The fonds consists of the Director's subject files, 1948-1993; Senate Committee on Continuing Education, 1973-1978; Senate Committee on University Extension, 1984-1986; programming files, 1962-1990; Prison Education programme files, 1978-1988; Summer Studies files, 1978-1988; David Thompson University Centre files, 1978-1983; grades for Institute of Canadian Bankers, 1972-1973; and personnel information, 1978-1987.
University of Victoria (B.C.). Division of Continuing Studies
The fonds consists of records of the University of Victoria Students' Society and its predecessors. Records include minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and related material documenting the Society's executive, administrative, social and political activities.
The fonds consists of proposals for public and corporate art projects. Materials include budget proposals, specifications, preliminary sketches, related correspondence, photographs and presentation booklets. Fonds includes slides documenting artwork between 1978-2005 and publications featuring reviews/interviews relating to Youds.
The fonds consists of documents relating to Celu Amberstone's writing career. Records consist of poetry, playscripts, children's prose, notes for readings, publishing contracts, review clippings, correspondence, and acceptance and rejection letters from publishers and editors. The fonds also includes a proof copy of The Dreamer's Legacy by Celu Amberstone, and House of Commons Special Committee on the Disabled and Handicapped publication, "Native Population: Follow-up Report" (1981), which features a profile of Amberstone/Barbara Smith. The fonds is also comprised of digital text files of Amberstone's writings and e-book versions of her publications.
The fonds is comprised of correspondence and manuscripts relating to Eve Joseph's writing, including publications "Quarrels", "In the Slender Margin", "The Secret Signature of Things", "The Startled Heart", in addition to essays, unpublished poetry, and materials relating to literary awards and festivals.
Born digital files are comprised of textual records, photographs, and audio files. The text file (.doc) "entries & observations" is working notes and other textual files (.doc) relate to Joseph's speech and reading delivered at the Griffin Poetry Prize event. A folder "photos" includes photographs (.jpg) from the Griffin Poetry Prize and a folder "book launch" includes photographs (.jpg) of various launches and events for "The Startled Heart" and "Quarrels." Audio recordings (.m4a, .mp3.) relate to the Griffin Poetry Prize as well as Ian Brown introducing Joseph at a reading (.wav).
The fonds consists of correspondence and drafts of poetry, plays and prose providing a window into the professional life of Tony Connor. The fonds contains drafts of Connor's collections, including With Love Somehow (1962), Things Unsaid: New and Selected Poems 1960–2005 (2006), and The Empty Air (2012). Correspondence includes letters from Connor to academic Larry Vonalt and from Hungarian-British poet George Gomori.
The digital files consist of poetry drafts and are dated from 2007 to 2021 according to their "Last Modified" dates. Original file formats include .doc and .docx files.
The fonds consists of architectural plans and drawings by Di Castri for homes and buildings in Victoria and other locations in B.C. Fonds also includes notes, correspondence, construction contracts and photographs of commissioned projects, as well as portfolios, proposals, articles about Di Castri, notebooks, and manuscripts.
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.