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Miller family fonds

  • AM819
  • Fonds
  • 1869-1983

The fonds consists of photocopies of various histories, notes, correspondence, photographs and genealogical information on the Miller and Springer families to 1983.

Miller family

John Sprott fonds

  • AM818
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1888, 1899

The fonds consists of two letterbooks (1885-1888, 1899) of outward letters from Sprott, Road Inspector, concerning road building and maintenance, primarily in the Lower Mainland.

Sprott, John Hardie

Marpole Business Association collection

  • AM817
  • Fonds
  • 1983

The collection consists of three letters from entrants to the Marpole Pioneer Days Historical Information Contest: Eleanor Zelma (Clarke) Bunting, Lilace (Churchill) Thompson, and Florence (Hird) Foulkes. The letters contain genealogical and historical information about pioneers and pioneer life.

Marpole Business Association

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.

O.E. and Dora Ozburn fonds

  • AM815
  • Fonds
  • 1922

The fonds consists of student notebooks of O. E. and Dora Ozburn at the Provincial Normal School, Vancouver, on handwork, drawing, penmanship, nature and weaving.

Ozburn, O.E.

Douglas Honeyman fonds

  • AM814
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1968; predominant 1915-1919

The fonds consists of diaries written in trenches, correspondence regarding 29th Battalion activities, photographs, and miscellaneous publications from World War I.

Honeyman, Douglas Ramsey

Clarence Sihoe collection

  • AM813
  • Fonds
  • 1983

The collection consists of two volumes, including photographs and slides, "Vancouver's Heritage Tree Inventory. A Collection of Great Trees in the City". The first volume, dated February 1983, is by Clarence Sihoe. The second volume, dated September 1983, is by Elisabeth Whitelaw and Clarence Sihoe.

Sihoe, Clarence

Charles Thompson fonds

  • AM812
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1964

The fonds consists of a scrapbook (1934-1936) on the campaign and election of Gerry McGeer kept by Thompson; two presentation scrolls by artist J. Roy Ogston, an audio disc of Vancouver City Council final session, and photographs of Thompson and various public functions, views of City Hall, and autographed portraits of prime ministers.

Thompson, Charles Edwin

Alfred Holmes fonds

  • AM810
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1963

The fonds consists of the papers of A. R. C. Holmes, including correspondence, school records, sketchbooks, drawings and cartoons, publications, greeting cards, and photographs of various regions in B.C. Also included are original cartoons by Al Beaton, Ernest Le Messurier, and Thursby.

Holmes, Alfred Robertson Casswell

George Maxwell fonds

  • AM81
  • Fonds
  • 1861-[ca. 1900]

The fonds consists of Maxwell's essays and sermons along with photographs of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, taken in 1861, and a photograph of Maxwell taken at a church picnic in the 1890s.

Maxwell, George Ritchie

C.M. Pallard fonds

  • AM809
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1921]

The fonds consists of examinations, answer sheets, and notes for lessons for various courses at Vancouver Technical School, including physics, mechanics and woodwork.

Pallard, C.M.

Sheila Neville collection

  • AM807
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1975

The collection consists of material pertaining to community theatre in Vancouver, specifically the Vancouver Little Theatre Association. Collection includes histories, play production records, lists of officers, notes, play scripts, and publications.

Vancouver Little Theatre Association

Little Mountain Area Human Resources Society fonds

  • AM804
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1978; predominant 1976-1978

The fonds consists of minutes, reports, grant reviews, correspondence and miscellaneous papers.

Little Mountain Area Human Resources Society

J. Weston Collection

  • AM801
  • Fonds
  • 1952-1960

The collections consists of posters advertising Theatre Under the Stars music performances at the Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park. Theatre Under the Stars was established by the Parks Board of the City of Vancouver in 1939 and closed in 1963. The posters were located in the interior and exterior of street cars and advertise productions of: “Timber”, “Waltz in Old Vienna”, “The Red Mill”, The Wizard of Oz”, “Finian’s Rainbow”, “Kiss Me Kate”, “Rose Marie”, “The Desert Song”, “Song of Norway”, “Carousel”, “The New Moon”, “Sweethearts”, “Brigadoon”, “Oklahoma”, “Anything Goes”, “Music in the Air”, “The Great Waltz”, “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “The Student Prince”, “The Pajama Game”, and “Kismet”.

Weston, J.

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

William Templeton collection

  • AM80
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1950

The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and programs, aviation and flying news 1930-1941, 1945-1947; three printed works by William Templeton: Touring the Wild and Woolly West by Air (1933); Vancouver Airport and Seaplane Harbour, plus a song by him "Vancouver Calls Me" (1947), and Memorandum of Vancouver International Airport with Recommendations for Future Development (1950).

Templeton, William

David Mackenzie fonds

  • AM8
  • Fonds
  • 1831-1833

The fonds consists of Mackenzie's account books and a diary of a voyage from Dundee to Quebec 8 August - 28 September[?], 1833.

Mackenzie, David

Vancouver Business and Professional Women's Club fonds

  • AM799
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1991

The fonds consists of minute books, (1922-1930, 1946-1989); scrapbooks and publications; miscellaneous correspondence; Alberta Peters' historical notes, (1977); and a 1991 pamphlet.

Vancouver Business and Professional Women's Club

Margery Wade collection

  • AM797
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1916

The collection consists of telegrams and letters from Walter Moberly to Margery Wade and Norton Griffiths concerning personal matters, the New Westminster fire (1898), and railway development; Wilfred Laurier to F. C. Wade concerning Liberal politics; Noel Robinson to F. C. Wade concerning Moberly. The collection also includes 95 original cartoon drawings by John Innis and James B. Fitzmaurice depicting provincial political figures and issues such as prohibition, and 4 black and white photographic reproductions of cartoon drawings by Fitzmaurice.

Wade, Margery

Adelaide Seymour Lewis (Fowler) collection

  • AM796
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1927-1947

The collection consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1924-1943) relating to Vancouver pioneers and early Vancouver history. There is also a B.C. Electric Railway Company "Notice" dated 1945 listing streetcar regulations for 1945, and a print of "The Golden Jubilee City Hall", 1936.

Lewis, Adelaide Seymour

Joseph A. Byron collection

  • AM795
  • Item
  • 1942

The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) and other civilian defence activities in British Columbia, October 1 to December 31, 1942.

Vancouver Courthouse collection

  • AM794
  • Fonds
  • 1907

The collection consists of photocopies of a foundation plan, elevation and sectional drawings to the Vancouver Courthouse, drawn by F.M. Rattenbury. The drawings are prints of the old courthouse that have been reproduced in a book "Francis Rattenbury and B.C.: Architecture and Challenge in the Imperial Age".

McFarlane family fonds

  • AM79
  • Fonds
  • 1884, 1904-1912, 1945-1947

The fonds consists of a notebook containing university notes on various subjects, and student teacher notes. There are also examples of examination papers, report cards, and private correspondence.

McFarlane family

E.C. Horwood Collection

  • AM787
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1913

The collection consists of architectural drawings by the architectural firms Burke, Horwood and White, and Horwood and White for the Hudson's Bay Company store building located at on West Georgia Street. The records principally document additions to the building, designed in 1925 and constructed in 1925 and 1926, which brought the building up to its modern footprint.

The collection includes preliminary, construction and as-built drawings pertaining to the 1925 addition and 1926 replacement of original 1893 building on the site. The drawings are primarily mechanical, HVAC, plumbing and electrical drawings, though the collection does contain some drawings of architectural designs. The drawings are depicted as floor plans, elevations, sections, details and schematic diagrams.

The drawings include reference copies of drawings from the construction of the 1913 addition to the 1893 store, the earliest part of the building still standing. The collection also includes a watercolour rendering of the store done at or after the completion of the building.

Burke, Horwood & White

Alan Morley fonds

  • AM786
  • Fonds
  • 1940

The fonds consists of clippings of Morley's newspaper column, "Romance of Vancouver," and the accompanying illustrations by Fraser Wilson.

Morley, Alan Palmer

Graham Edis collection

  • AM784
  • Item
  • 1981

The collection consists of the manuscript "The Spark & Gasoline Club", a history of the British Columbia Automobile Association.

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

Vancouver Bowling Club fonds

  • AM78
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1909, 1924-1927

The fonds consists of photographs and business correspondence, 1906-1909, and clippings and records of scores, 1924-1927.

Vancouver Bowling Club

Charles J. Christopherson fonds

  • AM779
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1983

The fonds consists of personal correspondence and clippings, and correspondence, minutes, and other records resulting from involvement with the New School, the William Morris Society, and the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Association and predecessor groups.

Christopherson, Charles J.

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.

Burrard Hotel fonds

  • AM777
  • Fonds
  • 1908

The fonds consists of an account book and work regulations of the Burrard Hotel.

Burrard Hotel

Alcazar Hotel fonds

  • AM773
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1922

The fonds consists of financial records for the Alcazar Hotel.

Alcazar Hotel

Daniel Chowne collection

  • AM772
  • Item
  • 1982

The paper "The Case for Police Reform: Vancouver 1982" was researched and written for a University of British Columbia history course.

Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre Association fonds

  • AM771
  • Fonds
  • 1946-1983

The fonds consists of a constitution, agreements, minutes, attendance records, annual reports, programs, and other records including photographs.

Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre Association

Vancouver Manx Society fonds

  • AM770
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1981

The fonds consists of minutes, cash books, correspondence, miscellaneous papers, publications, song books, and one 33 1/3 phonograph record of Manx songs. It also includes records of the North American Manx Society and general publications. Fonds also contains photographs of members and social events of the Vancouver society.

Vancouver Manx Society

Grouse Mountain Scenic Incline Railway Company fonds

  • AM77
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1915

The fonds consists of a minute book, 1911-1913; business correspondence, 1910-1915; a blue-print of the proposed location; a sketch map of the southern part of D.L. 1345; and printed works.

Grouse Mountain Scenic Incline Railway Company

James Robison collection

  • AM769
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1890-1912

The collection consists of postcards and an album of tobacco trading cards.

Alan Lever fonds

  • AM768
  • Fonds
  • 1958-1974

The fonds consists of records of Alan Lever including constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, and financial records of boards and associations concerned with the development of a city museum, particularly the Vancouver Civic Museum Board; the Vancouver Maritime Museum, the Vancouver Railway Museum Association and the Discovery of Vancouver Society. Also included is a report on museum development by T. A. Heinrich and a study of a proposal to amalgamate Vancouver and Burnaby.

Lever, Alan

Air Pollution Control Society fonds

  • AM767
  • Fonds
  • 1952-1966

The fonds consists of a constitution, list of directors, notices of meetings, and correspondence.

Air Pollution Control Society

Vancouver (Burrard) Lions Club fonds

  • AM766
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1967

The fonds consists of newsletters (1938-1981); rosters (1939-1981); and programs, scrapbooks, books and photographs.

Lions Club. Vancouver Burrard Chapter

H.N.W. Toms collection

  • AM765
  • Fonds
  • 1980

The collection consists of a family history, and photocopies of biographical and genealogical information concerning the Judge family.

Toms, H.N.W.

Women's Christian Temperance Union, Uneeda Branch fonds

  • AM764
  • Fonds
  • 1902, 1929-1962

The fonds consists of a letter to Mrs. S.H. Brown (1902), minute books, financial records and clipping books. The clipping books contain mainly newspaper clippings but also include some other items, such as membership directories, convention programs, stickers and photographs. Most of the books are also annotated with hand-written quotations and comments.

Women's Christian Temperance Union. Uneeda Branch

Vancouver Girls' Corner Club fonds

  • AM763
  • Fonds
  • [1917]-1962

The fonds consists of records documenting the Vancouver Girls' Corner Club's organization and activities. It has been arranged into three series: Historical background ([1917]-1959); Minutes of meetings (1923-1958); and Treasurer's reports (1922-1962).

Vancouver Girls' Corner Club

Knights of Pythias, Mount Pleasant Lodge No. 11 fonds

  • AM760
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1940

The fonds consists of correspondence and the minutes of the meetings of the Knights of Pythias, Mount Pleasant Lodge No. 11 documenting their administrative organization. Included in the minutes are reports from the committees; records of receipts and disbursements; applications to the Lodge; the conferring of ranks; election of officers; reports of communication with other Lodges; and the Roll of Officers.

Knights of Pythias (Masonic order). Mount Pleasant Lodge, No. 11 (Vancouver, B.C.)

Grouse Mountain Highway and Scenic Resort fonds

  • AM76
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1935

The fonds consists of four volumes of survey notes of G.P. Stirrett, 1926-1927; photographs of Grouse Mountain, the chalet and highway, and views of Vancouver, 1925-1926 ; Chinook Days by Tom MacInness, 1926, a book of stories published to mark the opening of the resort; the prospectus, 1925, and publicity materials, 1925-1933; business correspondence, 1924-1935; financial statements, 1925 - 1935; a record of toll-free passes, 1933-1935; and a visitor's book, 1933.

Grouse Mountain Highway and Scenic Resort

E.H. Lukin Johnston fonds

  • AM758
  • Fonds
  • 1923

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of the articles written by Johnston during the Harding tour. There are also a considerable number of photographs taken during the tour.

Johnston, E.H. Lukin

Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

  • AM757
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 2000, predominant 1950 - 1989

The fonds consists of the association's minutes and financial reports, and notes, maps and photographs related to the Vancouver's Old Streams booklets published by the aquarium in 1978 and 1989. The fonds is divided into two series: Minutes and financial statements (1959-1988) and Vancouver's Old Streams notes and photographs (1978-2000, 1978-1989 predominant).

Vancouver Public Aquarium Association

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