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A Flag for Canada series

Directed by Susan Ridout and narrated by Chris Potter, A Flag for Canada (2003) (also known as I Stand for Canada) documents the events and political controversy leading to the adoption of the "new" Canadian flag in 1965. This sixty-minute historical documentary incorporates extensive archival materials and interviews with many key players, including Members of Parliament who sat on a committee to determine the flag's design. Individuals interviewed include Patrick Reid, Peter Stursberg, the Rt, Hon. John Turner, Senator Marjory LeBreton, Jim Coutts, Gordon Fairweather, Ruth Stanley, Reid Scott, Robert Bothwell, Paul Banfield, John Matheson, Charles Beddoe and Doug Fisher. Music for the documentary was composed by Pat Caird. Paperny Films received a nomination in the Documentary History category for this film at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, Golden Sheaf Awards in 2004. David Paperny, Trevor Hodgson, Daniel A. Mikolay (Producers), and Sue Ridout (Director) received the Antoinette Kryski Canadian Heritage Award at the same awards.

Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

A Canadian in Korea: A Memoir series

A sixty-minute biographical history, A Canadian in Korea: A Memoir (1999) chronicles the Korean War through the experiences of Robert S. Peacock. He became a Platoon commander at the age of twenty-two. Supplemented with historical photographs, it details life in the trenches and provides insight into soldiers' lives and individual stories. Included also are interviews with Platoon Sergeant Don Ardelian, who served with Peacock, Peacock's wife Donna, and Baj Franklin. David Paperny directed the film. Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.

"50 Years Horticulture at UBC, 1917-1967" series

The series consists of correspondence, reports, course materials, published materials (including off-print articles, clippings, and pamphlets), scripts for radio presentations, and photographs. These records were presumably collected and arranged by Alden Barss in writing his history of the Department of Horticulture, of which a copy is included in this series. The photographs are described and stored separately.

40th Anniversary series

Series consists of 36 video tapes of celebrations about the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Education. These celebrations took place over several dates at different schools within Vancouver from May to July 1996. All dates, titles, and times are adopted from the written notes on the tapes themselves or from the transcripts.

1990 Accession subseries

All drawings pertain to building projects completed at UBC, with only a couple of exceptions at the end of this section. Most of the drawings in this accession are working drawings, with some preliminary and perspective drawings appearing in the files. In addition, there are some working drawings for several unbuilt UBC projects. The same building sub-contractors were used consistently throughout TBP&P's corporate life: D.W. Thomson, Mechanical Engineering; Simpson & MacGregor, Electrical Engineering; O. Safir, Structural engineering. In the 1970s, this group became the "Partners" when the corporate title changed for the last time [see: Administrative History in the full file list]. Some projects between 1923 and 1974 were commissioned by the federal or provincial government rather than the university.

1988 Accession subseries

The subseries consists of minutes of committee meetings and correspondence; correspondence between the architectural firm and construction companies, engineers and contractors, laboratories for inspecting and testing buildings and the Provincial Government in Victoria; and forms of tender, reports, memoranda, quotations, agreements, specifications, certificates of insurance and schedules of hardware. There are also original architectural drawings included in the files, most of which are white prints, blueprints and diazos sent to Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners by engineers. It is arranged into the tertiary series UBC Buildings, Federal Government Buildings at UBC, Educational and Commercial Buildings, and UBC Campus Development.

1980 Accession subseries

The subseries consists of the original blueprint, white print or linen architectural drawings, photographs of buildings at various stages of construction, and related correspondence, specifications and reports. In addition, the records have been organized into the following tertiary series: UBC Buildings, Reports, Correspondence, Specifications, Photographs and Architectural Drawings.

1979-1989 Alphabetical series

The series consists of reports, budgets, minutes of committee meetings, technical information, and other administrative and operational records of the computing centre. These records were made or received by Jack L. Leigh, who became the Director of the Computing Centre in 1987. The arrangement of this series is roughly alphabetical and based on two partial file lists found within the records.

1974 International Congress of Mathematicians fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1061
  • Fonds
  • 1971-1974

The fonds consists of correspondence, programs, photographs, memorabilia and proceedings of the 1974 Congress. Also included in the fonds are some records of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, which served as the official host for the event.

International Congress of Mathematicians

1973-1996 Chronological series

The series consists of reports, budgets, minutes of committee meetings, technical information and other administrative and operational records of the computing centre. These records were made or received by Jack L. Leigh, who became the Director of the Computing Centre in 1987. This series of records appears to be a continuation of the previous series. The arrangement of this series is chronological.

1969-1978 series

The series consists of records about budgeting, committees, minutes of meetings, policies, major projects, and the Computing Centre's relationship with IBM. Subseries are Correspondence, Financial, Internal Affairs, University Affairs, Committees, Academic Bodies, and Standing Committees. The Academic Bodies Subseries is comprised only of records of the Computer Science Department. This series was previously arranged into the existing subseries by the Computing Centre as part of its filing system.

“Beyond Presences” series

This series related to the 2004 exhibit of Cameron MacLeod’s paintings that his family put on. It includes a bound copy of excerpts of MacLeod’s diary, the exhibit’s guestbook, and a printed invitation to the opening reception. Photographs of the paintings displayed at the exhibition are in the “Photographs” Series.

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