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Archival description
Baran family collection
PR-204 · Fonds · 1917 - [196-]

Collection consists of income and property tax documents relating to John Baran's greenhouse operation, correspondence by Eleanor Baran relating to her employment, some ephemera, and a 75th anniversary Saanich pioneer pin. Collection includes photographs relating to the 1939 royal visit and the Baran greenhouses on Carey Road. Includes photocopied photographs of the Barans’ Tillicum Service Station.

Baran family
Walton E. Barnes fonds
PR-192 · Fonds · 1929-1989

Fonds consists of an album containing 22 photographs; news clippings; ephemera; and textual records. The album includes class photographs and enrollment lists for a number of Saanich schools; material relating to Cadboro Bay; and several photographs and news clipping relating to various Saanich subjects.

Barnes, Walton E.
Aitkens family fonds
PR-100 · Fonds · 1898-2010

Fonds consists of records relating to the Aitkens family of Gordon Head and includes receipts, correspondence, ephemera, a scrapbook, news clippings, publications, photographs, artifacts, and reference and other material. Ephemera includes brochures relating to various centennial celebrations including Canada's Confederation Train, 1967. Fonds includes letters to the Aitkens family from soldiers during the First World War.

Aitkens, Alice Maude
PR-110 · Fonds · 1971-1992, predominant 1979

Fonds consists of material accumulated by Audrey Johnson during her time on the Saanich Task Force on Recycling and includes minutes, correspondence, reports, publicity material, ephemera, news clippings, surveys, notes, research material and publications relating to recycling. The fonds is arranged into 7 series: Minutes and Administrative Records, Correspondence, Presentation to Council, Ephemera, Publicity Campaign – Disposable Diapers, Research Surveys and Notes, and Reference Reports and Publications.

Citizens’ Task Force on Recycling
PR-108 · Fonds · 1920-1988

Fonds consists of records originating from the CCF Hall on Douglas Street and relating to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (local, provincial, and federal groups) and to its successive form, the New Democratic Party (NDP). The fonds includes club constitution and by-laws, minutes, legal documents, financial records, correspondence, maps of polling areas, local charter certificates, event posters, news clippings and a scrapbook, organizational publications, photographs and sound & video recordings. The fonds is arranged into 12 series: Constitution & By-laws, Minutes, Legal Documents, Financial Records, Correspondence, Polling Areas, Certificates, Ephemera, News Clippings, Publications, Photographs, and Sound & Video Recordings.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Underwood family fonds
PR-286 · Fonds · 1918-1970 predominant

Fonds consists primarily of photographs relating to the Underwood family, 1920-1970. In addition to images documenting family activities and homes, fonds includes photographs taken both locally and overseas relating to the WWII service of brothers Leslie, Ernest, and Ghazi Underwood; letters written by Ernest Underwood from a POW camp; ephemera dating from the end of the war and relating to returning soldiers; and WWII news clippings. Fonds includes school year books, 1955-1985, from Royal Oak High School, Royal Oak Middle School, Claremont High School, and Mount Newton Junior High. Fonds includes scrapbook of items collected by Emily Underwood during WW2 while her husband Leslie, Sr. was overseas, newspapers and periodical issues.

Underwood family
Fred Webb fonds
PR-123 · Fonds · 1927-1983

Fonds consists of personal records relating to Fred Webb and Eleanor Baran Webb, as well as general collected material, and includes bank books, invoices and other financial records; education certificates; report cards, brochures, programmes and other ephemera; a journal; newspaper clippings; assorted books; and a photograph.

Webb, Frederick Arthur
Watson family fonds
PR-157 · Fonds · [ca. 1900-1983]

Fonds consists of records relating to the Watson family and includes photographs, negatives, ephemera, textual records and artifacts.

Watson family
Wooded Wonderland fonds
PR-172 · Fonds · [196-]

Fonds consists of correspondence, brochures and other ephemera, news clippings, scrapbooks, and photographic material relating to the Wooded Wonderland attraction that was located at Beaver Lake Park. Includes documents and other material relating to the establishment of the attraction, copyright & trademark, and marketing & promotion.

Wooded Wonderland
Ken Middleton Collection
PR-196 · Fonds · 1938-1986

Fonds consists of records collected by Ken Middleton during his employment with the District of Saanich and includes correspondence, reports, booklets, bylaws, photographs, 1 tax ledger, 1 bound copy of the Municipal Act, and a BC Centennial flag.

Middleton, Ken