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Marianne Ainley fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR182
  • Fonds
  • 1990 - 2003

The fonds consists of oral history interviews concerning women in science with the goal of broadening the narrative of Canadian science history. Ainley also interviews female anthropologists and ethno-historians regarding their methods for the collection and publication of Canadian and Australian Indigenous knowledge.

Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi, 1937-2008

Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR446
  • Fonds
  • 1970 - 2016

The fonds consists of audio tapes and publications related to development of BC Parks, including Manning Park.

Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia

Military Oral History collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC141
  • Collection
  • 1979 - 2022

The collection consists of records generated by a number of different sources that have been brought together as a collection. The Social Sciences Research Project (1970-75) includes 29 interviews (and transcripts) with Major General The Hon. G. R. Pearkes and significant associates of Pearkes. They cover Pearkes' military career in both World Wars, his political career, particularly as Minister of Defence, and his role in the office of Lieutenant Governor or B.C. (1960-68). Over a number of years, subsequent to the Pearkes interviews, Dr. Roy commissioned several senior students to interview 185 former military personnel, Canadian and Allied. These were funded by the Department of National Defence. The collection offers personal accounts of action in the Great War and in most theatres of the Second War in which Canadians participated, as well as post war peace-time activities in NATO. When Dr. Roy retired in 1988 he gave a number of guest lecture tapes and some C.B.C. military oral history tapes. In 1982, Dr. Barnett B. Singer, a sessional lecturer, donated one interviews with a holocaust survivor, Mr. William Jacobs of Victoria. In 1983, Dr. David Stafford donated nine research interviews (and transcripts) for a book that he was doing on clandestine operations in World War II. In 1984, Elizabeth Hazlitte, a nurse at Victoria's, Veteran's Hospital, gave her interviews with six Great War veterans which she had completed on an L.I.P. grant. In 1990, Robert Winkenhower gave an interview of Olga Ghosh about the experience of a Jew living in Germany in the 1930's (accessioned 1994). In 1993, Cmdr. Hal Lawrence, a naval historian, donated copies of cassettes, summaries and transcripts of 120 interviews with retired Canadian navy personnel. These interviews were conducted between 1980 and 1990 under contract with DND. In 1993, B. Marshall, through Dr. Reg Roy, donated a cassette of an episode of Lister Sinclair's CBC radio programme called "Ideas". The episode was called "A Sense of War" and contains the experiences of Nursing Sisters in W.W. II. In 1997, Dr. Shawn Cafferky donated 22 tapes and transcripts of interview on Naval aviation also commissioned by D.N.D. Directorate of History and Heritage. Interviews with Lt. Col. John Edmonson, M/Gen. Norman Ross and Mr. Geo. Kidd (Major) were added in 2007. "War Stories: A Life Remembered", an audio recording of Thomas Miller's experiences in the Canadian Army during World War II on 2 compact discs was donated in 2008, as well as an interview with Ross Purse describing conditions in Oeyama Camp in Japan during World War II. Will Pratt's interviews of Japanese-Canadian veterans were added in 2009. An interview with LCol Cyril Neroutsos was added in 2010.

Geoffrey Murray Downton collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC195
  • Collection
  • ca. 1928

The collection consists of Downton's handwritten (photocopied) reminiscences of the Great War, 1914-1918. Also included is "A short account of a pilgrimage made by my wife and myself" in 1928. There are two copies of each. The second copy has a handwritten note to Downton from Reg (Roy) in 1968. The first copy has the stamp of G. Smedley Andrews.

Downton, Geoffrey Murray, 1880-1972

Shawn Cafferky collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC353
  • Collection
  • 1997

The collection consists of interviews recorded with naval personnel, together with transcripts. The interviews refer to the experimentational squadron VX10, and the testing and use of the Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King helicopter.

Cafferky, Michael Shawn, 1958-2008

J. W. Farris fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC355
  • Fonds
  • 1964

The fonds consists of two audio tapes of Reg Roy interviewing J. W. Farris. The tapes relate to the political career of George Pearkes and the government of W. L. Mackenzie King.

Farris, John Wallace de Beque, 1878-1970

Edgar Efrat fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC373
  • Fonds
  • 1996

The fonds consists of page proofs (1st) for his book of reminiscences "The Black Shofar and other Vignettes".

Efrat, Edgar S. (Edgar Shlomo), 1924-1996

Elizabeth Hazlitte fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC405
  • Fonds
  • 1983 - 1984

The fonds consists of six interviews of uneven quality offering interesting details of battle experiences particularly of the difficult in the trenches. The fonds also consists of 30 colour photographs of World War One veterans interviewed by Elizabeth Hazlitte between 1983-1984. The interviews are included in the Military Oral History collection. Photo credits listed as Jill Schwartz.

Hazlitte, Elizabeth

David Stafford fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC406
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1989

The fonds consists of WWII military oral history interviews on clandestine operations i.e. spying. Nine interviews of both men and women. The fonds also consists of research materials and correspondence used in the writing of "Camp X: Canada's School for Secret Agents, 1941-1945" by David Stafford (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986).

Stafford, David, 1942-

Barney Singer fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC407
  • Fonds
  • 1980

The fonds consists of an interview on the Holocaust and the Polish underground.

Singer, Barney

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