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Item consists of sound recordings of Debby Yaffe discussing her childhood, schooling and family life in California, including gendered family roles, expectations of femininity in the 1950s, university, marriage and life in Europe, her feminist consciousness raising experience in London, teaching high school in London, the differences between English and American societies, sex discrimination, radical feminist activities, restructuring of sexual relationships, life in Canada and involvement in the Women's movement in Victoria, Status of Women Action group, Everywoman's Books, disordered eating as feminist issue, work as a fitness instructor, abortion rights, impact on feminist awareness of the December 6, 1989 killings at École Polytechnique in Montréal, radical feminism, women's lives in Canada and England, life as a lesbian, resisting dominant domestic relationship constructs, teaching Women's Studies, feminist theory, and the Victoria Women's Movement Archives.

The Debby Yaffe interview was conducted by Joy Fisher as a research project in the course History 358A, "Women in Canada," taught by Dr. Lynne Marks, which covered histories of women in Canada from the era of New France to the present. Fisher"s resulting essay is entitled "Riding the Wave/ Watching the Wave: A Second Wave Feminist Talks about Gender Ideologies and her Life."

The fonds consists of manuscripts, journals and research materials relating to "Gone to An Aunt's" and "A Guidebook to Ethnic Vancouver" (the book and CBC Vancouver series). Fonds includes original recordings (and many transcripts), plus voluminous research material relating to Gone to an Aunt's with correspondence, drafts, publicity, clippings. Includes background research materials for Petrie's books on Vancouver, including correspondence, tapes, photographs. Includes CBC Radio work, 1975-1985, comprising tapes, scripts, notes, commentaries. Includes CBC Television work 1983-2003, including scripts, notes, correspondence.

The fonds consists of material related mainly to Paul Freeman's music career. Contents include performance recordings (video and audio), yearbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates. Recording formats include vinyl, reel-to-reel, and VHS.

The collection consists of nineteen interviews with instructors and students discussing their experiences while at the PNS. Interviewees include: Margaret Dunn Beckwith, George and Winnett Brand, Dr. Harold Campbell, Mrs. Kay Christie, Benjamin Crawford, Norman and May Forbes, Jack Fouracre, Helen Fulton, Dorothy Germaine, John Gough, Olive Wilson Heritage, Marjorie Hoey, Laurette Holdridge, Wilfrid Johns, Alfred Loft, George Love, Sylvia McKay, Eleanor Piggott, and Percy Wilkinson.

The fonds consists of records documenting the administrative and operational activities of the Belfry Theatre, arranged into the following series: Financial records, 1976-1988; General files, 1976-1989; Show files, 1977-1987; Newsletters, 1981-1986; Programmes and pamphlets, 1976-1984; Graphic materials, 1981, n.d.; and Sound tape cassettes, 1981.

The fonds includes the research records and documents of the research group created and collected in the course of the project, which include theses, essays, interviews, papers, articles, news paper clippings, press releases, statistics, reports, acts and bills, oral history interview transcripts and tapes, and other records relating to the subject area of the project. The files also include transcripts of interviews with B C politicians and government administrators and research material gathered from a number of sources. Subjects include aboriginal issues, economic development, education, energy, environment, health, labour, land use, the legislative process, federalism, forestry, political parties, public service, and women's experience. The fonds consists of the following series: Catalogue series,1978-1983, Data Bank series, 1952-1983, and Oral history interview series, 1964-1987. All files were assigned a Data Bank Number by project staff (DB No. 1-1058). Several unnumbered files have been assigned numbers by Archives staff (DB No. 1059-1066).