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              Ellen Frank fonds
              CA SFU F-82 · Fonds · 1974 - 1984

              Fonds 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, Ellen
              Makara Magazine fonds
              CA SFU F-116 · Fonds · 1975 - 1979

              Fonds consists of records created, received and collected in the process of publishing Makara magazine. Records reflect general operation, correspondence, production, and advertising. Includes correspondence, notes, distribution lists, articles, clippings, surveys, manuscripts, lay-out roughs, illustrations, press releases, contracts, promotional material and notes.

              Makara Magazine
              Fonds · 1976-2013

              Fonds consists of minutes, agenda, publications, newsletters, reports and studies, correspondence, consitution and bylaws, ephemera, and photographs of the Richmond Women's Resource Centre.

              Richmond Women's Resource Centre
              Working Women Unite fonds
              CA SFU F-45 · Fonds · 1976 - 1982

              Fonds 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 Unite
              CA SFU F-117 · Fonds · 1976 - 1977

              Fonds consists of records generated by the Women's Cultural Exchange in the process of establishing the society, finding a location, opening, and using the space to fulfill their mandate to provide a cultural centre for women. Records reflect the incorporation of the society, minutes of meetings, membership, events, and finances. Includes constitution, certificates of incorporation, minutes, agenda, correspondence, membership lists, account book, scrap book, and ephemera.

              Women's Cultural Exchange
              CA SFU F-9 · Fonds · 1976 - 1987

              The 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 Trades
              Maureen Trotter fonds
              CA QUE 2022.0035 · Fonds · 1977-2020

              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)

              Maureen Trotter
              CA UVICARCH AR189 · Fonds · 1977 - 1982

              The fonds consists of minutes, a small pamphlet collection, the booklet Rape, several copies of a lesbian newsletter, Rag, and miscellaneous material.

              Victoria Rape/Assault Centre
              CA QUE 2022.0035-2022.0035/3 · Series · 1977, 1987-2000
              Part of Maureen Trotter fonds

              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)

              CA SFU F-67 · Collection · 1978-2016, predominant 1978-1980

              The Women's Labour History Project documents the histories of women who were active in the trade union movement in British Columbia from 1890s onwards. The project was initiated by Sara Diamond, an undergraduate history student at SFU, who conducted the interviews. She received financial support from the British Columbia Summer Youth Employment Fund. Additional funding was received from many other sources, including The Canada Council, and the Federal Department of Human Resources. Diamond provides a description of her research methodology in a report included as Appendix A1, "Women's Labour History Project" (available in the hard-copy finding aid only).

              The collection consists of 43 interviews conducted by Sara Diamond with women in the labour movement in British Columbia. The women discuss their childhoods, family lives, careers, social issues such as childcare and birth control, economic situations such as the depresssion and post-war employment, and the working conditions that led them to become union activists. A summary of each interview is provided in Appendix 1, "Women's Labour History Project" (available in hard-copy finding aid only).

              The collection contains audio recordings and transcripts.

              Diamond, Sara
              CA QUE 2022.0035-2022.0035/2 · Series · 1979, 1985-1999
              Part of Maureen Trotter fonds

              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.

              Personal records
              CA QUE 2022.0035-2022.0035/6 · Series · 1979-2013
              Part of Maureen Trotter fonds

              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.

              CA SFU F-39 · Fonds · 1981 - 2005

              The fonds of the Society comprises records made and received in the course of administering the organization and carrying out its functions and programs. Geographically, SCWIST activities centre primarily on British Columbia. Activities documented include Annual General Meetings and monthly Executive Board meetings; administration of the Resource Centre; funding and financial management; liaison with other bodies; conferences and networking events; educational outreach programs; advisory work; advocacy and public relations. Records include constitution and by-laws; meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence; financial summaries and reports; presentations, reports and briefs; handbooks, manuals and publications; photographs; and audio recordings of Society conferences and workshops.

              Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
              CA SFU F-101 · Fonds · 1981 - 1999

              The fonds of the Women's Monument Project consists of records created and received in the course of carrying out the Project. Activities documented include Committee and sub-committee meetings, fundraising events, groundbreaking and unveiling ceremonies, site selection, dedication, language selection, design selection, construction, and gallery exhibits.

              Includes proposals, reports, minutes, correspondence, speeches, published materials, press releases, news clippings, design competition guidelines, design submissions, construction contracts, Monument inscriptions, drawings, site maps, photographs and slides, videotapes, a cloth banner, and the original maquette and artwork of the winning design by Beth Alber.

              Women's Monument Project
              Susan Walsh fonds
              CA SFU F-168 · Fonds · 1981 - 1982

              The fonds consists of the audiocassettes for five interviews conducted by Susan Walsh for her thesis.

              Walsh, Susan
              Linda M. Ervin fonds
              Fonds · 1981-2003

              Fonds consists of Writings and correspondence (1981-1994); and Biographical and reference material (1989-2003).

              Ervin, Linda M.
              Susan Lindenberger fonds
              Fonds · 1981-1996

              Fonds consists of a single record series: Educational materials relating to women's issues (1981-1996).

              Lindenberger, Susan
              Stephanie Castle fonds
              CA UVICARCH AR422 · Fonds · 1982 - 2002 (1993-2002 predominant)

              Fonds consists of: copies of Zenith Digest and material relating to the administration of the Zenith Foundation; the Foundation’s participation as an intervener in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal regarding Synthia Kavanagh and the Correctional Service of Canada; and copies of the following publications:
              The Partnership, by Stephanie Castle
              Shadows in the City, by Stephanie Castle
              Tales from Cascadia - Volume One, by Stephanie Castle
              A Tale of Two Wives, by Stephanie Castle
              Prisoner of Gender, by Katherine Johnson & Stephanie Castle
              As Much as Me?, by Margot Roberts

              Castle, Stephanie
              CA QUE 2022.0035-2022.0035/1 · Series · 1982-2020
              Part of Maureen Trotter fonds

              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.

              CA SFU F-69 · Collection · 1983

              Sue Cox was an undergraduate student at SFU, who was a student in one of Maggie Benston's classes. The collection consists of handwritten class notes and reprints from Maggie Benston's first offering of the course, "Women, Science and Technology," (WS 204-3).

              The collection consists of one file.

              Cox, Sue
              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.

              CA SFU F-123 · Fonds · 1986 - 1999

              Fonds consists of records made or recieved by the Association in the course of its activities. Activities documented include incorporation; meetings of the Annual General Meeting and various committees; maintenance of membership; financial management, budget planning, and grant applications; correspondence with member centres, regional representatives, government ministries and agencies, and other organizations; and development of a training strategy ("Planning for Change") and other projects. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and supporting papers, policies and procedures, financial records, agreements, published materials retained for reference, and notes, drafts and working papers.

              British Columbia and Yukon Association of Women's Centres
              Gillian Stainsby fonds
              CA SFU F-66 · Fonds · 1988 - 1989

              Fonds 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, Gillian
              CA SFU F-148 · Collection · 1989

              The collection consists of audio cassette recordings of the interviews and associated paper documentation (biographical forms and interview summaries) for each of the women who participated. Twelve women were interviewed. The names of the interviewers and interviewees are:

              • Beverly Ann Carlson interviewed by Anda Jones.

              • Bertha Cochrane interviewed by Linda Henderson.

              • Suzanne Crawford interviewed by Pat Newton.

              • Kathleen Dawson interviewed by Linda Cluelett.

              • Ann St. Clair Ecclestone inteviewed by Jane Ecclestone.

              • Jean Ferguson interviewed by Marsha Ferguson.

              • Melitha Rose Kraus interviewed by Laurie Doig.

              • Patricia Mazzarella Larson interviewed by Angela M. Larson.

              • Violet Piersma interviewed by Peter van Drongelen.

              • Florence Vilma Shannon; interviewer not recorded.

              • Miyako Shinkawa interviewed by Debbie Shinkawa.

              • Ilo Urquart; interviewer not recorded.

              Note that there is no paper documentation for one of the interviewees (Ilo Urquart).

              McPherson, Kathryn
              CA UVICARCH AR442 · Fonds · 1993-1997

              Fonds reflects Carol Cross’s art process as well as her interest and involvement in the women’s movement. Fonds consists of Cross’s two handmade books: “In Their Words” and “Ten Historical BC Women”, as well as accompanying exhibition materials and related correspondence.

              Correspondents include Mary Billy, Andrea Trudel, and Michelle Benjamin.

              Cross, Carol