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Photographs
CA CCOQ C13-S01 · Series · [191?]-1966
Part of Harris Family collection

The series consists of seven class portraits from 1960 to 1966 and two from the 1920s, as well as four additional photographs including a portrait of Joseph William Harris and his family ca. 1912 ; two photographs depicting two separate properties in Coquitlam; and a photograph of the Coquitlam float in the 1945 May Day Parade in New Westminster.

Anne Sotvedt fonds
CA WVAN 048 · Fonds · 1935-1964

The fonds consists of material relating to the personal life of Anne Sotvedt and her husband Henry, a professional ski jumper and ski store owner. They were both actively involved in skiing, ski clubs, and early ski competitions in West Vancouver. The material includes programs from competitions, newspapers clippings, ski club newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, sporting goods catalogues, and photographs.

The fonds is arranged into the following series:
Series 1: Photographs
Series 2: Newsletters, programmes, and brochures

Sotvedt, Anne
CA PMA PMA 01 · Item · 1923-1963

The fonds consists of minutes and occasional reports from Directors,1923-1944, 1950-1956, constitution & by-laws, balance sheets, 1926-1961 (incomplete), correspondence, membership lists and lists of subscribers, petty cash book, receipts and expenditures for Community Hall, records of sales of bonds, membership receipts, 1959-1962, lists of volunteer workers and visitors to the Park, and notes and copies of original documents compiled by J. E. Kingsley in the 1970s on the formation & early history of the Society. The fonds includes a map of the Community Park, 1955.

Parksville and District Community Society
CA RMDC MS 35 A2017.006 · Collection · 1960-1962

The Rossland-Trail Olympic Promotion Committee Collection contains photographic and textual records from 1960-1962, and is arranged in the following order:

  1. Constitution and Bylaws, 1960-1962
  2. Minutes, 1960-1962
  3. Correspondence, 1960-1962
  4. Questionnaire, 1961
  5. Financial Records, 1961
  6. Reports, 1961
  7. Certificates, 1961
  8. Ephemera
  9. Maps
  10. Photographs
  11. Clippings
Rossland-Trail Olympic Committee
Martin Family fonds
Fonds · 1879

The fonds is divided into three series and consists of a diary, person papers of Albert and Amelia Martin.

Martin Family
CA SAM MS 141 · Fonds · 1914

Title based on the contents of the fonds. The collection is arranged into five series and consists of certificates, correspondence, and photographs.

John and Elizabeth Jackson
Jeanie Allan fonds
CA WVAN 053 · Fonds · [before 1958]

The fonds consists of photographs generated and collected by Jeanie Allan, pertaining to her personal life, schools, May Day celebrations, ships, and various beaches in West Vancouver. The fonds also includes a brief memoir of her time spent at West Bay.

Allan, Jeanie
Fonds · 1958-current

The fonds consists of three series and includes historical backrgound, annual reports, a master plan and constrction plans and drawings.

Shuswap Lake General Hospital
The Coquitlam Herald fonds
CA CCOQ F29 · Fonds · 1930-1957

The fonds consists of copies of The Coquitlam Herald newspaper covering the period from 1930 to 1957.

The Coquitlam Herald (newspaper)
CA SAM MS 154 · Fonds · 1946

The fonds consists of 9 account ledgers, an agreement for a Right-of-Way, and a sale of property. Title is based on the contents of the fonds.

The fonds is divided into two series.

Front Street Grocery and Confectionery
Frank Goodship fonds
NWMA IH 1995.71 · Fonds · 1949 - 1954

The fonds consists of the photographs Frank Goodship took during his employment at the British Columbian newspaper. Many of these photographs were published in the newspaper. A search of the newspaper has provided additional information about these photos. In these cases, the date of the paper and the page number on which it appeared has been noted in the scope and content. The exact captions have usually not been added but all names of individuals given by the paper have been included. Please not that not all photographs are available online. In many cases, a number of simliar shots were taken for the same shoot. In these cases, the archives has chosen what it thinks the best and most representative shots. The other photos may be viewed at the archives. The fonds has been divided into five series.

Goodship, Frank
CA CIM 1999.003 · Fonds · 1930-1953

Fonds consists of records of the Gorge Harbour Community Hall Society, including minutes of meetings, financial statements and administrative records and correspondence. It is arranged into five series: Minutes, Financial, Administrative Records, Correspondence and Programs.

Gorge Harbour Community Hall Society
Erskine Burnett fonds
CA SAM MS 9 · Fonds · 1878

Fonds consists of one photograph album compiled by Erskine Burnett called B.C’s Inland Empire (Kamloops, Revelstoke, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Osoyoos). It includes 527 second generation images mounted on white paper held together in a three ring binder.

Burnett, Erskine
Colville family fonds
CA WVAN 051 · [1946-1951]

The fonds consists of photographs relating to the Colville family business in West Vancouver. The photographs depict army trucks transporting hikers, skiers and supplies up Hollyburn Mountain, including stops at Hi-View Lodge, and Westlake Lodge. There are also photographs of "The Forks," a rest stop and restaurant which was operated by the Colville family.

Colville (family)
Margaret Blain collection
Collection · 1946 - 1951

Collection consists of records and photographs from activities of Tiny Tots and recreation classes taught by Margaret Blain at the Civic Centre on Second Avenue. Includes notes, the Civic Centre's Bylaws revised 6 Aug 1946, correspondence, a Pro-Rec Centres bulletin, membership cards, Civic Centre Program Bulletins, program lists, a Civic Centre leaders' handbook, book of enrollment, and attendance for programs. Photographs include the civic centre building, gymnastics, tiny tots, and staff including Don Forward, Neil Ross, Bob Moore, and Jack McIntosh. Other photographs depict Norman Baker and Emile Blain, Margaret's husband, and Emile and another employee inside Blain Brothers Grocers at 837 2nd Ave. West. Ephemera consists of a Prince Rupert General Hospital feeding schedule for Barbara Blain, a Reid's Holiday Tog. Ltd. for Miss M. Slin, a Pro-Rec winter schedule from 1946-1947, and a birth form from the Prince Rupert General Hospital, dated June 21, 1950.

Blain, Margaret
Herald Family Fonds
CA SAM MS 140 · Fonds · 1870

The title is based on the contents of the fonds. It is divided into 6 series and consists of correspondence, a school book, two pieces of original art, and receipts for running the farm.

Herald, Dr. Dundas
J. Lewis Sangster fonds
NWMA IH 2011.30 · Fonds · 1904-1950

This fonds consists of photographs and postcards taken or collected by J. Lewis Sangster during his time spent in New Westminster, during his time traveling and during his time spent overseas during World War I. Sangster developed a large number of the photographs himself, in a small cellar in his home that was converted into a darkroom. The fonds has been divided into three series based on content: Sangster Family, Military, and New Westminster Subjects. Included in the Military series, there is a collection of Canadian Official postcards published by the British newspaper The Daily Mirror, which Sangster collected during his time serving in World War I. The family series consists of photographs taken by Sangster of his family members, as well as pictures that Sangster received from extended family members.

Sangster, J. Lewis
Meglaughlin family fonds
CA WVAN 038 · Fonds · 1920-1950

Fonds consists of the family photographs of Ted Meglaughlin and his wife, Sophie Zielski.

Meglaughlin (family)
Fonds · 1868

The fonds is divided into 9 series and consists of personal documents, work diaries, personal transactions, and miscellaneious items.

Robert Turner and Family
Allan Pritchard Collection
Collection · 1791 - 1950

This collection consists of photocopied documents, mainly from the colonial period, relating to Comox District history. Dr. Pritchard organized the material into ten groupings and prefaced each with an introduction and remarks on the historical value of the documents.
The ten groupings are: 1) Records of Exploration 1791-1860, 2) Naval Records 1846-65, 3) Colonial Government Records 1862-71, 4) Anglican Records 1862-91, 5) Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition: Unpublished Journals 1864, 6) Euclataws, Settlers and the Navy 1863-65, 7) Liquor Traffic 1863-65, 8) Comox Natives: Some Reports and Descriptions 1860-90, 9) Province of British Columbia: Sessional Papers 1871-1910, 1918, 10) H M Laing: Comox Writings 1927-c. 1950.
Copies are from original manuscripts at various institutions including the British Columbia Archives, the British National Archives at Kew, the Hudson Bay Company Archives, and the Library at the University of Toronto.

CA SAM MS 145 · Fonds · 1908

The collection comprises 12 books of registers for Tappen Valley School that span the years 1918-1920, a partial year for 1921, and 1922-1947.

The collection comprises 13 books of registers for Carlin Siding School that span the years 1908-1926.

The collection comprises correspondence between Lee Creek School Board and potential teachers and the Superintendent of Education from 1919-1928.

Department of Education - Rural Schools (Shuswap)
Letters from Helen
CA MRM 01170-1 · Series · 1938-1947
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Series consists of letters, photographs, and greeting cards, envelopes, and one postage stamp sent from Helen Waugh to Lawrence Broe between 1938 and 1947.

Lawrence Broe is referred to as "Larry" throughout the records in this series.

Fonds · 1916

The fonds is one series and consists of scrapbooks with photographs, newsclippings and postcards.

Women's Institute, Tappen, B.C.
Margaret Sage fonds
Fonds · 1945 - 1946

The fonds consists of one album of photographs taken by Sage between September 1945 and August 1946 at a relocation camp near Tashme, B.C. where she was a social worker. The photographs include general views of the scenery, individuals and groups and some smaller buildings. In addition to the camp shots, there are also pictures of Japanese Canadians preparing for relocation. The album also includes a newspaper clipping, post card and a typescript article about the Tashme Camp. The fonds also includes a small body of correspondence written by Margaret Sage to her parents Walter and Nelda Sage and to her brother Donald (1945/46).

Sage, Margaret, 1919-