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Fonds · 1964-2000, predominant 1976-1997

The Women's Research Centre fonds consists of eleven series. The records deal with various aspects of women's lives and focus on racial, class, and gendered issues such as pay equity, women in the labour force, sexual harassment, immigration and the gendered effects of cultural transition, isolation, women's health and the Tobacco Industry, wife battering, sexual assault, and the strengths and weaknesses of women's shelters, women and the law, political responses to women's situation, and the development of strategies for changing women's lives. In addition, the Women's Research Centre fonds contains administrative records of the organization. Multiple-media records were created and used by the Women's Research Centre in the course of their research such as textual records, canvass banners, publications, maps, newspapers and newspaper clippings. Records created and used by the Women's Research Centre include the Women's Research Centre and BC Women's Studies Association constitution and mission statement, contracts, grant applications, project proposals, various research guides, surveys, statistics, various outlines, budgets, address lists, handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, facsimiles, discussion papers, extensive interdisciplinary manuscripts and abstracts created by members of the BC Women's Studies Association, extensive questionnaires and interview transcripts, drafts, reports, agendas, memos, briefs, meeting minutes, bulletins, press releases, various financial materials such as bills, receipts, expense claim forms, cheque stubs, invoices, and income and expense sheets, workshop registration and evaluation forms, membership application forms, newspapers, pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, articles, books, log books, bibliographies, purchase orders, literature reviews, and maps.

Women's Research Centre
CA VERN MS 67;1983.066 · Fonds · 1942-1943

Fonds consists of the records of Mrs. R.H. Urquhart during her tenure as chairman of a sub-committee of Women's Regional Advisory Committee from 1942-1943. Includes correspondence to and from Mrs. R.H. Urquhart in regards to the sub-committee's activities. The majority of the correspondence is from the secretary of the WRAC in Vancouver, Mary Hurrell, and concerns many of the projects that the sub-committee was involved with. Includes information on the distribution of Blue Books, the establishment of a price control board, the establishment of a federal Rations Board, and the possiblity of a national housing survey.

Women's Regional Advisory Committee (Vernon, B.C.)
CA SFU F-73 · Collection · 1969 - 1970

Collection consists of two scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and other material that documents the Abortion Caravan to Ottawa in 1970. The second scrapbook documents Janiel Jolley as a protest candidate of the Simon Fraser Student Society for Miss Canadian University Beauty.

Hollibaugh, Marge
CA SFU F-165 · Collection · 1969 - 1976

In 1970 Candace Parker was a member of the Vancouver Women's Caucus and a graduate student at the University of British Columbia. For a sociology class, Parker and Sibylle Klein wrote an essay, "Developing An Ideology: the Feminist Movement in North America," which drew upon Parker's experiences in Women's Caucus. Candace Parker was also interviewed by Frances Wasserlein and the transcript of that interview is contained in the Frances Wasserlein fonds, F-162.

The collection consists of research material collected by Candace Parker in the course of preparing her essay plus some additional feminist literature acquired afterwards. Includes notes and drafts, news clippings, reprints, broadsheets, position papers, briefs, newsletters, and newspapers.

Parker, Candace
CA SFU F-166 · Collection · 1969 - 1975

Fonds consists of material acquired by Anne Roberts as a member of Vancouver Women's Caucus. Includes minutes, correspondence, flyers, pamphlets, reprints, news clippings, briefs, position papers, copies of The Pedestal, and other documents.

Roberts, Anne
CA SFU F-164 · Collection · 1967 - 1999

Fonds contains material relating to Lebowitz's career at SFU and her participation in the Corrective Collective, a feminist writing group active in the 1970s. Fonds includes correspondence, minutes, proposals, publications, newspapers, invoices, receipts, a ledger, and other documents.

Lebowitz, Andrea
CA SFU F-101 · Fonds · 1981 - 1999

The fonds of the Women's Monument Project consists of records created and received in the course of carrying out the Project. Activities documented include Committee and sub-committee meetings, fundraising events, groundbreaking and unveiling ceremonies, site selection, dedication, language selection, design selection, construction, and gallery exhibits.

Includes proposals, reports, minutes, correspondence, speeches, published materials, press releases, news clippings, design competition guidelines, design submissions, construction contracts, Monument inscriptions, drawings, site maps, photographs and slides, videotapes, a cloth banner, and the original maquette and artwork of the winning design by Beth Alber.

Women's Monument Project
CA BCA T215:3-4;T2062:2;T3587-T3589;T3591-T3595;T3597-T3599;T4271;V1988:43 · Collection · 1979-1988

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to women in the B.C. labour movement.

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
Fonds · 1916

The fonds is one series and consists of scrapbooks with photographs, newsclippings and postcards.

Women's Institute, Tappen, B.C.
Fonds · 1906-1915

The fonds consists of constitution, bylaws, and minutes.

Women's Hospital Aid Society (Nelson, B.C.)
CA CRMA 93-16 · Fonds · 1992

The fonds consists of records documenting the experiences of women in the northern Vancouver Island region from 1915-1945. Primarily the material focuses on the personal experiences of several women, many of whom lived in harsh and isolated conditions. Issues such as child rearing, health care, education and employment are explored. The fonds is broken into the following groups: 1. Taped interviews, originals; 2. Research notes, originals; 3. Video taped material, originals. Associated material includes: black and white photographs, copies and originals, and textual records.

Campbell River Museum and Archives. Women's History Project
Fonds · 1975-1994

The fonds consists of policy and mission documents, minutes, administration and financial records, library records, records relating to various conferences and workshops sponsored by the Centre, newsletters, newsclippings and other reference material.

Women's Ecumenical Resource Centre
CA SFU F-117 · Fonds · 1976 - 1977

Fonds consists of records generated by the Women's Cultural Exchange in the process of establishing the society, finding a location, opening, and using the space to fulfill their mandate to provide a cultural centre for women. Records reflect the incorporation of the society, minutes of meetings, membership, events, and finances. Includes constitution, certificates of incorporation, minutes, agenda, correspondence, membership lists, account book, scrap book, and ephemera.

Women's Cultural Exchange
CA UVICARCH AR174 · Fonds · 1993, 1995-1996

The fonds consists of conference packages given to each delegate, including conference programme, biographies of recognition awards recipients, names of conference attendees, and blank evaluation forms. Also included in original material used for producing the art exhibit catalogue in 1993.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Women's Conference Committee
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 764 · Fonds · 1902, 1929-1962

The fonds consists of a letter to Mrs. S.H. Brown (1902), minute books, financial records and clipping books. The clipping books contain mainly newspaper clippings but also include some other items, such as membership directories, convention programs, stickers and photographs. Most of the books are also annotated with hand-written quotations and comments.

Women's Christian Temperance Union. Uneeda Branch
CA BCA MS-2227 · Fonds · 1883-1886

The fonds consists of a minute book, including a list of members and resolutions adopted by the Women's Christian Temperance Union of British Columbia.

Women's Christian Temperance Union of British Columbia
Women's Centre fonds
CA UVICARCH AR225 · Fonds · 1972-2000

The fonds consists of office files and include budget, minutes, agendas, communication logs, policy files, posters and Women's Centre history. Also included are subject files which entail educational and activist undertakings relating to rallies, eating disorders, date rape, violence against women, women's rights, December 6 memorial vigil and racism.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Women's Centre
CA CVIC PR 266 · Fonds · 1909-1995

Fonds consists of the following 23 series: 1. Incorporation records; 2. Constitution; 3. Membership records; 4. Insurance; 5. Cash book; 6. Financial statements; 7. Cheque summary; 8. Treasurer's reports; 9. Finances - General; 10. Annual reports; 11. Minutes; 12. Returned Soldiers Fund Committee minutes; 13. Conferences; 14. Guest book; 15. Index to summaries; 16. National association records; 17. Projects, correspondence, and reports; 18. Publications and speeches; 19. Regional meetings; 20. Scholarships and awards; 21. Scrapbooks; 22. Certificates; 23. Tour book.

Women's Canadian Club of Victoria
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 437;Add. MSS. 874;CVA 425 · Fonds · 1909-1983

The fonds consists two minute books, 1909-1916; two autograph albums of signatures of the Club's guests and speakers 1909-1976; 13 scrapbooks, 1909-1983, containing mostly clippings of Club activities, notices of meetings, annual reports, miscellaneous correspondence and mementos such as greeting cards, tags and brochures; and a bound album of chronologically arranged photographs of presidents of the Club. A brief account of each term's activities is also given for the years from 1909 to 1981.

Women's Canadian Club of Vancouver
Fonds · 1931-1960

The fonds consists of minutes (1931-1938, 1954-1960), membership lists, cashbook, financial records, correspondence, records of speakers, and reference material of the Women's Canadian Club of Alberni District and the Alberni Women's Canadian Club.

Women's Canadian Club of Alberni District
Women's Bookstore collection
CA SFU F-111 · Collection · 1937 - 2018, predominant 1937-1997

The Women's Bookstore collection consists of materials relating to the operation of several Vancouver women's organizations and reflects the issues that dominated the women's movement throughout the 1970s. Consistent with the community based nature of women's movements during this period, the scope and content of the collection reflects the diversity common to a phenomenon rather than the administrative and subject coherence found in records generated by a single organization. As such, the collection as whole gains its coherence due primarily to the interdependence rather than independence of the individual items to one another. This also applies to the records generated by autonomous organizations in the collection. While the different organizations should be regarded as distinct, a good deal of the records concern the communication between various organizations and women's groups across the country or identify issues of concern to a broad range of organizations. Thus, the collection as whole should be regarded as a record of a dynamic process in which a common ideology served to unify the aims of distinctive organizations, persons, and subjects.

The collection is comprised of the records of the Women's Bookstore, Women's Caucus, A Woman's Place, Transition House, the British Columbia Federation of Women and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Includes constitutions, minutes, reports, correspondence, position papers, and sound recordings. Also includes newsletters from women's centres across British Columbia and Canada, subject files, and an assortment of feminist publications.

CA CVAN Add. MSS. 452 · Fonds · 1904-1982

The fonds consists of minutes, 1906-1965; a letterbook, 1911-1922; notes and correspondence; annual reports, 1955-1964; financial records; clippings; and photographs. The fonds is arranged into 6 series: Minute books, News clippings, photographs, Annual Family Fair records, Financial records, and General records.

Vancouver General Hospital. Women's Auxiliary
CA QUE M1995.11 · Fonds · 1939-1951

The fonds primarily consists of approximately 600 letters from Canadian service men and women during World War II sent to the Women's Auxiliary. The correspondence are mainly letters of thanks from service people for letters and parcels received from the Quesnel Women's Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion. There are also some letters and records relating to business matters of the auxiliary.

Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League. Branch 94 (Quesnel, B.C.). Women's Auxiliary