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Jude Fuller collection

  • AM413
  • Item
  • 1966

The collection consists of photocopies of a "List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia Coastal Waters since 1897" (to 1966).

C. Gardner Johnson Limited fonds

  • AM612
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1967

The fonds consists of the minute books of C. Gardner Johnson Limited from 1921-1925 and 1937-1951; annual reports for 1939-1943; and a recording of the opening of Centennial Pier in 1967.

C. Gardner Johnson Ltd.

Hilda Pinder-Moss fonds

  • AM392
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1967

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

Jack Cornett fonds

  • AM269
  • Fonds
  • [192-]-1967

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

Cornett, Jack W.

Elizabeth Abbott fonds

  • AM753
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1967

The fonds consists of four letters written by William Hart-McHarg, the law partner of J.L.G. Abott, to Elizabeth Abbott; clippings and newspapers covering the wars; and photographs of McHarg in uniform. Fonds also consists of two photograph albums containing family photographs and commercial Edward Bros. photographs.

Abbott, Elizabeth Scott

Vancouver Centennial Committee fonds

  • AM271
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1967

The fonds contains primarily newspaper clippings. Also includes small volume of correspondence, photographs, newsletters, news releases, invitations, organization charts, song sheets, biographies, flags and financial statements.

Vancouver Centennial 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

Ada May Stevenson fonds

  • AM750
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1967

The fonds consists of clippings and an original letter detailing conveyance of Callister Park to the City. There are also other sundry clippings and personal papers, including an interim and final accounting of the Stevenson Estate.

Stevenson, Ada May

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

Vancouver Festival Society fonds

  • AM328
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1967

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

Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association collection

  • AM176
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1967

The collection contains newsletters, reports of proceedings, correspondence and programmes. Also present are two histories: one of the R.W. Grand Lodge of B.C., May 1955 to May 1963; and the other of Miypah Lodge No. 200, 1918-1942.

Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association

Sidney C. Ells collection

  • AM616
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1967

The collection consists of seven Christmas cards which contain poetry and prose about Canadian history written by Ells.

Edith Low-Beer fonds

  • AM1081
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1948, 1964-1968

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, minutes, invitation and clippings pertaining to the planning phase of the Centennial Museum (now called the Vancouver Museum). The fonds also includes family and business correspondence of her husband, Max Low-Beer.

Low-Beer, Edith

Kiwanis Club of West Point fonds

  • AM1291
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1968

Fonds consists of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs and programs of the Kiwanis Club of West Point.

Kiwanis Club of West Point

British Columbia Society of Artists fonds

  • AM171
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1968

The fonds includes records of the British Columbia Society of Fine Arts, including a minute book, 1917-1941, a list of visitors to the 1925 exhibition, business correspondence, 1939-1949, general correspondence, 1930-1949, and programmes of exhibitions, 1929-1967; the fonds also includes records of the British Columbia Society of Artists, including three minute books, 1947-1967, lists of exhibitors, 1919-1930, membership lists and expense accounts, 1955-1967, records of membership dues, 1957-1960, and correspondence, 1950-1967. There are also several histories of the society, clippings, letters and official notices of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and registration lists of attendance at art shows and public lectures.

British Columbia Society of Artists

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.

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

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

Eric Chown fonds

  • AM422
  • Fonds
  • 1960-1968

The fonds consists of four scrapbooks assembled by Chown. Two of them cover his tenure with the Citizenship Court (1960-1968), another deals with the War Savings Committee (1940-1942), and the last contains certificates of distinction presented to Chown as well as clippings, programs, photographs (of Kiwanis Club activities and Barbara Ann Scott) relating to the Chown family, Samuel Dwight Chown, and the United Church.

Chown, Eric Vickers

Reginald Atherton fonds

  • AM424
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1968

The fonds consists of correspondence, notes, and reports dealing with matters of civic administration and government for the years 1957-1965.

Atherton, Reginald

Henry Herbert Stevens fonds

  • AM69
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1935, 1966, 1968

The fonds consists of correspondence and other materials on East Indian immigration, 1912-1916; the Komagata Maru incident, 1914 and 1916; immigration matters other than East Indian, 1912-1925; Vancouver port facilities, 1913-1916; the drug problem in Vancouver, 1921-1922; provincial politics in B.C., 1921-1923; the Grain Inquiry, 1918 and 1923-1924; and the Salmon Fisheries Treaty with the U.S.A., 1929. The fonds also includes clippings, scrapbooks, photographs (showing logging by the Aeroplane Spruce Company and various mills on the B.C. coast), and published items.

Stevens, Henry Herbert

Captain Barney Leitch Johnson fonds

  • AM581
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1968

The fonds consists of logbooks, 1910, 1918; towage rates book, 1930; address books for miscellaneous notes, 1910-1930; photographs; memorabilia; clipping and memoirs.

Johnson, Barney Leitch

Frank Appelbe fonds

  • AM1661
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1968

The fonds consists of Appelbe's photographs of aerial views of the west side of Vancouver and the West End; and views of the RCMP vessel St. Roch, Coal Harbour and railway shops and rolling stock in West Vancouver.

Appelbe, Frank

William Donald M. Sage collection

  • AM896
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1968

The collection consists of manuscripts and published material relating to the Irish Fusiliers of Canada (The Vancouver Regiment) by Capt. W.D.M. Sage, Col. D.F. Spankie and Marcus Cunliffe. The Irish Fusiliers of Canada (The Vancouver Regiment), first known as the 11th Irish Fusiliers, was organized in 1913. Many members served in World War I and World War II. It ceased to be an active unit at the end of 1964. Also included is a nominal role of officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 29th Battalion, 1915.

John Emerson fonds

  • AM623
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1968

The fonds contains subject files which consist primarily of incoming correspondence, both personal and business, typescripts of outgoing correspondence to Vera Thompson, receipts, two notebooks with various writings and newspaper clippings.

Emerson, John

Canadian Women's Press Club fonds

  • AM396
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1969

The fonds contains the Club's constitution, membership lists, minute books, correspondence, triennial reports and publications. There are also six scrapbooks 1912-1927 (volume 2), 1930-1969 (volumes 3-7) which contain reports, photographs, profiles of members, and accounts and souvenirs of the club's activities.

Canadian Women's Press Club

Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

  • AM624
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1969

The fonds consists of scrapbooks and photo albums documenting her work with various clubs and organizations, as well as her travels to Europe in the 1930's. Fonds also contain reports from the British Columbia Electric Railway Company.

Bell, Olga Jenkinson

Nicholas Russell fonds

  • AM1348
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1969

The fonds consists of Nicholas Russell's photographs of houses and buildings in the West End.

Russell, Nicholas

Canadian Pacific Railway Company fonds

  • AM42
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1969

The fonds includes the following series: Approval books (1910-1959); Assessment districts and records of taxes (1945--1968); Duplicate deeds (1907-1965); Field note books (1885-1887); List of buildings relating to Vancouver Division - Vancouver Terminals (1884-1957); Miscellaneous records (1884-1962); Receipts and receipt books (1886-1969); Record of payments for properties, District Lot 526 (1962-1965); Registers of city lots (1886-1959); Staff registers (1880-1911); and Van Horne correspondence (1885-1887).

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Frederick Ramsey fonds

  • AM670
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1969

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports to Council, some minutes of the Special Joint Committee on Skid Row Problems and the sub committees; technical reports and briefs, minutes of the Downtown Eastside Clergy; and other reference papers.

Ramsey, Frederick A., Reverend Canon

British Columbia Chamber of Commerce fonds

  • AM370
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1969

The fonds consists of the proceedings of the annual conventions of the Associated Boards of Trade and the B.C. Chamber of Commerce. Minutes of meetings, briefs to governments, resolutions submitted by member Boards, and committee reports are included in the proceedings as well as photographs of the 1923 Associated Board of Trade and the 1952 B.C. Chamber of Commerce conventions.

British Columbia Chamber of Commerce

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

St. Roch Preservation Society fonds

  • AM990
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1969

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and clippings of the St. Roch Preservation Society.

St. Roch Preservation Society

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

Lorna Makepeace fonds

  • AM732
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1970, predominant 1940-1956

The fonds consists of correspondence, invoices, theatre programs, coronation of George VI pamphlets, a 1919 peace celebration songbook, certificates, postcards, military papers including paybooks, ration cards, travel authority warrants, and photographs.

Makepeace, Lorna May

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

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

Robert W. Jackson fonds

  • AM1662
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1970

The fonds consists of photographs by Jackson, depicting his homes in both Vancouver and Victoria, his family, friends and local scenery.

Jackson, Robert W.

Henry A. Tabbers fonds

  • CVA 344
  • Fonds
  • 1970

The fonds consists of Tabbers' photographs of scenic views of coastal mountains and inlets.

Tabbers, Henry A.

B.C. Professional Gardeners' Association fonds

  • AM673
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1970

The fonds consists of four minute books, 1936-1941 and 1950-1970 and three cash books, 1938-1963. The minutes record annual and monthly general meetings, as well as executive meetings. Descriptions of the lectures cover a wide range of subjects, mostly natural history.

British Columbia Professional Gardeners' Association

B.C. Marine Shipbuilders fonds

  • AM717
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1970

The fonds consists of invoices listing repairs to specific ships, 1923-1927 and 1930. Also included are payroll ledgers for the shipyard employees from 1939 to 1952, 1965 and 1970.

British Columbia Marine Shipbuilders

William M. Reid fonds

  • AM858
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1959-1970]

The fonds consists of plans for 140 vessels. Prints are arranged by plan set, each set corresponding to a separate vessel. Plans may include, and are not limited to, outboard or inboard profiles; lines, body, rigging, sail, or deck plans; sections; or rudder or gun fitting details.

Reid, William Myles

Mercer and Mercer Architects fonds

  • AM1431
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1970, predominantly 1940-1970

Fonds contains photographs and drawings of buildings designed by Mercer & Mercer Architects as well as a certificate of registration for Andrew Lamb Mercer from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia.

Also included in the fonds are photographs from six albums showing buildings of various clientele of Mercer & Mercer Architects as well as projects by the predecessor firm, Gardiner and Mercer. Sites include breweries, hospitals, schools, fire halls, banks and other businesses primarily located in Vancouver but also other parts of the province.

Mercer and Mercer, Architects

Nellie McCay fonds

  • AM66
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1954, 1970

The fonds consists of scrapbooks, notes, letters and photographs pertaining to the Vancouver Folk Festival, and material relevant to McCay's personal life.

McKay, J.T. Nellie

Ernest Whitaker collection

  • AM997
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1970

The collection consists of price lists and the text of the Pelagic Sealing Treaty (1911).

Whitaker, Ernest

Vancouver Express fonds

  • AM1667
  • Fonds
  • 1970

The fonds consists of the entire publication run and associated photographs from the Vancouver Express newspaper.

Vancouver Express

Phyllis Salter fonds

  • AM1058
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-1970

The fonds includes photographs, biographical pamphlets, concert programmes and posters, certificates, photographs, and newsclippings relating to Phyllis Salter's career as a concert pianist. The fonds also includes photographs of the Salter family and the family home, as well as documents pertaining to the career of Phyllis Salter's father, Percy John Salter, who worked as the president and general manager of the Vancouver Sun.

Salter, Phyllis

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.

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