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Fonds · 1985-1996, predominant 1991-1995

The fonds consists of records which document the origins of SDRI and reflect its activities during its first five years of existence, and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, and published materials. It is arranged in five series (Central Files, General Correspondence, UBC Correspondence, Subject Files, Research Projects) and one sous-fonds ("Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives" Conference).

University of British Columbia. Sustainable Development Research Institute
Trail Creek News fonds
CA TCA 1977-41 · Fonds · 1903-1905

The fonds consists of a bound letterbook of outgoing correspondence from W. Esling and A.W. Taylor, General Managers of the Trail Creek News.

Trail Creek News
CA FTST MS 19 · Fonds · 1896

The fonds consists of a diary/logbook recording weather, temperature, water levels, mail delivery, stage arrivals, and steamboat arrivals for 1896.

Upper Columbia Navigation and Tramway Company
Fonds · 1966-1985

The fonds consists of photographs of the Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation and its predecessor, Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., depicting the development of the ski resort of Whistler including people, facilities, events, and scenes of the Whistler area. Fonds includes aerial photographs and photographs of construction of various facilities.

Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation
CA KMA 63.110 · Fonds · 1902-1924

The fonds consists of daybook, journal and waybills of the company.

William B. Bailey and Company
William T. Rutherford fonds
CA EMA V986.4;V986.9;986.14;986.18;987.6 · Fonds · [ca. 1922]-1966

The fonds consists of photographs depicting scenes of Esquimalt and the Thoburn Garage. Fonds includes a certificate and ephemera.

Rutherford, William T.
Windsor Hotel fonds
Fonds · 1922-1956

The Windsor Hotel fonds consists of financial records primarily in the form of bound journals that have recorded general expenses, stock inventories, staff hours, unemployment insurance commission forms, bills and receipts. Several hotel operation guides, ephemera and oversized miscellanea are also a part of the fonds. The bulk of the material was created from the day-to-day operation of the hotel.

Windsor Hotel (New Westminster, B.C.)
CA RMDC MS 99 A2023.000.020 · Collection · ca. 1950s-ca.2000

The Rossland Board of Trade has documents from 1896 - 1961, and is arranged in the following series:

  1. Certificate of formation
  2. Minutes
  3. Correspondence
  4. Financial records
  5. By-laws
  6. Reports
  7. Publications
  8. Membership Applications
  9. Lists
  10. Ephemera
  11. Maps
  12. Notes
  13. Clippings
Rossland Chamber of Commerce
Bell family fonds
CA DMA CR-4 · Fonds · 1859-[ca. 1979]

The Bell family fonds is arranged in three sous-fonds: Edith Bell sous-fonds, Edward Bell sous-fonds, and Harry Bell sous-fonds. Edith Bell's records include diaries, scrapbooks and photographs of family and community events as well as records pertaining to her membership in various organizations including the Imperial Order Daughter of the Empire. Edward Bell's records consist of business papers, particularly land records and wills. Harry Bell's records are personal records related to the Bell family. Through photographs, cartographic material, and textual records, the records document not only the Bell family, but much of the community of Delta. Edith Bell's records provide insight into Delta social affairs and families, while Edward Bell's business records reveal economic and social change as it is documented in land transactions.

Bell (family)
CA LMA MS 1 · Fonds · [Photocopied 199-?]

The fonds consists of the personal records and research notes compiled by Bernie Fandrich as evidence in his legal defense suti against the Lytton Indian Band from 1983-1987. Includes personal correspondence (1983, 1985), a timeline of the suit (1973-1987), research notes (1860-1914, 1961-63) and photographs, maps, and all research notes and documents chronicling the construction of the Lytton-Lillooet highway and the Thompson River bridge, as well as the legal disposition of government and reserve lands in and around the Lytton area.

Fandrich, Bernie, 1945-
Fonds · 1952

Fonds consists of newspaper clippings and interior and exterior photographs of the Bond's restaurant location at 449 Nicol Street. Also includes images of Warner and Laurie Bond.

Bond's Fish & Chips Restaurant
Britannia Hotel fonds
Fonds · 1903-1913

Fonds consists of a ledger recording the monthly receipts and expenditures of the hotel. Each double page covers one month. The daily total of receipts is entered on the left hand leaf and the right hand folio has the specific expenditures of each day.

Britannia Hotel (Nanaimo, B.C.)
C.B. Hume and Co. Ltd. fonds
Fonds · 1902-1937

The fonds consists of minutes, financial statements, deeds, stock certificates, correspondence, tax records, insurance documents, account ledgers and photographs.

C.B. Hume and Company
Cameron Lake Chalet fonds
Fonds · 1912-1936

The fonds consists of the hotel registers (1912-1936) of the Cameron Lake Chalet.

Cameron Lake Chalet
Fonds · 1940-1967

The collection consists of photographs from the CIBC Archives. Larger images were taken in the 1940s of the interior and exterior of the Canadian Bank of Commerce on Alexander Ave. Later images were taken in 1967 after the Montebello fire and illustrate the streetscape in the downtown core. The source of the 1967 images is CIBCs premise department collection. The collection consists of laser prints and corresponding digital images.

Alfred W. McLeod Ltd. fonds
Fonds · 1860-1980, predominant 1904-1970

The fonds consists of records created by the McLeod Company in the course of carrying out its business functions. However, the collection also contains records of other creators. This latter group of records was most likely acquired by the McLeod Company in the exercise of its corporate management role. Thus in this collection there are records created by the Westminster Trust Co., Westminster Apartments Ltd., the Dominion Trust Co, and F.J. Hart & Co. The records include books of minutes, a stock register and stock transfer books, stock certificates, debentures, wills, estate files, insurance records, newspaper clippings, architectural drawings, and photographs.

Alfred W. McLeod Ltd.
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-
Ashcroft Hotel fonds
CA ASH 0.1624 · Fonds · 1916

The fonds consists of the hotel register for 1916 of the Ashcroft Hotel.

Ashcroft Hotel
A.E. Planta fonds
Fonds · 1903-1911

The fonds consists of business correspondence (1903-1908), Fire Insurance applications and policy reports (1908-1909), and a receipt book (1911).

Planta, A.E., b. 1868
Cornelius Bryant collection
Fonds · Photocopied ca. 1975 (originally created 1880 -1893)

Collection consists of a page from an album that includes a British program for the 1887 Harvest Festival Service led by Cornelius Bryant and a file of photocopied receipts and invoices from Nanaimo businesses, 1880-1893. The receipts may have been collected by M.A. Kenny whose name appeared on the envelope that contained them.

Edgar Dunning fonds
CA DMA CR-115 · Fonds · 1830-1983, predominant 1930-1980

The fonds consists of Mr. Dunning's family and business records; records accumulated as a member of various community organizations; and documents, manuscripts, and photographs resulting from Edgar's work for the Delta newspaper, the Optimist, and his interest in Delta community events and history. Family records include correspondence and legal records regarding the property on 48th Avenue and Delta Street, as well as financial and educational certificates. A large series of memorabilia includes invitations and other ephemera, which Edgar accumulated as publisher and reporter for the Optimist and as active community member. Business records are largely from the Optimist printing business, and include examples of print products such as invitations, programs, letterheads, tickets, municipal reports, etc., which were printed for local people and businesses of Delta. A small series of Optimist newspaper records include lists of subscribers from the 1940s. The fonds includes a sample of Edgar's writings for the Optimist on historical topics, plus a larger group of manuscripts that have been edited by him in his capacity as editor of the Optimist and as an interested and knowledgeable local historian. The fonds also consists of minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, etc. accumulated by Edgar as a member of the Delta Community Band, various centennial committees, the Delta Historical and Museum Society, and other organizations. Edgar is a talented amateur photographer, and his photograph collection reflects his work as a reporter and his interest in the people and events of Delta. The fonds has been arranged in the following series: Centennial committees records; Delta Community Band records; Other society and committee records; Family papers; Manuscripts; Memorabilia; The Optimist (newspaper) records; The Optimist (printers) records; Photographs; Reference files.

Dunning, Edgar, 1910-2010
CA WMA 988.31 · Fonds · 1945-[ca. 1960]

The fonds consists of the expenditure book (1945) and hand-written newsletters (1949-1951) of the resort lodge. Fonds includes photographs of the facilities and people at the resort.

Hillcrest Summer Resort
Hoggan's Store fonds
Fonds · 1903-1906

The fonds consists of store accounts, listed by name in random order.

Hoggan's Store
Home Inn fonds
CA KIM KM 989.53.1 · Fonds · 1947

The fonds consists of the timebook (1947) for the Home Inn.

Home Inn (Kimberley, B.C.)