YWCA Metro Vancouver entwines advocacy with its social and community services, programming, and other functions. Advocacy emerged as a distinct function of YWCA Metro Vancouver in the 1960s, as the organization began to involve itself more vocally with social issues and public affairs relevant to its services. YWCA Metro Vancouver began allocating committees to coordination of social issues within the organization in the early 1970s. After the YWCA of Canada disseminated its Social Action Platform in 1971, YWCA Metro Vancouver formed a Social Concerns Committee that operated from 1972 to the late 1970s. This committee coordinated social concerns for the YWCA by undertaking studies for the Board of Directors, planning programs and newsletter pieces pertinent to contemporary social issues, and generally encouraging groups within the organization to become socially involved. In 1980, the Social Issues Committee was created to survey members on contemporary social issues. As a result of that survey, in 1982 the Social Action Committee formed as a committee of the YWCA Board of Directors to provide a stronger central coordinating function for social issues. The committee studied, researched, and monitored issues; collected background material relevant to those issues; formulated policy statements; gave advice to the Board and staff on social action; and regularly identified and reassessed priority issues to membership. The Social Action Committee was discontinued in 1995. YWCA Metro Vancouver YWCA has involved itself in advocacy via these committees, task forces on Board-identified and prioritized social issues, and collaboration with other advocacy-based and community service groups in Vancouver.

Material in this series arises from the business of the Social Concerns, Social Issues, and Social Action Committees; task forces struck by the Board of Directors to research and report on issues identified as of priority concern; and collaboration on women’s issues between YWCA Metro Vancouver and other advocacy-based and community service groups in Vancouver.

Records consist of reports, meeting minutes, reference material, memoranda, correspondence, media clippings, and other material arising from YWCA Metro Vancouver’s involvement in contemporary social issues as identified by the organization.

Series consists of cultural event programs and flyers from Canada and the west coast of the United States, predominately events taking place in Vancouver, Toronto, Washington and California. Events include musical performances, author readings, art exhibits, plays, festivals, film screenings, and conferences on arts and cultural topics. Other material in the series include cartoons, photographs of musical artists, dancers, and stage performers from Vancouver and elsewhere, meeting minutes of the Vancouver Cultural Alliance (now known as the Alliance for Arts and Culture), and material from the Vancouver Folk Music society.

This series consists of records that were created and received across Lee’s life as a result of her business ventures and investments.
A significant portion of the records relate to her ownership the Paris Beauty and Peggy Lee Beauty Centre salons and her and partial ownership of the Prince Eugene salon. Records as well as her involvement with the Hairdressers Association of British Columbia, including when she served as a Board Member and Inspector between 1992 and 1998. In addition, there is also documentation of a variety of Lee’s investments, including a detailed account of the financials for the beauty supply company King Island Clay.

Records consist of financial and legal records relating to Lee’s investments; marketing and publicity materials for the Peggy Lee Beauty Centre and earlier salons; agendas, minutes, and correspondence relating to Lee’s involvement with the Hairdressers Association of British Columbia as well as several competitions and pageants; and several awards and certificates of recognition that Lee received for her work.

Series primarily consists of photographs taken of the Icelandic Lutheran Church, parish leaders, and prominent members of the Church’s congregation.

Records in this series pertain to the organization and content of reunions held for the survivors of internment at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Materials apply specifically to Leonard McCann’s attendance at these reunions and include photographs, travel records, programs and memorabilia.

Series consists of records relating primarily to Coupland’s 21 published literary works (14 fiction and 7 non-fiction). Records in this series include:

• Annotated handwritten and typed drafts of major works
• Correspondence with publishers
• Cover mock-ups
• Pre-draft conceptual writings
• Research notes and
• Photographs and graphic material related to Coupland’s pictorial non-fiction books
• Publicity material relating to books including stickers, tshirts and posters

Series includes records related to the following projects:

Fiction

• Player One (2010)
• Generation A (2009)
• Extinction Event stylebook (Extinction Event is a 2009 television series in which Coupland has been involved).
• The Gum Thief (2007)
• JPod (2006)
• Eleanor Rigby (2004)
• Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
• All Families are Psychotic (2001)
• God Hates Japan (2001)
• 2080 Stylebook (a unique hand-book about the future created by Coupland that later influenced his other pictorial works such as Souvenir of Canada, ca. 2000)
• Miss Wyoming (1999)
• Girlfriend in a Coma (1997)
• Microserfs (1995)
• Life After God (1993)
• Canada Goose (self-published novella, 1993)
• Shampoo Planet (1992)
• Generation X (1991)
• 1991 (unpublished novel written ca. 1982)

Non-Fiction

• Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan (2009)
• Terry-The Life of Canadian Terry Fox (2005)
• Souvenir of Canada 2 (2004)
• School Spirit (2002)
• Souvenir of Canada (2002)
• City of Glass (2000)
• Polaroids from the Dead (1996)

Series consists of an assemblage of clippings in 48 scrapbooks collected by Dosanjh and staff from local and foreign newspapers, magazines, and online sources. Individual items have been cut from their original source material and pasted into scrapbooks with date and publication data attached. A range of features including political comics, news articles, and opinion pieces document his advocacy and political career. Additionally, they present media reaction and opinions regarding various political decisions, announcements, and issues brought forth by the subject.

Clippings from two large Metro Vancouver print media establishments, The Vancouver Sun and The Province, make up the bulk of the pasted items. Smaller local publications and online news media sources such as The Georgia Straight, Global BC, and CTV News also feature.

Specific foreign language clippings form distinct compilations. Punjabi and Hindi news from local and Indian sources include The Indo-Canadian Voice, The Punjab Guardian, Des Pardes, Ajitweekly, Jagbani, Punjab Kesari, Daily Nawan Zamana, Chandigarh Bani, and Dainik Bhaskar. Chinese language papers are limited to Metro Vancouver based publications such as The Asian Star, SingTao Daily, Ming Pao Daily News, and World Journal.

Advertisements are compiled into standalone books. Dating from 1985 to 2009 and sourced from locally published newspapers, they relate to the promotion of Dosanjh’s law firm, political election campaigns, and well wishes to members of the public regarding holidays.

Individual scrapbooks are identified by the date of their contents in day-month-year format.

Due to the nature of the scrapbooks’ content, the clippings relate to topics found in the Provincial Political series and the Federal Political series.

Series includes curriculum vita and correspondence received

Correspondence was kept in file folders, arranged alphabetically within a range of years. Unfiled correspondence also contains a marked up copy of Nicol’s play A Scar is Born. Series contains 2 col. photographs at 37 – 25, 2 slides at 38 – 10, and 2 col. photographs at 38 – 22.

The Research Notes series includes material compiled by Devitt for presentations and reports delivered at meetings such as the Public Policy National Resources Conferences in 1981 and on a more regular basis at the annual meetings of the Association of BC Professional Foresters. News clipping citing Devitt and/or offering a general overview of work he has conducted also figure in this series.

The Stamp Collection and Related Records series consists of philatelic records and catalogues, correspondence, price lists, and publications. Also included in the series are records related to postal history in general, particularly that of British Columbia.

Series consists of minutes and agendas, fundraising records, legal documents, committee information, and general correspondence related to the managerial and administrative duties of Pro-CAN. Legal documents include those dealing with lawsuits, injunctions, and Freedom of Information requests. General correspondence is limited to letters and emails to and from the organization as well as letters of support. For hate mail, see series titled "Safety and Security."

Series consists of event coordination and publicity records, artifacts, correspondence, and Pro-CAN’s various publications, including editions of its quarterly newsletter, The Pro-Choice Press. Artifacts include a fabric banner and promotional pro-choice mail. Correspondence relates mostly to government lobbying on behalf of abortion rights and providers across the province.

Series consists of textual records, photographs, artifacts, and correspondence related to the monitoring of problematic anti-choice groups and individuals as well as Pro-CAN’s development of safety initiatives. During its operation, Pro-CAN maintained files on possible threats as well as common anti-choice behaviors and tactics. Many of the behavioral files focus on anti-choice violence in Canada and abroad.

Series documents YWCA Metro Vancouver’s social and community service programs. Among the YWCA’s service focus areas are: affordable housing provided by the YWCA Hotel/Residence, Housing Registry, YWCA housing communities, and short-term and transitional houses; counselling; daycare and early learning; and employment guidance. Although available to members, these services are targeted at individuals, groups, and families identified by the YWCA as vulnerable and facing systemic social and economic barriers. The YWCA has geared its services towards: disabled individuals and their families, homeless youth, immigrant women, single mothers, survivors of violence and/or abuse, and teenage mothers, among others. Activities represented include: setting up and planning particular services; managing, running, and evaluating those services; and communicating with current and potential clients about services offered.

Records consist of reports, studies, meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, publications, and other material arising from the YWCA’s planning, evaluation, and management of its social and community services.

Series includes GHIG by-laws, Annual General Meeting agendas and minutes, Executive Meeting agendas and minutes, meeting attendance records and annual reports.

Series consists of CVs and a brief summary by Ratsoy of her life.

Series consists of files compiled by Ainslie while researching three artists: Inglis Sheldon-Williams, Henry George Glyde and Cecil Buller, in the 1980's-1990's. Files contain research notes, photocopies from archival collections and reference sources, transcripts of interviews, correspondence and photographs of artworks.

Contents of the sales, marketing and promotion series includes press clippings, correspondence, records of publicity tours and book launches, promotional flyers, press releases, advertising, awards, contests, and promotional photographs. It also includes records of sales and distribution, such as contracts, reports, and foreign rights agreements.

The series is divided into two sub-series according to the focus of the content, 1) General files and 2) Publication and author files. General files includes company-wide sales, marketing, and promotion. Publication and author files focuses on the sales, marketing, and promotion specific to authors and/or publications.

Series consists of records related to financial matters that Manson managed. These records were produced over the whole of Manson's life, the earliest dating from while he was attending university.

This series has been arranged into two subseries: the personal finances of Manson and his family, and Manson's investments and trusts.

The Community Brokerage Service Society (CBSS) was created as a part of a pilot project for individualized funding between 1991 and 1996 through an agreement with the provincial government of British Columbia. It was discontinued by the B.C. provincial government and it ended in 1996. The CBSS was resurrected and the name was changed to the Family Voice Society in 2007 with the goal of providing an independent place for families to go where they could get support and education as well as for resources for advocacy and networking.

Series includes records created by the Community Brokerage Service Society. The CBSS changed its name to the Family Voice Society in 2009. The records in this series are predominately from before 2007 when the name change occurred. However there are records related to the name change that can be found within this series.

Records include meeting minutes, project reports, publications produced by the organization, and correspondence.

Series contains material relating to the development and publishing of work by Spider Robinson. Material includes publishing agreements, character outlines, book covers and book write-ups.

Series consists of records related to Miki’s activities with several voluntary Japanese Canadian cultural and political organizations, files related to Miki’s research on redress issues, and the records of two other individuals, Cassandra Kobayshi and Randy Enomoto, with whom Miki worked with in the course of his involvement in the redress movement. The series contains agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda, notes and notebooks, drafts of manuscripts, reports, news clippings, published guides, financial reports and proposals, conference programs, transcripts and audio recordings of forum and symposia proceedings, meetings, and other events, research material including articles and essays, serials, legislation and other records. The series documents the Japanese Canadian redress movement generally and Miki’s work in that movement particularly.

This series contains material regarding the process of creating printed publications. Material primarily relates to the work of Robert Reid and includes correspondence with clients, development materials and printed samples. Large hardcover mock-ups of publications or potential publications are included in this series.

Also included in this series is material acquired by Robert Reid that was likely to have played a role in his research and developmental process. This material includes collections of printed material (like hotel labels, packaging labels, bank notes and newspaper clippings). It is likely that this material served as reference or inspiration in regard to his own work. Prominent topics include golf courses, currency, World War II, and Canadian art.

Series consists of Stacey's research files related to the fishing industry. Unless otherwise noted, files consist entirely or predominantly of photocopied materials that have, to varying degrees, been organised, highlighted, and annotated by Stacey. Files also contain some handwritten notes, published materials, interview transcripts, and correspondence, all of which relate primarily to First Nations fisheries and licensing. Other topics include: fishing techniques and equipment; fish species; fisheries unions and workers; the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and fisheries legislation; the Hudson's Bay Company; various canneries in BC; Steveston, BC and its Japanese community, and more. These files were used by Stacey in his various roles as historian, researcher, author, expert witness, and consultant.

Whenever possible, file names and order within files as given by the records creator have been respected.

Series consists of photocopied materials, correspondence, and handwritten notes related to Stacey's research on various topics not related to fisheries. These topics include forestry, mining, labour, the fur trade, Canadian history, and ships, among others.

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.

Series mainly contains textual records pertaining to works such as books of poetry, short stories, and plays published by Lazara Press in the early 1980s to the mid 2000s. These records include manuscripts and drafts and, in many cases, the final print edition of these works. Other records include correspondence, contracts, production information, reviews, promotion, and distribution information. The series also contains copies of manuscripts submitted to Lazara Press, but not published by Press. The photographs included in this series are typically images of the author and/or other images featured within the published edition of a work.

Ratsoy published numerous articles on issues that confronted the nurses' associations with which she was involved. Frequent articles in the RNABC news while she was President of this association had such titles as "Community Nursing" and "Senior Nurse Managers: A Force to be Reckoned with."

Series consists of documents related to Bunce’s work on the Canadian Forest Inventory Committee (CFIC), of which he was a member for 30 years. CFIC is a national committee tasked with standardising and making recommendations regarding operational procedures, measurement standards, terminology, and data acquisition and handling in the forestry sector.

Materials in this series include correspondence, meeting minutes, other meeting documents, newsletters, and documents from the terminology and biodiversity sub-committees.

Series consists of calendars and published material by the Icelandic National League of North America for purposes of reference and dissemination. Series also includes published newsletters and records of activities undertaken by the “Uff-Dah” Viking Association.

Series contains materials related to publicizing the release of the film Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing.

Materials include a promotion trailer, a publicity clip reel, printed annotated transcripts, press kits, publicity posters, magazine reviews, a distribution chart and a publicity report.

Series documents the Kudo family’s history.

Records in this series include family trees on both the Kudo and Kawamura sides of the family; photographs, correspondence, and documents collected by Kathleen Merken and Alice Kudo about the lives of Hatsune and Minoru Kudo and earlier members of the Kudo and Kawamura families; obituaries and funerary documents relating to the deaths of Minoru Kudo and Roland Kudo; and some personal records and correspondence of Kathleen Merken.

Series consists of journals and calendars which provide a chronological list of events related to the Japanese Canadian Redress, including meetings, events as well as information about grants and funding, and contact information for individuals involved with the movement.

Series consists of general and editorial correspondence and postcards as well as correspondence with employees, book publishers and distributors, government granting agencies, literary reviews and businesses. The series is divided into three sub-series: general correspondence, editorial correspondence and correspondent-specific correspondence.

This series contains records relating to the design of books and printed work. Content includes paper samples, typography samples and books, marbled paper, page mock-ups and other material that contributes to the aesthetic development of Reid's work.

Series consists of photocopied materials, correspondence, copies of case transcripts, Stacey's notes, and other documents related to and used in court cases in which Stacey was involved as an expert witness. The cases were related primarily to First Nations fishing rights.

Series consists mainly of incoming correspondence from fans. Correspondence is of both a personal and a professional nature. In addition, the series contains correspondence between Spider Robinson and other prominent writers and publishers of science fiction. and some correspondence with family . The series has been arranged chronologically and alphabetically, except the electron mail component which is arranged chronologically.

The survey photography series consists of photographic material compiled by Devitt over decades of field work in British Columbia. The albums include black and white photos as well as multiple sets of 35mm. slides. These color slides cover the evolution from natural regeneration, bare root nurseries to tree planting. Also featured are processes for tree seed registration, tree selection and grafting into seed orchards for seed extraction and storage. The series also includes photograph prints of people and events related to the forestry industry in British Columbia.

Series consists of textual records relating to the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop (ACWW) including grant applications, meeting agendas and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, manuscripts submitted for writing contests held by the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop, records that explain the purpose and structure of the ACWW, and one sub-series that includes records from Ricepaper, the magazine published by the ACWW. The series also has meeting minutes from the Asian Canadian Writers Group which was a precursor to the ACWW.

Series primarily contains autographed portrait photographs of operatic singers and conductors who at sometime worked with Irving Guttman. The series also contains a few signed photographs of Mr. Guttman, either working or socializing, with various operatic singers, conductors and other stakeholders.

The Woodlands Parents' Group was an independent group of parents whose children were residents in Woodlands. They organized themselves as a support and advocacy group for deinstitutionalization and community living. Through their efforts, they successfully lobbied the Government of British Columbia to close Woodlands and support community living for residents of Woodlands.

Series consists of records created and collected by the Woodlands Parents' Group, of which Jackie Maniago was a member. Records include meeting minutes, reports and briefs written by the Woodlands Parents' Group, general correspondence, news articles and other records related to Woodlands and the services provided there, and records related to the lawsuit brought forth by survivors of Woodlands.

This series consists of publications with limited distribution and with subject matter of a professional and often academic nature. Series includes teaching materials, reports, and conference proceedings.

In the late 1990s, Artists began using the small 2.5-inch by 3.5-inch trading card templates as the basis for a new way to share small format artworks. In the early 2000s, Anna Banana began to create and trade her own cards, amassing a fairly large collection, and producing a significant number of her own card editions. This series is made up of her own creations, as well as cards collected from artists at the trading events which she attended.

This series is mostly made up of trading cards in binders or folders, with some information relating to the development of this art form in the file called “ARTIST TRADING CARDS: The Story.” Banana compiled cards into binders either by year or by significance, and kept her own separate from those which she received from others.

Series contains assortment of artifacts including graduation pins, insignia, rings, badges, medals, and a bracelet related to various BC and Canadian nursing schools, awards and other designations. Includes graduation pins from UBC School of Nursing, Vancouver General Hospital, Royal Jubilee Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Royal Columbia Hospital, Nanaimo General Hospital, Royal Inland Hospital among others. Graduation anniversary pins for UBC SON and several UBC Sorority pins also appear in the series. Also includes, pins for RNABC Award of Honour, Nurses Administrators Association of BC, Northern Territory Nurses Registration, Mary Agnes Snively Memorial Medal and Licensed Practical Nurses Association of BC. Series contains several artifacts from outside British Columbia, Trained Nurses Association of India, Winnipeg and Edmonton General Hospitals and The General Nursing Council for England & Wales. Contains 1 pin and a badge mounted in frames, some items arrived with custom storage boxes.

Series consists of notes, notebooks/journals, press clippings, photographs, books and sketches that are not directly linked to a specific project. From about 1990 to 1994 Coupland kept made daily entries in notebooks. These notebooks contain Coupland’s thoughts, observations and concepts for future subject. This series also contains material related to an unwritten research project that Coupland began in 1992.

Series contains the minutes of Board of Directors‟, Annual General and other various committee meetings. Material predominantly consists of Board of Director‟s minutes. Material is arranged chronologically.

Series contains textual material related to membership, including membership reports (lists, schedules and trends), renewal and new member information and information about individual members. Correspondence is predominant in this series, and is interfiled throughout. Early material related to personal membership consists entirely of correspondence and is organized alphabetically according to member surname. The remainder of the material in this series is organized generally according to subject and then chronologically.

Series documents Al Sens textual involvement in the animation community. Material includes periodicals, programmes, bulletins, brochures, correspondence, and catalogues. Series is arranged by publication or event title and date.

Series is divided into two sub-series: Magazines featuring Lansdowne’s artwork and Newspaper and magazine clippings. Records include copies of magazines in which Lansdowne’s artwork is featured, along with newspaper and magazine clippings featuring articles about Lansdowne’s life and career. Also included are a small number of photographs.