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Fonds · 1981-1987

Fonds consists of building proposals, a feasibility study, minutes, reports and notes related to the development of an arts and conference centre.

Nanaimo Harbourside Arts and Conference Society
Fonds · 1953-2004

Fonds consists of records related to the governance and activities of the Nanaimo Historical Society. Fonds is arranged in the following series 1) Executive records; 2) Sound recordings; 3) Nanaimo Local History Research group records; 4) Speeches and historical writings; 5) Register of residents; and 6) Photographs.

Nanaimo Historical Society
Fonds · 1933-1945

Fonds consists of the minutes of one meeting of the Market Committee and a cashbook.

Nanaimo (B.C.). Market Committee
Fonds · 1920-2002

Fonds consist of the governance records and publications of the Nanaimo Rotary Club. Fonds is arranged in nine series: 1) Membership/Bylaws; 2) Minutes; 3) Correspondence; 4) Financial Records; 5) History; 6) Community Projects; 7) Photographs; 8) Miscellaneous and 9) Publications.

Rotary International. Nanaimo Rotary Club No. 689
Fonds · 1893-1949

The fonds consists of minutes, including constitution and bylaws, and list of initial members of Nanaimo Silver Coronet Band, also known as the Nanaimo Junior Brass Band. Minutes occasionally note rates of pay and some music played.

Nanaimo Silver Coronet Band
Fonds · 1931-1959

The fonds consists of souvenir programs (1931-1936), minutes of the B.C. Track and Field Association, correspondence and programs (1947-1959), and accounts payable (1951).

Nanaimo Track and Field Association
Fonds · 1933, 1950

Fonds consists of an official copy of an Order-in-Council issued by the federal Department of Public Works approving an application by Kneen's Builder's Supplies to build a wharf in Commercial Inlet (1950). Also includes correspondence from the Public Works Department (1933) and a hand drawn sketch of the subject area.

Kneen's Builder's Supplies
Laurence Manson fonds
Fonds · 1878-1905, [194-]

Fonds consists predominantly of the business and personal records of Laurence Manson but also includes some records of other family members. The fonds is arranged in two series: 1) Business records and 2) Personal records.

Manson, Laurence
Parker Williams fonds
Fonds · 1907-[193-]

Fonds consists predominantly of the political papers of Parker Williams and also includes some personal records. Includes correspondence, notebooks, sketchbook, publications, and financial records. Fonds is arranged in three series 1) Political papers; 2) Personal papers and 3) Publications.

Williams, Parker
McLay family fonds
Fonds · 1894-1928

The fonds consists of family papers, including marriage and birth certificates and photographs, and records of Thomas McLay relating to his tugboat business, including a 1920 log and account book and letters of reference and qualifications.

McLay (family)
Fonds · Photocopied ca. 1993

Fonds consists of correspondence from the Colonial Secretary to the Nanaimo Magistrate's office (1863) and an issue of the Government Gazette of Vancouver Island, May 9, 1865.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Nanaimo Magistrate's Office
John Oliphant collection
Fonds · Photocopied 1991 (originally created ca. 1930)

Collection consists of research material used by Oliphant for the book "Brother XII; The Incredible Story of Canada's False Prophet and His Doomed Cult of Gold, Sex and Black Magic". Materials include photocopied clippings, photographs and articles about Brother XII. Also includes original photographs of Victor B. Harrison and of a labret.

Oliphant, John collector
Fonds · 1925-1952

Collection consists of a John Shaw high school songbook (1925),'The Bastion', a school annual and newspaper for 1938, 1941, 1944 and 1952; a playbill for "Up on Old Smoky".

John Shaw High School
John Thompson fonds
Fonds · 1951

Fonds consists of correspondence including a letter from Major J.S. Matthews, City of Vancouver Archivist, and an invitation to the opening of the new City Hall in Nanaimo.

Thompson, John, d. 1967
Fonds · 1884-1907

The fonds consists of a minute book that records school trustee elections, minutes of meetings, and financial statements. It also includes correspondence concerning a land deal in 1904.

South Cedar School Board
Fonds · 1892, [195-]

Collection consists of items associated with St. Andrew's Church including floorplans of the main floor and gallery and a sketch of the exterior, photographs of the church, the old and new manses and the dedication ceremony of the new manse, programmes for a production of the Messiah and Diamond Jubilee (1934) materials.

William B. Smith fonds
Fonds · 1985-1986

Fonds consists of photographs of Wolf Mountain Mine including images of the underground workings, miners, heavy duty equipment, tools and surface views. Also includes an underground workings map.

Smith, William, B., 1954-
William Roper collection
Fonds · 1911-1916

Collection consists of one certificate of competency, 2nd Class, Overman; one certificate of competency, mine rescue work and one certificate of competency, Draeger Oxygen Apparatus (Western Fuel Corporation, Nanaimo).

Ross McLeod collection
Fonds · [ca. 1955]

Collection consists of schedules of Canadian Pacific ships on the west coast and a schedule for the Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay dayliner train. Also includes postcards of CP and Blackball line ships and views of downtown Nanaimo including views of the Malaspina Hotel, Georgia Park, the Bastion, Front Street looking south, and the harbour and port.

Russell Inkster fonds
Fonds · 1961-1968

Fonds consists of three scrapbooks of clippings and photographs of Inkster's career as chairman of the hospital board and coroner. Scrapbooks also include numerous clippings concerning accidents.

Inkster, Russell
Wah Hing Land Company fonds
Fonds · 1940-1942

The fonds consists of a register, written in Chinese characters. It includes one receipt and one application to transfer money to the Bank of China.

Wah Hing Land Company
Barbara Cowling fonds
Fonds · 1955, 1967, 1973

The fonds consists of class photographs of Cowling's students (1967, 1973) and a class photograph for 1955. Students are identified on the verso of the photographs.

Cowling, Barbara, 1912-
Fonds · 1945-2003

Fonds consists of the records of the Nanaimo branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women. The fonds is arranged in the following series: 1) Minutes; 2) Charter and Constitution; 3) Conferences; 4) Membership Directories; 5) Scrapbooks; 6) Annual reports; 7) Newsletters; 8) Photographs; 9) Financial records and 10) Miscellaneous.

Canadian Federation of University Women. Nanaimo
Fonds · 1942, 1967

The fonds consists of a financial report (1942) and a list of residents who contributed to the addition at Speedway Hall and had their names inscribed on bricks on the north wall of the Cedar Community Hall.

Cedar Community Association