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Agassiz Baseball Club
Corporate body

The Agassiz Baseball Club administered local baseball in the Agassiz area of the Fraser Valley.

Agassiz Central School
Corporate body

Agassiz Central School was situated in Agassiz, B.C. and was administered by the Kent School Board.

Corporate body · 1925-

Methodist and Presbyterian activity in Agassiz dates back to the early 1890s. The Methodists formed a Quarterly Official Board in Agassiz in 1895, and a Presbyterian congregation was formally organized in 1900. The latter came to be called Geneva Presbyterian Church, by 1908. In 1925 the two congregations joined together to form Agassiz United Church. This constituted a pastoral charge in Westminster Presbytery from 1925 to 1959, when it was absorbed by the newly created Fraser Presbytery. In 1969, Agassiz United Church joined Rosedale United Church in a two-point charge known as Agassiz-Rosedale Pastoral Charge. This arrangement continued until 2013, when the congregations became separate charges once again.

Agassiz Women's Institute
Corporate body · 1909-

The Agassiz Women's Institute was established in 1909 and promoted community activities in the Agassiz area, as well as acting as an advocacy group on family and women's issues.

Corporate body

The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society operates the Agassiz-Harrison Museum in Agassiz, B.C. The society began acquiring archival records in 1979. Its museum opened in its present location in 1986.

Corporate body · 1946-

The Agassiz-Harrison Hospital Society was established in 1946 to acquire buildings and equipment and to operate a general hospital in the Agassiz-Harrison District. The society later changed its name to the Agassiz-Harrison Hospital Association.

University of British Columbia Archives · Person · 1924-1995

Italian Renaissance scholar Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli was born in Arezzo, Italy, in 1924. After completing undergraduate work in Italy, he received his Dottore in Lettere from the University of Florence in 1949 and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1959. Aguzzi-Barbagli began his teaching career at Vassar College, New York (1955/56), before moving on to the University of Chicago (1959-1964), and then Tulane University (1964-1971). He joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies as a professor in 1971. During his career, he taught courses, published and lectured in the Italian language, Italian literature (from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century), and comparative literature. After retiring from UBC, Aguzzi-Barbagli died in 1995. The following year an excellent collection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century books collected by Aguzzi-Barbagli were donated to the UBC Library by Hannibal Noce.

Agúst Guðmundsson
SC330 · Person · 1947-

Agust Gudmundsson is an Icelandic screenwriter.

Aho, Karl
Person

Karl Aho worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1937 to 1985. He worked as a trainman, conductor and training officer (in the CPR Revelstoke Division).

Ahousat United Church
Corporate body · 1925-

A Presbyterian mission was established among the Ahousat (also spelled Ahousaht in earlier records) Indians in 1895 on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and with the formation of the United Church of Canada in 1925, it became Ahousat United Church. Besides a church, the records indicate an Indian school was also operated by the mission which was sponsored by the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church and later also received support from the Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada. In 1962 the federal government assumed full responsibility for the school. The congregation itself was, based on yearbook statistics, a port of call for the West Coast Marine Mission from ca. 1954 to 1976. Thereafter, it has either been part of the Long Beach Pastoral Charge or has received pastoral supply from Long Beach. No evidence of common internal administrative divisions besides a church board are given by the records.

Ainslie, Patricia
Person · [ca. 195-?] -

Art historian, curator, and author Patricia Ainslie was born in England and raised in South Africa. She moved to Calgary in 1977 and began work at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in 1979, where she worked as a curator until 2006. She was instrumental in building the Glenbow's art collection and organized many of its exhibitions over the years, including Images of the Land: Canadian Block Prints 1919-1945 (which was shown internationally). She also planned exhibitions of the works of Margaret Shelton, Laurence Hyde, Cecil Buller, H.G. Glyde, and Jack Shadbolt. For her important work in printmaking, she was elected to the Print Council of America. As Vice President of Collections at Glenbow from 1993 to 2006, she worked on innovative museological projects, including deaccessioning, grading of collections and repatriation. She has published in scholarly journals and presented lectures on these topics in North America, England and Europe.

Since leaving Glenbow, Ainslie has worked as an independent curator and writer. She co-authored Alberta Art and Artists, published in 2007, and Ted Godwin: The Regina Five Years: 1957-1967, published in 2008; and Okanagan Artists and their Studios, published in 2013.

Corporate body · ca. 1903-1925

Ainsworth was visited by both Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries in the early 1890s. In 1893 a Methodist church was built in Ainsworth. In 1903, the Methodists withdrew from the area and the Presbyterians purchased the Methodist church, renaming it Ainsworth Presbyterian Church. Shortly after Church Union in 1925 the community of Ainsworth gradually declined and the church was deserted.

Ainsworth, J.C., 1822-1893
Person · 1822-

J.C. Ainsworth was born in Springboro, Ohio. He came to Victoria, B.C. as a miner and became an investor and businessman. Ainsworth Hot Springs was named for him.