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Oluna Ceska and Adolf Ceska fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC677
  • Archief
  • 1997-2021

The fonds is comprised of botanical illustrations and field journals by Oluna Ceska, with additional information contributed by Adolf Ceska. This includes, eight field journals of mycofloristic (mushroom) surveys with detailed illustrations by Oluna Ceska. Each specimen has been labelled by name, as well as by the location, date, and substrate where it was found. Additional observations include physical characteristics, smell, size, and spore size. The research focuses primarily on the southern Vancouver island region. Many of the studied specimens are from Observatory Hill, Victoria. Additional research locations include the Gulf Islands, Haida Gwaii, the BC mainland, the Yukon, Washington, and Oregon.

The fonds also consists of 9 survey reports of macrofungi on Observatory Hill that were researched and compiled by Oluna, with photos of specimens taken by Adolf. The reports describe species of fungi that were found, their location, as well as environmental factors that impact fungi growth.

In addition to the notebooks and reports relating to mushrooms, the fonds includes illustrations of flora on Southern Vancouver Island.

Oluna Ceska

Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC659
  • Archief
  • 1993 - 2024

The fonds consists of meeting minutes (AGM and board), AGM materials, historical documents, volunteer Garry oak nursery initiative documents, materials about advocacy issues, newsletters, and materials about covenant partners/holdings.

Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society

John Barnard fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC649
  • Archief
  • 1963 - 2002

The fonds consists of photographic negatives, slides, and prints spanning John Barnard's career as professional photographer in Victoria, B.C. Subjects include new buildings by leading regional architects, the B.C. Legislature, tourist attractions, BC Ferries, and other commissions and portrait work.

Barnard, John L.

Maud Sherman collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC633
  • Collectie
  • 1920 - 1925

The collection consists of eight watercolours of Vancouver Island and Savary Island painted by artist Maud Sherman between ca. 1920 and 1925.

Sherman, Maud Rees, 1900-1976

Father Charles Brandt fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC623
  • Archief
  • 1900 - 2020

The fonds consists of approximately 35,800 digital and analogue photographs, and 90 digital videos. Subjects include landscapes, birds, Indigenous poles, plants, marine animals and fishing.

Brandt, Charles A.E.

Roger Smeeth fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC580
  • Archief
  • 1966 - 2002

The fonds consists of architectural drawings for residential and commercial buildings in Victoria and on Vancouver Island.

Smeeth, Roger Watson, 1931-

Royal Canadian Air Force collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC459
  • Collectie
  • 1942-1944

The collection consists of an album of photographs re R.C.A.F. Radio Direction Finding Stations (RDF), Pacific Coast taken between 1942 and 1944.

Audrey Alexandra Brown fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC335
  • Archief
  • 1867-1987

The fonds consists of manuscripts published and unpublished, which include juvenilia, poetry and story drafts, and the author's annual holograph gatherings of completed poems. The fonds includes public addresses, children's stories, periodical off prints, page proofs of A Dryad in Nanaimo, reviews, family and biographical items, photographs, certificates, recordings of poems set to music, a printers plate, biographical material, and correspondence. Correspondence includes 34 letters from former Prime Minister Robert Borden. Artwork often accompanies juvenilia verse and later children's stories; the media used include: ink on paper illustrations, pencil sketches, and watercolour drawings. Newspaper clippings include the author's columns, stories and poems. Also included are photocopies of 60 letters written by Audrey Brown to Professor Pelham Edgar (1929-47). The originals are in the Pelham Edgar collection at Victoria University, Toronto. The fonds also consists of: newspaper clippings and biographical material re Audrey Alexandra Brown and her family; correspondence between Brown and Pelham Edgar; correspondence between Brown and Earle Birney; correspondence from Martin Burrell to Pelham Edgar re Brown; manuscripts by Brown.

Brown, Audrey Alexandra, 1904-1998

David Robert Gray fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR451
  • Archief
  • 1950-2010

The fonds consists of research materials, clippings, publications, BSc and PhD theses, notes, and correspondence from Gray's academic career; mostly relating to his time and the University of Victoria and his work on marmots.

Gray, David Robert

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