Risultati 271

New Westminster District

The item is a copy of "My memoirs of the '48 flood", Cornelius Kelleher's reminiscences of the 1948 Fraser River flood.

The file is a photocopy of "Ridgedale-Matsqui, 1890-1908" and consists of recollections of Roselle M. Beharrell, the first white child born in Matsqui Prairie.

The file consists of a copy of a plan of Lac la Hache cemetery and list of persons buried there, compiled by Mrs. Percy Ogden, Lac la Hache, five letters to Joanne Hughes from Molly Forbes, Lac la Hache re cemetery, and a 2 p. autobiography by Mrs. Forbes titled "Fraser Valley cemeteries and how they reflect the social history of the area." It also contains field notes on the Fraser Valley cemeteries [history essay, Douglas College, 1972, Joanne Hughes].

The item is a photocopy of a thesis by Robert Henry Kitto titled "The settlement of the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia. 1932." vii, 103 p: illus., map. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Southern California. Bibliography: p 97-103.

The file consists of two reports by William Plenderleith from 1937. The first is titled "An Experiment in the Reorganization and the Administration of a Rural Inspectoral Unit in British Columbia." The second is a typescript copy titled "Report on Education in New Brunswick", with appendices dealing with the Matsqui - Sumas - Abbotsford Administrative Area and the Peace River Plan.

The item is a microfilm copy of a thesis by Norman Hart Lerman titled "An analysis of folktales of Lower Fraser Indians." ii, 187 leaves. Thesis (M.A.), University of Washington, 1952. Bibliography: leaves 183-187.

The item is a microfilm copy of a thesis by William Sewell titled "Economic and institutional aspects of adjustment to floods in the lower Fraser valley." 1964. viii, 269 leaves: figs., maps, tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Washington, 1964. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 256-268. University Microfilms, 65-5463.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfiche by John Glen Cousineau titled "The Fraser river flood control programme: how decisions get made." 1976. vii, 94 leaves: fig., maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1976. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 92-94. Canadian theses on microfiche, 28663.

The Chilliwack valley continuum: a search for a Canadian land ethic. 1976. xiii, 459 leaves: figs., illus., maps, tables. Thesis (M.Arch.), University of British Columbia, 1976. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 420-445. Canadian theses on microfiche, 29793.

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.

Ethnicity and class conflict at Maillardville/Fraser Mills: the strike of 1931. xviii, 127 leaves: tables. Thesis (M.A.), Simon Fraser University, 1982. Bibliography: leaves 118-127. Canadian theses on microfiche 62357.

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfilm by John Edgar Gibbard titled "Early history of the Fraser Valley, 1808-1885" xix, 308 leaves: maps. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1937. Bibliography: leaves vii-xix.

The file contains a photocopy of "Biographies of George and Eliza Chadsey, Chilliwack Pioneers" written by Mildred Evans Hall in 1978. The file contains a history of Chadsey family and their descendants and is illustrated.

The item consists of an account book kept by the Oppenheimer Bros. of Yale in 1874. It details the account of purchases made by G.M. Elmore.

File consists of three guide maps for fishing in British Columbia published in 1987 by Okay Angler's. They include information on fishing and businesses related to sport fishing in British Columbia. The maps cover the following regions:
Vancouver Fraser Valley
Kamloops area includes Shuswap Lake
Okanagan

The item is a video copy of a promotional film about library service in the Fraser Valley, funded by the Carnegie Corporation. Follows a bookmobile from community to community, and depicts various aspects of the library service. Shots of places visited, rural landscape, and the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry.

The item is a copy of a documentary film. Shows a library van on its three-week on a 750-mile circuit of the Fraser Valley. Twenty-one communities pooled their resources to solve the problem of bringing books to people in scattered farming areas.

The item is a promotional video 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.

Shows railway lines and facilities.