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Institutions pic Children's Hosp.
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The fonds consists of a single implied series of sound captures relating to broadcasts, which is comprised of one reel-to-reel tape recording. The recording captures W.A.C. Bennett’s funeral on February 27, 1979 in Kelowna, B.C. Bennett was the Premier of British Columbia from 1952-1972.
CKOV
British Columbia Grapegrowers’ Association fonds
Fonds consists of certificate of incorporation, board meeting minutes and those of some constituent committees, annual reports, education, marketing, and outreach materials, and digital photography of experimentation sites extracted from optical disc. Print photographs depict locations relevant to the Becker Project and a group portrait. The fonds contains reference material that predates the formation of the corporate creator.
Four published books arrived with the fonds; these have been separated and catalogued – please see bibliography for details.
British Columbia Grapegrowers’ Association
George E. and Gertrude Mabee collection
The collection consists of two subcollections: 1) Daisy Clara Millar letters and 2) South Okanagan Irrigation Project ephemera.
Mabee, George E.
Quails’ Gate Vineyards Estate Winery fonds
Fonds consists of records from Quails’ Gate Estate Winery located in West Kelowna, British Columbia. Records in this fonds pertain to the history of the vineyard and the Stewart family, as well as the winery’s business and administration. This fonds includes both analog and born-digital records. Fonds is arranged into four series: 1) Historical; 2) Promotional records; 3) Management records; 4) Winemaking and viticulture.
Quails' Gate Vineyards Estate Winery
Fonds consists of the compiled works and supporting documents of Peter Carl Anderson with reference to his career as playwright, actor, writer, and artist. The fonds is arranged into nine series: Acting; Art; Awards; Correspondence; Photographs; Personal Publicity; Writing; Produced Plays; and Caravan Farm Theatre files.
Anderson, Peter Carl
Okanagan Thompson International Sculpture Symposium fonds
The fonds consists predominantly of photographic slides depicting the creation and openings of the sculptures, as well as articles discussing the symposium, its intent and outcomes.
Okanagan Thompson International Sculpture Symposium
Fonds consists of records pertaining to the winemaking career of Bill Collings. Fonds includes records such as correspondence files, articles and writings, research documents, as well as posters and prints. Fonds contains records both created and received or collected by Bill Collings. This fonds is arranged into three series: 1) Correspondence; 2) Writings; 3) Collected materials.
Collings, Bill
The fonds consists of records relating to Bawtree’s time on two important legislative committees: The Committee on Crown Corporations and The Select Standing Committee on Agriculture (SSCA). The SSCA was tasked by the Legislature to make a complete review of agriculture in the province, including the production, processing and distribution of food products within the province. As a result, there are reports from numerous meetings taken throughout different cities in BC from various agricultural groups that aided in the different phases of the research report on the entire food system of BC. These records include: bounded reports, transcripts, photographs, correspondence, expense reports, articles, and handwritten notes.
Bawtree, Len
The fonds consists of 11 reel-to-reel tapes holding audio. Content includes capture of speeches and ambient audio of various events including dedications, conferences, and interviews.
Knox, William J.
Kelowna Capital News photographic fonds
The fonds consists exclusively of news photography captured by Kelowna Capital News staff from 1978 through 2000. Coverage includes events, persons, and locations assessed as newsworthy at the time, predominantly concerning Kelowna and its immediate adjacencies. Attributed photographers include Val Gluschenko, Glen Schaefer, Rainer Ziegenhagen, Larry Langton, Mike Condon, Maev Brennan, Paul Saturley, Mark Zuehlke, Gordon Bazzana, Kevin Bird, and Allyson Jeffs.
Kelowna Capital News
The fonds consists of documents and records that would go on to compose The Pocket Desert radio documentary, which aired on CBC Radio’s Ideas, produced by Gayle Cornish, and co-created by Dr. Jeannette Armstrong and Dr. Geoffrey Scudder. The documentary concerns the unique desert climate and ecology in and around Osoyoos, British Columbia, and the significance of the land to Syilx Okanagan people. The fonds is organized into two series: 13.1 Production Files and 13.2 Broadcast Files.
Cornish, Gayle
Fonds consists in part of the collected family histories of the direct ancestors and relatives-by-marriage of Dorothy Jean Zoellner (nee Whitham) including family photographs and family correspondence. A significant portion of this collected component is represented by the body of photographic work attributed to Zoellner’s father, J.D. Whitham. A further significant portion is a suite of 8mm films depicting the family life of Dorothy and W.J. Zoellner in the 1950s and 1960s, in and around British Columbia’s southern interior, including locations such as Kelowna, Christina Lake, and Grand Forks, B.C.
Fonds also consists in part of the records created and/or contributed to by Zoellner herself during her lifetime, with specific reference to her activities with the Okanagan Historical Society. The preponderance of these materials are born-digital resources to be extracted from 3.5” floppy diskettes.
Whitham, James Donald
The collection consists of video capture of Redlich Pond between the years 2007 and 2018, showing changes to its appearance and biodiversity over time, and one appeal to action in the form of a letter.
E.H. Crump photographic collection
The fonds consists of predominantly of photographs. Photographic coverage includes: N.R. “Buck” Crump as President of the CPR, CPR employees, the 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche, wrecks, fires, steamers, engines, stations, and scenery.
Crump, E.H.
British Columbia Women's Institute fonds
Fonds consists of records created and received by the British Columbia Women’s Institute and its constituents and relate to the work done by members of the BCWI at the provincial level as well as its various local chapters. Records in this fonds consist predominantly of administrative records as well as the compiled research materials pertaining to the Women’s Institutes and notable figures within.
The fonds also includes documentation of the BCWI’s intersections with the FWIC and the ACWW. Fonds is arranged into five series: 1) Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada (FWIC); 2) Associated Countrywomen of the World (ACWW); 3) British Columbia Women’s Institutes (BCWI); 4) BCWI Districts; 5) Research files.
Fonds consists of the papers, photographs, and compiled collections relating to one branch of the Allison Family of Princeton, BC, with predominant coverage of the branch of the family with the surname Thomas. This branch has its genesis with Caroline Allison (1878-1975), daughter of John Fall Allison, who married William Heald Thomas. Their four children, particularly Roy Edward Thomas (1920-1999) are represented in this portion of the family fonds.
Allison family
Part of Kootenay Weekly Express fonds
The series consists of records generated during the What’s On, What’s On Magazine, Kootenay Weekly Express, and The Express newspaper production from November 1988 until its end in February 2011.
Series includes an extensive collection of photographic records and textual documents such as collages, pamphlets, letters, business cards, and notes.
Part of Kootenay Weekly Express fonds
The series consists of What’s On, What’s On Magazine, Kootenay Weekly Express, and The Express newspapers starting in November 1988 until its end in February 2011. The newspaper covers events in the city of Nelson, B.C., and was published and owned by Nelson Becker throughout its run.
The fonds consists of newspaper issues, photographs, and publishing notes from 1988-2011 which provide a look into the day-to-day function of creating the newspaper.
Kootenay Weekly Express
British Columbia Fruit Growers' Association fonds
Fonds consists exclusively of a series of portfolios documenting BCFGA conventions from 1932 to 2015. These portfolios contain reports and briefs; letters; agendas, proceedings and resolutions; Presidential addresses; committee and subcommittee records.
British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association
The fonds consists of two separate streams of documentation. The first consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to the operations of a succession of sawmills and wood manufacturing plants founded by Stanley Merriam Simpson) and assumed by his son, Horace B. Simpson in the Okanagan area.
The second stream consists of the materials generated by Sharron J. Simpson, a Kelowna author, publisher, and activist. Sharron J. Simpson's records within this aggregation are primarily in relation to legal proceedings against the City of Kelowna in pursuit of the maintenance of the Simpson Covenant, which limits use of waterfront land on a former mill site sold by S.M. Simpson to the City under restrictive terms of sale in 1946. In the 2000s, the City sought to dissolve the Covenant; Sharron J. Simpson founded a society to challenge this initiative.
In total fonds consists of approximately 2,642 photographs, in various forms, including some duplicates. Records provide documentation of legal proceedings, finances, substantial mill operations, safety initiatives, administration, civic engagement, publicity, and labour relations relating to mill business, general family research, and writing samples. Artifacts include exemplars of production and souvenir materials.
Simpson, Stanley Merriam
Doug and Joyce Cox Research Collection
Collection consists of the documentation of Cox’s career as an historian and author. The collection is comprised predominantly of photographic material. There are approximately 15,000 unique photographic images: prints in various standard dimensions (8"x10", 5"x7", 4"x6" and smaller, with some custom dimensions, predominantly in black and white; slide transparencies in black and white and colour; negatives, (120, 35mm, and 4”x5”) in black and white; digital photographs in black and white and colour contained on CDs and one hard drive.
Photographic coverage extends from ca.1870 to approximately 2008, with the period 1900-1970s predominant. Original photographs by Doug Cox cover the 1970s through approximately 2008. A significant proportion of photographs not attributed to Cox are copies. Many are reciprocally described via resources available via Okanagan Archives Trust Society.
The collection also includes audio cassettes containing interviews recorded in the 1980s and 1990s with associated transcriptions by Joyce Cox. Government documents (primarily Province of British Columbia, c. 1910-1960s) include topographical maps, tree farm license maps, mineral claims maps, taxation records, forestry examination sketches and other records.
Cox, Doug
File consists of 2 folders. Contains scrapbooks, a minute book, and a booklet detailing the constitution and by-laws of the BCWI. Inside the scrapbooks there are newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures, and cards.
File contains list of districts, their branches and member information.
File contains a book put together by the BCWI for the ACWW Conference in the Netherlands.
File contains a scrapbook with letters, a members list, photographs, newspaper clippings and other ephemera.
[Poplar Manor Women's Institute]
File contains a book of newspaper clippings and photographs.
File contains a financial statements book.
File contains financial records.
[Kamloops Women's Institute financial records]
File consists of record book detailing financial information for the Kamloops Women's Institute.
File contains a finance book.
Overlander branch financial ledger (Kamloops District)
File contains a ledger book.
Overlander branch financial ledger (Kamloops District)
File contains a ledger book.
File contains financial information for Okanagan Savings chequing account for the Okanagan Falls branch.
BC WI Provincial Financial ledger, Feb 1992 - Jan 1993
File conains ledger pages removed from a post binder.
File contains Crown Grants and taxation records for Transfers of Land.
Ziggurat (Leaky Heaven Circus)
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Ziggurat (Leaky Heaven Circus), from July 2-11 2004.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Birthday Boy, a Nativity, at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre December 19-31, 2002.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Salome, for Leaky Heaven Circus in a Cabaret!
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Peter Panties, at The Clutch February 3- 13.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for The Number 14, at Axis Mime Theatre & Touchstone Theatre December 14-17, 1994.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for The Number 14, at Axis Mime Theatre November 10 - December 5.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for The Number 14.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for The Number 14.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for he Number 14, at The Clarke Foundation Theatre.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Flying Blind, at the Arts Club Theatre Company October 25 - November 24.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Tosca Café, at Theatre Calgary September 13 - October 2.
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for Waiting for Godot, at Blue Ridge at the Roxy March 3-15.
The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney
Part of Peter Carl Anderson fonds
File contains poster for The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney, at Sagebrush Theatre February 26 - March 7, 2009.