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Tenders and costs

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.

Polar Research and Work

The series consists of research, correspondence, and notes relating to Arctic Exploration and Arctic Literature dating from 1973 to 1976.

Penny Goldsmith articles

Series includes articles written by Goldsmith on various social issues, as well as articles related to publishing. The series also contains reviews of works published by Lazara Press.

Financial records

Series consists of financial records of the Sólskin Society during its operation. Records include financial reports; ledger books; treasurer’s books; fundraising plans; and casino fundraising records.

Events and activities

Series consists of records relating to the events organized by the Sólskin Society. Many of the textual records are lists of the yearly events the Society undertook. Records include event calendars; event reports; event planning material and correspondence; invitations; event ephemera and newspaper clippings; Icelandic songs and poems used at events; and guest book of visitors to Sólskin Society events.

Administrative records

The series consists of records relating to the Icelandic Canadian Club of British Columbia’s (ICC of BC) administrative functions, such as records related to its day to day business operation. Records include constitutions, bylaws, certificates, and procedures; membership lists and procedures; minutes reports from executive and annual general meetings; charitable status records; building and estate information including, mortgage records; and financial records, such as ledgers and casino records.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence between the Icelandic Canadian Club of British Columbia, other Icelandic organizations such as the Icelandic National League of North America, and the organization’s membership.

Correspondence

Series consists of the Section Correspondence of the IRE: it includes letters sent and received by the Secretary, as well as invitations, membership lists, policy statements, lists of the Boarding directors elected each year and of the IRE executive members. Moreover series contains all the correspondence received from the Headquarter in New York. Sporadically copies of the Newsletter are enclosed as attachments to the correspondence.

Meetings Reports

Series contains the section duplicate of its meeting reports: they are almost all provided in the form that the IRE Headquarters in New York provided for that purpose. According to the IRE Headquarter, at least five Section meetings had to be held each year: the report of these meetings had to be done by the section in two copies so that one could be mailed to the Secretary of the IRE in New York, while the duplicate had to be retained in the files of the Section.

Clippings and ephemera

The series consists of clippings and ephemera collected by Nakayama related to his church and missionary work, the Japanese Canadian redress movement, internment of Japanese Canadians, the Japanese Canadian / Issei community broadly, and family members, including Joy Kogawa. In addition to newspaper and magazine clippings, the series contains ephemeral items such as memorial booklets, blank postcards, reports, and yearbooks. Materials in the series are primarily in Japanese and English, but also Portuguese.

Diaries

The series consists of diaries related to Nakayama’s church and missionary work, as well as his personal life. In addition to lists of daily activities, the diaries recount church business, family events, travel, and world and local news. In addition, the diaries contain theological reflections, names and addresses, and general notes, including memos on expenses, investments, and personal details, such as insurance and license information. Diaries also contain laid in correspondence from family, friends, and parishioners; ephemera, including service programs; and newspaper clippings. Materials in the series are in Japanese and English.

Francis Millerd journals and day planners

Series contains journals and day planners written by Francis Millerd. While the majority of these items contain information pertaining to day to day business ventures of the <i>Francis Millerd & Company Ltd.</i>, some of the diaries contain personal anecdotes and information pertaining to Millerd's previous business ventures.

Cartoons, newspaper articles, and magazines

Series consists of publications collected and created by the Responsible Enterprise association and Gladstone Murray. Record types include cartoons, newspaper articles, bulletins, and magazines. Cartoons are published by Responsible Enterprise Association, and relate largely to the labour movement, and socialism and communism in Canada, and internationally. Newspaper articles are copied from a range of sources including The News Optimist, The Quebec-Telegraph, The Windsor Daily Star, and The New York Times. Bulletins from Britain are written by John Gloag, and published by Responsible Enterprise. Issues of The Outlook magazine, the official publication of Responsible Enterprise, are also included in the series.

Published material

Series consists of articles, newsletters, periodicals, catalogues, and newspaper clippings accumulated by Kogawa. Some of the material relates to Kogawa’s work.

Gently to Nagasaki

Series contains records supporting the production of Joy Kogawa's nonfiction book "Gently to Nagasaki." Records include draft manuscripts, annotated drafts, notes, correspondence with editors, and extensive source materials. Source materials include magazines, newspaper clippings, and printouts of articles and books. Source materials relate to nuclear energy, nuclear bombs, the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese war atrocities, Japanese and Allied personal military accounts of World War two, issues of race, and genocide. Series is arranged by files according to original order.

Drafts and Notes

Series contains notes and different stages of drafts for Mary McAlpine's books, articles, and short stories as well as those of other related authors that came included in her records.

Native Arts and Crafts

Series consists of records pertaining to the Maracle’s involvement in several Aboriginal arts and crafts organizations, such as the Longhouse Indian Arts and Handcraft Cooperative. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, proposals, reports, financial records, newspaper clippings, and ephemera.

Programs and Projects

Series reflects the Maracle’s involvement and interest in several Aboriginal programs and projects, such as the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium Centennial and Maritime Museum: Indian Heritage Project. Records include newsletters, proposals, flyers, application forms and publications.

Subject Case Files

Series consists of records pertaining to two Aboriginal people, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell and Fred Quilt. Records include minutes of court proceedings and reports. Fred Quilt's files include three volumes of the inquisition into his controversial death.

Research Material

This series contains newspaper clippings and printed material to support the writing of a non-fiction book, The Golden Revolution, about retirement in the 1990’s.

There is background material of a similar nature gathered to aid the writing of the novel, The Statement, about National Socialism, the Carter Presidency, commercial flights, and aircraft schematics.

There is background material of a similar nature gathered to aid the writing of a nonfiction biography of Vladimir Krajina.

Federation of BC Writers/BC Caucus of Writers Union of Canada.

This series consists of the correspondence, minutes of meeting and newsletters of both the Writers’ Union and the BC Federation of Writers. Drabek was a floating representative to the National Council of the Writers’ Union of Canada and president and chairman of the Federation of BC Writers in the late 1980s. Material includes the Federation’s application for a license to form a new radio station, cultural plans for Vancouver, plans for a permanent workspace in Vancouver for writers, workshop information, grant applications and correspondence regarding a proposed schools program in which writers planned to visit school children to talk about writing. Annual general meeting material, liaison activity with other writers’ groups, as well as budget information is included.

Production and Distribution

This series contains records relating to the Women in Focus Society’s efforts to produce and distribute feminist video and film. Production records include: meeting minutes, documents, and information relating to the production committee; subject files relating to various individual productions; and publicity for WIF productions, including pamphlets, leaflets, and newspaper and magazine clippings of advertisements and reviews.

Distribution records include: monthly and yearly distribution statistics; Women in Focus film catalogues, catalogue updates, and inventory lists; shipping records; and distribution correspondences. Distribution records also contain research and information about films that Women in Focus sought to distribute, including: newspaper clippings of reviews; catalogues of other organizations; artist profiles including producers and directors; distribution questionnaires; and correspondences with feminist film distributors from other countries.

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.

Teaching and professional records

Records in the series teaching and professional records relate to his role as a professor and as a member and director of arts societies. This series is divided into three subseries: Kootenay School of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, and Professional affiliations.

The subseries Kootenay School of Arts contains records of Kujundzic’s time as a teacher in the Okanagan, B.C., and records relating to the Art Centre in Kelowna.

The subseries Pennsylvania State University contains records related to his time spent with the Arts Department of PSU and consists of teaching, lecture and workshop materials, correspondence between faculty, and records relating to his role as a professor.

The professional affiliations subseries contains records relating to the associations and societies he was part of and some that he founded, including the Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia and the Contemporary Okanagan Artists.

Personal and administrative records

Records include correspondence between Kujundzic and family, friends, other artists, and fans; curriculum vitae and biographical information; references, job applications, and promotion records; personal notes and writings to art organizations; travel and immigration documents; photographs; and posthumous administration records.

Research data and bibliographies

Series consists of research data, statistics, and bibliographies gathered by Knight for his thesis and other published works and articles . Research data includes notes, proposals, outlines, glossaries of terms, and reviews concerning various topics, including native peoples of Canada and the Cauca Valley, Columbia.

Interview transcripts and sound recordings

Series consists of transcripts and sound recordings of interviews conducted by Rolf Knight. Includes transcripts of interviews with Harvey Murphy and John Smith, and transcripts and sound recordings of interviews with Bob Chestnut.

Scrapbook Series

Consists of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, photographs, public and private correspondence and other paraphernalia which document three distinct periods of McPherson’s career. The original order has been maintained and the original titles are: “War Years,” “Okanagan Helicopters” and “Vancouver Port Authority.”

General information

Series consists of Welfare Fund balance sheets (1965-1980) , directives of the Benevolent Society (1955-1977), a list of meeting halls, summaries of annual meetings (1945-1960), a list of new members (1959-1973), a list of members leaving (1955-1977), a list of members' numbers, and general information about the unemployment insurance commission.

Advocacy and Bargaining

The series contains records pertaining to the AUCE’s efforts to advocate for their members and bargain as a collective unit. Record types include agendas, minutes, and dockets of the Annual Conventions and Special Conventions held by AUCE, agenda and minutes of the meetings of the General Membership, contracts documenting the collective agreements between the workers and employers, and records of conferences, strikes, working conditions, news releases, as well as training records on stewardship, bargaining, striking and picketing.
While many of the records relate directly to equal pay, increased benefits, and cost-of-living increases, the advocacy and bargaining efforts of the union also changed in response to the changing provincial government and University of British Columbia administrative measures.
With the 1983 election and the introduction of the Social Credit Government, the union worked with other labor organizations throughout the province, forming the province-wide Solidarity Coalition to resist the conservative measures being proposed through legislation. The records also reflect the related efforts to defeat Bill 19, introduced by Bill Vander Zalm in 1987, which directly affected labour unions and their right to strike.
The union also directly opposed choices made by the UBC administration including a decision to bring in Ritchie & Associates, a management consulting firm to assess efficiency in the workplace, as well as budget cut-backs. This resulted in the formation of the UBC. Campus Community Alliance. These and other specific efforts are documented in the series.

Clearwater Timber Company records

Series consists of a volume of land statistics, correspondence, photographs, press clippings financial summaries, maps, and promotional materials (internal and external to the company) for both Clearwater Timber Company and its successor, Potlatch Forests Incorporated (PFI).

White River Lumber Company records

Series consists of legal records and miscellanea related to the White River Lumber Co. Legal records include permits, memoranda of agreement, tie notices, and land contracts pertaining to the company’s logging rights. Miscellanea include maps (mostly road maps of Wisconsin and Minnesota), press clippings regarding the company, and photographs.

Formation of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group

Series consists of textual records preparatory to and shortly after the formation of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group in 1991. Includes original constitution and bylaws, meetings of interim History of Nursing Group meetings (1990), correspondence, early newsletters, forms and membership lists, as well as job descriptions for Executive Committee and committee chair positions. It also includes a file of information on the change of this organization into a Society in 2008.

Events, programs and display records

Series consists of graphic, audio and textual material regarding events, programs and displays mounted by the BCHNPPG. It includes promotional flyers and pamphlets for events and programs, photographs of display material, and audio recordings of lectures presented to the Group. Also includes textual material relating to the International History of Nursing Conference June 12-15, 1997, which was sponsored by the Group.

[Original Collections]

Series consists of 3 m of textual records and additional graphic and audiovisual materials. The textual records include a comprehensive collection of UBC student cards from 1921 to 1994, many of which include detailed information about individual nurses. Records from the Kootenay Lake Hospital, the Kelowna General Hospital and Prince Rupert General Hospital date back to the early years of this past century. Pamphlets dating from 1887 documents aspects of nursing history. Theses by Margaret Campbell, Beverly Du Gas and Helen Niskala are among seventeen theses, dissertations and papers included. Miscellaneous photographs without sufficient provenance are included in this classification. Audiovisual materials on audio and video cassette, CD and DVDs are arranged as subseries.

Financial records

Series consists of financial records of the Canadian Western Lumber Company, Limited, and has been arranged into the following sub-series: general ledgers and files ([1909]- 1958), accounts and statements (1911-1955), pay roll records (1909-1952) and tax records (1910-1955).

Coast Lumber & Fuel Company Limited (Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company Limited) records.

Series consists of records of the Coast Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited and its predecessor body, the Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited. Includes the Memorandum and Articles of Association for the Western Canada Lumber & Fuel Company, Limited, as well as financial and insurance records for Coast Lumber and Fuel Company, Limited. Series has been divided into sub-series based on these records categories.

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