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Abbatt family fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC463
  • Fonds
  • 1732-1855

The fonds consists of an oversized volume containing a copy of a waterworks grant for Preston, Lancashire; indentures for Robert Abbatt. Also includes courtship correspondence between Jonathan Abbatt and Mary Dilworth, plus photocopies and floppy disks of same. The letters chronicle the courtship, discussions of faith, local events, shared sentiments, etc.

Abbatt (family)

Aiyyana Maracle fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC536
  • Fonds
  • 1964-2016

The fonds documents Aiyyana Maracle life and work as performance artist and writer, creator of and participant in arts festivals, her committee and conference work, scholarship, teaching, Six Nations land rights activism, transgender visibility and health projects, and personal activities. Records consist of textual records, graphic material, analog and digital sound and video recordings, and objects. Objects are comprised of garments, masks, accessories, animal bones and skins, and miscellaneous objects used in performance art and art installations. The fonds is arranged into ten series: performance art, visual art, writing, scholarship, conferences and committees, Six Nations activism, two-spirit and transgender material, notebooks and loose notes, personal records, and bibliographic records.

Maracle, Aiyyana, 1950-2016

Book Arts Club of Victoria fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC016
  • Fonds
  • 1949 - 1992

The fonds consists of records relating to the preparation of "Letters from Sooke: A Correspondence Between Sir Herbert Read and George Woodcock", including correspondence of Patrick Healey, Benedict Read, George Woodcock, and Howard Gerwing. Also included are a few bound copies of "Letters from Sooke" and a quantity of unbound leaves.

Book Arts Club of Victoria

British Columbia Indian Language Project fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR019
  • Fonds
  • 1973 - 1977

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the British Columbia Indian Language Project. This includes typescripts of works on the following: ethnobotany of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and Syilx People of the Okanagan Nation; knowledge and usage of land mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and amphibians; studies of the Nuxalk Nation; Lillooet stories; and utilization of fish by the Syilx People of the Okanagan Nation, St'át'imc Nation, Líl'wat Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), Secwepemc, and Klahoose First Nation. Also included is a manuscript of "Indian Legends of the North Pacific Coast of America", translation by Dietrich Bertz of Franz Boas' work "Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas."

British Columbia Indian Language Project

Burns family fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC019
  • Fonds
  • 1885 - 1964

The fonds consists of correspondence of Flora Burns and other family members, including letters from Louisa Blum, Pearl Craigie, Mrs. Morgan Richards, and the Warburg family, and correspondence between Flora Burns and Sister Mary Theodore, Sister's of St. Ann's, Victoria; photograph of Flora Burns; clippings; and books of poems by Edward Francis Harris and psalms. There is also a signed letter from Anne Harvie Ross Foster, (Mrs W. Garland Foster) 1875-, (now Ann Hanley) to Flora Hamilton Burns together with a typed carbon reply from Miss Burns, in which she talks about "The Mohawk Princess".

Burns (family)

Burton O. Kurth fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC245
  • Fonds
  • 1920 - 1977

The fonds consists of biographical material on Burton L. Kurth, music programmes, ephemera, and a holograph MS book by William Arthur Deacon (1890-1977) titled My Shelves and Immortality with a dedicatory page to Burton Lowell Kurth dated 1920.

Kurth, Burton O. (Burton Oliver)

Canadian Federation of University Women Saanich Peninsula fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR538
  • Fonds
  • 1994-2022

Fonds consists of constitution and bylaws, minutes, annual meeting records, committee records, membership records, financials, newsletters, correspondence, and club histories.

Canadian Federation of University Women - Saanich Peninsula

Carol Cross/BC Women Project fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR442
  • Fonds
  • 1993-1997

Fonds reflects Carol Cross’s art process as well as her interest and involvement in the women’s movement. Fonds consists of Cross’s two handmade books: “In Their Words” and “Ten Historical BC Women”, as well as accompanying exhibition materials and related correspondence and ephemera.

Correspondents include Mary Billy, Andrea Trudel, and Michelle Benjamin.

Cross, Carol

Edward B. Harvey fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR405
  • Fonds
  • 1960-2006, predominant 1975-2006

Fonds consists of Dr. Edward B. Harvey's professional reports, proposals, studies, manuals, surveys, transcripts, presentations, books and published articles, written solely or in part by Edward Harvey or by Urban Dimensions Group Inc, under his direct supervision from 1960-2006. The material predominately relates to Harvey's interest in health care, employment equity, education, and income security issues. The fonds is arranged into the following series: Series Professional Work - 1960-2006 The series consists of printed materials, scholarly articles, reports, transcriptions, grant applications, proposals, studies, manuals, surveys, presentations, published articles, books and other related materials. The series is divided into four sub-series. All files are arranged according to the original filing system of the creator. Sub-series 1. Urban Dimensions Group Inc. consulting reports Sub-series 2. Short Published Articles (Originals and Photocopies) Sub-series 3. Edward B. Harvey Reports, Speeches and Transcriptions Sub-series 4. Books

Harvey, Edward Burns, 1939-

George Barker collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC009
  • Collection
  • 1931 - 1977

The collection consists of: Barker's correspondence (1934-1964); news clippings (1933-1968); sketches (1963-1965); holographs and transcripts of essays (1937-1969); notebooks; holographs and typescripts of poetry (1954-1970); contracts (1933-1964); marked proofs; a heavily annotated copy of Elizabeth Smart's A Bonus (1977), and an annotated copy of Aristotle's Poetics etc., which Barker used for reviewing Ezra Pound's XXX Cantos.

Barker, George, 1913-1991

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