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Alcuin Society Fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1001
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2017

The Alcuin Society Fonds reflects the activities of the society since its creation in 1965. The series consists predominantly of textual records, including administrative records, financial records, reports, correspondence, newsletters and promotional material. Also included are photographs, published material, brochures, and memorabilia. Correspondence is predominant throughout the fonds and in each series it is interfiled with related records.

Alcuin Society

Alexander Manson fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1350
  • Fonds
  • 1854, 1887-2017

The fonds consists of records related to British Columbia politician and judge Alexander Malcolm Manson's life. The records in this fonds encompass all aspects of Manson's life and were produced both through his career and in his personal life. Notably, the fonds contains extensive records from Manson's political career, his judicial career, and the investments and trusts he managed. Many areas of Manson's life overlapped considerably, including overlapping careers, and records related to one area of his life may be found among records related to another area.

The contents of this fonds consist predominantly of correspondence, including carbon copies of correspondence sent by Manson. This correspondence pertains both to Manson's career as well as to various parts of his personal life and has been arranged according to the file names used by Manson wherever possible; correspondence that has not otherwise been sorted by Manson has been sorted as "general correspondence," a designation which also includes personal correspondence. Other types of records in this fonds include meeting minutes, court proceedings, financial statements, newspaper clippings, governmental reports, shareholder reports, certificates, invitations and event programmes, and photographs.

The fonds has been arranged into eight series: legal career; political career; judicial career; finances; personal life; Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; general correspondence; and photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera.

Manson, Alexander Malcolm

[Misc.]

File contains reports, financial documents, a copy of the BCWI constitution, notes, booklets, a bumper sticker, newspaper clippings, and a biography.

[Weedy Peetstraw]

File contains an envelope with production programmes, newspaper clippings, leaflets, scripts, and sheet music from the various productions of the play, "The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw."

Greenpeace Canada fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1824
  • Fonds
  • 1964-2017

The fonds primarily includes records that were produced and acquired by Greenpeace Canada, such as research and publications to support their campaigns and projects. Notably, this includes jointly produced documents with other environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) to coordinate their efforts in Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest. The records of Greenpeace International within this fonds reflect their broader campaigns to inform people and shape public opinion to oppose the clearcutting of old growth forests in Canada and elsewhere in the World. Records by Greenpeace Canada primarily include their efforts to cooperate with environmental non-governmental organizations, First Nations, forestry companies, and governments to achieve greater protection for old growth forests. The primary types of records include reports, communications, legal advice, court cases, planning materials, photographs, maps, ephemera, and posters. Most of the records in this fonds produced by Greenpeace Canada is from their Vancouver office. The fonds is organized into the following series: Clayoquot Sound Campaign and Protests (1980-2017), Great Bear Rainforest Campaign and Protests (1980-2017), Forest Stewardship Council (1992-2017), Rainforest Solutions Project (1991-2017), Research and Resource Collection (1979-2017), Ephemera and Posters (1993-2016), Maps (1964-2015), and Multimedia (1988-2007).

Greenpeace Canada

Support and Education

The series contains resources and materials that the Positive Women’s Network (PWN) created and collected to support and educate its members and the larger community. PWN's support and education activities fall into several categories including: the production and distribution of a bi-monthly newsletter, The Positive Side, and quarterly magazines with members' personal stories, advice, resources, and columns; training in retreat planning, and organizing and participating in retreats; organizing and participating in workshops on topics such as peer training, diabetes and HIV, boundaries, body mapping, massage therapy and more; developing educational content including tool-kits for members and the community such as the Peer Support Training toolkit and The Women and HIV Education toolkit; engaging in community research projects; collecting resources such as the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) magazine, also called The Positive Side, various educational films, and news-clippings about the PWN and HIV/AIDS in the larger community; documenting, memorializing and celebrating PWN achievements as well as the lives of friends and family who had passed away; and participating in conferences.

Record types in the series include the following: the PWN Positive Side Newsletter, PWN Quarterly Magazine, research reports, posters, banners, awards and certificates, news-clippings, retreat planning tool-kits, Women and HIV Education tool-kits, workshop and retreat fliers, agendas, and evaluations, conference materials, educational films, and films and photographs of PWN members and events.

[Christmas card featuring image of fairy]

Christmas card featuring artwork by creator (an illustration from 'The Fairs' Christmas' in his book How to See Fairies and Other Tales). The text printed inside the card reads "Season's Greetings". Card was printed by The Folio Society.

Manuscripts and published works

Series consists of manuscripts, some in draft form, and copies of some of Knight's published works . Includes a manuscript of Knight's thesis "Why don't you work like other men do: labour patterns and sugar plantations in the Cauca Valley, Columbia" (1968), and manuscripts of "A Very Ordinary Life" (1974), "Along the No. 20 Line" (1980), "Indians at Work" (1978), "Stump Ranch Chronicles" (1977), and "Homer Stevens" (1992), "Facsism, Jewish Chauvinism and the Holocaust Revival" (2007), "Not a Philosophical Atheism" (2012), "Nativism and Americanism" (2013), "Mort Breimberg: The Reminiscences of a Canadian Radical" (2014), "Vancouver Speaking: A City's Novelized Biography" (2017). Series also includes a typescript of Knight's memoirs.

Richard Mattessich fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1521
  • Fonds
  • 1941-2017

Fonds consists of records documenting Richard Mattessich’s professional career, including his writing, research, and teaching activities, as well as his personal life. The records include correspondence, reports, notes, manuscript copies of his works, copies of his publications, annotated copies of publications by others, class and teaching materials, honorary degrees and other recognition certificates, a DVD recording, and photographs. It is organized in the following series: Alphabetical Subject Files, Correspondence, Personal and Biographical, Publications, Teaching, Research Materials, and Photographs.

Mattessich, Richard

Administrative and Executive

Records in this series document the administrative and executive activities of the FMCBC. Major record types include agendas and minutes, handbooks and training materials, annual reports, financial documents, newspaper clippings, and brochures and pamphlets. Executive and administrative activities included training new directors for service on the board, holding annual general meetings and forums, planning, correspondence, policy creation, and fundraising.

Federal politics

Series contains files related to Waddell's service as Member of Canadian Parliament from 1979-1993. It includes files on local constituency issues as well as broader, national themes such as free trade and the Meech Lake Accord. Some subject files reflect Waddell's political career, rather than issues of office, such as a file dedicated to the coverage of Waddell's touching of a ceremonial mace, and a file representing his bid for NDP leadership. Records include correspondence, reports, press clippings, notes, news releases, and research.

Waddell's international involvement during this time, notably through the Canadian Parliamentarians for Global Action, can be found in the International work series.

Fundraising and Marketing series

This series contains information and materials created to support fundraising and advertising of CiTR events and programs. It includes a large number of brochures, posters, and information about special events.

Editorial Files series

Series consists of manuscripts, correspondence between the writers and the editor of Pacific Affairs, and correspondence between the editor and the academic referees who review articles before publication. The records document submission, peer review, and revision of the academic editorial process. Arranged by volume and issue number, and alphabetically by author within each issue.

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