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CA DMA CR-93 · Fonds · [188-] - 1991

The fonds consists of articles, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous historical manuscripts about Tamboline family members and other people and events in the Ladner area. One series of clippings is organized in four scrapbooks. The fonds also includes photographs of family members and friends, and homes and activities of the Tamboline family.

Tamboline (family)
E. T. Calvert family fonds
CA DMA CR-74 · Fonds · 1914 - [193-]

Fonds consists of family photographs and photographs of the customs office, swimming pool and other places in Boundary Bay and Beach Grove. The fonds also includes the original hand written work leddger, 1914-1921, that E.T. Calvert kept as customs agent at Boundary Bay.

Calvert, E.T.
CA DMA CR-73 · Fonds · 1874-1971

Fonds consists of copies of early land deeds for District Lot 141 (1874, 1880, 1920), a farmer's record book (1930), family photographs (1880s to 1947) and some newspaper clippings.

Green, Charles F. (family)
CA DMA CR-108 · Fonds · [ca. 1880]-1942

The fonds consists of records generated by the operation of the Brunswick Cannery on Canoe Pass from 1897 to 1926, under the ownership of the Brunswick Cannery Company, and after 1902, under the ownership of the British Columbia Packers Association and British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company Ltd. The fonds also includes records belonging to the Anglo American Canning Company Ltd. probably because the company's president, Francis Griffin Bell, became the manager of Brunswick Cannery for the Association in 1902. The fonds includes licenses, contracts, financial and fishermen's records generated by daily operations, plant inventories, and correspondence. The records are not complete. The records reflect its operation as a branch of the British Columbia Packers Association and therefore give insight into the operation of the Association. The fonds has been arranged into 9 series: annual reports, correspondence, financial records, fishermen's records, Francis G. Bell family records, legal records, miscellaneous material, personnel records, and plant inventories.

Brunswick Cannery (Canoe Pass, B.C.)
CA DMA CR-121 · Collection · 1880-1995

The Delta Museum and Archives manuscript collection consists of material acquired by the archives and museum that have no provenance or donor information, or do not constitute or belong to a fonds. The collection includes materials that are ephemeral in nature such as programmes, posters, pamphlets, directories, and scrapbooks; records of people, businesses and organizations in the form of ledgers, certificates, etc; and municipal government reports and publications. The collection documents community events and the lives of people in Delta.

Douglas J. Husband Discovery Centre
Edith Curran fonds
CA DMA CR-129 · Fonds · 1890-1972

The fonds consists of photographs, cash and ledger books, and memorabilia belonging to Edith Curran. Many of the photographs are of Edith's family in England, as well as photographs of the farm in Delta Manor and vacations in Canada. An album belonging to Ernie Goubault, who lived with the Currans, contains scenes of Ladner and the farm. Of special interest are Edith Curran's cash and ledger books which provide uninterrupted detail about farming activities and household expenses for a period of 40 years (1931 to 1972).

Curran, Edith
CA DMA CR-122 · Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1914

Fonds consists of copies of William Henry and Edith Blanche Burr's farm diary for 1903; copies of letters written by Harry Burr between 1903-1914; property records relating to property owned by the Burrs and family photographs of scenes on the farm, the Hunt Club, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burr and other family members and a large matted portrait of Burrvilla.
Fonds is arranged in 4 series:
Correspondance
Memorabilia
Property Records
Photographs

Burr, W.H. and E.B. (family)
CA DMA CR-125 · Fonds · [ca. 1894-1905]

The fonds consists of 37 mounted photographs from an album, as well as 5 loose photographs. The photographs were likely taken by Edward Fawcett between 1894 and 1902 when members of the Fawcett family were establishing themselves in British Columbia. The photographs consist of family members and homes, friends and recreational outings in Victoria, Delta and Vancouver; interior and exterior shots of the Victoria drugstore; and scenes of travelling through the mountains by train. Several photographs show early activities and scenes in Ladner, particularly the winter flood of 1895.

Fawcett, A.E.
CA DMA CR-33 · Fonds · 1902-1950

The fonds consists of records created by Simeon Fisher during the course of owning and operating Fisher's Drug and Book Store. There are several wholesale invoices as well as nine large prescription invoice ledgers and correspondence between Mr. Fisher, local residents and National Drug Co. where he purchased wholesale drugs for his pharmacy. These records cover the years between 1902 and 1948 when his business was in operation. The fonds is arranged in three series: Correspondence; Prescription Invoices; Drug Invoices.

Fisher's Drug and Bookstore (Delta, B.C.)
George T. Baker family fonds
CA DMA CR-143 · Fonds · 1906-2009

Fonds consists of two financial ledgers kept by George Baker for his wheelwright, blacksmith, farm implement and hardware business (Ladner Carriage Works) between 1906 and 1909. The cover of one ledger is labeled "Day Book" and "T.J. Trapp & Co." and covers the year 1909. The second larger ledger is labelled "Day Book" and "G.T. Baker" and covers the years 1906 to the end of 1908. The fonds also includes family photographs and a family genealogy prepared by Linda Gimmel, George Baker's great niece.

Baker, George T.
CA DMA CR-135 · Fonds · 1908-1996

Fonds consists largely of photographs of Harry Maxwell's childhood, military service in the Fishermen's Reserve in WWII, and life as a fisherman; oral histories collected from Helen Maxwell which tell about growing up in Ladner, her mother Laure Clark's life, and Helen's career as a dress maker; and photographs of Harry and Helen's children, parents, home and friends. The textual records support the stories told by the photographs: Harry's military service records, birth and wedding certificates, and deeds to land purchases in Port Guichon.

Maxwell, Helen
Gibson family fonds
CA DMA CR-144 · Fonds · [ca. 1910] - 1981

Fonds consists primarily of records about William Gibson's agricultural awards between 1929 and 1937. The records are either photocopies or slides taken of certificates, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and displays, and photographs of William and his son Gordon Gibson accepting awards. The fonds also includes an interview on cassette tape with Gordon Gibson and his wife Jeane in 1981, and photographs of William Gibson, other family members, and scenes in Ladner and Delta.

Gibson (family)
CA DMA CR-133 · Collection · 1910-1916

The collection consists of 22 photographs that show in a variety of detail the operation and structures of a shingle mill and logging railroad in North Delta in the early part of the 1900's. The collection includes photographs of the owner, Wesley Thompson, his family, and mill workers. The donor also provided photocopies of clippings and genealogical information about the Thompson family, which are located in the Archives Reference files under Wesley Thompson.

Delta Shingle Mill
William Mills fonds
CA DMA CR-68 · Fonds · 1915-1968

Fonds consists of William Mills' First World War military records; Mr. Mills membership and activities in the Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF); a three page invoice from Oliver Hardware and Plumbing Ltd.; and letters from the Department of Veteran Affairs advising recipients of War Veterans Allowance of the federal Medicare Plan.

Mills, William
Louise Fogg collection
CA DMA CR-135 · Collection · 1927-1979

The photographs show the small farms and family life of Delta Manor prior to the Second World War and its development as a suburb of Ladner in the 1960's. The photographs of children growing up in Delta Manor in the 1930's and in the 1960's are particularly featured and a set of photographs of the ground-breaking ceremony for the first St. David's Anglican Church building in Tsawwassen, which was located at 12th and 56th Street on land that was previously owned by the Brandrith family. The fonds also includes a copy of a letter from Alice Fogg to a friend in England that tells about the flood of 1935.

Fogg, Louise
Delta Ex-High Club fonds
CA DMA CR-95 · Fonds · 1930-1937

Fonds consists of a minute book that records the first meeting held to form a club of alumni of King George V High School on October 25, 1930. The minute book ends with an entry May 29, 1937. The 46 page document is missing pages 24-33, with the minutes written on the following pages.

Delta Ex-High Club
CA DMA CR-120 · Fonds · [ca. 1931-1995]

Fonds consist of financial records relating to the building of the East Delta Hall and the legal contract to transfer the land between David A. McKee and T.J. Robertson, a poster for the East Delta Hall Dance, an unnumbered print of a pen and ink drawing of the East Delta hall by Michael Duncan that helped with the fundraising for the rebuilding of the hall, and a film made in 1995 containing footage relating to the rebulding of the Est Delta hall. The fonds is arranged into four series: Legal Records, Financial Records, Promotional Material and Film.

McKee Athletic Association
CA DMA CR-130 · Collection · 1940-[1959], predominately 1940-1942

The collection consists of photographs, manuals, and ephemera created or received by John Lionel Patterson during the Second World War while he was working at the flying training schools at Boundary Bay, B.C., and Caron, Sask., and later for Boeing Aircraft Co. in Seattle. The photographs, taken by Mr. Patterson, document the opening of the airport and flying training school at Boundary Bay, detail aspects of pilot training on the Link Trainer and in Tiger Moth airplanes, and show friends, coworkers and family during the two years at Boundary Bay. Manuals in the collection include the course outline for the flying training school, and operating instructions for the Link Trainer. The collection also includes an August 1942 volume of the "The Moth Monthly", an invitation to the official opening of No. 18, E.F.T.S., and a menu from the banquet for the first graduating class from No. 18, E.F.T.S.

Patterson, John Lionel
Chung family fonds
CA DMA CR-139 · Fonds · 1940-1988

Fonds consists of correspondence to and from Chung Chuck, Chung Chuck's candidate platforms for Chair of the B.C. Coast Vegetable Marketing Board and Reeve of Delta, photographs of Chung Chuck and family members, and newspaper and magazine articles about Chung Chuck. An oral history interview with Chung Chuck was done in 1974.

Chung, Chuck
William Kuchma fonds
CA DMA CR-124 · Fonds · 1944-1967

The fonds consists of a navigation record and of a map which describe the 1945 Hamburg Bombing Operation.It also includes articles describing the events occurring during the Hamburg Operation as well as congratulatory letters addressed to William Kuchma for his distinguished flying medal. In addition the fonds includes photographs of Kuchma in his RCAF uniform.

Kuchma, William
CA DMA CR-142 · Fonds · 1945-1965

Fonds consists of the ledger listing share holders and payment and refunds for shares. The cash book (1945 - 1963) for the Association can be found in the George Wallace fonds (CR-96).

Delta Manor Co-operative Association
CA DMA CR-24 · Fonds · 1949-1957

Fonds consists of a minute book recording the major activities and decisions of the Delta Central Parent-Teacher Association.

Delta Central Parent-Teacher Association
Robert Franks fonds
CA DMA CR-132 · Fonds · 1950-1964

The fonds consists of photographs that show the operation of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franks' 14 acre turkey farm and their home on Summer Avenue (1st Avenue) in Tsawwassen. The largely b&w photos show the Franks working with their turkeys, from incubating eggs to sorting newly hatched turkeys (poults) to keeping mature breeding flocks. Photographs also show the drillling of a water well on the Franks' farm, trophies and prize winning turkeys, and portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Franks.

Franks, Robert
Terry Farrington collection
CA DMA CR-57 · Collection · 1953-1959

This fonds consists of a collection of eight police ledgers or 'occurance books' dated between 1953 to 1959. They are detailed records of the police officers activities while on patrol duty and outline petty and serious criminal activities in Delta. The ledgers also record missing persons, requests for surveillance, general broadcasts to all officers, and weather. Records are arranged in one series and contain file level descriptions.

CA DMA CR-145 · Fonds · 1955-1969

The fonds consists of a complete run of the weekly newspaper published by the Grants, including 99 issues of the Sporting News, 8 issues of the Delta Advertiser and 377 issues of The Delta News (1961).

Grant's Litho and Printing