Collection 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 records of the Burnside Lawn Bowling Club and Burnside Ladies Lawn Bowling Club, 1922-1990, including constitution, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership lists, records of competitions, photographs, plans and news clippings. The fonds includes minutes, accounts and rosters of the Greater Victoria District Lawn Bowling Association (established 1931).
Burnside Lawn Bowling ClubFonds consists of a large album containing photographs of parks, employees, and equipment, taken from 1958 to 1974. Fonds includes loose photograph relating to Beckwith Park, 1993.
Saanich Parks DepartmentCollection consists of correspondence, minutes, accounts and contracts relating to the Royal Oak War Agricultural Committee, later the Saanich Peninsula Farm Labour Committee. Collection includes four rubber stamps.
Royal Oak War Agricultural CommitteeFonds consists of 4 photographs of Saanich employees from 1903 to 1943, and 2 postcards from the 1910s. Includes 1 photocopy of a photograph.
Staples, CharlesFonds consists of correspondence, training notices, communication plans, annual reports, and other financial statements.
Saanich Civil Defence AssociationFonds consists of reports and plans compiled by Gilbert Laurenson for the Municipal Planner A.L. Parr and which represent his original plan for an Urban Containment Area for Saanich.
Laurenson, GilbertFonds consists of photographs of the Qu'Appelle Park summer park programme, 1953.
Baur, LouiseFonds 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 familyFonds 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