Series consists of deeds, correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, printed material, contracts, agreements, publication lists, student records, and newspaper clippings about the development and administration of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration and its predecessors.

Series consists of registration, booking, financial, and promotional records pertaining to C.D.C. participation in and co-sponsorship of various conferences on contemporary affairs in Chile. Records reflect C.D.C. relations with co-sponsoring bodies, including Amnesty International, the Fraser Valley Peace Committee, the MacKenzie Papineau Battalion Veterans, the Communist Party of Canada, and several labour unions, among others. Contents include invitations to participate, speaker notes, participant notes, itineraries, and travel and other financial records related to participation.

Series consists of publications, clippings, correspondence, event promotion materials (flyers and posters), and administrative records reflecting C.D.C.’s continuing activities following 1976. Series also consists of similar material from earlier era which was found among such records at time of accession. Records include promotional materials and reports on events including speakers and rallies, informational records about the Inter-American Development Bank, open letters and resolutions passed by various committees, and boycott and other labour activism materials.

Series consists of booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, and other published material collected by C.D.C. for purposes of reference and dissemination. Most of this material was produced by North American organizations conducting charity work or human rights agitation in Latin America. Publications include several years of issues of Vinceremos and Chile News.

The C.D.C. employed a mixed scheme to classify publications, storing material in files according to organizations sponsoring publication, the characteristics of organizations sponsoring publications, or the characteristics of the publications themselves.

Series consists of letters sent and received, pertaining to topics including fundraising, membership, liaising with other organizations, and various Canadian provincial and federal government offices. Correspondents include sponsors, contributing members, members of the BC and Federal Canadian governments, members of the Chilean government (frequently Pinochet himself and various Ministers), the United Nations (General Assembly), various BC and international labour unions, and other activist groups concerned with human rights and political issues in Latin America. Creator classified correspondence according to reception or dispatch, and, to some extent, chronologically.

Series consists of membership rosters, mailing and contact lists, committee rosters, minutes of meetings, and other materials reflecting day-to-day operations of C.D.C. organizers and volunteers. Series also contains press releases and other publicity materials issued by C.D.C., blank letterhead, a register of letters received, and some correspondence.

Series consists of newspaper articles, many of them without attribution of source, used for reference purposes. Material generally pertains to contemporary politics and human rights conditions in Chile, or in Latin America more broadly. The C.D.C. classified newspaper clippings chronologically to some extent, although not consistently.

Series consists of committee records.

The series consists of personal records generated and received by Lee and his family. Records detail Lee’s experiences with immigration and settlement in Canada and offer some general insight into the conditions of daily life for Chinese Canadians in British Columbia. They also pertain to Lee’s explorations of traditional Chinese medicine, his family relationships, and his passing. Records include but are not limited to: passports, immigration forms, maps, certificates, telegrams, Chinese medicine prescriptions, letters, newspaper clippings, receipts, business cards, postcards, paper advertisements, and menus.

The series consists of books, publications, and other written or printed material created and received by Lee in both his public and private spheres. Records include publications from various clan associations in different regions and business cards from members of these associations, indicating the wide network of friendships and acquaintanceships Lee had made during his time with Lee’s Benevolent Association of Canada as well as in his other public-facing roles. The series also offers insight into Lee’s spiritual and literary interests; relevant records include divination and fortune telling guides, poetry, calligraphy, classic literature, opera, and other reading material related to the arts.

The series consists of records relating to Lee’s function as a teacher as well as his roles in the broader education sphere. Records offer insight into Lee’s time in China as an elementary school teacher in the late 1920s to mid-1930s; the cultural climate that shaped the teachings of the Chinese Public Schools in British Columbia from the late 1930s and onwards; and Lee’s involvement in higher education in the 1960s. Records include but are not limited to letters of appointment, school newsletters, course material and lesson notes, and memorabilia.

The series consists of records generated and received by Lee in a wide array of public functions. Predominantly, the records highlight Lee’s devotion to and involvement in the Kuomintang starting in the 1920s up until the end of his life. They detail the high-profile positions Lee held in the Kuomintang as a representative in the National Assemblies and the National Congresses of the Kuomintang, as well as the substantial amount of work he carried out in promoting the Kuomintang agenda in the overseas Chinese community. As whole, the series offers illustrative insight into the political ideology and activities of the Kuomintang with consideration to the geopolitical turbulence in East Asia and beyond in the 20th century. Other records in the series show Lee’s prolific involvement in organizations and associations related to the overseas Chinese. Records include but are not limited to: reports, meeting documents, certificates, publications, newspaper clippings, written notes, telegrams, attendance tickets and passes, business and membership cards, permits, and stamps and memorabilia. Some records in this series were generated after Lee’s passing by associations related to and/or affiliated with Lee’s functions during his life.

Series consists of legal records and miscellanea related to the White River Lumber Co. Legal records include permits, memoranda of agreement, tie notices, and land contracts pertaining to the company’s logging rights. Miscellanea include maps (mostly road maps of Wisconsin and Minnesota), press clippings regarding the company, and photographs.

Series consists of a photograph album containing miscellaneous photographs of Mason and Clayton, Wisconsin; Sandpoint, Idaho; and Chemainus, British Columbia.

Series consists of a volume of land statistics, correspondence, photographs, press clippings financial summaries, maps, and promotional materials (internal and external to the company) for both Clearwater Timber Company and its successor, Potlatch Forests Incorporated (PFI).

Series consists of minute books, financial records, and albums of photographs of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Limited, and has been arranged into subseries according to these record types.

Series consists of records which reflect the close working relationship between C .D.C. and the Vancouver Chile Association, and includes copies of press releases, pamphlets, leaflets, and correspondence issued by VCA and received by C.D.C. Series also includes other assorted material reflecting general C.D.C. operations in late-1973 and 1974.

This series consists of artist and project files, promotional materials, administrative files, and correspondence related to the Western Front Exhibition Program. Jonathan Middleton was the Director/Curator of the Exhibition Program between 1999 and 2005, and he features prominently in administrative, artist, and organization correspondence. Exhibitions generally take place in the Western Front Society’s Front Gallery, though Exhibition Program records include agreements with other gallery spaces around Vancouver. The majority of records in this series are artist/exhibition files. The Exhibition Program is also responsible for most Western Front publications other than the Front Magazine, including books and catalogues.

Exhibition Program applications to the Canada Council of Arts (shortened to CC) Visual Arts Section and other grant funding sources are also included in this series.

This series consists of small and medium prints, negatives, and slides of artists (headshots and portraits), staff, exhibitions, events, and Western Front programs separated from the files of all other series. VHS tapes contain artist exhibition or concert recordings.

This series consists of posters, brochures, press clippings, and press releases related to all other Western Front programs (Exhibitions, Media Arts and Video Art, New Music, and Performance Art). Western Front Anniversary (20th and 30th) and Block Party promotional materials are also included in this series.

This series consists of general administrative records, correspondence between artists, guest curators, and Performance Art Program staff, grant and financial reporting files, and curatorial files from the Performance Art Program, including photographs, drawings, and files related to the Living Arts Performance Festival (1979). Eric Metcalfe, co-founder of the Western Front Society, was the Curator of the Performance Art Program from 1989-2001; he features prominently in correspondence between artists and the Performance Art Program. Project, performance, and artist descriptions, resumes, and guest curator files, including those for Natalie Loveless, are also included.

This series consists of artist and project files, correspondence, grant and other funding applications, box office reports, festival files, records of visiting artists and artist residencies, artist and project files, and administrative records. Deborah “DB” Boyko was the Curator and Director/Curator of the New Music Program between 1990 and 2018, and much of the correspondence with funding entities and artists was directed to or sent by her. Concerts and events include jazz festivals (Fake Jazz, Du Maurier Jazz) and collaborations with the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW). The New Music Program also regularly offered student volunteer and work positions, coordinating with North Burnaby high schools.

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.

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 consists of back issues of Front Magazine (1985-1996) and funding and administrative records related to the Front Magazine. Front Magazine started as a program guide to Western Front events in April 1985 and has since developed into a literary and arts magazine. Several files include correspondence and agreements between Front Magazine and the Flying Squad and correspondence between Front Magazine and various national magazine distributors. A significant percentage of the series is dedicated to Front Magazine applications to the Writing and Publishing Section of the Canada Council for the Arts (shortened to CC in file titles).

This series consists of administrative files, grant and funding applications, correspondence, minutes, project information, and promotional materials mostly from 1983-2013. There is some material from the 1970s, as the general programming administration umbrella covered what became the individual Programs until the early 1980s, and the separation between general programming administrative records and administrative records for the Western Front as an organization were less distinct.

Project files include: Electronic Arts Festivals, Art Auctions, and other fundraising events, and the Art Fair. Operating grants and funding applications include correspondence with funding bodies and fully or partially filled out application forms. The Western Front regularly applied for funding from the Canada Council for the Arts (often shortened to CC in file titles), the BC Arts Council (BCAC), the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC), and the City of Vancouver. Special project and supplemental operating funding applications and grants also came from non-government sources, including the Hamber Foundation and Imperial Tobacco.

This series consists of administrative and program files from 1973-1983. This includes music, performance, dance, video, and exhibition grants and projects. After 1983, New Music, Performance Arts, dance, Media and Video, and Exhibition Program and General Administrative records are filed with their respective program series (Administrative, Exhibitions, Front Magazine, Luminous Sites, Media Arts and Video Art Program, New Music, Performance Art, Publicity and Promotional Materials).

Series consists of court documents covering a variety of cases and legal disputes in British Columbia between 1858 and 1891 that represent both major criminal charges as well as minor civil suits. It is comprised of more than 750 case files containing over 1,200 documents relating to such topics as Augustus Pemberton and colonial relations with Chinese and Aboriginal peoples in B.C., possible changes that occurred after the colonies were converged, and the many types of small claims being filed during the period.

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.

Series consists of prose manuscripts, fiction and non-fiction, organized by work and, for each work, by draft, roughly chronologically. Drafts of Under the Volcano, Lunar Caustic, and October Ferry to Gabriola are part of this series. Manuscripts frequently span multiple files and include pencil drafts, typescripts, printer's copies, and galley proofs as well as notes, fragments, and notebooks pertaining to specific works (for other notebooks, see Notebooks series). Many files include annotations by Lowry and others. Works published after Lowry's death by Margerie were based on these manuscripts and notes.

Series also includes short stories by Lowry’s first wife, Jan Gabrial, and friend of the Lowrys, Philippe “Phito” Thoby-Marcelin, the latter with corrections by the Lowrys.

Series consists of notebooks not associated with any particular work by Lowry and Margerie, organized chronologically and by location. Both Lowry and Margerie kept notebooks, mostly palm sized and bound with staples, which they filled with thoughts and ideas, some of which developed into poems and manuscripts. Contents include bound notebooks, loose pages, and typewritten fragments of notes.

Series consists of miscellaneous notes not associated with any particular work by Lowry. Notes for individual works are filed with that work (see Manuscripts, Poetry and Manuscripts, Prose series). Notes are on loose pages and page fragments.

Series consists of manuscripts and published collections of Lowry's poetry. Poems and books are filed individually, though some pages contain multiple poems or fragments of other poems. Individual poem files include handwritten and typewritten poems, often with additional notes and drafts in the margins. Series also contains sheet music by Lowry co-written with Bernhard Rooenstrunk.

Poems frequently have multiple titles, either draft version titles or titles offered by Margerie or Earle Birney. File titles correspond to Lowry's finalized title where possible; alternate titles are included in the file-level general notes.

Series consists of almost thirty years of outgoing correspondence written by Lowry (or Margerie for him or for them both) organized chronologically and by addressee. Contents include: postcards, a book, a long prose account of Lowry's experiences in Mexico, and letters (originals, negatives, and copies), both handwritten and typewritten. Some letters are annotated. Christmas cards recur, particularly for friends like David Markson, and family like William and Priscilla Woolfan (Margerie's brother-in-law and sister). When included in the accession, envelopes are retained with the letters with which they came.

The bulk of Lowry's outgoing correspondence was composed between 1940 and 1954 while the Lowrys resided primarily in Dollarton.

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 Jean Rands’s personal and family records; it contains diaries and journals; personal correspondence; résumés and job application records; newspaper clippings of her participation in peace demonstrations; a manuscript of a book written by her father Stan Rands, Privilege and Policy, which was published posthumously; and a small number of photographs.

Series reflects Jean Rands’s speaking and writing activities over the course of the 1970s and 80s on topics relating to women and labour activism. Some of the writing in this series was published, including An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC) and “Toward an Organization of Working Women” in Women Unite! The series includes manuscripts, draft articles, solidarity speeches, and published versions of articles.

Series reflects Jean Rands’s involvement in labour organizing in the B.C. lower mainland and in Saskatchewan, predominantly in the 1970s and 80s, both independently and in connection with the various unions and labour organizations she was part of. These include the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE), where she was a founding member; the Working Women’s Association (WWA), which disseminated information about labour issues faced by women; the Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC), where Jean was a founding member and served as president at the national level; SORWUC Local 2, United Bank Workers; SORWUC Local 4, Bank and Finance Workers, where she served as president; Union Sisters, a grassroots group for women’s labour organizing in the B.C. lower mainland; and the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (UTFE/TFEU).

The records consist of documents arising from Jean’s involvement as an executive and active member of these groups, such as meeting agendas and minutes, leaflets and flyers, legal documents, conference planning records, and correspondence. The records also consist of newspaper clippings and articles on topics of women and labour issues, reflecting Jean’s ongoing interest in these topics throughout her life.

Series consists of materials gathered from elsewhere in the sous-fonds for exhibitions in the 1990s and early 2000s. Contents include: event posters, photographs of the exhibitions, photographs of Lowry and his friends and family, phonograph records, a glass bottle of Mexican alcohol (empty), and a framed sketch by Lowry.

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 files arranged by topic relating to Whittaker in her capacity as a chair and of UNESCO’s Scientific Steering Committee which advises the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme and consultant to UNESCO. Series consists of correspondence, minutes, pamphlets, project applications, publications, and reports.

Series includes research conducted by Rachel Epstein and for her by others. Research materials include: articles, book chapters, and research reports (written by students). Articles are frequently from the Labour Gazette about domestic and farm workers, including reports on working conditions and worker testimonials. Book chapters are mostly written by Studs Terkel. One file contains pay stubs and time sheets for workers of a company called Comcare.

Series contains class notes, lab reports, essays, and a rough draft of a thesis relating to Lois’ time as a student at UBC and University of California, Los Angeles.

Series contains class notes and a thesis relating to Ralph’s time as a student at UBC.

Series consists of 21 video tapes that depict plays featured in various Brave New Play Rites festivals.

Series consists of thirty photographs in black and white or color. Fifteen of the color photographs are adhered to poster board as a collage for the 1993 festival. Photographs depict different scenes from Brave New Play Rites productions in addition to “back stage” images of actors participating in plays.

Series consists of textual materials created in order to run and promote the Brave New Play Rites festivals. Some folders were organized into a clear administrative folder that contains relevant records for one year, such as in 1994, while other materials were more interspersed in order by the creator. A significant majority of the materials are promotional in nature and include posters for the festival in addition to printed programs for each year. The titles and authors of student plays are often available in the programs. Other types of records included in this series are meeting minutes, agendas, memorandum, calendars, budgets, reports, newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence, handbooks and some play scripts.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie with the Burts and one photograph of the Burts’ shack at Dollarton.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie at Lieben on Bowen Island with Einar Neilson, at Dollarton, and in England in the Lake District. Several photographs are copies of those in the Malcolm Lowry Photographs series (as indicated in the item level description). One photograph is a portrait of Lowry drawn by Remo Ferragamo commissioned by Margerie.

Series consists of incoming and outgoing letters between the Lowry family (brothers Russell, Stuart, Wilfrid, and Malcolm, and parents Arthur and Evelyn Lowry) and between Russell Lowry and the heads of various Malcolm Lowry-related books and films. These projects include Muriel C. Bradbrook’s Malcolm Lowry – His art and early life and Gordon Bowker’s Malcolm Lowry, Pursued by Furies. Correspondence between the Lowrys is largely from between 1911 and 1957.