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Audiovisual recordings
CA PMRCA 06 · Series · 2001-2015
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s worship leadership at University Hill Congregation, presentations at Maritime Conference and Berwick Camp, Nova Scotia, and retirement service and luncheon.

Lectures and addresses
CA PMRCA 02 · Series · 2000-2007
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s public presentations in various settings, primarily about congregational ministry, to lay and clergy leaders of the wider church. Records include scripts and handwritten notes.

Regular newspaper columns
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.07 · Series · 1996-2018
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to columns that Taylor wrote for local newspapers in the Okanagan region of BC. Includes samples of columns written for the Kelowna Courier and Penticton Herald (July to December 2009); satirical articles relating to local people and politics (the Back Fence, 2008); and samples of columns from a local weekly paper, the Lake Country Calendar (2007).

Taylor, James A.
Manuscripts for monographs
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.08 · Series · 1996-2001
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to the writing of three of Jim Taylor’s books: SIN: A New Understanding of Virtue and Vice; Precious Days and Practical Love; and John for Beginners.

Taylor, James A.
Minutes
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.01 · Series · 1993 - 1997
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

Series includes minutes of the Native Ministries Council, Native Ministries Division minutes, memos, and letters from Charlotte Sullivan.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
Leadership-related records
CA PMRCA 03 · Series · [1991]-2003
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s leadership as Chair of the Land Claims Campaign, BC Conference, and in the matter of the partnership between University Hill Congregation and the Vancouver School of Theology. Records include correspondence, statistical analyses, meeting notes, copy of an agreement, and promotional materials.

Publications and manuscripts
CA PMRCA 04 · Series · 1989-2015
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s written contributions to periodicals and books. Records include draft manuscripts and galley proofs.

Healing Fund
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.05 · Series · 1988 - 1998
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

Series includes: Healing Fund activity reports, budgets, minutes of Technical Implementation Group (TIG) for the Healing Fund, correspondence, memoranda, and information bulletins.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
CA PMRCA 05 · Series · 1987-2000
Part of Robert F. Smith fonds

Series consists of three subseries relating to the national church’s Healing Fund Campaign Technical Implementation Group, the United Church’s 75th Anniversary Committee, and the Interchurch Interfaith Committee. Records include correspondence, copies of committee meeting minutes, information packages, financial updates, activity reports, and videos.

Land Claims Campaign
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.06 · Series · 1987 - 1996
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

The Land Claims Campaign was a five year project launched by the BC Conference in May 1991. It had the dual purposes of education and fundraising in support of Aboriginal land claims in the province. Education events addressed questions of land claims and self government. A fundraising goal of one million dollars was set with money raised used to provide grants to BC First Nations to assist with research, political negotiations, legal fees and other related land claims costs. Campaign funds were held in trust and dispersed on the recommendations of the Native Ministries Council of BC Conference (formerly known as the “Coastal Regional Group”); recipients included the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en for their Supreme Court Case, Delgamuukw v. British Columbia.
Series includes records of donations and pledges, Land Claims Campaign Committee minutes and budgets, newsletters, information materials, and correspondence.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
Residential schools issues
CA PMRCA ChUN 23.01 · Series · 1986 ; 1993-2005
Part of Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery fonds

Series includes: Residential School Advisory Group minutes, minutes of the Technical Implementation Group (TIG) for the Healing Fund, Healing Fund applications, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and Information bulletins.

Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery
Audio and video recordings
CA PMRCA 03 · Series · 1985-1992
Part of Lydia Gruchy fonds

Series consists of videocassette and audiocassette records relating to interviews relating to Lydia Gruchy, her life and story as told in interviews and church broadcasts. These cassettes are copies, with original records held elsewhere.

Newsletters
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.06 · Series · 1984-1994
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of a complete set of the issues of Currents, a small journal for which Taylor was the primary writer and sole editor.

Taylor, James A.
Reference and liaison
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.04 · Series · 1981 - 1998
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

Records include: literature about the All Native Circle Conference, annual reports, minutes from BC Conference, minutes from Coastal Regional Group, newsletters and correspondence, applications for funding from the BC Native Land Claims fund, and press releases newspaper clippings about residential schools issues and native land claims.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
CA PMRCA 02 · Series · 1978-1988
Part of Marilyn Harrison fonds

Series consists of records relating to Harrison’s work for The United Church of Canada as BC Conference President and as a member of General Council committees and task groups. Includes reports, correspondence, and speaking notes.

Significant documents
CA PMRCA 07 · Series · 1976-2015
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s career as student, pastoral minister, lecturer and presenter, writer, and leader in the wider church. Record types include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, academic degrees, curriculum vitae, copies of articles, handwritten letters of appreciation, orders of service, and memorabilia from special events.

CA PMRCA 01 · Series · 1974-2000
Part of Marilyn Harrison fonds

Series consists of records relating to Harrison’s teaching and worship leadership activities at the Vancouver School of Theology. Includes lecture notes, sermons, and orders of service.

Sermons
CA PMRCA 01 · Series · 1974-2008
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to Searcy’s preaching at Crescent United Church (Surrey, BC), South Arm United Church (Richmond, BC), and University Hill Congregation (Vancouver, BC). Records include typescript sermons.

Student papers
CA PMRCA 05 · Series · 1974-2002
Part of Edwin Searcy fonds

Series consists of records relating to research, essays, and projects undertaken in fulfillment of requirements toward Searcy’s Bachelor of Arts, Master of Divinity, and Doctor of Ministry degrees.

Audio recordings
CA PMRCA Priv 27.07 · Series · [1972?]-[2001?]
Part of M. John V. Shaver fonds

Series consists of records relating to Shaver’s worship leadership and preaching, public speaking, work at First United Church (Vancouver). Records also include biographical information through interviews with Gordon Laird and Bob Stewart.

Shaver, M. John V.
Research materials
CA PMRCA Priv 29.01 · Series · 1970-1989
Part of N. Keith Clifford fonds

Series consists of records relating to Clifford’s research, primarily concerning the Presbyterian Church in Canada and resistance to church union in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Record types include photocopies of articles and archival materials, as well as correspondence with research assistants.