Speeches; correspondence, official and personal; invitations; diverse government reports, memoranda, and briefs; correspondence, speeches, handbooks and papers concerning Social Credit Party organization and campaigns, and monetary policy. Material transferred to Map Collection, Visual Records and the BC Archives Library. During his career William Neelands Chant was a businessman, farmer, MLA (Alberta and B.C.), Minister of Agriculture (Alta.), and the Minister of Public Works (B.C.). The records include speeches; correspondence, official and personal; invitations; diverse government reports, memoranda, and briefs; correspondence, speeches, handbooks and papers concerning Social Credit Party organization and campaigns, and monetary policy. Books, photographs and maps transferred to other units. See list at the end of the finding aid. Material transferred to BC Archives Library (check library catalogue for call numbers): British Columbia. The Law Courts, Victoria, British Columbia [Leather bound copy] British Columbia. Education Building, UBC, Vancouver, B.C. Draft Canadian Constitutional Charter British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, First Annual Report Power Means Progress. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Standing Order (adopted February 20, 1930) Queen's Printer, 1955 H.E. Nichols, A Handbook of Social Credit, Edmonton Reading Reference to Social Credit: A Bibliography, compiled by Michael Sinclair, 1963 American Historical Documents from official Archives [portfolio] British Columbia. Centennial Edition. 1964 T.J. Irwin, The Pageantry of Parliament. [Pamphlet, no date] Major C.H. Douglas, "Social Credit Principles". Speech, 1924 Material transferred to Visual Records accession 198006-033 includes: 4 photo albums, with numerous loose photographs 4 boxes (approximately 20 slides each) 35 mm color transparencies metal plate of photo of W.N. Chant Envelope containing 11 loose photos of Chant Cuts of photos of Chant Album "To the Government of the Province of British Columbia" advertising work of Townley, Matheson & Partners, Dexter Bush and Associates Ltd., Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, architects and engineers Material transferred to Map Collection: Map. Columbia River Basin in British Columbia, showing principal water powers. Map registration number 14009B. Map. British Columbia. Electoral districts. Redistribution 1966. Duplicate of this map available. See CM/A1128. Map. Plan of part of the Municipality of Richmond, showing suggested land reclamation scheme on Sturgeon Bank. Map registration number 13829B.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Keeping house for the Bennett family, 1930-1978 PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1978 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Winnifred Earl discusses her personal and family background. Starting work for the Bennett family in Kelowna, 1930. First impressions of the Bennett family. Recollections of the Bennett household. The effect of W.A.C. Bennett's entry into politics, 1941. Characteristics and personalities of the Bennett children as they were growing up. Social activities. W.A.C. Bennett as a father. TRACK; 2: Politics and the Bennett family. W.A.C. Bennett as a disciplinarian. Religion and the Bennett family. Relations between the Capozzis and the Bennetts. The effect of W.A.C. Bennett becoming Premier, 1952. Annual tea parties at the Bennett home. Recollections of the night of the 1972 election. The effect of the 1972 election defeat. Reaction to Bill Bennett's election as Premier, 1975. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4170:0017 SUMMARY: First of two half-hour documentary programs broadcast on the CBC Radio program "Discourse". This episode includes excerpts from taped interviews with: suffragist Mary Norton, former secretary of the Political Equality League; Ned DeBeck, longtime clerk of the BC Legislature; Dorothy Steeves, CCF MLA for North Vancouver, 1935-45; Lois Haggen, NDP MLA for Grand Forks - Greenwood; and Grace MacInnis, CCF-NDP MLA for Vancouver East.

CALL NUMBER: T4170:0018 SUMMARY: Second of two half-hour documentary programs broadcast on the CBC Radio program "Discourse". In addition to further comments by Steeves, MacInnis and Haggen, this episode includes excerpts from taped interviews with: Isobel Dawson, Grace McCarthy, Pat Jordan and Agnes Kripps (Social Credit), Eileen Daily (NDP), and Jean Rands, who was a candidate for mayor of Vancouver in the late 1960s.