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CA CVAN Add. MSS. 307 · Fonds · [Microfilmed 1976]

The fonds consists of copies of minutes of the Trades and Labour Council, 1889-1961; minutes of the B.C. Federationist Limited, 1912-1922; minutes of the Vancouver Labour Temple Company, 1909-1920; correspondence and minutes from the One Big Union and the Oil Refinery Workers Union, 1918-1921; and copies of the B.C. Federationist, 1911-1920, and its successor, the Labour Statesman, 1924-1952.

Vancouver and District Trades and Labour Council
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 907 · Fonds · 1898-1974

The fonds consists of registers of the Vancouver Airport Climatological Station, detailing weather records for the City of Vancouver from 1898-1974. Includes daily observations and monthly summaries.

Canada. Vancouver Airport Climatological Station
Urban Design Centre fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 989 · Fonds · 1968-1977, predominant 1971-1976

The fonds consists of subject and administrative files containing minutes, notes, memos, correspondence, reports and miscellaneous background information from other agencies, project files and project plans, drawings and sketches.

Urban Design Centre
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 872;CVA 434 · Fonds · 1907-1990, predominant 1907-1980

The fonds consists of minutes, annual reports, financial statements, bulletins, Canadian Federation of University Women Triennial Conference material and a small amount of memorabilia from the years 1907-1964. Fonds also includes photographs depicting interior and exterior views of Hycroft, the club's headquarters.

University Women's Club of Vancouver
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 849;CVA 724 · Fonds · 1930-1989

The fonds consists of records generated by various United Way committees in pursuit of their activities. Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, notes, memoranda, published works, research materials such as questionnaires and surveys, display materials such as posters and pamphlets, press releases, newsletters, organization charts and photographs.

United Way of the Lower Mainland
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 153 · Fonds · 1921-1975

The fonds consists of minutes (1921-1943) of the United Services Institute and its predecessor, the Military Institute of Vancouver, correspondence, membership applications and lists, and financial statements.

United Services Institute
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 337 · Fonds · 1973-1976

The fonds consists mainly of records relating to the Conference, but also contains some pertaining to Habitat Forum (mainly newsclippings and publications). It includes planning papers, miscellaneous official publications, reports of individual countries, reports of international organizations, planning papers for the conference from the Vancouver City Clerk's Department, delegate information, photographs of delegates, newspaper clippings, originals of entries submitted to a Habitat poster competition, and conference banners.

United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (1976 : Vancouver, B.C.)
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 75;CVA 374 · Fonds · 1891-1958

The fonds consists of minute books, financial records, advertising materials, newspaper clippings, schedules, a typescript history of the company by Jessie M. Van der Burg, postcards, and an extensive photograph collection. Photographs depict Union Steamship Company vessels, personnel, facilities, resort properties, and miscellaneous other subjects.

Union Steamship Company of British Columbia
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 524 · Fonds · 1955-1958

The fonds consists of minutes, 1955, 1958 (incomplete); correspondence, 1955-1958, from offices in Toronto and Winnipeg; surveys and briefs; Report of the Commission on Church Hospitals, 1956; and miscellaneous papers re commission activities.

United Church of Canada. Hospital Commission
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1399 · Fonds · 1897-[ca. 1990], predominant 1919-1974

The fonds consists of architectural drawings, photographs and textual materials related to the partnership's activities surrounding the design and implementation of architectural projects. The majority of the records are graphical in nature. Architectural drawing files specific to a particular project typically contain elevation and perspective drawings related to the design of an initial concept and proposal for the project, incorporations of revisions into the initial concept based on the clients input and practical considerations, detailed plans intended to guide construction work, and annotations and alterations to those plans made during construction. Some of the projects (approximately 1 in 10) did not receive approval to proceede, and contain material relating only to the initial proposal. Project photographs include pre-construction photos taken of the construction site used to assist in the initial planning, progress photographs used in the supervision of construction, as documentation of the techniques and practices used during construction and for reference purposes, and post construction photographs used to document the finished appearance of a project. Photographs were also incorporated into promotional material, as collections of albums shown to prospective clients, and in promotional publications. The majority of the records relate to projects in the greater Vancouver area. Approximately 100 projects were undertaken on Vancouver Island, primarially in the Victoria region, but also in Duncan, Ladysmith, and Nanaimo. There are also records related to hospital projects in the Fraser Valley, several residences in the Okanagan, as well as two hospital projects in Lethbridge Alta. Projects initiated between 1919 and 1966 were numbered sequentially as job no. 1 through 1047. Jobs located in Victoria (B.C.) worked on between 1929 and ca. 1932 were numbered sequentially as job no. V-1 through V-14. Two jobs done in Penticton (B.C.) in 1936 are numbered sequentially as job nos. M-1 and M-2. Beginning in 1967, projects were assigned a 5 digit job number; the first 2 digits of the job number were the last 2 digits of the calendar year, followed by a hyphen and a 3 digit number (e.g. 67-014). Where known, job nos. have been incorporated into titles at the file and item levels. The fonds consists of 3 series: Architectural drawings. -- 1897-1977. ca. 5000 drawings (representing approx. 700 projects); Miscellaneous records. -- 1919-[ca.1990]. 44 cm of textual and and other material; Project photographs. -- [189-?]-[1971]. 653 photographs.

Townley, Matheson and Partners
Tools for Peace fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1072 · Fonds · 1982-1990

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, printed material, and photographs documenting the activities of the office of the B.C. Coordinator, and the office of the National Coordinator.

Tools for Peace
Tom Woodman fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 975 · Fonds · 1936-1960

The fonds consists of a scrapbook, programs of performances and postcards.

Woodman, Tom, 1921-
Timms family fonds
CA CVAN CVA 330 · Fonds · [ca. 1907]-1909

The fonds consists of photographs of the Timms family, including photographs of family members, Cedar Cottage, Robson Memorial Church and various street scenes.

Timms (family)
Thomas Wicks fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 236 · Fonds · [ca. 1854-1947]

The fonds consists of correspondence and personal papers, relating to farming ventures, 1931-1947; a letter concerning the Alert Bay Mission Church, 1913; a letter to Wicks from MacKenzie King, 1946; the manuscript of Wicks autobiography; several photographs of members of the Wicks family and Ned Fregonne.

Wicks, Thomas P.
Thomas Townley fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 28 · Fonds · 1863-1918

The fonds consists of miscellaneous crown grants, conveyances and deeds relating to various lots on or near Burrard Inlet in Group One, New Westminster District. There are also papers touching on court cases and claims, political organization, business ventures and investments, as well as copies of deed, conveyances, mortgages, and miscellaneous real-estate correspondence, municipal, provincial and federal. Also included is a photograph album presented to Townley by his fellow officers in 1897.

Townley, Thomas O.
Thomas Sentell fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 275 · Fonds · 1936-1993

Fonds consists of incoming correspondence from Thomas Braidwood of B.C. Drugs Limited writing to the overseas Sentell who was serving in the Royal Canadian Engineers (1942-1945) and J.S. Matthews (1938-1964). Also included news clippings (1946-1993), records (1936, 1986), and copies of Sentell's drawings (1937-1938).

Sentell, Thomas F., 1912-
Thomas Logie fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1019 · Fonds · 1911-1912

The fonds consists of a Deed of Land conveying title of a property purchased in 1911 by Eric Hamber from Thomas Logie, 23 cheques drawn on the Bank of Vancouver by Mr. Logie, and one British Columbia Electric Railway Co. electric light bill.

Logie, Thomas
Thomas Guns fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 407 · Fonds · 1893-1940

The fonds consists of bylaws for B.C. pilotages 1893-1956, an undated pilotage rate book, year-end reports for the Vancouver Pilotage Authority 1919, pilot licences 1916-1935, and other personal papers 1916-1940.

Guns, Thomas Salter
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 1090 · Fonds · [Photocopied 199-?]

The fonds consists of drafts of annual balance sheets which include property lists and values.

Edwards, Thomas
Thomas and Mary McNair fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 901 · Fonds · 1898-1936

The fonds consists of miscellaneous records of Thomas and Mary Vida McNair, including tourist information; records relating to Mary McNair's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McMillan, including commissions and returns as Deputy Returning Officer.

McNair, Thomas S.
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 162 · Fonds · 1892-1894

The fonds consists of a route book, Route No. 1, for 1892-1894, listing names of customers and amounts of ice purchased.

Texas Lake Ice and Cold Storage Company
Terminal City Club fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 309;CVA 661 · Fonds · 1893-1937

The fonds consists of minutes, records of membership, by-laws, annual reports, a history of the club and photographs of A.G. Ferguson, the first President, the Metropolitan Building and A.G. Ferguson's house, 1887.

Terminal City Club
Teddy Lyons fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 500 · Fonds · 1922-1955

The fonds consists of photographs of the observation car and its passengers 1925-1950; streetcar tickets and transfers; safe-driving certificates 1934-1946; posters; and Buzzer and magazine articles on Lyons, and Lyons' conductor badge.

Lyons, Teddy (Thadeus Sylvestor), d. 1955
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 473 · Fonds · [Photocopied ca. 1975]

The fonds consists of notebook, receipts and bills of the T. Matsumoto Company.

T. Matsumoto Company
Susan Allison fonds
CA CVAN Add. MSS. 433 · Fonds · 1930

The fonds consists of Allison's manuscript recollections of life in the B.C. interior, 1860-1890.

Allison, Susan Louisa (Moir), 1845-1937