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Photographs series

The series consists of photographs of Frank F. Wesbrook, family members, and other associates. They include both black and white prints and negatives of various dimensions.

Journals

Journals reflect Allen’s day-to-day and family life in England, summer vacations with her family to Trebarfoot, a painting trip to Italy, examples of her playwriting, and documents several years of her life in Canada, from 1930 to 1934. Within the journals are family photographs, drawings and sketches, many by Allen, others contributed by various family members. The journals are as follows: Trebarfoot Vol. 1 (1890 to 1894); Trebarfoot Vol. 2 (1895 to 1898); Trebarfoot Vol. 4 (1901 to 1904); Daily diary (1898); Daily diary (1900, 1903, 1911); Italy journal (1904); Little Female Academy (no date); Auntie McAssar (no date); 1930’s diary (1930-1934).

British Columbia ephemera

This series contains paper ephemera, and a few photographs, representing a variety of events, activities, and work in British Columbia. Materials include restaurant menus, school reports, pageant rules and application, raffle information, bills and receipts, telegrams, cruise brochures, travel tickets and tokens, theatre programs, business correspondence, a souvenir set of Vancouver views with map, photos from nightclubs and supper clubs in souvenir envelopes, a collection of Vancouver Golden Jubilee commemorative stamps, and various Chinese textbooks. Photographs and negatives found in an original photo processing envelope includes aerial and sea views.

Early University Records series

The series consists of correspondence (1890-1920) generated both before and during UBC's first two presidents, Frank Wesbrook and Leonard Klinck. The correspondence that predates the appointment of UBC's first President Wesbrook deals with various issues, including membership in Convocation, appointments to the Board of Governors, hiring a President and selection of a site for the University. Correspondence generated during the presidencies of Wesbrook and Klinck provides information about the University's establishment, the hiring of staff, strictures placed on the University during World War I, attempts to move the University to its eventual Point Grey campus and many other matters. Arranged chronologically by year and then alphabetically. The series also includes subject files (1904-1936), divided into pre- and post-1915 and arranged alphabetically.

Collected Items

Series consists of items collected by Stacey out of general or personal interest rather than for a specific project. Most reflect his interest in BC industry, especially fisheries. Materials include postcards, envelopes, prints, photographs, pamphlets, government publications, and fish product labels.

Diaries series

Series consists of diaries that provide information about Frank F. Wesbrook's activities in London in 1891 and his appointments as University President between April 1914 and February 1918.

Ruskin Co-operative

Stock share certificate and by-laws to the creation of the co-operative. The series also contains a photograph of the co-operative building.

Documents and articles

Series consists of a biographical sketch of Hill-Tout, articles and manuscript writings by Hill-Tout and others, and a document appointing Hill-Tout a Justice of the Peace in 1903.

Diaries series

Series consists of 14 diaries kept by John Smith regarding his emigration from England to Canada, his purchase of a homestead in the Port Coquitlam area, and the daily activities and weather conditions related to farming, community life, and family life. Diary 2 also contains notes and sketches which Smith made at the Ambulance lectures he attended. A transcription of these diaries is also available on CD-ROM. The series also contains a bound copy of the published account of Smith’s trip to the Yukon in 1898, published by Walter N. Sage in the British Columbia Historical Quarterly in 1952.

Drafts and working papers

Series consists of drafts, working papers, and support material relating to Charles Spring’s efforts to recoup financial losses as a result of the “Modus Vivendi.” The series includes drafts of letters and documents; notes; newspaper clippings and other ephemera; accountings of losses; declarations, petitions, and memorials; incoming correspondence; a daily log book; a Commissioner of Fisheries Report; and receipts. The series is arranged into subseries based on the creator’s arrangement of material into three separate groupings.

Photograph series

Series consists of photographs about the Fairbridge Farm School, members of the Logan family, the Military, scenery, Psi Upsilon, and UBC.

Manuscripts

Typescripts were fastened together into folders. Although they have been unfastened, the original order has been kept. Any item that is not a manuscript will be described in the order in which it was fastened. All manuscripts are typescripts with the exception of the item in box 1, folder 7. Plays in dramatic form have been listed as poetry.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence of Hill-Tout, including correspondence with several anthropological associations and well-known anthropologists of the day.

Cereno J. Kelley and Donald Urquhart documents

The series consists of documents relating to Captain Cereno J. Kelley and Captain Donald Urquhart (later the estate of Donald Urquhart), and their involvement in the sealing industry during the period of the “Modus Vivendi” and later. The series also documents the later involvement of Kelley and the estate of Donald Urquhart in pursuing claims for losses as a result of the “Modus Vivendi” and vessel seizures. Documents include correspondence, notes and drafts, proof of vessel ownership papers, agreements and accounts of crew for Urquhart’s schooners, and an account journal for the Urquhart estate.

Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada

Series consists of records pertaining to the BCWI’s intersections with the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada (FWIC), into which the BCWI reported. Documents in this series include publications printed by the organization, documents detailing the history of the group, as well as records relating to conventions hosted by the FWIC, where the BCWI was represented.

Federated Women's Institutes of Canada

Legal records

This series, of general and legal records and newspaper clippings, relate to issues surrounding land; including certificates of title, land transaction records, real estate titles, land deeds, leases, mineral claims, mining records, documents relating to land disputes and judicial rulings. In addition, there are documents detailing court disputes involving lands and rights; Harris and Kelly versus Pitts and Stubbs, Star Mining versus Byron N. White, Star Mining versus Rabbit Paw and Harris versus White. Documents from the legal firm employed by Harris, Taylor and O’Shea, are also included.

Photograph series

Series consists of 90 photographs, most of which are reproductions from various archives, museums, and galleries within Canada. Most of the photographs depict artists and their works, although a few are more personal. For example, the small number of Walker and Cheney photographs in 1980 and 1985 shows the close relationship between the two, as do updated photographs of Carr and Cheney. Series arrangement based on Walker's filing system.

Photograph series

Series consists of photographs received by Roy Daniells, James Daniells and Constance Daniells or created by or for them. They have been classified by family group if the information was readily available, and later by form and chronology, for detailed family names, see genealogical materials in Box 10. For other photographs in the Daniells papers, see the Coates/Cassidy subgroup and the occasional photo in the correspondence and subject file series. There are 19 cartes-de-visite, 25 cabinet portraits, c. 59 studio portraits before the turn of the century, plus 92 studio portraits pre-1950, 1 tintype, 2 glass photos, 9 professional photos of student theatre productions, circa 810 photoprints of which a large number are early, most of which are annotated, approximately 250 need more identification. The postcards noted in this series are family photo prints on postcard stock. There is a total, including photographs in albums, of slightly over 1100 photographs in this series. Combined with the Cassidy prints and others in subject files, there are circa 1500 photographs in the Daniells papers.

Reference Pamphlets series

Series consists of pamphlets about various topics, including Rules and Objects of the Dairy Students' Union, the Royal Castle of Rosenborg, Macdonald College courses, and the Maple Sugar Industry in Canada.

Registration and identification certificates

Series consists of Chinese Immigration (C.I.) registration and identification certificates related to implementing Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act that was law from 1885 to 1947, with amendments made in 1887, 1892, 1900, 1903, and 1923. Certificates were first issued to register and identify Chinese persons entering Canada. This function was expanded with the 1923 amendment requiring registration and identification of all Chinese persons residing in the country, immigrant and Canadian-born.

The series includes the most common C.I. certificates issued before the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act banned practically all further Chinese entry, therefore commonly known as the Chinese Exclusion Act:
-The C.I.5 certificate issued in relation to the head tax payment required for Chinese entry to Canada, commonly known as the head tax certificate. Early versions of the certificate in use before 1912 are present.
-C.I.36 certificate issued in exchange for a C.I.5 certificate issued before 1912 that had no photograph.
-C.I.30 certificate issued to a Chinese person entering Canada belonging to a class with exemption from paying the head tax.
-C.I.28 certificate issued to replace a lost or destroyed C.I.5 or C.I.30 certificate.

The series includes a large number of C.I.45 certificates created in 1923 and 1924. The certificate was used to implement Section 18 of the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act that required the registration of all Chinese residing in Canada within twelve months. It was issued as proof of registration of a Canadian-born Chinese who did not possess an entry certificate for the registration stamp.

Also included in the series are samples of lesser-known C.I. certificates and records, including the C.I.4, C.I.10, C.I.18 and C.I.18a, C.I.46, and C.I.50.

The series includes a small number of N.F.63 certificates related to Chinese entry to the Dominion of Newfoundland. Newfoundland’s Act Respecting the Immigration of Chinese Persons (commonly known as the Newfoundland Chinese Immigration Act) was in force from 1906 until Newfoundland and Laborador joined Confederation in 1949.

A small number of certificates relates to birth in Canada, travel documentation, registration as overseas Chinese with the Chinese government, and Canadian citizenship received following the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1947.

Financial records

This series includes Harris’s cheque books and stubs, receipts from various merchants (lumber companies, newspapers, dry goods, furniture dealers, plumbers, freight companies, contractors, the C.P.R. and other railways and numerous other suppliers), stock certificates, bank books and financial statements.

Correspondence

Includes both general and business correspondence. The general correspondence documents the monies he contributed several times to the Sandon church, Harris’s influence regarding lease applications, and monies owed to Harris. In addition, there is material detail other disasters that occurred Sandon such as fires and snow-slides. The business correspondence relates to insurance, land surveyors, civil engineers, various merchants, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Hudson Bay Company stores in Vernon, Lethbridge and Kamloops.

Miscellaneous series

Series consists of assorted textual items which document Frank F. Westbrook's personal and professional activities. Also included is Wesbrook's leather portfolio, with supporting documentation.

Personal Papers series

The series includes correspondence, legal documents, certificates, written verse, and various written memorabilia and artifacts acquired by Sedgewick and his family.

Selected photographs from this and other series have been digitized and included in UBC Archives’ Historical Photograph Database UBC 25.1.

Newspaper Articles

Series consists of two folders containing newspaper clippings. The first folder contains loose clippings of articles from newspapers and journals. They deal with a diverse array of topics, most notably Stonehenge, telling or measuring time, and calendars and calendar reform. The second folder is a bound volume of newspaper clippings taken from a variety of sources covering the time period of August 4 to November 3, 1931, done by Editorial Services Ltd. on behalf of the International Fixed Calendar League. These clippings are mostly about calendar reform and the activities of the League.

Personal records

Textual records regarding the Wilkinson family members Thomas Hooper, Margaret Christine and Kenneth. Records pertain to the lives and activities of these individuals in the lower mainland during the early 20th century.

Sidney Norman records

This series includes correspondence and other records related to Harris and his dealings with the Norman & Co. Mining and Stock Brokers. There are also personal letters between Norman and Harris’ wife Alma after Harris’ death.

Hood (W.B.) estate

Series consists of notes, tax receipts and assessments, indentures, clippings, and other documents related to W. Bennet Hood's death and estate.

Reports.

Series contains reports relating to the Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle Association of British Columbia. Material consists of a history of shingle control in British Columbia, shingle guidelines and specifications, history of tariff duties on shingles and shakes. Report on cedar trade promotion, shingle wages by occupations.

Subject file

Consists of 36 subject files, with correspondence related to the following: family, friends, paintings, <span style="text-decoration:underline">The Painted Cougar</span>, the film "Hoppy," and miscellaneous activities of Hopkins. Also included is information about Gerard Manley Hopkins and Frances Ann Hopkins, and articles about Elisabeth Hopkins or by her relatives and friends. Correspondents include David Robinson of Talon Books, the painter Molly Bobak, and various friends and family. Ms. Hopkins' birth, baptism and citizenship certificates, her unfinished autobiography "The Rolling Stone Nurse," copies of her stories <span style="text-decoration:underline">The Painted Cougar</span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline">Pig Tale</span>, and records of painting sales are also in this series.

Photographs Series

Series consists of photographs, many autographed, of Jean Coulthard's colleagues. Series also includes family photographs and formal portraits of Coulthard.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence related to Spring's attempts to reengage the Canadian government on the issue of monetary settlement for losses sustained due to the renewal of the “Modus Vivendi.” The series includes incoming letters from various government officials to Charles Spring, as well as copies of incoming letters to other parties acting in collaboration with or on behalf of Spring. Incoming correspondence is frequently annotated by Spring with notes or drafts of replies. In addition, the series contains drafts and fair copies of Spring’s outgoing letters and related petitions, memorials, and other documents. The first file of the series contains an index created by Spring of select letters from 1892 to 1928 entitled, "List of letters, referring to correspondence on Modus Vivendi Claims for Season 1892." The letters included in this index are scattered throughout the series files. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.

Personal papers and photographs

Series consists of personal correspondence and documents, as well as photographs (copies and originals) of Spring and his wife. The series includes correspondence with Spring’s son-in-law and an English language correspondence course, correspondence course booklet, a manual on preparing manuscripts, and other documents and ephemera.

Personal Records

The Personal Records series contains records related to Emery's social activities, documenting her relationships with family and friends. Record types consist primarily of correspondence and photographs. Also included are news-clippings, particularly of obituaries of friends lost to Emery during World War One.

Newspaper clippings

Series consists of newspaper clippings and a few related documents pertaining to Hill-Tout’s anthropological interests, including material pertaining to lectures given by Hill-Tout internationally and his involvement with various associations, as well as some clippings providing biographical information.

Law and Legislation Documents

Series consists of documents relating to legislation and legal cases concerning the fisheries in British Columbia and Washington state.
Title based on contents of series.

Photographic records

The series contains photographic materials primarily originating during the Klondike Gold Rush at the turn of the 20th century. The photographs were generated as a result of the travels, mining endeavours, rapid development of towns and infrastructure in Alaska and the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and interactions of different cultures, including Indigenous peoples and settlers and stampeders from Canada, America, and around the world. Photographs in the series portray landscapes, mining scenes, portraits, travel scenes, town sites, community activities, and huge groups of stampeders on their way to the Klondike. Major photographic types include silver gelatin prints, cyanotypes, stereographs, panoramas, and prints. Photographs originated from commercial and well known photographers, such as E.A. Hegg and Asahel Curtis; many others were created by anonymous travellers who journeyed north and kept a photographic record of their journeys.

Personal Papers and Correspondence

Series consists of Doyle's incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as biographical material documenting some of his career in the fishing industry. Also included are biographical sketches that Doyle wrote about people he encountered during his time in British Columbia.

Reco Mining & Milling Company Limited records

This series includes documents of incorporation, elevation plans (and plans for a diversion dam on Carpenter Creek), insurance records, leases and contracts, general correspondence, correspondence relating to purchase offers, dividend receipts, records from stockholders meetings, payroll records and store accounts.
In addition, there are governmental documents such as mining and tax receipts and free miner’s certificates, and records relating to a claim dispute between Bain and the Reco Mining & Milling Co.

Finances

Series contains investment certificates in the form of stock shares or cash-able dividend slips, as well as other cash equivalents.

Miscellaneous Items series

Series consists of certificates, musical scores, programs, receipts, and brochures about Sadler's personal life. In addition, the series includes Sadler's elementary school certificates dated 1897 to 1902.

Research series

Series consists of notes, questionnaires, articles, data, statistical analysis, codes, publications and government reports relating to Aberle's research into the Navajo and Peyotism, but also his work on kinship, language, culture and religion general.
Much of the material is undated. The remainder is arranged in chronological order.

Correspondence

For correspondence found in the first accrual of materials, letters were divided into two sub-series: Incoming and outgoing letters. Incoming letters were arranged alphabetically according to sender; outgoing letters were arranged chronologically.

Loose letters from the second accrual were filed according to the existing arrangement of ingoing and outgoing letters. Files that had been arranged and named by the creator, meanwhile, were retained in name and order.

Biographical Materials series

Series consists of biographical information and memorabilia compiled by Daniells about himself and his family members. Materials include genealogies, CVs, academic records, appointment notices, passports, certificates, and articles.

Manuscripts and published works

Series consists of manuscripts and published works of an anthropological nature by Hill-Tout, including works pertaining to the native people of British Columbia and a partial manuscript of Man and his ancestors in the light of organic evolution.

Outreach and promotion

Series encompasses material created as YWCA Metro Vancouver conducts activities to gain public awareness and drive community engagement. Activities represented include communications, product marketing, event planning, and compiling and presenting YWCA Metro Vancouver histories.

Records consist of newsletters, programs, brochures, videocassettes, audiocassettes, photographs, and other material arising from YWCA Metro Vancouver managing and communicating its image and to drive community engagement.

Series is arranged in three subseries: 1. Communications and marketing; 2. Events; and 3. YWCA Metro Vancouver history.

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