This series contains client files from the Campbell River Addictions Services (previously Campbell River Alcohol and Drug Services). Files cover adult clients with last names beginning with PA through SA. It is believed these records were retained as a sample, as all other boxes with patient’s files in this accession have been destroyed.

The files are arranged alphabetically by client’s last name. Each file contains a client information form with questionnaires regarding alcohol use, gambling and drug use along with medical screenings, follow-ups, discharge and/or transfer summaries, appointment slips, treatment plans, wait list forms, case conference consultation notes, consent forms, applications for accommodation fee and other notes as necessary.

The records consist of correspondence, arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically, mimeographed information, clippings, accounts, pamphlets, posters, minutebooks, government publications, maps, periodicals, and books. The correspondence arranged chronologically was separated from the correspondence filed according to subject and seem to be arranged in no particular order. It includes both inward and outward correspondence. Clippings are arranged by subject in six boxes. On August 25, 1915 a convention of temperance forces was held in Vancouver after the Premier, Sir Richard McBride, had decided to put the question of instituting prohibition of the sale of liquor as a war measure to a plebiscite of the electorate. Out of this Vancouver Convention came the formation of the British Columbia Prohibition Association [BCPA], otherwise known as the People's Prohibition Movement. A committee was set up on an ad hoc basis initially, with Mr. J. Rogers as President to mobilize support for prohibition and organize for the referendum McBride had decided to call. When it was announced that the anti-prohibitionists had won, the temperance forces charged that there had been serious irregularities in the soldiers' vote on the referendum. A Royal Commission was subsequently set up in 1917 to investigate these charges and it revealed that an overall majority of 3,875 were in favour of the Prohibition Act proposed by the referendum instead of the 800 majority originally tallied against it. As a result a Prohibition Act was passed by the Provincial assembly and became law on October 1, 1917. During the 1920s the Association carried on its activities under its executive secretary, W.G.W. Fortune, followed by Methodist minister, Rev. R.J. McIntyre, in 1925. At an executive meeting of the BC Prohibition Association on Nov. 27, 1933, a motion moved by Dr. Dobson was adopted by the Executive Committee which changed the name of the BCPA to the BC Temperance League. A constitution for the BC Temperance League was adopted by an executive meeting on Feb. 23, 1934, and this was formally approved on May 20, 1934 at the annual convention. The purpose of- the BC Temperance League was to be "the solution of the liquor problem in the interest of human welfare by evangelism, abstinence, education and legislation, having in view the ultimate elimination of the drink evil (Constitution, BCTL, adopted May 10, 1934). Almost a year after the Rev. McIntyre's retirement in May, 1947, the League appointed Rev. A.W. Small to carry on the work of executive secretary. On May 7, 1952, the Anglican Bishop Godfrey Gower was made the President of a new organization, the Alcohol Research Council, charged with the task of securing as large a vote as possible against the sale of liquor by the glass. In November 1952, the BC Temperance League and the Alcohol Research Council joined forces and became known as the BC Alcohol Research and Education Council, with A.W. Cowley appointed its first executive secretary.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: A series of oral history excerpts dealing with the topic of alcohol use and abuse, compiled from tapes in the collection of the Aural History Programme at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia. This material was assembled in August 1978 for possible use in a travelling exhibit or slide presentation by the Alcohol and Drug Commission, in connection with Alcohol Awareness Week (October 16-20, 1978). The material was ultimately not used. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T3860:0063 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sam Bawlf ; Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-10-12 SUMMARY: Bawlf and Bennett on new ferries; Bawlf on wolf control.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0064 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rafe Mair RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-10-18 SUMMARY: Rafe Mair on alcohol moderation programme.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0065 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-10-20 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett speaks to the 1978 Social Credit convention.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0066 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-03 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett on Terrace emergency.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0067 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace McCarthy ; [Alex?] Fraser RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-06 SUMMARY: McCarthy and Fraser on Terrace floods.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0068 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace McCarthy (Capital Comment) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-11 SUMMARY: Audio recording of a television broadcast. Grace McCarthy calls Dianne Hartwick a "nice little girl' on the CHEK-TV program "Capital Comment".; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0069 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh Curtis RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-17 SUMMARY: Hugh Curtis on federal budget, bus lines sales, regional district review.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0070 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-20 SUMMARY: Dave Barrett on the Royal Commission report on the British Columbia Railway.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0071 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-23 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett on the Royal Commission report on the British Columbia Railway.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0072 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-02 SUMMARY: Premier Bennett on his return from a constitutional conference.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0073 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vic Stephens RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-28 SUMMARY: Vic Stephens says that the British Columbia Railway should be sold.;

Correspondence, annual reports, minutes and financial papers; research files, reports, briefs and surveys produced by the association and dealing with alcohol and the community; published reports collected as reference materials.

The Greater Victoria Association on Alcoholism (GVAA) was established to educate members and initiate programs relating to alcoholism.

The records consist of correspondence, annual reports, minutes and financial records, research files, reports, briefs and surveys created and received by the Greater Victoria Association on Alcoholism.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-12 SUMMARY: Speech by David Barrett to the Future Action [?] conference in 1977; sponsored by Canadian Foundation on Alcohol and Drug Dependence. Recorded courtesy of Vancouver Co-op Radio.

SUMMARY: A session at the Hazelden Foundation (Center City, Minnesota?) with Dr. Richard Heilman, a psychiatric consultant to the Foundation and director of another inpatient alcoholism and drug treatment centre. Dr. Heilman discusses aspects of the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction.

Documentary. Examines the life of alcoholic derelicts on Vancouver's skid row. Three denizens of the district talk candidly about their lives and what brought them to their present state. They are shown on the street, along the waterfront and at the Salvation Army Harbour Light mission, where Captain William Leslie is interviewed.

This series consists of federal-provincial cost sharing agreement histories for services provided by the provincial Ministry of Health, Ministry of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Human Resources. Agreements were between the federal government and the relevant ministry from 1976-1985.

The records document the development and operation of a variety of health and social services, including the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP), Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (VRDP) program, and the Young Offenders Act (YOA) agreements. These programs provided social and medical supports, including mental health services and drug and alcohol treatment programs.

Records include meeting agenda, minutes, audit reports, correspondence, paylists, policies, procedures, draft agreements, legislation, treasury board submissions, cabinet submissions, financial records, and subject files relating to direct services funded agencies. The subject files in boxes 9 and 10 are arranged by the name of the agency or group that provided the funded services, then by year. Subject files are organized with separate sub-folders for related records of approval, working papers, backups, and claims and “form M”.

These records were transferred under one time schedule number 870458.

Educational. Video copy of a slide/tape presentation about alcohol and drug abuse.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Provincial Health RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1926 in Northern Ireland; early schooling and university at Queen's in Belfast; why he got into medicine; liked orthopaedics; interned at Queen's University Hospital, Royal Victoria, Belfast. Went to aircraft company after a residency, general rotating, worked at Short Brothers for two years in industrial medicine; new field worked with Dr. Smiley; what duties were his as industrial health officer; goes to work with the Slough Industrial Health services outside London, 1953-55; Dr. Eager started this program; comes to BC in 1955 and takes his degree then joins the provincial health department and goes to work in Prince Rupert for a year; changes from England and Ireland in medicine; spends three months at Tranquille, and then back to Toronto for Diploma of Public Health in 1957-58; did Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons certificate in November 1958; goes to provincial health, North Fraser Valley Health Unit; responsible for environmental health, communicable disease control; 1959-61, Director of Public Health/Occupational Health for the City of Vancouver; duties. Worked for American boards in occupational medicine; goes back to provincial health as director of Occupational Health; his definition of occupational medicine; the programs and progress of the bureau: 1962-72, Dr. John Mackenzie was the first assistant director; director of special health services in 1973; study of alcoholism in industry. TRACK 2:Alcoholism in industry, continued; why alcoholism is so prevalent; coming area of drug rehabilitation; assessments concerning asbestosis; silicosis, mercury poisoning, environmental pollution, noise pollution and radiation; unions' reaction to occupational health department. Environmental pollution. Physical fitness programs for government employees. Health hazard appraisals.

The series consists of central office files of the Directors of Mental Health Services and the Deputy Ministers of the Mental Health Branch created between 1936 and 1972.

This is a set of central office files of the Directors of Mental Health Services (MHS) and the Deputy Ministers of the Mental Health Branch. Before 1959 the Director of Mental Health Services (under a variety of titles), reported to the Deputy Provincial Secretary. Between 1959 and 1968 the positions of Director and Deputy Minister were held by the same person. In 1968 the positions were separated, with Dr. H.W. Bridge as the Director of Mental Health Services, located in Vancouver, and Dr. Tucker as the Deputy Minister, located in Victoria. In September 1971 the position of Director of Mental Health Services was terminated. The statutory obligations of the Director were assumed by the Deputy Minister.

Between 1872 and 1959 MHS was part of the Department of the Provincial Secretary. In 1959 MHS joined the [Public] Health Branch and the Hospital Insurance Service in the new Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance.

The records include a few files of Dr. Arthur L. Crease, who retired as Director of Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in 1950 after 16 years at the helm of the Mental Health Services. The bulk of the files were created during the tenures of Dr. A.M. Gee (Director, 1951 58) and Dr. A.E. Davidson (Director and Deputy Minister, 1958 67). Dr. Fred G. "Tommy" Tucker was the Deputy Minister between 1967 and 1975.

Also included are files of the Deputy Director (Dr. Tucker), the Nursing consultant to the Branch (Miss Lonergan), and the Coordinator of Adult Psychiatric Services (Dr. H.W. Bridge).

The time period which these records represent includes many major developments in terms of treatment, insulin shock therapy (1937), electric shock therapy (1942), lobotomy (1945), penicillin and many other drugs. It also includes many new developments in care delivery, new Homes for the Aged in the 1940s and the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine in 1949, and the development of community mental health care centres in the 1960s.

The series consists of television commercials and public service announcements made by the Ministry of Human Resources, with the participation of the Ministry of the Attorney-General, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health in 1979 as part of the "Year of the Child and Family in B.C."

Item consists of three 30 second television commercials created by the Ministry of Human Resources in 1979 as part of the "Year of the child and family in B.C." program.

Docudrama. A former alcoholic recalls his reintegration into society through the assistance of the Vancouver Harbour Light Corps of the Salvation Army. Re-enacts the man's day-to-day existence on the streets of skid row, his drinking and panhandling, and his struggle to give up alcohol and regain his self-confidence. Highlights the spiritual and material support provided by the Harbour Light mission.

Item consists of a 30 second television commercial created by the Ministry of the Attorney General in 1979 as part of the "Year of the child and family in B.C." program.

Files of the chairman, J. Peter Stein, and his office, including files relating specifically to funded agencies. The Alcohol and Drug Commission was established in 1973 by legislation. The act empowered the Commission (subject to the approval of the LieutenantGovernor in Council to 1.operate programs, or enter into agreements with any government branch, hospital, agency, university or person to operate programs, for studying, researching, diagnosing, treating, rehabilitating, counselling, following up, caring, or providing other services for alcoholics and drug users 2.provide financial or other assistance to any person or organization mentioned in 1. 3.conduct, or arrange and fund, programs for the dissemination of information about alcoholism and drug abuse. The commission reported to the legislature through the Ministry of Human Resources. In 1974 the commission absorbed the staff of the Narcotic Addiction Foundation, Alcoholism Foundation and the AlcoholDrug Education Service. In 1975 the commission was transferred from the Department of Human Resources to the Department of Health. Table of Contents Boxes 1-4 Office files. J. Peter Stein, 1973-1976 Boxes 5-10 Office and research files: general Boxes 11-16 Funded agencies, 1972-1977

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The series consists of 37 scrapbooks created by the Liquor Control Board between 1921 and 1963. The 37 volumes contain clippings about liquor related matters from various newspapers (mostly from British Columbia) and some photographs of liquor stores.

Documentary. A look at life on Vancouver's infamous skid row.

Promotional film. The construction and operation of the Salvation Army's Miracle Valley Detox Centre near Mission. Its quiet environs are contrasted with the temptations of the street life in Vancouver.

Item consists of 30 second television commercial created by the Ministry of Health in 1979 as part of the "Year of the child and family in B.C." program.

Documentary. Shows the day-to-day existence of alcoholics living in the streets, rail yards and docks of Vancouver, and the rehabilitation services and spiritual support provided by the Salvation Army's Harbour Light mission.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: One hour programme. Jack recaps the 2 hour program which included investigations and complaints about personal care homes. Jack interviews Premier Allan Blakeney, the only NDP premier in Canada. Brian Coxford reports on his two visits to the “drunk tank” for "Alcohol Awareness Week", and the new detox centre. Jack discusses the report with Brian.