The fonds consists of Dr. Edward B. Harvey's professional reports, proposals, studies, manuals, surveys, transcripts, presentations, books and published articles, written solely or in part by Edward Harvey or by Urban Dimensions Group Inc, under his direct supervision from 1960-2006. The material predominately relates to Harvey’s interest in health care, employment equity, education, and income security issues.
The fonds is arranged into the following series:
Series Professional Work - 1960-2006
The series consists of printed materials, scholarly articles, reports, transcriptions, grant applications, proposals, studies, manuals, surveys, presentations, published articles, books and other related materials.
The series is divided into four sub-series. All files are arranged according to the original filing system of the creator.
Sub-series 1. Urban Dimensions Group Inc. consulting reports
Sub-series 2. Short Published Articles (Originals and Photocopies)
Sub-series 3. Edward B. Harvey Reports, Speeches and Transcriptions
Sub-series 4. Books
The fonds consists of records relating to the National Committee for the New Party (1960-1961), which was established to found a new social democratic part in Canada, and Home's records relating to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Fonds includes minutes, reports and texts of speeches given by George Home, clippings, correspondence, policy statements, articles by T.C. Douglas, text of speech by Ed Broadbent, subject files on the Canadian political system and photographs of delegates at labour conventions.
Home, GeorgeThe fonds of the Vancouver Women in Trades Association consists of records created and received in the course of administering the organization and providing support and advocacy for women working in trades and technology in the Vancouver area. Activities documented include annual and monthly meetings; office administration and funding; liaison with other groups; advisory work on vocational curricula; outreach projects; and advocacy around specific issues. Document types include constitution, minutes, correspondence, logbooks, worksheets, policy statements, briefs, reports, speeches, questionnaires, and photographs and illustrations. The fonds also contains published reference material, whose publication dates in some instances precede the foundation of the Association itself.
Vancouver Women in TradesFonds consists of records created, received and collected by Ellen Frank in her involvement in the women's movement in Vancouver. Activities documented include participation in the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE), the British Columbia Federation of Women (BCFW), the Solidarity Coalition, and activities relating to a number of other feminist organizations, issues, and actions. Includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, briefs, newsletters, press releases, notebooks, press clippings, project proposals, posters, and pamphlets.
Frank, EllenThe fonds consist of records created, received, and collected by the Simon Fraser University Faculty Association in carrying out its functional activities. Includes records relating to its Constitution and by-laws, policy development, correspondence, general and special meetings, the executive committee, standing and ad hoc committees, and publications.
Simon Fraser University Faculty AssociationFonds consists of records arising from the creation of the Non-Faculty Teachers Association. Fonds includes a constitution, and correspondence.
The fonds consists of one file.
Non-Faculty Teachers AssociationFonds consists of transcripts and cassettes arising from Stainsby's master's thesis. Descriptive information for individual interviews has been transcribed from original cassette covers; see in the hard-copy finding aid Appendix 5 and item-level descriptions.
Stainsby, GillianFonds consists of records created, received and collected by Working Women Unite. Records reflect the activities and functional responsibilities of Working Women Unite and groups associated with them, such as the BCFW and SORWUC. Includes correspondence, minutes, agendas, bulletins, newsletters, financial records, membership lists, reports, convention proceedings, and articles.
Working Women UniteThe fonds consists of records created and received in the course of the formation, establishment and operation of the union, primarily during the period 1976-1987. The records reflect the initial drive to charter, organize and certify the union; the internal administration of the union, including elections and finance; negotiations with the administration to establish and renew contracts; efforts to maintain, expand, represent and inform the membership; participation in the provincial organization of the Association of University and College Employees and cooperation with other AUCE locals, and other unions; and involvement in industrial action. Also included are records of the Graduate Students' union, a forerunner, though not direct predecessor, of TSSU. The records include the charter and bylaws; committee agendas and minutes; financial statements; correspondence; membership lists; election materials; reports; negotiation minutes and collective agreements; mediation and hearing records; convention minutes; strike materials; publications and publicity materials. The records as received had no obvious overall arrangement. Duplicate material has been removed where practicable, but the mixed nature of the files requires researchers to be prepared to search for records on matters of interest.
Teaching Support Staff UnionThe fonds consists of three notebooks that pertain to the negotiation of a first contract between AUCE Local 2 and the University, negotiation for subsequent contracts, the strike of 1979, and the formation of a teaching assistant's union. Also includes four photographs and a t-shirt.
Groves, PercillaThe fonds consists of research material acquired by Peter Poole in the course of preparing his thesis and an earlier essay on the solidarity movement. The fonds includes taped interviews of trade union leaders, solidarity movement leaders, community activists, and legal counsel. Twenty-six of the interviews are transcribed. The fonds also includes newspapers and newsclippings, essays, publications, flyers, research notes, ephemera, a chronology of the solidarity movement, and a copy of Peter Poole's thesis.
Poole, PeterFonds consists of records accumulated by Heather Raven in her involvement with AUCE #2. Includes memoranda, correspondence, contracts, agenda, and minutes.
Raven, HeatherFonds consists of one file reflecting Michael Irwin's attempts to reclassify his position, and his bid to obtain union certification for theatre employees. Includes correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings.
Irwin, MichaelFonds consists of records created, received, and collected by the Simon Fraser University Staff Association in carrying out its functional activities. Records reflect its constitution, executive and general meetings, social activities, benefits, newsletter, unionization and records of the membership chairman. Records include those collected from outside the fonds by a former archivist and those donated from other sources. Includes file lists, correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, financial records, newsletter, bulletins, membership lists, posters, and a staff handbook.
Simon Fraser University Staff AssociationThe fonds consists of records created, received and collected by the Simon Fraser Teachers' Union in carrying out its stated objectives. Includes the union's constitution, draft amendments to the constitution, correspondence, membership applications and cards, minutes, agenda, reports, financial records, memoranda, and newspaper clippings.
Simon Fraser Teachers' UnionFonds consists of records relating to Braid's life and work as a student, teacher, carpenter, and writer.
The first five series from Braid's first donation in 1995 are comprised primarily of interview material relating to Canadian women in trades, in the form of sound recordings, transcripts, notes, and drafts of profiles generated by Kate Braid in the course of four projects: her Master's thesis (1978-1979); a convention in Holland and subsequent trip to Denmark (1984); the Labour Canada booklets (1988); and the CBC Ideas program (1990). Also includes some correspondence, logbooks and published reference material.
The next series from several additional accruals in 2009 to 2013 consist of records arising from many aspects of Braid's life. These records include drafts and notes from Braid's writing, projects for CBC Ideas, women in trades, her company, Sisters Construction, and other writing and teaching projects.
There is also a large series of correspondence, including letters and emails (printed out) between Braid and other writers, her family, and business correspondents. Finally, there is a series of Braid's diaries, which she has kept regularly from the 1960s to 2012.
The fonds is arranged in 24 series:
- Master's thesis interviews
- Europe interviews
- Labour Canada interviews
- CBC interviews
- Women in trade
- In Fine Form: the Canadian Book of Form Poetry
- Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local
- A Well-mannered Storm: the Glenn Gould Poems
- Emily Carr: Rebel Artist
- Inward to the Bones: Georgia Okeeffe's Journey with Emily Carr
- Vancouver Island Highway Project Road to Equity
- CBC Ideas: Men of the Deep
- Appointment calendars
- Correspondence
- Personal and early accomplishments
- Writing and teaching projects
- Turning Left to the Ladies
- Journeywoman
- Diaries
- First drafts and handwritten notes
- Sisters construction
- Publications
- Covering Rough Ground
- To this Cedar Fountain
Fonds consists primarily of records related to Robert Jackson's political interests and activities. Included are many original and reproduced documents from labour events in the 1930s, particularly the On to Ottawa trek but including information on other labour-related events and figures, including the Spanish Civil War and the unionism in primary resource industries. The fonds also includes many records gathered by Jackson in the 1980s and 1990s in his work commemorating the On to Ottawa trek and participating in labour-related events. It contains newsletters, bulletins and other publications, newspaper clippings, essays, and articles, correspondence, recollections and testimonials, obituaries, notes from speaking engagements, leaflets, posters, press releases, petitions, minutes, financial records, project proposals, a script, work documents, certificates, legal documents, photographs, and other records related to Jackson's political life. The file level arrangement of this fonds is based on an arrangement established in 2001 by David Yorke who undertook to order Jackson's paper by subject. The order in which Jackson kept his records is unknown. The fonds is arranged in four series: On to Ottawa Trek (1934-2000); Labour history subject files (1933-2000); Memorials (1985-2000); and Photographs ([193-?]-2000).
Jackson, RobertThe fonds consists of minutes (1920-1947, 1964-1972) of the Prince Rupert Typographical Union No. 413.
Prince Rupert Typographical Union No. 413The fonds consists of the cash journal (1923-1941) of the Port Moody Cooperative Association.
Port Moody Cooperative AssociationThe fonds consists of documents relating to the business and organization of the Association. The fonds consists of 9 series containing minutes; financial records; correspondence; appeals; constitution & by-laws; Meade Creek Benefit Association; Gordon River Benefit/Donation Fund and Wesforays.
Honeymoon Bay Employees AssociationThe fonds consists of documents relating to the business of the Association and consists of 5 series that contain constitutions; financial records; minutes; memberships and benefits.
Hillcrest Employees AssociationThe fonds consists primarily of office files from the Cowichan-Renfrew Division of BC Forest Products Ltd., dating from 1946 - 1968 and document the responsibilities of the Division. These include correspondence from Head Office in Vancouver on a wide range of management issues such as accidents, union, legal affairs and finances; personnel maters including appointments, health and safety; administration of the camps at Caycuse(Camp 6) and Nitinat(Camp 3); maintaining equipment and transportation links; and management logging operations. The fonds includes a series of maps and plans documenting the camps, logging activity, railway and road surveys and forest cover.
Fletcher Challenge Canada Limited. Cowichan/Nitinat DivisionThe fonds consists of constitution, membership register, directors lists, financial records, correspondence, and procedure guides.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. Clearwater Lodge 930The fonds consists of accounts journals, ledgers, correspondence, daybooks, record books, attendance registers, cashbooks, minutes, and proceedings of annual conventions.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Kamloops Lodge No. 519The fonds consists of a ledger entitled "Register of Convention" and includes entries from 1932 to 1946.
Thompson Valley Teachers Association