The series consists of six volumes of municipal by-laws registered with the Vancouver County Court; including by-laws from the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, Point Grey, Vancouver, South Vancouver Municipality, Richmond, the District of West Vancouver and the District of Powell River (1955 only).

The item is a compilation video made by the Royal BC Museum using clips from archival newsreel and amateur footage. It shows mobilization and wartime scenes in Victoria and Vancouver during World War One (clips 1-5) and World War Two (clips 6-10). The Second World War material also includes civil defence activities in Vancouver, and Girl Guides collecting salvage for the war effort.

Out-takes?. Shows a Remembrance Day parade on Burrard Street Bridge and through downtown Vancouver streets. Probably out-takes from FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE.

The file consists of a photocopy of Mary Isabella Roger's reminiscences of her journey to Victoria from England in 1885, and visits to Vancouver from Victoria including one made to see the arrival of the first transcontinental train.

The file consists of a letter to J.E. Vaz of the Jewish Federation in Montreal, written by J. Howard T. Falk, Executive Director of the Vancouver Council of Social Agencies, dated August 1, 1932. The letter includes an 8 page report of the committee on homeless men dated July 1932. The report, which includes a survey of Vancouver agencies providing assistance to homeless men, also makes recommendations in the area of local and national policy. This report was one of many copies sent to cities and agencies across Canada to encourage support for the recommendations contained within and to ask that these agencies take their suggestions directly to the Prime Minister of Canada.

SUMMARY: Gary Marcuse reports on the hearings of Judge Eckhardt's governmental review commission looking at the idea of a wards system for Vancouver.;

The item is a release print of a documentary film made by the Greater Vancouver Water District ca. 1948. It shows how the Greater Vancouver Water District supplies water to Vancouver and surrounding communities. There is footage of the North Shore watershed, rivers, lakes and storage dams -- including Capilano River, Seymour River, Coquitlam Lake, Little Mountain Reservoir and Pitt Meadows area. It also shows how water from the North Shore gets to the urban areas, pipeline construction and future plans of the GVWD.

The item is a training film on the technique of road surfacing, using as a model the project to re-surface Lion's Gate Bridge with coal tar epoxy resin. Includes tests, technical and site preparations, and the actual undertaking of the work by Northern Construction. Originally produced for training purposes, this version was released as a public information film.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hamilton recalls his early years in Vancouver; his family arrived in 1890. He describes the city; the streetcars; the Mount Pleasant area; his family; his childhood; work at the mills; anecdotes; his work in logging camps; impressions of the city between 1890 and 1900; Carrall Street; saloons; stores; schools; development of the city; Granville Street; English Bay and Indians. TRACK; 2: Mr. Hamilton continues with recollections of the Vancouver Harbour; mills in the city; sounds of the city; dairy farms; streams; the Chinese community; race riots in 1907; bridges; False Creek; T;rout Lake; Cedar Cottage district; Victoria; anecdotes about the McGeer family and reminiscences.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister on the Prairies and in B.C., ca. 1904-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend D.H. Telfer was born in 1886 and recalls his earliest memories of London, England. His father's work in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in London. Family decision to settle in Canada, 1904. Settling on a section of land at Belvedere, Alberta. Father's role as a local Methodist preacher. His own early jobs. More about his father's life as a preacher, and his death in 1908. TRACK 2: ;Other local denominations. His own studies for the ministry. Effects of World War I. University studies and ordination, 1915. Marriage and a sales job. Effects of the Great Depression. How the churches helped in the 1930s. Church Union, 1925. Move to West Point Grey United Church, 1940.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister and World War II in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Church in the community during World War II. Conscientious objectors. Changes in congregations and church participation. Church extension, 1951-58. Outstanding individuals: Chown. The World Won for Christ. Japanese re-location.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister in B.C., 1900-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1964 RECORDED: Ocean Park (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: Reverend Francis Edwin Runnals, born in 1895, discusses his background and education as a Presbyterian minister. Working toward Church Union. His first churches in Grand Forks and Vancouver. Cedar Cottage Church in the Depression. Work as a minister in Prince George and Armstrong. President of the United Church Conference. His history of the United Church in B.C., entitled "It's God's Country".

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rhoda McGibbon : East Vancouver in the 1930s - joining Social Credit in the 1940s PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Rhoda McGibbon discusses her family background. Growing up in the east end of Vancouver in the 1930s. How she and her husband joined the Social Credit Party in 1946.;

Documentary. Recreates the revival of change-ringing of the bells at Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral, after a five-year hiatus. Shows the training of bell-ringers and the ringing-in of the New Year. The bells of Westminster Abbey in Mission City are also heard. Members of the Vancouver Society of Change Ringers are featured. Winner of a Canadian Film Award in the amateur category (1961).

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Doherty recounts his family's trip to Vancouver from New Brunswick in 1887, and his memories of growing up in Mount Pleasant; schooling and playing lacrosse. He recalls the Gastown area; his livery business; horse teams; hauling and excavation for the city; his stable on 8th Avenue; and construction of early buildings from the 1910s -- the Vancouver block and the Birks building. He talks about farming with Charlie Oldfield on Lulu Island, 1913-1915; the trucking business; his home and dairy on Sea Island; his Ladner farm; roads and trails; the New Westminster fire [1898?]; bicycle registration; weather; political life; Jimmy and Gerry McGeer; False Creek; slaughter houses; recollections of his wife; and his property on Sea Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert "Steve" Brodie comments on protest marches during the Depression, including the Vancouver Post Office sit-down. 500 single unemployed travelled to Victoria on June 19, 1938. Recruiting extra Provincial Police to handle protest. Possibilities of action by single unemployed in Victoria at time of the Vancouver Post Office eviction. Reasons for Vancouver Post Office eviction of June 19, 1938. Communist Party of Canada and Post Office sitdowners. Relationship of Brodie to Communist Party. Infiltration of single unemployed by RCMP. Brodie's view of the law and the sitdowners. Brodie and Col. Hill, Sunday morning June 19, 1938. Single unemployed travelling to Victoria via Nanaimo. Victoria soup kitchen and abandoned hotels. Possible attempt to occupy Empress Hotel. Single unemployed move to Beacon Hill Park, then back to hotels. Philosophy of opposing bureaucracy. Thoughts on poverty. "Robin Hoodism" and the Communist Party. Anti-war feelings of the 1930s and the Bolshevik Revolution. "Class" in Canada. TRACK 2: Sitdowners after moving back to hotels. Colin Cameron's part in the settlement. Firefighting by the single unemployed. Christmas money earned by firefighting. Sabotage on the fireline. Attorney General Wismer's reaction. Newspaper views of the incident. Hutchinson and the Regina Riot (Detective Miller's death). Saskatoon Riot and Inspector Sampson. Civil service towns and single unemployed. Women's emergency committee. Dr. Mitchell and his wife. Business community appeals to Ottawa for works program. Doctors admit fake birth (death) certificates. Bridge River incident and birth fatality. Warden Owen of Oakalla jail. Police Chief Anderson of Kamloops and sick man.

CALL NUMBER: T3998:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Steve Brodie RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve Brodie discusses the Vancouver law court procedure and the unemployed. Victoria police and the unemployed. Vancouver police expert in Communism. Vancouver lawyer, Adam Smith-Johnson. Trial of men after the Post Office eviction. Provincial rights of travelling unemployed. Scam on railway tickets. Agreement for single unemployed not to return to B.C. for a year. Smith Johnson again. Comments on: Rev. Bob Matheson, Rev. Clem Davis, Rev. Andy Roddan, and Harold Winch and the Art Gallery eviction. Brodie's theory of the cure for unemployment. Brodie and Bishop Sexton. Dean Whitlow preaching against the unemployed. Radio on the prairie -- church services. TRACK 2: Radio church services. Church aid and attitude to the unemployed. Archbishop Duke (R.C.). Comments by Duke, Roddan, and McIntyre and the reaction of the unemployed. Brodie's orange sweater. Single unemployed women. Block committees. Stealing milk for the baby. Evictions and block committee help. Story of Scottish lady's eviction and result. Single unemployed women. Failure to organise single unemployed women. Accusations of boy and girl found in a boxcar. Frozen transients in boxcar. Brodie's theories of economics and unemployment. Administration of Royal Twenty Cent-ers.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-07 SUMMARY: Steve Brodie discusses unemployment in the 1930s; the 1938 take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and "Bloody Sunday"; unemployment.;

SUMMARY: Four episodes from a series. Reading and dramatization of events in early Vancouver history, based on Alan Morley's newspaper series "The Romance of Vancouver". Episode 5 tells the story of the 1886 V;ancouver fire. Features a "cast of Vancouver artists". Presented by the Vancouver Sun newspaper.;

The fonds consists of the records of Rosemary Brown, and were created in her capacity as a member of the British Columbia legislative assembly (MLA), and as a member of the New Democratic Party. A large number of the records reflect Rosemary Brown’s activities on legislative committees and her caucus critic responsibilities.

The records, in smaller numbers, were also created in her capacity as a public speaker, columnist, and university instructor, activities which were not directly related to her job as MLA, but which were carried on at the same time she was an MLA. The fonds also consists of a relatively small number of personal records which were intermingled with records relating to her MLA work.

The records were created by Rosemary Brown at the B.C. legislature, although whether they were created by her, immediate staff, or caucus research staff, is not always clear. Records were also presumably created in Brown’s constituency office.

Records reflect events in the two constituencies she served, although most reflect the time period after she left Vancouver-Burrard to serve as MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds, from 1979 to 1986. Although the majority of her correspondence was with people in the greater Vancouver area, the geographic scope of the records includes all of the province of British Columbia as she was concerned with province-wide issues, and also received letters from citizens throughout the province. In addition to concerning B.C. affairs there are reports and letters from outside B.C. and concerning issues of national and international relevance.

The records date predominantly from 1977 to 1986.There are virtually no records from the periods of Brown’s life prior to becoming an MLA in 1972 or after her retirement from B.C. politics in 1986. There are almost no records from her first years as MLA, from 1972 to 1975, when she was on the government side of the house.

The subject matter of the files includes all aspects of British Columbia politics and public policy. However there is a particular emphasis on records related to the subjects of her caucus critic responsibilities and legislative committees, and areas of her personal interest and activism. Her critic or spokesperson areas, reflected in the files, include the Human Resources ministry (and related areas of Health), feminism and the status of women, human rights and minority groups, Attorney General, and Consumer and Corporate Affairs. The files also reflect her interest in municipal affairs, education, environmental issues, labour rights, civil rights, minorities and each of these in an international context.

A large amount of the correspondence is from members of the public who expressed their opinions on political and social issues. Correspondence also includes “case work” (requests from the public for assistance with personal issues and problems). As Brown was a well-known public figure, the correspondence comes from various parts of the province and is not restricted to her constituents. There are also a significant number of records related to the policies and political activities of the New Democratic Party both in B.C. and across Canada.

The fonds consists of the following documentary forms: correspondence; memos; briefs on legislation and issues from government, organizations and non-governmental bodies; research information; copies of Hansard and government bills and budget documents; reports; newsletters; pamphlets; petitions; position papers; press releases; reports; petitions; studies; election campaign literature and voter lists.

The fonds also consists of a large amount of collected resource or reference material; these subject files include clippings, newsletters, magazines, pamphlets and photocopied articles. There are a small number of Brown’s speeches and articles written by Brown. Some records appear to have been given to Brown by research staff, with their suggestions that she use the information for her questions in the legislature or for speeches. There are also what appear to be Brown’s handwritten notes on issues.

A small number of files consist of personal correspondence (friends and acquaintances) and personal business records, (financial, real estate purchases, mortgage, MLA remuneration), and collected ephemera. These were intermingled with the records relating to her MLA work.

There are no photographs in the fonds.

The correspondence files are arranged as they were by the creator of the records, in chronological and alphabetical order.

The files were found to have no numbered classification system. They were usually well-labeled by the creator of the files, and organized by the creator according to subjects falling under the responsibility of a government ministry (i.e. the Human Resources ministry, Health, the Attorney General, and Consumer and Corporate Affairs, etc.). However, many appeared to be out of the order of their original filing system, so it was sometimes necessary for the archivist to reorganize the files to return them to this original subject arrangement, grouping files according to the subject matter as it appears in the title of the folder.

The archivist determined that distinct series could not be distinguished; the fonds therefore consists of only one series.

The item is a spliced ECO picture of a training film from ca. 1976. It employs live-action footage and animated maps to familiarize Hydro bus drivers with a particular bus route, Vancouver through Richmond to Delta and return.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1970?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Nelson interviews Mr. Roy Mah, a director of the Vancouver Chinese Publicity Bureau, which publishes the "Chinatown News" (where Mr. Mah is the editor). Mr. Mah talks about publishing; the format and background of the "Chinatown News"; other Chinese newspapers in Vancouver and their audience and circulation. He discusses the local Chinese community; the Chinese school; education; Chinese-White relations; "Brotherhood Week"; segregation in schools; race relations; the Chinatown riot of 1907; early Chinese immigration; Asian wisdom; and the future of Vancouver's Chinese community. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: SD0177:0365 side 1 SUMMARY: Report on hold-up at Royal Bank branch at 1st Avenue and Commercial Drive, Vancouver. Interviews with Mr. Bishop, the bank manager (0:59) and Constable Paul (2:12).;

CALL NUMBER: SD0177:0366 side 1 SUMMARY: Continued from above. Interview with hostage, Mrs. Wilson. (2:24);