British Columbia--Social life and customs

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British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals records

Records and reports of British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [BCSPCA] "Parent Body". Collection includes constitution and by-laws of society, membership lists, annual reports, and minutes of general meetings, 1896-1942.

British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Constance Swartz personal papers

Constance Swartz was the daughter of English parents who had emigrated to Pender Island and Samuel Island. She grew up in Victoria and then lived in Vancouver and Kelowna where she worked as a newspaper correspondent interested in cultural affairs. She returned to Pender Island in the 1950s. The collection contains journals, notebooks, personal correspondence, drawings, poetry and publications pertaining to her family ca. 1923-1981; correspondence and published programs relating to cultural events, mostly in Vancouver, ca. 1930-1970; and correspondence and subject files relating to her life and work as a journalist in the Gulf Islands. Constance Grey was born 16 January 1902 at Victoria, the daughter of Ralph Geoffrey Grey and Winifred Grace Spalding Higgs Grey. Both parents were English immigrants: her father, who was a cousin of Earl Grey, the Governor-General, settled on Samuel Island; while her mother's family, the Higgses, settled on Pender Island. Through her mother Constance was related to the Spalding family also of South Pender Island. Constance ("Contie" or "Connie") and her sister Evelyn ("Evie" or "Eve") were educated at St. Margaret's School in Victoria. Later, Constance was sent to finishing school in England and to France to complete her education. Both sisters spent the summer of 1925 at the Church family ranch in the Chilcotin. On 27 May 1926 Constance married Englishman Barnard Box (born 1900). Their son, Rollo Grey Barnard Box, was born in 1928. Constance and Barnard Box were divorced in June 1933, at which time Constance changed her name back to Constance Grey, and her son's name to Rollo Grey. In July 1934, Constance married an American born musician, Ira Wesley Swartz (born 1902); they were divorced in 1946. Constance retained the name Constance Grey Swartz and never remarried; Rollo Grey subsequently changed his name to Richard (Rick) Johnson. Between the 1930s and 1950s Constance lived in Vancouver, first with Ira Swartz and later with her aunt and uncle, Mabel (Higgs) and Martin Grainger. She worked as a stenographer at a number of Vancouver law firms, hotels, advertising agencies, and cultural organizations. She was also involved in the arts community in Vancouver. During the late 1940s she worked in Kelowna as women's editor, reporter, music, drama, dance and art critic for the Kelowna Courier. In the 1950s she returned to Higgs family land on South Pender Island where she built a house called "Clakili". During the 1960s and 1970s she wrote a social and news column for the Gulf Islands Driftwood under the Chinook name "Cultus Coulee". On Pender Island she assisted her cousin Beatrice J.S.I.M. Freeman complete her book A Gulf Islands Patchwork. She died in 1981. Most notably, the records include musical programmes and correspondence relating to Vancouver's cultural life in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and files relative to the Gulf Islands in the 1960s and 1970s. Letters, journals, photographs, books, poetry, and songs make up the rest of the records. 152 photographs and negatives, including one photograph album, transferred to Visual Records accession 199009-009. File list available. Related records include: MS-0588, Martin Allerdale Grainger, MS-0604, Grey Family and MS-2698, John Granville Orton. The records were received by Richard Mackie and Jonathan Spalding from Mrs. Jean Connors of North Pender Island in the summer of 1988. Spalding and Mackie at the time were collecting garbage for Spalding Sanitary Services. Part of the collection had already been destroyed. Permission to deposit the collection in the Provincial Archives was subsequently obtained from Constance Swartz's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jean Johnson of Regina, Saskatchewan, who was executor of Mrs. Swartz's will.

Swartz, Constance (Grey)

Correspondence

  • GR-1310
  • Series
  • 1867-1868

This series contains correspondence between Messrs. Wm. Cochrane, H.M. Ball, W.R. Spalding, John Bowron, and Acting Postmaster General A.T. Bushby, concerning the establishment and operation of postal services between New Westminster and the Cariboo. The series also contains mail contracts drawn up between Bushby and Peter O'Toole and Stipendiary Magistrate Chartres Brew and H.R.H. Adamson.

British Columbia (Colony). Post Office Dept.

Diaries and other material

Diaries (1908-1962) of T.M. Edwards, 1908-1962, who lived in Calgary, Whitehorse and England before emigrating to Chilliwack in 1920. Also two notebooks, one re Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association, of which he was a director; diaries (1923-1965) of his wife, Daisy Evelyn Edwards; and diaries (1909,1929-1942) of her mother, Hannah Harvey, who emigrated from England to Canada in 1934. Hannah Harvey material also includes a birthday book, photograph and In Memoriam card for Anne Matheson. Box 1: Volumes 1-25 of the T.M. Edwards diaries are located; Box 2: Volumes 26 to 50; Box 3: notebooks; Box 4: Volumes 50- 73 of the Daisy Edwards diaries; Box 5: volumes 74-89; Box 6: Hannah Harvey diaries and ephemera (Volumes 90-105).

Diary

Diary of a trip from Vancouver to Europe from Nov 10, 1910 to Feb 20, 1911, including accounts of friends from British Columbia that Mary and Ninian Bain met while on tour. Diary of a trip from Vancouver to South America from Nov 27, 1911, to Mar 16, 1912, including postcards from some of the places visited.

Diary of a trip "out West" in 1933

The item consists of an illustrated typed transcript of a diary of a trip "out West' taken by Kit A. Sauvary from June 22 to July 30, 1933. Kit Sauvary and her party traveled across the Northern United States by automobile from Toronto, entering British Columbia South of Kootenay Lake. They took the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway to Princeton, North to Spences Bridge, and down the Fraser Canyon. They visited Vancouver and Vancouver Island before returning via the Banff Windermere Highway and the Rockies, through the United States and back to Toronto. The diary was written as a series of letters to Sauvary's parents in Guernsey, typed up in 1979 and contains photographs and marked route maps of the journey from 1933.

Engagement sheets and itineraries

  • GR-1294
  • Series
  • 1970-1973

This series contains copies of official engagement sheets and itineraries of His Honour Lieutenant Governor J.R. Nicholson from the period 1970-1973.

British Columbia. Lieutenant Governor

Eustace Alvanley Jenns

The series consists of letters inward to Eustace Alvanley Jenns from members of the family and friends; and one letter outward. The letters are concerned primarily with family matters.

Presented by E.A. Jenns, Vancouver, 1929.

Finding aid: file list.

Jenns, E.A. (Eustace Alvanley), 1860-1930

Jack Webster Productions Limited fonds

  • PR-1855
  • Fonds
  • 1978-1987

The fonds comprises videotape recordings of the public affairs program "Webster!", which was broadcast by BCTV from 1978-10-02 to 1987-05-01. The fond also includes an name/subject index of guests and topics and an incomplete set of daily line-up sheets.

The list of guests who appeared on the show is a virtual "who's who" from a decade in Canadian public life. Politicians, labour leaders, prominent business people, authors, academics and entertainers were among those interviewed by Jack Webster, a veteran journalist with a reputation for being both tough and fair. A partial list of the show's better-known guests appears below.

Adams, Bryan
Allen, Bruce
Amiel, Barbara
Andstein, Cliff
Angus, Mark
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Austin, Jack
Axworthy, Lloyd, 1939-
Barber, Charles F., 1949-
Barrett, David, 1930- DNU
Bartlett, Michael
Beatty, Perrin, 1950-
Bennett, Keith
Bennett, William Richards, 1932- DNU
Berton, Pierre Francis deMarigny, 1920-
Bibb, Leon
Blatherwick, John
Broadbent, Ed, 1936-
Caldicott, Helen
Campagnolo, Iona Viviene, 1932-
Campbell, Gordon
Campbell, Kim, 1947-
Carney, Patricia, 1935-
Chretien, Jean, 1934-
Clark, Joe, 1939-
Collins, Mary, 1940-
Crispo, John H.G. (John Herbert Gillespie), 1933-
Crosbie, John, 1931-
Curtis, Hugh Austin, 1932-
Davis, Jack, 1916-1992
Dexter, Reva K.
Dosanjh, Ujjal, 1947-
Dueck, Peter A.
Dye, Kenneth M., 1916-
Dyer, Gwynne
Fotheringham, Allan Murray, 1932-
Fraser, John Allen, 1931-
Friedmann, Karl A. (Karl Anton)
Gabelmann, Colin Stuart, 1944-
Georgetti, Ken
Gibson, Gordon Fullerton, 1937-
Green, Jim
Gruntman, Art
Hansen, Rick, 1957-
Hanson, Lyall Franklin, 1929-
Harcourt, Michael Franklin, 1943-
Hatfield, Richard, 1931-1991
Heinrich, John Herbert, 1936-
Henry, Shirley
Hewitt, James, 1933-
Holmes, Tom
Howard, Frank
Jewett, Pauline, 1922-
Johnston, Donald J., 1936-
Johnston, John
Johnston, Rita Margaret, 1935-
Kaplan, Bob
Kelly, Colin
Kempf, Jack Joseph
Krantz, Gerry
Kube, Arthur A.
Lalonde, Marc, 1929-
Latta, Mike
Lawson, Edward M., 1929-
Lea, Graham Richard, 1934-
Lee, Art
Lester, Peter
Linden, Allen M., 1934-
Macdonald, Alexander Barrett, 1918-
Macdonald, Donald, 1952-
Macdonald, Flora Isabel, 1926-
Mair, Kenneth Rafe, 1931-
Manuel, George, 1921-
Matkin, James Grant, 1942-
Mazankowski, Don, 1935-
McAllister, Peter
McCarthy, Grace Mary, 1927-
McClelland, Robert Howard, 1933-
McDougall, Barbara
McGeer, Patrick Lucey, 1927-
McLeod, Doug
McMillan, Ian
McMillan, Tom
McMurphy, Elsie
McVeigh, Chuck
Mercier, Elmer
Mitchell, David Joseph, 1954-
Mitchell, Margaret
Mulroney, Brian, 1939-
Munro, Jack
Newman, Peter C., 1929-
Nichols, Marjorie, 1943-1991
Nielsen, James Arthur, 1938-
Nunziata, John
Outerbridge, Bill
Owen, Phillip
Owen, Stephen, 1948-
Parks, John
Pederson, George
Perrault, Ray, 1926-
Phillips, Arthur, 1930-
Phillips, Donald McGray, 1929-
Phillips, Ed
Pocklington, Peter
Pollen, Peter
Puil, George
Rankin, Harry, 1920-
Richardson, Miles
Richmond, Claude
Ritchie, William Samuel, 1927-
Robinson, Svend
Rogers, Stephen, 1942-
Rose, Mark, 1924-2008
Saywell, William
Schreck, David Donald, 1947-
Segarty, Terry
Shields, John
Shrum, Gordon Merritt, 1896-1985
Skalbania, Nelson
Skelly, Robert Evans, 1943-
Smallwood, Joan Kathleen, 1950-
Smith, Brian Ray Douglas, 1934-
Stewart, Bob
Strangway, David
Stupich, David Daniel, 1921-
Taylor, Carole
Trotter, Fred
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000
Turner, John Napier, 1929-
Vander Zalm, William N., 1934- DNU
Waddell, Ian G., 1942-
Walker, Michael A., 1945-
Waterland, Thomas Manville, 1933-
Watson, Paul
Watts, George
Webster, Jack, 1918-1999
Williams, Louis Allan, 1922-
Williams, Robert Arthur, 1933-
Wolfe, Evan Maurice, 1922-
Yorke, Bruce
Zimmerman, Adam

Jack Webster Productions

League of Nations Society in Canada. New Westminster Branch.

Minute book containing minutes of meetings of the executive and general membership of the New Westminster Branch of the League of Nations Society from its establishment in May 1939, through April 1942. The society members discussed Canadian foreign policy and international conditions.

League of Nations Society in Canada. New Westminster Branch

Letters to Lyall Newcomen Cooper

The file consists of letters to Lyall Newcomen Cooper encouraging him to retire on Vancouver Island. The letters are from George A. Walkem and "Stiffy" Fairhurst encouraging Cooper to retire to Vancouver Island from the Sudan and offering advice on social life, sport, and country properties; letters from Walkem to B.C. Agent General and head of the Canadian Pacific Railway in London asking the them to assist Cooper and outlining his wants and documents re Egyptian service.

Margaret McMicking personal papers

Series consists of scrapbooks of clippings; a postcard album; an autograph album; two notebooks kept in connection with National Home Reading Union; a housekeeping book containing recipes; music scores of H.M.S. Pinafore for various instruments; a sketch book; notebook of the Eurydice Art Club; three school notebooks belonging to Dorothy McMicking; letters; one valentine card; birthday and Christmas cards; miscellaneous papers and a family bible. Also includes an oversized commemorative certificate presented to McMicking by Belgium, 1919.

McMicking, Margaret (Leighton), 1848-1944

Scrapbook

Scrapbook of clippings highlighting career and social activities of Lieutenant-Governor Walter Nichol.

Nichol, Walter Cameron

Shamrock (Yacht)

Light hearted account of a boating-camping trip by 'Robbie' Roberts and friends from Kuper Island throughout the Gulf Islands aboard the Roberts family sailboat "Shamrock", August 14, 1904 to August 31, 1904.

Loaned for filming by the Chemainus Valley Historical Society, 1976.

Shamrock (Yacht)

The National Birthday Book

The item consists of "The National Birthday Book", a bound volume for recording birthdays of acquaintances. It was presented to George Henry Barnard of Victoria, in 1882 by his sister, Alice. There is a "character building" poem and reference to a famous individual on each page.

Walrondo (Yacht)

Album and journal of the voyages of Charles R. Gordon's private yacht "Walrondo" on her cruises in the Strait of Georgia and vicinity.

Loaned for microfilming on behalf of anonymous owner by Ann Rector, Vancouver, 1981.

Walrondo (Ship)