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CA CVAN Add. MSS. 48 · Fonds · 1891-1930

The fonds includes the correspondence of the regiment and its predecessors, 1891-1906 and 1913-1916. There are also bound minute books for the Mess Committee, 1909-1911, Officers Fund Association, 1900-1905, "C" Company, 1900-1914, and Headquarters Company, 1908-1920; financial records, 1896-1914; curricular materials, 1898-1899; an undated set of military lectures; a transcript of a hearing of insubordination against Sgt. Maj. John Turner, 1898; a Record of Officers' Services, 1893-1920 (up-dated to 1930 by Major J.S. Matthews); Regimental Orders, 1903-1908 and 1915-1917; Standing Mess Rules, 1912; and a roll of Regimental Trophy Winners, 1904-1909.

Canada. Militia. Regiment, 6th (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 67 · Fonds · 1917-1954

The fonds consists of the bound records, correspondence, orders, photographs and historical documents of the Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion, as well as maps, papers and correspondence pertaining to the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, CEF, and a typescript history of the Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion written by Lt. Col. Francis Layton in 1954.

Canada. Canadian Army. Machine Gun Battalion, 11th
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 51 · Fonds · 1913-1925

The fonds consists of correspondence and orders, 1913-1925; personal records of Private Robert Francis Morrison; and a crime report on Private C. LePoidevin.

Canada. Militia. Regiment, 11th (Irish Fusiliers of Canada)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 483 · Fonds · 1915-1919, 1981, 1992

The fonds consists of 29th official war diary, postmaster's register, nominal rolls, personal diaries of Joseph Falconer, Fred Hinchcliffe (P.O.W.) and John F. Frost (stretcher-bearer) and miscellaneous papers and photographs. Also included is a list of 29th Battalion members compiled in 1981.

29th (Vancouver) Battalion Association
A.E. Hill fonds
CA CVAN CVA 301 · Fonds · [ca. 1912]-1935

The fonds consists of Hill's photographs of the Vancouver waterfront and local scenery.

Hill, A.E.
A.W. Phair fonds
CA CVAN CVA 10 · Fonds · 1886, 1902

The fonds consists of Phair's photographs of scenery in Lillooet.

Phair, A.W.
Abbott family fonds
CA CVAN CVA 256 · Fonds · 1885-[ca. 1901]

The fonds consists of the Abbott family photograph album showing various scenes pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its official events; various British Columbia scenes and Vancouver streetscapes; and an album prepared by Edwards Brothers showing scenes around British Columbia, primarily views of Vancouver, Rossland and Sandon.

Abbott, Harry (family)
Ada May Stevenson fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 750 · Fonds · 1942-1967

The fonds consists of clippings and an original letter detailing conveyance of Callister Park to the City. There are also other sundry clippings and personal papers, including an interim and final accounting of the Stevenson Estate.

Stevenson, Ada May, d. 1944
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 199 · Fonds · 1943-1947

The fonds consists of minutes of the weekly meetings of the Advisory Committee, 1943-1945. There is correspondence addressed to the committee, 1943-1947, including inquiries regarding properties for sale, individual reactions to the confiscation and copies of correspondence from the secretary of State and from the Department of the Secretary of State. There are listings of individual properties and the history of their disposal, together with general policies re sales, 1943-1947; a copy of the Report of the Advisory Committee on Japanese Properties in Greater Vancouver, June 1945; printed catalogues of unsold property, 1943-1946; and clippings, 1944-1945.

Canada. Advisory Committee on Japanese Properties in Greater Vancouver
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 767 · Fonds · 1952-1966

The fonds consists of a constitution, list of directors, notices of meetings, and correspondence.

Air Pollution Control Society
Alan Lever fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 768 · Fonds · 1958-1974

The fonds consists of records of Alan Lever including constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, and financial records of boards and associations concerned with the development of a city museum, particularly the Vancouver Civic Museum Board; the Vancouver Maritime Museum, the Vancouver Railway Museum Association, and the Discovery of Vancouver Society. Also included is a report on museum development by T. A. Heinrich and a study of a proposal to amalgamate Vancouver and Burnaby.

Lever, Alan
Alan Morley fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 786 · Fonds · 1940

The fonds consists of clippings of Morley's newspaper column, "Romance of Vancouver", and the accompanying illustrations by Fraser Wilson.

Morley, Alan Palmer
Alcazar Hotel fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 773 · Fonds · 1914-1922

The fonds consists of financial records for the Alcazar Hotel.

Alcazar Hotel (Vancouver, B.C.)
Alexander Begg fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 181 · Fonds · 1887-1923

The fonds consists of miscellaneous personal papers, 1890-1940; correspondence and writings on the Crofter Immigration Scheme, 1887-1904; papers dealing with the writing of his "History of British Columbia," 1893-1904; miscellaneous business papers, including railway speculations and construction, 1896-1903.

Begg, Alexander
Alexander Godfrey fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 169;CVA 162 · Fonds · [ca. 1860]-1928

The fonds consists largely of letters written by Godfrey to his wife and family from Atlin and Dawson, 1899-1900. There is also a copy of his marriage certificate, 1889; a list of signatures supporting Godfrey as alderman in 1891; two school report cards of Eva Godfrey, 1901 and 1907; photographs of Godfrey and his family, including view of St. Paul's Indian Mission church in North Vancouver; newspapers The Atlin Claim, 1899-1909, The Klondike Nugget, 1900, and others, 1891-1909.

Godfrey, Alexander
Alexander Lambie fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 955;87-1 · Fonds · 1905-1928

The fonds consists of textual records (including correspondence), cartoons, photographs and publications. Fonds includes drawings by J.B. Fitzmaurice.

Lambie, Alexander
Alexander Philip fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 665 · Fonds · 1899-1902

The fonds consists primarily of correspondence which reflects Philip's work of a real estate agent and other endeavours.

Philip, Alexander
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 420 · Fonds · 1891-1972

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, financial statements, and annual reports of the organization, as well as reports and documentation of the agency's recreational programming, social work services, and neighbourhood development projects. There are some case files relating to families that received social service assistance, as well as some clippings, and photographs. Fonds includes records of the Alexandra Non-Sectarian Orphanage and Home for Children, Alexandra Community Activities, and Community Chest and Councils of the Greater Vancouver Area.

Alexandra Neighbourhood Services Association
Alfred D. Long fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 107 · Fonds · 1961

The fonds consists of letters, memoranda and circulars concerning the establishment of the Archives of Aviation.

Long, Alfred D.
Alfred Holmes fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 810;CVA 719;83-14 · Fonds · 1888-1963

The fonds consists of the papers of A. R. C. Holmes, including correspondence, school records, sketchbooks, drawings, and cartoons, publications, greeting cards, and photographs of various regions in B.C. Also included are original cartoons by Al Beaton, F. Messurier and Thursby.

Holmes, Alfred Robertson Casswell
Alpen Holdings Limited fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1116 · Fonds · 1951-1981

The fonds consists of minutes, annual reports, financial statements, and correspondence regarding the transfer of shares of Alpen Holdings Limited.

Alpen Holdings Limited
American Woman's Club fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1025 · Fonds · 1914-1989

The fonds consists of minutes, financial accounts, membership lists, and historical files. The historical files include photographs, newsclippings, memorabilia, historical sketches and architectural plans for a proposed clubhouse. The fonds also includes a scrapbook chronicling sixty years of club activity.

American Woman's Club (Vancouver, B.C.)
Amy Leigh fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1400 · Fonds · 1921, 1938, 1941-1945, [2000 or 2001]

Fonds contains records pertaining to the Women's Ambulance Corps, including photographs, issues of the Corps' newsletter, newsclippings and a WAC broach. Fonds also includes an album of photographs taken on a trail ride to Tweedsmuir Park in 1938, two photographs of Stanley Park (1921), biographical information on Amy Leigh, and other materials.

Leigh, Amy, d. 2001
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 2 · Fonds · 1881-1888

The fonds consists of a letterbook of Granville Lodge No. 29. Most of the correspondence deals with payment of dues and insurance claims involving Lodge 29 and the Grand Recorder in the Lodge at Portland, Oregon.

Ancient Order of United Workmen. Granville Lodge No. 29
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 870;CVA 783 · Fonds · 1861-1972

The fonds consists of business records from the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company and its American subsidiaries. Most of the records span the time 1891 to 1968. The majority of the records from the ABC Packing Company fall into three series: annual records, Advisory Board Minutes and legal records. The records of the Fidalgo Island Packing Company are represented by three minute books covering the period from 1895 to 1964. There is also one bound minute book which documents five U.S. fishing companies which were owned by the Fidalgo Island Packing Company from 1910 to 1927.

Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company