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CA NCAI 1996 034 A · Fonds · 1884-1984

The fonds consists of records which document the activities of the Hospital Society's board of directors, committees, staff and members. Fonds includes minutes, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, blueprints and reference files. Fonds is arranged in 8 series: 1) Constitution and Bylaws; 2) Administration; 3) Financial Records; 4) Personnel and Human Resources; 5) Planning; 6) Reference; 7) Architectural Plans and Specifications and, 8) Photographs.

Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Society
CA NCAI 1995 003 A · Fonds · 1955-1976

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial statements, proposals, contracts, minutes and proceedings, registers and one photograph. The fonds has been arranged into the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Constitution and Bylaws; 3. Finance; 4. Minutes and Annual Reports; 5. Membership; 6. Photographs and Miscellaneous.

Court Nanaimo Foresters' Home No. 5886
Nanaimo Symphony Orchestra
CA NCAI 1994 009 A;1996 010 A;1996 013 A · Fonds · 1950-1992

The fonds consists of administration files, financial records, reference files, and scrapbooks documenting the activities of the Nanaimo Symphony Orchestra. Records include minutes of the society, correspondence, constitution and bylaws, presidents' files, publicity, membership and program files, financial records, and a variety of reference files and scrapbooks relating to the history and development of the Symphony. Reference files include unpublished manuscripts authored by John Cass on the history of the symphony. The fonds is arranged in four series: 1) Administration; 2) Financial records; 3) Reference; and 4) Scrapbooks.

Nanaimo Symphony Orchestra
Frank J. Ney fonds
CA NCAI 1993 008 A · Fonds · 1948-1992

The fonds consists of records documenting Ney's many roles and activities in government (as Mayor of Nanaimo and MLA), in local business, and with local community groups in Nanaimo. Fonds includes Ney's personal appointment books, correspondence (including some as Mayor of Nanaimo and as MLA), legal documents, and speeches; MLA files; records created and accumulated by Ney as Chair of the Nanaimo Centennial Committee, 1967, (including records of the Empire Day Celebration Committee, 1958), as Chair of the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society, as President of Great National Land and Investment Corp., and as President of Nanaimo Realty Ltd.; and, photographs depicting Ney's participation in political and community activities and in land and real estate development. Fonds is arranged in six series: 1) Personal records; 2) MLA records; 3) Nanaimo Centennial Committee; 4) Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society; 5) Great National Land and Investment Corporation; and, 6) Photographs.

Ney, Frank J.
Manuscripts and writings
CA PMRCA 06 · Series · 1919-1951, predominant 1925-1947
Part of Robert C. Scott fonds

Series includes articles published by the church; a personal diary dated 1919-1945; a typescript of My Captain Oliver dated 1947; and records of services held and evangelism at "Indian hospitals" (as they were then known) in Sardis and Nanaimo.

Agnes Flett fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1965]

Fonds consists of photographs of a Legion banquet. Includes images of the unveiling of the "Bathtub Capital" sign and various people including Frank Ney, Janice Dorman, George Pearkes, and Jack Johnson.

Flett, Agnes
Albert Hitchen collection
Fonds · 1940

Collection consists of Albert Hitchen's pay statements for work in the Northfield Mine (Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd.). Statements show gross wages less deductions for such items as coal, doctor, hospital fund, income tax, national defence tax and union dues.

Bowen Auto Camp fonds
Fonds · 1942

Fonds consists of an inventory, taken in November 1942, of the furnishings and fixtures in the Auto Camp. Only three pages of the 300 page volume remain; the first 36 pages are cut out.

Bowen Auto Camp
Bright Mine fonds
Fonds · 1952-1953

Fonds consists of one volume that lists daily tonnage totals, amount of coal and rock per ton, number of miners, timbering and other statistics related to the extraction of coal. Volume also includes total annual tonnages for 1952 and 1953. Annual tonnage totals are comparable to the totals given in the Minister of Mines Annual Reports for 1952 and 1953 and confirm the volume's provenance.

Bright Mine
Dolly Egdell fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1890-1965]

Fonds consists of photographs of Glaholm and McGregor family members and assorted Nanaimo scenes and buildings. The photographs have been annotated by Dolly Egdell.

Egdell, Dolly
Englefield Studio fonds
Fonds · 1948-1979, predominant 1970-1979

The fonds consists of photograph negatives and prints of the Nanaimo region as well as personal records of Leslie Englefield.

Englefield Studio
Fred Taylor collection
Fonds · 1995-1997

Collection consists of correspondence and notes, compiled by Fred Taylor, related to the City of Nanaimo's acquisition of an old steam coal mine whistle from Air Chime Manufacturing Company. The coal mine whistle was blown every day in Nanaimo to announce shift changes and other mining related events. Includes a report on chain of title of various local mining companies and council minutes relating to Fred Taylor's role as negotiator of the whistle's return to Nanaimo. Also includes two photographs of Fred Taylor and Mayor Gary Korpan with whistle.

John C. McGuffie fonds
Fonds · 1894-1904

Fonds consists of six educational certificates of John C. McGuffie.

McGuffie, John C.
John Cass fonds
Fonds · 1965-1993

Fonds consists of material generated and accumulated by John Cass in his role as unofficial Nanaimo historian. The fonds is arranged in the following series: 1) Correspondence; 2) Manuscripts; 3) Research files and 4) Newspaper Clippings; 5) and Photographs.

Cass, John, 1921-
John Sabiston fonds
Fonds · 1877-1902

The fonds consists of pilots licences (1877, 1880), a letter to Mrs. Sabiston from the Nanaimo Pilotage Authority offering condolences on her husband's death (1902), and a copy of the Nanaimo Pilotage bylaws (1883).

Sabiston, John, d. 1902
Hooper family fonds
Fonds · 1907, 1909, 1943, 1977

Fonds consists of birth certificates and passports of Aina and Hector Hooper and a copy of their marriage registration.

Hooper (family)
Fonds · 1872-1876

The fonds consists of pre-printed Sunday School teachers classbooks, and plain notebooks, filled in for girls and boys classes, noting attendance and number of lessons cited.

Chapel Street Methodist Sunday School
Mildred Bryce fonds
Fonds · [192-]

Fonds consists of fourteen notebooks of the work accomplished by Mildred Knowles in Harewood High School, including such subjects as Latin, French, Math, Physics, History, and English; revealing the prevailing curriculum requirements of early twentieth century British Columbia.

Bryce, Mildred, 1912-
Fonds · 1950-1976

The fonds consists of minutes (1950-1961, 1964-1976) and a guest register (1965-1975) for the Mountain View PTA.

Mountain View Parent-Teacher Association
Fonds · 1893-1925

Fonds consists of records which document the functions and activities of the School Trustees. The fonds is arranged in three series: 1) Letterbooks; 2) Correspondence and 3) Cashbook.

Nanaimo (B.C.). Board of School Trustees
Fonds · 1877-1924

The fonds consists of the Nanaimo Cemetery plot book and minutes of meetings of the Cemetery Trustees.

Nanaimo Cemetery Trustees
Fonds · 1944-1979

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, annual reports, and scrapbooks and other reference material.

Nanaimo Council of Women
Fonds · 1935-1946

The fonds consists of correspondence and receipts.

British Columbia. Nanaimo Gold Commissioner