Vancouver Art Association collection
The collection consists of a catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition held by the Vancouver Art Association in 1890; an excerpt copied from a newspaper of 1891 advertising art classes; excerpts copied from letters of Mrs. Annie Richards (formerly ...
Vancouver Art Association
The fonds consists of a bound volume containing information on the locations, assessed values and ownership of lots in Hastings Townsite.
Painter, John Henry
The collection consists of legal papers and maps pertaining to the land holdings of Charles and Rebecca Desormier, Samuel Gintzburger and George W. Fuller. The collection also contains legal papers pertaining to Rickard and Frith (G.F. Frith Co. ...
Hall, Frank Elmer
Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association fonds
The fonds consists of a minute book (1900-1901), which includes membership lists; photographs of an exhibition of members' work in O'Brien Hall, 1900; and miscellaneous other material.
Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company fonds
The fonds consists of receipts issued by the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company between 1887 and 1889.
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
Reverend Robert J. Staines collection
The collection consists of a letter written on 7 April 1853 to a clergyman in England, probably the Rev. J. Haldane Stewart. It contains references to the Hudson's Bay Company, to company rule, the land grant, and Oregon.
The fonds includes Bell's birth and baptismal certificates together with his timber scaler licence application and his memoirs; there are also pencil sketches and sketch maps to illustrate the memoirs. Included is a photograph of a diary page.
Bell, John Warren
Collingwood Free Library and Bursill Institute collection
The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing letters, clippings and photographs relating to the Collingwood Free Library and Bursill Institute ca. 1911-1928.
Collingwood Free Library and Bursill Institute
The fonds consists of Pleming's memoirs (published by the Mount Pleasant News in 1936); programmes of events Pleming participated in; and photographs of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Labour Day Parade (ca. 1900), the South...
Pleming, William
Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club minutes
The collection consists of the minutes of a meeting held at the Hotel Vancouver on 2 October 1897, which formed the Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club.
Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club
Privy Council (Canada) collection
Item is an extract of a report of a Committee of the Privy Council, dated 8 July 1893, regarding foreshore rights in Vancouver of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, with two accompanying maps. One map is in the file; the other one is catalogue...
The fonds consists of a scrapbook of clippings, speeches and letters kept by Alderman McDonald from 1933-1935 concerning the building of the new Vancouver City Hall.
McDonald, Louis Drummond
The collection consists of a scrapbook containing clippings, letters and other assorted material on the subject of proportional representation collected between 1918 and 1921.
The collection consists of two identical volumes of letters sent to the Sun by various governmental and public bodies regarding the Sun's project to present a painting to U.S. President Harding speaking in Stanley Park to the National Press G...
72nd. Battalion Seaforth Highlanders of Canada collection
The collection consists of clipping books recording the war records of the members of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada on overseas service with the C.E.F. in 1914-1918.
72nd. Battalion Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
The fonds consists of correspondence between Bulwer and his father and between Mr. and Mrs. Bulwer.
Bulwer, Henry Alan
The fonds consists of family correspondence, 1868-1964; historical notes, photographs and other materials, 1931-1957; and clippings. Correspondence includes copies of letters from Governor Frederick Seymour and Sir John A. Macdonald to Mrs. J.A.R....
Homer family
Eburne Ratepayers Association fonds
The fonds consists of a minutebook of the Eburne Ratepayers Association. It reflects the interests and development of the Eburne District, 1907-1910, such as the dredging of the North Arm to improve navigation, incorporation of the Municipality of...
Eburne Ratepayers Association
British Columbia Plate Glass Insurance Company fonds
The fonds consists of share register book of the British Columbia Plate Glass Insurance Company.
British Columbia Plate Glass Insurance Company
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, letterbooks, and photographs of the Price family and of records relating to general merchants in Ashcroft, B.C, including Harvey Bailey and Company, to the planned extension to the Canadian Paci...
Price family
Vancouver Housing Authority fonds
The fonds consists of the minutes, 1953-1968.
Vancouver Housing Authority
The fonds consists primarily of correspondence which reflects Philip's work of a real estate agent and other endeavours.
Philip, Alexander
Walter Donald MacKinnon Sage collection
The collection consists of two typescript copies of Don Sage's recollections of his early life in the west side of Vancouver. "Memories of Old University Hill" (1979) and "Memories of Old West Point Grey" (1980) both desc...
Sage, Walter Donald MacKinnon
Women's Auxiliary to the Air Services fonds
The fonds consists of financial statements, 1941-1947; an account ledger, 1944-1951; a membership book, 1943-1948; photographs, 1948; a history of the Auxiliary, 1940-1943; and memorabilia.
Women's Auxiliary to the Air Services
Eben Naismith Harvie collection
The collection consists of a typescript, "The Years that the Locust Hath Eaten -Notes on the Life of E.N. Harvie", published in the Dogwod Bark from 1976 to 1978.
Vancouver Independent Progressives collection
The collection consists of a policy paper, two newsletters dated 1979, and some election material.
Vancouver Independent Progressives
Royal Needlework Guild of Vancouver fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, 1936-1953; Director's Reports, 1907, 1910; President's addresses; a transcript from an interview with Mrs. G. Shane, 1943; annual reports from the Toronto branch, 1937, and the Montreal branch, 1938;...
Royal Needlework Guild of Vancouver
Kitsilano Community Resources Board fonds
The fonds consists of the minutes of the Integration Task Force and its committees, 1974; election materials, 1974; a directory of services; clippings and newspapers, 1973-1977; information relating to the Kitsilano Community Centre, including a s...
Kitsilano Community Resources Board
Petition for [a] Bill to Incorporate the "City of Vancouver"
The item is the original petition addressed to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia asking that the village of Granville be incorporated as the City of Vancouver. There are also accompanying extracts from the Legislative J...
British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
John (Gassy Jack) Deighton collection
The collection consists of a letter dated 28 June 1870 to his brother, Tom, in Hull, England. Deighton describes his life and success as the owner of an hotel saloon. He also discusses family and personal matters.
Captain George Vancouver collection
The collection consists of a letter dated 2 October 1794, which was written by Vancouver while on board the "Discovery" in Nootka Sound. It was addressed to the father of a midshipman in the crew. The letter deals with business matters...
Emily Pauline Johnson collection (II)
The collection consists of a letter written by Pauline Johnson to a Mr. Fleming on 8 December 1912 from a Bute Street hospital. The letter deals with business matters. There is also an autograph.
St. Roch Preservation Society fonds
The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and clippings of the St. Roch Preservation Society.
St. Roch Preservation Society
Kiwanis Club of Vancouver fonds
The fonds contains Club minutes (1922-1983); Music Festival Committee files (1922-1989); committee files (1956-1986); financial records (1933-1975); reports and Club publications including rosters (1921-1976); and the weekly announcement bulletin ...
Kiwanis Club of Vancouver
Union local certificates collection
The papers consist of thirteen charters granted to Vancouver union organizations:1) Feb. 1891 - Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association of North America;2) May 1891 - International Association of Machinists;3) Apr. 1903 - International Brotherh...
Citizen's Council on Civic Development fonds
The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, briefs, submissions, and development studies of the Citizen's Council on Civic Development.
Citizen's Council on Civic Development
William Henry Johnson collection
The collection consists of the marriage certificate of William Henry Johnson (a partner in the Vancouver law firm of Wismer, McGeer and Johnson) and, Mary Ellen Kennedy (a charter member of the Vancouver Music Society).
The collection consists of a photocopy of a thesis entitled "A History of the Vancouver Park System, 1886-1929" submitted to the University of Victoria in 1976.
The fonds consists of legal documents, 1909, 1940; an annual report from the British Columbia Amateur Basketball Association, 1933; correspondence, 1938; and a wedding and anniversary scrapbook, 1896 1923; and a Christmas card.
Nightingale family, John P.
The fonds consists primarily of family photographs from New Brunswick, Scotland and Vancouver. In addition, there are poems by Mrs. McGlashan, notes by McGlashan entitled "The Western Sweep of Civilization" and ephemera.
McGlashan family
The collection consists of a transcript by John Kirkhope, detailing the history of the choir.
United Commercial Travellers, Vancouver Council #284 [collection]
Collection consists of items pertaining to the United Commercial Travellers and the Vancouver Council of Travellers. Included are a history of the Vancouver Council delivered at the Council's 75th anniversary, copies of "The Sample Case...
United Commercial Travellers, Vancouver Council #284
The collection consists of two photocopies of typescripts describing the history of Philip Gilman and the building of Brock House.
Gilman, Richard B.
The fonds consists primarily of correspondence and an indenture concerning the awarding of Charleson's first land clearing contract with the CPR in 1889. There is also a birth certificate for Charleson and a letter from Alexander Mackenzie.
Charleson, Donald Brims
The fonds consists of biographical material; a transcript of a 1969 interview with VanDusen by D. K. Coupar; correspondence and a share agreement between VanDusen and MacMillan; personal photographs and some clippings, 1962-1977.
VanDusen, Whitford Julian
The fonds consists of a bound book, which lists the repairs and maintenance carried out for the Alpha between 1894 and 1900. In addition, a section of the volume records a household account covering 1906 and 1907.
Alpha (ship)
Gerald Gratton McGeer collection
The collection consists of a letter from Gerald McGeer, Mayor of Vancouver, to C.B. Howard, M.P., suggesting that Members of Parliament make an inspection tour of the C.N.R. on their way to Vancouver for the city's Golden Jubilee. There is a...
McGeer, Gerald Grattan
University of British Columbia, Vancouver Environmental Education Project [collection]
The collection consists of a playing board, rules, game pieces, and other material for "Vancouver Buses", a game to help school children learn how to use the transit system.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver Environmental Education Project
Robertson Presbyterian Church fonds
The fonds consists of a minute book, 1908-1935, and a pamphlet celebrating the church's golden jubilee, 1958.
Robertson Presbyterian Church (Vancouver, B.C.)