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Cooperation and Liaison

Subseries contains records relating to BidCorp's local, regional, and national advertising campaigns. IOC guidelines prohibit international advertising, though BidCorp did conduct promotional activities as the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

Records include correspondence, promotional materials, memorandums, reports, press releases, media guides, and plans.

Cooperation and Liaison

Subseries contains records relating to the organization's general public cooperative efforts, including: open houses, liaisons with professional associations and trade associations, and public forums.

Records include correspondence, memorandums, reports, work plans, minutes, presentations, handbooks, and agendas.

Corporate Law Advice

Subseries contains records relating to corporate law, including maintenance and amendment of the organization's constituting documents, advice with respect to the liability of its directions, and other legal matters such as the Olympic referendum/plebiscite conducted by the City of Vancouver.

Records include correspondence, codes of conduct, letters patent, by-laws, directorship filings, corporate filings, and business licenses.

Correspondence

This subseries includes only one piece of correspondence, from Major J. S. Matthews to Woodside thanking him for a recent donation of Woodside's records.

Correspondence

Subseries consists of incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters regarding the work of the consulting firm Bayfield and Archibald. Subseries also includes some photocopied correspondence previously described as Add. MSS. 425 (Bayfield and Archibald fonds).

Correspondence

Subseries consists mainly of correspondence between James Blomfield and Ida Schneider. Also includes some general correspondence.

Correspondence files

Subseries includes correspondence 1977-1985, inquiries 1983-1986, and invitations 1981-1986. Arranged chronologically.

Correspondence files

These files include correspondence and memos from other City departments and officials, as well as Harcourt's correspondence with his constituents and officials in other cities. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the name of the writer (or by the name of the recipient if the correspondence was initiated by Harcourt). One file usually corresponds to one letter of the alphabet, but not all letters of the alphabet are represented. The files include both incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters.

Correspondence files

Subseries consists of files which document Sandra Wilking's involvement with multiculturalism and race relations. Arranged chronologically.

Correspondence, housing

Subseries consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Incoming correspondence consists of requests of citizens for investigation into their complaints. The outgoing correspondence consists of copies of the response to these requests for inspection. The records are arranged alphabetically by street name.

Culture and Ceremonies records

Subseries contains records documenting the planning and execution of ceremonies and cultural events conducted by VANOC during the games. Includes records related to the participation in the Torino (2006) Games closing ceremonies, opening, closing, and medal ceremonies for the 2010 games, and Cultural Olympiad and Olympic Live sites (free performing arts events including theatre, dance, music, etc. conducted as one of the three "pillars" of the Games - sport, culture and environment - identified by the IOC.

Culture, health and recreation

Subseries consists of records relating to functional units of the City including the Health Department, the Board of Parks and Recreation, the Vancouver Public Library, the Civic Theatres Department, and the general issues associated with these functional areas, as they came before Council for decision-making or information purposes. Also included are files pertaining to the primary special events held in Vancouver (e.g. Expo 86, the Sea Festival, etc.). Subseries is divided into the following filing system subdivisions:
Civic theatres;
Community centres;
Cultural matters;
Culture, health and recreation ("policy and procedure", "general", etc.);
Employment programs and welfare schemes (to 1978 only);
Health and welfare;
Libraries;
Recreation and parks; and
Special events.
Arranged by file title and therein by start year.

Czarnikow telexes

Subseries consists of records documenting BC Sugar's international sugar trading activities.

The subseries is made up of telexes between BC Sugar's head office in Vancouver and their international sugar broker, Messrs. C. Czarnikow, Limited, located in London, England.

The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company, Limited

Diaries

Subseries consists of 10 diaries that contain daily entries of Major Matthews' activities and thoughts. The bulk of the diaries were written between 1946 and 1969; one diary was written in 1931 and records the genesis of the archives in City Hall.

Diaries and correspondence

Subseries consists of diaries, notebooks, and correspondence files maintained by H.P. Archibald in relation to his personal life. Records include day planners and diaries, personal expense notebooks, notebooks of calculations, correspondence, a scrapbook of Bayfield and Archibald advertisements, and other records.

Distribution of funds files

Subseries consists of correspondence, lists, and financial and other records relating to disbursements made for community grants, as well as grants provided by Social Planning, the Department of Communications, and the Secretary of State.
Subseries is arranged into the following four filing blocks: Community grants (mini grants); Social Planning grants; Department of Communications; and Secretary of State.

Divisions

Subseries consists of correspondence, memos and reports to and from the various Fire Department divisions, either created or received by the Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chiefs, or copied to them by the divisions.

Duncan, B.C., Branch of the Chinese Nationalist League (Kuo Min Tang) records

Subseries consists of records relating to the functions of the Duncan, B.C., branch of the Chinese Nationalist League (Kuo Min Tang, or Kuomintang) of Canada. The branch appears to have been active from the 1910s to the 1970s. The subseries is composed of records of the branch’s establishment and membership; donation receipts; remittance slips; personal records of several men who worked or resided in or near Duncan; and official Kuomintang publications.

Economic Studies

Subseries contains analyses of the government resources necessary to secure and to host the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Records include memorandums, correspondence, and reports.

Edgar Bloomfield files and other material

Subseries consists of correspondence and research notes related to the life, career and estate of Edgar Bloomfield, as well as ledgers and journals generated during his career as a lawyer and investor in the Canadian Power Generating Machine Co. Ltd. Subseries also includes 3 sketchbooks by Edgar Bloomfield.

Bloomfield, Edgar

Engineering photographs

Subseries consists of photographs produced and received in relation to the professional work of Bayfield and Archibald, Engineers. Photograph subjects include: machines (such as pumps, boilers, and rock crushers), machine parts (such as pipes, pulleys, and other machine components), mine sites (including Sullivan Mine, Protection Island Mine, and the Boston Premier Gold Company site), and other subjects, such as group portraits and accident sites.

Bayfield, Henry Arthur

Environment and Sustainability

Subseries contains records relating to the development of a plan to manage the environmental impacts associated with hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Records also include BidCorp's corollary effort to promote social, economic, and environmental sustainability within the broader geographic region.

Records include correspondence, memorandums, reports, press releases, work plans, presentations, RFPs, and promotional materials.

Ephemera

This subseries includes miscellaneous pamphlets and booklet souvenirs collected by Woodside. One interesting item is an election broadside for Louis D. Taylor, former Mayor of Vancouver 1936.

Erwin R. Gordon photographs

Subseries consists of photographs collected by the Vancouver Museum which were created by amateur photographer Erwin R. Gordon, a druggist by profession. Subseries consists of photographs showing views of Vancouver, Port Hammond, Hammond, Haney, Maple Ridge and the Fraser River. Subseries also includes photographs of people, automobiles, buildings and the fruit industry.

Events operational records

Sub-series consists of records documenting the organisation and presentation of sporting and other events by the Metropolitan Vancouver Athletics and Arts Association, and either created or accumulated by Richard Dopson in his role as a Board member of the MVAAA and one of the organisers of many MVAAA events.

The sub-series includes correspondence; minutes, agendas and notes of meetings; publications and ephemera, including information packages for athletes, media and business backers of Cay Games III (Celebration '90); and photographs, audio and video recordings primarily regarding Gay Games III.

Executive Committee minutes

Subseries consists of records arising from the meetings of the Executive Committee of the Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association.
Subseries includes minutes and agendas, as well as supplementary materials such as reports, financial statements, correspondence, memoranda, and other records.

Exhibition files

Subseries consists of records of exhibitions mounted at the Community Arts Council of Vancouver Gallery and includes a guest book, photographs, invitations, notices, etc.

Exhibition records

Subseries consists of records arising from the planning and implementation of various exhibitions at the Vancouver Museum.
Subseries includes invitations, guest lists, correspondence, pamphlets, notes, schedules, lists of artifacts, and other records.

Exhibits

Subseries consists of correspondence, reports, and lists which served as exhibits for an enquiry into bootlegging.

F. Ivor Jackson

Subseries consists of records created during F. Ivor Jackson's term as Executive Secretary of the Welfare Section of the Community Chest and Council of Greater Vancouver (1930?-1951), and his postion as Assistant Executive Director (1951-1952). Includes a History of the Community Chest and Council which he authored (1960).

Facilities development files

Subseries consists of two albums of photographs documenting the restoration of Barclay Manor (1447 Barclay Street, formerly referred to as Park Site 19), a once gracious Edwardian residence turned rooming house. Also documented is the structural restoration of the neighbouring Weeks house (1459 Barclay Street). Some textual information is included in the albums.

Federal Conservative Party records

Subseries consists of convention and campaign records, speeches, correspondence and various handbooks of the federal Conservatives. Arranged chronologcially.

Finance

Subseries consists of records pertaining to budget and expense items.

Finance records

Subseries consists of financial records of the Vancouver Centennial Commission, including financial reports, budgets and general ledgers. Also included are records pertaining to souvenir sales, licensing, work programs funding, and the financial wind-up of the Commission.
Files within this subseries were originally arranged into the following filing blocks: General; Accounts paid; Production accounts paid; Accounts receivable; Budget and estimates; and Work programs; however, only records from the General, Budget and estimates and Work program filing blocks were retained. Additional financial records transferred by the Commission without file numbers are also described in this series.

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