The collection consists of copies and a small number of photographs of political cartoons dealing with Canadian and international events that took place from 1759 to 2006. Canadian topics include conscription, immigration, French-language rights, native self-government, imperialism, nationalism, labour conditions, women’s suffrage, and prohibition. The cartoons deal with, among many other topics, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the French conquest of Algeria, the Cold War, the war in Vietnam, and World Wars I and II. Publication dates of the newspapers and magazines from which the collection was copied range from 1846 to 2006. Dates of the events covered by the cartoons range from the mid-eighteenth century to 2006.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 002. Photograph: W.M. Douglas collection: truck loaded with barrels, Stan Douglas.
p. 002. Photograph: W.M. Douglas collection: man standing in front of truck, Stan Douglas.
p. 004. Photograph: W.M. Douglas collection: three trucks parked in front of building, Stan Douglas.
p. 004. Photograph: W.M. Douglas collection: two men standing in front of Island Freight Service truck and trailer, Stan Douglas.
p. 006. Photograph: "Rockwood" on the Gorge - the home of Joseph Loewen and family, British Columbia Archives - reference number D-00329.
p. 008. Photograph: Lucky Lager Brewery: corner of Discovery and Government Streets, ([ca. early 1960s]), Walter Spershott.
p. 009. Photograph: John Vogel, Brewer, (1860), British Columbia Archives - reference number 1-66345.
p. 010. Photograph: James and Elizabeth Bland, Halfway House Brewery, Esquimalt BC, ([185-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-01333.
p. 012. Photograph: Jacob Hasenfratz and family, 600 Belton Ave. Victoria West, (1893), British Columbia Archives - reference number B-03928.
p. 014. Photograph: The Erb Residence - 283 Douglas Street, British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05388.
p. 016. Photograph: Francis Laumeister, ([1859]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-02269.
p. 017. Photograph: Charles Horth, ([ca. 1880]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-01344.
p. 018. Photograph: Harry and Minnie Maynard, Esquimalt Archives.
p. 019. Photograph: Harry and Minnie Maynard and family, source unknown.
p. 021. Photograph: Harry and Minnie Maynard and family, Esquimalt Archives.
p. 022. Photograph: Conrad Reifel and family, home on Machleary St., source unknown.
p. 024. Document: Victoria-Phoenix Brewing Company invoice, (December 17, 1903), source unknown.
p. 025. Photograph: Victoria-Phoenix / Lucky Lager Brewery, Victoria BC, source unknown.
p. 027. Photograph: Hermann Erb as a young man, British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05387.
p. 029. Photograph: Victoria Brewing Co., Government Street, Victoria BC, ([189-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number D-05450.
p. 030. Photograph: Arthur Keast, British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05390.
p. 032. Drawing: Silver Spring Brewery drawing, source unknown.
p. 033. Photograph: Bavaria Brewery, 840 Fort Street, Victoria BC, ([187-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number B-00511.
p. 034. Photograph: Silver Spring Brewery, Victoria BC, source unknown.
p. 036. Advertisement: Victoria Brewing and Ice Company ad, (January 1, 1893), source unknown.
p. 037. Advertisement: Bohemian Lager advertisement, source unknown.
p. 038. Photograph: Union Brewing Company horse team, source unknown.
p. 040. Photograph: Empire Brewery, Nanaimo BC, Nanaimo Museum - reference number I2-79.
p. 040. Photograph: Northwest Brewing Co. Ltd. truck, source unknown.
p. 042. Photograph: Union Brewery horse teamsPh, source unknown.
p. 042. Photograph: Union Brewery Nanaimo: office (south side of street) and Franklyn house in background, source unknown.
p. 044. Photograph: Union Brewery, Nanaimo BC, ([ca. 1898]), British Columbia Archives - reference number D-09565.
p. 046. Photograph: Slab wagon, Union Brewery, Nanaimo BC - James Stove Jr., driver, source unknown.
p. 048. Photograph: Union Brewery Nanaimo: office (south side of street) and Franklyn house in background, source unknown.
p. 050. Photograph: Union Brewing Company, Nanaimo BC, source unknown.
p. 052. Photograph: The New Lansdowne Brewery, source unknown.
p. 052. Photograph: Union Brewing Company, Nanaimo BC, source unknown.
p. 054. Postcard: Red Lion Brewery site, Stovely near Nanaimo, ([ca. 1910]), Bill Wilson.
p. 055. Photograph: Pilsener Brewing Company, Cumberland BC, source unknown.
p. 056. Photograph: Pilsener Brewing Company, Cumberland BC, source unknown.
p. 057. Photograph: Lansdowne Brewery, Nanaimo BC, source unknown.
p. 058. Photograph: City Brewery, Victoria BC, source unknown.
p. 059. Photograph: Capilano Brewing Co. - Meyer-Dunmore bottle washer, ([ca. 1938]), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 15735.
p. 061. Photograph: Staff of Vancouver Breweries Ltd., (April 26, 1935), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 11575.
p. 063. Photograph: Bottling plant, Vancouver Breweries Ltd., (April 26, 1935), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 11571.
p. 065. Photograph: Sick's Capilano Brewery, (March 8, 1953), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 82123A.
p. 067. Photograph: Sick's Capilano Brewery: construction, (June 6, 1952), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 81875.
p. 069. Photograph: Sick's Capilano Brewery: construction, (June 9, 1952), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 81875A.
p. 071. Photograph: Capilano Brewing Co. Ltd. - conditioning tanks, ([ca. 1935]), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 70891.
p. 073. Photograph: Vancouver Breweries Ltd. - open fermenters, ([ca. 1951]), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 29078.
p. 075. Photograph: Vancouver Breweries Ltd., (April 5, 1935), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 10975.
p. 077. Photograph: Capilano Brewing Company - fermenting tanks, ([ca. 1945]), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 26624.
p. 079. Photograph: Columbia Brewery, Vancouver BC, (1892), City of Vancouver Archives - reference number BU, P.127 N.88.
p. 081. Photograph: Cedar Cottage Brewery building with John Benson, ([ca. August 1944]), City of Vancouver Archives - reference number DIST. P.68, N.62.
p. 083. Photograph: Sick's Capilano Brewery, Burrard St. Vancouver BC, ([195-]), source unknown.
p. 084. Photograph: Brewery workers [Vancouver BC?], ([1926]), Hannay's Studio Portrait.
p. 086. Photograph: Brewery strike 1951, Local 300, (October 28, 1951), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 78741.
p. 088. Photograph: Red Cross Brewery, ([ca. 1900]), Chilliwack Museum and Archives - reference number 2009.043.004.
p. 089. Photograph: Sweeney's Victoria Mill at Lime Bay, then known as Canadian Western Cooperage, with Silver Spring Brewery at far right, (1925), City of Victoria Archives - reference number Sweeney, M. Leo #38.
p. 091. Photograph: Victoria Brewing Co. / Labatt's Brewery, Victoria, ([ca. early 1980s]), source unknown.
p. 092. Photograph: Victoria Brewery [original structure on Douglas and Government], source unknown.
p. 093. Photograph: First delivery by Silver Spring Brewery Limited, Victoria, (1913), British Columbia Archives - reference number D-07145.
p. 095. Photograph: Chip casks, chip cellar - Victoria-Phoenix Brewery, ([192-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05393.
p. 097. Photograph: Bavaria Brewery, 840 Fort Street, Victoria BC, ([187-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number B-00511.
p. 099. Photograph: Albion Iron Works with Victoria Brewery in background, ([189-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-06221.
p. 101. News clipping: Veteran Brewery Tumbles [Silver Spring / Tate's Brewery / Lucky Lager], (November 15, 1961), source unknown.
p. 102. Photograph: Creston Brewery, (1958), British Columbia Archives - reference number I-27297.
p. 103. Calendar: Elkhorn Brewing Company calendar, Jim McIndoe.
p. 104. Photograph: [Unidentified group at table], source unknown.
p. 105. Photograph: Preparing Yeast, L. Freno [Nelson BC], Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery - reference number 88.18.29.
p. 106. Photograph: Mash tub (A. Jepson) [Nelson, BC], Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery - reference number 88.18.16.
p. 107. Photograph: [Unidentified bottling plant with brewery workers], source unknown.
p. 108. Photograph: Bottling plant, Vancouver Breweries Ltd., (April 26, 1935), Vancouver Public Library - reference number 11571.
p. 109. Photograph: Adding hops to kettle, T. Magio [Nelson, BC], Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery - reference number 88.18.18.
p. 110. Photograph: Bottling plant [Vancouver Breweries Ltd.?], source unknown.
p. 111. Photograph: The Nelson Brewery office, and the Canadian Pacific Railway telegraph office, ([1899]), British Columbia Archives - reference number B-03174.
p. 112. Photograph: [Worker with brew kettle, unidentified brewery], source unknown.
p. 113. Photograph: [Unidentified bottling plant with brewery worker], source unknown.
p. 114. Photograph: Oriental Hotel, Nanaimo BC, ([189-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-06367.
p. 115. Photograph: Occidental Hotel [Victoria, BC], ([ca. 1866]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-02706.
p. 116. Photograph: [Unidentified saloon interior, Victoria, BC?], source unknown.
p. 117. Photograph: [Unidentified saloon interior], source unknown.
p. 118. Photograph: [Unidentified saloon interior], source unknown.
p. 119. Photograph: [Lion Brewery, Victoria BC], source unknown.

File contains the following images. Photo / slide numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 01. Photograph: Joseph L. Loewen, ([ca. 1875]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-04404.
p. 02. Photograph: Harry Walther, of the Bavaria Brewery on Fort Street in the 1870's, ([187-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number I-77913.
p. 03. Photograph: John Vogel, Brewer, (1860), British Columbia Archives - reference number 1-66345.
p. 04. Photograph: Ralph Borthwick, of the Albion Iron Works, (1860), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05253.
p. 05-06. Photograph: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Elliott, ([ca. 1864]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-06733.
p. 07-08. Photograph: [Edward Quennell?], Nanaimo Museum.
p. 09-10. Photograph: Thomas Watson Carter, ([ca. 1865]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-01148.
p. 11-12. Photograph: Charles Gowen, ([ca. 187-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number F-05110.
p. 13-14. Photograph: Charles Gowen - brewer, ([ca. 1870]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05389.
p. 15. Photograph: [Residence], source unknown.
p. 16. Photograph: [Residence], source unknown.
p. 17-20. Photograph: Three men at brewing kettle, ([ca. 1920]), source unknown.
p. 21. Photograph: Ludwig Emil Erb, L. Loewen's partner, ([ca. 1860]), British Columbia Archives - reference number A-01275.
p. 22. Photograph: Doris Clark and Walter Spershott inspecting hops, Walter Spershott.
p. 23. Photograph: Walter Spershott, Walter Spershott.
p. 24. Photograph: William (Bill) Hill, ([ca. early 1950s]), Walter Spershott.
p. 25. Photograph: Doris Clark and Walter Spershott at the grant checking the clarity of the wort via the glass tube, Walter Spershott.
p. 26. Photograph: Doris Clark at filling machine, bottling tank at left, Walter Spershott.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 01. Photograph: Dublin Gulch from the west, ([ca. 1905]), Trail Historical Society - reference number Cat. No. 0017.
p. 02. Photograph: Phoenix Brewery: Billy Biner with Betty, source unknown.
p. 03. Label: Phoenix Brewing Co. Biners Iron beer label, source unknown.
p. 04. Photograph: Buffalo Store, Moose Jaw, (December 28, 1888), Moose Jaw Public Library.
p. 05. Photograph: Charles Holten (Hultengren), source unknown.
p. 06. Photograph: Empire Brewery, Moosejaw SK, ([ca. 1884]), Moose Jaw Public Library.
p. 07. Photograph: Gus and Bill at Brewers' School, source unknown.
p. 08. Photograph: Gus and Bill at Brewers' School, source unknown.
p. 09. Photograph: Hattie and Betty [Biner], Phoenix BC, ([ca. 190-]), source unknown.
p. 10. Label: Hedley Brewing Co. Hedley Beer label, source unknown.
p. 11. Photograph: Hedley Brewery, ([early 1900s]), Hedley Museum - reference number P2636.
p. 12. Photograph: Kootenay Breweries Ltd., Nelson BC, source unknown.
p. 13. Photograph: Konrad Warecka, source unknown.
p. 14. Photograph: Northern Brewing, Atlin BC, Konrad Wawrecka brewmaster, (1906), source unknown.
p. 15. Photograph: Four men and two women sitting at a table, Atlin Brewery, source unknown.
p. 16. Portrait: [Unidentified man: portrait], source unknown.
p. 17. Photograph: Red Cross Brewery, ([ca. 1900]), Chilliwack Museum and Archives - reference number 2009.043.004.
p. 18. Postcard: Red Lion Brewery site, Stovely near Nanaimo, ([ca. 1910]), Bill Wilson.
p. 19. Photograph: Vernon Spring Brewery, ([ca. 1895]), Vernon Museum - reference number 3190.
p. 20. Photograph: Vernon Brewery building, horse and buggy, Vernon Museum - reference number 10440.
p. 21. Photograph: [Nicholas] Klausman and truck in front of Vernon Brewery, Vernon Museum - reference number 10441.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 1. Postcard: Met some old friends here in Vancouver BC Canada, source unknown.
p. 2. Photograph: Arthur Keast, British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05390.
p. 3. Advertisement: Encourage Home Industry: Mahrer and Keddy Nanaimo Brewery ad, source unknown.
p. 4. Postcard: Ain't it hell to die of thirst just 'cause I never learned to swim, source unknown.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 1. Photograph: Empire Brewery, Moosejaw SK, ([ca. 1884]), Moose Jaw Public Library.
p. 2. Photograph: Konrad Warecka, source unknown.
p. 3. Photograph: Northern Brewing, Atlin BC, Konrad Wawrecka brewmaster, (1906), source unknown.
p. 4. Photograph: Four men and two women sitting at a table, Atlin Brewery, ([190-]), source unknown.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 1. Photograph: Drinking beer Elkhorn Brewery, (1899), Greenwood Museum - reference number P01094.
p. 4. Photograph: Elkhorn Brewery, ([ca. 1890s]), Greenwood Museum - reference number P01097.

Fonds consists of records reflecting Hoffer`s bookselling and publishing activities during the 1980s. Records include correspondence, fiscal files, client files, journals, book catalogues, galleys, proofsheets, critical pieces, articles, and review. The fonds is composed of the following series: Series 1. Correspondence, Series 2. Publication files, Series 3. Business files, Series 4, Miscellaneous.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 1. Photograph: Phoenix Brewery, (1933), Boundary Museum and Archives - reference number 1991_055_008_02.
p. 2. Photograph: Phoenix Brewery, Phoenix BC, UBC Okanagan Library Special Collections and Archives - reference number [Doug Cox photo collection?].

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 1. Photograph: Columbia Brewery, Grand Forks BC - man with horse, Boundary Museum and Archives - reference number BM 996.032.013.
p. 2. Photograph: Columbia Brewery, Grand Forks BC - construction, (1904), Boundary Museum and Archives - reference number BM 996.032.001.
p. 4. Photograph: Columbia Brewery, Grand Forks BC, ([190-]), Boundary Museum and Archives - reference number 1996_032_002.
p. 5. Photograph: Columbia Brewery, Grand Forks BC, ([190-]), Boundary Museum and Archives - reference number BM 996.032.003.

File contains the following images. Page numbers indicate the page number in the consolidated pdf file. Original source of image is indicated where known.

p. 01. Photograph: [Woman with brewery in background - possibly Pilsener Brewing Co], source unknown.
p. 01. Photograph: Victoria: Yates Street looking west from Government Street, ([190-]), City of Victoria Archives - reference number Victoria: Streets - Yates #16.
p. 03. Photograph: [Unidentified woman and child], source unknown.
p. 03. Photograph: [Group at table in garden], source unknown.
p. 06. Photograph: [Unidentified stock yards 3], source unknown.
p. 07. Photograph: [Group at table in garden - brewers, Vancouver Island], source unknown.
p. 09. Photograph: [Unidentified stock yards 2], source unknown.
p. 11. Photograph: [Unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 13. Photograph: [Interior, unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 15. Photograph: Chip casks, chip cellar - Victoria-Phoenix Brewery, ([192-]), British Columbia Archives - reference number G-05393.
p. 15. Photograph: [Unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 17. Photograph: [Interior, unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 17. Photograph: [Unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 19. Photograph: [Interior, unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 19. Photograph: [Residence], source unknown.
p. 21. Photograph: [Unidentified interior], ([190-]), City of Victoria Archives - reference number Victoria: Streets - Yates #16.
p. 21. Photograph: [Unidentified person with building], source unknown.
p. 23. Photograph: Vancouver Cascades baseball team, source unknown.
p. 25. Photograph: [Unidentified man and woman], source unknown.
p. 25. Photograph: [Woman and man on steps of unidentified residence], source unknown.
p. 27. Photograph: [J.L. Massey], ([1954?]), Tony Archer Photographer - reference number 54-128F.
p. 27. Photograph: Victoria, looking south on Government Street, ([ca. 1900]), City of Victoria Archives - reference number Holdcroft, Gordon #27.

Fonds consists primarily of incoming correspondence addressed to Hawthornthwaite in his capacity as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from his constituents and other residents of British Columbia. The fonds contains a file consisting of legislative bills, resolutions, and acts tabled during Hawthornthwaite's tenure in the Provincial Parliament and other records that Hawthornthwaite made or received in the course of his service to the people of Nanaimo, as well as published records of the legislative assembly of British Columbia for the years 1909 and 1910. The fonds also contains: a certificate for Hawthornthwaite's share in the Western Socialist Publishing Company which published The Western Clarion, the newspaper of the Socialist Party of British Columbia; a postcard depicting Joseph Mairs, one of Hawthornthwaite's contemporaries in the Socialist Party of Canada; and a copy of a book titled The changing order: A study of democracy, given to Hawthornthwaite by his friend Harry Sibble.

The fonds consists mainly of textual materials, including correspondence and diaries. Also present are photo albums, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, and audio cassettes. The fonds has been arranged into the following eighteen series: Heron Rocks Friendship Centre Society (1968-2005), Heron Rocks Camping Co-op (1952-2007), Tomorrows Ancestors (1964-1985), China (1936-1996), Personal correspondence (1932-2005), Island’s Trust (1970-2002), Community activities and interests (1942-2004), Women’s issues (1938-2003), Writing, lecturing and broadcasting (1933-2000), Memoirs (1909-2000), Diaries (1929-1984), Notebooks (1930-1990), Address books (1970-1980), Correspondence to Harrison Brown (1935-1971), Correspondence from Harrison Brown (1931-1975), Photographs and slides (1909-2007), Audio cassettes (1974-1992), and Ephemera (1910-2003).

The fonds consists mainly of textual materials, including correspondence and diaries. Also present are photo albums, photographs and negatives. The fonds has been arranged into the following seven series: Personal correspondence (1934-1988), Diaries (1914-1973), Desktop diaries (1962-1973), Personal miscellaneous items (1937-1978), Photographs (1927-2002), and Outlawry of War (1921-1960).