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Altman family collection
CA JHS A.1999.013 · Fonds · 1904-2001

The fonds consists of community publications, community ephemera, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and musical scores. The fonds is arranged into 3 series: Community publications; Altman family files; and Music collection which consists of scores of both Jewish and general popular songs that bear the name of Sari Corbin.

Altman (family)
Congregation Har El fonds
CA JHS A.2009.008 · Fonds · 1962-2000

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records from Congregation Har El. Textual records include: minutes and correspondence, publications, and financials.

The fonds is arranged into 8 series: Publications; Synagogue construction; Fundraising; Board minutes; North Shore Jewish Centre (NSJC) records; Financial records; West Vancouver School Board dealings; and Congregation Har El miscellaneous files.

Congregation Har El
CA JHS A.2011.035 · Fonds · 1975-2002

Fonds is arranged into three series: Administrative and operational records; Newspaper clippings; Photographs and audio/visual.

Burquest Jewish Community Association
Congregation Emanu-El fonds
CA JHS A.2012.004 · Fonds · 1851-2012

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.

Congregation Emanu-El
CA JHS A.2012.015 · Fonds · ca. 1930-2011

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Beth Israel including: textual records; photographs; moving images; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 18 series: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs; Weddings and marriages; Jewish Divorce (Get); Deaths and cemetery; Ritual Committee; Publications; Financial Statements; Birth (brit milah and baby naming); Conversions; Beth Israel – Schools; 75th Anniversary; Staff administration; Building: Renovation, maintenance and construction; High Holidays; Congregation Beth Israel Board of Directors; Synagogue administration; Beth Israel Women’s League / Sisterhood; and Photographs, audio-visual and scrapbooks.

Congregation Beth Israel
CA JHS A.2012.017, A.2013.018 · Fonds · 1862-1864

Fonds consists of material documenting early BC Jewish history. Fonds is arranged into two series: Congregation Emanu-El manuscripts; and Letters from Abraham Blackman to his brother Morris, Jewish merchants in colonial British Columbia.

Keenlyside, John
CA PMM A1981.0007 · Fonds · 1922, 1954

The fonds consists of two minute books; one each for the years 1922 and 1954.

Community Church (Pitt Meadows, B.C.)
CA PMM A1985.0001 · Fonds · 1927-1946

The fonds consists of papers relating to the financial affairs of the Pitt Meadows Anglican Church and it includes financial reports, apportionment papers, correspondence, an accounts book, and Victory Bond papers.

Pitt Meadows Anglican Church
CA UVICARCH AR051 · Fonds · 1924-1987

The fonds consists of KCIR minutes, 1979-1984; Expanded KCIR Meetings and letters, 1980-1985; Reports and statements, 1924-1973; Communications with non-affiliated, Reformed, USCC, and news reports, 1947-84; Sons of Freedom meetings and letters, 1980-84; Statements from individuals, families and groups, 1950-87; and two manuscripts: "Gloom shadow of Ivan the Terrible," Anonymous, and "The Doukhobors: their history, life and struggle," by Peter N. Maloff. Many of the meeting files also include statements from Doukhobors.

Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations
Alfred E. Loft collection
CA UVICARCH AR084 · Fonds · [ca. 1982]

The collection consists of essays written by Loft's students, including David Holmes-Smith and Lorraine Brand, for Loft's education courses at the University of Victoria concerning the history of education in B.C. and the history of Victoria's churches.

Mona Morley fonds
CA UVICARCH AR095 · Fonds · 1931-1994

The fonds consists of diaries and correspondence. The diaries (personal diaries, travel diaries, "Novice Ruth" diaries) provide an extensive record of her personal reflections on her activities and views from 1931-1950, after which time they become less comprehensive. The correspondence includes some inward correspondence, and transcribed copies of outward correspondence from 1949-1955.

Morley, Mona
Margaret Peterson fonds
CA UVICARCH AR445 · Fonds · ? - 1997

The fonds reflects Margaret Peterson’s artistic processes and practices, research interests, pedagogy, her relationship with Howard O’Hagan, and her relationships with friends, patrons, fellow artists, galleries and various institutions.
The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, biographical documents, diaries and notebooks, financial and business-related documents, grant applications, teaching materials, unpublished poetry and manuscripts, exhibition catalogues, clippings and publications, drawings and small artworks, painting materials, objects collected by Peterson, and various ephemera.
Correspondents include Howard O’Hagan, Elza Mayhew, Glenn Wessels, J. Russell Harper, Jean Varda, Dorothy and John B. Grover, Joy Ling, Walter Askin, Robert and Sarah Amos, Helen Anderson, R.W. Peterson, Ellen Charlotte Peterson, and Jane Hanks.
The fonds has been arranged into five series: Biographical, Art Practice, Publications, clippings and collected ephemera, Teaching, and Howard O’Hagan Materials.

Peterson, Margaret
Alain Boire collection
CA CCOQ C10 · Collection · 2000 - 2016

The collection consists largely of research materials and notes created in the preparation of Boire's book "With Hearts and Minds" published in 2016. The remainder of the collection consists of materials collected by Boire from Caisse Populaire Maillardville Credit Union, as well as accumulated material pertaining to Boire's involvement in several community initiatives, such as the Maillardville Residents' Association, Maillardville revitalization and planning, and Place Maillardville.

Materials include correspondence, photographs, administrative records, interviews, reports, handwritten notes, clippings, advertising and professional materials, newsletters, research materials, prints, postcards, ephemera, a map, embossing seals, a lid from a glass milk bottle, and other documents. The collection also includes a manuscript copy of "With Hearts and Minds."

Boire, Alain Joseph
CA CCOQ C11 · Collection · [between 1959 and 196?]

The collection consists of three panoramic photographs. One photograph shows the congregation of Our Lady of Fatima (Notre Dame de Fatima) gathered around the travelling statue of Our Lady of the Cape (Notre Dame du Cap) in 1950. The second photograph shows the congregation of Our Lady of Fatima posed in front of the Church after its construction in 1959. This photograph is assumed to have been taken either in the year of construction or sometime in the early 1960s. The third photograph shows the congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes (Notre Dame de Lourdes) gathered in front of the church with the statue of Our Lady of the Cape (Notre Dame du Cap) on December 17th, 1950.

Peregrine Photographics
Diane Stiglish collection
CA CCOQ C17 · Collection · 1958-1995

The collection consists of materials that were collected by Diane Stiglish, including a funeral card for Reverand Father Joseph Albert Gerard Leduc; an Information Booklet about Our Lady of Fatima Church; and two advertising flyers for businesses in Coquitlam.

CA DMA CR-106 · Fonds · 1936-1978

Fonds consists of minutes of meetings, financial records, annual reports, copies of annual appeal letters, correspondence with the British Columbia Auxiliary and Canadian Bible Society, and notes, pamphlets, and local newpaper clippings relating to the organization's activities.

British and Foreign Bible Society. Ladner Branch
CA TWU F 70 · Fonds · 1988-2002

The fonds is incomplete, and consists of a limited selection of records documenting the activities and functions of ACTS.

Associated Canadian Theological Schools
CA KIM KM 983.17.2 · Fonds · 1955-1961

The fonds consists of minutes (1955-1961) of the Board of Managers of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Kimberley, B.C.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Kimberley, B.C.)
CA KSM MG16 · Fonds · 1954-1961

The fonds consists of documents relating to the ongoing business of the Auxiliary. Fonds consists of 4 series and includes minutes, financial records, correspondence and printed material.

Honeymoon Bay United Church. Women's Auxiliary
Art and Gladys Howe fonds
CA KSM MG35 · Fonds · 1900-1986

Fonds consists of 10 series and includes school records, Cowichan Lake history, IODE, United Church, books, wedding album, photographs and newsclippings.

Howe, Gladys Lomas
Charles Ora Card fonds
CA OSOY MS 11 · Fonds · 1886 - ?

Fonds consists of the photocopied transcribed textual records of Charles Ora Card from 1886. Includes a biography from the oral history of his daughter, Pearl Card Sloan, transcribed diary entries from his Canadian travels in 1886, and a map outlining his travel route in Washington and British Columbia.

Card, Charles Ora
CA LMA MS 16 · Fonds · 1914-1915, 1928-1930, 1966, 1979, 1983

The collection consists of records and research notes compiled by Dorothy Dodge in 1979, covering the rebuilding of the St. George's Chapel, Lytton, B.C., in 1929. Includes personal correspondence, 25 photographs, research notes, including notes on interviews with local people, and photocopies of Dept. of Indian Affairs material.

CA BOW MS 17 · Fonds · 1970 - 1993

The fonds consists of operational records of St. Gerard’s Catholic Mission produced between 1970 and 1993. It includes original and copied financial records, correspondence, and promotional materials.

St. Gerard's Catholic Mission
CA FTST MS 2 · Fonds · 1898-1917, 1933

The fonds consists of the business records of the Presbyterian Church in Fort Steele. Includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, and a list of new members for 1933.

Presbyterian Church (Fort Steele, B.C.)
CA LMA MS 20 · Fonds · [Copied 1997]

The collection consists of correspondence, photograph, and legal documents. Includes letter to and from Patrick Reynard, Catholic Archdiocesan Archivist, one photograph of St. Ann's Church in 1934, a copy of the Deed of Land used for the church, copy of the 1941 inventory of contents of the church, and a church information time-line from 1935-1937.