RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982 SUMMARY: An interview with Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-09 SUMMARY: In a interview with Linda Sandler, architect Arthur Erickson discusses the city and city planning; neighbourhoods; "ideal cities"; changes in the idea of nationalism; the question of density; the perf;ect house.

CALL NUMBER: T0715:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Catherine Maclure, daughter of Samuel Maclure, talks about her early life in Victoria; the Maclure family; grandfather Maclure; family farm in Matsqui; grandmother Maclure; childhood re;collections; Abbotsford and the family telegraph operators. TRACK 2: Miss Maclure continues her recollections of the Maclure family; family telegraph operators in various locations; Samuel Maclure';s education; his art and architecture; house designs in Victoria; his architectural partners, Cecil Fox, Ross Lott; Mrs. Samuel Maclure; her watercolours of Songhees Indians; her marriage; Margaret Simpson; Mrs. Samuel Maclure; the MacLeod family; Samuel Maclure's interests; houses and offices he designed.

CALL NUMBER: T0715:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Maclure, daughter of Samuel Maclure, talks about the Carr family and Emily Carr; British immigrants; Rudyard Kipling's visit; the Royal Navy; Sir Clive Phillips-Wolley; Warburton Pike; Victoria at the turn of the century; and the Chinese gardens in Fairfield. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a certificate of membership in the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, issued to Eric C. Clarkson on December 9, 1929.

The item is a certificate of membership in the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, issued to John Edmeston Parr, dated September 20, 1920.

Reminiscences: diaries and notebooks, 1846-1858, 1862-1896 (22 vols.); sketchbook and diary, August - October 1859; account books; printed notice re night school, 1877; papers accumulated as collector of road taxes, including correspondence, minute books, Victoria road district, 1861-1874, assessment rolls, Victoria, Esquimalt, Metchosin and Sooke road districts, various tenders, reports, bills; correspondence with Dept. of Militia and Defence as Paymaster, no 11 Military district, 1874-1879.

Finding aid: file list.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Young McCarter, born in Victoria in 1886, recalls the town he knew -- the construction of the Empress Hotel, his artillery reserve service, the James Bay Athletic Association, wooden water pipes being taken up, the Savoy Theatre and Bar, football and rowing. TRACK 2: Recollections of service with the Royal Navy; an oyster feast in England; work as an architect in Vancouver, and the buildings he helped design; his service as a director of Central Mortgage and Housing, and in other public bodies; and his return to Victoria.

Portraits depict: Samuel Maclure, architect, seated and reading a book; Margaret Maclure, wife of Samuel Maclure, seated with hat and cape; and Margaret Maclure standing.

Correspondence inward, 1914, 1925; certificates for art instruction, 1883, 1893; Island Arts Club catalogues, 1910, 1911; newspaper clipping book. Maps, photographs, paintings, and books have been deposited with the appropriate units in the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (now B.C. Archives). Also includes one oversized certificate of membership from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, March 1921.

SUMMARY: "Monitor" was a radio series devoted to the arts in British Columbia. This episode includes a feature on BC architecture, a book on [Samuel?] MacClure, and an interview with tuba player Dennis Miller.;

Specifications and correspondence concerning residential and commercial structures designed by James; Loring P. Rixford's 1913 specifications for the proposed East Wing of the Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital; specifications, plans, notebooks, committee meetings, etc. concerning the East Wing of the Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital designed by James and constructed during the 1920s. Percy Leonard James, AIBC, AIC, FRAIC, RAIC, was born in England where he began his architectural career and specialized in the design of hospitals and infirmaries. In 1908, James moved to Victoria and practiced until the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914 when he returned to England to join the Army. Upon completion of his military service overseas, James returned to Victoria and resumed his architectural practice which he continued until his retirement in 1954. James died on January 3rd, 1970, at the age of 91, in Victoria. The architectural papers of James span the years 1913-1940 and have been arranged in four series: I Residential Arranged alphabetically by the name of the architect's client, this group of papers consists of specifications and correspondence concerning residential structures, alterations and additions designed by James. II Commercial Arranged alphabetically by the name of the structure, or the name of the company concerned, this group consists of specifications, correspondence, etc. regarding commercial structures designed by James. III Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital: Loring P. Rixford's specifications Loring P. Rixford's 1913 specifications for the proposed new East Wing of the hospital. IV Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital: Percy Leonard James This group of papers consists of specifications, plans, notebooks, committee minutes, etc. concerning the East Wing of the hospital designed by James and constructed during the 1920's. Original photographs have been removed from the collection and transferred to Visual Records and accessioned as 198109-003. Some sketches and plans have been removed and replaced by photocopies. Originals may be found in map accession M856029, registration numbers 14970-14978. (see list at the end of this finding aid).

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Architect Arthur Erickson talks a;bout his early family life and the influence of friends and associates. He discusses the beginning of his interest in art, his formal education and the war years.;