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Alain Boire collection
CA CCOQ C10 · Collection · 2000 - 2016

The collection consists largely of research materials and notes created in the preparation of Boire's book "With Hearts and Minds" published in 2016. The remainder of the collection consists of materials collected by Boire from Caisse Populaire Maillardville Credit Union, as well as accumulated material pertaining to Boire's involvement in several community initiatives, such as the Maillardville Residents' Association, Maillardville revitalization and planning, and Place Maillardville.

Materials include correspondence, photographs, administrative records, interviews, reports, handwritten notes, clippings, advertising and professional materials, newsletters, research materials, prints, postcards, ephemera, a map, embossing seals, a lid from a glass milk bottle, and other documents. The collection also includes a manuscript copy of "With Hearts and Minds."

Boire, Alain Joseph
New Westminster subjects
NWMA IH 2011.30-C · Series · 1905-1940
Part of J. Lewis Sangster fonds

Series consists of negatives, prints and postcards from J. Lewis Sangster’s time spent growing up and living in New Westminster.

Sangster, J. Lewis
CA UVICARCH AR430 · Item · 2009

Item consists of sound recordings of Debby Yaffe discussing her childhood, schooling and family life in California, including gendered family roles, expectations of femininity in the 1950s, university, marriage and life in Europe, her feminist consciousness raising experience in London, teaching high school in London, the differences between English and American societies, sex discrimination, radical feminist activities, restructuring of sexual relationships, life in Canada and involvement in the Women’s movement in Victoria, Status of Women Action group, Everywomens Books, disordered eating as feminist issue, work as a fitness instructor, abortion rights, impact on feminist awareness of the December 6, 1989 killings at École Polytechnique in Montréal, radical feminism, women’s lives in Canada and England, life as a lesbian, resisting dominant domestic relationship constructs, teaching Women’s Studies, feminist theory, and the Victoria Women’s Movement Archives.

The Debby Yaffe interview was conducted by Joy Fisher as a research project in the course History 358A, “Women in Canada,” taught by Dr. Lynne Marks, which covered histories of women in Canada from the era of New France to the present. Fisher’s resulting essay is entitled “Riding the Wave/ Watching the Wave: A Second Wave Feminist Talks about Gender Ideologies and her Life.”

Yaffe, Debby
Stephanie Castle fonds
CA UVICARCH AR422 · Fonds · 1982 - 2002 (1993-2002 predominant)

Fonds consists of: copies of Zenith Digest and material relating to the administration of the Zenith Foundation; the Foundation’s participation as an intervener in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal regarding Synthia Kavanagh and the Correctional Service of Canada; and copies of the following publications:
The Partnership, by Stephanie Castle
Shadows in the City, by Stephanie Castle
Tales from Cascadia - Volume One, by Stephanie Castle
A Tale of Two Wives, by Stephanie Castle
Prisoner of Gender, by Katherine Johnson & Stephanie Castle
As Much as Me?, by Margot Roberts

Castle, Stephanie
CA UVICARCH AR353 · Fonds · 1999-2001

The fonds consists of case files of each interviewee. Each file contains a tape summary, biographical information, a personal photograph, and an audiocassette tape of the interview. Also included is a file with a sample copy of all the forms used in documenting the project.

University Women's Club of Victoria. Oral History Project
Andy Bigg fonds
CA UVICARCH AR351 · Fonds · 1930-1995

The fonds consists of the following series: Correspondence, 1947-1995; Autobiography manuscripts, 1948-1995; Photographs, 1948-1980; Writing, 1940-1996; Subject files; Newspaper subject files; Newspaper reprints; Newspapers, 1958-1978; Scrapbook of B.C. provincial campaign, 1975; Recording of meeting with Andy Bigg and staff of Cowichan Pictorial regarding joining Union, 1973. The Newspapers include: a complete set of the Western Advocate, 1958-1959, and a complete set of front covers of the Cowichan Pictorial, 1966-1978.

Bigg, Andy, 1915-
Lesbianews fonds
CA UVICARCH AR081 · Fonds · 1989-

The fonds consists of newsletters.

Lesbianews
Eileen Kenwood fonds
CA UVICARCH AR076 · Fonds · 1961-1991

The fonds consists of research files arranged in alphabetical order; a selection of file titles includes: Alternate energy, Clayoquot Resource Centre, Dube Symposium, Insecticides, Military, Seed banks, Tooth survey form, UVic-- Dangerous organisms, and Voice of Women. The newsletters and pamphlets have been transferred to the Voice of Women pamphlet collection.

Kenwood, Eileen
Gerhart B. Friedmann fonds
CA UVICARCH AR056 · Fonds · 1960-1986

The fonds consists of records documenting Friedmann's interests and activities both on and off the University of Victoria campus. Fonds includes reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings and course outlines for new courses offered in physics (including the co-op programme), nursing, and social work, records of Senate and faculty committees, material relating to the resignations of University of Victoria Presidents Bruce Partridge and Malcolm Taylor and the appointment as President of Howard Petch, material relating to the University of Victoria Open Houses, and records (including constitutions, minutes financial records) relating to the Cadboro Bay Ratepayers Association and Community Plan, the Canadian Parents for French, the Vancouver Island Opera Society and the Victoria Symphony Society.

Friedmann, Gerhart Bruno
CA PMM A1998.0003;A1998.0004;A1998.0005;A1998.0010;A1998.0011;A1999.0004;A1999.0006;A1999.0009;A1999.0012;A2000.0003;A2000.0012 · Fonds · ca. 1920-1995

Collection consists of colour and black and white photographs which depict people and events in the Pitt Meadows area. Subjects include, but are not limited to: Graybrook farm, McComb farm, McMyn farm house, schools and pioneers.

Gazette photo collection
CA PMM A1997.0021 · Fonds · ca. 1950-ca. 1970

Collection consists of 34 black and white photographs from the Gazette newspaper relating to people places, and events in Pitt Meadows and area.

CA PMM A1996.0031;A1997.0029;A2000.0009;A2000.0010 · Fonds · 1989-2000

Collection consists of oral history tapes and two handwritten histories of Pitt Meadows. Collection includes an oral history recording of Hazel Anderson (nee Park).

CA JHS A.2014.007 · Fonds · 1911, 1920-1921

The fonds consists of a series of love-letters written between Morris Soskin and Rose Hyams. These letters were written in 1921 between Vancouver (where Morris lived) and Montreal (where Rose lived).

Soskin (family)
CA JHS A.2012.017, A.2013.018 · Fonds · 1862-1864

Fonds consists of material documenting early BC Jewish history. Fonds is arranged into two series: Congregation Emanu-El manuscripts; and Letters from Abraham Blackman to his brother Morris, Jewish merchants in colonial British Columbia.

Keenlyside, John
Congregation Emanu-El fonds
CA JHS A.2012.004 · Fonds · 1851-2012

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.

The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.

Congregation Emanu-El
CA JHS A.2011.035 · Fonds · 1975-2002

Fonds is arranged into three series: Administrative and operational records; Newspaper clippings; Photographs and audio/visual.

Burquest Jewish Community Association
Congregation Har El fonds
CA JHS A.2009.008 · Fonds · 1962-2000

The fonds consists of administrative and operational records from Congregation Har El. Textual records include: minutes and correspondence, publications, and financials.

The fonds is arranged into 8 series: Publications; Synagogue construction; Fundraising; Board minutes; North Shore Jewish Centre (NSJC) records; Financial records; West Vancouver School Board dealings; and Congregation Har El miscellaneous files.

Congregation Har El
Nemetz family fonds
CA JHS A.2008.016, A.2011.018 · Fonds · [ca. 1910-2012]

The fonds consists of photographs and textual records from various members of the Nemetz family, including the Dayson family, the Barnett family, and the Fader family.

The fonds is arranged into four series: Nathan Nemetz scrapbooks and photograph albums (photocopies); Textual records; Photographs; Audio/Visual.

Nemetz family
Tracy Ames collection
CA JHS A.2001.001 · Fonds · 1916-1987

The fonds consist of correspondence, minutes, applications for funding, distribution lists, and draft material relating to the video. The fonds is arranged into 2 series: Photographs and sound recordings; and Research files.

Ames, Tracy
Altman family collection
CA JHS A.1999.013 · Fonds · 1904-2001

The fonds consists of community publications, community ephemera, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and musical scores. The fonds is arranged into 3 series: Community publications; Altman family files; and Music collection which consists of scores of both Jewish and general popular songs that bear the name of Sari Corbin.

Altman (family)
Shirley Nute fonds
CA EMA 993.71 · Fonds · 1893-1975

The fonds consists of photographs of the Nute residences in Esquimalt and of people and community events.

Nute, Shirley Filewod, 1925-
William E. John fonds
CA EMA 993.65;V987.5;V987.35;V990.30;V991.21;V991.27;V989.40;V989.48 · Fonds · [ca. 1935-1987]

The fonds consists of photographs of scenes and community events in Esquimalt, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s.

John, William E.
Annie McVie fonds
CA EMA 993.53 · Fonds · 1921-1985

The fonds consists of certificates and awards of recognition received by Annie McVie for her community work along with photographs of McVie and of buildings operated by the Victoria Senior Citizens Housing Authority.

McVie, Annie
Ken Richmond fonds
CA EMA 993.1 · Fonds · 1914-1922, 1967

The fonds consists of Richmond's school photographs of Lampson Street School in Esquimalt along with photographs of scenes and industry in Esquimalt.

Richmond, Ken
Stewart family fonds
CA KSM 993-49 · Fonds · 1913-1936

The fonds consists of photographs of the Stewart family depicting the family home, family members, and community scenes in Lake Cowichan and area. Photographs include those depicting the railways and railroad stations in Lake Cowichan.

Stewart (family)