Series includes photographs of Peggy Pemberton-Carter and her adoptive mother, Florence Pemberton, documenting their lives in Shanghai and their travels to England, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii; photographs of Peggy Pemberton-Carter’s birth parents; photographs of Nicolas Abkhazi and his mother, mainly in France, and of his father and groups of officials in Georgia and Russia; photographs of Nicolas and Peggy Abkhazi throughout their married life showing the building of their house on Fairfield Road, the development of their garden, and including photographs of their social life in Victoria, the interior of the house, holiday photographs taken on Long Beach and photographs documenting Peggy Abkhazi’s interest in dogs. Six negatives are filed in the negatives sub series.
Series contains records related to the entire Canadian Pacific coast or to multiple regions in the pacific coast area. Materials include reports, articles, surveys, photographs, and maps. The records are relevant to a range of environmental issues and topics, such as pulp mills, sewage, fisheries, estuaries, mining, logging, radioactivity, global warming, and pollution.
Successive drafts of Prof. Girard's book, Volume XIII of the series, Canada in World Affairs; early draft written ca. 1973 and revised copies of chapters written between January and October 1976.