CALL NUMBER: T0030:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1930 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Laverdure was born in 1900 and came to B.C. in 1909, first contingent. Descriptions of train trip from the east to British Columbia and of early Maillardville. Millworker for Fraser Mills, problems, wages, etc. Description of housing provided by Fraser Mills for workers. Religious education and schooling. TRACK 2: Ethnic groups in Maillardville and working at Fraser Mills. Description of social life in Maillardville. The observance of religious holidays in the Roman Catholic Church. Language problems.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses Maillardville, WWI, work at mills and as a truck driver, the Depression, the head of unemployed association, relief, attitudes towards WWII, and child raising.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses Fraser Mills: wages, work, safety, compensation, unions, Chinese, blacklisting. Other jobs outside Fraser Mills including threshing on the prairies, work at a box factory (B.C. Manufacturing), and the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses different nationalities in Fraser Mills, employers and employees, differences made between the races, the strike of 1931, food supply, attitudes toward religion, unions, and his personal philosophy on life.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-07-21 SUMMARY: Interviewed in French, Arthur Laverdure discusses early days in Maillardville, the arrival of the "Columbiens", and the development of Maillardville. The train trip from Montreal to Fraser Mills. The mill at Fraser Mills in 1909. Problems encountered on arrival in B.C. Building a house in Maillardville.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-07-21 SUMMARY: Interviewed in French, Arthur Laverdure discusses early days in Maillardville and the development of Maillardville. The building of the house by his father. Stidies. The first church. Religious holidays. Recreation and amusements. Remedies and superstitions.

The item is an audio recording of BC Radio News press conferences, interviews, speeches etc.

T3860:0099: Premier Bennett on BCRIC, amendments to BCRIC Act, 1979 session.

T3860:0100: Rafe Mair on Japanese ownership of fisheries.

T3860:0101: Vander Zalm on handicapped transit.

T3860:0102: Vander Zalm on conflict of interest legislation.

T3860:0103 track 1: Vander Zalm song at Kamloops mini-convention, April 1979.
Track 2: [Elwood] Veitch.

T3860:0104 track 1: [Elwood] Veitch.
Track 2: Bawlf; McCarthy; 1979 election.

T3860:0105: Williams, etc., on Vogel.

T3860:0106 track 1: Williams on Catholic teacher appeal.
Track 2: Hewitt denies split between BC Hydro and the government.

CALL NUMBER: T3860:0024 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Lieutenant Governor H.P. Bell-Irving : swearing-in ceremony RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978-05-18 SUMMARY: Lieutenant Governor H.P. Bell-Irving's swearing-in ceremony.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0025 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Labour minister Allan Williams RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-19 SUMMARY: Labour minister Allan Williams says Youth Employment money is being pulled out of hospitals due to union hassles.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0026 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): NDP leader Dave Barrett RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978-05-20 SUMMARY: NDP leader Dave Barrett's opening speech to the NDP convention at the University of Victoria.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0027 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978-05-21 SUMMARY: Federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent addresses the BC NDP convention.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0028 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): NDP leader Dave Barrett RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978-05-22 SUMMARY: NDP leader Dave Barrett at the closing of the NDP convention at Victoria.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0029 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): NDP house leader Bill King RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-23 SUMMARY: NDP house leader Bill King on charges that Premier Bennett is using his influence to help his friend Wendy Robertson get the job of provincial fitness co-ordinator.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0030 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Education minister Pat McGeer RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-30 SUMMARY: Education minister Pat McGeer on charges by Catholic school teachers that the church is going to pocket government assistance under the Aid to Independent School Act.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0031 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): NDP health critic Chris D'Arcy RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-30 SUMMARY: NDP Health critic Chris D'Arcy with the opposition's reaction to the government's Heroin Treatment Bill.;

Series consists of records created by the Sisters of St. Ann related to their time teaching at Holy Ghost School in Queensboro, a parochial school in Holy Ghost Parish.

The school was opened in 1947, and served a population of recent immigrants and displaced peoples after the Second World War. The Sisters left the school due to health concerns, and it was in 1955.

Records include a history of the school, a promotion list, a class registration record, a student register and photographs.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jean Baptiste Goulet discusses Maillardville 1944-1972 ; credit union ; education PERIOD COVERED: 1944-1972 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jean Baptiste Goulet discusses his childhood in Quebec, education and becoming a teacher. Teaching on the Prairies and in Saskatchewan. He mentions Louis Riel. Life of a French-Canadian on the Prairies. Move to Vancouver and finally to Fraser Mills and Maillardville. TRACK 2: Cultural events in Maillardville. Work with parochial schools as a trustee. Attempts to get support for parochial schools and to permit tax exempt status. School strike in 1951 to protest the need for support. Pressure to get the Provincial Government to remove taxes on schools. Description of parochial schools in Maillardville. Role in the Caisse Populaire Credit Union.

The fonds consists of records of the Kuper Island Indian Industrial School and includes correspondence, daily journals, pupil progress reports, punishments books, a clothing issue register, agricultural work record book and a trades instructor memorandum book, quarterly reports and accounts and stores records books.

Series consists of records created by the Sisters of St. Ann relating to their work at Kuper Island Residential School.

In 1890, Bishop Lemmons requested that The Sisters of St. Ann assist the de Montfort Fathers in administering the Kuper Island Industrial School, located on what is now Penelakut Island. The Sisters operated under the de Montfort Fathers until 1957 when the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) took over administration of the school. The OMI remained until 1973, and the Sisters until 1975.

The Sisters were responsible for educating students, and their work included planning lessons, teaching, planning religious celebrations and organizing extracurricular activities for the girls. Primary classes of boys were taught by Sisters, but all other aspects of the lives of boys at the school was supervised by the male religious order.

This series consists of two subseries: A) Convent subseries and B) School subseries. The convent subseries consists of the records relating to the activities of the Sister’s of St. Ann’s Convent/Local House and includes chronicles, local house minutes, accounts, a monograph, a history of the school and personal photographs. The school subseries consists of records relating to education of students, and includes correspondence, student art, photographs and ephemera.

While the chronicles are intended as records that document the happening at the convent primarily, the chronicler would also document students and school activities, though inconsistently.

CALL NUMBER: T0054:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leonard and Leona Hammond : early Maillardville and Fraser Mills PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1922 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leonard and Leona Hammond discuss early life in Maillardville, including their biographies, courtship, and furniture. Leo Hammond's work at Fraser Mills. Role of women in early part of twentieth century. Transportation in Maillardville. Leona Hammond working at a job. Religious ceremonies. TRACK 2: Christmas celebrations. Description of Maillardville. Union activity at Fraser Mills and reaction to the strikes by Leo Hammond.

CALL NUMBER: T0054:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leonard and Leona Hammond discuss early Maillardville and school strike PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1960 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-05-02 SUMMARY: Leonard and Leona Hammond discuss life during the Depression of the 1930s in Maillardville. Union activity at Fraser Mills. The problem of educating French-Canadians in private schools. The school strike and social conditions. Role of women in Maillardville.

The fonds consists of records relating to the missionary work of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Most records were created and accumulated by the administrations of various OMI provinces that have operated in British Columbia: St. Peter’s Province, St. Paul’s Vice-Province, St. Paul’s Province, and OMI Lacombe Canada. Additionally, the fonds contains some records created by the administration of the Vice-Province of Whitehorse. Other records pre-date the establishment of OMI provinces in Canada. Materials mostly relate to Oblate missionary work in British Columbia and the Yukon, but the fonds also includes some records pertaining to Oblate work throughout Canada, as well as records pertaining to foreign mission work (such as materials related to the OMI’s Provincial Delegation of Peru).

The fonds is divided into the following series:
● MS-3396 – Mission and school records
● MS-3397 – Personnel records
● MS-3398 – OMI archives files
● MS-3399 – Writing and research
● MS-3400 – Provincial administrative records
● MS-3401 – Indigenous affairs subject files
● MS-3402 – Multi-media [currently being processed]
● MS-3403 – Publications, grey literature, and manuscripts

Series consists of teaching materials collected, used, or created primarily by Sister Mary Hortensius (Edith Louise Belcore), who taught for six decades as a Sister of St. Ann. Additional records in this series are general pedagogical materials, and records related to educating Indigenous children.

Records within this series include textbooks and teaching manuals, examples of student works, art and crafts supplies and templates, First Aid course material, blanks exams, prayers and specifically Catholic educational material, Montessori training manuals, a Catholic ladder, correspondence and reports on Indigenous education, and published material related to education.

The series is arranged into three subseries: A. Sister Mary Hortensius pedagogical material subseries; B. General pedagogical material subseries; C. Indigenous education subseries.

St. Ann's School.

This fonds consists of records created by The Sisters of St. Ann over the approximately 160 years that they have operated in the West.

St. Joseph’s Province, as an organizational structure, was formed in 1891 and incorporated by the Province of British Columbia in 1892. Prior to that, the governing body of the Sisters of St. Ann in the west was primarily the Vicariate, and the Vicariate’s records and functions were absorbed by the Provincial Administration within St. Joseph’s Province. The Province encompassed all the western provinces and the two territories of Canada as well as Alaska and Washington State. The Administration was composed of the Provincial Superior or Leader, her secretary and Councilors, the Provincial Bursar or Treasurer, the Provincial Archivist, and at one time, the Prefect of Studies, Prefect of Music, Mistress of Novices, and Directress of Juniorate. In 2004 co-leadership roles were established, with two Sisters as co-leaders in 2004 and a triumvirate created in 2017. In 2019, St. Joseph’s Province was suspended and a new Local Community was founded.

As it was an intermediate form of government, the Provincial Administration raised issues with the General Administration on behalf of the local houses, but was free to act on its own within the constraints of the Constitution and Rules of the Sisters of Saint Anne, particularly with regard to dispensations, permissions, finances, and establishment or closing of ministries. The Provincial Administration of St. Joseph's Province has always been maintained in Victoria, B.C., as a separate juridical entity and until 1974, was housed at St. Ann's Academy in Victoria. After the closure of the school and the sale of the buildings, the administration was moved to Begbie House at 1550 Begbie Street, Victoria, B.C.

Recording activities, transactions, and persons has always been a policy with the Sisters of St. Ann and these are found in ledgers, registers, and forms throughout the fonds, particularly in the context of schools. There are files of correspondence relating to certain subjects or activities, reports and copies of reports made to counterparts in the General Administration and vice versa, minutes of meetings, chronicles (house journals), journals of official visitations, school records, records of Sisters' studies, and a great deal of miscellaneous reference, "orphaned", or ephemeral material.

Originally known as St. Ann’s School for Young Ladies, St. Ann’s Academy New Westminster was opened in 1865. The first students consisted of Catholics and non-Catholics, as well as Indigenous students. The school was expanded and altered many times over the next decades, and badly destroyed by a fire in 1944. A new school was completed in 1945 and was used until 1968 when the school closed and was subsequently demolished in 1969.

Series consists of records created at St. Ann’s Academy in New Westminster, including of the convent where the Sisters of St. Ann who were missioned to this school lived. The series is arranged into three subseries: A. St. Ann’s Covent; B. St. Ann’s Academy; C. Photographs and audio/visual material.

Records in this series consist of histories, correspondence, chronicles, local council minutes, visitation reports, property records, financial records, student lists and attendance records, student accounts, school anniversary materials, teaching materials, photographs and artworks. Since the Sisters housed and educated orphans at this school, there are records related to adoptions.

Series consists of records created by the Sisters of St. Ann while missioned to St. Ann’s Academy in Vancouver.

The convent and academy were built on lots adjacent to the Church property on Dunsmuir Street, purchased by the Sisters of St. Ann. Initially, the school was operated out of a pre-existing house on the property before a purpose-built school was completed in 1889. The school was originally called Sacred Heart Academy, and changed to St. Ann’s Academy Vancouver in 1904. A boys school was opened around the same time, commonly referred to as St. Mary’s School for Boys. St. Ann’s Academy Vancouver became a non-boarding, parochial school only in 1910 when the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Point Grey opened and accepted boarders.

The St. Ann’s Academy Vancouver property was sold and the school closed in 1946 due to the changing demographics of downtown Vancouver and the aging infrastructure of the school. Other schools in Vancouver had already been established such as Little Flower Academy and St. Augustine’s.

Records in this series are arranged into three subseries: A. Convent; B. Academy; C. Graphic material. Records consist of histories, chronicles, local council minutes, visitation reports, sacramental records, financial accounts, student lists and registers, grades, sodality records, anniversary and celebratory records, photographs and artworks.

This series consists of records of the Victoria school, building and grounds administered by the Sisters of St. Ann and of students who attended.

The series is comprised of eleven subseries: A. First school subseries; B. St. Ann’s Academy subseries; C. Commercial Class subseries; D. St. Ann’s Kindergarten subseries; E. Financial subseries; F. Building and grounds subseries; G. Closing subseries; H. Convent subseries; I. Museum subseries; J. Photographs and Audio/Visual subseries; K. Restoration subseries.

Subseries A primarily contains records related to the earliest years of the first log cabin school, and the first school building itself which was transferred to the Royal BC Museum in the 1970s.

Subseries B, C and D contain histories of the schools, prospectuses, curriculum, school newspapers and yearbooks, records related to the various sodalities, event programs and commencement exercises, student registers and statistics, diplomas, report books, promotion lists and grades, student accounts, reference books and correspondence. Subseries B contains the majority of records related to students, while Subseries C documents the commercial class which was attended not just by St. Ann’s students but also former students, public school students and the general public, and Subseries D contains records from St. Ann’s Kindergarten which was operated physically out of the View Street Convent and existed from 1889 to 1947.

Subseries E contains tuition accounts for boarders and day students, commercial, art and music class accounts, receipts and expenses, invoices, loans, gifts, financial reports and statistics. Information about students can be found in financial records related to them.

Subseries F contains records related to the maintenance of the grounds, and includes construction contracts and receipts, permits, correspondence, documentation of the property and resources, inventories and information on the cemetery.

Subseries G relates to the closure and sale of the Academy, and includes a 1972 report on the building, correspondence, sales of equipment and furnishing and commemorative events.

Subseries H contains records relating to the administration of the convent associated with the school, where the Sisters lived their religious life. Records consist of chronicles, official visitation reports, local council minutes and sacramental records. As the Provincial Superior worked out of the convent associated with St. Ann’s Academy Victoria, the chronicles and similar records often describe work pertaining to other SSA operations throughout St. Joseph’s Province.

Subseries I documents St. Ann’s Museum, opened in 1910 and closed in 1973. The records consist of accession registers, inventories, conservation actions, visitor’s books, donations, correspondence, catalogues and a list of materials transferred to the Royal BC Museum’s Ethnology department from 1984.

Subseries J contains photographs, albums and audio/visual records that pertain to the school buildings and grounds, students, teachers and events.

Subseries K contains records related to the restoration of St. Ann's Academy, primarily dating from 1980s to early 2000s. The records consist of reports, chronologies, minutes, policies and ephemera that had been retained or created by Sisters in their work related to the Academy in collaboration with the Provincial Capital Commission and other associated organizations.

Series consists of records created during the course of establishing, administering and closing St. Ann's Convent and School in Nanaimo, which was constructed in 1877 and closed in 1966.

Records consist of chronicles, official visitation reports, inventories, financial accounts, council minutes, histories of the school, student registers and accounts, grades and exam results, attendance reports, curriculum, meeting minutes, and photographs. Included are photographs of former students, ranging to 2007.

The series is arranged into four subseries: A. Convent subseries; B. School suberies; C. Commercial High School and Business College subseries; D. Photographs subseries.

Series consists of records related to the Sisters’ work at St. Mary’s Mission residential school and their religious life at the associated convent.

In the 1860s, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) sought to establish a school on Stó:lō land - what is currently Mission - with the aim of providing religious instruction and education for Indigenous children in the area. The OMI called on the Sisters of St. Ann to staff the newly established school. The Sisters accepted and sent two initial teachers to the school in November 1868. From the onset, the OMI oversaw the administrative functions of the school, while the Sisters were focused on the student’s education.

Initial enrollment saw Indigenous students from the local communities as well as students with mixed heritage and orphans. This changed in in the 1890s when federally funded Indian Industrial Schools were mandated to restrict education to Indigenous students only. Funding from the federal government was consistently lacking, particularly after the 1920 amendment to the Indian Act reinforced compulsory attendance for Indigenous children, which led to overcrowded buildings, as well as inadequate food and clothing for students. Agricultural activities at the school supplemented the food stores, and farming became part of the curriculum.

The Sisters closed the convent in 1968, though three Sisters stayed on as employees of the federal government, and staff continued a presence there until 1972. The OMI withdrew from the school in 1973, after which it was run by the federal government until 1984.

The Sisters primarily retained convent records from St. Mary's Mission, as the administration of the school was primarily seen to by the OMI and the federal government. The chronicles and visitation records, while intended to document the religious lives of the Sisters working in missions, often provide insight into the school and students, sometimes referring to children by name. In 1923 a fire destroyed a storage facility at St. Mary’s, and as such there is a twenty-year gap in documentation related to academic development.

This series is comprised of two subseries: A. Convent subseries; B. Residential School subseries.

The Convent subseries consists of a monograph and history of the school, correspondence, local council minutes, financial records, and official visitations. The Residential School subseries consists of a report book, class record sheer, a student list from 1960, a yearbook, review of play, advisory board minutes and material related to a 1980 reunion. This subseries also includes 782 photographs.

Series consists of records related to the Sisters of St. Ann's involvement at St. Mary's School in Ladysmith, BC. The records include correspondence, student exam results, articles, financial records and photographs.

The Sisters worked at the school from 1909 to 1912. In 1912 Reverend Andrew McDonnell brought 25 British orphan children as wards of the Empire to be housed at the building that the Sisters had been using for the school, and the school was subsequently taken over by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1915. Due to the short time period the Sisters were missioned to Ladysmith, there are very few records in this series.

Series consists of records created or retained by the Sisters of St. Ann while working at St. Peter's Parochial School in New Westminster. The school was built in 1954 on the site previously occupied by the St. Louis College for Boys. Before St. Peter's was constructed, boys were taught at St. Ann's Academy New Westminster. St. Ann's then became a regional high school for girls. Sisters of St. Ann were missioned to St. Peter's until 1971.

Records in this series consist of histories, chronicles, a prospectus, school accounts, class lists and registrations, report cards, school newspapers an year books, photographs and a scrapbook created by Brother Joseph Bitancourt.