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CA OSOY MS 6 · Fonds · 1940-1944, 1947, 1981

Fonds consists of the textual records of the Society for the Furtherance of BC Indian Arts and Crafts from 1940-1944, 1981; and annual report from B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society, 1947. Includes the constitution, agendas, reports, annual reports, publications and a clipping.

Society for the Furtherance of British Columbia Indian Arts and Crafts
Fonds · 1941 - 1944

Fonds consists of audio, video, and visual materials created by Basil and Edythe Hartley. Materials include video footage of the Haisla people, which Hartley shot while working in Kitimaat from 1941-1944, a voiceover for the footage which Hartley’s widow, Edythe McClure, created in ca. 1983, a letter, and three photographs of Kitimaat people and landscapes. The three audio cassettes all contain the same 1983 recording.

Hartley, Reverend Basil Shakespeare Sutherland
Dr. John R. Kellett fonds
Fonds · 1923-1978

Fonds consists of the schedules, surveys, reports, reviews, formularies, and research materials relating to the career of Dr. Kellett. It is arranged into three series: Indian Health Services, Formularies, and Research Materials.

Kellett, John R. Dr.
Fonds · 1950-1995

The collection consists of sound recordings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwagiulth) songs, oral histories of Kwakwaka'wakw peoples (primarily at Alert Bay), and interviews relating to ethnobotany in the northern Vancouver Island area and to the Kwakwaka'wakw language.

William Ridington fonds
Fonds · 1965-1969

The fonds consists of field notes and transcripts of interviews with the Beaver Indians gathered between 1965 and 1969.

Ridington, William Robin
Fonds · 1907-2007

Fonds consists of records of the Bella Coola Pastoral Charge; its congregations, Emmanuel, MacKenzie, and Augsburg United Churches; Augsburg Lutheran Church and Bella Coola Methodist Mission. Records include Baptism registers (1907-1986), Birth records (1921-1930), Marriage registers (1913-2007), and Burial registers (1909-1992); Circuit register (1925-1953), Historic roll (1947-1987), Communion roll (1940-1955, 1972); Mission Circle minutes (1920-1922), Session minutes (1949-1967), Stewards minutes (1940-1978), Official Board minutes (1934-1983) and correspondence (1952-1983), and Congregational Meetings minutes (1935-1978); Property records (1952-1988), Native Affairs and Language records (1977-1984), Visitation records (1972-1973), Refugee sponsorship (1979-1980), Correspondence (1939-1947); Historical material (1926-1976), "Bible in Bella Coola" by Cliff Kepas (church history); Account book (1920-1950), Cash book (1940-1950); and Annual reports (1940-1985, 1988).

Bella Coola Pastoral Charge
CA BCA accession 2011.118 · Fonds · 1942-1983, predominant 1962-1971

The fonds consists of the following series: Briefs relating to Indian arts and welfare, 1942-1958; Correspondence relating to general subjects, arts and crafts, B.C. and Canadian government departments, and native organizations, 1961-1972; Financial records, 1948-83; Governance records, including constitution, general, executive and committee minutes and reports, 1951-1981; Publications, 1947-1981; Visitors' Book, 1950-1983; Newspaper clipping scrapbooks, 1946-1971; and the Ravenhill Copper plaque, donated by Ravenhill in 1952, and awarded three times between 1956-1959.

British Columbia Indian Arts Society
Frank Cassidy fonds
CA UVICARCH AR029 · Fonds · 1921-1988, predominant 1977-1988

The fonds consists of research files for his private consulting work, with some material by colleagues and students from the Centre for Public Sector Studies mixed in. Most of the files contain photocopies of studies and submission by native bands and organizations, government documents and reports, journal articles, brochures, and clippings. Many have been originally marked as attachments, but some of the number sequences are no longer complete. There are very few holograph markings or notes, and hardly any manuscript material.

Cassidy, Frank
J.A.S. Bastin fonds
CA LMA MS 29 · Fonds · 1895-1901, 1990, 1998

The fonds consists of correspondence and photographs. Includes letters with information about Rev. Bastin, and 19 photographs, some of them enlarged. The photographs include images of Native people, a summer campsite (native) at Botannie Lake, Lytton scenes, and Rev. Bastin and his horse.

Bastin, J.A.S.
Cyprian Anthony fonds
Fonds · 1918-1964

The fonds consists of a diary/account book that begins in 1918 and ends in 1924. Comments and penmanship practice is written in ink by Cyrpian's wife, Annie Anthony, and ends in 1964. A list of memorabilia includes births and deaths of family members on page two spanning 1882-1922.

Anthony, Cyprian
Johan Helders fonds
CA VPL 54743-54774 · Fonds · [ca. 1925]-1937

The fonds consists of Helders' photographs taken in Vancouver, Ottawa, Friendly Cove, Williams Lake, Tofino, and Alert Bay depicting scenes, events, and native Indian life.

Helders, Johan
Fonds · 1906-1926

The fonds consists of the following record series: Minutes of Synod Branch meetings (1914-1926); Minutes and other records of presbyterial branches, including Victoria, Westminster and Kamloops (1906-1926); and Presbyterial accounts (1912-1926).

Presbyterian Church in Canada. Woman's Missionary Society. British Columbia Synod Branch
Fonds · 1877-1992

Collection consists of photocopies of records relating to Enderby and District from the B.C. Provincial Archives, the Surveyor General's Office, and the Heritage Conservation Branch. Includes correspondence and reports concerning the establishment of the Spallumcheen First Nation reserve; correspondence and reports concerning land grants, district lots, roads and bridges, homesteaders, squatters, and the government policy towards land grants in the railway belt, plus lists of pre-emptions from township registers and district lots registers. Also includes copies of corresondence concerning the Columbia Flouring Mill (1908-1915), copies of pages from the B.C. Provincial Police diaries kept by Enderby constables(1939-1950), plus copies of the census records (1891, 1901) for the district. Maps of roads, towns, homesteads and district lots accompany some of the correspondence.

Percy Gentleman fonds
CA UVICARCH AR269 · Fonds · 1912-1931

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of samples of children's school work, including drawings, writing, maps, arithmetic and agricultural exercises (1912-1925); 5 paintings; and Christmas concert programmes from Grand Rapids School (1922-1924) and French Bay School (1925-1931). The French Bay programmes include class photographs for two years. The scrapbook contains some loose material and is in poor condition.

Gentleman, Percy, ca. 1886-1970
CA JHS A.1985.001 · Fonds · 1880-1983

The fonds consists of records from three distinct sources: the Leonard Frank Photo Studio, the Frank family , and the Landauer family. The records of Leonard Frank Photo Studio constitute those that remained after the closure of the business in 1983. They consist of photographs and textual records. The photographs cover many significant events and developments in British Columbia's history. Their major subject areas include logging, lumbering, mining, fishing and transportation; the construction of bridges and buildings in the Vancouver area; famous people; aboriginal peoples; and scenic views of mountainous, coastal, and urban areas. The photographs were taken by Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer. The textual records consist of photographic FindingAids, business correspondence, financial records, and historical and reference material. The records of the Frank family consist of the personal papers of Leonard and Bernard Frank. The records of the Landauer family consist of the personal papers of Otto Landauer and members of his family.

Leonard Frank Photo Studio
Residential schools issues
CA PMRCA ChUN 23.01 · Series · 1986 ; 1993-2005
Part of Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery fonds

Series includes: Residential School Advisory Group minutes, minutes of the Technical Implementation Group (TIG) for the Healing Fund, Healing Fund applications, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and Information bulletins.

Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery
Reference and liaison
CA PMRCA ChUN 23.03 · Series · 1966-2008, 1983-2008 predominant
Part of Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery fonds

Series consists of three subseries: General Council, BC Conference, and the Prince Rupert Presbytery. Series contains records relating to various topics and maintained for their informational value. Series also contains records of the Presbytery’s interaction with external groups and organizations.

Series contains Native Ministries Council minutes, Division of Mission in Canada reports and minutes, correspondence and reports related to property issues and staffing, including the Central Mainland Marine Mission (CMMM) and the Thomas Crosby, financial statements, BC Conference minutes, correspondence, newsletters and press releases.

Conference Minister, Prince Rupert Presbytery
Fonds · 1981 - 1998

Fonds contains the following series: Minutes (1993-1997), Artwork by Children (1985), Native Ministries Consortium (1991-1997), Reference and Liaison (1981-1998), Healing Fund (1988-1986), Land Claims Campaign (1987-1996).

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
Minutes
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.01 · Series · 1993 - 1997
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

Series includes minutes of the Native Ministries Council, Native Ministries Division minutes, memos, and letters from Charlotte Sullivan.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
Reference and liaison
CA PMRCA ChUN 22.04 · Series · 1981 - 1998
Part of British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries fonds

Records include: literature about the All Native Circle Conference, annual reports, minutes from BC Conference, minutes from Coastal Regional Group, newsletters and correspondence, applications for funding from the BC Native Land Claims fund, and press releases newspaper clippings about residential schools issues and native land claims.

British Columbia Conference, Native Ministries
Claude E. Schaeffer fonds
CA FTST MS 34 · Fonds · [photocopied 198-?]

Fonds consists of textual records of Claude E. Schaeffer, 1966. Includes an unpublished manuscript concerning the Ktunaxa and a published manuscript entitled "Bear Ceremonialism of the Kutenai Indians", 1966.

Schaeffer, Claude E., 1901-1969
Fonds · 1925 - 2001

Fonds contains the records from St. Andrew's United Church and its predecessor, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The records include Baptism registers (1915-2001), Marriage (church) registers (1915-1950), Marriage (civil) registers (1920-1986), and Burial registers (1915-1976); Membership records (1915-2001); Session minutes (1896-2001), Board of Managers minutes (1915-1955), Stewards minutes (1955-1972), Official Board minutes (1950-2001), Congregational Meeting minutes (1916-1999), Christian Education Committee minutes (1962-1964; 1978-1986), and Joint meetings of St. Andrew's and First United Church Boards (1999-2000); Building Fund records (1960-1972), and Church Hall Booking registers (1959-1963); Ladies Aid minutes (1920-1953), Woman's Association Evening Circle records (1941-1962), Woman's Association Willing Workers Circle minutes (1952-1953), Woman's Missionary Society minutes (1914-1932), United Church Women minutes (1970-1973), and United Church Women Lydia Unit minutes (1965-1973); Annual reports (1970-1996); First Nations related material (1990-1998); and Photographs (1992). The records also include a draft manuscript of a church history and a variety of historical memorabilia (1900-1990).

St. Andrew's United Church (Port Alberni, B.C.)
Fonds · [Between 1893 and 1911]

The fonds consists of 45 glass-plate lantern slides showing scenes from Osterhout’s work with B.C. First Nations, including the Haida, Tsimshian, and Kwakwaka’wakw. The collection includes images of people, totem poles, and landscapes.

Osterhout, Reverend Smith Stanley