Showing 6179 results

Archival description
Only top-level descriptions
Print preview View:

23 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

Archibald McKinlay fonds

  • PR-1709
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1885

The fonds consists of diaries, correspondence, and financial records of Archibald McKinlay and the McKinlay family, as well as the official appointment of McKinlay to the Joint Indian Reserve Commission.

McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891

Archibald Menzies fonds

  • PR-1261
  • Fonds
  • 1790-1794 [Microfilmed ca. 1991]

The fonds consists of collected material created by or pertaining to Archibald Menzies. It includes a microfilm copy of Menzies' journal written on Captain George Vancouver's voyage to the Northwest Coast, as well as correspondence (inward and outward), two miniature portraits of Menzies and his wife, as well as other miscellaneous documents. The textual records found in accession 77-069 are largely illegible, but may all relate to a diploma awarded to Richard Menzies in 1769 or the material in A/A/90/M52. The fonds also includes Menzies' signet ring with his seal and the motto "Will God I Shall.'

Menzies, Archibald, 1754-1842

Architectural proposals and consultants reports

  • GR-0386
  • Series
  • 1967-1974

This series consists of architectural proposals and consultants reports on topics connected with the construction of public buildings, urban development, siting, traffic patterns, and design requirements. Reports have been created for the Department of Public Works by various sources, including Arthur Erikson Architects, The Environmental Analysis Group (TEAG), UBC School of Architecture, BCIT, Vancouver City Planning Department, and other various architects and engineers.

British Columbia. Dept. of Public Works

Archives and records management reports

  • GR-3447
  • Series
  • 1979-1987

Series consists of records management studies. Includes studies about the establishment and organizational structure of the records management programs in the British Columbia government (including the 1981 Acton "Records Management Study" and the 1980 report by Archives staff, "Records Management in the Government of B.C."), record surveys of the holdings of government ministries, a 1984 survey of computer programs, and British Columbia Archives studies on archival programs. Many of these reports were maintained in the Records Management Branch's library for reference purposes.

British Columbia. Records Management Branch

Archives Association of British Columbia fonds

  • PR-2290
  • Fonds
  • 1973-2008

The fonds consists of the operational records of the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) and its predecessor bodies the Association of British Columbia Archivists (ABCA) and the British Columbia Archives Council (BCAC). The records date from 1973 to 2000 and cover all aspects of AABC business including executive minutes and correspondence, financial records, grant applications, committee files, publications, copies of the newsletter and other material. Included in the fonds are 49 3.5 inch floppy disks that date from 1990 to 1999. Some material from these disks was printed out in 2012.

Archives Association of British Columbia

Archives Department correspondence, annual reports and lists of donations

  • GR-0299
  • Series
  • 1919-1949

The series consists of correspondence inward and outwards, 1925-1943 with gaps; monthly and annual reports and lists of donations received by the Archives Department of the Provincial Library, 1919-1929, 1934. It also includes Provincial Library reports from 1944 to 1949.

British Columbia. Legislative Library

Archives discrete item collection

  • F1
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1849]-2017

The collection consists of single items, reports, photocopies, photographs and other small collections donated and loaned to the BC Archives which document all aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the province. There are private records produced by individuals, businesses and organizations and acquired by the Archives over many years from all areas of the Province and varying widely in subject matter. They consist of account books and journals, letters and diaries of gold seekers, pioneers, missionaries, and school teachers, literary manuscripts, photographs, the papers of natural historians and students and the personal and family papers of notable settlers and residents of the province.
There are also some provincial and federal government records which either came to the Archives as single items or files or were removed from other series.

British Columbia Archives

Archives moving images collection

  • F3
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1925-1990]

Collection consists of moving images collected or acquired by the BC Archives from a wide variety of donors. Subjects include the entire range of British Columbia history and cover most geographic areas of the province. They include commercially produced industrial and promotional films as well as amateur productions.

British Columbia Archives

Archives research collection

  • F2
  • Collection
  • 1785-1991

The collection consists primarily of copies or records collected by the archives, loaned to the archives or donated to the archives. These records encompass all aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the province. They come from all over the world but have a BC connection. These copies come from other archives, universities, historical societies, institutes and individuals.

British Columbia Archives

Archives sound recording collection

  • F6
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1930-1995]

Collection consists of sound recordings collected or acquired by the BC Archives from a wide variety of donors and sources. The recordings include oral history interviews, radio broadcasts, and published sound recordings. Subjects include family history, local and regional history, industrial history, and broadcasting.

British Columbia Archives

Archives visual records collection

  • F5
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1850-1990]

The Archives photo collection (also known as the General file or genfile) consists of photographs collected by the Archives from around 1908 until the 1990s. The photographs were primarily collected because of their subject matter and little or no information was gathered as to their provenance and type. A single volume, arranged numerically by a classification code, appears to indicate that the first 14,000 or so photographs acquired were arranged by subject groupings.

By 1934, the annual report of the Provincial Library and Archives department noted that the "collection of photographs and prints in the Archives, which is estimated to consist of at least 14,000 items, is rapidly outgrowing the old filing system, and sooner or later the entire collection must be recatalogued and rearranged." In 1935 the new system of applying individual catalogue numbers known as "HP" or "Historic Photograph" numbers had begun. In 1940 the Provincial Archivist reported that half the photographs had been recatalogued. The cataloguing consisted of entering the photographs into registers in HP number order; the first number assigned was HP101 or HP000101. This system of item level numbering continued into the 1990s with over 100,000 photographs entered into the HP accession registers. While most of these photographs continued to be acquired because of their subject matter, selected photographs that formed part of original record groups, were also catalogued with an HP number.

The "original" photographs acquired in this way consist mainly of photographic prints in a variety of sizes and formats, but also include original negatives (both glass and flexible). In many cases, the Archives borrowed and copied photographs from individuals and other institutions. In these cases the "original" is a copy print made by the Archives at the time.

The prints are stored in HP number order in several runs: main run of several hundred boxes, one run of Maynard photographs, two runs of oversized photographic prints and one run of large oversized prints stored in map cabinets. Original negatives are stored by type (glass, nitrate, acetate, polyester etc.), usually by HP number. These original records are often know as "HP originals".

Copy prints were made of many of the prints and are arranged by subject in several runs. Portrait/family files are arranged in alphabetical order; topographic (place name) files are arranged alphabetically by place name and then by subject within the place; and a small set of subject files (including ships) are arranged alphabetically by subject. There are a variety of indexes and lists of files available in the Archives to help determine which general file copy print files are available on request.

Copy negatives (arranged by negative number or photo lab number) were made from many of the prints and original negatives. These records were used for reproductions and are stored in a large negative cabinet.

British Columbia Archives

ARDA correspondence and other material

  • GR-1670
  • Series
  • 1972

This series consists of correspondence, feasibility studies, and technical reports concerning proposed Third Crossing of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C., 1972. These files were compiled by W.A. Benson, Co-ordinating Chairman of the Canada Land Inventory and director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Act Branch (ARDA) of the Department of Agriculture.

British Columbia. Dept. of Agriculture

ARDA files

  • GR-0492
  • Series
  • 1962-1971

The series consists of files created by the Dept. of Agriculture between 1962 and 1971 to manage the Agricultural and Rural Development Agreement (ARDA) project #29007 funded by the Governments of Canada and British Columbia.

This project, the Initial Rural Development and Research Study, was directed by B. Thorsteinsson and J.P. Allin of the Dept. of Agriculture, along with contract director C.C. Watson between 1966 and 1970. The purpose of the study was to determine ways and means of improving the socio-economic conditions in certain low income areas in British Columbia.

The files are arranged mostly in alphabetical order. Boxes 1 and 2 contain the administrative and organizational records including contracts, project outlines, correspondence, statistics, expenses and other financial information and reports relating to the Initial Rural Development and Research Study (project #29007). Boxes 3 and 4 contain files arranged by community name and include maps, lists of residents, correspondence and other documents relating to that community.

British Columbia. Dept. of Agriculture

ARDSA final reports

  • GR-2200
  • Series
  • 1976-1994

The series consists of ARDSA reports created between 1976 and 1994 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and its predecessor bodies. ARDSA (Agriculture and Rural Development Subsidiary Agreement) was a joint Canada and British Columbia agreement, originally signed in 1977, which committed up to $60 million to projects which would identify or pursue opportunities for development in the agriculture and food sector. The original agreement was for five years with a one year extension. In 1985, ARDSA became Agri-food Regional Development Subsidiary Agreement and a new five year agreement was signed to provide $40 million to assist in the growth and development of the agri-food sector.

The records contain final ARDSA reports submitted to the Ministry, roughly arranged by date or by ARDSA project code. In some cases, the files include preliminary reports and project proposals. The records have been classified as 21700-60 under the Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).
The following ministries were responsible for the creation of these records:
Department of Agriculture (1963-1976)
Ministry of Agriculture (1976-1980)
Ministry of Agriculture and Food (1980-1986)
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (1986-1991)
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1991-).

British Columbia. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1991-1998)

Arion Club fonds

  • PR-1725
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1943

The fonds consists of membership lists, programmes, and newspaper clippings of the Arion Club.

Arion Male Voice Choir

Armstrong and Spencer fonds

  • PR-1563
  • Fonds
  • 1894

The fonds consists of copies of outward correspondence of Armstrong and Spencer.

Armstrong and Spencer (Firm)

Armstrong Women's Institute fonds

  • PR-1064
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1978 [Microfilmed 1980]

The fonds consists of minute books of the Armstrong Women's Institute.

Armstrong Women's Institute

Armstrong, Morris and Company fonds

  • PR-1063
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1904

The fonds consists of Armstrong, Morris and Company's photographs showing the substructure of the Fraser River Bridge at New Westminster.

Armstrong, Morris and Company

Arnold Alexander Webster fonds

  • PR-0074
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1966

The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches and clippings.

Webster, Arnold Alexander, 1899-1979

Arnold Kilgour Shives fonds

  • PR-0217
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1958

The fonds consists of private papers and business correspondence, early reconnaissance and timber cruising reports for areas in the North Cariboo and Chilcotin, and photographs.

Shives, Arnold Kilgour

Arrow Park Women's Institute fonds

  • PR-1065
  • Fonds
  • 1958-1969

The fonds consists of minute books of the Arrow Park Women's Institute.

Arrow Park Women's Institute

Art Downs fonds

  • PR-1005
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1960

The fonds consists of photographs used in magazines and publications in which Art Downs was involved.

Downs, Art

Arthur A. Hoskin fonds

  • PR-1583
  • Fonds
  • 1886

The fonds consists of Hoskin's diary of his trip to Sitka, Alaska.

Hoskin, Arthur A.

Arthur Anderson fonds

  • PR-1768
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930-1940] [Photocopied 1974]

The fonds consists of a book of wells and well-digging jobs in the Victoria area.

Anderson, Arthur

Arthur Bushby fonds

  • PR-1360
  • Fonds
  • 1858-1875

The fonds consists of letters of introduction, correspondence, agreements, indentures, and a record of investments as well as journals from various trips taken into the interior of B.C.

Bushby, Arthur Thomas, 1835-1875

Results 271 to 300 of 6179