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Nick Loenen fonds

  • PR-2196
  • Fonds
  • March 24 1991 - May 3 1991, Dec. 8 2010

The fonds comprises records including 3 mini dictating cassettes recorded in March and April 1991 by Loenen describing the events that had been occurring in the caucus surrounding the question of Bill Vander Zalm's role as Premier. The cassettes were transcribed by Loenen. The additional records are textual including research on the constitutional rights of the caucus to request the Premier's resignation; personal notes taken during caucus meetings; correspondence; and press conference reports.

Loenen, Nick, 1943-

Pemberton Holmes Ltd. fonds

  • PR-2293
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1857-1991], predominant 1890-1950

The fonds consists of the business records of Pemberton Holmes Ltd. and its predecessor companies, including Pemberton & Son, Pemberton & Son Ltd. and Pemberton, Holmes Ltd. It also consists of records which relate to personal business activities and personal family matters. The records were created between 1859 and 1989, with the bulk of the material dating from the founding of Pemberton & Son in 1887 to approximately 1950. The records document the business and economic life of the province, and many aspects of social history. The geographic scope of the records includes the entire province of British Columbia, and to a lesser degree, parts of the Prairie Provinces and Washington State. Of particular significance are records for Victoria, Oak Bay, Port Alberni and southern Vancouver Island, Vancouver and the lower mainland of British Columbia.

The company records are evidence of a wide range of business and legal transactions, including the brokering of private mortgages, property sales and transfers, the renting of residences and small business premises, insurance purchases and servicing, estate management, and investments in industries such as mining. The parties to the business and legal transactions range from large companies and institutions to the average person wishing to rent or purchase a house, lot or farm. The records reflect that a major client of Pemberton & Son was the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia, for whom the company served as financial agent.

The company remained a family enterprise, and it appears the principals of the company tended to maintain personal records intermingled with company records. Frederick B. Pemberton was principal trustee of the J.D. Pemberton estate, which included large land holdings in Oak Bay, which over time were sold and subdivided. The records reflect the fact that the management of the family estate was integrated with the activities of the company. Furthermore, just as his father had farmed in Oak Bay, Frederick operated a farm in Gordon Head and an 1100-acre farm at Cowichan Station; the records generated by these operations were closely interwoven with the company. Similarly, in the case of Brentwood College, the principals of Pemberton Holmes Ltd. had a personal involvement in its founding and management, and at the same time, their company had a business relationship with the school. Personal records include but are not limited to: tax returns, insurance policies, and records concerning purchase and sale of securities, goods and services. They also consist of family photographs, ephemera, and correspondence. The latter includes letters from J.D. Pemberton to his daughter, the artist, Sophie Pemberton.

The fonds includes approximately 2750 business files, originally in docket envelopes, which made up the main filing system of Pemberton & Son and its successor companies. Most of these files consist of client transaction records, including business and legal documents with accompanying correspondence. A majority of the files concern specific properties or lots, and relate to the sale, conveyance, mortgage, rent or lease of those properties. A smaller number relate to a person, estate, organization, company, or subject, but not to a specific property. The physical housing of these files was, in most cases, a string-bound, reinforced, docket envelope, which contained the folded documents. The fonds also consists of a large group of financial records, including 103 bound ledger books, journals and cash books. There originally were links between these financial records and the docket files, but it is often not possible now to establish those links, and significant gaps exist for both groups of records.

Other textual materials include correspondence, annual reports, minutes of directors and shareholder meetings, monthly and annual financial statements and reports, tax returns, legal documents including wills and other estate records, records for real estate sales particularly in the Greater Victoria area, and routine office records. Records of some clients (notably, relating to an estate) have been maintained as they were originally filed, in their own series. There is a smaller amount of ephemera, including newspapers, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and collected published material including brochures and pamphlets.

The records include published and unpublished maps, fire insurance maps, subdivision plans, blueprints, architectural drawings, advertising display materials, and photographs of the Pemberton Holmes buildings and various buildings and locations in Victoria and the south Vancouver Island region.

The fonds also contains business and personal records of Frederick George Pennington (Fred) Maurice, who worked for the company for 52 years (ca. 1926-1977) and who became a director of the company. In the 1980s, in his retirement, Fred Maurice wrote an unpublished history, which is a part of the fonds. Largely anecdotal in nature, his manuscript covers Pemberton and Holmes family history (ca. 1850 to 1940) and company history (ca. 1887 to 1940). In the course of his research, it appears Maurice removed some records from their original locations. His handwritten annotations and bookmarks also appear on or with some of the records.

The Pemberton & Son office building at Fort and Broad Street, Victoria, BC, was destroyed by fire on March 23, 1909. In his history, Fred Maurice attributes "significant blanks" in the company's early records to this fire.

Pemberton Holmes Ltd.

Kaslo Board of Trade fonds

  • PR-0752
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1967 [Microfilmed ca. 1991]

The fonds consists of a minute book of the Kaslo Board of Trade and certificates relating to the formation of the Board.

Kaslo Board of Trade

Kenneth A. Hodgson fonds

  • PR-2143
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1950], 1990

The fonds consists of Kenneth A. Hodgson's amateur films created around 1950, showing B.C. Electric's Fraser Valley passenger and interurban rail service, and the special streetcar used for sightseeing tours in Vancouver. An accompanying videotape made in 1990 includes both these and other films of rail transportation in the Lower Mainland, supplemented with voice-over narration.

Hodgson, Kenneth A., 1922-

Alexander Douglas and Elsie Turnbull fonds

  • PR-0170
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1990

The fonds consists of A.D. Turnbull's files as an MLA, material relating to his time as Minister of Health and Welfare as well as personal papers that reflect his association with various professional, national and community organizations. It also includes reminiscences by Elsie Turnbull, photographs and a few maps.

Turnbull, Alexander Douglas

G. Stephen Denroche fonds

  • PR-2360
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1990

The fonds consists of benchbooks created by Judge George Stephen Denroche who sat as Magistrate in Armstrong, Enderby and occasionally in Salmon Arm and Penticton from 1959 until 1990.

The volumes are notes of cases heard by Dencroche and are in his handwriting.

Denroche, Stephen

Canadian Red Cross Society, Victoria City and District Branch fonds

  • PR-2172
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1990

The fonds consists of minutes of the first branch meeting, the branch charter, certificates and letters of commendation. Also, minutes of the executive (1940-1990), reports, and scrapbooks containing clippings and campaign literature (1938-1973).

Canadian Red Cross Society. Victoria City and District Branch

Ruth M. Chambers fonds

  • PR-1275
  • Fonds
  • 1965, 1977-1990

The fonds consists of Chambers' incoming correspondence (1965) and enclosed maps from T. F. Harper Reed concerning Tarr Inlet, B.C., and the Alaska coastal ferry project; correspondence (1977) relating to Chamber's research on silk trains; and Chamber's taped interviews (1978-1990) relating to her research interests, including people and events in Victoria, B.C.

Chambers, Ruth M. (Enke), 1910-2002

Martin Segger fonds

  • PR-0210
  • Fonds
  • [198-?]

The fonds consists of Martin Segger's photographs pertaining to the architecture of Samuel MacLure.

Segger, Martin, 1946-

Ida Halpern fonds

  • PR-0847
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1989

Fonds consists of mulitmedia records documenting Ida Halpern's professional work and private affairs of her life in Canada. The records document predominantly Halpern's study of the art and culture of First Nation's communities on the West Coast of British Columbia. In particular, Halpern's studies focus on the musical traditions and cultures of First Nations communities. Halpern's recordings include music from the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples, Nuu-chah-nulth peoples, Haida peoples, and the Coast Salish peoples. There is also a considerable amount of textual material concerning Halpern's study of her recordings and publication of her conclusions on her work. Material from her writings as a music critic and supporter of local arts comprises a smaller portion of the fonds. There are also records of Halpern's private affairs in the form of correspondence, photographs and various ephemera.

Halpern, Ida

Chemainus Sawmill fonds

  • PR-2306
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1989; predominantly 1920-1970

Fonds pertains mainly to construction and operation of the Chemainus sawmill under the management of Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company until 1946, Victoria Lumber Company, 1946 to1950, and subsequently by MacMillan Bloedel Limited, Chemainus Division. It includes a small quantity of records pertaining to other MacMillan Bloedel operations on Vancouver Island. The fonds documents the rebuilding of the Chemainus sawmill in 1924-1925, particularly the interactions between suppliers and the mill builders, equipment design and placement and site and townsite planning. Further, the fonds documents Chemainus sawmill history before 1924 and the technical, mill site and town changes that occurred after reconstruction. The fonds consists of four series: Sawmill reconstruction and operation: administrative, construction and operational records of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Victoria Lumber Company Limited and MacMillan Bloedel Limited, Chemainus Division pertaining to the Chemainus sawmill reconstruction and operation, 1920 to 1989; Legal agreements and insurance policies, 1879-1947: legal agreements generated through the establishment and management of the Chemainus sawmill between 1879 and 1947; Financial records, 1913-1973: dated files of transactions in the form of invoices, credit vouchers and journal records, as well as ledgers, generated by the companies in possession of the Chemainus sawmill between 1906 and 1973; and Plans and drawings, 1920-198-: approximately 6000 technical drawings and cartographic material.

Chemainus Sawmill

Chiropractors' Association of British Columbia fonds

  • PR-1355
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1989

The fonds consists of minute books, correspondence, photographs, annual reports, newsletters, and clippings of the Chiropractors' Association of B.C.

Chiropractors' Association of British Columbia

Douglas Henderson fonds

  • PR-0882
  • Fonds
  • 1975-1989

The fonds consists of press releases, correspondence and newsletters relating to Henderson and the activities of the Lion Mountain Buddhist Group of Victoria.

Henderson, Douglas, 1944-

Tommy Walker fonds

  • PR-0018
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1989

The fonds consists of diaries, notebooks, literary papers, business records, subject and correspondence files, photographs, maps and films. The records were created between 1926 and 1989 and document the activities of Tommy and Marion Walker as they operated Tweedsmuir Lodge from 1940 to 1948, ran their big game hunting and guiding business at Cold Fish Lake from 1948 to 1968 and Tommy Walker's advocacy role in promoting the conservation of the Spatsizi area from 1956 to 1989.

Walker, Thomas A.

B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society fonds

  • PR-0247
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1983, 1989

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, membership lists, clippings, a scrapbook and printed matter. The records date from the period when the society was known as the Society for the Furtherance of B.C. Indian Arts and Crafts and as the British Columbia Indian Arts and Welfare Society.

B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society

Canadian Plywood Association fonds

  • PR-2178
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1989

The fonds consists of prints and/or printing elements of motion picture films that were distributed by the Canadian Plywood Association (CPA) or its predecessors, the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia (COFI) and the Plywood Manufacturers Association of British Columbia (PMA). Most of the films were produced between 1955 and 1989 for the COFI or the PMA by three BC companies: Canawest Film Productions, Kelly Duncan Productions, or Lew Parry Film Productions. The films deal with with the harvesting of trees, the manufacture of wood and wood products (including plywood, shakes, shingles, etc.), and the use of these products in the construction industry.

Canadian Plywood Association

Len Norris fonds

  • PR-2154
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1988

The fonds consists of original drawings by Len Norris, created while he was employed as the political cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun newspaper. The first accession consists of 200 cartoons published in the Vancouver Sun between August 1953 and December 1988. The second accession consists of 270 rough sketches; some are undated, and the others date from May 1986 to December 1988. These sketches functioned as preliminary concept drawings for selection and editorial approval, and illustrate the artist's method of working. In some cases, these rough drawings became finished and published cartoons.

The cartoons document the career of Len Norris, and reflect political and social issues of the period. Subjects include recurring British Columbia social and political issues, and include figures from the B.C. political scene such as W.A.C. Bennett, Phil Gagliardi, Robert Strachan, Dave Barrett and Bill Vander Zalm.

Norris, Leonard Matheson, 1913-1997

British Columbia Council of the Girl Guides of Canada fonds

  • PR-1018
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1988

The fonds consists of the records of the British Columbia Council of the Girl Guides of Canada, including records of the Provincial Commissioner, the executive committee, subcommittees, and memorabilia of brownies, guides and other guiding groups. The fonds also includes sound recordings of interviews and reminiscences, and films of Girl Guide camps and outings.

Girl Guides of Canada. British Columbia Council

Asian Arts Society of Victoria fonds

  • PR-2203
  • Fonds
  • 1977-1988

The fonds consists of the records generated by the Asian Art Society of Victoria between 1977 and 1988 in the course of its meetings, social events, volunteer and fund-raising activities, tours, classes, sponsored lectures and art exhibitions in Victoria, British Columbia. The fonds consists of the constitution and by-laws, agendas and minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, membership applications and lists, lists of Board members, committee members and honorary patrons, copies of speeches, invitations, notices, grant applications, correspondence, information from lectures, guest lists, news clippings (some about Hilda L. Hale), photographs and a scrapbook (the “Social Record Book”) of the Asian Art Society of Victoria. The fonds also includes newsletters (1980-1988) and annual reports (1980-1985) of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as well as some newsletters, bulletins and annual reports of the Canadian Society for Asian Arts (1978-1982).

Asian Art Society of Victoria

Adams Lake Women's Institute fonds

  • PR-1030
  • Fonds
  • 1944-1988

The fonds consists of minutes and a cashbook of the Adams Lake Women's Institute.

Adams Lake Women's Institute

Fairbridge Alumni Association fonds

  • PR-0958
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1988

The fonds consists of Fairbridge Alumni Association's correspondence, a certificate, clippings and copies of provincial government statutes, minutes, newsletters, financial reports, account books and receipts, and photographs. There is also a videotape of a 1988 Fairbridge Alumni reunion in Molong, Australia, and a copy of the 1989 British television documentary "Lost Children of the Empire".

Fairbridge Alumni Association

Pacific Coach Lines fonds

  • PR-2223
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1988

The fonds consists of records created by Vancouver Island Coach Lines Limited between 1924 and 1976 and includes material which documents the coach line industry such as ticket sample books, brochures and time tables, photographs of buses and bus depots, a run of Clarke's handy guide to Victoria from 1924 to 1935 and a publicity scrapbook containing clippings from the 1930's. The fonds also includes ticket stubs and brochures created by Pacific Coach Lines Ltd. between 1979 and 1988 and miscellaneous brochures from associated tour operators British Columbia Parlour Car Tours Limited, Pacific Stage Lines, and Gray Line Tours, 1965-1985.

Pacific Coach Lines Ltd.

Anthony Walsh fonds

  • PR-0068
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1988

The fonds consists of correspondence, plays, poems, stories, and records relating to First Nations arts and crafts, drawings and photographs, collected by Anthony Walsh between 1936 and 1988, both from his time at Inkameep School and after.

Walsh, Anthony

Victoria Short Wave Club fonds

  • PR-0719
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1988; predominantly 1929-1969

The fonds consists of the constitution, minutes and correspondence of the Victoria Short Wave Club from its earliest days in 1929 through to 1969. The fonds also includes some miscellanous material added to the records ca. 1988, an original photograph from 1937 and various negatives, copy negatives and prints which show the activities of the club.

Victoria Short Wave Club

British Columbia Forest Products, Plywood Operations fonds

  • PR-2305
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1988

Fonds consists of administrative and operating records of British Columbia Forest Products Limited in British Columbia between 1946 and 1986, pertaining particularly to plywood production, 1952-1986. Incorporated are records of predecessor companies including Industrial Timber Mills of Cowichan Lake and Douglas Plywood of Vancouver. The fonds illustrates the operating data and composition of working documentation for single plant operations that formed part of a multi-plant company. The fonds is comprised of the records of two of the corporate divisions involved in plywood production: Victoria Plywood and Sawmill and Delta Plywood. Topical files, financial statements, working files, equipment documentation, ledgers and registers, technical drawings and cartographic material predominate. Content pertains to all aspects of division and plant operations including, but not limited to, products, finances, suppliers, clients, markets, partners, facilities, equipment, supplies and human resources. Records from the Victoria Plywood and Sawmill division pertain to operations at Victoria, BC. They were created between 1942 and 1988 and are in three series: 1. Manager's Office files, ca.1950 to 1988, ca. 3.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office files, 1942 to 1987, ca. 4 metres, and; 3. Cowichan District plans and drawings, ca.1950 to ca.1975, ca. 120 items. The Cowichan Division operated an affiliated veneer plant and sawmill at Youbou on Cowichan Lake, BC. Records from the Delta Plywood division consist of operating files for the plant at New Westminster, BC and pertain to administration and finance. Series are: 1. Administration,1970-1985, ca. 1.5 metres; 2. Accountant's Office, 1972-1985, ca. 3 metres and 3. Douglas plywood project financial files. Alphabetical-chronological filing arrangements have been retained and reconstructed. The fonds also contains a scrapbook of construction photographs.

British Columbia Forest Products, Limited

Weldwood-Westply Limited fonds

  • PR-2308
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1988; predominantly 1945-1982

Fonds consists of broad-ranging records pertaining to the management and operations of the Western Plywood Company Limited and the Weldwood-Westply Limited group of regional and national companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches in Canada and the United States. Records in this fonds are from the British Columbia Head Office of Weldwood-Westply and include material to do with management and operations of various plants, particularly the Kent Avenue plywood plant in Vancouver, where the head office was located, and the Cariboo Plywood plant in Quesnel. The fonds includes records of the following companies, subsidiaries, divisions and branches: Alwest Wholesale, Canadian Collieries Resources Limited, Cariboo Pulp and Plywood (Quesnel), Empire Lumber Company, Hay & Company Limited and Hubbell Lumber Company (both Ontario), Flavelle Cedar Limited, J.R. Murray Timber Limited, Kent Avenue plant (Vancouver), Keeley Lumber Company, Kirk Coal Company, Mount Baker Veneer Company, Tepson's Wholesale (Ontario), Timberland Plywood, United States Plywood, Weldwood of Canada and others. The fonds consists of eight series: Series 1. Executive papers, 1934-1970, predominant 1960-1969. Sub-series: President's files, Vice-President's files, Secretary files. Series 2. Correspondence, 1956-1963, predominant 1960-1962. Sub-series: General Correspondence 1960-1961, General Correspondence 1961-1962. Series 3. Financial records, 1910-1973, predominant 1945-1966. Sub-series: Financial files, annual reports and statements; General accounting correspondence; Tax files; Ledgers and account books. Series 4. Head Office general files, 1946-1969. Sub-series: Topical files, Forest Industry Summaries. Series 5. Labour and personnel files, 1951-1988. Sub-series: Set 1, Set 2. Series 6. Old files, 1907-1967. Sub-series: Companies, Log and timber sale files. Series 7. Cariboo Plywood plant, 1950-1982. Sub-series: Quesnel timber files, General files, Correspondence and reports, Financial files. Series 8. Timberland Sawmill, 1946-1982. Sub-series: Timberland Sawmill technical drawings, Reference drawings, Sawmill and machinery files. Original series, series/sub-series titles, and arrangements have been retained. Arrangements are alphabetical, chronological or numerical.

Weldwood-Westply Limited

David Falconer fonds

  • PR-0959
  • Fonds
  • 1988

The fonds consists of photographs of the Waddell-Hendrick Wooden Suspension Bridge built across the Fraser River near the Gang Ranch in 1911-1912.

Falconer, David

Gary Marcuse fonds

  • PR-1851
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 197-]-1988

The fonds consists of radio programs produced by Marcuse pertaining to a variety of subjects including the arts, urban planning, aboriginal land claims and free trade in British Columbia.

Marcuse, Gary

David Scholes fonds

  • PR-0192
  • Fonds
  • [193-]-1943, 1960-1987

The fonds consists of Scholes' photographs of Victoria buildings and panoramas and three framed of the Victoria Short Wave Club. The fonds also includes Scholes' membership card for the Victoria and Island Gliding and Soaring Club from ca. 1943 as well as 15 black and white photographic prints and the matching 15 black and white negatives showing the construction of gliders at Lansdowne Field, 1943 to 1944.

Scholes, David

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