Subseries includes items published in small batches, which might have been created using technologies such as Xerox photocopying, and at home binding techniques including staples and sewing, and which are most often in small (i.e. smaller than A4size) formats, or items which Anna defined as zines. Items are often self-published, or published through small collectives.

This subseries can be differentiated from other subseries as a result of the format and the content of the files. For example, it excludes exhibit catalogues, as Banana distinguished in her own filing system between the two, so small, zine-like exhibit catalogue are not included. Files are distinguished by the names of zines or zine collections. It includes one-off booklets, handmade artists poetry books, handmade or custom zines, some handmade “one of a kind books,” and regularly published small format zines and newsletters.

YWCA Metro Vancouver maintains relationships with the YWCA of Canada and with local Canadian YWCAs. This is generally accomplished via: participation in National Conventions, National Councils, and other national meetings and workshops; the YWCA of Canada’s dissemination of policy statements, reference materials, annual reports, and other administrative records and publications to local YWCAs; general communications between YWCA Metro Vancouver and both the YWCA of Canada and local associations; and YWCA Metro Vancouver’s receipt of local Canadian YWCAs’ publications.

Records consist of publications, reports, National Convention and National Council material, reference materials, and other records arising from YWCA Metro Vancouver’s involvement with the YWCA of Canada, local Canadian YWCA associations, and national meetings. Material in this fonds recording interactions between the YWCA of Canada and other affiliated organizations (e.g., World YWCA, national and local YWCAs located outside of Canada, YMCAs) is also kept in this subseries.

Subseries documents YWCA Metro Vancouver’s research on its own history, typically for the purpose of producing historical summaries of the organization, staff, facilities, programs, and/or membership in the service of communications and promotion. Activities represented include: compilation of original and copied material; correspondence with former staff and members involving commentary on YWCA history and attached original materials; research and note-taking on the YWCA’s history; and communication of YWCA history via presentations, publications, and promotional pieces.

Records consist of collected original and photocopied material, material sent in by former members and staff, notes, written summaries, presentations, and other material used to produce, comment on, and communicate the history of the organization.

Similar to the YWCA, the YMCA is a movement operating at three levels: local, national, and world. The YMCA was founded in England in 1844 as the Young Men’s Christian Organization, with the mission of “the spiritual condition of the young men engaged in houses of business, by the formation of Bible classes, family and social prayer meetings, mutual improvement societies, or any other spiritual agency” (“Sir George Williams - Founder of the YMCA”). The movement’s mission has changed regularly since 1844 and is currently “to empower young people and communities worldwide to build a just, sustainable, equitable and inclusive world, where every person can thrive in body, mind and spirit” (“Our Mission”). The YWCA and YMCA are independent movements with different missions. However, some local YMCAs and YWCAs have merged into YM-YWCAs or YMCA-YWCAs, belonging to and offering programs from both organizations. At all three levels of both movements, YMCAs and YWCAs often maintain connections to one another and collaborate with each other.

YWCA Metro Vancouver maintains a relationship with YMCA organizations including YMCA BC and YMCA Canada. This is accomplished via YWCA Metro Vancouver’s receipt of YMCA annual reports and publications.

Records consist of annual reports, occasional reports, and publications from YMCA BC and the YMCA of Canada.

References:
“Our Mission.” World YMCA, 2023, https://www.ymca.int/who-we-are/the-worldwide-ymca-movement/the-ymca-history/mission/.
“Sir George Williams - Founder of the YMCA.” World YMCA, 2023, https://www.ymca.int/who-we-are/the-worldwide-ymca-movement/the-ymca-history/sir-george-williams-founder-of-the-ymca/.

YWCA Metro Vancouver began its residential camping activities in 1913 with the YWCA Girls Camp at Copper Cove, near Horseshoe Bay. After selling its Copper Cove site in 1936, the YWCA rented campsites on Galiano Island for several years, then at various leased campsites around British Columbia. The first YaWaCa camp program was offered in 1962 at Camp Potlatch, Howe Sound. Camp YaWaCa was run at rented facilities until 1971, at which point it became clear that finding a suitable rental space long-term would be infeasible. YWCA Metro Vancouver began site planning and development of the YaWaCa Outdoor Centre in 1971. Opened in 1972, the YaWaCa Outdoor Centre hosted Camp YaWaCa over the summer for girls along with other YWCA programs, including a counsellor-in-training program, a pregnant teenagers’ retreat, a camp for single mothers and their children, and a recreational program for adults with intellectual disabilities. The Outdoor Centre was also rentable to non-YWCA outdoor groups from September to June. The YaWaCa Outdoor Centre closed in 1983 due to financial constraints.

Subseries documents Camp YaWaCa and the development and management of the YaWaCa Outdoor Centre.

Records consist of reports, meeting minutes, promotional materials, photographs, and other records arising from running Camp YaWaCa and the YaWaCa Outdoor Centre.

Subseries consists of records documenting Belshaw's part in organizing the eleventh International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. The materials include correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, promotional materials, and manuscripts for Congress papers and presentations.

Subseries includes tape recording of all the session for the “Writing through Race” conference Miki coordinated as chair of the Racial Minority Writers’ Committee of the Writers’ Union of Canada as well as photographs taken by photographers at the conference.

Subseries consists of textual materials, most of which were written by Hanne, however, this subseries does include some items written/created by other individuals. There are unpublished articles, draft versions of published articles, and newspaper/magazine clippings of articles — many written by Hanne, some written by other writers but featuring Hanne. There are also articles on the subject of health/fitness but which were written neither by Hanne nor about her. Other materials include pamphlets describing Hanne’s fitness method, pamphlets related to the rescue and transportation program she developed in the U.S., and artists’ mock-ups of possible covers for Hanne’s book “Methode Hanne Wassermann.” (It is unclear whether this book was ever published; however, typed copies are available as part of this subseries.)

YWCA Metro Vancouver and YWCA of Canada both maintain a relationship with the World YWCA located in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as with local associations globally. This is accomplished via: participation in World Councils held every four years; YWCA Metro Vancouver’s receipt of newsletters, reports, and other publications by both the World YWCA and by national or local YWCA associations; and communications between YWCA Metro Vancouver and local YWCAs from outside of Canada. From 1969 to 1986, YWCA Metro Vancouver also engaged with the World YWCA via the Y’s Owl Shop, a craft group of YWCA Metro Vancouver that raised funds for the World YWCA.

Records consist of annual reports, Council reports, occasional reports, publications, newsletters, correspondence, and other materials arising from YWCA Metro Vancouver’s and the YWCA of Canada’s interactions with the World YWCA and with national and local YWCAs outside of Canada. Material arising from interactions between the World YWCA and YMCAs is also kept in this 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.

Subseries includes publications produced by the WCC relating to refugees and correspondence from the WCC.

Sub-series contains minutes relating to the Council of Forest Industries Working Group Ad Hoc committee on U.S. Market. Material consists of agendas and meeting minutes which outline business arising from NAWLA meeting and a discussion of the working groups general mandate and activities.

Subseries consists of records and ephemera related to employment with the Canadian Pacific Railway since the company's inception in 1881. During the construction of the transcontinental railway, many of these employees were Chinese immigrants, who were often assigned the most dangerous jobs. Following the completion of the railway, the C.P.R. employed workers as passenger agents, train operators, steamship captains, cooks, engineers, stewards, and many other occupations. Many of the materials in this subseries were produced as reference materials for employee use, such as lists of equipment carried on trains, designating numbers for train stations, or telegraph codes

These records include employee handbooks, operating rules for employees, examination booklets, pension regulations and employee benefit plans, employee time cards, payroll sheets, memoranda, staff circulars, employment contracts, broadsides advertising employment opportunities, certificates of discharge related to service on C.P.R. steamships, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, an employee's diary, a blank section book, and photographs of C.P.R. employees.

Subseries contains records related to the working and management plans of various Tree farm licenses (TFLs) operated by Western Forest Products and its predecessors. This subseries contains mostly textual records. Map portions of the working and management plans are located in the Maps subseries of the TFL series.

Subseries consists of materials related to Hanne's work as a health/fitness educator and trainer. Most of these records are from her time in North America, first leading workshops and hosting lectures in the United States (1940-1943) and later in Vancouver, where she worked as a fitness instructor, personal trainer, and massage therapist. This subseries also includes materials used to promote and advertise her gym and schools in Austria, her work as a fitness instructor and trainer, her fitness method, and other services she offered.

Files in this subseries reflect the activities of the Women’s Rights Committee of the BC NDP, including its various subcommittees, committee liaisons, and coordination with the federal NDP Participation of Women Committee.

According to a 1992 document prepared by Anne Frost, past WRC Chair, and Charley Bersford, WRC Chair (“Women’s Rights Committee: Herstory”, 1992, in file 450-12), the Women’s Rights Committee was officially made a standing committee of the New Democratic Party of BC by a motion passed at Convention in 1971, building on previous women’s councils and federal women’s committees in the BC NDP and the CCF. The Committee’s mission statement in 1992 was “To guarantee fairness and equality for women in British Columbia; to address the roots of systemic discrimination and initiate legislation, services and programs to ensure women equal participation in all aspects of society; and to ensure access for all women to social justice” (“Mission Statement & Goals for Women’s Equality in a New Democratic Government,” WRC, spring 1992; in file 455-04). The Committee sought to achieve these goals through a variety of activities reflected in the files contained within this subseries, including authoring white papers on women’s issues, producing handbooks (such as the “Winning Nominations” handbook, created to assist women seeking to run for and win nominations in provincial elections; found in files 449-17 and 449-20), organizing workshops, producing and distributing a publication focused on women’s issues (entitled “Priorities” and launched in 1972; see for example file 450-05), introducing motions on gender-related issues at Convention, and more.

The Committee has its own executive structure, including Table Officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer), Past-Chair, Priorities Coordinator, Democrat Page, POW Representative (the federal NDP women’s committee, known as Participation of Women), a Women’s Rights Organizer (WRC paid staff position), as well as regional representatives for the electoral constituencies, members at large, and representatives from and to other committees, such as the Young New Democrats, the Policy Review Committee, etc. Further, the WRC also formed its own subcommittees to engage with particular issues, such as the Nomination Support Committee, or the Committee on Sexist Behaviour. Like the BC NDP itself, these positions were generally elected at Convention, and “all women who are members in good standing of the B.C. New Democratic Party are eligible to attend Women’s Rights Committee Steering Committee meetings and have both voice and vote, except on money matters.” (“Women’s Rights Committee – Membership & Structure,” June 24, 1992; in file 450-07).

File 449-18 contains a copy of the “WRC Objectives -1992/93,” which gives a general sense of the goals and strategies of the WRC at the time, while file 456-05 contains the most recent draft constitution of the WRC included in this accrual (January 2003). Other materials in this subseries include meeting minutes and agenda, handwritten notes, correspondence, financial documents, reports, convention materials, memoranda and public communications, clippings, and other related materials.

Sub-series contains materials gathered or created by den Hertog on numerous issues of relevance to second wave feminists in the 1970s, including women's health care, family law, legislative issues, labour, immigration, etc. Records also document den Hertog's activism and advocacy for women's rights, such as her participation in planning the Women Rally for Action in 1976, and feminist study groups. Her research for a piece on the history of women's political activism in BC, and other articles, speeches and writing on women's issues are included here.

Records consist of newspaper clippings, notes, ephemera, diaries, calendars, reports, correspondence, minutes and the like.

The sub-series contains records related to the Women’s Initiatives for Support and Education (WISE) project. The project was launched to support the target population of young women living with HIV/AIDS with a specific focus on indigenous women, young women who used intravenous drugs, or women involved in sex-work. Objectives included increasing access to care and treatment, creating a peer-driven supportive environment, decreasing isolation and vulnerability to secondary infections, promote involvement of women in the design and implementation of the project, promote awareness to community resources, and to promote testing. PWN partnered with YouthCo AIDS society to implement the project, and the project was funded by the AIDS Community Action Program (ACAP).

Record types include correspondence, project proposals, work plans, related research, funding forms, contracts, and amendments, budgets and cash flows, progress reports, and volunteer information.

Scope and content: The sub-series contains records related to the Women and AIDS Virtual Education (WAVE) project. The project was launched to support HIV + women in British Columbia to share dialogue about being HIV positive, to provide access to medical and treatment information, peer support, counselling, resources, education, ‘experts’, such as doctors, lawyers, nutritionists and treatment experts, and to break-down isolation and stigma faced by HIV + women, particularly women in rural areas. WAVE was modelled as a ‘virtual drop-in clinic’ website, and contained question and answer online modules, bulletin boards for HIV + women and community members, and resources such as newsletters, brochures, and links to other important websites.

Record types in the sub-series include project reports, correspondence, financial records, strategy documents, web design and marketing proposals, press releases, and materials related to website such as domain name purchase and IBM customer agreement.

The sub-series consists of textual records related to William McLennan’s work as a writer from the 1880s-1903. The series includes full and partial drafts of published and unpublished articles, short stories, novels, and non-fiction works; research and reference materials; incoming correspondence; and other materials. Writings are primarily about Montreal, including its history, physical environment, and historical figures. Historical figures treated include Raphael-Lambert Closse, Bénigne Basset, François Dollier de Casson, George Hardy, Pehr Kalm, Medar Jalot, Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis, Richard Hamilton, Louis de Montéléon, Marie-Anne-Josette L’Estringant de Saint-Martin, Jean-Baptiste Migeon de Branssat, Daniel Greysolon Dulhut, Benedict XIII, Octave Crémazie, James Johnstone, and John McDonell. Research and reference materials include notes from historical sources, character sketches and timelines, and copies of archival documents, as well as original historical documents. Among the historical documents, the series includes a copy of Daniel Greysolon Dulhut's will and testament dated 1710 and signed by Dulhut. Correspondence relates to the writing, research, and publication of McLennan’s works. Notable correspondents include Jean Newton McIlwraith, co-author of "The Span o’ Life: A Tale of Louisbourg and Quebec," historian Joseph-Edmond Roy, archivist Douglas Brymner, journalist and historian Ernest Myrand, and John S. McLennan, among others.

Papers of Thomas Hooper Wilkinson including a diary, business and financial correspondence and records, personal correspondence and statistical records recording logging in British Columbia.

Papers of Margaret (Peggy) Christine Wilkinson pertaining primarily to her time at York House School in Vancouver, BC.

3 sketchbooks containing pencil drawings by Kenneth Wilkinson depicting his travels and various landscape scenes.

This scrapbook was initially included with the A.M. Pound papers. It was felt that since the scrapbook was about A.M. Stephen (compiled by him, and after his death, by his wife, Irene Stephen) it should be included with the Stephen papers. The scrapbook covers the time from 1928, when Stephen made his much publicized tours of Western Canada, to 1963, when Stephen's last edition of poems (compiled by his wife) was published. The scrapbook includes newspaper articles, book reviews, letters (mainly to Mrs. Stephen), and other assorted memorabilia. (Note written by Robert Gore.)

Subseries consists of records relating to the signing of the Western Accord, also referred to as the Agreement of Natural Gas Pricing. The sub-series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a copy of the Agreement on Natural Gas Markets and Prices signed by Prime Minister Mulroney. The sub-series also includes research materials on Carney's participation in the Western Accord, including memoranda, articles and other materials. Four videos on the signing of the Agreement - predominantly nightly television news clippings.

Subseries consists of three copies of the newsletter, with an article by Blais in each.

Sub-series consists of correspondence and other records documenting Miki’s
activities as editor of West coast line followed by drafts of the manuscripts of issues of the journal arranged chronologically according to date of publication and drafts of articles which were submitted to the journal. The sub-series also contains photographs of illustrations and plates appearing in issues of West coast line. Miki founded West coast line (under the title Line) in 1983 and was editor of the journal until 1999.

The website committee was formed to oversee the development of the website as a tool for communication.

Subseries consists of reports to the executive.

Subseries consists of two journals that belonged to the Vopni family of Kandahar, Saskatchewan, which document their day-to-day lives.

Subseries consists of two copies of Friedman's Visual Anatomy the 1950-52 edition (2 vols.) published by Charles C. Thomas and the 1970-72 edition (3 vols.) published by Harper & Row. Each volume is autographed on the title page by the author.

Subseries is made up of Anna Banana’s VILE Magazine and related items, notably two copies of each magazine, as well as related press, ads and promotional materials. VILE Magazine was a response to FILE Magazine (published by General Idea) and it’s movement away from the mail art scene towards more mainstream artistic practice. VILE ran somewhat irregularly from 1974 to 1983, culminating in a retrospective magazine titled “About VILE”. Like FILE, VILE was an artistic parody of LIFE magazine, but often covered challenging subjects, and pushed beyond the sensibilities of conventional thinking. Banana was aided by her then-partner Bill Gaglione, who edited 3 of the 7 editions.

Files contain all issues of the magazine, as well as various press clippings, ads, promotional materials and invitations to participate.

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.

Subseries consists of video cassettes. Consists of materials produced by UBC, British Columbia Nurses' Union, various schools of nursing and published works related to nursing.

Subseries consists of records created by the early Icelandic community in Victoria, British Columbia, including their cultural society and church records.

Subseries consists of photographs relating to Upshall’s nursing education from UBC/VGH.

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 contribution to various unrelated professional associations.

Subseries consists of records relating to issues of nursing concern.

Subseries consist of material relating to the various conferences and lectures that H. Peter Oberlander contributed to or attended and his writings. Included are 1 microfilm reel and 4 3½" floppy discs.

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 with the Vancouver School Board.

Vancouver is the only region whose records have been acquired by the archives. These include minutes of their regional meetings, with extensive administrative and operational records, including membership lists, financial information, announcements of events, and other records.

Subseries includes minutes of council meetings, correspondence, and other information about the organization.

Subseries includes correspondence.

Records in the sub-series document the early history of Vancouver Rape Relief, from the initial idea conceived in 1973 to set up a support agency for rape victims, to establishing the centre in 1974, and its first years of operation. The main goals were to provide services to rape victims and to be a force for change in society, laws, and institutional procedures, and to work towards rape prevention.
Records include minutes, newsletters, reports, daybooks and desk diaries, newspaper clippings, articles, ephemera and booklets.