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Deconstructed Dollhouse
File · 1996-2017
Part of Margaret Dragu fonds

File contains a range of materials including an Open Space studio program guide from 2017, for Performance Art Aktions where Dragu revisited “A Deconstructed Dollhouse”. There are also materials related to the show’s original 1996 performance including a script, theatre essays, photographs/contact sheets, photocopies of posters, and advertisements. File also contains a photograph by Eric Metcalfe depicting Dragu holding fruit/veg in the front of her skirt.

Fonds · 1925-2017

Fonds consist of records from the Powell Street Methodist/United Church, and postwar Vancouver Japanese United Church; as well as the English-Speaking Congregation sous-fonds. Records include: Baptism, marriage and burial records (1896-1942); Membership records (1896-1942); Board and Committee records (1918-1942); Sunday School records (1932-1941); Youth Group records ([before 1942]-1942); Special Program records (1922-1942); Correspondence/Subject files ([before 1942]-1968); Annual reports (1929-1941); Newsletters (1928-1941); and Photographs ([1897?]-2004).

The English-Speaking Congregation sous-fonds includes: Baptism, marriage, and burial records (1970-2008); Membership records (1959-2016); Board and Committee records (1955-2017); Congregational correspondence (1969-1976); Annual reports (1971-2016); Bulletins and newsletters (1954-2009); Church history (1936-2013); Women's group records (1989-1999); Records of other groups (1952-1970); and Photographs (1905-2006).

Vancouver Japanese United Church
Gayblevision collection
CA SVE GBV · Collection · 1980 - 2017

The collection consists of episodes, specials, and much of the surviving raw footage from the 1980s TV series Gayblevision. The collection also contains writing and photographs documenting the history of Gayblevision. Gayblevision was Canada’s first TV series produced “by gay people for gay people”. It was broadcast on Vancouver Cable 10 through its West End Neighbourhood production centre (located in the West End Community Centre) between 1980 and 1986. Gayblevision is a priceless window into Vancouver’s LGBTQ communities during years of tremendous growth and upheaval, documenting the LGTBQ people, organizations, businesses and events that defined Vancouver West End’s Davie Village in the early 1980s. The series aired monthly on the first and third Tuesday of the month. In addition to regular episodes, Gayblevision also produced a series of in-depth specials.

The collection is divided into 3 series:

  1. Episodes and specials
  2. Textual records and graphic materials
  3. Oral histories
Gayblevision
Board of Governors fonds
VCCL F-18 · Fonds · 1977 - 2016

The fonds consists of meeting minutes, enrolment audits, board members lists, and the rules and regulations of the Board of Governors.

Vancouver Community College. Board of Governors
News Clippings
CA CCOQ C5-S06 · Series · 1870 - 2016
Part of Riverview Hospital Historical Society collection

This series is the clipping collection accrued and maintained by the Riverview Hospital Historical Society. It includes original and copied newspaper clippings related to Riverview Hospital. This series also includes correspondence from the office of the Executive Director of Riverview Hospital on the topic of specific news articles and events. Record types in this series include newspaper clippings, photocopies, printed website content, one scrapbook, and one poster.

Riverview Hospital Historical Society
Issues
CA PMRCA 06 · Series · 1983-2016
Part of Robert F. Smith fonds

Series consists of records relating to the topics and activities associated with truth and reconciliation and with sexual orientation and the ordination of gay and lesbian people.

Fonds · 1944-2016

Fonds consists of the following record series: Board and committee minutes (1946-2015); Board and committee correspondence and reports (1947-1960); Fair Haven Auxiliary records (1962-2009); Communications and marketing materials (1944-2007); Annual reports (1949-2016); Historical reference materials (1945-2009); and Photographs (1992-2011).

Fair Haven Homes Society
CA SFU F-61 · Fonds · 1964 - 2016, predominant 1964-1999

Fonds consists of records created or received by Media and Public Relations in the course of carrying out its administrative and operational functions. Activities and topics documented include the establishment, organization and operation of the unit; photographing SFU people, places and events for campus publications; providing information to the public; arranging special events; liaising with other units in the University; and producing press releases, brochures, and on-going publications.

University Communications
CA CCOQ F37-S01 · Series · 1962 - 2016
Part of Burquitlam Lions Club fonds

The series consists of records pertaining to the Burquitlam Lions Club's (BLC) administrative and membership activities. It contains material relating to the history and objectives of the BLC, including its constitution and policies, as well as the day-to-day operations of the club. Additionally, it contains membership records, a core aspect of BLC administration.

The series is divided into several subseries: membership records; agendas and minutes of meetings; constitution, policies and procedures; correspondence.

The series consists primarily of textual material. Record types represented in the series include the following: membership reports (MMRs, lists, and schedules), information about individual members, agendas, reports, and meeting minutes, motion books, constitutions, procedures, policies, agreements, ephemera, internal correspondence, and correspondence with other organizations.

Burquitlam Lions Club
Margaret Sullivan collection
CA CIM 2016.001 · Collection · 2016

Collection comprises nine large maps of Cortes Island with handwritten family trees on the back sides, created when Marg Sullivan handed out the maps at a gathering and asked everyone present to write their family trees down. Families documented include: Sullivan, Marg and Sully; Smith, Marion; Jeffery, Baron and Nellie Smith; Ringwood, Gail and Stephen; Campbell, Duane and Florence; Hansen, Hazel and Ken; Rogers, Art and Hendon, Del; McDevitt, Lottie; Borden, Vern (Borden homestead is marked on the map); Froud family; Petznik family; Beesley family; Hayes family; Mike Manson family; John Manson family; Morrison, David Reekie; Lambert family; Padgett family; Tiber (Teuber) family; Henry Hague family.

Sullivan, Margaret
Fonds · 1925-2005

Fonds consists of records from Knox United Church, Knox Presbyterian Church, and First Methodist Church. Record series include: Baptism, marriage, and burial records (1913-1987); Membership records (1911-1959, 2007); Board and committee records (1910-2004); Legal/property records (1915-1991); Women's group records (1913-1997); Men's group records (1960-1963); Sunday school records (1921-1937); Youth group records (1914-1961); Correspondence/subject files (1963-1986); Newsletters (1989-2006); Church histories (1912-2016); Congregational financial records (1910-1986); Annual reports (1913-2005); Photographs (unprocessed); Sermons (1923-1938); and a pulpit bible.

Knox United Church (Prince George, B.C.)
CA SFU F-17 · Fonds · 1965 - 2016

Fonds consists of records created or received by the Peak Publications Society primarily in the course of publishing The Peak, the student newspaper of Simon Fraser University. Activities and topics documented include the establishment and organization of the Peak Publications Society; developing sources of funding; the production of the newspaper, including the taking of photographs required to illustrate stories published; the hiring and duties of Peak staff members; and other publishing ventures of the Peak Publications Society. Includes a complete run of The Peak newspaper from 1965 and other published material such as the Terminal City Express, The Dic (student course guide), and The Peak Handbook. Also includes certification of incorporation, constitution, agendas, minutes, financial records, correspondence, and other documents, as well as contact sheets, prints, negatives, and microfilm reels.

Peak Publications Society
CA CCOQ F21 · Fonds · 1998-2016

The fonds consists of minutes, society filings, newsletters, lists of annual Directors, correspondence, and capital grant requests.

Westwood Plateau Community Association
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
Lorna R. Marsden fonds
CA UBCMOA 141 · Fonds · Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

The fonds consists of digitized photographs and slides taken by Lorna R. Marsden during her visit to northern Ethiopia in the late fall, winter, and spring of 1971-1972. Marsden traveled from Addis Ababa to Debre Libanos, Debre Markos, Bahar Dar, Gondar, Lalibela, Mekele, and Aksum. On this trip, Marsden purchased several objects, thirteen of which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016. Photographs include images of buildings, landscapes, and cityscapes, historic and tourist sites, celebrations, marketplaces, objects and goods, scenes from everyday life in urban and rural northern Ethiopia, as well as other images related to or giving context to the donated objects. The photographs also show Marsden at historic sites and other locations in northern Ethiopia, with Ethiopian locals and her travelling companions, and with some of the donated objects.

Lorna R. Marsden
Coquitlam 125 records
CA CCOQ F17-S01 · Series · 2016
Part of City of Coquitlam fonds

The series consists of records created as part of the Coquitlam 125 anniversary celebrations that took place over the course of 2016. The series includes PDF copies of stories that were submitted to the coquitlam125.ca website, as well as photographs and videos taken by a group of artists (Artists Rendering Tales Collective Inc.) commissioned by the City of Coquitlam to document events throughout the year.

City of Coquitlam. Corporate Communications
CA SFU F-67 · Collection · 1978-2016, predominant 1978-1980

The Women's Labour History Project documents the histories of women who were active in the trade union movement in British Columbia from 1890s onwards. The project was initiated by Sara Diamond, an undergraduate history student at SFU, who conducted the interviews. She received financial support from the British Columbia Summer Youth Employment Fund. Additional funding was received from many other sources, including The Canada Council, and the Federal Department of Human Resources. Diamond provides a description of her research methodology in a report included as Appendix A1, "Women's Labour History Project" (available in the hard-copy finding aid only).

The collection consists of 43 interviews conducted by Sara Diamond with women in the labour movement in British Columbia. The women discuss their childhoods, family lives, careers, social issues such as childcare and birth control, economic situations such as the depresssion and post-war employment, and the working conditions that led them to become union activists. A summary of each interview is provided in Appendix 1, "Women's Labour History Project" (available in hard-copy finding aid only).

The collection contains audio recordings and transcripts.

Diamond, Sara
Robert F. Smith fonds
Fonds · 1926-2016, predominant 1966-2016

Fonds consists of the following record series: Sermons (1966-1998); Correspondence (1988-1990); Speeches, lectures, and other material (1967-2014); National committee working papers (1987-2000); Issues (1983-2016); Published works (1970-1996); Travel journals (1984-2004); and Reference material (1926).

Smith, Robert Frederick
CA VHEC RA000--01--55 · Subseries · 2016
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of School booking forms, scrapbooks, loose scrapbooks page, research materials, Oral History Project material, correspondence, publicity, teachers materials, guest books, exhibition texts, rental agreement, exhibition photographs and slides, Canadian Heritage Information Network records and other records to do with the Open Hearts - Closed Doors: The War orphans Project exhibition, which ran from March 1 to July 29, 2016.