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Chinese Head Tax Project subseries

Subseries consists of research notes and digital data assembled by Ward and Dr. Henry Yu for the Chinese Head Tax Project. This comprehensive project involved digitizing more than 96,000 entries to the Chinese Head Tax Register.

World Urban Forum subseries

Subseries consist of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to the World Urban Forum in Barcelona, Spain and Vancouver, Canada.

Lectures & debates subseries

Lecture materials relating to Dr. Grace’s talks on Thompson. Includes: correspondence, lecture notes, overhead transparencies, clippings, and ephemera.

Transcription subseries

Subseries consists of transcriptions taken from videotaped interviews of corporate insiders, critics, whistle-blowers, and other individuals such as Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, and Milton Friedman. The transcriptions also include the time code that corresponds to the location on the audio video cassettes. These taped interviews can be accessed through VT UBC 1174 to VT UBC 1478.

Babel subseries

Babel was a newsletter created and circulated within the graduate student community and contains written contributions in prose, poetry, and drawings. Sub-series consists of six editions of the newsletter, filed chronologically from September 1998 to March 1999.

Sustainable Cities Foundation subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional work at board meetings of the Sustainable Cities Foundation.

Legal Documents for APEC PCC and related Federal Court Litigation subseries

The subseries consists of submissions by counsel representing various individuals and organizations, including the Attorney General of Canada, the Vancouver Police Department, the RCMP and various civilian participants in the RCMP PCC. It includes Affidavits, Books of Authority, Motion Records, Arguments, and Submissions.

External Affairs subseries

Subseries consists of an organization chart, job descriptions, resumes, budgets, and policy manuals, all of which pertain to the External Affairs division.

APEC Exhibits and Related Documents subseries

The subseries consists of documents compiled by various government agencies and civilian witnesses for exhibit during the RCMP Public Complaints Commission. The exhibits consist of correspondence, witness statements, police statements, photographs and videotapes and other materials considered pertinent for inclusion in the PCC. The series also includes the Commission's Interim Report, published in July 2001. The exhibits are arranged in alpha-numeric order where applicable and then by creating agency or individual.

APEC Alert and Jonathan Oppenheim Documents subseries

The subseries consists of materials created and disseminated by APEC Alert before the APEC summit and in its aftermath and materials collected and created by Jonathan Oppenheim. It consists of posters, pamphlets, and ephemera produced by APEC Alert, information about APEC and the leaders of the APEC countries; News Releases about the PCC and a letter written to UBC faculty. In addition, it includes documents composed by Oppenheim and other APEC Alert members in their attempts to subpoena then Prime Minister Jean Chretien to appear at the RCMP PCC.

Videotapes subseries

The subseries consists of videotaped exhibits compiled for the APEC PCC and other amateur and news videos of actions at UBC and Downtown Vancouver concerning APEC. The videos include helicopter and night vision footage of downtown and UBC, news coverage of APEC and the protests at UBC, and RCMP video footage of the event at UBC.

APEC RCMP PCC Exhibits subseries

The subseries consists of documents compiled by various government agencies and civilian witnesses for exhibit during the RCMP Public Complaints Commission. The exhibits consist of correspondence, witness statements, police statements, photographs and videotapes and other materials considered pertinent for inclusion. The exhibits are arranged in alpha-numeric order where applicable and then maintained by the donor.

Citizenship Judge subseries

Subseries consists of reference materials, research and reports, citizenship programs, correspondence, citizenship promotional material, and meeting minutes and agenda from H. Peter Oberlander’s time as a Citizenship Court Judge.

RCMP PCC / Federal Trial Correspondence subseries

The subseries consists of correspondence regarding the RCMP PCC and related legal action around the PCC. It consists primarily of correspondence to Jonathan Oppenheim but includes correspondence written by Oppenheim and other civilian participants in the RCMP PCC. In addition, it includes Oppenheim's "resignation letter" to PCC Commissioner Ted Hughes. The majority of the correspondence is arranged in roughly chronological order.

General APEC Documents and Correspondence subseries

The subseries consists of various documents related to the APEC PCC. It includes a variety of APEC-related correspondence, exhibits, submissions and notes. Much of the material is related to the perceived lack of cooperation of the Prime Minister's Office in providing access to necessary documents. Or access to the Prime Minister himself, as well as including Procter's note which led to Andy Scott's resignation and the end of the first phase of the RCMP PCC.

The Clean Body: A Modern History subseries

Subseries consists of research and materials relating to Ward's book The Clean Body: A Modern History published by McGill-Queen's University Press in November 2019. This book represents a synthesis of scholarship on the history and development of personal hygiene in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. Types of records in the sub-series include journal article photocopies, research notes, correspondence, publicity materials, manuscript copies, and chapter drafts of the book. Photocopied documents retained by the archivist include some sort of annotations by Ward. This project included some digital-born materials saved by Ward on a USB removable memory drive. Records saved as files on the drive included various journal articles or chapters in addition to a master bibliography for the project created in the software EndNote. Other *file formats included are Microsoft Word Documents (.docx and .doc), Microsoft Excel Documents (.xlsx and .xls) and PDFs.

Some of the records in this subseries are in Italian, French, and German.

Please ask archives staff regarding access to digital-born materials. To access EndNote files, users need to run the EndNote software on their devices.

Jean Coulthard subseries

Subseries consists of notes, articles, correspondence, drafts, papers and miscellaneous research materials relating to Jean Coulthard.

Infant Mortality Project subseries

Subseries consists of research notes and annotated German-Language articles on Infant Mortality between 1880 and 1940. The Infant Mortality Project looked at the changing medical understanding of infant mortality before WWI. Ward pursued a professional and personal interest in this project, but it did not reach the publication stage.

UK subseries

This subseries consists of records relating to the collaboration between UBC and various universities and educational organizations in the UK. It includes correspondence, program information, and draft reports.

Human Solidarity subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to the Human Solidarity conference at Habitat II in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996 and the 1998 Global Meetings on Community Economic Development in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Records relating to the Habitat II conference are also found in the United Nations Works and Activities subseries.

Development Office subseries

Subseries consists of an organization chart, job descriptions, resumes, budgets, policies, work plans, protocols, case statements, outlines, and performance review forms.

USA subseries

This subseries consists of records relating to the collaboration between UBC and various universities and educational organizations in the United States. It includes correspondence, brochures, reports, and meeting information.

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