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CA CVAN Add. MSS. 525;Add. MSS. 666;CVA 385 · Fonds · 1968-1980

The fonds consists of minutes, membership lists, publications, notes and correspondence on party policy and election campaigns, as well as some financial records and photographs (portraits of candidates and publicity photographs from various sites around Vancouver).

The Electors' Action Movement
Elek Imredy fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1371 · Fonds · 1944-1996

The fonds consists of the records of the sculptor Elek Imredy. They document his life and work, focusing on the decades following his emigration to Canada. The fonds consists of the following series: personal records, correspondence, teaching activities, project files, subject files, artwork, scrapbooks, albums and photographs, and miscellaneous files.

Imredy, Elek
Elizabeth Abbott fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 753 · Fonds · 1900-1919, 1967

The fonds consists of four letters written by William Hart-McHarg to Abbott; clippings and newspapers covering the wars; and photographs of McHarg in uniform.

Abbott, Elizabeth Scott, 1871-1957
CA CVAN CVA 1215 · Fonds · [ca. 1909-1920]

The fonds consists of photographs of interior and exterior views of the Electric Supply Company headquarters.

Electric Supply Company
Elizabeth B. Murray fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 915 · Fonds · 1959-1960, 1973

The fonds consists of Murray's records including the constitution and by-laws, duties of the executive committee, financial report, and other material relating to the Telephone Employees' Camera Club.

Murray, Elizabeth B.
Elizabeth Walker fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1349;CVA 207 · Fonds · 1963-2000

The fonds consists of Walker's photographs of examples of Vancouver architecture, background and research records for her book "Street Names of Vancouver", as well as a manuscript.

Walker, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Flaherty fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 18;Add. MSS. 691;CVA 627 · Fonds · 1931-1940, [ca.1960]

The fonds consists of miscellaneous records and pamphlets, including pilot's licence and an Air Pilotage Work Book. Fonds includes photographs of Flaherty.

Flaherty, Elizabeth
Emma Walker fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 209 · Fonds · 1938-1954

Fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mrs. Emma J. Walker. Included in the scrapbook are Walker's account of the plan, newspaper clippings, copies of resolutions by the National Council of Women, letters of appreciation from Buckingham Palace and from the Office of the Agent-General, and outlines of the Kinsmen Trust scholarships.

Walker, Emma J.
Emma Cripps fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 100 · Fonds · 1877-1890

The fonds consists of poetry on patriotic, religious, topical and sentimental themes.

Cripps, Emma
Eric Chown fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 422;CVA 471 · Fonds · 1960-1968

The fonds consists of four scrapbooks assembled by Chown. Two of them cover his tenure with the Citizenship Court (1960-1968), another deals with the War Savings Committee (1940-1942), and the last contains certificates of distinction presented to Chown as well as clippings, programs, photographs (of Kiwanis club activities and Barbara Ann Scott) relating to the Chown family, Samuel Dwight Chown, and the United Church.

Chown, Eric Vickers, b. 1897
Ernest Cleveland fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 152 · Fonds · 1898, 1938-1949

The fonds consists of a book of manuscript notes on mining claims in the Thurlow region of Johnstone Strait. There are also two letters written by Cleveland in 1938 and 1949.

Cleveland, Ernest Albert
Ernest Le Messieur fonds
CA CVAN Doc. Art 76-32 · Fonds · [ca. 1915-1922]

The fonds consists of Le Messieur's drawings, including commercial art, portraits, and political cartoons.

Le Messieur, Ernest
Ernest Fewster fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 663 · Fonds · 1899-1900, 1902, 1913-[ca. 1958]

The fonds consists of ten bound volumes of Fewster's writings (eight of the volumes contain collected poems, the other two contain prose writings); as well as correspondence, unbound writings, news clippings, publications, biographical notes, and files of material relating to other writers. In addition, there is a printed portrait of Fewster and a printed copy of a poem.

Fewster, Ernest Philip
Ethelyn Trapp fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 211 · Fonds · 1939-1971

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, 1939-1971, which includes letters from many fellow-doctors, and from friends in England and Europe. The professional correspondence, 1945-1970, consists of letters to and from colleagues on medical matters and organizational matters.

Trapp, Ethelyn
Eustace Smith Ltd. fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 893 · Fonds · 1914-1966

The fonds consists of timber estimates by Eustace Smith and others, including cruise reports, correspondence, tables, and maps for many coastal areas of British Columbia and a few interior areas.

Eustace Smith Ltd.
Everett Crowley fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 904;CVA 473 · Fonds · 1870-1984

The fonds consists of papers, publications and photographs relating to various topics: the Vancouver Junior Board of Trade, the Rowell-Sirois Report, provincial-municipal relations, Vancouver City Planning Commission, discrimination, and Vivian Engine Works Ltd.

Crowley, Everett, ca. 1908-1984
Evelyn MacKechnie fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1381 · Fonds · 1968-1979

The fonds consists of records reflecting Mrs. MacKechnie's involvement in saving the entrance to Stanley Park from encroachment by proposed development and in the revitalization of Gastown. Included are minutes, reports, briefs, news clippings, correspondence, financial documents, submissions to City Council, maps, plans, drawings, research notes, photographs, flyers, etc.

MacKechnie, Evelyn
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 25 · Fonds · 1897-1899

The fonds consists of minutes of the meetings of the Directors, 1897-1899.

Excelsior Gold Mining Company
F.C. Innes and Company fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 38 · Fonds · 1885-1899

The fonds consists of business correspondence largely involving real estate transactions and inquiries. There are copies of several mortgages drawn up by the firm, and replies from Eastern Canada, the United States and Britain to various real estate advertisements place by the F.C. Innes Co. There are also deeds dating from the 1880s for property sold by the Company.

F.C. Innes and Company
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 749 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1980]

The fonds includes the congregational minute book, 1900-1952; register of Baptisms etc., 1892-1953; minute book of youth group 1909-1913; and the constitution and account book of Ladies Aid, 1899-1930.

First Lutheran Church (Vancouver, B.C.)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 917 · Fonds · 1979-1986

The fonds consists of the papers of the First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee. It also includes consultants reports and papers of other planning agencies relating to the development of the First Shaughnessy Plan.

First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee
Francis Black fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 149 · Fonds · 1892-1910

The fonds consists of the original copy of an article by F.M. Black, published in Scotland in 1893, Down the Selkirks on the Cowcatcher, together with a covering letter by Black to Mr. Cotterell of the CPR. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings.

Black, Francis Mollison
Francis Carter-Cotton fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 752;CVA 299 · Fonds · 1866-1919

The fonds consists of incoming correspondence from various notables of Carter-Cotton's time, among them Wilfrid Laurier and Sandford Fleming. There are miscellaneous personal papers and legal documents, and a collection of early newspapers, including the first edition of the Daily News published after the Great Fire of 1886. Also included are photographs of the provincial legislature and the News-Advertiser.

Carter-Cotton, Francis Lovet
Francis Pilkington fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 879 · Fonds · 1917-1970

The fonds consists of correspondence, pamphlets, working drafts of publications, letters to the editor, manuscripts and biographical data.

Pilkington, Francis C.