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Jack Wise fonds
CA UVICARCH AR393 · Fonds · 1955 - 1998 (predominant 1965-1992)

The fonds reflects Wise’s artistic inspirations, philosophical development, research interests, interactions with fellow artists and patrons, and relationships with galleries, art dealers, schools and arts organizations.

The fonds consists of correspondence, sales lists, exhibition catalogues and lists, photographs, clippings, sketches, poems and calligraphy, scrapbooks and notebooks, teaching materials, curricula vitae and biographical documents, publications, and seals and other objects used by Wise in his art practice.

Correspondents include Robert Amos, Pat Martin Bates, Pat Bovey, Brian Brett, Lin Chien-Shih, Stephen Cummings, Fleming Jorgensen, Stephen Gislason, Colin and Sheila Graham, Robin Hopper, Nick and Karin Koerner, Ramon Kubicek, Lobsang Lhalungpa, Chin-Shik Lin, Brian Longworth, Max Maynard, Avon Neal, Gary Lee Nova, Toni Onley, P.K. Page, Syn Richards, Martin Segger, Doris Shadbolt, Madeleine Shields, Robin Skelton, Huston Smith, Pete Trower, George Woodcock, and Myken Woods.

The fonds has been arranged into four series: art practice; biographical; publications and essays by others; and teaching. The art practice series consists of five sub-series: photographs; posters; exhibition catalogues; correspondence; prose, poetry and small works; and notebooks, scrapbooks and clippings.

Wise, Jack
Chester P. Lyons fonds
Fonds · 1932 - 1988

The fonds consists of material relating to Lyons's work as a BC Parks developer, botanist, author, lecturer, independent documentary filmmaker, wildlife photographer, and world traveller. It includes a variety of textual records, moving images, photographic materials, sound recordings, and maps. The fonds has been arranged into six series: 1) published materials; 2) scripts; 3) field notebooks; 4) photographic materials; 5) audiovisual materials; and 6) miscellaneous records.

Lyons, Chester P.
Fonds · 1884 - 1992

Fonds consists of the records of Skidegate United Church, its predecessors, Spencer Memorial Church and Spencer Memorial United Church, Queen Charlotte United Church, Sandspit United Church, Seaview United Church and Seaview Community Church, and Tasu United Church. Records include Baptism registers (1884-1992), Marriage registers (1884-1984), and Burial registers (1884-1969); Membership records (1953-1990); Board and Committee records (1939-1991); Women’s Group records (1920-1980); Sunday school records (1966-1980); Financial records (1955-1985); Special Events records (1971-1984); Annual statistics (1967-1989); Outreach programs records (1969-1985); Building and Property records (1966-1987); a history of the United Church in the Queen Charlotte Islands (1985).

Haida Gwaii Pastoral Charge (Skidegate, B.C.)
Robert Smithson collection
Collection · 1951-1977, 2001-2007

The material in the Robert Smithson Collection consists of items collected by the late Vancouver writer and filmmaker Dennis Wheeler. All the material is related to Wheeler’s association with the noted American artist Robert Smithson. Materials in the collection include: articles, correspondence, journals, magazines, catalogues, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, notes, slides, and negatives.

Smithson, Robert
Fonds · [ca.1885-ca.2000]

Fonds pertains to the Reformed Episcopal Church in Canada, the United States and England (known as the Free Church of England). The fonds consists of four series:

I. General Synod of the Reformed Episcopal Church of Canada (annual reports, correspondence, constitutions and canons, legal cases and general information, ca.70 cm;

II. Diocese of Western Canada (annual reports, records of individual churchs), ca.150 cm;

III. Free Church of England (yearbooks 1928-1993, and publications), ca.25 cm;

IV. Reformed Episcopal Church USA (newsletters, pamphlets, constitution and canons, general information), ca.25 cm.
The largest portion of the fonds consists of the records of St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church, New Westminster, which was from 1883 to 2002. The St. Paul's REC sub-series includes marriage, baptism and burial registers, Vestry records, records of womens groups, scrapbooks and other material.

Reformed Episcopal Church
CA NVAN Fonds 37 · Fonds · 1914-1995, predominant 1940-1977, 1989-1995

The fonds consists of copies of original records created or received by the 6th Field Engineer Squadron. Materials have been donated by Major Vince Laroque. Originals are held by the National Archives of Canada, the Department of National Defence, or the Squadron. Includes additional donation by Barbara Selby. Fonds consists of copies of war diaries, annual historical reports, printed histories, correspondence, poems, draft lists, official specifications, and sketches.

Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Engineers. Field Engineer Squadron, 6th
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 BCA F1987:10 · Fonds · 1932, 1948, 1961-1962

The fonds consists of film of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment during training and assisting in flood relief in 1948.

Canada. Canadian Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 15th
7-10 Club Society fonds
Fonds · 1983-1996

Fonds consists of records that document the functions and activities of the Society including minutes, correspondence, financial statements, and clippings about the Society that appeared in the Nanaimo media. Fonds is arranged in six series: 1) Constitution and by-laws; 2) Minutes; 3)Correspondence; 4) Attendance records; 5) Financial records; and 6) Miscellaneous.

7-10 Club Society
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 FAR 983.48 · Fonds · 1942-1945

The fonds consists of a war diary.

Canada. Canadian Army. Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 27th
Fonds · 1914-1919

The fonds consists of a notebook of vital statistics on each person in the battalion, roll lists, daily orders, a routine order book, field returns, a diary of events, and platoon commander records.

Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 47th
CA BCA MS-0149 · Fonds · 1952-1956

The fonds consists of a minute book of the 100 Mile House Women's Institute.

100 Mile House Women's Institute
Fonds · 1915-1916

The fonds consists of daily orders, records of declarations on illegal absences of soldiers, an officers duty roster, a squadron book, and a nominal roll.

Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 131st
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
CA VERN MS 179;1993.044 · Fonds · 1992

Fonds consists of the administrative records and documents of the Vernon High School 1992 Centennial School Reunion Committee. The records, which detail the reunion's organization process, include reports, lists of VHS graduates, programs, pamphlets, flyers, newspaper articles, souvenir ephemera, and correspondence.

Vernon High School. 1992 Centennial School Reunion Committee
A.C. Murray fonds
CA BCA A/D/20/B11;A/D/20/B38;A/D/20/F86;A/D/20/G29;A/D/20/H33.1;A/D/20/M33;A/D/20/Q31.1;A/D/20/Si5;A/D/20/Vi;A/D/40/AL3;A/D/40/M963 · Fonds · 1894-1895

The fonds consists of Murray's correspondence from J. MacDonald of Babine Portage, William Fox at Bears Lake outpost, William Sinclair at Frasers Lake and various others from other posts.

Murray, A.C.
A.C. Lincoln fonds
CA BCA 98709-5;MS-2445;F1987:20;V1987:30 · Fonds · 1936-1940

The fonds consists of A.C. Lincoln's photographs and film footage of events at Fairbridge Farm School. Fonds also includes a register of the Fairbridge Farm School Wolf Cub Pack and miscellaneous correspondence and brochures relating to Fairbridge Farm School.

Lincoln, Alfred Charles, 1910-1984
A. Driscoll fonds
CA BCA K/LS/D83 · Fonds · 1889-1899

The fonds consists of Driscoll's reports, correspondence and estimates pertaining to surveys in the Kamloops and Ashcroft areas, as well as the Railway Belt.

Driscoll, A.
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.
CA CAR 228-11 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 198-?]

The fonds consists of six ledgers listing lodgers, sales of store items, purchasers, including information relating to fencing, lumbering, and meals served to lodgers and provisions for the house.

153 Mile Store
A.C. Bury fonds
CA BCA E/D/B95.1 · Fonds · 1905-1906

The fonds consists of Bury's diary relating to his policing activities with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.

Bury, A.C.