Fonds consists of annual reports, budgets, meeting minutes, policies, correspondence, court records, proposals, research reports, publications, and subject files generated by SPEC in the course of carrying out its functions and activities.
Society Promoting Environmental ConservationTextual records consist of legal records belonging to A.R. Leary including land deeds, mortgage papers, and fire insurance policies. The fonds also includes British Columbia history and geography textbooks, newspaper clippings, a June 3, 1948 issue of the Ladner Optimist, school certificates, a short history of Vancouver, May Day raffle tickets, rules and regulations of the Grand Black Chapter of Ireland, programs, receipts, notebooks, correspondence, etc. It also contains genealogical notes on the Leary family compiled by Mabel MacNamara and Laura Miller. The fonds includes photographs of men during the gold rush, Knickerbocker's Barber Shop, schools and students, Ladner Ferry, World War I tanks, logging, canneries, ferries, etc. as well as photographs of various members of the Leary family.
Leary (family)The fonds consists of administrative records of the club, including minutes, reports, correspondence, financial statements, cabin visitor books, summit registers, membership records and others. It also contains many hundreds of photographs, glass plate negatives, films and other moving images, as well as publications of the BCMC, including the B.C. Mountaineer, the BCMC Newsletter, as well as hiking and climbing guides in whose publication the BCMC was involved. It also contains many news cuttings relating to hiking and climbing in British Columbia and activities of club members. These records document many aspects of the club's activities including their involvement in mountaineering, advocacy for land conservation, and natural history. The fonds also contains the records of Mary and David Macaree which they created and accumulated during the course of researching their publications '103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia' and '109 Walks in B.C.'s Lower Mainland'.
British Columbia Mountaineering ClubThe fonds consists of a diary detailing Morris' departure from England, voyage across the Atlantic, meeting his brother in New York, the train trip across the continent, the voyage on the SS Otter from Victoria up the coast and his journey to Cassiar.
Morris, E.A.The fonds consists of Grant's papers as able seaman and hunter in sealing vessels operating out of Victoria, B.C. Fonds includes items such as wages for seal skins, itemized list of purchases for sealing trips, correspondence, and lists of vessels, position and dates of service.
Grant, CharlesThe fonds consists of monthly time book (1912-1914) kept by G.A. Casey, Purser for the SS Coquitlam operated by Union Steamship Company of B.C. Ltd.
Casey, G.A.The fonds consists of photographs of Union Steamship vessels, ranging in date from 1891 to 1955 and Union Steamship newsletters (1956-1958).
Rushton, Gerald ArnoldThe fonds consists of continuous certificate of discharge (1917-1925) and other certificates and indentures of Melville Jack. Fonds includes postcards of the ships Princess Alice and Princess Elaine.
Jack, Melville, b. 1896The fonds consists of the personal files of Larry Kuehn relating to his work with the Solidarity Coalition in organizing Operation Solidarity and with the British Columbia Federation of Labour and the records of Operation Solidarity, of which Kuehn was Coordinator. Operation Solidarity records include Executive Committee and Officers meeting files (including minutes and correspondence), Public Sector Committee files, Political Action Committee files, and Operation Solidarity activities, correspondence and financial files.
Kuehn, Larry, 1944-The collection consists of the memories and anecdotes of Jim Baker. Includes 2 copied audio tapes, one report and 7 photographs. Audio tapes are BCPA Landscapes and People, about ranches in the lower Cariboo and Ashcroft area.
The fonds consists of 29 photographs copied from the presentation album sent to Sir Bulwer-Lytton. Includes scenes of New Westminster in 1864, steamboats, lakes along the Harrison route, scenes in the Fraser Canyon, towns of Yale, Lytton, Port Douglas, Pemberton, Clinton, and also groups of people, including A.C. Elliott and Joseph W. Trutch. The photographs are arranged in the order of the two gold-rush routes to the Cariboo, one by the Harrison-Lillooet route and one by the Fraser Canyon route.
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, BaronFonds consists of two photographs taken by Myrtle Dunham. Includes one photograph of the North Bend aerial ferry and one of a mountain scene taken north of Lytton.
Dunham, Myrtle, d. 1998Fonds consists of three photographs. Includes one photograph of Tom Canoe and Gerald Heller Sr. on a hunting trip, one of Tom Canoe and Ed Murphy Jr. on a hunting trip with horses, and one of Edward Murphy Sr. & Jr. fishing in the first lake up Kwoiek valley.
Heller, HenryThe fonds consists of a scrapbook containing assorted newspaper and journal clippings pertaining to the history of British Columbia and Fort Langley, B.C., letters of condolence regarding the death of Allard's son in battle during World War I, and some articles written by Allard himself.
Allard, Jason Ovid, 1848-1931The fonds consists of 16 receipts of the Kwong Lee Trading Company, including shipping receipts from the B.C. and V.S.N. Company steamer Governor Douglas and wholesale goods dealer L. Bonanati Romano, most with Chinese script on the back, 2 signed by Ovid Allard, Chief Trader at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Langley, B.C., and one signed from Fort Yale, B.C.
Kwong Lee and CompanyThe fonds consists of photographs of pilot boats, tugs, the Bounty (replica), log booms, and explosion at Ripple Rocks and ephemera.
Unwin, Frank E.The fonds consists of a photographic record of a journey up the B.C. coast by steamer by Ronald Burns and family.
Burns, Richard RonaldThe fonds consists of certificates, operator's licences, cards of merchant navy defence courses taken, letters of reference and general correspondence relating to shipping. Two folders include maps of Thames River and Rotterdam Harbour with Port Authority notes. Fonds includes de Cunha's file relating to meteorology, printed material and photographs of Cunha's personal life and marine career.
De Cunha, Edward Peter, 1922-The fonds consists of photographic black and white images chronologically depicting the British Columbia Forest Service practical procedures in road construction, land clearing; reconnaissance; reproduction; settlement; burn over lands and stands; waterways; water power; utilization and waste; types and stands; cut over land and stands; growth and yields; game; grazing; mills: portable; pulp; saw; and shingle.
British Columbia. Timber and Forestry BranchThe fonds consists of the constitution, minutes (1938-1944) and correspondence (1943-1944) of the B.C. Principals Association.
British Columbia Principals AssociationThe fonds consists of the minutes (1897-1914) of the Committee of Management of the Provincial Teachers' Institute.
Provincial Teachers' InstituteThe fonds consists of minutes of annual general meetings and executive council meetings of the B.C. Secondary School Teachers' Association, previously known as the B.C. Secondary Teachers' Association, the Provincial Secondary Teachers' Association, and the Provincial Teachers' Association.
British Columbia Secondary School Teachers' AssociationThe collection consists of maps of western Canada, British Columbia and the Salmon Arm area.
The fonds consists of Leonard Frank's photographs of B.C. depicting industry (including logging), military, railways and scenery and of Vancouver depicting streets, businesses, buildings, ships, and panoramas.
Leonard Frank Photo StudioFonds consists of the following record series: Conference Archives administration (1967-1968); Research materials – It’s God’s Country; and Reference. Records relate primarily to Runnalls’ research and writing of the 1974 history of BC Conference.
Runnalls, F.E.