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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.

St. Eugene Mission fonds
CA FTST MS 23 · Fonds · photocopied 1983

Fonds consists of textual records of St. Eugene Mission from 1908-1970. Includes history, diaries, correspondence, financial records, Ktunaxa census lists, reports, programs, building specifications, clippings, and ephemera.

St. Eugene Mission
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.
Father Nicolas Coccola fonds
CA FTST MS 8 · Fonds · photocopied 1983

Fonds consists of a excerpts from a diary written by Father Coccola in 1934. Includes excerpts pertaining to Father Coccola's time in the East Kootenay region.

Coccola, Nicolas, 1854-1943
Sperling United Church fonds
CA LCM MSS 157 · Fonds · 1949-1953, 1974

The fonds consists of correspondence, location plan, plan for hall, and blueprint, original deed (1953), and indenture (1974) pertaining to the church hall at Sperling in the Langley, B.C., area.

Sperling United Church (Langley, B.C.)
Michaud family fonds
CA LCM MSS 179 · Fonds · 19--

The fonds consists of a brief history of the Michaud family's settlement in the Langley, B.C., area, family trees, newspaper clippings, and pictures of family members. Fonds also includes a brief history of the Langley Catholic Parish, which was first held in the Michaud house in the 19th century.

Michaud (family)
CA LCM MSS 53 · Fonds · 1968, [1977]

The collection consists of brief typewritten histories of Langley, B.C. and area churches, including Derby Church (Anglican), St. George's Anglican Church, Church of the Redeemer, and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church [1977], a pamphlet on Reverend William Burton Crickmer, pioneer minister at Derby, B.C. in 1859 and Yale, B.C. in 1860, and a 1968 register of people who attended Fort Langley churches prior to 1910, with signatures, names, and dates of church attendance.

Reverend A.M. Grant fonds
CA LCM MSS 88 · Fonds · 1918-1920

The fonds consists of correspondence from Alex Agee, missionary in Langley, B.C., from 1893, to E. Leslie Pidgeon of Augustine (Presbyterian) Church in Winnipeg, missionary in Langley from 1896 (1919), 2 Annual Reports of the Langley Presbyterian Church prepared by A.M. Grant (1918, 1920), a copy of a sermon by Reverend A. Dunn preached at Port Haney, B.C., in 1902, and letters from Alexander Dunn to W.F. Gold in Edmonoton on his time in Langley Prairie, B.C. (1919).

Grant, A.M., Reverend
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.02 · Series · 1967-2006
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to magazine and journal articles for churches and secular organizations. Series contains the following subseries: The United Church Observer articles (1970-1981, 2000); United Church of Canada writings (1976-1990); Writings for religious papers other than the Observer (1974-2006); and Writings not related directly to the Church (1963-1987). Documentary forms include correspondence, research notes, interview transcripts, and draft and published versions of articles and resources.

Taylor, James A.
Early writings
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.03 · Series · 1959-1980
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to Taylor's early works of fiction, poetry, plays, and musicals.

Taylor, James A.
Personal correspondence
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.04 · Series · 1966-1986
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to Taylor’s liaison with friends and colleagues. Includes correspondence with A.C. Forrest about coming to work for The Observer in 1968; exchanges with Edith Stockton, well-known church lay person in Saskatchewan; and letters to and from Sam Nazombe, Taylor’s protégé from Malawi, who came to Canada in 1973 to learn some of the trade of journalism.

Taylor, James A.
Academic writings
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.05 · Series · 1958-1967
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to Taylor’s course work through the University of British Columbia, most of which he generated through a correspondence course in short-story writing, while living in Prince Rupert. Records also include some curricula for courses he designed and taught for the Canadian Institute of Speech in Prince Rupert.

Taylor, James A.
Newsletters
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.06 · Series · 1984-1994
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of a complete set of the issues of Currents, a small journal for which Taylor was the primary writer and sole editor.

Taylor, James A.
Regular newspaper columns
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.07 · Series · 1996-2018
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to columns that Taylor wrote for local newspapers in the Okanagan region of BC. Includes samples of columns written for the Kelowna Courier and Penticton Herald (July to December 2009); satirical articles relating to local people and politics (the Back Fence, 2008); and samples of columns from a local weekly paper, the Lake Country Calendar (2007).

Taylor, James A.
Manuscripts for monographs
CA PMRCA PRIV 20.08 · Series · 1996-2001
Part of James A. Taylor fonds

Series consists of records relating to the writing of three of Jim Taylor’s books: SIN: A New Understanding of Virtue and Vice; Precious Days and Practical Love; and John for Beginners.

Taylor, James A.
Subject files
CA PMRCA Priv 27.01 · Series · 1935-2001
Part of M. John V. Shaver fonds

Series consists of records relating to several spheres of Shaver’s activities, including his work as a pastor and preacher, university chaplain, educator, church administrator, writer, and student. Document types include notes for sermons and prayers, public addresses, lecture notes, manuscripts and published articles, radio broadcast scripts, copies of minutes, administrative reports, and personal correspondence.

Shaver, M. John V.
Student papers and notes
CA PMRCA Priv 27.02 · Series · [1937?]-1965
Part of M. John V. Shaver fonds

Series consists of records relating to Shaver’s classes and assignments as an arts and theology student at United College in Winnipeg, and as a summer school student at Union College in Vancouver. Records include lecture notes and essays.

Shaver, M. John V.
James M. Shaver writings
CA PMRCA Priv 27.03 · Series · 1935-1946
Part of M. John V. Shaver fonds

Series consists of records relating to publications written by M. John V. Shaver’s father, the Rev. James M. Shaver. Records include handwritten manuscripts, correspondence, and news clippings for An Effort to Understand (published in Onward, 1936) and With Glowing Hearts (a monograph published 1946).

CA PMRCA Priv 27.05 · Series · 1951-1997
Part of M. John V. Shaver fonds

Series consists of records relating to Shaver’s service to the wider church as a member of Manitoba Conference’s Faith and Order Committee (1951-1956); a member of BC Conference’s Commission to Study Institutional Work in the Lower Mainland (1967-1969); a member of the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Inner City Service Project (1967-1969); and supervisor of a student at the Vancouver School of Theology (1995-1997).

Shaver, M. John V.