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David Barbarash fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR427
  • Fonds
  • 1971-2003

Fonds reflects Barbarash’s activities relating to anarchism generally and the animal rights movement specifically, and consists of: articles, brochures and pamphlets, clippings, court documents, correspondence, personal notes, and subject files. Subjects include: animal rights, ALF, Earth First!, legal proceedings, logging, marijuana legalization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), pro-gun lobby, trophy hunting, and the Vancouver 5.

Barbarash, David, 1964-

Debby Yaffe interview / Women's Studies collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR430
  • Collection
  • 2009

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."

Yaffe, Debby

Frank Calder fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR438
  • Fonds
  • 1859 - 2002

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, articles, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets relating to treaty rights and aboriginal title in Canada.

Calder, Frank, 1915-2006

Victoria Women's Movement Newsletter and Pamphlet collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR439
  • Collection
  • 1950s-2000s (predominatley 1970s-1990s)

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.

Ann Hansen fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR453
  • Fonds
  • 1973 - 2007

The fonds consists of the following series: Direct Action-related clippings, correspondence, ephemera and notes; legal correspondence; pre- and post-parole correspondence, ephemera, notes and writings by others; correspondence received during incarceration; prison records (supplied to Hansen under an Access to Information request); Direct Action chapter drafts and related materials; and RCMP surveillance transcripts (closed until 2072).

Subject matter of the mixed clippings and correspondence series includes: anti-nuclear/anti-cruise missile activism, court proceedings, Elizabeth Fry Society, environmental issues, indigenous peoples issues, international activism, pornography, anti-pornography/anti-snuff films, prison-industrial complex, sexual assault, Red Hot Video, the Vancouver Five trial matters and sentencing, women's rights. Correspondence received during incarceration series includes: correspondence from Brent Taylor, Janice Bear Neudorf, and various supporters and publishers; series also includes 1 box of previous sealed letters from other members of the Vancouver Five, primarily Brent Taylor.

Hansen, Ann, 1953-

Jim Campbell fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR459
  • Fonds
  • 1968 - 2007

The fonds consists of correspondence from Jim Campbell to Malcolm Archibald (1976-1981). Also includes an Easter 1976 b&w photograph of Malcolm Archibald, Patricia Hughes and Jim Campbell; a copy of Bulldozer newsletter; and an unpublished article by Stu Vickars for Kick It Over (2007). Also includes a CD-R copy of an interview with Jim Campbell from the 1990s re the Ontario "Dragonfly Commune" from the 1970s-1980s. The fonds reflects Babarash's activities primarily relating to prisons and prisoners' rights, and also consists of audio cassettes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, publications, sketches, video cassettes, and an extensive collection of newsletters. Newsletter titles include Akwesasne Notes - Mohawk Nation, Black Panther: Black Community News Service, Crossroad, The Insurgent: Newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, No more gages: Women's Prison Newsletter.

Campbell, Jim, 1949-2007

David Herbert Vickers fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR498
  • Fonds
  • 2002 - 2007

The fonds consists of the Judge's copies of exhibits, records, and trial transcripts documenting the trial Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The fonds is comprised of textual records, maps, discs, and floppy disks.

David Herbert Vickers was the trial judge for Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia (2007 BCSC 1700) in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The case later went to the British Columbia Court of Appeal (2012 BCCA 285), and then to the Supreme Court of Canada (2014 SCC 44). Justice Vickers was called to the bar in 1960, and became a Justice of the BC Supreme Court in 1992.

The transcript series includes cerlox bound transcripts of each day of the trial, some transcripts include digital copies of the text on floppy disks. The Records and Authorities Series includes previous judgments related to the trial, copies of various trial records and the books of authorities of the Plaintiff and Defendants. Some records include a digital copy of the text on a floppy disk.

The exhibit series includes copies all of the exhibits and other evidence provided to Justice Vickers. Textual records include correspondence, research reports, historical records, legal documents, affidavits, published materials, expert testimonies and associated background material. Non-textual material include maps, copies of map overlays, copies of drawings, and photographs. Some maps and exhibits have paper and digital copies on CDs or DVDs. Justice Vickers did not receive any of the objects, video depositions or cassette tapes entered as exhibits.

The exhibits series includes an order dated 8 September 2003 regarding the appointment of a court cartographer, Kathleen Lush, who was responsible for digitizing all maps and map overlays entered as exhibits. The authorities series includes a letter dated 17 May 2007 from Erin Christie to the Trial Coordinator describing the process of creating and using the digital copies of the exhibits in a summation database on six CDs.

Vickers, David H.

B.C. Ministry of Women's Equality fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR534
  • Fonds
  • 1917 - 2004

The fonds consists of documents and ephemera from the British Columbia Ministry of Women's Equality. Includes a history of the ministry as well as documents about programs developed by the ministry.

British Columbia. Ministry of Women's Equality

Barry family fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC011
  • Fonds
  • 1770 - 1795

The fonds consists of copies of indentures of lease of the Barry family preceded by Copy Probate of the Will and Codicil of Thomas Barry, Esq., deceased, dated June 12, 1770.

Barry (family)

Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC017
  • Collection
  • ca. 2000 B.C.-1970

The collection consists of ancient documents, including a cuneiform tablet and an Egyptian hieroglyph; Medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, 1243-1599, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letter, letters patent, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Armelite prioress; modern literary and political manuscripts, records, and autographs, including policies of assurance, letters, and World War I and World War II surrender documents; autographs of various world figures; maps of Europe, Asia and North America; medals, decorations, and flags, mostly from Europe.

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