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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dennis Cocke: Tribute to Rae Eddie, former NDP MLA for New Westminster RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977-02-07?] SUMMARY: NDP MLA Dennis Cocke (New Westminster) pays tribute to former New Westminster MLA Rae Eddie on his death, 07-Feb-1977.;

SUMMARY: A monthly open-line radio talk show hosted by B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm, broadcast over CKNW and the WIN network. Primarily B.C. political subjects discussed.;

The fonds consists of the records created by Gretchen Brewin in her capacity as MLA including her time as Deputy Speaker, Speaker and Minister for Children and Families. The fonds consists of the following series: political workbooks, 1992-2001; day timers, 1993-2001 and general office files, 1991-2001.

News item. Bill Bennett speaks: "Governments should be elected to do things for people, not to them. And yet in British Columbia, we have a growing civil service that brings in more restrictions, a bureaucracy that's greater in British Columbia than the sum total of the numbers of people in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined, and government costs in British Columbia have gone to just over $300 per person in 1967 to over $1,300 per person in 1975. What we need is a government that serves people, not restricts peple as they have in British Columbia."

News item. The NDP caucus has met, and Dave Barrett will accept Bob Williams' offer to step down as an MLA so Barrett can run in Vancouver East as NDP leader. Williams has submitted a letter of resignation to the Deputy Provincial Secretary and the Speaker Designate. A By-election will be called.

Special event coverage. CBC-TV coverage of balloting day at the Social Credit Leadership Convention at Whistler, BC, July 30, 1986.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of the life of Labour MLA Tom Uphill SUMMARY: In a CBC interview, Sarah Uphill talks about her husband, Labour Party MLA Thomas Uphill. She begins by recalling incidents concerning her husband's work in the coal mines of the East Kootenays.;

Series consists of parliamentary scrapbooks; 1942-1946, 1948-1949, and 1952.

Interview. The television program Capital Comment marks its twentieth anniversary. Guest is former Premier W.A.C. Bennett.

News item. Jack Kempf speaks to the press as chairman of the Social Credit caucus. He discusses the investigation of caucus researcher Jack Kelly, reads out Kelly's letter of resignation, and answers questions from the press.

News item. Mr. Stephens will run for the leadership of the BC Conservative Party. His main goal will be to unify the party. "In order to have unity in this party," he says, "the provincial wing must be free and totally independent" from the federal Conservative party. Too many people view the Conservatives as a party for boardroom executives, says Stephens, when in fact it is "a workers' party." The image of the party must be changed.

Stock shots. 1. Jean Chretien and other politicians make speeches. 2. Unidentified interview. 3. Construction project. 4. Royal Jubilee Hospital -- nurses, exteriors. 5. Victoria General Hospital, Northern Component -- drawings and models. 6. Dr. D.R. Carlow -- Medical Director. 7. [Jim Nielsen?] 8. Construction site prior to start. 9. Ribbon cutting ceremony. 10. Mount Tolmie Hospital. 11. Juan de Fuca Hospital. 12. Labour unrest. 13. Premier W.R. Bennett -- cabinet swearing-in ceremony. 14. Dave Barrett. 15. W.R. Bennett in track suit, jogging at a school. 16. W.R. Bennett in office. 17. Provincial government newsletter. 18. Different shots of W.R. Bennett -- indoors and outdoors.

Stock shots. Footage of political personalities from Victoria and Vancouver Island. 1. Robin Blencoe - NDP MLA, re: use of pesticide. 2. Gretchen Brewin - Mayor of Victoria. 3. Brian Smith - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 4. [Unidentified - scratched?]. 5. Ron Cheffins - University of Victoria law professor. 6. Allan McKinnon - federal Conservative MP for Victoria. 7. Scott Wallace - former Conservative & Social Credit MLA (Oak Bay). 8. William Vander Zalm - probably when he was Minister of Municipal Affairs. 9. Charles Barber - NDP MLA (Victoria), re: convention centre. 10. Mike Young - Mayor of Victoria, re: convention centre. 11. John Cooper - Victoria alderman. 12. Bob McClelland - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister, re: energy. 13. Vic Stephens (sp?) - former provincial Progressive Conservative leader resigns leadership. 14. Robin Blencoe - NDP MLA (Victoria), re: transit. 15. Bill Tindall - Mayor of Victoria, re: public hearings. 16. Mel Couvelier - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 17. Mel Couvelier - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 18. Scott Wallace - MLA (Oak Bay) & Progressive Conservative leader. 19. Evan Wolfe - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 20. Vic Stephens (sp?) - Progressive Conservative leader. 21. Bill Tindall - Victoria mayor. 22. Larry Ryan - Victoria alderman. 23. Mike Young - Victoria mayor. 24. Murray Glazier - Victoria alderman. 25. Bill Tindall - Victoria mayor. 26. Frank Ney - Social Credit MLA and Mayor of Nanaimo. 27. Scott Wallace - Social Credit/Conservative MLA (Oak Bay). 28. Donald Munro - Progressive Conservative MP (Esquimalt-Saanich), re: international fisheries. 29. Frank Mitchell - NDP MLA for (Esquimalt).

Interview. A video oral history interview with Robert M. Strachan, former MLA, provincial leader of the CCF/NDP, and NDP cabinet minister. Includes other associated footage also used in the one-hour program, ROBERT STRACHAN: JOURNEYMAN POLITICIAN (V1981:13/007).

SUMMARY: CBC interview with Andrew Petter concerning his satirical take-off on the BC government sponsored "Ask Your Provincial Government" series. The spoof included parodies of Premier W.A.C. Bennett and his; major cabinet ministers.

Item consists of a mount of one group portrait of unidentified men and women from the October 3-4, 1932 convention of the British Columbia Liberal Party in Vancouver, B.C.

The fonds consists of the records of Herbert Anscomb, who had one of the longest and most important political careers in the history of British Columbia. They document his activities as Reeve of Oak Bay, B.C., Mayor of Victoria, opposition member in the B.C. legislative assembly, cabinet minister in the B.C. government in numerous portfolios, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of British Columbia, and member of the federal Royal Commission on Transportation from 1959 to 1962. Predominantly, the records relate to his political career which began with his election to Oak Bay council in 1924 and ended with his defeat in the provincial election of 1952. The fonds also consists of a relatively small number of records concerning his personal life, family, and his involvement in the wine and brewing industry.

The documentary forms most significant in number include correspondence, photographs, and speeches (in public, in the legislature, and for radio broadcast). In smaller numbers the documentary forms include handwritten notes which were passed from MLAs to Anscomb during sittings in the legislature, magazine articles, and political campaign literature such as brochures, posters and pamphlets. The fonds also includes collected editorial cartoons, caricature drawings and other art work, certificates, reports, guest and visitors books, and ephemera.

The records reflect a wide range of subjects; these include: government, politics and economic policy during the depression and World War II, the province’s coalition government, infrastructure building, political competition against the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF party), the single transferable vote electoral system, the process of appointment to government jobs, hospital insurance, and the history of the Conservative Party in B.C. and its relationship with the federal party.

The fonds consists of six series, as follows:
• Provincial political records
• Municipal political records
• Personal records
• Royal Commission on Transportation records
• Photograph album
• Newspaper clippings scrapbooks

Records of particular note include detailed diaries which Anscomb kept as Minister of Mines, Minister of Trade and Industry, Minister of Public Works, and Minister of Municipal Affairs in the early to mid-1940s. The fonds also consists of a rich collection of photographs which document in particular his career as mayor of Victoria and as a B.C. government cabinet minister.

The fonds also consists of a series of 12 volumes of newspaper clippings dating from 1924 to 1978. These scrapbooks cover Anscomb’s entire political career; subjects include all aspects of government and politics in Oak Bay, Victoria and the province of B.C., and not just articles pertaining to Anscomb himself. The fonds includes a manuscript of an unpublished autobiography Anscomb began in 1953.

Where possible the archivist has arranged records chronologically. Where files clearly had been used together as a group by their creator, that order was maintained.

Public affairs. Discussion of Expo 86, including an excerpt from a speech by Premier Bennett announcing Expo 86 will go ahead; a talk by Peter Hyndman (Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs) about the financing and economic impact of Expo 86; and background shots.

Public affairs. Premier Bennett talks about his government's policies and projects, including the restraint program, women's programs, the Northeast coal development, B.C. Place, and Expo 86. Includes brief talks by cabinet ministers Don Phillips, Peter Hyndman and Grace McCarthy, as well as shots of a simulated cabinet meeting, and background shots of miscellaneous activities in B.C.

SUMMARY: The series "Saturday Evening" was heard from 8:30 to 10:00 PM on Saturdays. Usually in two parts, it featured plays, classical concerts, documentaries and talks. This episode is a documentary about T;om Uphill, who was a Member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly for forty years.;