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Community Forum on Airport Development fonds

  • AM1541
  • Fonds
  • 1973-2006

The fonds consists of textual material relating to the proposal to build a third runway at Vancouver International Airport and the formation of the Community Forum on Airport Development as a response to the proposed development. Minutes and notes from the Airport Planning Committee from 1973-1976 which included the following attendees: City of Vancouver, GVRD, Municipality of Richmond, Ministry of Transportation and the Fraser River Coalition. Minutes of meetings from the Vancouver International Airport Authority which includes attendees from the following organizations: Environment Canada, Transport Canada, City of Richmond, Fraser River Coalition, City of Vancouver, GVRD Strategic Planning and the Canadian Wildlife Service from 1992-1996. Extensive newspaper clippings regarding the proposed third runway, airport land-use, noise pollution and wildlife management in and around Vancouver International Airport. A variety of publications regarding the proposed expansion including: Transport Canada Information Releases, a GVRD Noise Survey, Environment Canada Bulletins, and Environmental Assessments both provincial and national.
Correspondence to and from the following: Minister of Environment Canada, Minister of Transportation, Office of the Mayor, Fraser River Coalition, Fisheries and Environment Canada, the Sierra Club, Greater Vancouver Citizen's Committee for Noise Abatement and the Ministry of International Business and Immigration as well as form letter.
The Community Forum on Airport Development also produced An Overview of the Contribution made by the Community Forum on Airport Development in Regards to the Proposed Expansion to the Federal Environmental Assessment and Review Panel.

Community Forum on Airport Development

County Court of New Westminster fonds

  • AM200
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1898

The fonds consists of a procedure book of the County Court of New Westminster (1886); a Summons to Juror (1892); papers concerning two cases: Barker vs. Boucher, 1891-1892, and Crosbie vs. Barker, 1892; and several letters addressed to A.E. Beck Esq., Registrar of the County Court, 1898.

British Columbia. County Court of New Westminster

Community Planning Association of Canada, British Columbia Division fonds

  • AM683
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1978

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, reports and financial statements of the Division. Also included are regional conference proceedings, documentation from educational programs, the Action Habitat workshops, and the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board.

Community Planning Association of Canada. British Columbia Division

Daniel Gilbert fonds

  • AM816
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1936

The fonds consists of correspondence concerning Gilbert's participation in the 1936 Vimy Ridge pilgrimage, and two books.

Gilbert, Daniel R.

Dal Richards fonds

  • AM1205
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1997; predominant 1970-1986

The fonds is made up of three series: Personal (1923-1986); Music (1933-1997); and Hotel Management (1973-1985). The Personal series contains materials related to Richards' personal life and that of his wife and daughter, including junior high school yearbooks and newspaper clippings. The Music series contains the bulk of the fonds and consists of newspaper clippings, promotional materials, correspondence, awards, photographs, and audio recordings related to Richards music career, covering his time with the Kitsilano Boys Band, the Panorama Roof, the B.C. Lions, and onward. The Hotel Management series contains materials related to Richards career in hotel management and includes certificates and newspaper clippings.

Richards, Dallas Murray

Dominion Day Celebration Committee fonds

  • AM47
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1904

The fonds contains four volumes of minutes of the Dominion Day Celebration Committee, 1890-1900; included with the minutes are financial statements, reports of the sub-committees, and programme discussions. Relevant clippings are also attached throughout the volumes. The fonds also includes invitations (1887, 1888), programmes (1887-1904), a statement of account held with the Empire Wine Company (1887), and a bank book (1904).

Dominion Day Celebration Committee

Dominion Express Company fonds

  • AM204
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1916; 1965-1967

Fonds consists of various records of the Dominion Express Company. Fonds includes receipt books, a rate book, a letterpress book of outgoing correspondence, and miscellaneous letterhead, envelopes, receipt stubs, ledger sheets, brochures, and other items.

Dominion Express Company

Downtown South Residents' Rights Association fonds

  • AM1422
  • Fonds
  • 1998-2001

Fonds consists of the constitution and by-laws of the Downtown South Residents' Rights Association and correspondence and flyers created or received by the Association.

Downtown South Residents Rights Association

Donald J. Henfrey fonds

  • AM880
  • Fonds
  • 1978-1982

The fonds consists of reports, inventories and legal records of Henfrey pertaining to his activities as receiver of Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults.

Henfrey, Donald J.

E.V. Young fonds

  • AM1064
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1963

The fonds consists of prompt books annotated by Young as director of two Theatre Under the Stars productions, 1940-1949; TUTS programmes, 1941-1963; UBC Musical Society programmes, 1941-1954; personal scrapbooks of his theatrical career, 1907-1935; clippings relating to reviews of TUTS productions, 1942-1954 and photographs both of Young and selected production casts.

Young, Ernest Vanderpoel

Edward Lloyd fonds

  • AM875
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1984 (originally created 1871-1921)

The fonds consists of correspondence sent to Lloyd's mother in England. Lloyd's various travels, business situations and domestic life are described in letters he and his wife sent home (1896-1921) and there is earlier correspondence from other family friends. There is also a typescript of Lloyd's travel journal for the Canadian North trip 1897- 1900, entitled "Wanderings in the Far North," transcribed by Lloyd's grandson, Griffin V. Lloyd

Lloyd, Edward

Edward P. Ames fonds

  • AM778
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1955

The fonds consists of business records, including leases, agreements and contracts, arbitration reports, correspondence, court decisions, plans, architectural drawings and maps.

Ames, Edward P.

Edward Odlum fonds

  • AM190
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1910

The fonds consists of minute books of the Imperial Steamship Company Limited, 1890-1895, and the Grandview Progress Association, 1907-1910; correspondence; photographs; maps; and published items.

Odlum, Edward

Elizabeth Ursula Malkin fonds

  • AM1340
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1960

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports and minutes.

Malkin, Elizabeth Ursula

Emma Walker fonds

  • AM209
  • Fonds
  • 1938-54

Fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mrs. Emma J. Walker. Included in the scrapbook are Walker's account of the plan, newspaper clippings, copies of resolutions by the National Council of Women, letters of appreciation from Buckingham Palace and from the Office of the Agent-General, and outlines of the Kinsmen Trust scholarships.

Walker, Emma J.

End Legislated Poverty fonds

  • AM1579
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1987-2003]

Fonds consists of ELP newspapers, "The Long Haul"; publications developed and distributed by the organization and its affiliates; briefs to royal commissions; newsletters, action kits, photographs, membership lists, etc.

End Legislated Poverty

Ernest Fewster fonds

  • AM663
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1900, 1902, 1913-[ca. 1958]

The fonds consists of ten bound volumes of Fewster's writings (eight of the volumes contain collected poems, the other two contain prose writings); as well as correspondence, unbound writings, news clippings, publications, biographical notes, and files of material relating to other writers. In addition, there is a printed portrait of Fewster and a printed copy of a poem.

Fewster, Ernest Philip

Ethlyn Trapp fonds

  • AM211
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1971

The fonds consists of personal and professional correspondence. Fonds includes letters received and some copies of letters sent by Ethlyn Trapp. Correspondents include colleagues, friends, representatives from various organizations, and other individuals.

Trapp, Ethlyn

Evelyn MacKechnie fonds

  • AM1381
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1979

The records reflect Mrs. MacKechnie's involvement in saving the entrance to Stanley Park from encroachment by proposed development and in the revitalization of Gastown. Included are minutes, reports, briefs, news clippings, correspondence, financial documents, submissions to City Council, maps, plans, drawings, research notes, photographs, flyers, etc.

MacKechnie, Evelyn Catherine

First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee fonds

  • AM917
  • Fonds
  • 1979-1986

The fonds consists of the papers of the First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee. It also includes consultants reports and papers of other planning agencies relating to the development of the First Shaughnessy Plan.

First Shaughnessy Planning Study Citizens' Working Committee

Freemasons Inner Light Lodge No. 399 fonds

  • AM831
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1969

The fonds consists of minute books, correspondence, attendance sheets, hymns, membership registers, and certificates pertaining to Inner Light Lodge, No. 399, and a membership list for the Theosophical Society, Hermes Lodge.

Freemasons. Inner Light Lodge No. 399

Garden, Hermon and Burwell fonds

  • AM12
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1910

The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, specifications, drawings, and support documents concerning the construction of the Vancouver Street Railway in 1889-1890; receipts and invoices 1893-1899; 1910 correspondence between the Property Owners of Hastings Townsite and the Provincial Health Department relating to proposed location of the Isolation Hospital; and a copy, 1910, of an agreement between property holders and promoters of an electric tramway.

Garden, Hermon and Burwell, Provincial Land Surveyors

Gault Brothers fonds

  • AM372
  • Fonds
  • 1899-[ca. 197-?]

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, stock records, and ledgers of the Gault Brothers as well as the minutes of the Caribou Shipping Company and Caribou Brand Catalogues.
The fonds is arranged into 6 series: Biographical and historical files of Gault Brothers Limited, Caribou Shipping Company Limited records, Financial records of Gault Brothers Limited, Gault Brothers Limited publications and news clippings, Gault Brothers Limited stock ownership records,and Organizational papers of Gault Brothers Limited.

Gault Brothers

Gay Alliance Toward Equality fonds : 1971-1980

  • AM720
  • Fonds
  • Photocopied [1980]

The fonds consists of the constitution and position papers, 1971-1974; and minutes and correspondence, 1971-1980.

Gay Alliance Toward Equality

George Henry Cowan fonds

  • AM800
  • Fonds
  • 1867-1957

The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches and related notes, expense reports, certificates and publications pertaining to Cowan's personal life, political involvement and career and his legal career.

Cowan, George Henry

Gladys Schwesinger fonds

  • AM14
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1960

The fonds consists of an unfinished typescript of an autobiography entitled "Beginnings of Wisdom," typescript essays on her early life in Mount Pleasant, and miscellaneous certificates and pamphlets. The Mount Pleasant essays have been published in a pamphlet entitled "Recollections of Early Vancouver in my Childhood, 1893-1912."

Schwesinger, Gladys C.

Goepel family fonds

  • AM23
  • Fonds
  • 1811-1875

The fonds consists of miscellaneous family records relating mostly to land and financial matters.

Goepel family

Gordon Scott fonds

  • AM289
  • Fonds
  • [1915?]-1966

The fonds consists of correspondence and other personal records, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Scott, Gordon W.

Grandview Chamber of Commerce fonds

  • AM368
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1969

The fonds consists of the Chamber's minutes, membership lists and correspondence. There are also assorted receipts and clippings.

Grandview Chamber of Commerce

Greater Vancouver Visitors and Convention Bureau fonds

  • AM633
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1973

The fonds consists of minutes (1922-1972); constitution, by-laws and annual reports (1922-1971); correspondence (1958-1973); promotional material (1956-1979), which includes newsletters, news releases and promotional brochures; subject files (1959-1976), which deal with various promotional concepts, news releases, sales trips and dealings with other tourist organizations; and reports (1970). Fonds includes promotional photographs of scenery in Vancouver.

Greater Vancouver Visitors and Convention Bureau

Green and Huckvale Advertising Ltd. fonds

  • AM1453
  • Fonds
  • 1975-1985

The fonds consists of records relating to the agency's early advertising and public relations projects for various local clients. Includes account management records, correspondence, graphic and advertising copy development records, as well as sample project deliverables. Fonds is arranged into is four series: Client case files - textual and graphic materials (1975-1985); Client case files - sound recordings (1978-1980); Creative design development files (1978-1982); and Expo 86 project [ca. 1985].

Green and Huckvale Advertising

Greenpeace Foundation fonds

  • AM925
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1985

The fonds consists of financial records, legal documents, reports, correspondence, publications, newsclippings, charts, audio tapes, photographs and ephemera such as flags, banners, posters, scrapbooks and cartoons.

Greenpeace Foundation

Harold Scanlon Foley fonds

  • AM340
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1972

The fonds consists of Foley's personal papers as well as business correspondence of the Powell River Company Limited.

Foley, Harold Scanlon

Harmony Service Club fonds

  • AM451
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1973

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and correspondence relating to the club's activities, 1923 1973.

Harmony Service Club

Henrietta Thompson fonds

  • AM751
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1954

The fonds consists of British Columbia Social Credit League bulletins, correspondence, minutes, clippings and pamphlets concerning the activities of the Vancouver Centre Constituency of the B.C. Social Credit Association.

Thompson, Henrietta M.

Henry Hudson School Parent-Teacher Association fonds

  • AM185
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1931

The fonds consists of the Association's minutebook from its first meeting in 1919 up to June 1924; committee reports; and a handbook outlining the constitution of the Parent-Teacher Federation and Parent-Teacher Association.

Henry Hudson School Parent-Teacher Association

Herbert Arthur (Bert) Lowes fonds

  • AM1433
  • Fonds
  • [192-]-1996

The fonds consists of records documenting Lowes' involvement in boxing and his career as a coach and referee. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: personal records, subject files (boxing), miscellaneous subject files, and miscellaneous records.

Lowes, Herbert Arthur

Hubbard Construction and Chimney Company fonds

  • AM733
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1940

The fonds consists of blueprints for the spark arrester and some construction work carried out by Hubbard; a patent for the spark arrester, 1940; letters of reference from companies who had engaged in Hubbard's company; and photographs depicting construction of various projects.

Hubbard Construction and Chimney Company

Hubert Lindsay Cadieux fonds

  • AM782
  • Fonds
  • [18--] - 1981

The fonds includes Cadieux's research notes; navigational reference notes; numerous photographs of ships, shipwrecks and light stations as well as towns, harbours and other scenes in British Columbia; correspondence, photographs of family and friends and other personal records; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; collected publications on maritime topics; and two completed manuscripts, "British Columbia Towboats" and "Manned Lighthouses of British Columbia".

Cadieux, Hubert Lindsay

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 501 fonds

  • AM332
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1970

The fonds consists of minutes and other records of the Canadian Waterfront Workers' Association, and minutes, correspondence, charters, agreements, general office files, bulletins and circulars of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Locals 501 and 500.

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 501

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, Valcartier Camp Chapter fonds

  • AM556
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1973

The fonds consists of minutes, 1931-1973; annual report, 1912; general correspondence, 1912-1973; membership lists, 1912-1970; and miscellaneous IODE publications, 1950-1968.

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Valcartier Camp Chapter

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire fonds

  • AM255
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1972

The fonds consists of records made and received by various chapters of the IODE. Records include minutebooks, financial statements, correspondence, membership lists and other committee records, publications, photographs, and other materials.

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire

Ian C. Nicholson fonds

  • AM1185
  • Fonds
  • 1970

Fonds consists of two copies of a 37 page autobiography, entitled "My father's boyhood in Vancouver," and relating to the early childhood and adolescent experiences of Ian C. Nicholson. Manuscript was written by Ian in 1970, at the age of 71, and covers the period 1905 to the end of World War I. Manuscript includes considerable detail on turn of the century life in Kitsilano point. Topics covered include his education experiences, playing on the Kitsilano Indian Reserve, fish canneries and fishing industry along the south shores of English Bay, and early Vancouver companies and landmarks. Manuscript also covers the business activities - primarily printing and a movie theatre - of his father James C. Nicholson.

Nicholson, Ian C.

International Typographical Union collection

  • AM110
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1948

Collection consists of copies of the programs issued for the 85th Convention of the I.T.U., held at Vancouver 16-23 August 1941, the proceedings of the meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the I.T.U., held at Vancouver 18-23 August 1941, and an outline history of Union No. 226 by Mr. George Bartley. The collection also contains copies of "Typo Times", a weekly news sheet issued by the Union during the Vancouver Province strike of 1946-1948. In addition, there are broadsheets issued at the time of the 1946-1948 strike and the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union, as well as invitation cards issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the I.T.U. No. 226.

International Typographical Union

J. George McDonald collection

  • AM1008
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1968

The collection consists of a scrapbook of printed materials, clippings and photographs documenting the history of the automobile sales industry in Vancouver.

McDonald, George J.

J. Roy Ogston fonds

  • AM848
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1968

The fonds consists of photographs of illuminated scrolls created by Ogston for ceremonial occasions, personal photographs, and clippings.

Ogston, John Roy

Ja-go-ben Boys Club fonds

  • AM243
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1951

The fonds consists of records created and received by the Ja-go-ben Boys Club. Records include minutes of meetings (executive and general meetings), correspondence, lists of members, newsletters, newspaper clippings (including clippings from the South Hill News), photographs, club crests, and other materials.

Ja-go-ben Boys Club

Jack Cornett fonds

  • AM269
  • Fonds
  • [192-]-1967

The fonds includes several speeches, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks and photographs.

Cornett, Jack W.

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