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Walter Francis Ing fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1426 · Fonds · [ca. 1919-1926]

Fonds consists of a few photographs of residences and family members.

Ing, Walter Francis
Walter A. Grecula fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 965 · Fonds · 1910-1956

The collection contains correspondence, invoices, blueprints and printed material.

Wade family fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 44 · Fonds · 1758-1960, predominant 1885-1960

The fonds consists of private and official correspondence, photographs and maps, and a large number of published items and clippings. There are papers concerning the Yukon (1893-1959) and Dawson (1879-1902), the Alaska Boundary case (1902-1956), the Canadian flag controversy (1907-1912), juvenile offenders and their protection (1894-1917), research for the federal case re: Point Grey Military Reserve (1911-1918), Vancouver municipal and public affairs (1912-1927), and miscellaneous papers (1887-1960). Published items include works by Wade as well as publications of the Canadian Club, government publications and political tracts. There are also two bound volumes, one containing correspondence, programmes and clippings re: General Wolfe and the dedication of the Canadian Memorial to Wolfe at Greenwich Park, the other containing photographs and prints of various portraits and statues of Wolfe.

Wade (family)
W.L. Inglis fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 341 · Fonds · [ca. 1930]-1979

The fonds consists of correspondence to Inglis as General Manager of the Vancouver International Airport and reports prepared on preliminary planning for a new passenger terminal, 1958-1960; design requirements, construction schedules and costs; and details of sale and transfer of the airport from the City to the Federal Government. The collection also includes information gathered on the history of the airport, publications, and scrapbooks, 1949-1978. The fonds is arranged into 9 series: Airlines records, Boundary Bay Airport records, Historical records, Operational reports, Photographs, Preliminary planning for passenger terminal, Publications, Sale and transfer of airport from City of Vancouver to Federal Government, and Scrapbooks.

Inglis, William L., d. 1979
W.H. Malkin Company fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 342 · Fonds · 1895-1971

The fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, clippings and ledgers relating to the W.H. Malkin Company, as well as scrapbooks containing company labels and materials relating to the Carnival of Fun sponsored by W.H. Malkin Company in various towns and theatres throughout British Columbia.

W.H. Malkin Company
Voight family fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 183 · Fonds · 1898-1905

The fonds consists of legal papers and a tracing paper map submitted to the courts as evidence to support the claim of Emil F. Voight and his wife Mary to certain mineral lands on Copper Mountain in the Similkameen.

Voight (family)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 43 · Fonds · 1922-1926

The fonds consists of minutes, 1922-1926; general correspondence, 1922-1926; and various clippings.

Victoria Drive Community Hall Association
Velma Beryl Kipp fonds
CA CVAN CVA 1413 · Fonds · 1908-1932

Fonds consists of studio portraits of Velma from birth to young adulthood as well as portraits of children who lived in her neighbourhood.

Kipp, Velma Beryl, 1908-
Fonds · 1927-1980

Fonds consists of the official record of the Zoning By-law Board of Appeal (1927-1960) and the Zoning Board of Appeal (1960-1988), relating to its role as an appeal body granting exceptions to the Zoning By-law or Zoning and Development By-law decisions made by any City officials (typically the Building Inspector, the Zoning Planner, the Technical Planning Board, and the Director of Planning, depending on period and process). Fonds consists of the following single series, which is listed under the Board's latest name represented in the date range: Vancouver (B.C.). Zoning Board of Appeal - Minutes, 1927-1980, 2.6 m, series 493.

Vancouver (B.C.). Zoning Board of Appeal
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 397;Add. MSS. 1037 · Fonds · 1905-1980, predominant 1905-1977

The fonds consists of minutes, reports, financial statements, correspondence, newsletters, programmes, scrapbooks of clippings and photographs from the periods 1905 to 1980.

Vancouver Woman's Musical Club
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 466 · Fonds · 1941-1959

The fonds consists of the School's constitution; annual reports, 1947-1957; minutes 1941-1957; membership lists; correspondence and reports, 1955-1959; programmes; and two scrapbooks, 1949-1952, 1952-1959.

Vancouver Women's School for Citizenship
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 126 · Fonds · 1932-1958

The fonds consists of minutes, 1928-1969; correspondence in, 1944-1972; correspondence out, 1928-1970; financial records, 1928-1972; programs and lists, 1930-1972; membership lists; publications; clippings; and photographs.

Vancouver Yukoners' Association
Fonds · 1913-1970, predominant 1925-1955

Fonds consists of the series listed below, which relate to all broader aspects of city planning, as well as to zoning interpretation and adjudication. Vancouver (B.C.). Town Planning Commission - Commission minutes, 1925-1955, 45 cm, series 395; Executive Committee minutes, 1926-1948, 12 cm, series 396; Publications in City Publications Collection, 1926-1970, 20 cm, series 588; Secretary's consultants' reports and publications collection, 1913-1956, 13 cm, series 542; Secretary's subject files, 1925-1952, 7.38 m, series 397.

Vancouver (B.C.). Town Planning Commission
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 381;Add. MSS. 919 · Fonds · 1855-1986

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, membership and financial records, photographs and publications of the Vancouver Typographical Union (V.T.U.), Local 226; as well as the Victoria, New Westminster, Kamloops and Vernon locals of the International Typographical Union. Records of the V.T.U.'s activities at the Province and Sun Chapel (labour associations of printing-offices), 1928-1958 are included. The fonds also includes some records of the New Westminster Trades and Labour Council for the years 1908-1914.

Vancouver Typographical Union. Local 226
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 359 · Fonds · 1916-1959

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, and papers presented by members, including poetry and short stories. A guest book of members and guests is also included. The fonds is arranged into 4 series: Members' contributions and programs pamphlets, Organizational papers, Records of meetings, and Register of guests and members.

Vancouver Vagabonds' Club
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1440 · Fonds · 1927-2002, predominant 1927-1992

Fonds consists of minutes, reports, financial statements, correspondence, constitutions and by-laws, ephemera, and books.

Nursing Sisters' Association of Canada. Vancouver Unit
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 63 · Fonds · 1886-1892

The fonds consists of a share register, estimates register, engineering report, memoranda, prospectus and vote list of the Vancouver Waterworks Company. The fonds also includes a by-law proposing that the City of Vancouver acquire the assets of the company.

Vancouver Waterworks Company
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 470 · Fonds · 1907-1965

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1929-1930, 1948, 1952; a copy of "Vancouver Stock Exchange By-laws" 1907; a copy of "The Stock Exchange and Blue Sky Legislation" 1923; a copy of "The Vancouver Stock Exchange 1907-1947"; and photographs 1921, 1927, 1928,1952, 1965.

Vancouver Stock Exchange
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1021 · Fonds · 1988

The fonds consists of a Bell Restoration Proposal prepared by the Bell Restoration Committee of the Vancouver Society of Change Ringers. Included in the proposal are an index, summary, history and background, information on committee members, the proposal proper, cost summary and conclusions, terms of reference, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and noise by-law materials.

Vancouver Society of Change Ringers
Vancouver School Board fonds
Fonds · 1886-1999, predominant 1892-1966

Fonds consists of the following record series relating to the governance of Vancouver's public school district. Vancouver (B.C.). School Board - Annual financial reports, 1952-1956, 2 cm, series 127; Annual reports, 1903-1999, 53 cm, series 322; Annual reports of the public schools, 1892-1945, 40 cm, series 334; Annual reports working papers, 1931-1950, 13 cm, series 126; Board minutes, 1892-1974, 8.7 m, series 123; Board minutes index, 1913, 2 cm, series 122; By-laws, reports, contracts and minutes, 1924-1972, 1.77 m, series 323; Cash books, 1930-1950, 30 cm, series 328; Coronation correspondence, 1952-1953, 13 cm, series 316; Emergency cash books, 1926-1951, 30 cm, series 329; Ledgers, 1928-1945, 4.73 m, series 327; Minutes of Cadet instructors' meetings, 1913-1946, 13 cm, series 337; Minutes of school prinicipals' meetings, 1912-1974, 50 cm, series 312; Miscellaneous published items, 1913-1947, 25 cm, series 333; Miscellaneous registers, minutes, and photographs, 1892-1972, 60 cm, series 336; Newsclipping scrapbooks, 1939-1964, 3 m, series 332; Payrolls, 1895-1955, 55 cm, series 330; Personnel and Research subject files, 1945-1965, 1 m, series 325; Principals' annual reports, 1956-1963, 52 cm, series 313; Publications in City Publications Collection, 1903-1996, ca. 3 m, series 610; Registers of attendance and expenditures, 1897-1952, 20 cm, series 335; Salary negotiations, 1952-1966, 1.3 m, series 324; School sites, 1913-1961, 72 cm, series 317; Secretary Treasurer's correspondence, 1912-1947, 52 cm, series 320; Special committees' correspondence and reports, 1918-1964, 1.06 m, series 125; Standing and special committee minutes, 1910-1926, 30 cm, series 124; Statements of expenditures and receipts, 1931-1952, 26 cm, series 331. Vancouver (B.C.). School Board. Superintendent - Circulars to principals, 1933-1963, 60 cm, series 326; Report collection, 1937-1951, 13 cm, series 319; School histories, 1886-1952, 7 cm, series 315; Subject files, 1936-1963, 1.6 m, series 318; War files, 1939-1947, 91 cm, series 314.

Vancouver School Board
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 343 · Fonds · 1921-1979

The fonds consists of correspondence, membership lists, constitution, scrapbook, programmes, and attendance record of the Vancouver Shakespeare Society.

Vancouver Shakespeare Society
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1009 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1989]

The fonds consists of minutes of the Association. The minutes for the 1970s and 1980s also include correspondence and other documents mentioned in the minutes.

Vancouver Secondary Teachers' Association
Vancouver Rowing Club fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 604;CVA 66 · Fonds · 1899-1985

The fonds consists of annual general and executive meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, reference material from associated organizations such as the Rowing Committee of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games Society (1954), memorabilia, publications, scrapbooks and photographs. The Vancouver Rowing Club deliberately documented its activities and its members' participation in sporting events as well as their contribution to the larger community, creating historical notes and statistics, as well as the scrapbook collections of newspaper clippings. The fonds includes transcriptions of original material made by John Arthur Carver for his book "The Vancouver Rowing Club: A History 1886-1980", Vancouver: A.F. Roberts, 1980 (available for viewing in C.V.A. Book Collection, call number GV 798.C37). The fonds is arranged in 9 series: Minutes of meetings (1899-1975); Incorporation and by-law records (1915); Correspondence (1965-1985); Annual summary reports (1899-1955); Subject files (1890-1981); Yachting Section records (1980-1985); Publications (1937-1985); Scrapbooks (1913-1979); and Photographs (ca. 1890-1981).

Vancouver Rowing Club
Fonds · 1868-2001, predominant 1887-1977

Fonds consists of the following record series, relating to the administration of Vancouver's public library system (and including one very early collected item, relating to Burrard Inlet's first library). Also included within the "Published reports" series are sundry publications of the Vancouver Public Library itself. Vancouver (B.C.). Library Board - Annual reports, 1948-2001, series 612; Board minutes and correspondence, 1868-1977, series 482; Publications in City Publications Collection, 1948-1998, series 611; Vancouver (B.C.). Mechanics Institute Library (Moodyville, B.C.) - Minutes, 1868-1884, series 622.

Vancouver (B.C.). Library Board
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 101 · Fonds · 1888-1889

The fonds consists of minutes of the Vancouver Real Estate Board of 1888 together with price lists, maps and the articles of association of the Board, all of which are contained in one bound volume.

Vancouver Real Estate Board