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National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC)

Sub-series contains agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda, reports, notes and notebooks, news clippings, published updates and newsletters, research notes, drafts, conference programs, transcripts of conferences and symposia proceedings, the NAJC constitution, and other records related to Miki’s involvement with the NAJC. The sub-series also contains audio recordings of National Redress Committee and National Council meetings and telephone conferences, press conferences, and proceedings of other events. Miki served on the NAJC National Council between 1984 and 1988. He was also officially employed by the NAJC as National redress coordinator for several months in 1985. The sub-series documents Miki’s activities in these and other capacities within the NAJC and the activities of the organization particularly as they relate to the redress movement. General files and National Council records, and Strategy Committee records are arranged chronologically followed by alphabetically arranged subject files.

Unfiled mail

Subseries is made up of miscellaneous boxes of mail art and other related items which Banana collected or received but did not file over the course of her career. Many of these items were set aside in boxes for future filing, or it was noted that items were unanswered. “unanswered correspondence” (dated 1985-1986) previously had a tag line “stashed in ‘86”. “UNANSWERED MAIL ART” was noted to have been boxed in 1998.

Materials include show catalogues, posters, invitation letters, postcards, zines, envelopes, facsimiles, artistamp sheets, news articles, maps and travel guides, photographs, and graphic materials.

General government files

The subseries consists of records pertaining to Lauk's personal files as an MLA. These records include papers, private members bills, and newspaper articles he wrote, as well as his research files relating to those papers. Other records include records pertaining to various committees Lauk was a member of during his time as an MLA from 1976-1985. The photographs contained in this subseries mainly consist of Lauk's official portraits for the NDP party. There are also some photos of a dinner party that Lauk attended.

Agreement negotations

Negotiation files include past and proposed agreements, proposals put forward by TLR and by Teamsters, proposals agreed to and those dropped, interpretations agreed to, notes, papers, minutes of meetings and some correspondence.

Correspondence with Carol Shields

The subseries consists of email and traditional correspondence between Blanche Howard and Carol Shields, as well as related correspondence and ephemera from 1974-2006. The correspondence between Howard and Shields deals with subjects such as the respective writing careers of the correspondents, literature, and personal and family goings-on. The subseries also contains correspondence between Howard and other members of the Shields family, including Carol’s husband Don Shields, and daughters Anne Giardini and Sara Cassidy. The subseries also contains correspondence between Carol Shields and Bruce Howard. The subseries also includes some correspondence related to the publication of the book “A Memoir of Friendship.” Ephemera in the subseries consists of newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Shields, including reviews, articles about awards and honours, and obituaries and tributes.

Correspondence

Sub-series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence related to Miki’s personal, academic, literary, and political activities. The sub-series contains cards, notes, letters, and printed email. The sub-series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject.

3¢ Pulp records

The file consists of textual records drafted and used in the preparation for publication of 3¢ Pulp, a serial of poetry and prose published by Pulp Press. Included are issues of 3¢ Pulp (1974 and 1975), and notes and sketches relating to the publication of 3¢ Pulp dated 1981.

VILE Magazine

Subseries is made up of Anna Banana’s VILE Magazine and related items, notably two copies of each magazine, as well as related press, ads and promotional materials. VILE Magazine was a response to FILE Magazine (published by General Idea) and it’s movement away from the mail art scene towards more mainstream artistic practice. VILE ran somewhat irregularly from 1974 to 1983, culminating in a retrospective magazine titled “About VILE”. Like FILE, VILE was an artistic parody of LIFE magazine, but often covered challenging subjects, and pushed beyond the sensibilities of conventional thinking. Banana was aided by her then-partner Bill Gaglione, who edited 3 of the 7 editions.

Files contain all issues of the magazine, as well as various press clippings, ads, promotional materials and invitations to participate.

General works correspondence, manuscripts and other material.

Subseries consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and drafts relating to the research, writing and publication of various works by Miki including books, poems, articles and correspondence with publishers (including Mercury Press Publishers Limited and Talon Books). The series also includes photographs and negatives of images used in several of Miki’s books including “This is my Own,” and scanned images used for “Justice in our Time.”

Photographs

File consists of photographs documenting C.D.C. activities in late-1973 and 1974, including marches and rallies taking place under C.D.C. sponsorship, fundraising events, public meetings, and so on.

Advisory Commission on Indian and Inuit Health Consultation subject files

Series consists of subject files, arranged alphabetically, related to the affairs of the Advisory Commission on Indian and Inuit Health Consultation established in 1979 by the federal government of Canada, as well as material assembled for the commissioner’s reference, including correpsondence, drafts of the Commission’s report made in 1980, press clippings, other pertinent reports and policy position papers.

Outgoing correspondence

Subseries consists of copies of letters written by Lauk's Executive Assistants from June 1973 to October 1975.

Printed reference material

Subseries contains printed reports on housing, police reform, and Vancouver planning; Legislative publications such as copies of <i>Hansard</i> and <i>Public Acts</i> for 1975; Department of Economic Development publications including a draft version of <i>The North East Report </i> of February 1975, prepared for the Minister by the staff of the Interim Planning Agreement Project, with a transmittal letter from the Deputy Minister and the published summary report released by the Minister in 1975.

C.D.C Press Releases & Project Records & Resolutions

File consists of press releases, letters to editors, resolutions taken at meetings, and open letters from C.D.C. to the Canadian parliament, Canadian cabinet ministers, the Prime Minister of Canada, the United Nations, the Chilean Embassy in Ottawa, and several Chilean government officials in Santiago. File also contains some pamphlets and flyers, and some correspondence.

Photograph of Hortensia Allende

Item is a black and white photograph of Hortensia Allende, widow of deposed Chilean President Salvador Allende, at a rally in Vancouver. Image shows Allende in oblique angle profile standing behind a lectern. Beside her, partially obscured, is an unidentified interpreter.

Vancouver Rape Relief

Records in the sub-series document the early history of Vancouver Rape Relief, from the initial idea conceived in 1973 to set up a support agency for rape victims, to establishing the centre in 1974, and its first years of operation. The main goals were to provide services to rape victims and to be a force for change in society, laws, and institutional procedures, and to work towards rape prevention.
Records include minutes, newsletters, reports, daybooks and desk diaries, newspaper clippings, articles, ephemera and booklets.

den Hertog, Johanna

Course Materials

Subseries consists of records dating from 1973 to 2011. Materials include articles, study guides and booklets. 1 DVD and 2 CD-R are included containing interviews performed for course teaching.

Correspondence

The subseries contains copies of correspondence addressed to or written by Lauk to his constituents, other MLAs, or the public in general. These letters largely address various issues faced by Lauk's constituents in Vancouver, or issues pertaining to the public of British Columbia at large.

Legal records

Sub-series consists of memoranda of association, Companies Act annual reports, business license, official record of the Press’s name change, share prospectus, promissory note, and author contracts.

Press Release Relating to Foundation of Canadians for Democracy in Chile

Item is a typewritten press release issued on C.D.C. letterhead announcing the establishment of C.D.C. Item also records that C.D.C. has wired to the Canadian Prime Minister its opposition to further Canadian relations with the new Chilean government, announces that the organization has invited Hortensia Allende to speak in Vancouver, and discloses time and place of C.D.C.'s next public meeting.

Outgoing correspondence

Subseries contains copies of the Minister's outgoing correspondence, arranged chronologically and sequentially numbered.

Financial

This subseries contains records relating to the financial management and upkeep of the Women in Focus Society and its projects. Records include: invoices for video and equipment rentals; invoices for art sales; ledger books; grant applications to governmental and private programs; project budgets; yearly financial summaries; tax audits; and fundraising applications. Many grant applications relate to WIF’s projects and events that are present throughout the fonds.

Government department files

The subseries contains files for 1973-74 and for 1975, organized alphabetically by name of British Columbia's Government Departments. The files contain memoranda, news releases and reports from the departments, in roughly chronological order. The series includes an extensive group of files for the Department of Industrial Development Trade & Commerce/Economic Development, which contains interdepartmental memos chiefly between the Minister, the Deputy Minister, and their Executive Assistants, briefing documents on departmental organization, staffing, policy and activities, drafts of legislation, minutes, and papers of Branch Head meetings, budgets and account printouts, and departmental bulletins, publicity and reports. Cabinet meeting agendas and briefing papers are filed under the heading "Provincial Secretary".

General government files

The subseries contains materials not coded for filing that accumulated while Lauk was acting as both Minister of Mines & Petroleum Resources and Ministers of Economic Development, as well as materials accumulated during the provincial general election. Records include research materials and submissions and correspondence received.

General Correspondence

Subseries contains traditional and email correspondence from 1972-2012 covering a range of subjects related to Howard’s writing career, her involvement with The Writer’s Union of Canada, her position as an instructor with Capilano College, her political interests, and her personal life. Material related to Howard’s writing career includes correspondence with literary agents and fan mail regarding “The Manipulator” and “A Memoir of Friendship.” Notable correspondents include Don Shields, Anne Giardini, short-story author Merna Summers, politician Iona Campangola, and author Janet McNaughton. Howard also sent letters to writers to express her appreciation for their work, including Margaret Atwood, Alberto Manguel, and Susan Hill. Related ephemera in the subseries includes grade reports and registration forms for classes taken at Capilano College, a brochure on literary agents, photocopied and printed articles, and reviews and clippings.

Mail art show and publication invitations and catalogues

Subseries includes records of invitations and catalogues Banana received for various mail art shows and publication over the course of her involvement with the Mail Art Network, as well as some works which she compiled for inclusion in those shows. This includes letters of invitation directly addressed to Banana, open calls for submission, lists of participating artists, show posters and booklets, and packets of mail art sent for specific shows or publications.

Materials include show catalogues, posters, invitation letters, postcards, zines, envelopes, and graphic materials.

Lumber Promotion Committee.

Sub-series contains minutes relating to the Council of Forest Industries’ Lumber Promotion Committee. Material consists of meeting minutes that include meeting proceedings, attendees and a brief summary of the items discussed. Topics of discussion include budgets, promotion of lumber in different countries, and synopses of reports.

Supplementary editorial records

Sub-series consists of manuscript material, some correspondence, author contracts, promotional material, reviews, author biographies, commentary on manuscripts and photographs.

Manuscripts: essays, poems, and presentations

Sub-series consists of drafts of essays, poems, and lectures that Miki wrote. The essays and lectures included in this sub-series are predominantly works of literary criticism related to Canadian poetry and political commentary and analysis on social and cultural issues related to race, racism, multiculturalism, and the Japanese Canadian redress movement. The sub-series also contains essays Miki wrote as a graduate student, a file of drafts related to an issue of the journal Estuaire which Miki guest edited, and reviews by Miki of works by other authors.

Correspondence of Leo Nimsick, MLA for Kootenay, 1972-1973

  • Subseries
  • 1972-1975, predominate 1972-1973 (Creation)
  • Part of Gary Lauk fonds

The records in this subseries largely consist of copies of letters sent to Nimsick from his constituents and some routine correspondence sent to various provincial government departments. Minutes from the 1972 Land Use Committee Meeting of Cabinet are also in the series.

Nimsick, Leo

Subject files

The subseries chiefly consists of ministerial records, but also contains personal and political papers in which files are mainly organized alphabetically by subject and roughly arranged in chronological order. Two sets of "General" alphabetic files were created for 1973-74 and 1975, in which other material was filed by name of correspondent or sometimes geographic location or subject.

The records consists of correspondence and memoranda, telegrams, reports and briefs, agreements, transcripts, orders and bills, speeches, news releases, newsletters and circulars, newsclippings, notes, photographs, receipts, invitations and schedules. A number of files are associated with the British Columbia Railway, including agendas and minutes of the Board of Directors (1972-75) and 'Mini Board' (1973-74), annual and monthly reports, and a set of union contracts. These files appear to have been received from another source and integrated into the filing systems.

Additionally, a group of files under the head 'Political' contains material predating Lauk's appointment as Minister and pertains to issues situated in the riding of Vancouver Centre.

Keiko Miki

Sub-series consists of records that predominately relate to Keiko Miki’s activities as the Chairperson of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) Human Rights Committee and some records that reflect her role as the President of the NAJC. Records reflect the focus of her leadership as centering on human rights issues, ant-racism and other human race relations for Japanese Canadians and for other ethnic groups. This includes correspondence, Human Rights legislation in Canada, journal publications and articles by various writers, conference summaries and reports, Annual General Meeting (AGM) reports, Human Rights Committee reports, evaluations, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings.

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