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G.S. Dawe fonds
CA VERN MS 138;1989.011 · Fonds · 1926-1939

Fonds consists of the financial records of the G.S. Dawe fruit growing and shipping business from 1926-1939. Includes a general ledger and customer account book outlining the number of vegetable crops bought and sold, loads shipped, crops planted and harvested, employee wages and contracts to be filled. Also includes some correspondence.

Dawe, George Stanley
Guy P. Bagnall fonds
CA VERN MS 29;1974.025;1977.065;1976.065;1976.072;1977.033;1977.087;1978.049;1984.042;1985.353 · Fonds · 1940-1976

Fonds consists of the personal and business records of Guy P. Bagnall for 1940-1976. Includes correspondence, personal diaries, personal writings, research articles, research notes, and business financial records produced, compiled or collected by Mr. Bagnall throughout the course of his life. Fonds also includes some personal papers of Mrs. Luta Bagnall.

Bagnall, Guy Pearce
H. Sigalet & Co. Ltd. fonds
CA VERN MS 77;1983.188 · Fonds · 1926-1946

Fonds consists of the business records and documents of the H. Sigalet & Co. Ltd. from 1926-1946. Includes correspondence, financial records and legal documents detailing the administration and operation of the company's logging and sawmills operations.

H. Sigalet and Company
Harry Barrett fonds
CA VERN MS 171;1997.001 · Fonds · 1996

Fonds consists of papers and photographs compiled by Harry Barrett in 1996 in regard to his family history and geneology. Includes a two page family geneology table documenting the family tree from the 1970's to the present, and a diagram showing the placement and names of family members pictured in photographs #11920-11923.

Barrett, Harry, 1922-
Hedi Lattey fonds
CA VERN MS 129;1988.054 · Fonds · 1956-1988

Fonds consists of the personal records of Hedi Lattey from 1956-1988. Includes personal writings, reports, presentations, publications, newspaper/magazine articles, and ephemera collected and produced by Ms. Lattey during her years as an editor, school trustee, and board member for various organizations.

Lattey, Hedi, 1913-
H.K. Beairsto fonds
CA VERN MS 25;1972.061;1985.392;1985.394 · Fonds · 1924-1960

Fonds consists of the personal and professional records of H.K. Beairsto from 1924-1960. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, personal writings, and ephemera either produced or collected by Mr. Beairsto throughout his life and career as a teacher and principal. The majority of the fonds concerns his association with the B.C. Teachers' Federation and the Okanagan Valley Teachers' Association.

Beairsto, Harold King
CA VERN MS 80;1988.006 · Fonds · 1932-1936

Fonds consists of the financial records of the Hotel Holdings Co. Ltd. from 1932-1936. Includes income tax claims, financial statements (1935-1936), an annual financial report (1932), inventory lists by item and price, and a copy of a shares sale between Patrick Henry Murphy (hotel proprietor) and the partners of Gilbert Gordon Southwell & Charles Arthur Dunsmore.

Hotel Holdings Company
CA VERN MS 161;1994.010 · Fonds · [Transcribed 1994]

Fonds consists of transcripts of correspondence between Hudson's Bay Company employees, Thomas R. Smith and J. Ogden Grahame, in February 1887. The letters, which are in reference to the possibility of opening an HBC store in the Priest Valley area, discuss the geographical pros and cons, the local economic situation, names of possible suppliers and potential competitors.

Hudson's Bay Company. Vernon Post
CA VERN MS 143;1988.131 · Fonds · 1930-1937

Fonds consists of the administrative records of the Inland Ice & Cold Storage Company from 1921-1937. Includes correspondence, legal documents, and financial records which detail the company's activities, responsibilities, and financial status.

Inland Ice and Cold Storage Company
CA VERN MS 186;1999.034 · Fonds · 1930-1988, predominant 1935-1969

Fonds consists of the records of the Interior Vegetable Marketing Agency Cooperative from 1930-1988. Includes minutes, correspondence, general administrative records, legal documents, reports, employee records, publications, reports, financial records and ephemera. The records document the establishment of the Interior Marketing Board and its Agency, their day to day business, their interaction with the local and provincial vegetable industry, and their influence on the vegetable industry in BC. Also included are some records from one of their subsiduary producers, the Dry Belt Growers Ltd.

Interior Vegetable Marketing Agency Cooperative
Ishbel Jean Gray fonds
CA VERN MS 50;1979.082 · Fonds · 1942-1946

Fonds consists of the personal records of Ishbel Jean Gray from 1942-1946, documenting her military nursing career. Includes her certificates of military qualification, military and Red Cross I.D.s, medical records, War Service certificates, and her letter of commission.

Gray, Ishbel Jean
Jacques Jewellers fonds
CA VERN MS 300 · Fonds · 1889-2007

Fonds consists of records documenting the business activities of Jacques Jewellers from 1893-1983. Includes financial records, watch repairs, clock repairs, jewellery repairs, secondhand and new watch sales, CPR watch inspection forms, dinnerware list for Queen Elizabeth II luncheon, legal correspondence, list of Canadian Jewellery Trade Marks, and ephemera.

Jacques Jewellers
James Grant fonds
CA VERN MS 191;2000.064 · Fonds · [1900]-1988

Fonds consists of the personal and professional reords of local naturalist James Grant from ca. 1900-1988. The records document Mr. Grant's lifelong dedication and love for the environment, his interest in ornithology, botany, and entomology, and his numerous efforts to preserve local wildlife and ecology. Includes correspondence, newsletters, personal writings, daily journals, data, reports, surveys, minutes, meteorological data, maps, ornithology and botany notes, some artwork, and nature photographs.

Grant, James
Jo Fraser Jones fonds
CA VERN MS 209;2003.057 · Fonds · 1996-2003

Fonds consists of the records of Jo Jones concerning her research and consequent publication of books and articles, in particular "Hobnobbing with a Countess". Includes correspondence, legal agreements, research material, personal writings, publications, ephemera, books and magazines, and photos.

Jones, Jo Fraser, 1935-
CA VERN MS 217 · Fonds · 1918-1919, 1936-1954

Fonds contains Herbert Ellison's personal data documents including CEF discharge certificates (1918,1919), American Social Security card and letter of reference (1936), official copy of his 1933 marriage certificate (1953), and final decree of divorce (1954).

Ellison, John Herbert Turner
CA VERN MS 162;1999.011 · Fonds · Photocopied [1998]

Fonds consists of transcripts of the diaries of John Thomas Davies detailing hunting expeditions in the Okanagan from 1890 to 1894 and a reminiscence of hunting for grizzly bears in 1892 written in 1902.

Davies, John Thomas
J.P. Burnyeat fonds
CA VERN MS 124;1955.032;1978.058;1986.070;1986.122;1987.047;1995.059 · Fonds · 1891-1923

Fonds consists of the personal and professional records of J.P. Burnyeat from 1891-1923. Includes correspondence, legal documents, and the maps and plans produced by Burnyeat throughout his career as land surveyor and civil engineer. Fonds also includes some records of his business partner John Coryell in regards to their company.

Burnyeat, John Purvis
Kalamalka Players fonds
CA VERN MS 150;1990.130 · Fonds · 1920-1988

Fonds consists of the records and documents of the Kalamalka Players theatre company from 1920-1988. Includes correspondence, financial records, ephemera and various miscellaneous documents in regards to the group's financial status, activities and various theatre productions.

Kalamalka Players
CA VERN MS 155;1977.031 · Fonds · 1957-1976

Fonds consists of the records, documents, and ephemera of the Kalamalka Toastmistress Club from 1957-1976. Includes the constitution and by-laws, minutes, lists and scrapbooks which document the club's local activities and topics of discussion.

Kalamalka Toastmistress Club
CA VERN MS 28;1972.010;1989.019 · Fonds · 1914-1982

Fonds consists of the records and documents of the Kalamalka Women's Institute from 1914-1982. Includes correspondence, certificates, photographs, paintings, an administrative history of the organization, and a brief history on the settlement of Oyama.

Kalamalka Women's Institute
CA VERN MS 197;2002.040 · Fonds · Photocopied 1997-2000

Collection consists of photocopies of the records and documents Ken Ellison used for research into the role of irrigation districts in Oyama from 1892 to 2000, culminating in the publication of 'Irrigation is King!' in 2000. Includes reports (1921-2000), water rights and licences, including those of V.E Ellison (1888-1984), pre-emptions (1870-1916), maps (1890-1966), receipts (1997, 1999), clippings (1989-1997), and water rights legislation (1897-1994). Also includes information about the Commonage (1890-1992), Long Lake Irrigation Co. (1909-1924), municipalities of Okanagan and Mission (1893-1995), Oyama Irrigation District (1923-1996), Wood Lake Cannery (1909), Wood Lake Fruitlands Co. (1907-1914, 1962), and Wood Lake Water Co. (1910-1995). Also includes a manuscript of "Irrigation is King!'.

Kenneth Vernon Ellison fonds
CA VERN MS 220 · Fonds · 1946-2002

Fonds documents Ken Ellison's life from 1946-2002. Personal records include correspondence, both personal and legal; personal data documents; research material for his Price Ellison book; and ephemera.

Ellison, Kenneth Vernon, 1926-
CA VERN MS 148;1991.104 · Fonds · [Photocopied 1991]

Fonds consists of the administrative records of the Kildonnan Pipe Band for 1937-1941. Consists of photocopies of minutes detailing the band's financial status, engagements, band practice notices, fund-raising campaigns, and the election of members to various executive and band positions.

Kildonnan Pipe Band (Vernon, B.C.)
CA VERN MS 92;1984.833 · Fonds · 1910-1946

Fonds consists of the business records of the Land & Agriculture Company of Canada from 1910-1946. Includes a hardbound sales account book (plus index) of the individual land sales to settlers in the valley. The index book contains the alphabetical listing of the buyer names, plus the page number on the sale is found in the account book. In the sales account book, each page lists the buyer's name, the lot(s) sold, the sale price and interest rate, a schedule of balances payable, and dates of installment payments. Fonds also includes copies of correspondence sent to various purchasers in regard to accounts payable.

Land and Agriculture Company of Canada
Leighton Tripp fonds
CA VERN MS 74;1988.006 · Fonds · 1929-1955

Fonds consists of the business records of Leighton Tripp, International Accountant, from 1929-1955. Includes business correspondence and annual financial reports of the E. Poole & Co. Ltd.

Tripp, Leighton