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R.W. Scott fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1485
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1992

The fonds consists of records of the Vancouver Hoo-Hoo Club No. 48 and the International Concatenated Order of the Hoo-Hoo and the records of Scott's participation in these organizations. It includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, photographs, printed material and related material. In addition, Scott compiled notes and lists on lumber retailers, wholesalers, forestry manufacturing units, and lumber exporters as well as a collection of rules for the grading and dressing of lumber, 1922-1970.

Scott, R.W.

Religious Society of Friends of Vancouver fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1465
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1969

The fonds consists of subject files, minute books, financial records and printed material (1911-1969).

Religious Society of Friends of Vancouver

Vancouver Local No. 55 of Finnish Organization of Canada fonds : 1910-1969

  • RBSC-ARC-1192
  • Fonds
  • [Photocopied 1985]

The fonds consists of photocopied minute books of the Finnish Workers' Association "Raivaija" (1910-1918), Finnish Organization of Canada, Local No. 55 (1934-1969), and Webster's Corner Socialist Local (1922-1955). The fonds also includes photocopies of financial records of Local No. 55 (1949-1957) and of subject files pertaining to the development of the Finnish culture in Canada.

Finnish Organization of Canada. Vancouver Local No. 55

Vancouver, New Westminster and District Union Label Trades Council fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1589
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1984, predominant 1939-1979

The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, subject files, photographs, buttons, badges, and union labels relating to the activities of the Council. Includes records pertaining to Josephine Hallock's involvement with the Council, 1939-1979.

Vancouver, New Westminster and District Union Label Trades Council

Transportation Employees Canadian Union fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1559
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1981

The fonds consists of copies of constitutions, financial records, minute books, note books, correspondence and maps pertaining to the formation and subsequent activities of the Union. Lists of members, names of executives, dues statements, labour legislation, benefit plans, membership applications, applications to represent groups of workers and to void agreements, manuals, pamphlets, newsletters, agreements, etc. are included among the material.

Transportation Employees Canadian Union

United Transportation Union, Local 422 fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1571
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1986

The fonds consists of handwritten notes, printed material and subject files made or created in the course of practial activities by the UTU, Local 422. In addition, the fonds consists of the records of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (.27 m, 1942-1968), the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (5.25 m, 1919-1969), the Vancouver Joint Council of Railway Unions (.55 m, 1971-1984), and the Vancouver Rail Task Force, (1 m, mainly 1977-1982).

United Transportation Union. Local 422 (Vancouver, B.C.)

Shizuye Takashima Fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1545
  • Fonds
  • [196-?]

Fonds consists of an annotated draft manuscript for Takashimas 1971 book "A Child in Prison Camp".

Takashima, Shizuye, 1930-

Simon Fraser Tolmie fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1555
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1937

The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, personal files and other material relating to the political career of S.F. Tolmie. The bulk of the material was generated during his years as premier (1928-1933) with some files (1918-1920) from his term as MP for Victoria.

Tolmie, Simon Fraser

Seaboard Lumber Sales Company and Seaboard Shipping Company fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1488
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1983

The fonds consists of corporate records, a research collection of Seaboard historical material used in the preparation of a corporate history, John A. Humbird's journals of his overseas trips for Seaboard (1937-1945) and photographs of Seaboard personnel, delegations, ships, ports, logging operations, and sawmills.

Seaboard Lumber Sales Company

William Holman Hunt fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1266
  • Fonds
  • 1850-1907

The fonds consists of incoming letters from W. Bell Scott and F.G. Stephens to Mr. and Mrs. Hunt (Edith Holman Hunt), as well as subject files containing information concerning the relationship between Hunt and Stephens.
The letters here included from William Bell Scott were found in the Penkill Papers and those from Frederic George Stephens were extracted from the Angeli-Dennis Papers.

Hunt, William Holman

Yasutaro Yamaga fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1638
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1969

The fonds consists of biographical information, diaries (1962-1966), manuscripts, correspondence and collected historical material pertaining to the Haney Agricultural Association (1906-1962), Fraser Valley Japanese Language School (1920-1953), Nipponia Home (1941-1969) and the Japanese Canadian United Church (1919-1966).

Yamaga, Yasutaro

Yorkshire Trust Company fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1639
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1970

The fonds consists of business records of the Yorkshire Guarantee & Securities, Limited, The Yorkshire and Canadian Trust, Limited and The Yorkshire & Pacific Securities, Limited, Huddersfield, England concerning its B.C. operations. The records consist of those created at Head Office, Huddersfield, in its dealings with its Vancouver and Victoria offices. There are also books of account which appear to have been created in its Vancouver office. The records consist of legal documents (1889-1950) minutes (1906-1950) correspondence (1890-1964) and financial records (1889-1970), including registers, journals and ledgers (1889-1954). There are also records of the Canadian Mining Syndicate and the Vancouver Land & Securities Corporation. The fonds also includes photographs of the exterior of the Thos. Dunn and Company store, depicting goods ready for shipment from Vancouver to the Klondike and interiors and exteriors of the Yorkshire Building in the 1950s.

Yorkshire Trust Company

Wilderness Advisory Committee fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1618
  • Fonds
  • 1985-1986

The fonds consists of copies of correspondence, briefs, and submissions regarding selected wilderness areas throughout the province sent by interested parties such as MacMillan Bloedal Ltd. and Comino as well as municipalities and concerned private citizens to the Committee. Most of the submissions were dated in December, 1985.

Wilderness Advisory Committee

Vancouver Vietnam Action Committee fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1585
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1972

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed material from various Vancouver-based organizations (including the Vancouver Vietnam Day Committee and the Vancouver Committee to End the War in Vietnam) opposed to the war in Vietnam (1966-1972).

Vancouver Vietnam Action Committee

Al King fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1303
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1975

The fonds consists of agreements and printed material detailing the activities of the United Steelworkers of America in British Columbia (1966-1973) and personal correspondence relating to King's activities (1973-1975).

King, Al, 1915-2003

Albert F. Reeve fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1459
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2005, predominant 1978-1991

The fonds consists of materials generated in the exploration and operating process of Blackdome Exploration Ltd., and the Blackdome Mining Corporation. This includes: maps, mine plans and technical drawings, slides, photographs, geological reports, proposals, correspondence, environmental impact statements, budgets, a Masters degree thesis from the University of Alberta, exploration notes, operations reports, operating costs, geological interpretations, memorandums, recommendations, evaluations, production summaries, economic performance reports, personnel files, accounting charts, feasibility studies, annual and quarterly reports, news releases, press clippings, diamond drill hole logs and summaries, and several artifacts.

Reeve, Albert F., 1936-

Alf Padgham fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1425
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1930

The fonds consists of Padgham's photographs of family and friends, Stanley Park views, lacrosse and picnics.

Padgham, Alf

Brian Hayward fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1242
  • Fonds
  • 1977-1984

The fonds consists of notes, reports, photocopies and other material relating to the organization and aims of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, 1977-78, and the "Fish and Ships" project, a group study of the B.C. fisheries industry, fishing and fish processing labour force, and fishing communities on the B.C. coast, in the overall context of a study of capital and markets, 1981-1984.

Hayward, Brian

British Columbia Academy of Science fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1049
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1963

The fonds consists of financial records, minutes, agendas, notices and programs, scientific papers, election and membership records, conference records and extensive correspondence files.

British Columbia Academy of Science

British Columbia Camping Association fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1051
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1975

The fonds consists of minute books, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, historical accounts, printed material and ephemera which reflect the Association's mandate to help camp leaders coordinate camping work in the province, establish standards and safeguards for camping and to stimulate community interest in the activity.

British Columbia Camping Association

British Columbia Federation of Labour fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1056
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1980, predominant 1962-1980

The fonds consists of research files compiled during the writing of Paul Phillip's No Power Greater: A Century of Labour in British Columbia, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, political education material, history questionnaires and minutes of the Federation and affiliated associations. Five subsequent accessions have resulted in the deposit of office files, financial records, briefs, convention proceedings, speeches, memoranda, photographs and sound recordings reflecting the wide scope of activity and interest pursued by the Federation.

British Columbia Federation of Labour

British Columbia Government Agent, 150 Mile House fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1058
  • Fonds
  • 1896-[1914]

The fonds consists of records created and received by the B.C. Government Agent at 150 Mile House in the Cariboo region of the province. Fonds includes correspondence, tax assessment book, telegram originals, and postal receipts.

British Columbia. Government Agent (150 Mile House, B.C.)

British Columbia Peace Council fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1064
  • Fonds
  • 1960-1994

The fonds consists of office files, log books, minutes, posters and buttons. The office files consist mainly of correspondence, including that with the Canadian Peace Congress and the World Peace Council, and printed material. Some of the correspondence include the Pacific National Exhibition.

British Columbia Peace Council

Bullock family fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1082
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1994

The fonds consists of the subject files, posters, photographs and pamphlets relating to the activities of the Revolutionary Workers League and its predecessors the League for Social Action, Socialist Educational League and the Revolutionary Workers Party. Research and subject files contain information on unions and the labour movement. Fonds includes correspondence and meeting programs.

Bullock (family)

Bulwer family fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1084
  • Fonds
  • 1263-1941

The fonds consists of correspondence, memorabilia, maps, addresses, photographs, legal documents, sketches, seals and clippings generated or collected by the Bulwer family between 1263 and 1941, including Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer.

Bulwer (family)

C.D. Orchard fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1421
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1963

The fonds consists of subject files, sound recordings, photographs and maps relating to the history of forestry in the province, which Orchard created while under contract to University of British Columbia. Some of the files consist of research material he collected concerning hand-loggers, camp living conditions, and wages and salaries.

Orchard, Chauncey Donald

Art Finley fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1191
  • Fonds
  • 1960-1990, predominant 1969-1985

The fonds consists of audio cassettes of interviews (100) with a variety of personalities (79) from the fields of entertainment, politics, and the professions relating to their careers and issues of the day recorded on radio talk show programmes at KSFO San Francisco (1), CKNW Vancouver (57), KGO San Francisco (10), CJOR Vancouver (23), WNIS Norfolk (3), XRA San Diego (5), and KCBS San Francisco (1) from 1960 to 1990. Some of the tapes include questions from listeners to the talk show guests. The people interviewed by Art Finley included some of the prominent personalities and newsmakers of the 1970s and early 1980s: Mohammed Ali, Joan Baez, Bill Graham, Germaine Greer, Henry Heimlich, Yousuf Karsh, John Lennon, Henry Morgentaler, Huey Newton, Pierre Trudeau, and Gore Vidal.

Finley, Art, 1926-

Barbarian Press fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1023
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1990

The fonds consists of correspondence files including founding operations and editorial issues; project files include planning and production of books (collaborations with I. H. Finlay and illustrators Edwina Ellis and Colin Paynton), pamphlets, broadsheets, etc.; general printing files cover printed ephemera and job printing including design files and promotional and background materials; financial files include invoices and bank records.

Barbarian Press

Beaver Cannery fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1027
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1906, 1931-1939

The fonds consists of photocopied pages from time book (1905/06), fisherman's catch records (1933-1938) and journals (1931-1939).

Beaver Cannery (Rivers Inlet, B.C.)

Beth Jankola fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1286
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1992

The fonds consists of publications (1972-1981), readings (1975-1979), draft manuscripts, correspondence (1973-1992), journals (1972-1990), a scrapbook (1978), subject files and cassettes. The fonds also includes 25 photographs pertaining to Jankola's life and career and a sub-fonds relating to Hester Browne.

Jankola, Beth, 1936-

Cedalia Alice Tarasoff fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1547
  • Fonds
  • 1939-[1989]

The fonds consists of correspondence (1987) and poetry and prose written or collected by Tarasoff. Also included in the fonds are notations for the writings to be set to music, arranged by Colleen Coburn, and recordings of Tarasoff performing the songs, explanatory notes about the lyrics, and related correspondence. Record types include poetry, prose, song lyrics, musical notations, copyright certificates, correspondence, and audio cassettes.

Tarasoff, Cedalia Alice

College of Pharmacists of British Columbia fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1130
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1984

The fonds consists of minutes, membership records, financial records, correspondence and subject files from the office of the Registrar of the College. In addition, it includes prescription record books of early pharmacies in B.C. collected by the College.

College of Pharmacists of British Columbia

Cyril Littlebury fonds

  • BC Historical Photograph collection albums 1456/4,1456/17-1456/23,1456/48-1456/51
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1923

The fonds consists of Littlebury's photograph albums, containing views of ships, locomotives, railway stations and parks and gardens.

Littlebury, Cyril

David Conde fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1135
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1977

The fonds includes records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-47). It includes trial transcripts, biographical information on defendants, prosecution evidence, and copies of contemporary news accounts and interpretations of the trials. Research notes including printed materials, photographs, ephemera, and interview transcripts used for the writing of hundreds of short articles, news programmes, and full-length books (manuscripts also included in the collection), correspondence, and radio programme transcripts reflect Conde's integral involvement in Asian foreign affairs.

Conde, David W.

E. Herbert Norman fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1406
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1950

The fonds consists of business and personal correspondence, clippings, ephemera, a black and white film of E. Herbert Norman's Award Presentation, manuscripts, legal documents pertaining to his published works, speeches, conference papers by Japanese scholars and miscellaneous Japanese material.

Norman, E. Herbert

Elizabeth Lane fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1319
  • Fonds
  • 1979-1982

The fonds consists of materials pertaining to the activities of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Policy and the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee. Included are briefs, files, press clippings and committee publications.

Lane, Elizabeth

Ellen Harris fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1235
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1967

The fonds consists of broadcast scripts and speeches; manuscripts of plays, poetry, and prose; notebooks; diaries; scrapbooks and correspondence. The fonds also includes subject files, printed materials, fan mail, financial records and many subgroups relating to other family members and photographs.

Harris, Ellen

F.W. Trounce fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1560
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1920-1930]

The fonds consists of Trounce's photographs and negatives of landscapes. Includes some portraits.

Trounce, F.W.

Fisheries Association of British Columbia fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1193
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1975

The fonds consists of minutes, financial records, negotiations and agreements, speeches and subject files generated by the Fisheries Association. The subject files include information on the activities of the Association including labour, safety, pollution, resources, waste water and licence limitations. The material was primarily generated during the period 1955 to 1975, except for minutes of the Salmon Canners' Operating Committee (1943-1948), agreements (1946-1956) and one subject file on the Native Brotherhood of B.C. (1947-1958).

Fisheries Association of British Columbia

Food and Service Workers of Canada Union fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1197
  • Fonds
  • 1958-1987

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, case files, convention material and other textual records relating to the activities of the Food and Service Workers of Canada Union and its predecessor unions, the Canadian Food and Associated Services Union and the White Spot Employees Union.

Food and Service Workers of Canada Union

Gordon Price fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1446
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1983

The fonds consists of subject files which Price assembled through his freelance writing for the publication, Forestalk. Composed of clippings, reports, articles, speeches, etc., the material pertains to various facets of the forest industry in British Columbia.

Price, Gordon, 1949-

H. Bullock-Webster fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1083
  • Fonds
  • 1874-1880

The fonds consists of ninety-four original watercolours of British Columbian life, mainly of social life, customs, and dress in Hudson's Bay Company posts and along various transportation routes (1874-1880). Sketch book includes four photographs of Fort McLeod, Stuart Lake and the artist. An accrual to the fonds fonds consists of artwork and a published memoir of H. Bullock-Webster. The artworks depict scenes from the daily life Bullock-Webster experienced managing the trade post in Northern British Columbia in the late 19th century. Nine original pieces are included along with ca. 35 clippings of artwork, comics, and illustrations published in The Graphic magazine. The included memoir, entitled, Memories of Sports and Travel Fifty Years Ago: From the Hudson’s Bay Company to New Zealand, contains the author’s account of his young adulthood in Britain, his work for the Hudson Bay Company, and his emigration to New Zealand, along with several illustrations by the author.

Bullock-Webster, Harry

H.G. Barnett fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1025
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1940, predominant 1935-1936

The fonds consists of field research material for the Coast Salish (1935/36) and Tsimshian (1940) Indians of B.C.

Barnett, H.G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985

H.R. MacMillan fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1346
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1978, predominant 1930-1965

The fonds consists of correspondence that spans the years 1898 to 1978, with the bulk of the material from 1930 to 1965. Fonds also includes transcripts, press clippings, notebooks, reports, minutes and publications. The fonds reflects the overlap of personal and corporate interests in MacMillan's life. Correspondence regarding UBC, Canadian and foreign business and personal contacts, his relationship with community groups and memberships he held, as well as his family history is included.

MacMillan, Harvey Reginald

Heroldine M. Copp fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1937-1976

The fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Heroldine Copp in relation to her long involvement with the Vancouver-Burrard Liberal Association. The materials also relate to numerous other Liberal Party organizations at the provincial and federal level. Fonds includes agendas, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, notes, and reports.

Copp, Heroldine M.

Frank Hann fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1231
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1940

The fonds consists of photocopies of Hann's autobiography, reminiscences of Alberta and B.C., newspaper and magazine clippings (1910-1940), three unidentified letters (one dated 1930), and maps of Southeast England, Ontario (1912), Spain and Portugal. Scrapbooks in the collection contain clippings, printed material and correspondence on various topics. The fonds also includes photographs of classical art and architecture, buildings and monuments.

Hann, Frank, b. 1893

Harold Pritchett fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1449
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1980

The fonds consists of a scrapbook (1936-1939); clippings, printed material; correspondence (1970s); financial statements of B.C. District, IWA (1945-1947); ribbons and buttons for IWA and Labour Progressive Party conventions (1944-1948); subject files pertaining to his legal status while travelling in the United States (1936-1938); 31 prints of loggers' funerals and membership cards. The fonds also includes correspondence (1945-ca.1980), subject files, photographs (1940s), memorabilia (1936-1940) and membership books.

Pritchett, Harold

Thomas Ladner fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1317
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1896

The fonds consists of a letter book (outgoing) pertaining to Ladner's activities as a manager of the Wellington Packing Company at Canoe Pass near Ladner on the Fraser River (1892-1896).

Ladner, Thomas Ellis

Turnour family fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1566
  • Fonds
  • 1746-1832

The fonds consists of five parchment and paper legal documents with appended seals which document land transactions in Sussex, Surrey and Norfolk. These documents concern entails, land transfers and loans involving the Turnour family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Other materials include leases, releases, transfers, declarations, a deed of covenant, a will extract and several duty stamps. There is also a collection of maps.

Turnour (family)

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