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Capilano Review was a serial publication devoted to poetry. The collection consists of recordings of readings by Canadian poets and writers at Capilano College in North Vancouver, 1973-1975.

CJOR was one of Vancouver's premier radio stations from 1926, when it first went on the air, to its last days in 1988. For over a decade it was the Pacific Coast's CBC Dominion Network outlet and originated many music and variety programs to the network. The audio tapes in T4367 were donated by CJOR in January 1989 when the B.C. Archives expressed its interest in preserving examples of CJOR's talk radio format before its conversion to a classic rock station with the call letters CHRX.

The collection consists of audio recordings of thirteen talks on the topic "Perspectives on the Columbia River Treaty", presented at Simon Fraser University from January to April 1974, presumably as part of a course. The speakers include federal and provincial politicians, B.C. Hydro officials, treaty advisors and officials, and Canadian and American academics.

The fonds comprises CBC Radio productions, mainly produced at CBC Vancouver by Don Mowatt. The programs include musical concerts, documentaries, radio plays and features. The fonds includes most of the programs from the series "The Hornby Collection", for which Mowatt was appointed Executive Producer in 1977. There are also several programs from "Testament", for which he was appointed Executive Producer in 1983. In addition, there are many examples of his work for other series, including "Heritage Theatre", "The Bush and the Salon", "Ideas", "CBC Stage", and others.

The fonds comprises sound recordings of [over 800 hours of?] selected Vancouver radio and television broadcasts, recorded off-air between November 1961 to November 1974. The recordings include many popular and topical public affairs and open-line programs.

The fonds consists of Mildred Valley Thornton's sound recordings documenting the Indigenous music, dance and folklore of the Northwest Coast, recorded between about 1950 and 1954. The fonds also includes some textual material that documents her music recording activities and other interests, from 1947 to 1967. In addition there is a newspaper article from 1971 and family notes on her artwork from 1976.

The fonds consists of 271 audio tape reels, mainly containing CBC radio programs produced by Norman Newton. It includes three main types of recordings.

The first, and most numerous (T4365:0001-0200), are musical recordings of (mainly) Vancouver artists in concert, and of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (1983-1985), conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Rudolf Barshai, and various guest conductors. These performances were broadcast on such CBC programs as "Arts National", "Mostly Music", "Orgainists in Recital", "Pacific Soundscape", "Tapyak-tama", and "Two New Hours".

The second group (T4365:0201-0242) comprises radio dramas and documentaries produced by Newton between 1966 and the late 1970s. These were heard on series such as "Audience" and "CBC Stage".

The third group (T4365:0243-0271) consists of recorded material relating to the culture and music of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It includes unedited material recorded in May 1968 at Alert Bay, B.C., featuring interviews about the potlatch with Kwakiutl people from Alert Bay and Fort Rupert, plus a public performance of Kwakiutl songs and dances. This group also includes the 1964 radio program "Music of the Native Peoples of B.C." and some programs from 1965: "Alert Bay Indian Songs & Dances" and the six-part series "The Indian as Artist".

The fonds consists of 524 audio tape reels, the majority of which (484 reels) contain radio programs produced by Robert Chesterman at CBC Vancouver. The remaining 40 recordings were produced by various CBC producers during the mid-to-late-1960s, and were retained by Chesterman for "historical" purposes.

The fonds consists of correspondence, legal and miscellaneous documents, a newspaper clipping and a "tintype" photograph .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The fonds consists of 35 videocassettes.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

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.