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              209 archival descriptions results for Women

              Jenny Walters fonds
              CA BOW MS 13 · Fonds · 1967 - 1984

              The fonds consists correspondence, published materials, and records relating to community planning, to the Bowen Island Historians, and to other civic organizations.

              Walters, Jenny Clark
              CA UVICARCH AR164 · Fonds · 1975-1991

              The fonds consists of Chairs files, 1987-91, including minutes, correspondence and issues; Advisor's files, 1975-90, including correspondence and reference material about equity issues; and a member's file, 1987-91, including correspondence and reports.

              University of Victoria (B.C.). Joint Advisory Committee on Faculty Women's Issues
              CA KMA 86.43.3 · Fonds · 1933-1967

              The fonds consists of accounts ledgers, financial statements, correspondence, clippings, and handbooks.

              Kamloops Council of Women
              CA KMA 76.53 · Fonds · 1909-1956

              The fonds consists of articles of association, bylaws, register of members, tax returns and financial statements, annual reports and other miscellaneous reports.

              Kamloops Fruitlands Irrigation and Power Company
              Kate Braid fonds
              CA SFU F-10 · Fonds · 1963-2013

              Fonds consists of records relating to Braid's life and work as a student, teacher, carpenter, and writer.

              The first five series from Braid's first donation in 1995 are comprised primarily of interview material relating to Canadian women in trades, in the form of sound recordings, transcripts, notes, and drafts of profiles generated by Kate Braid in the course of four projects: her Master's thesis (1978-1979); a convention in Holland and subsequent trip to Denmark (1984); the Labour Canada booklets (1988); and the CBC Ideas program (1990). Also includes some correspondence, logbooks and published reference material.

              The next series from several additional accruals in 2009 to 2013 consist of records arising from many aspects of Braid's life. These records include drafts and notes from Braid's writing, projects for CBC Ideas, women in trades, her company, Sisters Construction, and other writing and teaching projects.

              There is also a large series of correspondence, including letters and emails (printed out) between Braid and other writers, her family, and business correspondents. Finally, there is a series of Braid's diaries, which she has kept regularly from the 1960s to 2012.

              The fonds is arranged in 24 series:

              1. Master's thesis interviews
              2. Europe interviews
              3. Labour Canada interviews
              4. CBC interviews
              5. Women in trade
              6. In Fine Form: the Canadian Book of Form Poetry
              7. Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local
              8. A Well-mannered Storm: the Glenn Gould Poems
              9. Emily Carr: Rebel Artist
              10. Inward to the Bones: Georgia Okeeffe's Journey with Emily Carr
              11. Vancouver Island Highway Project Road to Equity
              12. CBC Ideas: Men of the Deep
              13. Appointment calendars
              14. Correspondence
              15. Personal and early accomplishments
              16. Writing and teaching projects
              17. Turning Left to the Ladies
              18. Journeywoman
              19. Diaries
              20. First drafts and handwritten notes
              21. Sisters construction
              22. Publications
              23. Covering Rough Ground
              24. To this Cedar Fountain
              Braid, Kate
              CA KIM KM 994.12 · Fonds · 1957-1974

              The fonds consists of bylaws, purchase orders and other records (1957-1972) relating to the fundraising activities of the Kimberley Woman's Auxiliary and the Marysville Woman's Auxiliary consisting of the manufacture (sewing) of lumbago belts. Fonds includes reference material relating to hospital auxiliaries.

              Kimberley and District Hospital. Kimberley Woman's Auxiliary
              CA KSM MG20 · Fonds · 1951-1982

              The fonds consists of documents relating to the business of the Kinettes. The fonds consists of 4 series including minutes, scrapbooks, correspondence and reference material.

              Kinette Club of Lake Cowichan
              Fonds · 1973-1990

              Fonds consists of a scrapbook which contains photographs, ephemera, notes, and minutes that document an array of philanthropic and social activities.

              Richmond Kinette Club
              Fonds · 1946-2007

              Fonds consists of minutes, membership lists, applications for membership, applications for awards in recognition of service, lists of awards presented, and photographs of executives and events. Of interest is the president's manual, which is a collated list of members of the executive, activities, donations, and annual reports for each year (1946-2006).

              Royal Canadian Legion. Enderby Branch 98. Ladies Auxiliary
              Fonds · 1937 - 1993

              The fonds consists predominantly of administrative and operational records of the Ladies Auxiliary to RLC Branch 150, and includes minutes (1937-1988), annual reports (1954-1988), financial records (1964-1988), and correspondence. It also includes ephemeral materials and the Ladies Auxiliary guest book and events diary.

              Royal Canadian Legion Branch 150. Ladies Auxiliary
              Fonds · 1930-1941

              The fonds consists of minutes of meetings of the Ladies Lawn Bowling Club in Nanaimo.

              Ladies Lawn Bowling Club (Nanaimo, B.C.)
              Fonds · 1922-1968

              The fonds is divided into sixteen series and consists of minute books, correspondence, cash books, membership books, financial records, reports and membership certificates.

              Ladies Orange Benevolent Association. Shuswap Lodge 473 (Salmon Arm, B.C.)
              CA LCM MSS 112 · Fonds · 1922-1939

              The fonds consists of a minute book (1922-1939) of the Langley Agricultural Association Women's Auxiliary, which supported the activities of the Langley Agricultural Association.

              Langley Agricultural Association
              Fonds · 1967-1979

              Fonds consists of seven series: handbooks series, 1976-1978; financial records series, 1972-1974; scrapbooks series, 1967-1978, which includes one scrapbook of newspaper clippings, handbooks, initiations, announcements, newsletters, and photographs; conferences series, 1967, which includes records created when the Club was initially organized; membership applications series, 1967-1979, activities series, 1971-1973, which includes records that document various interests and activities engaged in by members of the Club; and ephemeral series, which includes an undated constitution from the Cloverdale-Langley University womens Club, and an undated and unsigned certificate admitting the Langley-Surrey University Womens Club into The Canadian federation of University Women.

              Langley-Surrey University Women's Club
              CA UVICARCH AR425 · Collection · 1996 - 1998

              The Lesbian and Bisexual Women in English Canada audio history collection consists of audio histories conducted for the 2001 University of Victoria Department of History doctoral dissertation The Spreading Depths: Lesbian and Bisexual Women in English Canada, 1910-1965. The Spreading Depths is the basis for Cameron Duder’s subsequent monograph Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65, published in 2010 by UBC Press.

              The collection consists of 12 interviews (21 recordings in total as some were in multiple parts) conducted by Duder from 1996 to 1998. 27 women were interviewed for the dissertation research, and Duder also drew on interviews recorded in the 1980s for the Lesbians Making History Project. 12 of the women interviewed by Duder consented to their interviews being housed in the University of Victoria Archives. 10 of the 12 women requested to be identified by pseudonym.

              Duder's dissertation, The Spreading Depths, examines lesbian and bisexual women’s formation of subjectivity in pre-1965 English Canada, a time when the terms and identities “lesbian” and “bisexual” were not widely discussed in society. Duder considers the existing historical information about the lives of women in same-sex relationships, in English Canada, before the social, political and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s. The interviews conducted by Duder provide information on what had been a neglected group in previous research on lesbian and bisexual women: the interview subjects are lesbians and bisexual women from lower-middle class and working class families. Duder argues that discourses on 19th and 20th century history of sexuality have reflected the documentation of the politically active and socially privileged, namely activist persons or organizations and women from upper middle class families whose histories were documented in public archives. Duder argues for a class-specific lesbian subjectivity in the decades before 1965, a subjectivity which does not always adhere to the forms of the “romantic friendship” and the “butch-femme relationship” which have dominated the discourse.

              Duder adds a Canadian perspective to the large literature on the transition in women’s relationships from the romantic friendship to the modern lesbian. The Spreading Depths reveals that before the Second World War, women in same-sex relationships were influenced by the language of sexology. Their relationships were also much more explicitly sexual than were those of earlier generations of lesbians. Duder suggests, however, that we should not assume great expansion in the discussion of sexuality, because well into the 1950s and 1960s Canadians lacked information about sexual desire and sexual practice. The interview testimonies complicate the picture we have of women in the mid-twentieth century being much more sexually aware than women of previous generations.

              The interviews reveal that lesbians and bisexual women shared heterosexual women’s longing for intimate relationships, their joy at finding a partner, and their pleasure in coming to an awareness of sexuality, but they also reveal that same-sex relationships held the same risks of infidelity, domestic violence, and alcohol abuse as existed for heterosexual women. Relationships with family were also mixed. Duder posits that because of the lack of public discussion around women’s sexual subjectivity, and therefore a lack of terminology that could be used to define and reject women living outside the heterosexual norm, women in same-sex relationships during the period under study may have had somewhat better relationships with their families than lesbians after 1965. Finally, The Spreading Depths discusses the Canadian lesbian community of the 1950s and the 1960s and contrasts the social world of lower-middle-class lesbians with the public bar culture of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. The interview testimonies reveal the views held by these women towards the bar scene and the women who regularly socialized in the bars. The interviewees describe alternative ways they found to socialize with one another so as to avoid exposure.

              Initially, the project intended to include heterosexual women as a part of its analysis of women in English Canada. Duder sought interviewees through advertisements in regular media and lesbian and feminist media, and consequently the text of these advertisements differed: for regular media, women 55 and older, who lived in British Columbia or Ontario for a minimum of 5 years between 1910 and 1955, were sought to speak about personal relationships and social life, all types of friendships, romantic relationships, courting and marriage; advertisements in lesbian and feminist media sought lesbian/gay and bisexual women 55 and older, who lived in British Columbia or Ontario for a minimum of 5 years between 1910 and 1955, willing to speak about personal relationships and social life, and the lives of lesbian and bisexual women. The dissertation was later narrowed to consider lesbian and bisexual women only.

              Interviewees were offered use of pseudonyms, given the option of an audio recording of the interview or written notation only, and for those selecting the audio recording, the choices of destruction, preservation of the recording in an archives, or preservation of a transcript. Regarding access restrictions, participants choosing preservation of the recordings could select: no restriction, access with written consent, access after death of the participant, closure until a specified date, or other specifically stated restrictions.

              The interviews were preceded by an informal meeting where Duder and the interviewee discussed the research and interview proposal. The guiding interview questions were organized into the following categories and general subjects (summarized from Appendix B of The Spreading Depths). Not all questions were asked of all interviewees:
              Biographical background – of the interviewee and immediate family members, including birthplaces, nationalities, places lived, education and occupations;
              Childhood – enjoyed or not enjoyed; feelings towards parents and siblings; family strictures; church attendance; playmates and racial characteristics of neighbourhood; school experiences; adolescence; reading habits; clothing worn; drinking and smoking habits; and special friendships;
              Socializing and sexual knowledge – extent and location of socializing; types of socializing; friends and acquaintances; frequenting of clubs or bars; any secretiveness concerning activities and location; extent and source of knowledge of human anatomy, sex, pregnancy, masturbation, and same sex relations; awareness of and interaction with homosexual women or men;
              Personal sexuality – sexual preference; words used to describe preference; early physical and emotional attractions; feelings associated with attraction; extent of intimate relationships; perceptions of mixed race relationships.

              Additional questions were available to guide further discussion of relationships and sexuality. The following is a sample from these questions (excerpted Appendix B of The Spreading Depths). Questions may not have been required depending on the course of interview:

              • How would you describe the way you felt about sex in those relationships?
              • Were there any occasions where one of you wanted to do something different and the other refused? How did you feel about that?
              • Did you know from the beginning what you would like and dislike or was that something you learned about yourself over time?
              • Is there anything else that you would like to tell me about your sexual relationships?
              Lesbianews fonds
              CA UVICARCH AR081 · Fonds · 1989-

              The fonds consists of newsletters.

              Lesbianews
              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.
              Lisa Robertson fonds
              CA SFL MsC 38 · Fonds · 1987-

              The collection consists of items related to Robertson's writing, editing, and teaching activities, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, notebooks, teaching materials, clippings, video and audio tapes, ephemera, and a range of publications, some of which Robertson worked on as an editor, and others to which she contributed her own work. The collection also includes manuscripts produced by several of Robertson's friends and colleagues and original artwork used for covers and interior graphics of various publications.

              Robertson, Lisa, 1961-
              CA PMRCA 05 · Series · 1900-1980
              Part of Lydia Gruchy fonds

              Series consists of records relating to Lydia Gruchy’s personal life and education, and includes both photographs of her graduation class as well as photographs and textual materials relating to her family.

              Lydia Gruchy fonds
              Fonds · 1893 - 2000

              Fonds consists of the following record series: Family correspondence and other materials (1892-1995); Publications and manuscripts (1915-2000); Audio and video recordings (1985-1992); Florence Gruchy photographs (1933-1960); Lydia Gruchy family photographs (1917-1953).

              Gruchy, Lydia
              Lynn Coady fonds
              CA SFL MsC 75 · Fonds · 1991-2004

              Fonds contains drafts of manuscripts of essays and articles, short fiction, scripts, and novels, originals and reproductions of publications in which Coady's works have appeared, an appointment book, clippings of reviews and articles about Coady and her published works, and other records related to Coady's writing and editing activities and projects. The fonds is arranged in two series: Writing and editing (1991-2004); and General files (1994-[200-]).

              Coady, Lynn, 1970-