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CA CVAN Add. MSS. 875 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1984

The fonds consists of correspondence sent to Lloyd's mother in England. Lloyd's various travels, business situations and domestic life are described in letters he and his wife sent home (1896-1921) and there is earlier correspondence from other family friends. There is also a typescript of Lloyd's travel journal for the Canadian North trip 1897-1900, entitled "Wanderings in the Far North," transcribed by Lloyd's grandson, Griffin V. Lloyd

Lloyd, Edward
Edward Odlum fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 190 · Fonds · 1890-1910

The fonds consists of minute books of the Imperial Steamship Company Limited, 1890-1895, and the Grandview Progress Association, 1907-1910; correspondence; photographs; and maps.

Odlum, Edward
Eric Chown fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 422;CVA 471 · Fonds · 1960-1968

The fonds consists of four scrapbooks assembled by Chown. Two of them cover his tenure with the Citizenship Court (1960-1968), another deals with the War Savings Committee (1940-1942), and the last contains certificates of distinction presented to Chown as well as clippings, programs, photographs (of Kiwanis club activities and Barbara Ann Scott) relating to the Chown family, Samuel Dwight Chown, and the United Church.

Chown, Eric Vickers, b. 1897
Collection · [1938?]-1988

The fonds consists of correspondence, notes, published items, newspaper clippings, association minutes, financial statements, and photographs. Records were collected and created by Sandy Sanderson for his interest and work in the hospitality industry. The majority of the fonds are published items and reference materials, with a large percentage of newspaper clippings.

The fonds is arranged into five series: Subject files; Newsmen's Club; British Columbia Chefs' Association Newsletter - notes; Business papers; and Published items and reference material.

CA CVAN Add. MSS. 25 · Fonds · 1897-1899

The fonds consists of minutes of the meetings of the Directors, 1897-1899.

Excelsior Gold Mining Company
Karl Haspel fonds
CA CVAN CVA 300 · Fonds · 1936-1938

The fonds consists of Haspel's photographs of Vancouver and the surrounding area, Coal Harbour, parades, Lion's Gate Bridge, Victoria, Powell River, Mount Baker and California.

Haspel, Karl
Karl Koenig fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 626;CVA 288 · Fonds · [ca. 192-]-1979

The fonds consists of poetry, written in German, dealing with personal matters, nature and relief camps, and photographs of Koenig's career as a boat builder and views of Snug Cove, Bowen Island, Brooksmere, Kamloops, Penticton, and Lytton.

Koenig, Karl
Knowlton's Drug Store fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 563 · Fonds · 1902-1937

The fonds consists of ten volumes of prescription books, 1902-1915, 1931-1937. Each prescription is entered by date and lists the patient, the ingredients and the dosage.

Knowlton's Drug Store
Kuo Kong Silk Company fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 369 · Fonds · 1922-1962

The fonds consists of the firm's correspondence, financial records, a catalogue of silk samples, and customer catalogues. The fonds is arranged into 2 series: Business papers, and Proprietors' papers.

Kuo Kong Silk Company
Lady Vancouver Club fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1401 · Fonds · 2000-2004

The fonds includes constitution and by-laws, membership lists, presidents' reports, minutes of the annual general meetings, newsletters and miscellaneous records.

Lady Vancouver Club
F.C. Innes and Company fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 38 · Fonds · 1885-1899

The fonds consists of business correspondence largely involving real estate transactions and inquiries. There are copies of several mortgages drawn up by the firm, and replies from Eastern Canada, the United States and Britain to various real estate advertisements place by the F.C. Innes Co. There are also deeds dating from the 1880s for property sold by the Company.

F.C. Innes and Company
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 917 · Fonds · 1979-1986

The fonds consists of the papers of the First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee. It also includes consultants reports and papers of other planning agencies relating to the development of the First Shaughnessy Plan.

First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee
Francis Pilkington fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 879 · Fonds · 1917-1970

The fonds consists of correspondence, pamphlets, working drafts of publications, letters to the editor, manuscripts and biographical data.

Pilkington, Francis C.
Frank Woodside fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 133 · Fonds · 1901-1941

The fonds consists of civic legal documents, correspondence, newspapers and reports of mines. There is also a photograph which was probably taken during the building of the 2nd Narrows Bridge.

Woodside, Frank Everett
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1023 · Fonds · 1909

The fonds consists of a book of minutes for the first five meetings of the company. Content is mostly of an organizational nature.

Fruit Magazine Publishing Company
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 12 · Fonds · 1889-1910

The fonds consists of a file of correspondence, memoranda, specifications, drawings and support documents concerning the construction of the Vancouver Street Railway in 1889-1890. There are receipts and invoices 1893-1899; 1910 correspondence between the Property Owners of Hastings Townsite and the Provincial Health Department, relating to proposed location of the Isolation Hospital; a copy, 1910, of an agreement between property holders and promoters of an electric tramway.

Garden, Hermon and Burwell (Firm)
Gault Brothers fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 372 · Fonds · 1899-[ca. 197-?]

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, stock records, and ledgers of the Gault Brothers as well as the minutes of the Caribou Shipping Company and Caribou Brand Catalogues. The fonds is arranged into 6 series: Biographical and historical files of Gault Brothers Limited, Caribou Shipping Company Limited records, Financial records of Gault Brothers Limited, Gault Brothers Limited publications and news clippings, Gault Brothers Limited stock ownership records, and Organizational papers of Gault Brothers Limited.

Gault Brothers (Firm)
George Moul fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 606 · Fonds · 1937-1978, predominant 1962-1978

The fonds consists of records created and accumulated by George Moul during his work with the Lower Kitsilano Ratepayers' Association, the Kitsilano Ratepayers' Association, the Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre Association, the Kitsilano Community Forum, and the Kitsilano Planning Committee. The files include committee minutes, correspondence, subject files, publications, membership lists and financial records.

Moul, George
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 368 · Fonds · 1938-1969

The fonds consists of the Chamber's minutes (1952-1969), membership lists and correspondence (1953-1963, 1965, 1969). There are also assorted receipts and clippings.

Grandview Chamber of Commerce
Grassie Jewellers fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 971 · Fonds · 1886-1909

The fonds consists of Grassie's store ledgers for the period 1891-1892 and 1902-1904, as well as photographs of W.H. Grassie and his wife and views of the store.

Grassie Jewellers
Graveley family fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 147 · Fonds · 1883-1941

The fonds includes the undated, typewritten memoirs of Walter E. Graveley (covering the period ca. 1870 to ca. 1901); his real estate price book and business correspondence, 1884-1931; legal records; receipts dating from March 1886 for land bought from the CPR; agreements made with Robert S. Day and Son Ltd. (Insurance) in 1923 and 1931; two scrapbooks containing photographs, clippings, and written materials concerning the Graveley family and yachting; the minute book (1920-1924) of the General Leckie Chapter I.O.D.E. (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire); and a number of family photographs.

Graveley (family)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 633;CVA 306;CVA 596 · Fonds · 1922-1973

The fonds consists of minutes (1922-1972); constitution, by-laws and annual reports (1922-1971); correspondence (1958-1973); promotional material (1956-1979), which includes newsletters, news releases and promotional brochures; subject files (1959-1976), which deal with various promotional concepts, news releases, sales trips and dealings with other tourist organizations; and reports (1970). Fonds includes promotional photographs of scenery in Vancouver.

Greater Vancouver Visitors and Convention Bureau
H.A. Price collection
CA CVAN Add. Mss. 358;Add. MSS. 806;Add. MSS. 987;CVA 153;CVA 429 · Collection · [ca. 1880]-1993

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, letterbooks, and photographs of the Price family and of records relating to general merchants in Ashcroft, B.C, , including Harvey Bailey and Company, to the planned extension to the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and to Henry J. Cambie.

H. H. Stevens fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 69;CVA 461;CVA 141 · Fonds · 1878-1935

The fonds consists of records arranged to the following subjects: East Indian immigration, 1914, 1916; the Komagata Maru incident, with photographs, 1914, 1916; immigration matters other than East Indian, 1912-1925; an examination of Vancouver's port facilities, 1913-1916; the drug problem in Vancouver, 1922; provincial political organization in B.C., 1922; the Grain Inquiry, 1918, 1924; the Salmon Fisheries Treaty with the U.S.A., 1929. The fonds also includes clippings, scrapbooks, photographs (showing logging by the Aeroplane Spruce Company and various mills on the B.C. coast), and printed material.

Stevens, H.H. (Henry Herbert)
Jack Boothe fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 276 · Fonds · 1916-1973

The fonds consists of records created and received by Jack Boothe in relation to his career as a cartoonist. Records include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons, cartoon scrap books, published books on cartoons and other materials.

Boothe, John William D.