The fonds consists of personal papers, including letters of recommendation; prospectus of Cherry Creek Gold Mining Company, 1901; miniature edition of the Vancouver Sun 1937; correspondence; and photographs of the Olson family, including family po...
Olsen, William James
This collection consists of the marriage certificate of C.M. Douglas and Elizabeth Manley, 1909; letter to mother from J.F. Manley, 72nd Battalion re conditions in trenches, France, 1916; notification of J.F. Manley's death, 1917; location of...
The collection consists of the two manuscripts titled "Board of Parks and Public Recreation" and "Shaughnessy".
Walsh, Elizabeth
The collection consists of these three bulletins and the related notes and references. A photograph of salmon gaffed in 1911 from China Creek is located in the photograph collection under CVA 588.
Harris, Gerald
Robert McNair Shingle Company fonds
The fonds consists of legal documents such as indentures, memoranda of law and statements of fact relating to the operations of the company and a subsequent income tax appeal. There is also a short history of the company.
Robert McNair Shingle Company
British Columbia Loggers' Association, Inc. collection
The material is the declaration of the two associations announcing the presentation of a canoe to the City in March 1943. Jericho Charlie, a Squamish Native Indian, freighted camp supplies to Jerry Rogers, a logger on the Point Grey peninsula in t...
The material consists of photocopies of a certificate of payment, specifications of work and materials to be used, and a plan of the housing showing seven views.
Birch, Alfred
Emily Pauline Johnson collection (I)
The collection consists of a four-page letter written to Ellen M. Webber of Ottawa. It describes Johnson's ill-health after a sea voyage and her recent visit with the recipient of the letter. The letter contains an additional note suggestin...
The manuscript is a study of prostitution in Vancouver using primarily the Police Court calendars and Board of Health minutes.
The collection consists of a photocopy of a four-page letter written by John Blair to a friend shortly after his arrival in B.C. in 1880. The letter, dated July 25, describes the journey of his brother and himself and their life after their arriv...
The fonds consists of Lee's timebooks.
Lee, Edward
The fonds consists primarily of photographs. There is also an account book, 1923-1935; a certificate of inspection for the ship Lorna Doone, 1907; and clippings.
Turner, William Harold
The fonds consists of a manuscript documenting the history of various organizations, buildings and other landmarks in Kitsilano. Some photographs, maps and poetry augment the manuscript.
Greig, Lillian Cope
Fonds consists of records created and received by Fowler in his personal and professional life. Records include invitations, correspondence, notes by Fowler on his various experiences, biographical and genealogical notes, Fowler's will and p...
Fowler, Major Charles Busteed
The collection consists of two scrapbooks entitled "Mark Twain's Adhesive Scrap Book" patented 1873. Both volumes consist of newspaper cuttings from the Victoria newspapers. They are mainly concerned with political disputes and ac...
Beaven, Robert
Gastown Merchants' Association fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, newsletters, notices of meetings, posters and other promotional brochures for the Gastown Merchants' Association; correspondence, mostly between the city government, the United Fruit Growers and Al Bowen; and pl...
Gastown Merchants' Association
The fonds consist of 35 diaries written by Henry Mole from 1872 to 1914. These diaries chronicle the activities of Henry Mole as a pioneer, farmer and alderman. The diaries mainly document the descriptions of weather, family life, work was done on...
Mole, Henry
Sherwood and Evelyn Lett family fonds
Fonds consists of records of Sherwood Lett including personal papers, 1908-1964, including diaries and correspondence, military papers, 1845, 1914-1965, covering service in World Wars I and II as well as peace-time associations; diplomatic papers,...
Lett, Sherwood
City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection
Collection consists of postcards of families, individuals, street scenes, neighbourhoods, buildings, ceremonial occasions, social events, sports, business, transportation, and military subjects pertaining to mainly to Vancouver and other cities i...
The collection consists of a letter and photocopied manuscript entitled "Notes Towards a History of the Ward System in Vancouver".
Gutstein, Donald
The collection consists of Sgt. Instr. William R. McKay's lecture notes re training infantry in musketry and rifle shooting, 1918. No further information is available on Sgt. Instr. McKay.
The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings re obituaries ca. 1954.
The collection consists of a Bank of British Columbia passbook belonging to A. Bryan Williams, 1891-1902, a map of the Yale District, B.C., 1906, six photographs, including three re hunting and fishing, 1910-1940, and three re hydraulic mining, ca...
Williams, Arthur Bryan
Vancouver Festival Society fonds
The fonds consists of four volumes of minute books, 1955-1964, two with indexes; programs from 1958 to 1963; a script by Lister Sinclair; and nine scrapbooks of newsclippings covering the activities from 1955-1967.
Vancouver Festival Society
Fonds consists of photographs, audiovisual material and some textual material created or accumulated by Joe Quan. The fonds contains three 16 mm films of the 1958 Chinatown Dragon Parade, the 1960 Chinatown Parade, and Miss Chinatown pageant 1960....
Quan, Joe
The fonds consists of letters written in 1858 to Sir Bulwer-Lytton from individuals seeking commissions on government appointments in British Columbia.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Lytton, Baron
Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union, Local No. 1 fonds
The fonds consists of minutes of a meeting of Shipyard Conference [1970]; correspondence, 1942; clippings, 1966, 1972; and photographs.
Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union. Local No. 1
The fonds consists of letters of patent for an electric gold mining machine, including diagrams, 1898, and a combined brake and footrest for bicycles, 1898.
Hoffmeister, Reinhard
Western Canadian Writers fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, 1962-1963; a ledger book, 1951; club newsletters, 1953-1973; and clippings of published articles by club members.
Western Canadian Writers
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
The collection consists of a replica of a medal struck in Germany to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, a medal issued by the Greater Vancouver Peace Celebration Committee in 1919, a card from the British Columbia Boys' and Gir...
The collection consists of a list of descendants of Marmaduke A. Ross, born in Westchester, New York, in 1782, and Elizabeth Foster of Gagetown, New Brunswick.
The fonds consists of an academic certificate 1910, inspection reports 1920-1923, and photographs ca. 1920-ca. 1940.
Purdie, Anna Grosvenor
The fonds consists of a notebook kept by Sidney Williams between 1887 and 1889. There are six pages of a diary describing a train trip made from Halifax to Tacoma, a two page game list for nine months of 1888 and notes and drawings of various sur...
Williams, Sidney
The fonds consists of a scrapbook of photographs of Storer's experiences in Europe during World War I. It includes mostly aerial photographs of France in 1918, and photographs of the war dead, fellow pilots and various aircraft. There are al...
Storer, Richard Henry
The collection consists of one scrapbook and a file of loose newspaper clippings describing various issues handled by City Council in 1947.
Jones, Charles
The collection consists of four scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings on a variety of topics relating to Vancouver, including First Nations, parks, Gastown, the Pacific National Exhibition, etc.
The fonds consists of a ledger listing goods in bonded warehouses.
Crickmay and Bermingham
The scrapbook contains chiefly newspaper clippings on poetry, Chester B. Macneill, a prominent Vancouver lawyer, and on Vancouver's social circle in the 1940s. There are miscellaneous letters and notes relating to poetry and C.B. Macneill.
T. Matsumoto Company fonds : 1900-1910
The fonds consists of notebook, receipts and bills of the T. Matsumoto Company.
T. Matsumoto Company
The fonds consists of three scrapbooks containing correspondence, photographs, advertising material, certificates and clippings pertaining to Shelly's business and political life.
Shelly, William Curtis
Fonds consists of the text of speeches John L. Farris gave to lawyers, judges, business organizations, students and others. Fonds also contains letters that were sent to JohnL. Farris on his appointment of president of the Canadian Bar Associatio...
Farris, John L.
Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association fonds
The fonds consists minutes, correspondence, reports, proposals, legal records, financial records, notes, newsletters, publications, maps, plans, photographs and audio tapes.
Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association
Macauley, Nicolls, Maitland and Company Limited collection
The collection consists of J.P. Nicholls' address, "History of Real Estate Values in Vancouver" (1925), an 1899 newspaper advertisement, and a 1930 map of downtown Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
Macauley, Nicolls, Maitland and Company Limited
The collection consists of McArthur's manuscript, "West of the Rockies", and another essay "The Depression and the Midland-Pacific Grain Terminal".
McArthur, Hector
The collection consists of three catalogues from David Spencer Limited dated 1902, 1904 and 1908.
The collection consists of a typescript memoir kept by Robert N. Davy and 28 photographs documenting a five month long tour of Australia and New Zealand by a group of 67 cadets and two officers of the 101st Cadet Corps of Vancouver. The tour began...
Davy, Robert N.
The fonds consists of notes and correspondence from the Mayor's office (ca. 1930-1939), a copy of the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Invasion of Privacy, and clippings.
Pinder-Moss, Hilda
British Columbia Airways Limited history
The collection consists of a photocopy of a short history of the firm written by H.L. Banner in 1977.
John William Whittaker collection
The collection consists of a reminiscence entitled "My Sixty (60) Years in the Forest Industry".