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Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR282
  • Archief
  • 1998, 2000

Fonds consists of records related to two major projects conducted by Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting. Fonds has been arranged into series according to project: 1. Photopoint monitoring project of urban creeks on southern Vancouver Island consists of a final report and photographic field data collected for Blenkinsop Creek, Colwood Creek, Latoria Creek, Leeds Creek and Swan Trestle (1998); 2. the comprehensive water quality monitoring plan for the Kootenai River Basin of British Columbia, Montana and Idaho project consists of a final report (2000).

Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting

Carnation Creek Community History Project fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR364
  • Archief
  • 1998-2001

Fonds consists of the following series: Reports, 1999-2001; Field notes of interview with Angie Joe, 1999; Transcripts of interviews with First Nations, 1998-1999, including: Robert Dennis, Tom Happynook, Tom and Liz Happynook, Herb Joe, Tom Joe, Spencer Peters, Willie Sport; Transcripts of interviews with scientific researchers, 1999-2000, including: Gordon Hartman, Eugene Hetherington, Dick Leahy, Dave Narver, Charlie Scrivener, and Peter Tschaplinski.

Carnation Creek Community History Project

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ikawa-Smith talks about growing up and attending university for English Literature in Japan and her later transition to studying archaeology at Harvard. She also explores details of her work at McGill, doing research on Japanese archaeology, and how her career was affected by being a wife and mother.

Ursula Franklin Interview

Interview with physicist, Dr. Ursula Franklin for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ainley asks about her perspective on western science, her experience attending university in Berlin during WW2, and the work she did at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Research Foundation. Franklin also discusses about her role in the organization, Voice of Women, in the 1960s and how she balanced being a mother while conducting her academic work.

Andrea Lebowitz Interview

Interview with Andrea Liebowitz, Literature/Women’s Studies professor at Simon Fraser University, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Liebowitz talks about when she first started working as part of the small faculty at SFU, and several of the colleagues she met, particularly Kathleen Gough and Maggie Benston.

Dorothy E. Smith Interview

Interview with sociologist, Dr. Dorothy Smith, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Smith talks about her family and growing up in Yorkshire, England. She goes on to explain how she eventually attended college in order to escape tedious secretary jobs, which led to an academic career in sociology. Smith also discusses moving to the USA and Canada, and working as a single parent. She also touches on her involvement in the women’s movement, working on various women’s associations, including the BC Women Studies Association, and Women’s Research Centre.

Marian Lowe Interview

Interview with biologist and social activist, Dr. Marian Lowe, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Lowe’s background growing up in a small working class town with her twin sister Maggie Benston. Lowe talks about the pressure of gender roles while growing up, and later the sexism they both faced working in post-secondary institutions, including their interactions with male colleagues and being passed over for positions. Lowe also explains Maggie’s role in the women’s movement and her chemistry research at SFU.

Glenda Prkachin Interview

Interview with neuropsychologist, Dr. Glenda Prkachin, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Prkachin first talks about her background growing up on a farm in Ontario and how her interest in behaviour eventually led to studying psychology. She also discusses her experience working in male dominated lab environments and the kinds of research she has worked on. She also expresses her observations about how certain topics and academic fields of study were/are gendered. Prkachin also explains how having children and working part-time affected her positions and status in universities.

Hannah Gay Interview

Interview with chemist, Dr. Hannah Gay for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Gay discusses her academic career, including her experience as a chemist working at SFU, including her friendship with fellow chemist Maggie Benston. She discusses Benston’s Marxist-feminist writings and activism while at SFU, and some of the criticism she faced for her outspoken views. Also discussed is Maggie’s illness and her twin sister, Marian.

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