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Frances Hunter collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC691
  • Collection
  • 1972

The collection is comprised of an envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hunter (Frances Hunter) from Esme Davis, and is decorated with a painting by Davis. Davis, who was born in France, attended St. Martin's School of Art in London and the Royal Academy, before relocating to Victoria (British Columbia) in 1949.

Gough family collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC648
  • Collection
  • 1930 - 2019

The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, receipts, photographs (b&w; col), and photocopies relating to 3000 Dean Avenue, Victoria, and to original owner-builder John Gough.

Gough, Barry M.

E. J. Hughes collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC606
  • Collection
  • 1935-1965

The collection consists of sketches by E. J. Hughes (1913-2007).

Hughes, E. J. (Edward John), 1913-2007

Nicholas Bawlf collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC584
  • Collection
  • 1963

The collection consists of architectural drawings of Bastion Square, Victoria BC, ca. 1963.

Bawlf, Nicholas R.

Lettice family collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC483
  • Collection
  • 1908-1909

The collection consists of 92 b&w photographs possibly of the Lettice family taken in various places in and around Victoria, BC, including photographs taken at Stanley Park in Vancouver and Seattle during the Alaska Yukon Exhibition of 1909.

Lettice (family)

Victoria Historical Photograph collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC482
  • Collection
  • 1913, 1916

The collection consists of five b&w photographs of Victoria in 1913 and 1916. The photographs include three b&w photographs taken after a massive snowstorm in Victoria in 1916; a b&w Stereoview photograph card by R[ichard] Maynard; and a mounted b&w photograph with the caption: "Officers of B.C. Electric at Deep Bay, June 18, 1913, Opening of New Interurban Line".

Robert Amos collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR461
  • Collection
  • 1976-2014

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and more related to the collector’s work in putting together a biography of the local artist, Myfanwy Pavelic (unpublished), and a biography of photographer Henry Mortimer Lamb titled, “Harold Mortimer Lamb: The Art Lover” (2013).

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.

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

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