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Herbert Siebner fonds
CA UVICARCH AR402 · Fonds · ca. 1943-2003

The fonds reflects Siebner’s intellectual and philosophical interests and ideas on art and life; his interactions with galleries, friends, family and patrons; travels; involvement in the Limners; pre-publication work for his monographs and other books; promotion and sale of art; and public art commissions.
The fonds consists of personal writing and poetry, correspondence, sales lists, inventories, exhibition announcements, sketches, clippings, photographs, film and video, prints and drawings.
Fonds has been arranged in six series: Art Practice, Photographs, Audio video, Works on paper, Biographical, Limners

Siebner, Herbert
Limners
Subseries · 1956 - 2000
Part of Herbert Siebner fonds

Subseries reflects Siebner’s involvement with the Limners artist group in Victoria, British Columbia as well as personal relationships with its members. Records include clippings, meeting minutes, correspondence, sketches, exhibit records, and a Limners logo painted on cloth. Subseries includes one folder of correspondence and meeting minutes created during Siebner’s tenure as president of the Limners from 1984 to 1985.

CA UVICARCH AR421-4 · Subfonds · 1986 - 2002
Part of Rikki Swin Institute transgender collection

International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) fonds is comprised of the following series which include material created by Merissa Sherrill Lynn and Betty Ann Lind in their roles within the IFGE organization: administrative records, articles and collected publications, correspondence, newsletter collection and resource materials.

International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE)
Ari Kane fonds
CA UVICARCH AR421-2 · Subfonds · 1943 - 2003
Part of Rikki Swin Institute transgender collection

The fonds is comprised of following series: Ari Kane/Joseph DeMaios records consisting of business records, correspondence, identity and travel documents, and teaching records; Outreach Institute Records consisting of administrative records, correspondence, published resources, and workshop information; Fantasia Fair records consisting of advertising information, correspondence, event materials, planning and registration records; and Theseus Counseling Services records consisting of administrative records, correspondence, counseling resources and case files.

Kane, Ari
CA UVICARCH AR421 · Fonds · 1943 - 2003

The Rikki Swin Institute transgender collection consists of the following fonds: Rikki Swin Institute fonds, Ari Kane fonds, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) fonds, and the Virginia Prince fonds. The IFGE fonds includes material from Betty Ann Lind and Merissa Sherrill Lynn.

Kane, Ari
Death and burial records

Series consists of death and burial records of Chinese persons in Victoria, BC. Beginning in 1903, Chinese persons were buried at the Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point in Oak Bay. The series consists of the the following record types:

Medical certificates of death, issued under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, for Chinese persons in Victoria. Information collected on death certificate includes: name of deceased, age of deceased, sex of deceased, date of examination, location of examination, cause of death, examiner's name, profession and residence. Entries are in English

Burial permits, in most cases attached to death certificates. Information collected on permit includes: registration number, name of deceased, age in years and months, where born, where died, date of death, day and hour of burial, cemetery row and lot numbers, name of undertaker, burial fee, cause of death and attending physician. Information in English and Chinese, including additional personal information in Chinese, such as more detail about birthplace.

Burial permits issued by the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery Company are addressed to the Caretaker of the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery, also indicate the hour burial is to take place, and are signed by the President.

CA UVICARCH AR030 · Fonds · 1884-1979

The fonds consists of lists of death and burial records of Chinese persons in Victoria, BC, 1902-1923; Chinese deceased in Canada, 1937; leave permits issued to the Chinese Hospital in Vancouver, Victoria, and other areas of B.C., 1908-1909; donation and fundraising records, subscription booklets, records of income and expenditures, receipts, Free Miners Certificates, national bonds, 1884-1912; population data; correspondence from the Commander in Shanghai, 1932; minutes of the Chinese Public School; correspondence regarding donations for victims of famines, droughts, and floods in China, and booklets recording donations; records of the Chinese Hospital, including report books on patients, doctor order books and consultation forms, 1956-1976.

The death and burial records series, 1902-1923 consists of: medical certificates of death for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC; and burial permits for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC, including permits issued by the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery Company.

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Charles Sedgwick fonds
CA UVICARCH AR113 · Fonds · 1970-1973

The fonds consists of 6 files of research material used in the production of Sedgwick's master of arts thesis concerning the Chinese community in Victoria, B.C.: The Context of Economic Change and Continuity in an Urban Overseas Chinese Community. The fonds includes photographs not reproduced in the thesis, and transcriptions of interviews with members of the Chinese community that include recollections of family, neighbours, neighbourhoods, and local businesses.

The files consist of the following:
1.1 Essay, Categories and Techniques of Fund Raising in an Overseas Chinese Community, Sedgwick, Charles P., May 1973
1.2 Photographs – 24 prints – b&w, colour: relating to Victoria Chinatown events, scenes and businesses. Some reproductions from BC Archives, Victoria Colonist, and photographer Don Alan Hall. 1 illustrated page removed from a publication.
1.3 Academic papers, other authors, relating to Chinese settlement in Victoria, in Canada and in North America
1.4 Research material, various sources, photocopies, lists, transcriptions, many with annotations
1.5 Research data, survey responses, historical records transcriptions, research sources
1.6 Field notes and supporting references

Sedgwick, Charles Peter, 1941-
File · 1962 - 1998
Part of Ted Harrison fonds

File contains item related to the following subjects:
• 1962, Malaya
• 1969, Yukon
• 1987, Ottawa show
• 1990, November
• 1991, cruise to Russia
• 1992, Austria and Germany
• 1993, June (paintings)
• 1993, Victoria
• 1994, April (paintings)
• 1998, European cruise

David Barbarash fonds
CA UVICARCH AR427 · Fonds · 1971 - 2003

The fond reflects Barbarash’s activities relating to anarchism generally and the animal rights movement specifically, and consists of: articles, brochures and pamphlets, clippings, court documents, correspondence, personal notes, and subject files. Subjects include: animal rights, ALF, Earth First!, legal proceedings, logging, marijuana legalization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), pro-gun lobby, trophy hunting, and the Vancouver 5.

Barbarash, David
CA UVICARCH AR009-Post-Totem · Series · 1952 - 1978
Part of Stuart Baker fonds

This series documents Baker’s involvement with North American theatre between 1952 and the late 1970s, and includes an extensive collection of slides, photographs and newspaper clippings

The series is further divided into one sub-series on Education, which documents Baker's involvement with drama and summer theatre schools.

Totem Theatre Involvement
CA UVICARCH AR009-Totem · Series · 2005
Part of Stuart Baker fonds

The Totem Theatre series documents extensively Baker’s involvement with the Totem Theatre company between 1951 and 1954. The series encompasses not only the administrative and promotional side of Totem Theatre, but also the production and staging side. The series includes administrative and promotional material as well as photographs and an extensive collection of newspaper clippings.

CA UVICARCH AR009-Pre-Totem · Series · 1948 - 1951
Part of Stuart Baker fonds

This series documents Baker’s involvement in Canadian theatre from the late 1940s until 1951, and is comprised of both photographic material and scrapbooks compiled between 1948 and 1951.

Personal Life
CA UVICARCH AR009-Personal · Series · 1954 - 1988
Part of Stuart Baker fonds

The series contains slides, photographs, negatives and home movies relating to Baker's private life in Canada and several trips abroad.

Arngrim Family
CA UVICARCH AR009-Arngrim · Series · 1955 - ?
Part of Stuart Baker fonds

This series encompasses material relating to the family of Thor and Norma (MacMillan) Arngrim dating from the 1950s to 1980s. Thor Arngrim co-founded Totem Theatre with Stuart Baker in 1951, and married Nora MacMillan, one of Totem's actresses, in 1954. They had two children, Stefan and Alison, who became involved in acting and music.

Stuart Baker fonds
CA UVICARCH AR009 · Fonds · 1948 - 1988

The fonds consists of five series: Personal Life, Pre-Totem Theatre Involvement, Totem Theatre, Post-Totem Theatre Involvement and the Arngrim Family series. These series document Baker’s involvement in the Canadian theatre scene over a period of time spanning approximately thirty years, as well as certain aspects of his personal life. The fonds consists primarily of photographs and slides, both professional and private; they are largely unidentified. Also included are three scrapbooks of drama clippings of Vancouver productions, 1948-1951, theatre posters, programs, memorabilia and several letters.

Personal Life series includes photographs, slides and home movies accumulated by Baker that relate to family, friends and trips abroad.

Pre-Totem Theatre Involvement series documents Baker’s involvement in Canadian theatre from the late 1940s until 1951, and is comprised of photographic material.

Totem Theatre series documents extensively Baker’s involvement with the Totem Theatre company between 1951 and 1954. The series encompasses not only the administrative and promotional side of Totem Theatre, but also the production and staging side. The series includes administrative and promotional material as well as photographs and an extensive collection of newspaper clippings.

Post-Totem Theatre Involvement series documents Baker’s involvement with North American theatre between 1954 and the late 1970s, and includes an extensive collection of slides, photographs and newspaper clippings. The Education sub-series documents Baker’s involvement with drama and summer theatre schools.

Arngrim Family series consists of documents accumulated by Baker that relate to the family of his friend, Thor Arngrim and include photographs, slides and sound recordings. Arngrim married Totem Theatre actress Nora MacMillan in 1954 after the demise of the theatre company, and as such, some materials relating to her later work can also be found within this series.

The fonds has one subseries: the Education sub-series found within the Post-Totem Theatre Involvement series.

Baker, Stuart