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Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books Sub-series
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General records

Sub-series consists of records relating to articles and short stories written by Trower, both published and unpublished. Record types include drafts, outlines, notes, proposals, project lists, notes, and research and reference material. Includes articles and short stories published in the periodicals B.C. Studies, Coast News, En Route, Equity, Lifestyle, Peninsula Voice, Vancouver Magazine, Western Living, and Whistle Punk.

Photographs

This sub-series is comprised of two photographs relating to the Canadian Football League.

Association of Canadians of Russian Descent (ACRD)

This sub-series contains records of the Association of Canadians of Russian Descent dating between 1960 and 2010. These records include minutes of meetings, correspondence, publications, photographs, membership lists, programs, administrative records, financial records, songs text, music, notes, newspaper clippings, ephemera, Iskra issues, essays and photographs. Because of the pro-Russian attitude of this organization came under scrutiny of both Canadian and US security branches. Part of the records relates to the organization and celebration of the 70th jubilee celebration of Doukhobor arrival in Canada and Russian-Canandian Festival of 1987.
Records in both Russian and English, some include translations, handwritten and typed.

Correspondence with agents

This sub-series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence between June Skinner and agents; both literary agents and her Hollywood agent. Content mostly relates to June's attempts at getting novels published, rejection notices, and details about her books that were being published.

Skinner, June Margaret

Works authored by McWhinney

This series consists of 3 sub-series: Works authored by McWhinney (1956-2013); Works about McWhinney (1963-2012); Works edited or reviewed by McWhinney (1974-2015)

General correspondence of others

Sub-series consists of correspondence of Blaser’s nephew Mark Samac to his mother, Hope Blaser Samac, correspondence of Jonathan Williams, and letter of Robert Duncan to Jack Spicer.

Poetry

Sub-series consists of letters, schedules and itineraries for reading engagements, newspaper clippings on Pierre Coupey, research materials, drafts of poetic works by Coupey, annotations from Bill Schermbrucker on a first draft for the poem, “Moon Bay,” a draft copy of “The Alphabet of Blood” as well as a published photocopy of the poem. Also included are correspondence and publishing information from Gary Geddes, a letter from Coach House Press (bp Nichol and Michael Ondaatje), an award certificate from The Malahat Review (circa 1980s), poetic materials for the “Interventing the Text: A Symposium, 1991,” as well as drafts and poems from Coupey’s formative years as a youth, including a significant letter from 1957 from Canadian poet Louis Dudek to Coupey and a newspaper clipping about Dudek. This photocopy of this seminal letter from Dudek fuelled Coupey’s life-long passion as a poet. A few of the early poems from this sub-series are included in Coupey’s publication Bring Forth the Cowards. Also included in this sub-series are drafts and working copies of poems for “Notes Towards a Requiem,” 1997 and Cutting Out The Tongue: Selected Poems: 1962-1997 by Coupey.

"The Given" records

Sub-series consists of drafts, permissions forms, notes, articles, correspondence, and other related records pertaining to Marlatt's prose poem "The Given," published in 2008.

Sons of Freedom related documents

This sub-series consists of various documents that relate to the Sons of Freedom, including protests, imprisonment, legal matters, children’s detention, conflict with the government officials and interactions with the CCBRD. The documents include: correspondence, notes, writings, statements, petitions, appeals, lists, protocols, declarations, resolutions, court proceedings, clippings, and reports.

General

The sub-series contains correspondence with the Authors Guild (including bulletins), Canada Council, fans, Skinner's family, the Public Lending Right Commission, and the author Shirley Suttles.

Skinner, June Margaret

Incoming correspondence

File consists of correspondence received by Gladys Hindmarch relating to personal and professional matters, as well as a small number of letters addressed to people other than Hindmarch. Correspondents include Robin Blaser, George Bowering, Neap Hoover, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah, among others.

General records

Sub-series consists of records relating to Wah's various writings and publications, such as writing drafts, manuscript pages, notes, correspondence, and copies of writings in their published form. Includes records relating to Wah's poetry, essays, reviews, as well as writings that are part of collaborative artistic projects. Several files contain records relating to the books "Music at the Heart of Thinking," published by Red Deer College Press in 1987, and "is a door," published by Talonbooks in 2010.

Correspondence of Jack Spicer

Sub-series consists of correspondence of poet Jack Spicer who was a close friend of Blaser. Records include handwritten and typed correspondence to and from Jack Spicer.

Correspondence with Al Hart

Sub-series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence between Skinner and Al Hart. Hart was first Skinner's editor at various publishers and later he was her literary agent.

Skinner, June Margaret

Literary works by other authors

Sub-series consists of correspondence from writers and poets, postcards, invitations, greeting cards, exhibition broadsides, newspaper clippings, poems, photographs, literary/poetry publications, chapbooks & zines, an audio tape consisting of five poems, ephemera, drafts & manuscripts, a McLean’s article featuring BC writers and poets, June 1973, and a series of postcards created by Coach House Press. Also included in the sub-series are correspondence and sample pages for One More Once: For Pierre Coupey’s 70th, a festschrift to honor Pierre Coupey’s dedication to art and literature on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2012.

Coupey corresponded with a variety of writers and poets with whom he was friends. Some of the writers and poets featured in this sub-series include Peter Culley, Barry McKinnon, Zonko (Bill Little), Rick Jones, Brian Fawcett, Steve Cummings, Warren Stevensen, John Newlove, bp Nichol, Henri Chopin, Duncan McNaughton, Rick Kitaeff, Patrick Lane, Sharon Thesen, George Stanley, Bill Schermbrucker, Michael Ondaatje, Esther Mills, John Pass, Audrey Thomas, Margo Foote, Fielding Dawson, Colin Browne, Louis Dudek, Meredith Quartermain, Lenore Kandel, Roy Kiyooka, Jamie Reid, Ryan Knighton, Daphne Marlatt, David Phillips, Victoria Walker and George Bowering, among others.

General writings and related records

Sub-series consists of records relating to Gladys Maria Hindmarch's general writing and editorial activities, including those relating to her books "Sketches" (1970), "A Birth Account" (1976), "The Peter Stories" (1976), as well as to her works of short prose. Also includes records relating to her editorial work for a proposed women's magazine with the working title "Canadian Women’s Monthly." Record types in this series include drafts, notes, research records, and correspondence.

Chronological files

Sub-series consists of draft manuscripts of published and unpublished prose arranged into files by Trower according to year of creation. Includes drafts of fictional and non-fictional articles and short stories, some of which were published in the Coast News, Vancouver Magazine, Raincoast Chronicles, B.C. Logging, Business Logger, West Coast Logger, and Western Living. Also includes drafts of material subsequently included in Trower’s novels "Grogan’s Cafe," "Dead Man’s Ticket," and "The Judas Hills." Drafts often contain notes written by Trower at a later date in order to provide further information concerning the piece’s evolution and publication, or lack of publication.

Journalism and broadcasting records

Sub-series contains newspaper clippings, memos, photographs, correspondence, notebooks and contracts relating to Doris French Shackleton’s work as a radio commentator and freelance journalist. Sub-series also includes her letters to the editor and comments on the work of other journalists.

Shackleton, Doris French

Notes and drafts

Sub-series consists of handwritten and typewritten notes and drafts for poetry, essays, film reviews and other writing.

Forestry and pulp industry

In the early 1990, McCrory began travelling across Canada in a van and began creating a grassroot network of groups working on forest issues. These travels resulted in documenting of pulp and paper industry’s plans to increase the amount of logging taking place in Canada. This sub-series contains documents that resulted from the travel as well as other documents created and collected subsequently that contain records on logging practices and policies, reports on sensitive forest ecosystems and wildlife inhabiting these ecosystems across Canada, reports of pollution and specific pollutants created by pulp and paper industry, as well as general and in-depth forestry practices. The records contain information on softwood lumber companies, quotas and trade legislation and practices. In addition, this sub-series contains information, reports, data and lists related to corporations involved in forestry industry and various forestry regulation and agreements. The records were created and collected by VWS, other environmental activist organizations, involved government agencies, and corporations. The sub-series contains reports, articles, policies, clippings, correspondence, newsletters, brochures, data sheets, maps, corporate details and other material.
This sub-series is divided into sub-sub-series based on geographic location of the forestry and pulp mills: Canada, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, World.

Records relating to unpublished stories

Sub-series consists of records relating to Flood’s unpublished work. Records include drafts, correspondence, and handwritten manuscripts of stories, essays and poetry.

Conventions

This sub-series consists of the USCC annual convention delegate package records that include conventions agendas, procedures, meeting minutes, memorandums, correspondence, reports, trustee reports, participant lists, financial statements, annual reports and report from other Doukhobor organizations relating to schools, choirs, women’ clubs, youth organizations, Iskra publication, etc. These records are rare as convention packages were strictly issued in small numbers for the use of delegates only. Records are mostly in English and some in Russian.

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