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Wilfred Nicholson fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1980]

The fonds consists of 46 manuscripts on aspects of the social history and personalities of Nanaimo.

Nicholson, Wilfred, 1908-
Fonds · [Photocopied 1991]

The fonds consists of a volume in which are recorded the accounts (1872-1904) of William Cartwright and the personal diary of daily activities (1882-1883) of Mary Cartwright. Volume also includes some poems and recipes. The original use of the volume appears to be the 1869 accounts of a general store, possibly the Horne Store. The accounts record many purchases by Chinese and Indians. Newsclippings (1913-1941) have been pasted over parts of the early 1869 accounts.

Cartwright, William
William Richards fonds
Fonds · 1917-1946

The fonds consists of World War I paybook, correspondence, and certificates relating to seaman's service, wartime circulars from the Canadian Militia and King George, and certificate for use of the Western Fuel Corporation Employees X-ray machine, 1917.

Richards, William, b. 1886
Fonds · 1907-1912

Fonds consists of 5 education certificates from Revelstoke schools.

Tomlinson, William Valentine, b. 1896
Fonds · 1930-1984

The fonds consists of minutes, cashbooks, accounts, correspondence, publicity files, reports, reference files, and scrapbooks.

Wynndel Women's Institute
Fonds · 1936-1943

Fonds consists of records of Ymir-Salmo Pastoral Charge, Ymir United Church and Sheep Creek United Church. Records include Marriage registers (1936-1943); Stewards minutes (1937-1942), Official Board minutes (1937-1941), Official Board correspondence and reports (1937-1943), Congregational Meetings minutes (1939-1942); Ladies Aid minutes (1938-1942); Sunday School membership records (1937-1940); and Congregational financial records (1937-1942).

United Church of Canada. Ymir-Salmo Pastoral Charge
Fonds · 1957-1969

Fonds consists of Stewards minutes (1958-1968), and Congregational meetings minutes (1957-1969).

Zion United Church (Silverton, B.C.)
correspondence
Subseries
Part of Jack Wise fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence primarily between Wise and galleries, art dealers, museums, arts organizations and other artists; some correspondence to galleries and dealers written on behalf of Jack Wise by his spouses Else Wise (Hubbard) and Mary Wise (Ross)

correspondence -- post cards
File
Part of Jack Wise fonds

File contains correspondence concerning exhibitions, lists of exhibited works and prices, a letter of introduction to Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, and postcards originating in Montreal, correspondents include the British Columbia Society of Artists, the Canada Council, the Victoria Art gallery, the Canadian Confederation Centennial Committee, the New Design Gallery, the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society, George Woodcock, and Galerie Agnes Lefort

File · 1968
Part of Jack Wise fonds

File contains professional and personal correspondence concerning exhibitions, lists of exhibited works, prices, sold and loaned works, scripts, art supplies and Tibet, as well a partial copy of a response by Wise possibly to the Canada Council; correspondents include Otto Wolfer, Community Arts Council, University of Victoria/ John Dobereiner, Galerie Agnes Lefort, Mary Frazee Gallery, the Psychedelic Shop, Bill Crawford, Hugh Trutton Gallery, Gordon Woodside Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, Art Gallery Memorial University, Petit Musee, Rex Evans aallery, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mary Ross, Edmonton Art Gallery, Pandora's Box Gallery, Horst Zander, Commonwealth Institute, the National Gallery of Canada, Harry Yorke Mann, and the Victoria Art Gallery

correspondence -- general
File · 1975
Part of Jack Wise fonds

File contains professional and personal correspondence to Jack and Mary Wise concerning exhibitions, exhibited works, prices, sold works, art practice, and poetry, as well as financial records ; correspondents include the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ann and Avon Neal, Austin Post, Sheila Kincaid, National Film Board, Peter Trower, the Maples Gallery, Indo-Tibet Buddhist Cultural Institute, Lobsang Lhalungpa, Burnaby Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Gary Lee Nova

correspondence -- general
File · 1979
Part of Jack Wise fonds

File contains poems by Stephen Cummings, financial records and professional and personal correspondence concerning exhibitions, exhibited works, prices, sold works, loaned works, art practice and grant applications; correspondents include: Toni Onley and Yukiko, Avon Neal, Kyle's Gallery, University of British Columbia Department of Visual Arts, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Gold Design Jewels and Gallery, Ron Orchard, Stephen Cummings, Robert Amos, Visual Arts Association, Canada Council Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts, International Journal for Contemporary Artsts, Hyemeyohsts Storm and Andrea Lynn Martin

personal records
File
Part of Jack Wise fonds

File contains different versions of Wise's curriculum vitae, biographic statements and exhibition listings, including "Jack Wise An Introduction to the Artist and His Work", university transcript, Certificate of Canadian Citizenship, letters of reference and certificate of ordination from the Life Science Church.

Published materials
Series · 1941 - 1988
Part of Chester P. Lyons fonds

This series consists of records related to Lyons' activities as an author, including book-length publications, newspapers and magazine articles, and covers the period of the early 1950s until his death. Lyons typically addressed British Columbia history, botany, wildlife, parks, and other related topics in his writings. This series includes manuscripts and monographs by Lyons with extensive handwritten revisions. It also contains botanical drawings used to illustrate Lyons' field guides, as well as research notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, dust jackets, brochures, pamphlets, reports, photographs, slides, and other textual records pertaining to Lyons' publications. This series consists of three subseries: 1) monographs; 2) field guide illustrations; and 3) newspapers and magazines.

Monographs
Subseries · 1950 - 1998
Part of Chester P. Lyons fonds

This subseries consists of records related to Lyons' book-length publications. It includes Lyons' books on local and natural history in British Columbia, comprised of Milestones on the Mighty Fraser: Travel Guide to the Historic Fraser Canyon Vancouver-Kamloops (J.M. Dent & Sons: 1950, rev. ed. 1956); Milestones in Ogopogo Land: In Which the Many Wonders of the Land of Ogopogo and Sunshine are Revealed (1957) ; Milestones on Vancouver Island: The Story of This "Island to the West", Its Past and Its Present (Evergreen Press: 1958). This subseries also contains Lyons' popular field guides to the plants of British Columbia and Washington state, including Trees, Shrubs and Flowers to Know in British Columbia (J.M. Dent & Sons: 1952, 2nd rev. ed. 1965); Trees, Shrubs and Flowers to Know in British Columbia and Washington (Lone Pine: 1995); and Wildflowers of Washington (Lone Pine: 1997). According to the "About the Author" section in Wildflowers of Washington, "Chess' first book, Trees, Shrubs and Flowers to Know in British Columbia, published in 1954, was the first non-technical field guide in the province. Two years later in 1956, he wrote a similar book for Washington State. They served for many decades, through many reprints and revisions, and were finally combined into one volume in 1995" (192). The 7 monographs in this subseries are mostly labelled "Work Copy" or "Office Copy" indicating that they are early proofs or otherwise being revised, as the handwritten ink comments throughout attest. The records consist of monographs, manuscripts, research and research notes, correspondence, dust jackets, miscellaneous brochures and maps used for research, one notebook, and electronic records on three computer disks. The three computer disks contain electronic version of the revised manuscript for Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers in BC and Washington from 1994.

Miscellaneous records
Series · 1922 - 1998
Part of Chester P. Lyons fonds

This series consists of correspondence and other records pertaining to aspects of Lyons life and work that are not covered in the other series of the fonds. It includes material related to Lyons professional work in the BC Forest Service, BC Parks, and BC Fish and Game, as well as Lyons' work with Toastmasters. There are also some records from Lyons' involvement with the B.C. Museum Association. This series also includes other miscellaneous personal records and some painting and drawings by Lyons. There is no discernible order to these records, but they have been loosely grouped into this series. Records include Lyons' expired passports, maps, brochures, research notes, correspondence, reports, postcards, booklets and pamphlets.

Robert Smithson collection
Collection · 1951-1977, 2001-2007

The material in the Robert Smithson Collection consists of items collected by the late Vancouver writer and filmmaker Dennis Wheeler. All the material is related to Wheeler’s association with the noted American artist Robert Smithson. Materials in the collection include: articles, correspondence, journals, magazines, catalogues, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, notes, slides, and negatives.

Smithson, Robert
Fonds · 1957-1987

The fonds consists of school registers and albums containing clippings, correspondence, and photographs of activities and students at the centre.

St. Michael's Children's Centre (Ruskin, B.C.)
Fonds · 1900-1984

Fonds consists the of records of St. Stephen's Presbyterian and St. Stephen's United Church. Records include Membership records (1970s); Congregational Meetings minutes (1900-1953); Woman's Association Mary Smillie Guild minutes (1946-1961) and financial records (1942-1961), Woman's Missionary Society minutes (1926-1962), United Church Women minutes (1962-1971) and financial records (1962-1970); Sunday School financial records and reports (1929-1984). Most of the pastoral and administrative activities associated with St. Stephen's have been recorded in the records of St. Andrew's Presbyterian and Ladner United Church.

St. Stephen's United Church (Delta, B.C.)
Fonds · 1927-1973

The fonds consists of specifications for work on various ships and docks as well as tenders and agreements involving the shipyard. Several financial records, magazines, and manuals as well as a yard plan for the shipyard are also a part of the fonds.

Star Shipyard (Mercer's)
Fonds · 1903-1998

Fonds consist of records from Steveston United Church, Steveston Methodist Church, Steveston Presbyterian Church, South Arm Presbyterian Church, South Arm United Church, and Riverview United Church. Records include Baptismal records (1903-1955), Marriage records (1914-1995), Burial records (1939-1962); Session minutes (1938-1969), Stewards minutes (1925-1969), Official Board minutes (1960-1990), Trustees minutes (1958-1978), Congregational meetings minutes (1925-1968); Ladies Aid minutes (1913-1941), Ladies Auxiliary treasurer's book (1917-1925), Rainbow Guild minutes (1935-1950), Woman's Association minutes (1942-1950), Junior Woman's Association minutes (1947-1962), Senior Woman's Association minutes (1951-1960), Woman's Federation minutes (1961-1962), United Church Women minutes (1961-1969); Sunday School Teachers minutes (1962-1977); Annual reports (1966-1998).

Steveston United Church (Richmond, B.C.)
Stirling family fonds
Fonds · 1910-1946

The fonds consists of seven series of material relating to C.J.R. Stirling's land purchases, and farming activities, his provincial exhibition awards, passports for family members, memorabilia for Mrs. Frances Stirling, Elvira Stirling, Ethel Stirling, and Gordon Stirling.

Stirling (family)