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This series consists of records related to the Sisters of St. Ann's involvement in missions and education in the Diocese of Kamloops separate from the administration of St. Ann's Academy Kamloops, and staffing Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The Sisters of St. Ann were teachers and pastoral care workers within the Diocese of Kamloops from 1880-1990 on the traditional territory of the T'it'q'et, St'at'imc, Quilchena, Xa'xtsa , Tk'emlúps te Secwe̓pemc, Dakelh, (Carrier, Sekani) , Lil'wat, T'it'q'et, Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin) , Scw'exmx, Nlaka'pamux (Thompson), Spaxomin, and Syilx First Nations. The SSA operated one school in Kamloops, St. Ann’s Academy Kamloops (1880-1965) (MS-3564) and staffed St. Joseph’s Mission School at Williams Lake (1876-1888) and Kamloops Indian Residential School (1890-1973) (MS-3563).

In 1965, the Sisters sold St. Ann’s Academy Kamloops to the Diocese of Kamloops but stayed on to staff the school. St. Ann’s Academy remained a high school until 1970 and subsequently became and elementary school. The Sisters continued to administer the school on behalf of the Diocese until 1978. They also staffed missions in Clinton, Lillooet, Merritt, Vernon and Williams Lake.

This series is comprised of seven subseries: A. Diocesan and parish work; B. Kamloops Wawa; C. Clinton Mission; D. Lillooet Mission; E. St. Joseph’s Mission; F. St. James School and Convent; G. St. James Parish and Church.

File contains index donated with records in series MS-3643.

The file consists of the Speech from the Throne given by Her Honour the Honourable Janet Austin, OBC, Lieutenant Governor at the opening of the fifth session, forty-second Parliament of the Province of British Columbia, 2024.

The fonds consists of records relating to the missionary work of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Most records were created and accumulated by the administrations of various OMI provinces that have operated in British Columbia: St. Peter’s Province, St. Paul’s Vice-Province, St. Paul’s Province, and OMI Lacombe Canada. Additionally, the fonds contains some records created by the administration of the Vice-Province of Whitehorse. Other records pre-date the establishment of OMI provinces in Canada. Materials mostly relate to Oblate missionary work in British Columbia and the Yukon, but the fonds also includes some records pertaining to Oblate work throughout Canada, as well as records pertaining to foreign mission work (such as materials related to the OMI’s Provincial Delegation of Peru).

The fonds is divided into the following series:
● MS-3396 – Mission and school records
● MS-3397 – Personnel records
● MS-3398 – OMI archives files
● MS-3399 – Writing and research
● MS-3400 – Provincial administrative records
● MS-3401 – Indigenous affairs subject files
● MS-3402 – Multi-media [currently being processed]
● MS-3403 – Publications, grey literature, and manuscripts
● MS-3643 OMI records from Archives Deschâtelets-NDC
● MS-3651 St. Paul's Province Archives photograph collection [currently being processed]

Series consists of files of records originally housed at Archives Deschâtelets-NDC. Files pertain to OMI missionary work in British Columbia (mostly in northern BC) as well as in the Yukon.

The collection consists of an incomplete set of copies of the Speech from the Throne, created between 1872 and 2024. The collection was made by the BC Archives using copies of the speeches, including red-ribbon copies, drawn together from various government office sources.

The Speech from the Throne is given by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia who addresses the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia at its opening and/or closing sessions. The speech outlines the executive government's plans at the start of each session of the Legislative Assembly and reviews the accomplishments of the government at the end of each session.

Series consists of records created and collected by The Sisters of Saint Ann related to their involvement with Copper Valley Boarding School, a boarding school that housed Indigenous and non-Indigenous children, near Glenallen, Alaska between 1956 and 1971.

Records in this series consist of histories, local council minutes, chronicles, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, student handbooks and rules, an incomplete school register and an incomplete list of graduates, yearbooks, research about the school, a masters’ thesis written on the school, reunion documentation and slide shows, photographs and one artwork.

The series has been arranged into three subseries: A. Convent subseries; B. School subseries; C. Photograph subseries.

The file consists of the Speech from the Throne given by Her Honour the Honourable Janet Austin, OBC, Lieutenant Governor at the opening of the fourth session, forty-second Parliament of the Province of British Columbia, 2023.

The series consists of large format photographic prints known as "Parliamentary portraits", taken between 1991 and 2022. The portraits are generally taken once per Parliament and show the members of the Legislative Assembly in the Legislative Chamber, at the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. Dates and Parliamentary sessions are noted and some photographs are accompanied by legends, naming each person in the photograph. Each photograph is taken from the entrance to the chamber and typically shows the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition, the Speaker and other members of the Speaker's and Clerk's office in the centre by the Speaker's chair. The MLA's are at their desks, the government members traditionally sit on the Speaker's right and the opposition on the Speaker's left.
The photographs are as follows:
1 col. photograph from session 34-5, 1991
1 col. photograph from session 35-2, ca. 1995
1 col. photograph from session 36-3, July 22, 1998
1 col. photograph from session 36-4, ca. 2000
1 col. photograph + legend from session 37-2, May 8, 2002
1 col. photograph + legend from session 38-1, November 2, 2005
1 col. photograph + legend from session 39-1, 2009
1 col. photograph from session 39-4, 2012
1 b&w photograph + legend from session 40-3, November 19, 2014
1 col. photograph + legend from session 41-40, 2017
1 b&w photograph + legend from session 42-3, October 3, 2022.

The collection consists of records related to the creation and function of the Sisters of St. Ann in St. Joseph's Province, which covers the geographic area of British Columbia, the Yukon, Alaska, Oregon and Washington State. The SSA Archives acquired records created by the Sisters and the Corporation, as well as associated bodies such as parent-teacher organizations or alumnae societies for the schools they were involved in. The collection is currently arranged into 53 fonds, with the records created by The Sisters in one main fonds (PR-2415) which is comprised of approximately 140 series. The additional fonds are records created by external related bodies, such as the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae, Providence Farm in Duncan, and the Friends of St. Ann's Academy.

The Sisters of St. Ann were involved in education and healthcare throughout British Columbia as well as in the Yukon and Alaska, and the records in this collection represent those activities, as well as the place of the congregation in the broader Catholic landscape of Western Canada. Records reflect the Sisters' presence in parochial and residential schools as well as hospitals, but also their relationship to their motherhouse in Lachine, Quebec, and the reporting structures of a congregation of women religious. There are many series that are related to a specific institution where the Sisters worked, but additional information about that institution will be held in administrative series such as the Provincial Bursar records or the Provincial Superior records.

The records in this collection are on numerous formats, including textual, photographic, audio and visual recordings, artworks, published library materials, objects, and digital records.

This fonds consists of records created by The Sisters of St. Ann over the approximately 160 years that they have operated in the West.

St. Joseph’s Province, as an organizational structure, was formed in 1891 and incorporated by the Province of British Columbia in 1892. Prior to that, the governing body of the Sisters of St. Ann in the west was primarily the Vicariate, and the Vicariate’s records and functions were absorbed by the Provincial Administration within St. Joseph’s Province. The Province encompassed all the western provinces and the two territories of Canada as well as Alaska and Washington State. The Administration was composed of the Provincial Superior or Leader, her secretary and Councilors, the Provincial Bursar or Treasurer, the Provincial Archivist, and at one time, the Prefect of Studies, Prefect of Music, Mistress of Novices, and Directress of Juniorate. In 2004 co-leadership roles were established, with two Sisters as co-leaders in 2004 and a triumvirate created in 2017. In 2019, St. Joseph’s Province was suspended and a new Local Community was founded.

As it was an intermediate form of government, the Provincial Administration raised issues with the General Administration on behalf of the local houses, but was free to act on its own within the constraints of the Constitution and Rules of the Sisters of Saint Anne, particularly with regard to dispensations, permissions, finances, and establishment or closing of ministries. The Provincial Administration of St. Joseph's Province has always been maintained in Victoria, B.C., as a separate juridical entity and until 1974, was housed at St. Ann's Academy in Victoria. After the closure of the school and the sale of the buildings, the administration was moved to Begbie House at 1550 Begbie Street, Victoria, B.C.

Recording activities, transactions, and persons has always been a policy with the Sisters of St. Ann and these are found in ledgers, registers, and forms throughout the fonds, particularly in the context of schools. There are files of correspondence relating to certain subjects or activities, reports and copies of reports made to counterparts in the General Administration and vice versa, minutes of meetings, chronicles (house journals), journals of official visitations, school records, records of Sisters' studies, and a great deal of miscellaneous reference, "orphaned", or ephemeral material.

Series consists of records created by the Sisters of St. Ann while operating and staffing Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, as well as records created by societies related to the school, including the Jane Rowan Society.

Records within this series consist of histories, prospectuses, correspondence, contracts and agreements, property management records, personnel records, student records including exam results, graduation programs, newsletters and yearbooks, financial records, chronicles and local council minutes for the convent associated with the school, photographs, artworks and audio/visual materials. Included as well are records of the Jane Rowan Society, the society that now oversees the school through a board of directors.

The series is arranged into four subseries: A. School; B. Convent; C. Jane Rowan; D. Graphic and audio/visual materials.

Series consists of 1 box of government records related to the commemorative ceremony for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, held in Victoria British Columbia on September 19, 2022. Series includes:
Great Seal of British Columbia (Queen Elizabeth II die set and ceremonial set)
Letter from the 36th Premier the Hon. John Horgan
Order of Service program including hymns and readings
Copy of Her Honour, The Honourable Janet Austin, OBC, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia's Eulogy
Copy of the 36th Premier the Hon. John Horgan's Eulogy
Official Invitation (sample)
Final Guest List and Seating Plan
Information about the B.C. government's response during the period of mourning
Official Condolence Book in B.C. Table of Precedence order
British Columbia commemorative ceremony for Queen Elizabeth II - Sept 19, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/DnNcyEdBkHQ?si=RkHPQCxJClAmJ1AK

The series consists of six bound condolence books created following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022. The books contain written comments of citizens providing condolences and memories of Queen Elizabeth II.

Box one consists of two books that members of the public signed at Government House. Box two consists of four volumes that were created by the Vancouver Police Department and then submitted to Government House.

Series consists of records relating to clergy serving the Roman Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska including correspondence, diaries, memoirs, and programs for jubilees, installations and funerals as well as relics, speeches and photographs. There are notes, reports and correspondence that relate to Indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island the greater Pacific Northwest.

Item is a moving image file with a run time of 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 19 seconds, showing the commemorative ceremony held by the Province of British Columbia on September 19, 2022, for the death of Queen Elizabeth II, held in Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, B.C.

Chronicles (also called Annals) are similar to a diary or journal written in a simple, direct style which records the daily life and important events of the Local House in the order in which it occurred. Every Local House/Convent was mandated to write chronicles following a specific format set out in the customary; a topographical description of the locality and a synopsis of its commercial opportunities, number of churches, priests, the reasons the particular location was selected for a house, types of schools and the precise date of the inaugural work of the Sisters as well as the names of benefactors. Begun at the founding of the community in Quebec and continued in the missions, chronicles are a written from June–July.

The regular writing of the Chronicles started about 1918, with the exception of the documentation of the very early years of the first missions in Victoria and New Westminster. Another anomaly are the chronicles which were written at the Provincial level by the Bursar for seven years; 1923-1929.

After the mid-1960s, Sisters started to move out of institutions and convents and into their own apartments; some also had jobs outside the Community and sometimes outside St. Joseph’s Province. The Chronicles start to reflect these changes and chronicles were not written as they had been in the past. Personal rather than house chronicles are more common in the rural ministries and for Sisters living alone.

The file consists of 540 individual postcards that were created by the artist collective BOXCARSIX in the Victoria region during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021.

Postcards from the Pandemic is a collaborative mail art project of over 900 postcards that were created by artists in and around Victoria, BC in the depths of social lockdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was begun in March 2020 by members of BOXCARSIX Artist Collective to stay connected during lockdown. Each artist initiated a series of postcards leaving space in each one for another person to add and respond to. Each card was then mailed on to another artist to add to and potentially complete the postcard.

Each postcard has been assigned its own unique PDP number and is stored in its own folder. See finding aid for container descriptions.

This series includes artworks created Adad Hannah, which record 237 people’s experiences during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021 in Vancouver. Each final artwork consists of a digital video with one person attempting to stand still for approximately 30 seconds, each with a unique sound composition by either Daniel Ingram or Brigitte Dajczer, a digital photographic portrait, and a quote selected by the artist from an interview with the sitter. The fonds also includes the artist’s preparatory material: 237 audio interviews with each of the sitters about their experiences during COVID-19.

The file consists of the Speech from the Throne given by Her Honour the Honourable Janet Austin, OBC, Lieutenant Governor at the opening of the second session, forty-second Parliament of the Province of British Columbia, 2021.

This fonds includes artworks in video and photography created Adad Hannah, which record 237 people’s experiences during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021 in Vancouver.

Series consists of records relating to the congregation's General Commission meetings. The General Commission is a body with consultative power to promote unity and solidarity between general administration and the geographically disparate provinces, and is convened periodically by the General Superior. The General Commission evaluates the community experience lived between Chapters and determines the directives to be given. Taking into account the rapid evolution of the church and of the world, it encourages, throughout the congregation, a renewed impetus and ongoing adaptation of apostolic religious life.

The General Commission is composed of the General Superior, General Councilors, General Secretary, General Treasurer and the Provincial Superiors.

The records consist of directives, correspondence, reports, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Collection consists of paintings, drawings, prints and other artworks collected by the Archives.