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Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC017
  • Collection
  • ca. 2000 B.C.-1970

The collection consists of ancient documents, including a cuneiform tablet and an Egyptian hieroglyph; Medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, 1243-1599, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letter, letters patent, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Armelite prioress; modern literary and political manuscripts, records, and autographs, including policies of assurance, letters, and World War I and World War II surrender documents; autographs of various world figures; maps of Europe, Asia and North America; medals, decorations, and flags, mostly from Europe.

Barbara Ann Roberts fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR342
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1999

Fonds consists of sixteen series: university employment; 1977-1996; university teaching, 1974-1988; grant applications, 1980-1995; publications, 1975-1997; conference papers, 1978-1991; presentations, 1980-1997; unpublished papers, 1975-1995; Gertrude Richardson research, 1985-1996; Leicester Peace Society research, 1992-1993; women's movement, 1983-1996; peace movement, 1986-1997; miscellaneous correspondence, 1979-1998; family correspondence, 1987-1997; illness and death, 1998; photographs, 1986-1993, and Canadian women peace activists oral history interviews, 1987-1989.

The university employment series includes curricula vitae, job applications, and self evaluation files which document Roberts employment history and her publications and committee work, etc. The university teaching series includes course outlines, take home exams, and student handouts which shed light on her approach to teaching. The grant applications and publications series together provide an overview of the range and direction of Roberts' research interests. While most of the series are based on record type, the Gertrude Richardson research and Leicester Peace Society Research series are arranged by subject and contain correspondence and grant applications; the Gertrude Richardson Research series also contains conference papers. The Women's movement and Peace movement series both contain correspondence, although some correspondence pertaining to them will be found in the miscellaneous and family correspondence series. While the miscellaneous and family correspondence series consist almost entirely of inward correspondence, both contain a few printouts of e-mail correspondence or letters from Roberts which shed light on her daily life and research projects. The Canadian Women Peace Activists series contains interviews about and with Canadian women who were peace activists before 1960.

Roberts, Barbara Ann, 1941-1998

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR030
  • Fonds
  • 1884-1976

Fonds consists of lists of Chinese deceased in Canada, 1937; leave permits issued to the Chinese Hospital in Vancouver, Victoria, and other areas of B.C., 1908-1909; donation and fundraising records, subscription booklets, records of income and expenditures, receipts, Free Miners Certificates, national bonds, 1884-1912; population data; correspondence from the Commander in Shanghai, 1932; minutes of the Chinese Public School; correspondence regarding donations for victims of famines, droughts, and floods in China, and booklets recording donations; records of the Chinese Hospital, including report books on patients, doctor order books and consultation forms, 1956-1976. Fonds also includes death and burial records series, 1902-1923, consisting of: medical certificates of death for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC; and burial permits for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC, including permits issued by the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery Company.

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)

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

David Herbert Vickers fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR498
  • Fonds
  • 2002 - 2007

The fonds consists of the Judge's copies of exhibits, records, and trial transcripts documenting the trial Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The fonds is comprised of textual records, maps, discs, and floppy disks.

David Herbert Vickers was the trial judge for Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia (2007 BCSC 1700) in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The case later went to the British Columbia Court of Appeal (2012 BCCA 285), and then to the Supreme Court of Canada (2014 SCC 44). Justice Vickers was called to the bar in 1960, and became a Justice of the BC Supreme Court in 1992.

The transcript series includes cerlox bound transcripts of each day of the trial, some transcripts include digital copies of the text on floppy disks. The Records and Authorities Series includes previous judgments related to the trial, copies of various trial records and the books of authorities of the Plaintiff and Defendants. Some records include a digital copy of the text on a floppy disk.

The exhibit series includes copies all of the exhibits and other evidence provided to Justice Vickers. Textual records include correspondence, research reports, historical records, legal documents, affidavits, published materials, expert testimonies and associated background material. Non-textual material include maps, copies of map overlays, copies of drawings, and photographs. Some maps and exhibits have paper and digital copies on CDs or DVDs. Justice Vickers did not receive any of the objects, video depositions or cassette tapes entered as exhibits.

The exhibits series includes an order dated 8 September 2003 regarding the appointment of a court cartographer, Kathleen Lush, who was responsible for digitizing all maps and map overlays entered as exhibits. The authorities series includes a letter dated 17 May 2007 from Erin Christie to the Trial Coordinator describing the process of creating and using the digital copies of the exhibits in a summation database on six CDs.

Vickers, David H.

Ray Williston fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR002
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1984

Fonds consists of correspondence, memos, reports, photographs and maps relating to the Columbia River Treaty, 1950-1972, including the following series: Columbia River Treaty and projects, 1950-72; Other water and power projects, 1926-75 (including Skagit Valley, Fraser River, and water transfers); Lands and forests, 1956-76; BC Cellulose Co., 1976-78, 1984; and miscellaneous reference material. Inlcudes transcripts of the International Joint Commission Conference, 1959; and copies of the House of Commons Standing Committee on External Affairs, 19 March - 27 May, 1964.

Williston, Ray

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.

Chilly Climate Committee fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR140
  • Fonds
  • 1993-1995

The fonds includes the preliminary report, related departmental minutes, letters of support, student posters, fund-raising for the legal defence fund, and clippings documenting response to the report.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Chilly Climate Committee

Canadian Federation of University Women Victoria fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR175
  • Fonds
  • 1908-2010

Fonds consists of constitution and bylaws, minutes, committee records, presidents' files, financial records, special events files, newsletters and programs, ephemera, reference material and membership records.

Canadian Federation of University Women - Victoria

Neil Swainson fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR122
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1971

Fonds consists of research files on various people and government officials, including E. Davie Fulton; Swainson's typescript of "International Development of the Columbia River"; U.S. Committee minutes; Canadian Committee minutes; and file card notes.

Swainson, Neil Alexander, 1919-2009

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