File consists of short poem hand-written "for Robin". This loose poem was found in a box labelled "Readings from the Labyrinth" from the original accession, probably put there by accident.

Series consists of records relating to non-fiction works written by Daphne Marlatt. Records include manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Series has been arranged into the following three sub-series: "Readings from the labyrinth" records (1981-1998), "At the river's mouth: writing migrations" records (2008), and Reviews of other writers (1975-2002).

Sub-series consists of records relating to Daphne Marlatt's course "Tradition and Modernity," taught at Capilano College and Simon Fraser University. Records include articles, lecture notes, correspondence, syllabi, and other course material.

File contains MsC 142.500-574. The images were considered for use in the final product of the Strathcona Aural History project. File was originally an envelope labelled "128 Aural History Carole Itter 255-8851; 543 Hawks; Daphne Marlatt" and "copy negatives, proofs, (some prints) list". The envelope contained 6 smaller envelopes of photographs. The first envelope was labelled "copy negatives that have been printed" and "Peter Battistoni". The file contains a hand-drawn diagram of his family. The file also contains a list of the photographs' subjects and when they were received, shot, printed and returned; the first part probably refers to the first envelope of photographs.

File contains notes from original folder that read:
12 pages
Omitted Japanese Evacuation memories
get name of publisher of the “Ukrainian-Canadians: A History”, Maranchurch

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Immigration to Canada (Alberta)
First job – Mrs. Pryor
Safety & Crime in Area
Views on Chinese and Blacks
Depression/arrival in Vancouver
Prostitution
Japanese Evacuation (short)
Religion
Salvation Army – only view we have
Hogan’s Alley 1936
Depression – China creek flats
Rooming House Business – 1930
Country Inn/restaurant business
Home Remedies
Work Ethics – philosophy trace

Notes: Details of homesteading on Athabasca Landing are not included
story of Georgia Street restaurant/addicts/police not included

Secondary edit 14 pages – omitted 1st job, home remedies and some race ethics

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Father’s history before Canada and coming to Canada
Schooling on Powell Steet, Eclere 900 blk Cordova as a child
Fishing in harbour
Matsunoya Bath house
Father buying land in Burnaby
Chicken story
Mother sewing
Home remedies
Evacuation and Lillooet and Vernon
4 page story

File contains notes from original folder that read:
N.B. Some statements by Inez Leland in this section
Early family history 1900’s
Opera and theatre in area
Jemina story
First car ride
Children’s work/crocheting
English people in area 1914
Courtship ritual with Italians
Flu epidemic
Marriage at fourteen
Her store
Store details
Children’s chores and entertainment
Geography – early changes
Boarding houses
Home remedies
Mushroom hunting
Ledici
Dandelion wine
Stars at Xmas time
Character: Turkey lurkey
Women in the Home/Boccia
/having babies
Cows in area
Home remedies
Crime
East End/West End rivalry
Wartime/Italian entertainment

File contains notes from original folder that read:
1st job in neighbourhood
description of MacLean Park
as a fireman – in the neighbourhood – CN dock fire
RATS
Sadie Mandleman, Emerson Mahon
Boxing
Chinatown
Pantages theatre
Gambling*

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Early Italian immigration
W.W.I – in area
School days/rivalry
Boarding houses/early bootlegging/cards
Sons of Italy
Marathon Race – relates to a photo – photo exists
False Creek 1913-17 long story
Bootlegging
Union grocery, Montreal Bakery
W.W.II – Italians interred*
East End “slops” – good quotation

“We were just the slops, you know, and the city didn’t seem to care much. For awhile the East End was noted that way. We were always, you know, ‘the illiterates,’ the incapables”.

Series consists of correspondence between Daphne Marlatt and publishers of her various works. Also contains attachments and related records, including contracts, memoranda of agreements, financial documents, newspaper clippings, promotional material, manuscripts, and administrative records.

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Parents’ immigration to Canada
Acquiring cows 5 page story
Grazing
Herding
Haying
Barns
Fuel from Stanley Park
Depression – transients
Daughters learning self-defense
Chores as an assistant midwife and housekeeper
Working in grocery store
Fruit trees and large trees in area
Funny chicken story
Speaking English on the streets*

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Arrival
School – 1913
Community togetherness 1912
Poverty in family
Dr. MacKay
W.W.I
Children's activities/chores
House interior
Family-mother’s accident
Stores in area
Home skills – cows, goats
Roma people [original included derogatory term Gypsies]
W.W.II – Japanese Evacuation*
Internment of Italians
Depression story
Safety in area
Note: not included is short statement on Blacks in the community 2-2 p. 5

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Housework Rosie B.
Ukrainian Food Store – Ed.
“Music – horne
Princess Street House
Bootlegging – working for them
Street gangs – Loine, Hannah
Abortionist and Morals in area
Organized Sport – Ed.
Job-newspaper route – Inlet
Ethnic groups in area
WWII and Japanese Evacuation
Discrimination/Ethnic minority
Ukrainian Hall – Labor Temple
Labor demonstrations 1930’s
Church and charity activity
Evictions from homes
Neighbourhood characters*
Dr. Fox

File contains notes from original folder that read:
First job-peddling 9 pages
First months as peddler 5 pages
Leaving the area (bad place)
Depression
Rabbi Pastinsky
Story of buying a calf
Japanese Evacuation – Dolly Kopelow
School days
East end kids

File contains notes from original folder that read:
see also DORIS LAWSON’s own file
Business – opening Chicken Inn 1917 long story
Flu epidemic – short
Arrival
Blacks in area*
Depression

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Wiedrick
Arrival and teaching experience
Longshoremen’s strike
Going into school
Boy in trouble and teachers help (30) (shoot up a policeman)
Teachers in west end/east end schools

In conversation
Delinquency in school (boy stealing clothes)
School grounds – 1910 to 1930
Immigrant children
Nurse McLellan

Abercrombie
Family history
Children’s games (1905)
Organized sport
False Creek abattoir
Fist fight story
School rifle teams
Sergeant-major bundy
Punishment in schools
Wild game/fowl
Race riot 1907
Racial difficulties
Runaway horse (orange hall window)
Chinese vegetable vendors
Entertainment

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Immigration and first jobs
Business – landlord
Depression – jungle life
Bootlegging
Entertainment – theatre/movie houses/swing banks
Prewar in area/Italian/Canadian fascists
W.W. II – Italians interred
Business – cabaret 1930’s
Prostitution – Alexander St/as taxi driver
Roma people [original included derogatory term Gypsies]
Crime/modern/hearsay
Italian weddings
Montreal bakery
Home skills – wine making grappa
Characters in area
Italian picnics*

File consists of 2 notebooks that belonged to Carole Itter.