Fonds consists of records from Cloverdale Presbyterian Church (Surrey, B.C.), Cloverdale Methodist Church (Surrey, B.C.), Cloverdale United Church (Surrey, B.C.), Mud Bay (Elgin) United Church (Surrey, B.C.) and Hazelmere United Church (Surrey, B.C.). Records include Baptismal registers (1898-1985), Burial registers (1928-1992) and Marriage registers (civil) (1920-1986); Communion roll (1906-1918) and Membership records (1919-1921); Session minutes (1898-1982) and Board of Managers/Stewards minutes (1892-1990), Official Board minutes (1925-1952), Trustees minutes (1899-1904), Congregational Meetings minutes (1892-1954), Christian Education Committee minutes (1965-1978), Congregational Life and Work Committee minutes (1978-1981), Building Fund Account records (1972-1986), Manse Account records (1982-1986) and Memorial Account records (1972-1986); Ladies Aid minutes (1915-1929), Woman's Association Junior Circle minutes (1933-1939), W.A. Senior Circle Treasurer's Book (1945-1961), Woman's Missionary Society Evening Auxiliary minutes (1950-1961), W.M.S. Prayer Circle minutes (1939-1948), United Church Women Alpha Unit (1965-1968), U.C.W. Onward Unit minutes (1975-1991) and U.C.W. Sunshine Unit minutes (1985-1988); Young People's Union minutes (1952-1960) and Treasurer's Book (1952-1954); Congregational financial records (1940-1986); and Annual reports (1958-2006).
Cloverdale United Church (Surrey, B.C.)Fonds consists of the textual records of Bayard Iverson from 1892-1983. Includes correspondence, research material, notes, personal writing, publications, ephemera, and maps.
Iverson, Bayard O., 1903-1966Fonds consists of the personal, business and research records of May and Elmer Ellingsen. Textual records include personal and business correspondence; financial and legal records; information about local history; records and newsletters of various community organizations; records created by John Manson and by the St. James Ladies' Guild; maps; ephemera; and clippings about Cortes Island people and events. Fonds also includes photographs of the Manson family and other island people and places, and cassette tapes of oral history and music.
Fonds is arranged in 14 series: Correspondence; Financial records; Elmer Ellingsen records (business and personal); May Ellingsen personal records; Local history subject files; John Manson records; St. James Ladies' Guild records; Community organizations and services records; Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society records; Maps; Ephemera; Clippings; Photographs and Audio tapes.
Records from Accession 2019.002, which were processed after the other material had been arranged, has been interfiled.
The New Westminster Council of Women fonds consists of records created or received by the Council while carrying out their mission statement. The fonds contains the following series: minutes, correspondence, attendance reports, financial records, yearbooks, annual meeting reports, common programs, miscellaneous records, New Westminster Credit Women’s Breakfast Club records, scrapbooks, and Lady Aberdeen ephemera.
New Westminster Council of WomenThe fonds consists of 45 glass-plate lantern slides showing scenes from Osterhout’s work with B.C. First Nations, including the Haida, Tsimshian, and Kwakwaka’wakw. The collection includes images of people, totem poles, and landscapes.
Osterhout, Reverend Smith StanleyThe fonds consists of operational records of Bowen Island School, including annual reports (1893-1970), minutes and expense reports (1926-1946), correspondence, and the visitor’s book (1894-1922).
Bowen Island SchoolThe fonds consists of six company ledgers: 1894 - 1896, 1896, 1898 - 1901, 1900, 1904 - 1905, 1923 - 1926. Also includes 15 pages of correspondence and notes. The ledgers note expenses for various operations in the mine and in the company owned premises in town. The letters and notes concern the purchase of explosives for the mine and discusses the Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Company.
Bullion MinesThe fonds is divided into one series and contains diaries dating from 1912, 1913, 1915-1926 and ephemera.
Arthur Alexander DennysThe fonds consists of 37 mounted photographs from an album, as well as 5 loose photographs. The photographs were likely taken by Edward Fawcett between 1894 and 1902 when members of the Fawcett family were establishing themselves in British Columbia. The photographs consist of family members and homes, friends and recreational outings in Victoria, Delta and Vancouver; interior and exterior shots of the Victoria drugstore; and scenes of travelling through the mountains by train. Several photographs show early activities and scenes in Ladner, particularly the winter flood of 1895.
Fawcett, A.E.The collection consists of certificates, notes and report cards relating to Cheverton's education; correspondence, certificates and a sound recording relating to the Hudson's Bay Company 250th anniversary essay contest; general correspondence relating to memorial services, civil defence training, and other general topics; and a collection of postcards. Photographs of the Richmond area have yet to be arranged or described.
The fonds consists of architectural plans of Samuel Maclure for homes in Victoria, other B.C. locations, and out of province locations, as well as lists of people who commissioned homes by Maclure, including construction contracts. Fonds includes plans by English designer George P. Bankart; plans by H. D. Day; plans by other architects; and watercolours by Maclure of houses, proposed houses and alterations. The fonds also consists of 8 negatives made from copies of original drawings of Hatley Park and 3 photocopies of sketches of a bungalow designed for Mrs. Maltwood.
Maclure, Samuel, 1860-1929The fonds consists of photocopied and transcribed letters between the sisters and their mother, a manuscript and newspaper clippings, and divided into three series.
Gordon, Ann Lowden, 1865-1941Fonds consists of Baptism, marriage, and burial records (1895-1926) and Board and committee records (1895-1925).
First Congregational Church (Victoria, B.C.)Fonds consists of a ledger recording individual East Kootenay assays from 1895-1900.
Cowell & Wallinger (Firm)Collection consists of the journals and scrapbooks of various individuals. Topics include, but are not limited to, the Canadian Pacific Railway, McDonald farm financial transactions, the Girl Guides, the Richmond Junior Soccer League, and the Richmond Parent-Teacher Council.
The Hunter Brothers Ltd. collection contains documents from 1895-1959, and is arranged in the following order:
- History
- Correspondence
- Financial Records
- Legal Records
- Publications
- Lists
- Ephemera
- Clippings
The fonds consists primarily of records created during the writing of Wasserlein's MA thesis at SFU, "An Arrow Aimed at the Heart": the Vancouver Women's Caucus and the Abortion Campaign, 1969-1971, completed in 1990. The fonds also contains records related to other research Wasserlein was involved in, specifically her work with the UBC research project on non-academic women in 1979, and her application for a Canada Council grant in support of her own research project in 1982. Fonds includes taped interviews, transcripts, notes, drafts, correspondence, published materials, periodicals, and photographs. No records exist related to Wasserlein's activities with the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
Wasserlein, FrancesFonds consists of records relating to the organization and activities of the Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association, particularly District No. 16 (British Columbia), and several of its subordinate camps, including Glamis Camp No. 210, Glengarry Camp No. 212, Lord Tweedsmuir Camp No. 209, Murray Camp No. 215, and Royal Scot Camp No. 172. Activities, events, and topics documented include the rules, rituals, and organization of the Association; the founding and development of some of the subordinate camps; meetings, activities, events, finances, and membership of District No. 16, its subordinate camps and, to a lesser degree, the Grand Camp; and correspondence and interaction among subordinate camps, as well as between subordinate camps, District No. 16, and the Grand Camp.
Records include minutes, minute books, and related papers; financial ledgers, cash books, financial statements, and financial reports; record books and note books; correspondence, reports, newsletters, and directories; constitutions and bylaws; lists; and programmes and promotional material.
Sons of Scotland Benevolent AssociationFonds consists of the minutes of meetings and AGMs of the RVYC executive as well as Fleet captain and Commodore reports.
Royal Victoria Yacht ClubThe collection consists mostly of correspondence from Russell about his social and literary activities. The vast majority of this correspondence is to William K. Magee. There are a few letters to Charles Weekes, Robert Graves, and Miss Buxton. In addition, there is a letter from AE's son Diarmuid Russell to Magee re Magee's proposed biography of AE and a photocopy of a letter (transcript) to Judge Richard Campbell from Dudley Digges re Campbell's broadcast "Farewell to AE". Other materials include a few clippings about AE (obit etc.) and an undated b/w photo of AE.
Russell, George William, 1867-1935Fonds consists of four record series: Baptismal records (1941-1954); Correspondence (1938-1947); Memorabilia (1896-1975); and Photographs (1907-1972).
Rickaby, WilliamRanging from 1896-1942, the Knights of Pythias collection includes:
1) bylaws
2) correspondence
3) reports
4) certificates
5) publications
6) membership list
7) visitor register
8) ephemera
The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to an unnamed cousin. In the letter, she mentions her book “Letters and Papers of Andrew Robertson” ed. Emily Robertson.
Robertson, EmilyThe Rossland Board of Trade has documents from 1896 - 1961, and is arranged in the following series:
- Certificate of formation
- Minutes
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- By-laws
- Reports
- Publications
- Membership Applications
- Lists
- Ephemera
- Maps
- Notes
- Clippings
The West Kootenay Power & Light Collection contains photographic and textual records from 1896-2001, and is arranged in the following order:
- Mission Statement
- Correspondence, 1897-2001
- Financial Records, 1898-1986
- Legal Records, 1898-1976, includes 7 bound books
- Petitions, 1901-1950
- Personnel
- Reports, 1898-1908
- Publications, 1908-1956
- Certificates, 1894-1921
- Maps, 1909
- Lists, 1896-1938
- Ephemera, 1934-2000
- Photographs
- Clippings, includes envelope of clippings related to the buyout of WKPL to Utilicorp, includes scrapbook.