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Doug Beardsley fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC506
  • Fonds
  • 1923 - 2023

The fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Beardsley and various friends, fellow writers, and acquaintances (1967-2017). Also includes manuscripts and transcripts of poems, short stories, essays, as well as handwritten brainstorming notes written on hotel paper pads and airplane bags. Includes book reviews for the Times Colonist, correspondence and work regarding the Al Purdy-Doug Beardsley Papers collaborative work. Also includes handwritten journals kept by Beardsley from approximately 1969-2017. Additionally includes brochures and ephemera collected while travelling for inspiration, and material for a manuscript about Samuel de Champlain.

Beardsley, Doug, 1941-

David Doyle fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC645
  • Fonds
  • 1980 - 2022

The fonds consists of a manuscript for The Voice of Little Poplar (Alphonse Little Poplar) compiled by David Doyle. Includes ephemera relating to activities of the Friends of Louis Riel.

Doyle, David G., 1947-

Red Jordan Arobateau fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC651
  • Fonds
  • 1958 - 2021

The fonds primarily consists of records related to Red Jordan Arobateau’s life as an author, poet, and playwright. These include early and late drafts of written works. The fonds also contains some personal papers, photographs, audio-visual materials, and several artefacts.

Arobateau, Red Jordan

Tony Connor fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC026
  • Fonds
  • 1949 - 2021

The fonds consists of correspondence and drafts of poetry, plays and prose providing a window into the professional life of Tony Connor. The fonds contains drafts of Connor's collections, including With Love Somehow (1962), Things Unsaid: New and Selected Poems 1960–2005 (2006), and The Empty Air (2012). Correspondence includes letters from Connor to academic Larry Vonalt and from Hungarian-British poet George Gomori.

The digital files consist of poetry drafts and are dated from 2007 to 2021 according to their "Last Modified" dates. Original​​ file ​​formats ​​include ​​.doc​ and .docx files.

Connor, Tony

Celu Amberstone fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC622
  • Fonds
  • 1970 - 2021

The fonds consists of documents relating to Celu Amberstone's writing career. Records consist of poetry, playscripts, children's prose, notes for readings, publishing contracts, review clippings, correspondence, and acceptance and rejection letters from publishers and editors. The fonds also includes a proof copy of The Dreamer's Legacy by Celu Amberstone, and House of Commons Special Committee on the Disabled and Handicapped publication, "Native Population: Follow-up Report" (1981), which features a profile of Amberstone/Barbara Smith. The fonds is also comprised of digital text files of Amberstone's writings and e-book versions of her publications.

Amberstone, Celu, 1947-

John Pass fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC590
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 2020

The fonds consists of textual materials including drafts, correspondence with other writers, reviews, printed materials. Includes manuscripts for "Port of Entry" (1975), "Love's Confidence" (1976), "Blossom" (1978), "There Go the Cars" (1978), "An Arbitrary Dictionary" (1984), "The Hour's Acropolis" (1991). Includes drafts, correspondence with other writers, reviews, printed materials. Also includes manuscripts, drafts and correspondence from the poetry quartet "At Large" and manuscripts of "Rugosa" and "nowrite.doc".

Pass, John, 1947-

David Day fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC573
  • Fonds
  • 1969 - 2020

The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence and other materials re "The Cowichan", "The Emperor's Panda", "The Burroughs Bestiary", "The Whale War", "Many Voices", "The Scarlet Coat Serial", "The Animals Within", "Visions of St Louis the Metis", "Castles", and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Decoded".

Day, David, 1947-

Wendy Morton fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC356
  • Fonds
  • 1974 - 2019

The fonds consists of poetry and other writing works by Morton, video cassettes, CDs, and photographs from writing workshops that Morton attended, notebooks containing correspondence, planning, and writing. The Elder Project was a job that Morton worked on that involved going around to various First Nations communities to collect stories and poems from First Nations Elders as they shared their stories with their younger generations. The collected poems were then printed into small booklets. The fonds consists of the manuscripts and transcripts of these booklets, some of the booklets themselves, as well as permission release forms.

Morton, Wendy, 1940-

Ruth Simkin fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR466
  • Fonds
  • 1949 - 2019

The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, newsletters, clippings, publications and audio-visual materials.

Simkin, Ruth, 1944-2022

Brian Brett fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC384
  • Fonds
  • 1935 - 2019

The fonds consists firstly, of correspondence from many well known writers such as Margaret Atwood, Doug Beardsley, bill bissett, George Bowering, Marilyn Bowering, Robert Bringhurst, Barry Callaghan, Lorna Crozier, William Deverell, Timothy Findley, John Glassco, Robert Harlow, David Homel, Patrick Lane, Dennis Lee, Charles Lillard, Dorothy Livesay, Susan Musgrave, John Newlove, Sharon Olds, Michael Ondaatje, P.K. Page, George Payerle, Al Purdy, Joe Rosenblatt, Jane Rule, Jane Urqhuhart, and Sean Virgo. It is arranged in alphabetic series. Secondly, there are prose and poetry manuscripts. These are roughly divided into poetry and prose, with some large sections of late drafts intact. Thirdly, there are materials relating to the Writer's Union of Canada, Writers in Electronic Residence, political press clippings, material about his libel trial, and miscellaneous printed material.

Brett, Brian

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