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Fonds consists of the personal records of Margaret and Harold “Dude” Lavington and their daughter Jean Tibbles (née Lavington), including records passed to them by other members of the Lavington family. It also includes records they retained from administrative involvement with local and regional organisations, as well as magazines and newspaper clippings.

Series contains records documenting operations for the Lavington Co. or Bar HL Ranch, Dude Lavington’s involvement in professional associations, and personal memories related to the ranch. Records include handwritten notes, letters, professional travel memorabilia, news clippings, policy documents, presentation materials, meeting booklets, lease agreements, land registration confirmation cards, mortgage agreements, a certificate of land title, certificates of encumbrance, an account book, grocery lists, cabin rule lists, hand drawn maps, invitations, printed poems and lyrics, a postcard, a membership certificate, and photocopies of pages of a photo album.

Series contains records pertaining to Margaret’s life prior to her move to the Bar HL Ranch, her ongoing relationships beyond Quesnel, and her independent activities. Records of her life in Vancouver include a flyer showing her connection to the Vancouver Art Gallery, a certificate of her completion of a class, and inserts previously inside a scrapbook of her time with the Wrens. The scrapbook itself is in Series 8, File 2022.24/8/0/7. The inserts include greeting cards, telegrams, and letters, as well as an unknown document, a church service document, a newsletter, ship booklets, and a poem. Records of Margaret’s relationships include letters and greeting cards she sent to her husband, Dude, after their marriage, and letters and postcards shared between Margaret and her loved ones, where Margaret is sometimes referred to as “Cuddly.” After her 1952 move to the ranch, these letters sometimes addressed Jean or Dude. The series includes photocopied pages from an album Margaret kept of Paul family photos, as well as her original drawings and a leaf rubbing.

Series contains records pertaining to Jean’s upbringing at the Bar HL Ranch, her original creations, and all textual records from the Jean, John, Michael, and Alan Tibbles family connected to the Quesnel area or to relationships that originated there.

The series includes two photo albums–one related to Jean as a young child, and another likely made by Jean Tibbles as an adult. Jean’s childhood creations include handmade cards–often with attachments such as magazine cutouts, feathers, and dried plants–as well as handmade books and activity sheets, letters to grandparents or parents on paper or birch bark, and poems. Early school records include a Valedictory Exercise program for Quesnel Secondary School and Jean’s University of British Columbia thesis. Later school records include a certificate for a course Jean completed in 1990, and a 1992 news booklet from the Central Interior Regional Correspondence School, which Jean’s children attended alongside others from the region, including Quesnel. Additionally, the series contains personal letters, Christmas letters, and magazine cutouts Jean received from Margaret, Dude, and Florence, as well as letters, postcards, and greeting cards she and her family sent to Dude and Margaret (1970-1975), Dude alone, or Dude and Florence (1976-1992).

Series contains records related to Dude Lavington’s direct ancestors, legal documents not related to ranching, and miscellaneous records documenting Lavington family life. Records include a certificate of immigration, a sketchbook, photocopied pages of a scrapbook, scanned news clippings, letters, pamphlets and postcards from Wells Cathedral, certificates from the Canadian Army, marriage certificates, wedding invitations, handwritten notes, cemetery lot purchase receipts, obituaries, funeral pamphlets, a life insurance certificate, insurance payment receipt, a government mailing, certificates of shares, power of attorney, wills, estate account records, and travel souvenirs.

Series contains records of Dude’s contact with friends, correspondence with a doctor, and letters written by his first and third wives, Ruth and Florence. Records include handwritten and typed letters, some with photographs or clippings included, postcards, and greeting cards. It also contains a letter Ruth Lavington received from her family, the Rennies, likely during her time in Quesnel in the 1940s. Ruth’s writing can also be found on the back of several photographs in file 2022.24/9/2/1. Series does not include correspondence with Margaret and Jean, whose letters are in Series 2 and 3, respectively.

Series also contains news clippings providing information about Dude’s friends, including obituaries, anniversary announcements, and birthday celebrations. Other records include a wedding invitation, funeral pamphlets, and a eulogy excerpt.

Series contains two magazines featuring an article written by Dude, both of which include the relevant page number inscribed in pen on the front cover by the author. Records include news clippings, and typed or handwritten versions of articles where news clippings are not available. In cases where published responses to Dude’s articles about Indigenous issues are available, these clippings have been placed immediately after Dude’s article. Series also includes letters to government officials, and responses on government letterhead, along with brochures, news releases, and policy documents, including several items from the Ministry of Native Affairs. Some items, particularly in File 2022.24/6/0/4, may contain offensive content.

Series contains records pertaining to the writing, publication, and publicity of Dude’s memoirs, including handwritten notes, drawings, letters, and a single typed copy of each volume of the memoirs. Additional drafts without substantial differences were discarded, though short portions were used to fill in gaps in the retained copies. Other files include news clippings, newsletters, a meeting notice, synopses, a short autobiography, a workshop announcement, a magazine clipping, query letters, letters from publishers, critique letters, letters from Sono Nis Press and booksellers pertaining to sales and the introduction of GST, registration documents and a brochure from the Public Lending Right Commission along with a title earning summary, a letter sent with an annual cheque, a permission form, book reviews, interview schedules, certificates, event flyers, thank you cards, and postcards.

Series contains bound volumes, including three miniature books containing handwriting, three photo albums, and a scrapbook. This series contains only those photo albums which had photos pasted down. Albums with removable photographs and no unique markings were photocopied and moved to relevant series.

Series contains photographic records, including prints, negatives, slides, and a tintype related to the Bar HL Ranch and the Ruth, Margaret, Jean, and Dude Lavington family during the time they resided in the Quesnel area. Many prints and slides contain original inscriptions. Some inscriptions on slides in File 2022.24/9/1/9 may contain outdated or offensive language.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into 11 subseries:
9.1: Ranch
9.2: Family
9.3: Neighbours & friends
9.4: Rodeo
9.5: Events
9.6: Travel & Scenery
9.7: Unknown

Series contains films created by Dude Lavington or Jean Tibbles (née Lavington) related to ranches, rodeos, events, and people from the Quesnel area. Original, creator-supplied titles for the films were preserved where they were available. Creator titles may contain outdated and potentially offensive descriptive language.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into five subseries:
10.1: Ranch
10.2: Family & Friends
10.3: Rodeo
10.4: Events
10.5: Oversize

This series contains service buttons; pins; wedding rings and bracelets, some with engravings; a locket containing a lock of hair and a photo; a pin; a shoehorn. These items have been arranged into files, each in a bag, based on their content. File 2022.24/11/0/16 is in a separate box containing objects from a shadow box, including photos, rings, an engraved spoon, a foam jewellery holder, a scrapbook paper frame, ribbon, and a paper tag.

Fonds consists of records created or received by Maureen Trotter through her work for the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre, the Amata Transition House Society, the National Action Committee for the Status of Women, and other local advocacy campaigns and community projects. Records include organizational correspondence, lobbying correspondence, meeting minutes, financial statements, operational notes and manuals, internal policies, photocopied journal articles, literature reviews, research notes, grant proposals, government reports, strategic plans, campaign brochures, talking notes, petitions, newsletters, programming schedules, and contact information lists. Interspersed within the records are copies of newspaper and magazine articles documenting each of these organization's achievements.

The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into 6 series.
• Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre records (series 1)
• Amata Transition House Society records (series 2)
• National Action Committee on the Status of Women records (series 3)
• Quesnel child apprehension issue records (series 4)
• Records of other local organizations (series 5)
• Personal records (series 6)

Series contains records created or received during Trotter's volunteer work for the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre Society. Trotter has been involved with the Centre since it was founded in 1979 and has served in various capacities on organizational and social change committees. Over the years, her work for the Centre has involved project development, writing grant proposals, media relations, taking meeting minutes, drafting internal policies, organizing events, training volunteers, supervising staff, creating write-ups for newsletters, monitoring research studies, and lobbying the federal, provincial, and municipal governments.

Records include newsletters, community calendars, pamphlets, flyers, programming schedules, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, program use metrics, coordinator reports, annual reports, organizational correspondence, lobbying correspondence, budgets, financial statements, financial audit reports, grant proposals, grant reports, project timelines, program evaluations, questionnaires, job descriptions, photocopied journal articles on feminist topics, literature reviews, event planning notes, petitions, purchasing receipts, internal staffing policies, volunteer orientation packages, mission statements, strategic plans, contact information lists, business cards, and thank-you notes. Also included are magazine and newspaper clippings related to both women’s issues as well as the achievements of the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre Society.

Series contains records created or received during Trotter's work for Amata. The earliest records in this series pertain to a legal battle concerning 1982 and 1983 amendments to Amata's constitution in order to bar women considering an abortion from accessing Amata’s services. More recent records were created or received while Trotter served on the board of directors, where she worked to change the society’s organizational structure into a non-hierarchical collective. In this role, Trotter took meeting minutes, defined job descriptions, created staff evaluation policies, and participated in union negotiations.

Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists, contact lists, annual reports, financial statements, a Supreme Court of British Columbia legal order, newspaper clippings, different versions of Amata’s Constitution (1979, 1982, and 1983), funding contracts, the Amata board of directors manual, internal ‘house rules,’ handwritten notes, time cards, union negotiations, collective agreements, job descriptions, interview questions, conflict resolution policies, staff evaluation policies, strategic planning templates, a Writ of Summons with Statement of Claim, insurance records, employee benefits proposals, purchasing receipts, graphs describing program use, unfilled registration forms, and pamphlets.

Series contains records created or received during Trotter's work for the NAC. Through the time period reflected in the series, Trotter served as a sub-regional representative on the BC steering committee as well as one of two BC regional representatives on the NAC national executive team. In these roles, Trotter assisted with lobbying, fundraising, membership tracking, event planning, communications, organizational structure changes, advocating for the needs of rural women, and advocating for international solidarity among women around the world.

Through her work for the NAC, Trotter participated in lobbying at the federal and provincial levels, including assistance with the creation of voter information guides, pamphlets, and questions to ask Provincial and Federal election candidates. In 1997, Trotter was published in the NAC Voter’s Guide, writing the chapter on women and postsecondary education.

Provincially, Trotter helped plan several BC-NAC regional conferences, including two conferences in Quesnel (November 1989 and September 1998). She also helped fundraise and create a database of BC-NAC member organizations across the province.

While not sent as an official delegate of the NAC, Trotter attended the 1995 United Nation Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Trotter also helped organize and participate in the National Women's March Against Poverty, which took place in 1996.

Records in this series include annual reports, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, budgets, financial statements, internal correspondence, lobbying correspondence, fundraising correspondence, membership communications, campaign reports, press releases, contact lists, copies of journal articles, literature reviews, conference brochures, conference kits, a name tag, handwritten conference notes, reimbursement forms, receipts, nomination lists, indexes of resolutions, draft articles on feminist issues, campaign pamphlets, speech drafts, newsletters, membership lists, membership surveys, petitions, voter guides, lobbying questions, internal policies, organizational review proposals, strategic planning proposals, business cards, newspaper clippings, farewell cards, and a journal which accounts Trotter’s experiences during the Women's March Against Poverty. Five photographs taken during the 1995 NAC AGM in Ottawa are also included within this series, and are located in file 2022.35/3/2/03

Records related to the United Nation Fourth World Conference on Women include conference kits, participation guides, fact sheets, conference schedules, pamphlets from various international women’s organizations, flyers, handwritten notes and reflections on the conference, conference reports, and press releases, as well as newspapers, magazine articles, and newsletters discussing the conference and its aftermath.

The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into 3 sub-series:
• BC steering committee records (subseries 1)
• National executive records (subseries 2)
• United Nation Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China (subseries 3)

Series contains records related to a child apprehension crisis which occurred in Quesnel from December 1997 to January 1998. During this crisis, the B.C. Ministry for Children and Families conducted an audit of the Quesnel social services office, which lead to a removal of an unprecedented number of children from their families. Records in this series were created or received during Trotter’s involvement in the Quesnel Child, Youth, and Family Network as well as her participation in a research project conducted to support affected mothers. This project was led by the B.C. Steering Committee of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in association with the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre.

Records created or received through the Quesnel Child, Youth, and Family Network include meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence with government officials, annual reports, job postings, and the results of a family counselling needs survey conducted by the Network. Files also contain meeting minutes and correspondence related to the establishment of a Quesnel Family Resource Centre.

Records related to the child apprehension crisis itself include a report titled "Quesnel Community Gathering: Proceedings of May 19 and 20, 1998, and Open Space Event"; correspondence with government officials; press releases; special investigation reports and findings; handwritten notes; draft articles and write-ups; and contact lists. Newspaper clippings from the Cariboo Observer, the Province, Perspectives, the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, the Daily Courier, and the Radical which document the child apprehension crisis are interspersed between records. Several Provincial government reports are also included, such as a copy of Bill 47: Child, Youth and Family Advocacy Amendment Act (1995); a copy of The Risk Assessment Model for Child Protection in British Columbia, Ministry for Children and Families (1996); a copy of BC's Risk Reduction Service Plan Instruction (1996); and a Gove Inquiry Report Implementation Forum facilitation booklet (1996) with associated handwritten notes.

Records created or received through the NAC-BC Child Welfare Research Project include a research proposal, photocopied journal articles, Provincial government reports, literature reviews, correspondence with government officials, correspondence with academics, meeting minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, and Quesnel Community Development reports.

Series contains records created or received during Trotter’s volunteer work for the Quesnel Peace Action Group, Quesnel Environmental Society, Quesnel Social Justice Coalition, B.C. Network Against Two-Tier Healthcare, Quesnel Affordable Housing Action Committee, and Quesnel Climate Action Group.

Records include meeting minutes, meeting agendas, handwritten meeting notes, internal correspondence, lobbying correspondence, photocopied journal articles, literature reviews, handwritten research notes, informational booklets, pamphlets, posters, flyers, event planning notes, petitions, surveys, newsletters, membership contact lists, an alternative federal budget, a climate change toolkit, and housing development proposals. Most files also contain newspaper clippings related to each organization’s actions and achievements, or related to information about each specific cause, collected for research purposes.

Three photographs depicting a Peace March in Quesnel are located in file 2022.35/5/1/2d. Two additional photographs depicting the Quesnel community garden and a large bike rack are located in file 2022.35/5/6/1a.

The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into 6 sub-series:

• Quesnel Peace Action Group records (subseries 1)
• Quesnel Environmental Society records (subseries 2)
• Quesnel Social Justice Coalition records (subseries 3)
• B.C. Network Against Two-Tier Healthcare records (subseries 4)
• Quesnel Affordable Housing Action Committee records (subseries 5)
• Quesnel Climate Action Group records (subseries 6)

Series contains personal records created by Trotter which are unaffiliated with her work for external organizations. Included is a 1985 study conducted by Trotter titled “The Needs of Rural and Native Women in the Interior of British Columbia” as well as Trotter’s resume, which is current as of the year 2006.

The fonds consists of correspondence (written from Victoria, Quesnel, California, France and England), a manuscript written by Vera Baker Currie on the history of the Baker family (entitled "Susie"), and miscellaneous records.

The fonds consists of correspondence (personal and business), report cards, postcards, invitations, and mining certificates.

The fonds consists of address books, recipes, and miscellaneous personal records, including identification cards, a commemorative diploma, prescription records, correspondence, receipts, and an application form for Old Age Security.

The fonds consists of Homan's diary (1935-1959), correspondence (1910-1957), miscellaneous personal papers (rough notes, newsclippings, tax records), and business records (1916-1954).

The fonds consists of patient account ledgers, correspondence (incoming and outgoing), personal bills, influenza records, and miscellaneous documents. In particular, the fonds consists of the financial records of Dr. Baker and his practice.

The fonds consists of daybooks/account books from Gardner's businesses in Stanley (1905-1918), Coroner's records (1912-1928), financial records (1906-1916) consisting primarily of cancelled cheques, and miscellaneous personal records. Fonds includes an account book of registered letters (1910-1918) of the Van Winkle Post Office in Van Winkle, B.C.