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The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds
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Collected publications

Series consists of publications collected by BC Sugar or the BC Sugar Museum in support of various operational activities. The main portion of the collection is made up of various sugar industry publications from Canada and other countries. The collection also includes publications about the history of the sugar industry in Canada and other countries, government reports concerning the sugar industry as well as sugar research serials and publications. The series includes publications of BC Sugar subsidiaries Manitoba Sugar Comapny and Canadian Sugar Factories.

The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

  • AM1592
  • Fonds
  • 1657-2011 (predominant 1890-1999)

Fonds consists of records which document a wide range of functions and activities of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company, Limited, its holding company, BC Sugar Refinery, Limited, and various subsidiaries. The functions and activities include: corporate governance and capitalization; shareholder relations; acquisition, management and oversight of subsidiaries and other investments; liaison with stakeholders, including other sugar manufacturers; research on sugar beet production and sugar refining; international sugar trading; development and maintenance of production facilities; promotion of sugar use by consumers; and financial, human resources, and other administrative activities that supported the operations of the Company.

The records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, a variety of types of financial records, laboratory analysis and refining records, photographs of staff and facilities, marketing artwork, publications, and technical and architectural plans of various refineries and mills. Much of the audio visual material documents the sugar industry, with emphasis on refineries and sugar plantations owned by BC Sugar and its subsidiaries.

The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company, Limited

A kind of honey

File contains items removed from BC Sugar Museum display case titled: 'A kind of honey.' The contents of the case were four prints depicting sugar refining taken from a copy of Diderot's OEconomie Rustique, one print depicting a Brazilian sugar factory, and three books on sugar cultivation and refining.

BC Sugar Museum records

Sous-fonds consists of both the operational records of the BC Sugar Museum and the materials collected by the Museum for its holdings to document both the history of BC Sugar and its subsidiaries, the history of the Rogers family, and to a lesser degree, the history of sugar refining in Canada.

Records in the sous-fonds include a wide variety of business records removed from the BC Sugar recordkeeping system, reference material accumulated by Museum staff, photographs, small artifacts and other display material, books and other publications, and a small collections of business records of sugar refiners not associated with BC Sugar. Records are arranged by Museum function, media or company of origin.

BC Sugar Museum display case materials

Series contains items removed from the display cases at the BC Sugar Museum as they were organized in October of 2011 and other materials intended for display but not on display at time of donation. The display case names imposed by the BC Sugar Museum staff have been maintained as part of the file titles in this series.

John Schreiner records re: The Refiners

Series consists of records gathered and notes created by John Schreiner in the course of researching and writing a book on the history of BC Sugar entitled: The Refiners: A century of BC Sugar.

Series includes early drafts, outlines, and edits of the book chapter by chapter, notes used to write the chapters. The series also includes other research materials collected for potential use in the book, including photographs, and a photograph album.

Schreiner, John

Photographs of cargo ships

File contains copy prints of photographs and a painting of cargo ships. It is assumed that the BC Sugar Museum collected the images of these particular ships because they had in the past delivered cargoes of raw sugar to the BC Sugar refinery. One image is of a ship offloading raw sugar at the refinery.

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