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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 collection consists of environmental reports.

The collection consists of publications, papers, articles, book chapters and material related to water resources and management in B.C., Canada and the rest of the world.

The newsletters and pamphlets are listed in alphabetical order by author. They date from the late 1950s to the early 2000s (predominantly 1970s to 1990s) and cover subjects such as women's rights and human rights, pornography, the peace movement, nuclear disarmament and arms control, sexual abuse, family violence, women's economic social conditions, lesbian issues, environmental protection, feminist theory and women's history.

Collection consists of brochures, catalogues, postcards, and posters amassed by Amos. Also included is scanned compilation of Amos’s Times Colonist articles and research material including handwritten notes, newspaper articles, and more related to the collector’s work in putting together a biography of the local artist, Myfanwy Pavelic (unpublished), and a biography of photographer Henry Mortimer Lamb titled, “Harold Mortimer Lamb: The Art Lover” (2013).

The Holocaust and World War II Memory Collection, originally known as the Local Stories of the Holocaust project, began in 2012 in order to strengthen Holocaust education by collecting local testimonies as given by those personally affected, primarily survivors and their relatives. This collection consists of video and audio recordings of oral histories and interviews; drafts and publications of written testimonies; commemorative medals; personal documents, such as correspondence; and various pieces of ephemera, including an exhibition brochure, a memorial invitation, and an event program. These items tell stories of lived experiences during the Holocaust, as well as personal narratives of how the Holocaust affected the lives and families of survivors after the war. The project title was changed to "Victoria Holocaust and World War II Memory Archives" in November 2018, and then to the "Holocaust and World War II Memory Collection" in January 2020.

The collection consists of a battle dress blouse with lanyard and shoulder patches of the Canadian Scottish Princess Mary’s regiment; a walking out tunic with badges of the Canadian Scottish Princess Mary’s regiment and epaulette pips for an officer; a Glengarry cap with Canadian Scottish Princess Mary’s regimental badge and ribbons. Also includes epaulettes, badges and buttons.