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M.M. Stephens fonds

  • PR-2265
  • Fonds
  • [between 1890 and 1910]

The fonds consists almost entirely of negatives taken by M.M. Stephens of various communities, businesses, and families, chiefly in the West Kootenay and Boundary regions (Rossland, Phoenix, Grand Forks, Greenwood), and Prince Rupert. The fonds also includes blank, labeled negative envelopes, a blank cardboard mount from the Panama Studio (Prince Rupert), and a 1960 receipt from Stocks Camera Shop.

Stephens, Melvin McKay, 1872-1962

J.R. Davidson fonds

  • PR-2266
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1915

The fonds consists of 28 letters written by J.R. Davidson to his parents between 1894 and 1915. The senior Davidsons lived at Muirhouse, Davidson's Mains, Midlothian Scotland. The first letter, from 1894 is from when Davidson was at Eton School. The next two letters are from August 1907 when Davidson was on board the R.M.S. Corsican, emigrating to Canada. The rest of the letters date from 1910 to 1915 and give details of Davidson's commercial operations as the owner and proprietor of the Art Emporium in Vancouver. The letters to his father deal mainly with the financial aspects of the business while the letters to his mother focus on more personal matters.

Davidson, J.R.

British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association fonds

  • PR-2267
  • Fonds
  • 1920-2002

Fonds consists of the records of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association. Fonds consists of 8 series of records including minutes of the Provincial Council (1938-2002), scrapbook (1920-1996), photo of Canadian Federation Registered Music Teachers National Convention, Empress Hotel, Victoria [ca. 1942], miscellaneous files [ca. 1974-1995], financial statements (1977-1996), home fund for retired music teachers of British Columbia (1934-1962), ledger (1939-1992), proclamation for Canada Music Week (1992-1995). Records include both textual records and photograph intermingled together. Fonds also includes records accumulated while the organization was known as the Vancouver Music Teachers' Association, British Columbia Music Teachers' Federation, and British Columbia Music Teachers Association.

Minutes of the Provincial Council from 1985 to 2002 were donated in 2023.

British Columbia Registered Music Teachers Association

BC Archives fire insurance plan collection

  • PR-2268
  • Collection
  • 1885-1970

The BC Archives fire insurance plan collection consists of plans of British Columbia communities acquired from various sources over the years. The plans have been arranged alphabetically by community by Archives staff. While most of the plans are large format, coloured sheets, there are also black and white photographic negatives (with diazo fiche copies for reference) and 35 mm colour slides for many of them. The photographic negatives and colour slides are not necessarily duplicates of the printed sheets in the BC Archives collection. A detailed list, arranged by community, gives details for holdings in each format. Fire insurance plans were published by various companies including the Sanborn company, the Charles E. Goad company, the Underwriters' Survey Bureau Limited, the Canadian Underwriters' Association and the British Columbia Underwriters Association. Fire Insurance plans and atlases are large-scale (high resolution) urban maps which grew out of the need of fire insurance underwriters to understand the physical characteristics of a structure to be insured. These maps show with detail colour drawings and symbols, the character of the outside and inside construction of buildings, passages, probable fire cut-offs, fire walls, openings in walls, height and occupancy or use of individual buildings or groups of buildings. Street widths, street addresses, property lines, water pipes or mains, fire hydrants and fire alarm boxes are also located on the maps. Although fire insurance plans stopped being produced in the 1970's and have long outlived their primary function, they continue to act as important source material.

Jaffray Farmer's Institute fonds

  • PR-2269
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1978

The fonds consists of cash books, index of names, membership book, and minute books. Loose invoices and receipts are included in some cash books and loose financial statements are included in the 1962-1978 minute book. Cash books and minute books are arranged in date order. Records include: cash books (1922-1930, 1933-1935, 1939-1964), index of names (1922-1929), membership book (1949-1978) and minute books (1922-1930, 1933-1978) generated by the Jaffray Farmer's Institute from the community of Jaffray in southeastern British Columbia.

Jaffray Farmer's Institute

Susan Louisa Allison fonds

  • PR-2270
  • Fonds
  • 1849-1982

The fonds consists of writing notebooks, manuscripts of stories, poems in various drafts and formats (holograph and typescript) by Susan Allison, correspondence and household documents of Susan Allison, and correspondence of her husband John Fall Allison. The fonds also includes correspondence and documents by three descendants, Georgina Maisonville, Elvie Sisson and Alice O.A. Wright, who preserved the records, protected their mother's intellectual property, and assisted historian and biographer Margaret A. Ormsby with her book A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison (University of British Columbia Press, 1976).

Allison, Susan Louisa, 1845-1937

Maude Eighmey McVicker fonds

  • PR-2271
  • Fonds
  • [1899?], 1908-1952

The fonds consists of a painted, cedar box that contained correspondence by Emily Carr and others to Mrs. McVicker, publications by Mrs. McVicker, newspaper clippings about Carr, a wooden doll reputed to have belonged to Carr, a 1908 framed copy photograph of Carr and her pet crow (from ca 1887), and a framed artwork. The box may have been painted in 1949 by George Clutesi with Haida designs copied from a 1905 publication by John R. Swanton. The box and the doll were transferred to the Human History Division of the RBCM.

McVicker, Maude Eighmey, 1867-1952

Westar Group fonds

  • PR-2272
  • Fonds
  • 1981-1985

The fonds consists of 35 videocassettes.

Society of British Columbia Assessment Personnel fonds

  • PR-2273
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1985

Fonds consists of the records of the Society of British Columbia Assessment Personnel throughout its entire existence including the period when it was known under its earlier name as the British Columbia Association of Assessors. The records document the association's activities as a professional development organization whose role was to assist assessors throughout British Columbia, and to lobby on behalf of the industry. The fonds consists of the following series of the records: minutes (1947-1984), conference proceedings (1950-1967), briefs (1961-1976), financial journal (1959-1984), constitution and by-laws (1959-1969), short history of the organization (1984), assessment cases (1955), corporate registry filings (1955-1981), membership lists [ca. 1977-1981], regional chapters records (1959-1975), general files (1969-1975) conference files (1961-1981).

Society of British Columbia Assessment Personnel

Cory Menhinick fonds

  • PR-2274
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1940

The fonds conists of the business records of Cory Menhinick from 1916 to 1940. The fonds includes correspondence and various financial and legal records that document Menhinick's activities regarding mining claims and the Camborne Water and Power company.

Menhinick, Cory

George Frederick Stalker fonds

  • PR-2275
  • Fonds
  • 1892

The fonds consist of a series of drawings by Ottawa architect G.F. Stalker under the pseudonym Alma for the 1892 competition to design the British Columbia Parliament Buildings. Although the plans are numbered from 1 to 15, only 13 plans were donated.

Stalker, George Frederick

Walter Harvey fonds

  • PR-2276
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1920

The fonds consists of drawings and watercolours created by Walter Harvey of Kanaka Bay ( Nanaimo ), Ganges Harbour ( Salt Spring Island ), Active Pass and Mount Baker, and Nanaimo

Harvey, Walter, 1856-1933

Jordan River Parent-Teacher Association fonds

  • PR-2277
  • Fonds
  • [Microfilmed 196-? (originally created 1951-1958)]

The fonds consists of minutes, membership lists, resolutions and clippings of the Jordan River Parent-Teacher Association.

Jordan River Parent-Teacher Association

Jordan River Athletic Association fonds

  • PR-2278
  • Fonds
  • [Microfilmed 196-? (originally created 1919-1958)]

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence and financial records of the Jordan River Athletic Association. The records document the activities of the association and its relationships with other clubs including the British Columbia Amateur Basketball Association. The fonds also includes the records of the Jordan River Badminton Club, Jordan River Social Hall, Jordan River Baseball Club, and Jordan River Lawn Tennis Club which have been intermingled with the records of the Jordan River Athletic Association.

Jordan River Athletic Association

Radford family fonds

  • PR-2279
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1888, 1937-1999

The fonds consists of Radford family records and includes clippings, letters, brochures and a microfilmed copy of a scrapbook relating to Jack Radford career as an NDP MLA and Minister of Recreation and Conservation between 1972 and 1975. The fonds also includes a file of clippings and photographs relating to Jack Radford's father, Dan Radford; and microfilmed copies of 2 diaries kept by Louisa and John Hill of Cedar, B.C. between 1887 and 1888.

Radford, Jack, 1929-2003

Bill Barlee collection

  • PR-2280
  • Collection
  • 1893-1968

The collection consists of photographs collected by Bill Barlee and 2 historic maps of South Okanagan - Similkameen and West Kootenay.

Barlee, Neville Langrell, 1932-2012

Frederick Ross Strickland Barlee fonds

  • PR-2281
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1901

The fonds consists of 59 letters, 2 diaries, and 13 photographs. The letters, diaries, and photographs were created by Frederick Ross Strickland Barlee during his employment with the Klondyke Mining, Trading and Transport Corporation Limited of London, England. The letters are written primarily to his wife and daughter describing his living and working conditions in the various communities in Northern British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the era of the Klondyke gold rush. The letters begin just before Barlee left Ontario to begin work with the company and ended when he left the Yukon in 1901. The diaries are in two volumes and cover the period 1897 to 1900 and mainly describe the events mentioned in the letters to his wife. The photographs are of the town of Glenora.

Barlee, Frederick Ross Strickland, d. 1921

Bordertown Publishing collection

  • PR-2282
  • Collection
  • 1886-1966 ; predominant 1920s-1950s

The collection consists of photographic negatives that mainly depict railway operations in western Canada, particularly British Columbia, from 1886 to 1966. The collection was accumulated from photographs shot or collected by Albert Paull, Roy Jennings and P.H. "Spike" Brown, as well as some other private collectors. These photographs document the history, equipment and operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railways, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and Pacific Great Eastern Railway. A wide range of subjects is depicted, including locomotives (steam, electric and diesel), rolling stock, snow plows, stations, water towers, trestles, bridges, right-of-way scenes, and interior views. In addition, there is a small group of industrial subjects, including images relating to the National Harbours Board, various collieries, the Victoria and Sidney Railway, and a number of lumber companies on Vancouver Island. The negatives are organized in five alpha-numeric series, using prefixes that indicate the subject railways -- CP, CN, EN, and PGE -- and IND (for industrial and miscellaneous subjects). The collection also contain a small amount of textual material, including two copies of Bordertown's published "Catalog No. 1" and two typescript copies of the complete Bordertown collection index, prepared in 1979. (See "Finding Aids", below.)

Bordertown Publishing

Myfanwy Pavelic fonds

  • PR-2283
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1944

The fonds consists of 29 handwritten letters from Emily Carr to Myfanwy Pavelic, with some to her parents, nearly all written in pencil, 1942 to 1944. There is also one letter from J. Delisle Parker to the editor of Victoria Daily Times about an exhibit in Vancouver of Pavelic's paintings.

Pavelic, Myfanwy (Spencer)

Thomas Frederick Seldon fonds

  • PR-2284
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1899, 1996

The fonds conists of four notebook diaries kept by Thomas Frederick Seldon between May 12, 1898 and November 10, 1899 recording his experiences while travelling to the Yukon Territory via the Teslin Route, including the Stikine River, and mining and living in northwestern BC. Also included is a photocopy of a transcript of the diaries and Seldon's letters to his parents in England. This transcript was made in 1996 by Betty and George Seldon.

Seldon, Thomas Frederick

Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 44 fonds

  • PR-2286
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1979

Consists of general office files created by Branch 144 of the Royal Canadian Legion, located at Ocean Falls, BC. Includes correspondence with outside organizations, arranged alphabetically, applications for membership and a history of the branch.

Ocean Falls Hospital Society fonds

  • PR-2287
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1972

The Ocean Falls Hospital Society (S2000) was incorporated in 1932. Records consist of administrative and operational correspondence, Board of Management meeting minutes, schedule 50XH reports and Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act correspondence. Also included are Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act reconciliation reports, 1961-1970.

British Columbia Museums Association fonds

  • PR-2288
  • Fonds
  • 1957-2008

The fonds consists of records created and maintained by the British Columbia Museums Association (BCMA). The BCMA has a mandate to support museums and galleries across British Columbia. The records document the governance, professional development, advocacy, and support and liaison functions of the BCMA.

The fonds is arranged by the following series:

  • MS-3314: Governance and administration
  • MS-3315: Conferences and seminars
  • MS-3316: Membership
  • MS-3317: Awards and bursaries
  • MS-3318: Programs and partnerships

British Columbia Museums Association

Geoffrey Wilson Taylor fonds

  • PR-2289
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1980

Records of Geoffrey Wilson Taylor, accountant and historian. Includes a visitors' book, 1929-1946; research notes, postcard albums; photo albums; stamp album, loose postcards, and copy prints, from other institutions, of images used in Taylor's various publications .

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

Harry Jomini fonds

  • PR-2291
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1954

The fonds consists of over 1100 black and white photographs taken by Harry Jomini between 1951 and 1954.

Jomini, Harry

W.C. Budd fonds

  • PR-2292
  • Fonds
  • 1962-1968

The fonds consists of material accumulated by W.C. Budd between 1962 and 1968 while he served as executive assistant to Premier W.A.C. Bennett. The records consist of correspondence, both political and personal; framed photographs of W.A.C. Bennett and others, correspondence and photographs relating to Bennett's trade mission to Japan in 1966, pamphlets, newsclippings and magazines relating to Bennett and the Social Credit party and other material including two signed copies of a Len Norris cartoon.

Budd, William Clarence

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.

W. Kimball Nichols fonds

  • PR-2294
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1929, 1951-1967

The fonds consists of records created and acquired by W. Kimball Nichols between 1922 and 1967. The records include records created by his father, W.K. Nichols and consist of contracts, correspondence and reports from 1922 to 1929 of the Eagle Lake Spruce Mills Ltd. in Giscome BC. There is also a photograph showing a forest fire at Giscome BC ca. 1928. This company was managed by W.K. Nichols. The fonds also includes financial records of Beaver Pass Gold Placers of Wells, BC from 1951 to 1967. This gold mine was owned and operated by W. Kimball Nichols and W.E. North.

Nichols, W. Kimball

Dorothy MacKinnon fonds

  • PR-2295
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1998

The fonds consists of the records of Dorothy MacKinnon relating to her work with the British Columbia UNICEF Committee and the Canadian UNICEF Committee. The records date from 1969 to 1998 and include correspondence, executive and AGM minutes, clippings, BC UNICEF Committee annual reports, Canadian UNICEF Committee annual reports, BC newsletter and speaking notes. The fonds also includes an interview with Dorothy MacKinnon about the founding of the BC UNICEF Committee on cassette and 82 photographs of UNICEF activities taken by Noreen Bullock.

MacKinnon, Dorothy G.

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