This unit consists of cards relating to closed licensed child care facilities, day care facilities 1967-1980 and summer camps 1954-1974. The facilities were licensed under the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act of 1938 until 1969 when it was replaced by the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act.

Unedited footage. F1982:08/004: Union executive meeting. John Fryer being filmed outside BCGEU headquarters. F1982:08/005: Victoria in morning; shots around legislature. Meeting in executive room, BCGEU headquarters. Swearing-in of executive members. Nancy Hamilton talks about daycare for workers.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1971-01-05 SUMMARY: In a speech to a public meeting in Vancouver, New Democratic MP Grace MacInnis (Vancouver-Kingsway) urges action to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission report on the status of women, including the creation of day care centres.

CALL NUMBER: T0193:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hilda Kristiansen : a community in Saskatchewan and Socialist acitivity in Vancouver RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-04-24 SUMMARY: Hilda Kristiansen was born in 1912 and discusses her childhood on a farm in Saskatchewan; different nationalities in the community; community gatherings; co-operative telephone company; all ages together in the community; political awareness on prairie the result of dealing directly with the government (wheat); co-ops; political discussions; early contact with teachers; A.S. Neill's methods used by one teacher; advantage of all grades together; Dr. Telford's radio broadcasts in Vancouver; a woman travels to Russia; goes to Vancouver to look after child of the "Summerhill" teacher; women travelling; two women give birth control and family information on radio in Depression; one of the first C.C.F. youth groups; family had gone from high church to co-op philosophy; socialist discussion; very active time in Vancouver; husband a worker on the CPR. CALL NUMBER: T0193:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hilda Kristiansen : Socialist atmosphere of Vancouver and women's groups RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-04-24 and 25 SUMMARY: Hilda Kristiansen discusses a socialist play; relief camp men's strike -- discipline, takeover of three different government buildings; women's committee feeds strikers; organization of strikers; snake parade and tap days; strikers tear-gassed when negotiations nearly over; hospital for wounded strikers in rooming house; Mother's Day picnic; on relief -- a good time; no tension in city until after World War II; kindergartens in Vancouver; cut off of government subsidization of adult education by Socreds cuts off university from community; similar results when social workers are cut off which makes the PTA a weak body; Parent Teacher Federation; chairman of N.D.P. provincial women's committee; teaching women to work at constituency level; goal -- involvement of people in community and politics; co-operation between men and women in prairie families; influences leading to interest in child welfare; women's groups in Vancouver; women's committee of C.C.F.; work of the women's committee: briefs, reports, research; head of the N.D.P. women's committee, 1961; building on women's existing skills. CALL NUMBER: T0193:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hilda Kristiansen : concerns with women's questions and children's welfare RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-04-25 SUMMARY: Hilda Kristiansen discusses the work of the N.D.P. women's committee; studying the position of women; N.D.P. cook book creates trouble -- killed women's committee; resolutions regarding daycare taken by women to their own constituency; difference in structure between N.D.P. and other parties; women's bureau just a quick solution; daycare for the child not for the parent; involvement in daycare goes back to interest in children; women's school for citizenship and local council of women; psychologists coming to Vancouver and influence on child welfare and education; work at Gordon neighbourhood; to use daycare less expensive to government than welfare; west end; children need neighbourhood services; United Community Services committees; status of women; daycare loud and clear; Gordon house has political action committee for election, 1972; reason for not running for office -- not a fighter.

Minutes of the Welfare Institutions Licensing Board (1938-66), later the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board (1972). Also includes Regulations of 1940 and explanatory notes on the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act of 1937 (volume 7). The Welfare Institutions Licensing Board was established within the Department of the Provincial Secretary in 1938 to carry out the provisions of the Act Respecting Private Welfare Institutions. The Act came into existence in 1937 as a result of Commissioner Bird's recommendations upon his inquiry into the Homes for the Friendless in that year. The intention of the Act was to protect infants, unmarried mothers, and handicapped or aged adults from exploitation in private boarding homes or similar institutions. In 1950, responsibility for the administration of the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act was transferred from the Hospital Services Division of the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service to the Social Welfare Branch. In 1969 the Welfare Institutions Act was superseded by the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act. In 19701971, responsibility for the Act was returned to the Health Branch, within the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance. This unit includes minutes of the board 1938-1966 and 1972. Volume 7 also includes regulations, ca 1940, and notes explaining the legislation (1937). The minutes include lists of facilities which were licensed, addresses and capacity, and other information.

Records of the Chief Inspector of Welfare Institutions. Subject files relating to boarding home care for discharged patients of the mental hospitals, various committees studying day care and welfare of the aged, courses in preschool education, essays regarding the history of the program, annual reports of the Inspector and treasury slips detailing licenses to various institutions. The Department of the Provincial Secretary was responsible for health and welfare programs between 1907 and 1946, including the administration of the Act Respecting Private Welfare Institutions, passed in 1937. The Inspection of Welfare Institutions remained under the supervision of the Department of the Provincial Secretary until 1950, when it was transferred to the Department of Health and Welfare (Social Welfare Branch). In 1969, when the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act replaced the Act Respecting Private Welfare Institutions, this responsibility was transferred to the Ministry of Health. These files give a tremendous amount of information relating to the development of community care facilities licensing and the activities of persons who were interested in the welfare of dependent groups. GR-2864 documents early work in placing discharged mental hospital patients into boarding homes, the development of standards for care, correspondence with the Community Chest and Council of Vancouver, several essays on the history of pre-school education in Vancouver and the administration of welfare institutions in British Columbia. The annual reports are useful because they contain more information than the published reports.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Today’s show is devoted to the topic of child care; BC has 300,000 children that need daycare and only 17,000 licensed spaces. Iona Campagnolo is Jack’s guest host. Iona speaks with Barb Waterman of Spare Time Centres; Penny Coates of BC Daycare Action Coalition; and Peter Ashmore of Information Daycare. Iona speaks with Peta Hamersley, co-author of “Helping Your Sexually Abused Child”.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Closing segment missing. To start the show, Jack speaks with South African Ambassador Glenn Babb. They talk about the way South Africa treats blacks citizens, comparing Canada’s treatment of First Nations; apartheid; boycotts; Nelson Mandela. Jack speaks with Margaret Mitchell, NDP MP Daycare Critic, about recent pronouncements by Jake Epp, the cost and availability of daycare, and for profit versus non-profit daycare.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show speaking with Samantha Sanderson of MediaWatch about women not being represented equally in the media, equality of representation, and equality of access. Then Jack speaks with Ross Belsher, MP for Fraser Valley East, and member of the Child Care Task Force; they discuss how the Conservatives would increase the number of spaces in daycare, and how it would be financed. Jack opens the phone lines; his first call is from Penny Coates of the BC Daycare Action Coalition. To close the show, Jack speaks with Lynn McDonald, NDP MP for Broadview-Greenwood (Ontario) about her latest book, “The Party that Changed Canada: The New Democratic Party, Then and Now".