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Vice President Academic and Development / Provost series

The series consists of records related to the Academic Women's Association, Chancellor, International Development Research Centre, Faculty & Student Affairs, Animal Care Report, Development of the Botanical Garden, Sub-Committee on Allocation of Computer Dollars, Academic Development, TRIUMF, Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Law, Medicine and Science. Records from President's Advisory committees, permanent, advisory, temporary and ad-hoc committees on Campus Land-Use, UBC Press, Parking Needs, Gerontology, Asian Centre, Computer Centre, Information Technology. Records about "Indian Education," organizational charts, and Y2K. Please see the inventory of files in the finding aid for a complete list of subjects.

Vice President of Faculty and Student Affairs series

The series consists of records corresponding to the various areas of responsibility of the position. The records reveal the changing role that the Faculty and Student Affairs office held within the university. The series includes four sub-series, which are Knowledge Network (consists of program proposals for the Open Learning Institute / Knowledge Network from faculty, along with accompanying correspondence, receipts, and memoranda), Committees (subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, and memoranda referring to Presidential and ad hoc committees); Faculties (subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, and memoranda, arranged by faculty), and Student Affairs (subject files comprised of minutes of meetings, interdepartmental memoranda, surveys, and newsletters). The records in the Student Affairs sub-series also consist of records created after the responsibility was shifted to different VP positions. This is due to several files consisting of records spanning three individuals in those differing positions in the early 1980s.

Vice President Student and Academic Services

The series consists of minutes, agendas, reports and accompanying material of presidential and ad hoc committees, as well as constitutive documents relating to the functional areas of student and academic services. The series consists of five sub-series: Administrative, Committees, Subject Files, Student and Academic Affairs, and Computing Services.

Victory 1945 series

Directed by David Paperny and Susan Ridout, Victory 1945 (2004) is a two-part historical documentary focusing on the vivid, personal stories of the dramatic final months of the war, leading up to VE (Victory in Europe) Day, May 8th, 1945, as told by Canadian World War II veterans who served overseas, and their girlfriends and wives that were waiting at home. It tells not only the story of Canadian's efforts overseas in the last days of the war and their impact on the war but of the reality that they came back to Canada and switched to a world and country at peace. The documentary is based on the memories of Canadian veterans and their wives, including Alex Colville, a war artist who became a world-renowned painter and Companion of the Order of Canada, Peter Stursberg, a CBC war correspondent and member of the Order of Canada, author David Dickson, later a Supreme Court judge in New Brunswick, John Dougan, who would have a long career as a Canadian ambassador, and others. The documentary also includes interviews with several post-war immigrants who left a war-ravaged Europe, including Holocaust survivor Celina Lieberman, former German U-Boat engineer Werner Hirschmann, and a ten-year-old German boy named Holger Herwig, now a military historian at the University of Calgary. Victory 1945 is narrated by Steve Burgess.

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

Video

The videos relate to fishing issues such as the Skeena River Steelhead, Salmon, the Sportfish Observer Program and First Nations fishing rights. Many are undated and/or without production information. The videos are arranged by SP VT numbers; SP VT 19.1 – 19.9.

Video cassettes

Two VHS copies of the documentary film, "The Spirit Wrestlers," and other video cassettes relating mainly to the life of the Doukhobors in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.

Video Cassettes

This series consists of four videos of programs produced by B.C. Hydro that were broadcast on local television in British Columbia in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

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