Correspondence, reports, minutes and other material relating to the activities of the B.C. Council for the Family.

"Discrimination Patterns with Change in Population Size of Urban Centres: A Case Study of Indians in Southwestern British Columbia." "Tashme, British Columbia: An Existing Non-Entity.". M.A. Theses. Simon Fraser University, 1971.

Hugh Wesley Dobson, an ordained Methodist who retired in 1951 after twenty-five years as Associate Secretary for the Board of Evangelism and Social Service of the United Church of Canada, was born in the village of Molesworth, Ontario on 4 March 1879. In 1897, after offering himself to the ministry, Dobson travelled west to Neepawa, Manitoba. The following year, he entered Wesley College in Winnipeg and, after six years of combining preaching in small communities with his academic pursuits, he graduated in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Ordained in 1906, Dobson received his Bachelor of Divinity in 1908, the year that he married Edythe Thomas. After college, Dobson moved to Grenfell, Saskatchewan. Three years later, in 1911, he was appointed to the first staff of Regina College. During his first year at the college, Dobson taught Biology and Human relations; the second year saw his appointment as the first Registrar of the college. In 1913, Hugh Dobson was appointed Western Field .Secretary of the Evangelism and Social Service Branch of the Methodist Church. Based in Regina, he travelled extensively throughout Canada and the United States lecturing, preaching and attending numerous conferences on a wide spectrum of contemporary social issues. An active campaigner in all the western provinces for the temperance movement, Dobson was appointed Secretary of the Saskatchewan Prohibition League in 1924; he was also the joint chairman of a Methodist and Presbyterian Church committee which surveyed conditions in immigrant settlements on the prairies. Reports of this survey were submitted to the two churches as well as to the Dominion and prairie Provincial Governments. In 1925, Dobson was awarded his Doctor of Divinity. The following year, he was transferred to Vancouver where he assumed the duties of Associate Secretary for the Board of Evangelism and Social Service of the newly-formed United Church of Canada. He held this office until his retirement in 1951. Hugh Wesley Dobson died at his home in Vancouver on 9 June 1956 at the age of seventy-seven. At his death, he was survived by his widow, Edythe, three sons, two daughters and twelve grandchildren. The Dobson papers were arranged in two series; Series A covers the Regina years, 1912-1926, and includes family and general correspondence, pamphlets, surveys, reports and various other types of literature on subjects ranging from prohibition to child welfare, housing to immigration and health to education. Series B spans Dobson's twenty-five years with the United Church in Vancouver and includes correspondence, reports, surveys and social literature which reflects Dobson's participation in an equally wide-ranging but slightly different set of social issues.

The series consists of records of the Vancouver Resources Board include some records of the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver, the Vancouver City Welfare and Rehabilitation department and a very small number of files from the Hastings Sunrise Community Resource Board and the Grandview Woodland Community Resource Board.