Series consists of images depicting Herring's travels, particularly in Alaska, and including a trip to Russia in 1965. Some relate to forestry; many relate to his personal interests, including hunting and fishing, bagpiping, and participating in various social and cultural events.
Where available, file contents and items lists, as they were listed by the creator, have been included in the file descriptions.
Series consists of film reels and videotapes showing footage of Herring's travels, both work-related and personal. Most of these trips were in and around British Columbia and Alaska, but also include Scotland, Australia, Tasmania, Tahiti, and other locations within North America. Subject matter includes Herring's hunting and fishing trips, Highland games, scenic views, wildlife, and scenes of logging, helicopter logging, forestry equipment, and mills.
Photographs in this series relate to Herring's professional involvement in the forestry industry, as well as his personal interests, including hunting and fishing. Photos of various First Nations celebrations, Highland games, and other events and trips in which Herring participated, are also included. The majority of these photographs are images in and of Alaska.
Series contains advertising and technical publications from the manufacturers of various products used in the construction of vessels. These publications include brochures, specifications and technical drawings of products including engines, cranes, metals, PVC pipes, marine stoves, doors, and lights.
Series documents the tender process, as well as the pricing of tender proposals and ships under construction. Series contains invitations to tender, invoices from suppliers and subcontractors, itemized lists of costs, as well as technical drawings.
Series consists of specifications for construction or maintenance of vessels supplied by marine architects. The series includes specifications for construction of barges, tug boats, and fishing vessels as well as a variety of other types of vessels. A large portion of the specifications are for refitting contracts on various vessels of the Canadian Navy Auxiliary Fleet, as well as for other federal and provincial government agencies.
Series consists of 13 appointment books containing various entries detailing specific appointments, predominantly those related to Mr. Barrett's political affairs. The 1985 daytimer contains some references, presumably by Mrs . Barrett, to events that occurred during trips outside of Canada .
Series consists of information regarding Dave Barrett's personal life . There are records relating to Dave Barrett's father Samuel Barrett's long term care and death, personal financial records, newspaper clippings, and incoming and outgoing correspondence.
Series consists of records made or received by Dave Barrett in the course of his employment as a radio personality with CJOR . This includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, business cards, legal records, research material, printed material, and miscellaneous records. The correspondence does not completely relate to Dave Barrett' s job at CJOR: some of the correspondence consists of letters sent and received by Dave Barrett while working for CJOR. The records have been arranged in order to facilitate access .
Series comprises of various photographs, predominantly of Dave Barrett. Most of the photographs show Dave Barrett in various aspects of his political life .
Series consists of material relating to an autobiography Dave Barrett produced in conjunction with William Miller. These records include background material, handwritten notes, and various copies of the text.
Series consists of records made or received by Dave Barrett in the course of his political life. This includes subject files, biographies, news releases, memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, printed material, and miscellaneous political records. The material had been roughly arranged before donation and that arrangement, wherever possible, has been maintained .
Series consists of eight sub-series: personal documents, journals, order book, court papers, admiralty-related correspondence and other documents, incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, and drawings.
Series consists of correspondence, financial records, and other documents created and/or received by Andrew Belcher, the father of Edward Belcher, and is arranged in four sub-series: incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, financial records, and documents regarding the Wright Estate.
Series consists of correspondence of Marianne Belcher, the mother of Edward Belcher, and is arranged in two sub-series: incoming correspondence and outgoing correspondence.
Series consists of correspondence received by Edward Belcher’s wife, Lady Diana (nee Jolliffe), including letters regarding her social and charitable activities. Includes letters received from F. Beaufort, Susan D. Durant, W. Forsyth, John Gibson, Helena F. Martin, F.L. McClintock, and [James Prior].
Series consists of correspondence of Edward Belcher’s brother Alexander Brymer Belcher of London, England and is arranged in two sub-series: incoming correspondence and outgoing correspondence.
Series consists of a letter from Edward Belcher’s uncle, Timothy Lindall Jennison of Cambridge, New England, to a distributor of vaccines in London, England regarding a small pox vaccine.
Series consists of a letter to Edward Belcher’s sister Eleanor Cogswell of Halifax, Nova Scotia from her cousin C.E. Cunningham in Boston, Massachusetts.
Series consists of court papers and other documents related to Edward Belcher’s grandfather, Johnathan Belcher’s, position as the first Chief justice of Nova Scotia.
Series consists of a document regarding the organisation of The Victoria Society, a society established in England to provide employment for impoverished women. The document lists Reverend Brymer Belcher, Edward Belcher’s nephew, as President of the society.
Series consists of miscellaneous manuscripts and letters, including an original manuscript titled Ben Thomas: Confessions of an Old First Lieutenantof the last Century, a manuscript translation of Pliny’s Epistle to Fuseus by Thomas Brown, a 1774 letter to William Nesbit from John Knight in defence of an outstanding debt charged against him, and a letter by Ralph Wilson (recipient unknown).
Series consists of personal and business letters to and from Blondal, including a number of rejection slips from potential publishers. The letters date primarily from the last decade of Blondal’s life and include a letter regarding the 1960 publication of Blondal’s novel A Candle to Light the Sun, received by Blondal’s husband, Harold, the year after her death. The letters have been arranged as incoming personal letters, incoming and outgoing business letters, and outgoing personal and business letters.
Series represents Blondal’s career as a writer and radio broadcaster with the CBC, and consists mainly of an untitled mystery novel (unpublished), two versions of Blondal’s novel, A Candle to Light the Sun, as well as a number of broadcast scripts. The series also includes short stories (including one written under the pseudonym Watson O’Hearn), poems, a play, an essay, and preparatory notes. The broadcast scripts have been ordered in a chronological sequence by broadcast number and date.
Series consists primarily of notes related to Blondal’s writing practice generally as well as her time as a student at the University of Manitoba in the 1940s. Also included in the series are university reading lists, reviews of Blondal’s publications (most of which appeared after her death), a copy of a radio play by Lydia Perera, and a guide for T.V. writers.
Series is comprised of personal material from all three decades of Blondal’s life, and includes a grade 8 school report card, information for new mothers, a diary from Blondal’s time in London in 1951, as well as graphic materials and biographical notes (including two family trees).
Series consists of letters, telegrams, memorandums and reports pertaining to the establishment of two major Canadian railway systems, the Canadian Northern Railway and the Grand Trunk Railway. This includes correspondence between Robert L. Borden and other Canadian politicians, engineers, bank managers and private citizens. The reports include such information as decisions regarding railway terminal locations and other route considerations, topography and physical conditions of the landscape, and mileage information.
Series consists of letters, telegrams and memorandums pertaining to the establishment of the Union Government in Canada in 1917. This includes correspondence primarily between Robert L. Borden and other Canadian politicians, both federal and provincial. Title based on contents of series.
Series consists of letters, telegrams and memorandums created and received by Robert L. Borden in the course of his activities as Prime Minister of Canada. This includes correspondence between Borden and other prominent Canadian politicians, both federal and provincial, letters between members of the clergy, and private citizens.
Series consists of letters, telegrams and memorandums pertaining to Canada’s involvement in World War One, and the way the Canadian government operated at this time. This includes correspondence primarily between Robert L. Borden and other politicians, Canadian and British.
Series consists of Curriculum Vitae, biographical sketches, awards, certificates, a family tree, guest album, vacation information, as well as, her separation agreement from Dr. William Brown. This series contains one sub-series: day planners. See printed material for information pertaining to Rosemary’s autobiography, Being Brown (boxes 29-31).
Series consists of agendas, briefs, correspondence, minutes, notes, and reports of various committees that Rosemary sat on or was a board member of and is arranged alphabetically per committee.
Series consists of correspondence and literature pertaining to the numerous conferences that Rosemary attended and had given speeches and has been subdivided by year beginning with 1975 up to 2000. Those conferences that have numbers in the brackets pertain to the corresponding speech that Rosemary gave, which can be found in the speeches series.
Series consist of excerpts from debates and press releases from Rosemary’s tenure as a MLA in the B.C. Legislature; campaign material and related information accrued while running for the NDP Federal Leadership in 1975 and Provincial elections in 1978-1979 and in 1982 for the Burrand-Edmonds riding; various policies and legislation that Rosemary had an interest in; NDP briefs, discussion papers; and related correspondence.
Series consist of correspondence, lecture notes, class outlines, course syllabi and assignments, as well as, class evaluations for when Rosemary held the following teaching positions: the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Women’s Studies program in 1987-1988; at the School of Social Work in the University of Victoria during 1986-1987; the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia University in 1988; and at Dalhousie University in the late 1970s.
Series consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from Rosemary Brown, which have been subdivided by decade or specifically by year from 1985 to 1999. Correspondence is also located throughout the committee, conference, politics, and subject file series.
Series consist of articles written about Rosemary Brown and articles that Rosemary had published in the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, numerous other publications including radio spots on CKWX; as well as, publisher correspondence and agreements. The series also consists of correspondence, publicity and other material pertaining to the National Film Board documentary, “No Way! Not Me” that featured Rosemary; and in addition the script and shooting schedule for the film documentary, “Women in Politics”. This series contains two sub-series: Being Brown: Autobiography and African Canadians.
Series consist of speeches, drafts and notes that Rosemary gave throughout her public career. Many of the speeches were originally organized in a numeric chronological sequence, which has been maintained. Within this sequence, some numbers have multiple speeches and some speeches have multiple numbers. Speeches that had no number associated with it have been arranged chronologically and grouped by year.
Series consist of research notes, articles and newspaper clippings, brochures and reports pertaining to an assortment of topics and issues that framed Rosemary’s opinion on a number of issues, which includes affirmative action, education on issues of racism and immigration, labour and women’s equality, pornography and sexual assault, technology, as well as, a number of issues that affected women such as sexism and discrimination. Most of the subject files were arranged by their broad topics, such as ‘Women’ and followed by the file title. The subject file titled ‘Women’s Studies,’ which relates to miscellaneous research material Rosemary used to form her lectures from when she taught Women’s Studies at both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.
Series consist mainly of conferences that Rosemary Brown spoke at, Rosemary receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto and the University of Victoria, award dinners, National Film Board’s “No Way! Not Me” premiere, portraits and Rosemary with her family. There is a sheet of slides that showcase the opening ceremonies of the Women’s Monument Project, as well as a portrait collection of various individuals used for the book African Canadians.
This series contains drafts of material related to Butler’s M.A. thesis. Also enclosed is an unpublished manuscript of two chapters of an unfinished book by Roderick Haig-Brown, obtained from Valerie Haig-Brown.
This series contains all correspondence related to the compilation of research for both the proposed bibliography and biography of Roderick Haig-Brown. It includes correspondence from both Ann and Valerie Haig-Brown, as well as requests directed to various publications for copies of any records they might have relating to Haig-Brown. Of note is a letter (original) of a letter from Haig-Brown to Professor Stanley Read of the University of Victoria, presumably obtained from Read when Butler was one of his students.
This series contains photocopies of the ledgers made and retained by the publishers of the various books written by Roderick Haig-Brown. The sheets list monthly or quarterly sales of each book, as well as details of royalties paid out.
