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              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
              Agnes Deans Cameron fonds
              CA UVICARCH AR023 · Fonds · 1908 - 1911

              The fonds consists of one black paper photograph album comprised of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. Some Canadian photographs were published in Cameron's book "The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the Arctic" (1910).

              Cameron, Agnes Deans
              Fonds · 1922

              The fonds consists of Minute books, Cash Books, membership lists, constitution and bylaws arranged in six series.

              Valley Women's Institute
              Island Women's Club fonds
              CA CIM 2009.001 · Fonds · [ca 1920]-2000

              This fonds comprises records of four Cortes Island women's service organizations, including minutes, financial records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, ephemera and artifacts. It is arranged in four sous-fonds according to the creator of the records: Whaletown Women's Institute (2009.001.1); Whaletown Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church (2009.001.2); Cortes Island Women's Institute (2009.001.3); and Island Women's Club (2009.001.3). Related material in CIMAS archives may be found in the Whaletown Women's Institute fonds (1999.002), the Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001), and the May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds (2007.001).

              Island Women's Club
              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
              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
              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
              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 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.

              Susan Wood fonds
              Fonds · 1974-1980

              Fonds consists of correspondence, review articles, and published materials. both general (1974-80) and in relation to her involvement with the SF issue of "Room of One's Own" (1979-80). There are also records arising from Wood's participation in the "Pacific Northwest Review of Books" and copies of review articles (1977-78). Also included are materials (predominantly printed) from "Crossing Frontiers", a 1978 conference which brought together Canadian and American literary scholars, historians and writers to discuss comparative literature from the two "wests".

              Wood, Susan Joan
              Gladys Wright fonds
              Fonds · 1923, 1980

              Fonds consists of a hand-written account of Gladys Wright's memories of the UBC Fairview campus. Also included are seven heavily-annotated textbooks (copies of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale", "The Merchant of Venice", "Coriolanus", "Twelfth Night" (2 copies), "Julius Caesar", and "Othello") used in Garnett G. Sedgewick's English courses. The latter items document teaching and note-taking methods from the 1920's, in particular those methods practiced in Sedgewick's classes.

              Wright, Gladys
              Fonds · 1935-1991

              The fonds consists of scrapbooks constructed by members of the Theta Chapter of the Phrateres, from some of the sub-chapters, and from the UCLA Alpha chapter, to document their activities. Scrapbooks are composed of clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and drawings relating to various charitable and social events sponsored by the organization. The records also include minutes from Theta Chapter and Presidents' and Social Reports. Other materials include membership lists, a guest book for an alumni tea, and handbooks for the UBC Theta Chapter and for the University of Washington chapter.

              Phrateres. Theta Chapter
              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
              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 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-40 · Fonds · 1972 - 2000; predominant 1974-1999

              Fonds consists of records made or received by the Women's Centre in the course of carrying out its functions and programs. The geographical focus of the activities documented is the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and especially the Simon Fraser University campus in Burnaby. Activities documented include provision of facilities, resources and referral services; meetings of the Women's Centre Collective and the Women's Centre Board; correspondence and liaison with other individuals and groups; Centre funding, budget planning and management of its financial resources; planning and organization of projects, programs and events; and maintenance of library and reference material. Records include logbooks, correspondence, reports, account books and summaries, minutes and meeting support papers, brochures, handbooks, photographs, reference files and audio cassettes.

              Simon Fraser University Women's 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
              Halpern family fonds
              CA SFU F-58 · Fonds · 1865 - 1990

              Fonds consists of materials documenting mainly the personal life of the Halpern family but also includes some records relating to George's and Fanny's scientific and professional interests. Activities and topics documented include the Halperns' emigration to Canada, George's scientific research and business enterprises, his work with Brock House (a senior citizen's centre), Ida's community interests, and Fanny's medical career in China.

              Halpern family
              East Enders Society fonds
              CA SFU F-59 · Fonds · 1964 - 1994

              Fonds consists of records arising from the general administration of the East Enders Society, and from the Society's participation in various social service projects for women in Vancouver's East Side. Fonds includes financial statements, receipts, correspondence, bulletins, reports, proposals, minutes of meetings, constitutions, job applications, letters of reference, newspaper clippings, audio tapes of interviews with Society members, partial transcripts of interviews, and other records.

              East Enders Society
              CA SFU F-62 · Collection · 1972 - 1992

              The collection consists of agendas and minutes from the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee and the Women's Studies Graduate Committee. The collection also includes a proposal for a minor in Women's Studies and a correspondence file that contains letters exchanged between Lolita Wilson, Assistant to the Vice-President, Academic and the Committee on the Status of Women of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). The latter file also contains a copy of Wilson's 1972 report, "Women at Simon Fraser University."

              Archives and Records Management Department
              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-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 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
              CA SFU F-73 · Collection · 1969 - 1970

              Collection consists of two scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and other material that documents the Abortion Caravan to Ottawa in 1970. The second scrapbook documents Janiel Jolley as a protest candidate of the Simon Fraser Student Society for Miss Canadian University Beauty.

              Hollibaugh, Marge