Series consists of subject files of the ACP relating to its founding, finances, organizations, government departments, persons, topics, press releases and IPA administrative, policy, research and service functions.

Included are correspondence and memoranda, reports and briefs, newsletters, articles, news clippings, press releases, minutes, budgets, grant applications and financial statements, survey responses, catalogues and photographs.

Series consists of Bennett's subject files generated after he left the Premier's Office. Activities documented include Bennett's role as Leader of the Opposition from 1972-1973, his activities as a prominent Social Credit Party member and his family's life. Included are post-election and general correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, cartoons, speeches, transcripts, file notes, press releases, printed material, memoranda, itineraries, statements, receipts, programs, annual reports, notes, pamphlets, announcements, invitations, a map, newsletters, an insurance policy, balance sheets, receipts, a sign and petitions. Files are arranged alphabetically for each year.

Series consists of the official files of the Premier's Office opened in 1952. Included are correspondence with the Social Credit constituency associations and elected Social Credit and C.C.F. Members (years are cumulated), file notes, statistics, financial statements and speeches.

Series consists of records relating to the operation of three projects initiated by the IPA: Canadabooks, Canadian Basic Books and Canadian Book Information Centre. The records of the overseeing body, Canadian Publishers Project Co-ordinating Committee, are absent. Included are correspondence, legal documents, minutes, notes, catalogues, questionnaires, audit statements, budgets and reports.

Series consists of grant applications to the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council by the ACP and its affiliates for the years 1979-1981 and 1983, and of ACP audited financial statements for the years 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1981.

Included are budgets, financial statements, annual and semi-annual reports, correspondence and proposals for the ACP, the BC, Alberta and Atlantic publishers, the LPG and the projects Canadabooks and Canadian Book Information Centre projects. The files have been maintained in their original alphabetized order.

Miscellaneous audited IPA/ACP Financial Statements are also found in the series.

Series consists of records documenting the ACP's relationship with the Book and Periodical Development Council and as a member of three committees within it. Included are minutes and papers of the Council and General meetings from 1978; the 1978 Book and Periodical Development Council bylaws, memos, reports, briefs and correspondence relating to the first two years of the Council's existence; the results of a 1978 election survey on publishing policies of the three federal political parties and minutes and papers of the Freedom of Information Committee, the Task Force on Library Information and the Distribution Task Force.

Series consists of records relating to George Halpern's emigration to Canada, and his scientific, business and community activities.

Series consists of records relating to the development, administration, organization and operation of the Canadian Studies Program and its successor, the Centre for Canadian Studies. Series includes Steering Committee agendas, minutes and papers; reports; proposals; and other documents.

Series consists of records relating to the meetings and deliberations of the Centre's committees, and university committees in which the Centre participated. Records include meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers.

Series consists of records relating to publicizing the course offerings of the Centre for Canadian Studies. Records include posters, newsletters, brochures and other documents.

Series consists of photographs produced throughout Patrick McTaggart-Cowan's personal and professional life. Includes photographs of family, school days, portraits, Gander airport, conferences, SFU, and others.

Series comprises records relating to McTaggart-Cowan's work as Head of the Task Force Operation Oil, established by the Minister of Transport in February 1970.

On February 4, 1970 the Liberian tanker the Arrow was wrecked on Cerberus Rock in Chedabucto Bay, off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The tanker was bound from Venezuela carrying a cargo of 108,000 barrels of Bunker C fuel oil for Imperial Oil Limited. It is estimated that some two-thirds of the cargo was released into the Bay, polluting 190 miles of the Bay's 375-mile shoreline. The wreck in Chedabucto Bay was the first major spill of heavy Bunker C oil in frigid waters and presented problems for clean-up which were without precedent.

Initial clean-up efforts were directed by James Hornsby of Imperial Oil; he was replaced on February 13. On February 20, the Minster of Tranport appointed a three-man Task Force dubbed “Operation Oil,” with McTaggart-Cowan as the Head, assisted by Dr. H. Sheffer of the Defense Research Board of Canada (Deputy Head), and Capt. M. A. Martin of Maritime Command. The mandate of the Task Force was to minimize damage to the economy and ecology of the region, to gain a knowledge and understanding of oil spills in order to contend with similar incidents in the future, and to make recommendations for minimizing occurrences of oil spills and for providing immediate response and control. In overseeing the clean-up, the Task Force established various headquarters and field units, with much of the on-site capability being provided by the Canadian Armed Forces. Operation Oil reported to the Minister on September 1, 1970 (Final Report, volumes I - III). Clean-up efforts continued over the next two years, and the Task Force delivered the fourth and last volume of its Final Report on May 23, 1972.

Records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, photographs, diaries, reports and publications (including the Final Report of the Task Force), press releases and press clippings, telegrams, proposals, contracts, plans and drawings, claims sheets and invoices.

Note that the records in this series were made or received by McTaggart-Cowan in his official capacity as Head of the Task Force, an agency of the federal government. Accordingly, in terms of provenance these are public records of Ministry of Transport. The records remained, however, in the physical custody of McTaggart-Cowan and were transferred to the Archives along with his private papers.

Note that associated records may also be held by the federal government department Environment Canada. According to a letter to McTaggart-Cowan dated July 6, 1971 (see file F-65-9-1-19), "much of the reconnaissance data obtained at Chedabucto Bay on ‘Operation Oil' has been placed on microfilm and is stored at the Canadian Oceanographic Data Centre."

Series consists of transcripts and audio recordings arising from Gillian Stainsby's thesis. Note that all item-level Scope and content descriptions are transcriptions from the cassette cover of Stainsby's original recordings.

Series consists of transcripts of the interviews.

Series consists of records made or received by the Women's Centre in its capacity as a member of the British Columbia Federation of Women (BCFW). The SFU Women's Centre was an affiliate member of the BCFW in the Lower Mainland Region. As the BCFW disbanded in 1989, it made a donation to the SFU Women's Centre Development Fund of $1600. This money along with other private donations to the Women's Centre is intended to support work which is feminist and activist in nature but which falls outside the scope of the Centre's usual operations. The Women's Centre Development fund is not used for ongoing operating expenses of the Women's Centre.

Activities documented in this series include annual BCFW conventions; meetings of the Coordinating Collective, the Lower Mainland Region, and the finance committee; correspondence with various action committees (including the Structure Committee, Rights of Lesbians Committee, Women and Prisons Committee, Women's Heath Committee, Women Against Violence Against Women Committee, and Human Rights Committee); budget planning, grant applications, and accounts management; administration of membership applications, renewals and correspondence; and publications and public relations. Records consist of constitution and policy handbook; correspondence; agendas, minutes and meeting support papers; reports and proposals; financial statements, ledgers and daybooks; membership lists and records; and BCFW newsletters, publications and brochures.

Note that some of these records were information copies received by the Women's Centre as an affiliate member of the BCFW; others, however, appear to be the original records of the BCFW itself (e.g. some of the financial and membership records).

Series consists of records relating to the development and administration of the Centre for North American Business Studies at Harbour Centre; the Asia Pacific Business Institute, a joint venture between UBC, SFU and UVic; and the Enterprise Centre. Activities and topics documented include the Dean's correspondence with board members and business partners; proposals and funding applications; development of seminars and workshops; budget planning; staffing requirements; and program evaluations. Also included are records related to the Student Entrepreneur program and Starting Right the First Time program. Records include correspondence, working papers, reports, agendas and minutes, budget reports and financial statements, annual reports, legal contracts, newspaper clippings, publications, and photographs.

Series consists of undergraduate course outlines and booklets.

Records relating to the functions of the Dean as the chief officer of the Faculty. Activities and topics documented include, but are not limited to, the hiring of faculty and staff; curriculum development and delivery; university and faculty organization; policies and procedures; budgetary decisions; equipment and space allocation; and student matters such as grading policies. Series consists primarily of correspondence, but includes some reports, proposals and other types of documents.

Series consists of records relating to the development of courses in the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, the operation of undergraduate and graduate programs, and the awarding of degrees. Series includes committee agendas and minutes, program proposals, course descriptions, and other documents.

Series consists of correspondence received and sent by the Department Chair. It includes memoranda and reports.

Series consists of materials relating to external and faculty reviews of the Department. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

Series consists of publications of the Department, including course offerings booklets.

Series consists of materials relating to professional associations to which members of the Department belonged. It includes correspondence and memoranda.

Series consists of materials related to conferences hosted by the Department or attended by faculty members. It includes booklets, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports.

This set of departmental minutes from 1967-1969 was donated to the Archives by professor and former chair Edgar F. Harden. The minutes document the first democratic procedure for electing a departmental chair at SFU.

Series consists of materials relating to an external review of the Department in 1974. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

Series consists of the chronologically arranged correspondence of the Vice-President, Administration.

Series consists of records relating to the Dean's correspondence with, and participation on, departmental and university-wide committees. For the complete list of committees, see the sub-series list below. Records include correspondence and working papers, agendas, minutes, and reports.

Series consists of records relating to the operation of this predecessor of the TSSU. Activities documented include the establishment of the GSU, negotiation of responsibility for graduate matters with Simon Fraser Student Society, organizing meetings, membership expansion, researching current graduate conditions and proposing improvements through reports and lobbying, participation in university committees, liaison with other university graduate student organizations, and publicizing efforts through newsletters. Records include GSU statutes, policies and history; extensive correspondence including legal advice on the GSU's status; meeting notices, agendas, notes, and accounts; membership and election material; reference and research sources; reports and papers (e.g. on the need for a teaching assistants' union); and newsletters.

Series consists of records relating to the formation, chartering, growth, and official recognition of AUCE Local 6/TSSU. Activities documented include the charter application; early organizing, steering, executive and membership committee meetings; the identification, lobbying, and processing of new bargaining unit members; training departmental representatives; publicizing union activities; informing departments of the implications of unionization; researching and preparing submissions for Labour Relations Board Certification hearings; attending and recording LRB hearings; and pursuing members' grievances through LRB hearings. Records include the AUCE 6 charter and by-laws; meeting agendas and minutes; membership publicity and correspondence (including correspondence with TSSU opponents); instructional materials; TSSU publications, including AUCE and TSSU: memoirs of a feminist union 1972-1993; anti-TSSU publicity and petitions; LRB certification drafts and submissions; LRB hearing transcripts (re Labour Code sections 42 [bargaining unit], 51 [certification] and 52 [decertification]) and related correspondence; and LRB grievance submissions, evidence and correspondence.