The fonds consists of records primarily relating to Rick and Frances (nee Gibson) Blake's school years and Rick Blake's involvement in school sports teams. Schools include Mount View, Mount Newton, Colquitz, James Island, Mount Douglas, Doncaster, and Cedar Hill. The fonds includes records relating to James Island, where Frances Blake's father Frank worked for 25 years, and a 1937 Mount View High School graduation diploma for her mother, Minnie Youell.
Blake, RickFonds consists of papers and reports relating to Dr. Lai's community work, especially his work relating to Chinese heritage and Chinatown. Fonds includes materials from his time as Chair and member of the Saanich Heritage Advisory and Archival Committee, and to the Saanich Heritage Awareness Program in particular. Topics include Chinese-Canadian history, Chinatown, and D'Arcy Island. Includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, photographs, film negatives, colour slides, and posters. Fonds includes material in Chinese and English.
Lai, David Chuen-YanCollection consists of books on British Columbia-History. Includes newspapers from Victoria, Seattle, Vancouver, and London (England) which are primarily special editions from the end of WWI and WWII, and from the City of Victoria Centennial in 1962. Other material includes audio recordings of the program "Ideas" (June 1996) re: Victoria in 1890. Includes photographs found inside some of the books.
Lowther, BruceFonds consists of correspondence, ephemera, reports and other textual records, publications and photographs relating to Thomas and Maude Hall, Stranton Lodge, Knockan Hill Park, and The Friends of Knockan Hill Park Society. The fonds is arranged into 8 series: Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Restoration File, Volunteer File, Saanich Heritage Foundation File, Publications, and Photographs. Fonds also includes a leather briefcase, a reproduction photo album, and a fabric sample.
Hall, Thomas and MaudeCollection consists of books written by McClung, as well as photographs, personal correspondence to McClung, and ephemera collected by family friends. The collection is arranged into 4 series: Books, Correspondence, Ephemera, and Photographs.
McClung, NellieCollection consists of material relating to Nellie McClung, collected by Mary Youson. Collection includes books by and about Nellie McClung; news clippings and articles; ephemera; talks and notes by Mary Youson and others; and correspondence.
Youson, Mary ElizabethFonds consists of records relating to the Climatological Station at Victoria-Tillicum and weather observation in general, and includes climatological station registers and temperature graphs, memos and other textual records, ephemera, news clippings, research notes, sketches, reports, books, manuals, and reference material. Fonds is arranged into 8 series: Climatological Data, Correspondence, Ephemera, News Clippings, Research Notes, Reports, Published Material, and Artifacts.
Climatological Station (Tillicum)Fonds consists of records relating to Mount View High School and includes class photographs and yearbooks. Yearbooks include 1942-1944, 1968, and commemorative edition 1932-1974.
Sherring, EileenCollection consists of a dictionary belonging to Reeve Arthur J. Ash; and photographs of workers pouring concrete median barriers for the Pat Bay Highway, 1971.
Scott, PeterFonds 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.
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