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The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Diane Louise Matters titled "A chance to make good": juvenile males and the law in Vancouver, 1910-1915. 1978. v, 122 leaves: tables, appendix. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1978. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 123-126. Canadian theses on microfiche, 40713.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1920s;-;1940s RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-25 SUMMARY: Three women discuss abortion in Calgary and Vancouver, ca. 1920s - 1940s.;

Series consists of 20 posters of various sizes, some in colour but most are printed or copied with black ink only. Many of the posters announce events presented or sponsored by the Progressive Workers' Movement (P.W.M.). Numerous are protesting the Vietnam War.

The item is a sound recording of Victoria-born businessman A.J.T. Taylor. Taylor promoted the development of the British Pacific Properties in West Vancouver, and the construction of Lions Gate Bridge. These recordings, made by the BBC during a visit to England in 1936, have Taylor reminiscing about Victoria, Nanaimo and Vancouver (1890s-1910s), including his experiences in the boarding house business. The interview seems to be incomplet;e, suggesting that some additional discs are missing.

The file consists of a typescript copy of the reminiscences of Gerald Ross Hunter titled "Are we at the crossroads?" Mr. Hunter was born in England, emigrated to Wynyard, Saskatchewan, moved to British Columbia in 1937 where he and his wife operated a motel on Kingsway in Vancouver, and then lived in the Fraser Valley and in Victoria.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Gillian Margaret Weiss titled "As Women and as Citizens: Clubwomen in Vancouver, 1910-1928." viii, 322 p: figs., tables. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of British Columbia, 1983. Vita. Bibliography: pages 295-312.

The item is a 38 page autobiography by Arthur G. Builder titled "Born 1902 - like Johnny Walker, still going strong". Mr. Builder emigrated from England to Canada in 1923, worked at various jobs in the Kootenays, Vancouver and Port Coquitlam and the Okanagan, and in Nova Scotia. He served in the Canadian army in England during World War II and spent much of his time in England until 1973 when he returned first to the Okanagan and then to Victoria.

The item is a large, illustrated volume titled "British Columbia: of their doings there by one of them" by Frederick D. Williams. The volume contains a manuscript account of a journey from London, England to Vancouver B.C. and back between August 28 and October 6, 1897. Williams landed in New York and travelled by train through Chicago and Spokane to Nelson where he and his party took the Kootenay Lake steamer to Kaslo and the train to Sandon and then on up to Nakusp and Revelstoke, Kamloops and Vancouver.

The volume has been illustrated by glued in photographs, magazine prints, maps, menus, passenger lists and programs.

The record consists of a photograph album created by Charles De Mara to commemorate his visit to the British Empire and Commonweath Games held in July and August 1954 in Vancouver.

The album contains 11 colour and 94 black and white photographs of various events at the games including opening ceremonies, diving at the Empire pool (University of British Columbia), boating events at Vedder Canal and track and field events. The field event photographs include some of the famous "Miracle Mile" run where both Roger Bannister and John Landy ran the mile in less than four minutes. Each photograph has a caption, a date and often additional information about the event photographed. The black and white photographs have been numbered with two identifying numbering systems; a straight sequential number from 1 to 94, and a composite number that may refer to a negative film and item number.

There are also 11 black and white commercial postcards probably purchased by De Mara and glued in the album with the photographs. The postcards are not numbered.

The album also contains event tickets, programs and various souvenir guides and has a souvenir cloth crest glued into the inside front cover.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Robert Arthur John McDonald titled "Business leaders in early Vancouver, 1886-1914." 1977. viii, 502 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, 1977. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 449-502. Canadian theses on microfiche, 32519.

Captain Thomas Gilchrist (1904-1981), seaman and writer, wrote articles, short stories, radio plays, television plays and documentaries from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. The collection includes examples of his work as well as clippings and biographical information about his life and writing career. Captain Thomas Gilchrist was born in Scotland and spent most of his life at sea. He apprenticed as a cadet at fifteen and qualified as a Master Mariner by twenty-five. During the interwar years he sailed with various shipping lines in many parts of the world; he also commanded a rescue boat off the coast of China during the Nan King Rebellion of 1925. During World War II he served with the United States merchant fleet in support of military campaigns in the South Pacific. In 1946 he moved to Vancouver and mastered deep sea vessels for Vancouver-based shipping companies. In Vancouver, Captain Gilchrist married and eventually retired from the sea. Since the 1930s he had been writing about his sea-going adventures as a hobby. Then, in the late 1940s, he succeeded in placing short stories in mariner's periodicals and adventure magazines that published in Canada, Britain, Australia and the U.S.A. In the early 1950s he began writing radio dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Vancouver. Radio soon became a full time outlet for his writing interests and led him to retire from the sea in 1953. During the 1950s his plays appeared on the CBC radio's "Vancouver Theatre", "Pacific Playhouse" and "CBC Wednesday Night". He also wrote the series "Tales of the Seven Seas", "Tales of Fiddler's Green" and "Marine Investigator". "Marine Investigator" was set in Vancouver and based upon the cases of fictitious private detective Don Grey who specialized in harbour related crimes. It was perhaps his most successful series, running from 1953 to 1958. In the late 1950s he wrote several television plays that were broadcast on CBUT (CBC Vancouver) as well as a three-part documentary about Vancouver harbour entitled "Port Watch". During the 1960s Captain Thomas Gilchrist's writing tapered off, although he wrote his longest work in the mid-60s, a novel, which he never submitted for publication. Instead, he returned to sea and resumed captaining ships until he suffered a stroke that prevented him from future deep sea work. In 1969 he skippered the "Monte Cristo", a replica of an 18th century ship, on its inaugural voyage along the B.C. and U.S. Pacific Coast, but that was his last major voyage. Although shore-bound, he continued to take an interest in marine affairs, including attempts to revive Canada's merchant marine. Failing health necessitated a move to a nursing home in 1977; there, he wrote a few unpublished pieces before he passed away in 1981.

While this collection is small, it presents a cross section of Captain Gilchrist's writing, including short stories, radio and television dramas, non-fiction articles, the draft of his novel, notes and lists. It also includes newspaper clippings and publicity material that contain biographical information. It provides a broad base for the study of Captain Gilchrist's career as a writer and, to a lesser extent, as a seaman, and for the study of Canadian broadcasting, popular culture and other subjects.

The Captain Thomas Gilchrist papers have been described to the item level. As there was no original order to the files, they have been grouped for convenience into the following basic categories: short stories; radio and television plays; novel; and miscellaneous. A rough chronological order was applied. Short stories by Gilchrist that were part of commercial magazines were photocopied and placed in individual files; the magazines were returned to the donor. Photographs from the collection have been segregated and are awaiting re-housing by Preservation Services (07/02/00).

Related records include audio recordings of seven episodes of the Marine Investigator series and other radio plays in the John Emerson Collection (Tape Accession 4356) and the Don Mowatt Collection (Tape Accession 4303). In addition, Concordia University's Broadcast Studies Centre has preserved over 100 Gilchrist radio scripts that it acquired from CBC Vancouver in 1976. These are indexed by microfiche NW 016.8222/F499, Canadian National Theatre on the Air.

The collection represents only a small portion of Captain Gilchrist's work; according to his wife, Wynne, he cleared out most of his papers shortly before his death. She subsequently donated the remaining records to the B.C. Archives and Records Service in August 1992.

Promotional film. For Vantel's application to the Board of Broadcast Governors for a television broadcasting license, company president Art Jones introduces samples of proposed programming. These include "Van-O-Rama," a TV journal of local interest; a news program; a discussion of metropolitan planning in Vancouver with Warnett Kennedy; a football game; a children's show; a variety show featuring a female singer and a barbershop quartet; a West Indian dance performed by an ethnic dance troupe from UBC; a large grad choir, etc. Includes footage of simulated TV studio operations; an Artray film crew at a tree nursery, on the waterfront and in Fraser Valley; views of Port Moody waterfront and Vancouver skyline.

Chinese business in Vancouver, 1886-1914. v, 143 p: tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1983. Vita. Bibliography: pages 128-132.

Purchased from the National Library, 1987.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfiche, by James Robert Conley titled "Class conflict and collective action in the working class of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1900-1919." xi, 775 p.: tables, figs. Thesis (Ph.D.), Carleton University, 1986. Bibliography: p 707-734.

The item is a thesis by Alison Isobel Boulter entitled "Constituting an ethnic difference: an ethnography of the Portuguese immigrant experience in Vancouver." 1978. v, 112 leaves: appendices. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1978. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 113-117. Canadian theses on microfiche, 40571.

The item consists of an illustrated typed transcript of a diary of a trip "out West' taken by Kit A. Sauvary from June 22 to July 30, 1933. Kit Sauvary and her party traveled across the Northern United States by automobile from Toronto, entering British Columbia South of Kootenay Lake. They took the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway to Princeton, North to Spences Bridge, and down the Fraser Canyon. They visited Vancouver and Vancouver Island before returning via the Banff Windermere Highway and the Rockies, through the United States and back to Toronto. The diary was written as a series of letters to Sauvary's parents in Guernsey, typed up in 1979 and contains photographs and marked route maps of the journey from 1933.

CALL NUMBER: T1660:[0006? - 0009?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson (cont'd) RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974 & 1975 SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses his memories of the First World War; memories of Vancouver; and the history of Hopkins Landing. [NOTE: Not transcribed.]

CALL NUMBER: T1660:0001 - [0005?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974-07-30 & -08-01, etc. SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses: a 1902 trip up the Skeena with his father, James Thomson, of the Hudson's Bay Company; a 1911 trip up the Stikine; and his recollections of growing up in Victoria, 1896-1904.

The item is a typescript copy of a thesis of Dennis Michael Churchill entitled "False Creek Development: a study of the actions and interactions of the three levels of government as they affected public and private development of the waterway and its land basin." ix, 234 leaves: maps. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1953. Bibliography: Leaves 231-234.

The file contains a report of a Grand Jury from May 1906. The report is submitted by Henry Pim to Chief Justice Hunter and reports on an inspection of various facilities including City Jail and Police Court, offices, the Chinese hospital, the new General Hospital, the Alexandra Orphanage, the new Industrial School at Greer's Beach and the bridges over False Creek.

The file contains letters kept by Ernest Bolton Hermon, surveyor including one from R.E. Gosnell, Vancouver, dated Aug. 5, 1925, describing his introduction to Vancouver life on his arrival in 1888 and some of the early surveyors in the province (ca. 1888-1898). Covering letter from Hermon to A.S. Musgrave, 1934.

Guest book of visitors to an exhibition "The World of Emily Carr" from the Newcombe Collection of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia that was held in the Vancouver Hudson's Bay Company store during August 1962

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [ca. 1975-1976] SUMMARY: Kate McQueen is interviewed by Olga Ruskin about early Vancouver. Her family came out to B.C. on the CPR in the 1890s to settle her uncle's estate. She discusses early real estate development in Vancouver. She graduated from McGill and taught languages at King Edward for 33 years.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of life in British Columbia, 1888-1910 PERIOD COVERED: 1888-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with her son, Duncan Mackenzie, Lizzie Houston Armstrong recounts incidents related to her early years in British Columbia. The story of "The Fingal". Surviving a fall into the hold of the S.S. "Henriette". Recollection of Emily Carr. Trips to Ucluelet, 1897-1898, and teaching native children. Treasure-hunting on Cocos Island, off Costa Rica, 1901. Pig story. Recollections of details of family history. TRACK 2: Further details of family history. Arrived in Haney, B.C., 1888. Recollections of family life in Haney. Life in Vancouver from 1898 on. Recitation of two poems. (End of interview).

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Margaret Andrews titled "Medical services in Vancouver, 1886-1920." v, 285 leaves: fig., tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, 1979. Bibliography: leaves 259-285. Vita. Canadian theses, 46062.

The item consists of an account by Walter Sage titled "Memories of old University Hill," which details Sage's life while living in the University Hill area of Vancouver where he attended Queen Mary School, Kitsilano Junior High School, University Hill High School and the University of British Columbia.

A letter to members of the British Columbia Legislature relating to performance of music in licensed premises, copy of an excerpt from the "International Musician", January, 1928, relating to immigrants being allowed to work in the US entertainment industry and galley proofs of revision of the constitution and by-laws of local no. 145.

File consists of a film and cashbook (undated) of the Hastings Mill Store in Vancouver.