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Government publications

This series contains booklets published by the BC government: The Statement of Votes (various election dates) and Election Act (1982) The Statement of Votes booklets were issued after each provincial election and contain detailed poll by poll results and poll map for each constituency. These booklets were analyzed during the course of campaign development to examine where the previous election candidate had lost and won. Based on this statistical data, maps and plans were made for tactical ground operation of the next campaign. These maps were used principally in management of canvass and election day operations. The Election Act booklet were also kept for reference purposes during the election campaigns.

General documents

This series contains records related to the BC Social Credit Party internal administration, party leadership, and organization of provincial campaigns. In addition, the records relate to the campaigns in specific constituencies and administration of BC Young Socreds. The records include: campaign and membership promotional material, clippings, correspondence, memos, minutes, notes, executive members, membership lists, constitution and by-laws, resolutions, reports, constituency handbook, policies, resolutions, articles, conference and convention materials, data sheets, ballots, party newsletters, posters and photographs.

This series is arranged into four sub-series: 1. Year files; 2. Leadership; 3. Party offices; 4. BC Young Socred.

Assembled books

This series contains assembled books containing various documents and created to organize records in chronological manner and assembled books created as manuals for specific functional purposes, such like educating candidates, party officials and volunteers on the Social Credit Party policies and campaigning strategies. These records provide insight into BC Social Credit Party history, organizational structure and membership, evolving priorities and campaigning.

This series is organized into eight sub-series: 1. Year books; 2. Clippings, ephemera books; 3. Campaign manuals; 4. Constituency profiles; 5. Policy information books; 6. Press information books; 7. Know your series; 8. Reports; 8. Green book.

Programming and project records

Series consists of records relating to programs for farmworkers run by the Canadian Farmworkers Union, as well as external programs participated in by the union or its administrators, and various union projects. Records include ESL program planning and teaching materials, farmworker safety educational material, and documentary films and exhibits.

The series is arranged into four sub-series: English as a Second Language (ESL) training materials and photographs ([1965]-1987); General programming correspondence, photographs, and educational material ([198-]-1998); Project files and photographs ([1979]-Printed 2013 (originally created 1986)); and Meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, and other records relating to collaboration with other organizations ([198--ca. 1997]).

Administrative records

Series consists of records relating to the administration of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, including financial records, meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, membership information, publications, and photographs of events.

The series is arranged into nine sub-series: Minutes and executive reports (1978-1994); Account books and other financial records (1980-1997); Fundraising correspondence, photographs, and other records (1978-1997); Membership surveys, photographs, and other records ([1979-ca. 1999]); Publications, publicity records, and ephemera (1975-2010); Correspondence (1978-1998); Convention and meeting minutes, photographs, and other records (1979-1995); Reports (1974-1997); and General administrative records ([1975]-1996).

Event photographs

Series consists of photographs of Canadian Farmworkers Union staff and numerous social and cultural events held by the union, including bhangra performances as well as visits by United Farmworkers of America President Cesar Chavez and the Manitoba Farm Workers Association.

Union action records

Series consists of correspondence, legal records, photographs, and other material relating to the Canadian Farmworkers Union’s promotion and certification of the union in individual work sites; negotiations with farm owners; individual workers’ complaints; strikes; and participation in rallies for a variety of causes.

The series is arranged into four sub-series: Unionization and organizing notes, photographs, and other records ([198-]-1985); Certification correspondence, contracts, and photographs (1980-1992); Photographs, legal records, and correspondence relating to complaints, strikes, and rallies (1979-[199-?]); and General planning and research newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs ([1978]-1997).

Research and advocacy records

Series consists of research material relating to a number of issues the Canadian Farmworkers Union investigated in order to provide information to workers, provide support to other groups, and publicly advocate for awareness and change. Subjects include the regulation and safe handling of pesticides, workers’ rights and occupational safety legislation, and general labour and minority rights. Records include newspaper clippings, journal articles, publicity materials, photographs of workers and events, awareness and event posters, worker housing blueprints, bumper stickers, and other ephemera.

The series is arranged into four sub-series: Pesticides subject files and photographs (1979-1994); Occupational health and safety subject files and photographs ([197-]-2011); Labour and rights movements subject files (1979-1998); and General subject files (1979-1993).

Deol Society records

Series consists of records relating to the administration and activities of the Deol Agricultural Education and Research Society (the Deol Society), including financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, project records, newsletters, and other publications.

The series is arranged into five sub-series: Administrative records and correspondence (1982-1995); Financial records (1981-1998); Programming and project reports, correspondence, and photographs ([198--ca. 1997]); Employment and grant records (1977-1990); and Publications (1982-1995).

Charan Gill photographs

Series consists of photographs relating to Charan Gill’s run for political office with the BC New Democratic Party (NDP), independent of his work with the Canadian Farmworkers Union. These photographs were received with the CFU material and included in the collection due to Charan Gill’s involvement with the CFU from founding through the transfer of administration of the union to the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS).

Media Publicity Files

Series consists of digital images and word document files documenting Tin Whistle Brewery's activities in various media publications. Records include final article drafts and scanned newspaper clippings.

Photographs

Series contains scanned digital images of the Tin Whistle Brewery, it's owners, the brewing process, and attendance at brewery festivals. Photo subjects include Linda Grierson, Richard Grierson, Lawrie Lock, Lynda Lock, and Lorraine Nagy.

Awards

Series consists of awards granted to the Tin Whistle Brewing Company. Awards included within this series were issued by the Okanagan Fest-of-Ale in 1996 and in 2013.

Promotional materials and merchandise

Series consists of promotional materials and merchandise produced and distributed by Tin Whistle Brewing Company. Records include table cards, beer profiles, posters, signs, banners, pamphlets, temporary tattoos, drink cards, gift certificates, business cards, t-shirts, and beer glasses.

Beer bottles and growlers

Series contains records and artifacts related to the bottling of craft beer at Tin Whistle Brewing Company. Records and artifacts include beer bottles, growlers, beer bottle labels, and beer bottle blueprints.

Photographs

The series contains photographs of various GATE activities. The series includes some personal photographs of Roedy Green, who was a founding member of GATE.

Blackspot campaign records

Series consists of analogue and born-digital records created by Adbusters Media Foundation while administering the Blackspot shoe campaign as well as designing, promoting, and distributing Blackspot sneakers and boots. The Blackspot shoe campaign was launched in 2002. For this campaign, Adbusters created and sold the Blackspot Sneaker (2002) and the Unswoosher (2006), shoes manufactured in a unionized workshop and created with vegan and recycled materials. The intent of Blackspot is to take market share from large shoe and athletic corporations through the creation of an environmentally responsible and fair trade alternative.

Paper and analogue records include income statements, correspondence (manufacturer, retailer, and customer), stock inventories, marketing plans, market analyses, newsletters, order processing guidelines, shareholder certificates, pamphlets, promotional photographs, and two pairs of blackspot shoes: v. 1 classic sneaker and v. 2 the Unswoosher.

Born-digital records include shoe design drawings, letterheads, internal manuals, advertisement graphics, promotional photographs, posters, coupons, stickers, gift cards, labels, shareholder certificates, T-shirt mockups, catalogues, promotional comics, and website mockups.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of material:

Administrative records (sub-series 1).
Promotional materials (sub-series 2).
Shoes (sub-series 3).

Files are arranged chronologically.

Media coverage

The series consists of paper and born-digital records documenting Adbusters Media Foundation's activities and the Occupy movement in various media publications. Records include interview transcriptions, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, online news article printouts, letters to the editor, 2 published books, and 1 photocopied book excerpt.

Interview transcriptions were conducted for Kyoto Journal (2001), Eyeteeth (2003), Staya (2005), Guernica (2011), the White Review (2013), and Micah White (2013).

Print and online media publishers include Sun Magazine (2001), CBC (2004), Lürzer's Archive (2008), the Georgia Straight (2009), the Globe and Mail (2009, 2013), the Hook (2009), the Lawyer's Weekly (2009), the Vancouver Sun (2011, 2012), Advertising Age (2011), the New York Times (2011, 2012, 2015), the Vancouver Observer (2011), the Washington Post (2011), the New York Review (2011-2013), the Occupied Times of London (2011), the Epoch Times (2011), Der Spiegel (2011), Vanity Fair (2012), Harper's Magazine (2012), the Progressive (2012, 2015), Vancouver Magazine (2012), In These Times (2012), the Dance Current (2012), the Guardian (2012), the Walrus (2012), the Ubyssey (2013), the London Review of Books (2013), Sad Mag ( 2015), and the Ethical Consumer (2020).

Books include Alternative Media in Canada by Kirsten Kozolanka, Patricia Mazepa, and David Skinner (2012), Why We Occupy: Liberty Plaza 2011 by Olivia Schanzer (2012), and a photocopied excerpt of Why Dissent Matters, Chapter 7, by William Kaplan (2017).

Born-digital media coverage records include a scanned newspaper clipping advertising Blackspot sneakers (2004), a draft article written by Kalle Last and Micah White (2011), an interview with Greg McLaughlin for Contexts Magazine (2012), and two draft letters to the editor of the New York Times (2013, 2016).

Merchandise

Series consists of physical merchandise produced and distributed by Adbusters Media Foundation, as well as born-digital records related to the creation and design of the merchandise. Physical merchandise includes postcards, stickers, pin-back buttons, fridge magnets, flags, apparel, a coffee mug, a magnetized ceramic cookie, spoof parking tickets, and baseball cards. Born-digital records include photographs and digital graphic mockups of postcards, stickers, T-shirts, coffee mugs, baseball cards, flags, packaging, pin-back buttons, patches, and a spoof parking ticket. While there is some overlap, physical merchandise and born-digital records in this series do not necessarily correlate.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into two sub-series based on the record's format.

Physical merchandise (sub-series 1).
Born-digital records (sub-series 2).

Files are arrange chronologically.

Campaign records

Series consists of records created by Adbusters Media Foundation during the following campaigns: Buy Nothing Day, First Things First Project, Media Carta, Kick It Over, Occupy Wall Street, Mindbombs, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Occupy Silicon Valley, Black Remembrance Day, and the White House Seige. Records include paper and born-digital materials such as digital graphics, photographs, design submissions, memes, press releases, emails, and moving image and audio "subvertisements."

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series according to which advocacy campaign they derive from:

Buy Nothing Day campaign records (sub-series 1).
First Things First project records (sub-series 2).
Kick It Over campaign records (sub-series 3).
Occupy Wall Street campaign records (sub-series 4).
Occupy Silicon Valley campaign records (sub-series 5).
General campaign records (sub-series 6).

Files are arranged chronologically.

Publications and associated records

Series consists of Adbusters Media Foundation publications and books authored by Kalle Lasn, as well as drafts and mockups associated with the creation of these publications. Records include copies of Adbusters magazine and its mockups, Big Noise magazine, Culture Jam, Design Anarchy, Meme Wars, the Adbusters Media Literacy Kit, calendars, pamphlets, posters, digital spoof ads, and digital listserv newsletters.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into ten sub-series based on the publication type:

Adbusters magazine records (sub-series 1).
Big Noise magazine records (sub-series 2).
Magazine mockups and revisions (sub-series 3).
Books and associated records (sub-series 4).
Media literacy kits and associated records (sub-series 5).
Calendars and associated records (sub-series 6).
Pamphlets (sub-series 7).
Posters and associated records (sub-series 8).
Digital spoof ads and associated records (sub-series 9).
Listserv newsletter (sub-series 10).

Files are arranged chronologically.

Talks

The series consists of paper and born-digital records arising from Kalle Lasn's participation in various conferences and public forums. Notable conferences documented are:

• Canadian Association for Media Education - Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, April 29, 1996
• The American Institute of Graphic Arts Conference, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 17, 2002
• TYPO Berlin, May 2006

Paper records include talking notes, event flyers, correspondence, and planning materials. Born-digital records include a powerpoint presentation (in .PDF format).

Events records

Series contains paper and born-digital records related to two events which Adbusters Media Foundation participated in: the Seoul Mediacity Biennale Exhibition (2018) and the Vancouver Art Book Fair (2018).

Paper records include an exhibition catalogue, subscription cards, price lists, an internal manual on running an exhibition booth, and newsletter sign-up sheets. Born-digital records include press releases, emails, photographs, an internal manual on running an exhibition booth, a silent auction prize, digital posters, and a video of Adbusters' exhibit.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of event:

Seoul Mediacity Biennale Exhibition records (sub-series 1)
Vancouver Art Book Fair records (sub-series 2)

Files are arranged chronologically.

Interviews

Series consists of 18 audio cassette tapes containing 10 interviews. Series also consists of word-for-word transcriptions of the interviews and versions of the interviews that have been edited and condensed for publication.

Production files

Series consists of materials related to the production of the work Poets and Print, including a grant application, notes, chapter drafts and completed work drafts, correspondence, and layouts.

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