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Manuscript consists of personal reminiscences of Robert A. Forrest, who was born in 1913 and raised in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano.

This history of the Cates family includes information on the founder Andrew Jackson Cates and his family as well as the families of James Warren Cates, Willard Ernest Cates, John Andrew Cates, George Emery Cates, Charles Henry Cates, John Henry Cates, Charles Warren Cates, James Francis Cates, Francis Abbott Cates and Lucy Lillian Cates

Item consists of an agreement for sale between Margaret Walker Engelland and John French Hall and Clara Mabel Hall (Joint Tenants) and envelope addressed to Mr. John F. Hall.

Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of Vancouver's Air Supremacy Drive, held June 15th, to July 15th, 1940, during which local groups and individuals held events in an effort to raise $80,000 for the purchase of 10 training airplanes for use at Vancouver Municipal Airport to train pilots under the British Comonwealth Air Training program.

Item consists of an appointment book for January 1944 belonging to No. 52, Coy, C.D.C., Pacific Coast Naval Headquarters, Jericho Beach, Vancouver".

Collection consists of two letters on Diamond Jubilee letterhead from the secretary of the Native Sons of Canada to a brother native son.

The file consists of board of directors lists and minutes, 1970 and 1973, publications including B.C. Environmental News, press releases, correspondence, membership lists 1972 - 73, annual meeting minutes, news-clippings, Pollution and the Law (Vancouver People's Law School) publication and the constitution of the Federated Environmental Associations, Jan. 1973 collected by Irving Stowe who was an early board member.

File includes The Matric Annual, King Edward High School, 1924; Souvenir of South Vancouver High School, 1930 and 1932 [South Vancouver High School Yearbooks]; a South Vancouver High School student newsletter, February 2, 1932; and a program from the 19th Annual Inter High School Sports competition held Friday, May 23, 1930, at Brockton Point Grounds.

Honours Thesis, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.

The item is a personal memoir of Bruna (Bunny) Brizzi, and documents the experience of immigrating, settling, learning English, raising a family, and establishing commercial enterprises in Vancouver, as well as ties with Vancouver's Italian community.

File consists of two documents from a Buddhist temple and (most likely) associated guesthouse. One page is a list of donors to the temple and the amounts given; the other is a sheet outlining the guest house's rules for guests.

File consists of copies of photographs and news-clippings about the designation on March 25, 1993 as well the citizen efforts to save the boulevard. The Cambie Street Boulevard was designed in 1940 as an elongated park and ceremonial gateway to the City by planning consultant Harland Bartholomew. Preservation and recognition efforts were led by the Citizens for the Preservation of Cambie Street Boulevard. On March 25, 1993, the central boulevard was designated as a heritage landscape.

Canadian Expeditionary Force discharge certificate and civic certificate of public appreciation, signed by Mayor Gale.

Postcards depict battle scenes, headquarters, and war materiel in Europe, many of which relate to activities of Canadian and possibly British Columbian regiments. The postcards were produced by the Vancouver firm Crosby & Bissell, 306 Tower Building, Vancouver.

The certificate appointed Charles Tupper Great Britain's representative in the Behring Sea Arbitration.

Items include an autograph codicil to her will dated 1912 and two autograph letters to Mr. Kitto of Tupper, Kitto and Wightman dated February 5th and 8th, 1913.

Collected records relating to the construction of 3439 West 11th Avenue. In 1929, Susannah Jane Dods, a recently widowed mother of five children, undertook the construction of a family home at 3439 West 11th Avenue, carefully documenting all expenditures associated with the construction.

Records include original building permit, June 1, 1929; sewer hook-up application; invoices, statements, delivery notices, quotations, etc. including the following materials and service suppliers: West Point Hardware, F.N. Hamilton Plumbing, Rat Portage Lumber Co., Henry Darling and Son Ltd. (paint), Harris Paint and Wallpaper Company Limited, Wm. N. O'Neil Company Ltd., E. H. Shockley, Banks Electric, Inlaid Floor Co., Mackie & Co., B.C. Contractors Supply Co. Ltd. Also includes one photograph of the house, property tax statements for 1930-1933, 1941, 1946; home fuel bills from 1947; Federal Department of Trasport-issued Private Receiving Station licences, 1943-1945; as well as reminiscences of the Dods family and home prepared by Susannah Dods' daughter, Meryl M. Lynch.

Collection consists of research notes compiled by Davies into the history of the meat packing industry and abbattoirs in the Greater Vancouver area, and a photocopy of an article entitled, "Railway Recollections of a B.C. Sheep Rancher, by John (Jack) K. Moilliet, and published in Canadian Rail (May-June 2006).

Item is a printed envelope from the photographic department of David Spencer Ltd. with a price list of services offered.

Item includes the following chapters: "Art Deco Identifying Characteristics", "Art Moderne Identifying Characteristics", and chapters on Vancouver's local areas which provide detailed information on Vancouver's art deco buildings.

Collection consists of 6 photographs of Dorothy Roe and her colleagues at St. Paul's Hospital and residence at 1101 Burrard Street (named and dated), a letter of recommendation for Ms. Roe on St. Paul's letterhead, a very brief memoir written by Ms. Roe on her work at St. Paul's, and an 'end of employment' slip.

Collection consists of recipes and food handling publications, 'from Bea Wright's Kitchen' and miscellaneous similar pamphlets by Mona Brun, produced by Woodward's Limited, and 'Edith Adams' produced by the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Also included is a Vancouver Sun news clipping on the history of the fictional character Edith Adams.

Materials consist of programs, dinner menus, invitations, notices, tickets to events, fundraising forms, etc.

Journal is a handwritten account of Ernest Cooper's journey from Liverpool, England, to Vancouver, May 24th to June 10th, 1888. Mr. Cooper crossed the Atlantic aboard the C.P.R. steamship S.S. Vancouver, and crossed the continent via Canadian Pacific Railway. The account documents Mr. Cooper's travels and includes detailed descriptions of conditions aboard ship; observations on differences between "steerage," "intermediate," and "saloon" passenger status; encounters with other passengers; activities of crew and passengers; sightings of wildlife; weather and sea conditions; a brief sight-seeing stop in Montreal; experiences with new currency, observations of "Indians" at rail stations across the prairies; impressions of Winnipeg; descriptions of views and vistas passing the Rockies and Selkirk mountains; comments on the Chinese presence along the Fraser River, and arrival in Vancouver.

Item is a history of the rise of professional social work in Vancouver. Includes a colour photographic reproduction of the Jack Bell building, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia.

File consists of two notarized forms declaring conscientious objection to the vaccination of children.

Collection consists of 5 items written by Vancouver Author Francis Turnley on the subject of economics: A Short Essay on Money (1942); Visioneer 'Engineering for the Future' (1943); Explaining the Turnley Plan to Insure Prime Rights ( 1942); Turnley Plan to Insure Prime Rights (1941); and The Alphabet of Wisdom (1928).

File consists of a large scrapbook used to document the design and execution of bookbindings by G.A. Roedde Ltd. For various clients across British Columbia. The book contains crayon rubbings made from finished bindings. Approximately 5% of the rubbings have samples of binding cloth and many have other specifications annotated.

Collection consists of photographs showing the interior of Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works, including the Cleveland Dam gate; news clippings; and a published pamphlet; all concerning Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works and Vancouver Machinery Depot, Ltd.

File consists of "Gay Liberation" brochure and press release for the dissolution of the Gay Alliance Toward Equality (G.A.T.E.), membership application for the Society for Education Action Research and Counselling on Homosexuality (S.E.A.R.C.H.), and a flyer for a 1973 "Gay Rap" event.

File consists of architectural drawings of the second Granville Bridge, which was demolished in 1955.

File consists of a scrapbook containing primarily news clippings as well as a few magazine articles related to the development of the Granville Bridge. Scrapbook also includes nine photographs showing the bridge taken from the construction site.

File consists of a three-page letter of grievance written by R. Martin to F. R. Blackadar, business agent for Local 118, I.A.T.S.E. [International Association of Theatre and Stage Employees].

File contains three postcards with photographs showing the Habitat Forum site, a business card for Alan Clapp, two Habitat Forum business cards and a handbill advertising a Habitat party featuring the Holy Modal Rounders and Les Clamtones.