885 to 1947, with amendments made in 1887, 1892, 1900, 1903, and 1923. Certificates were first issued to register and identify Chinese persons entering Canada. This function was expanded with the 1923 amendment requiring registration and identification of all Chinese persons residing in the country, immigrant and Canadian-born.

The series includes the most common C.I. certificates issued before the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act banned practically all further Chinese entry, therefore commonly known as the Chinese Exclusion Act:
-The C.I.5 certificate issued in relation to the head tax payment required for Chinese entry to Canada, commonly known as the head tax certificate. Early versions of the certificate in use before 1912 are present.
-C.I.36 certificate issued in exchange for a C.I.5 certificate issued before 1912 that had no photograph.
-C.I.30 certificate issued to a Chinese person entering Canada belonging to a class with exemption from paying the head tax.
-C.I.28 certificate issued to replace a lost or destroyed C.I.5 or C.I.30 certificate.

The series includes a large number of C.I.45 certificates created in 1923 and 1924. The certificate was used to implement Section 18 of the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act that required the registration of all Chinese residing in Canada within twelve months. It was issued as proof of registration of a Canadian-born Chinese who did not possess an entry certificate for the registration stamp.

Also included in the series are samples of lesser-known C.I. certificates and records, including the C.I.4, C.I.10, C.I.18 and C.I.18a, C.I.46, and C.I.50.

The series includes a small number of N.F.63 certificates related to Chinese entry to the Dominion of Newfoundland. Newfoundland’s Act Respecting the Immigration of Chinese Persons (commonly known as the Newfoundland Chinese Immigration Act) was in force from 1906 until Newfoundland and Laborador joined Confederation in 1949.

A small number of certificates relates to birth in Canada, travel documentation, registration as overseas Chinese with the Chinese government, and Canadian citizenship received following the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1947.

Series consists of twenty years of incoming correspondence organized alphabetically by sender surname and, by sender, chronologically. Contents include: postcards, photographs, and handwritten and typewritten letters (originals, negatives, and copies). When included in the accession, envelopes are retained with the letters with which they came. The bulk of Lowry's incoming correspondence was composed between 1940 and 1954 while the Lowrys resided primarily in Dollarton.

Lowry corresponded with a wide range of family (his own and Margerie's), friends from across the Americas and western Europe, and professional contacts in the literary world. Albert Erskine, David Markson, Downie Kirk, and Harold Matson, for example, all kept up regular correspondence with Lowry for many years. Several files include only short correspondences pertaining to specific activities, generally publication of one of Lowry's poems or short stories, or the translating of his works into another language.

Series consists of miscellaneous records pertaining to the personal life of Malcolm Lowry. Contents include: financial records, art prints hung on the walls of the Dollarton shacks, Lowry’s notes on source character “Fernando” (Juan Fernando Marquez) and the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, and materials gathered by UBC, including copies of Lowry’s birth and death certificates, and newspaper announcements about the death of Arthur Lowry, Malcolm Lowry’s father, and the sale of the house where Lowry wrote the first draft of Under the Volcano.

The series includes records and ephemera related to the Canadian Citizenship Council, of which Foon Sien was a member.

Further, the series includes records of Foon Sien using media platforms to better inform Canadians about wartime developments between China and Empire of Japan.

Includes records and ephemera related to the personal life of Foon Sien Wong. Items include letters, event invitations, and twenty years worth of day calendar entries.

Series consists of records relating to the Go for Broke festivals, which were held in 1995 and 1996. Go for Broke featured Asian cultural performances including performing arts, music, and literary art. These events were responsible for the creation of the Asian Canadian Performing Arts Resource (ACPAR) and a precursor to Vancouver Asian Heritage Month. Records include headshots and actor resumes of the performers involved with Go for Broke, program planning records, production schedules, programs and posters, articles about Go for Broke, photographs, and scripts.

Series consists of records related to the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) including project proposals, committee meeting agendas and minutes, programs and posters from events, budgets, grant applications, photographs, correspondence, and event planning records.

Series consists of textual records related to the Chinese Cultural Centre (CCC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Materials include a guide to Chinatown-Strathcona, publicity materials related to events sponsored by the CCC, a media briefing, a photograph of Howe Lee (a former director of the CCC), and a speech by Dr. Wallace Chung.

Series consists of final scores, edited scores, notes, and a musical program related to Dorothy Chang’s composition Gateways: Double Concerto for Erhu and Piano. Gateways was commissioned by Nicole Ge Li and Corey Hamm of the Piano-Erhu Project (PEP). Players of the erhu and piano, respectively, they began PEP as a means of exploring the tonal, musical, and cultural blends between two iconic Eastern and Western instruments. For her addition to PEP’s mission, Chang reflected on how she might address the issue of ‘east meets west,’ especially given the solo instruments’ highly distinct and disparate sonic characteristics, performance practices, and musical traditions. Gradually, the piece evolved as a patchwork of musical fragments, moments, and memories gathered from her own multicultural experiences as a first-generation Chinese American, a Western expatriate living in Taiwan, and now an immigrant to Canada. Woven into the three movements are references to a 90’s Chinese pop song, a children’s rhyme, opulent Romanticism, American minimalism, and other influences both subtle and not. The title refers to a Tang Dynasty poem that depicts a gateway as both an opportunity and a barrier, reflecting a deep yearning for a faraway time, place, or memory. The work premiered April 14, 2018 at the VSO Annex Theatre; Ge Li and Hamm served as soloists; William Rowson conducted members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Series consists of original graphic scores, conductor's score, working templates, notes, art prints, and photographs related to the work ‘slippages’ by Montréal based composer and interdisciplinary artist Deborah Carruthers. In 2017, Carruthers served as the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia (UBC). Deborah teamed up with science researchers at the institution as well as the UBC School of Music to find a way to creatively combine sound, science, and visual art for the purpose of increasing public awareness of the climate crisis. Carruthers conducted field work for the project in the Columbia Icefield along the border of British Columbia and Alberta. Inspired by the threatened glacial landscape, Carruthers returned to her Montréal studio and completed a series of paintings, 27 of which were selected and arranged to produce a graphic score. Graphic scores use visual symbols to represent music rather than traditional music notation. Because of their emphasis on the visual, graphic scores are frequently considered works of art in and of themselves. Moving from sight to sound is accomplished through the creation of a geography of the orchestra on a sheet of transparent plastic which is then used to map over Carruthers’ art works and determine which instruments take responsibility for which parts of the images. ‘Slippages’ premiered Friday, October 5th, 2018, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts with the UBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the symphony’s Director, Dr. Jonathan Girard. Project documentation includes a notebook holding hand-written texts revealing assimilation of glacial theory, inspirational preliminary sketches, and unique inserts; an audio/video recording of the premier; and a copy of a video component to be shown above the orchestra as it performs the work.

The series contains textual records pertaining to the Klondike Gold Rush. The records reflect major activities such as commerce, travel, mining, and tourism in the Klondike. Legal records documenting the mining boom, including mining claims, grants, stock certificates, and court documents are present throughout the series. Records of individual miners and mining companies are included in the series as well as those of prevalent government bodies, including the office of the Gold Commissioner and the Department of the Interior. In addition to these activities, the series also reflects various works of individuals who journeyed north to the Klondike during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as promotional and informational material developed by travel and outfitting agencies. The series also contains records related to the Lind family’s personal connection to the Yukon, including the unpublished account of John G. Lind’s trip to the Klondike.

Significant record types include correspondence, receipts and checks, pamphlets and printed volumes, advertisements, postcards, diaries and journals, newspapers and newspaper clippings, sheet music, theatre programs, as well as guidebooks and souvenir books

Series documents Thomas’ research into the folk songs and history of British Columbia. Material includes articles, lyrics, music sheets, photographs, and music catalogues. The series is arranged into the six following subseries: history, music, people, photographs, record catalogue, and song files.

This series includes materials on various folk music and song societies, festivals, and events that Philip J. Thomas was involved with. The majority of the series consists of correspondence and promotional material.

Series contains copies of books and ephemera issued by A Lone Press (1998-1999) and Heavenly Monkey (1999- 2010) and includes setting copies, detailed page layout schematics, dummy of final book, final printing schedule and sequence, proofs and impressions, make-ready copies, printing plates, printing blocks, photographs and various other documents used in the creation of each item.

Series contains a total of 18 cassette tapes recorded by Irene Howard. Some were conducted in the course of research on the life of Ethel Wilson. These include interviews and/or discussions with Lila Malkin, Lucile Parsons, D’Uyly Rochfort and Mrs. George Thompson. The other interviews related to the history of Vancouver’s West End with Mr. G.E. Eldridge, Mrs. A.D. Bell-Irving, Elspeth Cherniavsky and Henry Randolph Clyne. The other interviews include Clyde Turner on Woodward’s Department Store and Bill Beacon of Berryland Farms. There is one interview that contains material for broadcast, called Mom’s Repairs.

Series contains various black and white photographs related to Swedish culture and Swedes in B.C (some labelled and dated). Images include: reproductions of historical photos from the B.C. Provincial Archives and the Vancouver Public Library; hand drawn maps of Sweden on illustration boards and two oversized photographs of railroad workers (unidentified).

Series includes materials related to Howard’s book <i>Vancouver Svenskar: A History of the Swedish Community in Vancouver</i> and research on Swedes in Canada and in B.C., to Irene Howard’s activities as editor and literary agent for Ronald Liversedge and his unpublished memoir <i>Memoirs of the Spanish Civil War,</i> to her involvement in the Writer’s Union of Canada. The material included in the series also pertains to Howard’s research and articles on the Branvolds of Diamond Head, Helen Gutteridge, Ethel Wilson and on “high society” in Vancouver’s West End at the turn of the century with transcripts of taped interviews with Joseph Malkin, Lila Molson, Elspeth Cherniavsky, Mrs. A. W. Bell-Irving, H.R. Clyne and Gardner S. Eldridge. There is also correspondence from Arne Johnson regarding lumber unions, a Swedish pamphlet on the Industrial Workers of the World, and two black and white publicity photos of Irene Howard in this series.

Series contains newspaper clippings, election material and press releases created during various election and leadership campaigns in the mid 1990’s, including Jim Green for MLA in 1996 and Bill Siksay for MP in 1996-1997.

Series contains records relating to finances of the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of supplemental program and budget for shingles and shakes and shingle and shake funding.

Series contains records relating to the reorganization and governance of the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of organization’s mission and mandate, strategic plan, goals and activities, organizational plans, descriptions about COFI positions and departments, questions about the future direction of the organization, staff development seminar documents, documents concerning issues faced by COFI during the 1990s, and the documents regarding the reorganization of the organization. Materials also include COFI’s reorganization of its Shingle and Shake division.

Series contains records relating to legal proceedings and questions relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of judgements from the Supreme Court of British Columbia and a detailed description of reasons for the judgements and mini trail reports concerning trials of lumber related companies and an inquiry report regarding scaling at Shoal Island Log sort.

Series contains lists of Council of Forest Industries members. Material consists of member mills list, a list of shingle and shake producers, list of shingle mills in British Columbia

Series contains newsletters relating to the Council of Forest Industries Shingle and Shake Division. Material consists of newsletters that are concerned with education and training information, committee updates and reports, residential housing construction figures, notes on publicity, and average prices of different wood related constructions in the Vancouver and Victoria area.

Series contains news release relating to the Council of Forest Industries Shingle and Shake Division. Material consists of a news release aimed at the European forest industry, more specifically to the United Kingdom and news releases from the Canadian Forest Industries Council regarding the International Trade Administration and their ruling on Canadian lumber products, a communiqué regarding the Wood Products Export Agreement extension, a news release advertising the name change of the Northern B.C. Lumber Association to the Northern Forest Products Association (NFPA) as a result of COFI’s reorganization, a media release concerning an announcement being made regarding B.C. forestry and tourism sector.

Series contains photographs and slides relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Photographs depict uses of shingle and shakes and various members of COFI, past presidents and members of forest and lumber associations in British Columbia.
The series is subdivided into two sub-series: Shingle and Shake Examples and Council of Forest Industries Members and Presidents.

Series contains statistics relating to the Council of Forest Industries activities. Material consists of statistics regard the shingle and shake and lumber exports from Canada to the United States, statistics of Certigrade Shingles and Certi-Split Shake production by grade and type, Red band Shingle Conversion Table, figures on the
shipment of shingle and shakes to external markets, shingle and shake export figures, and shingle and shake exports by country.

Series consists of clipped advertisements for red cedar shingles and shakes, as well as pamphlets and other literature distributed by the Bureau. Most of the files of advertisements were either sent from Seattle to Vancouver and compiled into files in Vancouver, or compiled by the Vancouver office, as indicated by the file titles. Series also contains a file of photographs showing various uses of red cedar shingles on homes and other structures.

This series consists of financial records for the businesses that George Gee represented as a Business Agent for the Union. This series consists of bank and taxation receipts, court documents, Northern Gem Mining Corporation shareholder documents, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers notices and shareholder documents, G. & B. Heating Ltd. documents and financial statements, electrical contractor certificate documents, letters, forms, property assessment and sales agreement, Workmen's Compensation Boards claim documents, and British Columbia Electric Co. pension documents.

This series consists of the collected records pertaining to George Gee’s activities acting in the capacity of union business agent for Acme Plumbing and Heating Service and The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in the United States and Canada. The series contains correspondence, employer lists, reports, clippings and leaflets, contract amendments, union bulletins and other related documents. Correspondents and subjects include: Department of Labour, The Canadian Labour congress, correspondence with RCA, Rankin, Dean & Simons: Barrister, Solicitors, and Notaries Public, and Maxwell Construction Ltd.

This series consists of photographs of the interior and exterior of the Press Club in British Columbia, and photographs, negatives and a contact sheet of railway construction.

Series contains of records related to different projects undertaken by the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of correspondence requesting films about the forestry and lumber industry, a discussion of caption for a forestry related film, an extract from an article on Fire Proofing Wood, correspondence requesting information on the preservative treatment of timber, and a request for a speaker to present his knowledge of wood chemistry.

Series includes statistics relating to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association. Materials consist of a comparison of logging and sawmill workers by nationality and statistics from the Bureau of Economics on commodities from British Columbia that are exported to foreign countries.

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.

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.

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.

Series consists of circulars from the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau based in Seattle, Washington, which outline “Waterborne Shipments of Lumber” by the foot for each year, circulars concerning trade extensions regarding various markets including South Africa, the United States British West Indies, Hong Kong, extracts from the Seattle Post Intelligencer and other American newspapers.

Series contains financial records relating to Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of the association’s financial audit reports.

Series contains administrative records relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of N.R. Dustings business files regarding the association’s activities and functions, and blueprints of the Canadian Indemnity Building located at 1477 Pender St, Vancouver, offices for the Council of Forest Industries, Plywood Manufacturers Association, British Columbia Loggers Association, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association and the Consolidate Red Cedar Shingle Association.

Series contains audio-visual material relating to the Council of Forest Industries. Material consists of audio reels, video cassettes, film reels, and cassette tapes that document different types of trees, health and safety procedures during forestry operations, and promotional material regarding forestry and lumber.