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

Series consists of materials relating to an external review of the Department in 1974. It includes correspondence, memoranda, 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 Allan Grant's diaries and notebooks. The diaries record his daily life, with diary entries ranging from two lines to twelve lines. Typical entries include a note about the weather, the types of activities he undertook around the farm, expenses, and notes about meetings with friends and neighbours. The notebooks detail his involvement in municipal and co-operative organizing and lecture notes, poetry, or quotations from books that he recorded and found inspirational.

Series consists of records relating to membership in the Simon Fraser University Staff Association. Records reflect membership solicitations, remittance, and resignations. Includes membership lists, correspondence, and memoranda.

Series consists of the records of various departmental committees. It includes circulars, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and memoranda.

Series consists of records relating to the involvement of the Department in external associations and societies, including the Canadian Association of Physicists. The series includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, and registration materials from a symposium held at S.F.U.

Series consists of photographs of Ann and Bill Messenger and their house in Point Grey, as well as photographs of Ann's parents and their visits to Ann and Bill in Vancouver in the mid-1960s.

Series consists of records relating to the history of the School, including proposals for the establishment of the Criminology program and a departmental history. It includes reports.

Series consists of records relating to departmental operating procedures and includes Departmental Assistant's binder.

Series consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Cunningham as well as miscellaneous documents apparently kept by Cunningham for their historical value in depicting the early years at SFU. Documents relate to such topics as the opening of the University, administrative and teaching matters, student protests, and the Friends of SFU (a U.S.-based fund-raising organization).

Series consists of Bennett's alphabetical files generated after he left the Premier's Office on September 13, 1972. Included are correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, minutes and a statement. Also included are Social Credit Records consisting of ephemera, a memorandum, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a report, campaign thank you letters and a transcript.

Series consists of files related to the appointment of faculty members. It includes correspondence, curricula vitae, memoranda and reports.

Series consists of records relating to Ian Kelsey and William (Bill) Stewart as the Assistant to Vice-President, University Services and their liaison with university services staff, departments, and committees on campus. For a list of the departments and committees, see Access Points below. Records also consist of evaluation forms used by Counsellors; a financial aid study; budget development; reports on and planning for highschool and college recruiting visits; correspondence regarding handicapped students, rotunda renovations, student employment, orientation and workshops; and policy development. Records include correspondence and working papers, financial statements, agendas and minutes, reports, surveys and publications.

Series consists of records relating to faculty members, including staff lists, workload reports, and teaching evaluations. Records include correspondence, working papers, and reports.

Series consists of records relating to the meetings, activities, and membership of the Murray Camp. Records include a minute book (October 1968 to June 1975) and a corresponding meeting attendance register (May 1969 to May 1975). Minute book includes related papers, member lists, and rolls of Camp officers.

Series comprises records made or received by the three predecessor organizations of the BCSF. Includes correspondence, briefs and reports, constitution, and agenda and minutes.

Series consists of records made and received by Dr. Kenneth P. Caple in the course of carrying out the duties of Chancellor. It includes correspondence and rolls of congratula.

Series consists of diaries, journals, notepads, and appointment books that reflect McTaggart-Cowan's daily activities. Also includes one diary written by Margaret McTaggart-Cowan, and scrapbooks complied by her.

Series consists of records relating to the planning and management of advanced summer institutes by the Department of Physics. Participants included graduate students in physics, postdoctoral fellows and senior physicists of international stature. The series includes correspondence, agreements, proceedings, lists of participants, curricula vitae of lecturers and planning documentation.

This series consists of records relating to the activities and deliberations of the APC. The files were originally created by the Vice-President, Academic as a member of the committee. At some point in the early 1990s, the records were transferred to and integrated into the record-keeping system of Academic Planning Services. Activities and topics documented in the files include planning retreats at Harrison Hots Springs (May 31 - June 2 1972) and Westminster Abbey, Mission (December 11 - 13 1972); consideration of program proposals in the Fine Arts and in Communication; and the activities of an APC sub-committee relating to disputes in the Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology (PSA) department. Records include meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, reports, and program proposals.

Series consists of memoranda concerning the appointment of a Department Chair.

Series consists of records relating to an external review of the Department conducted in 1975. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

This series consists of various documents that were created by the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood (CCUB) and its members and that relate to the operations of the CCUB and to the matters concerning the Doukhobor community from 1898 until 1960, predominantly from 1907 until 1939. The documents relate to the leadership of the organization, administration of office and membership, land and financial matters, relationship with the Canadian government agencies and the Sons of Freedom, beliefs and ideology of the Doukhobors. The CCUB was established by the Doukhobors that settled in Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. Most members of the organization moved to the West Kooteney region of British Columbia between 1907-1912. The organization was led by Peter V. Verigin (Lordly), spiritual leader of the Doukhobors, until his death in 1924. Peter P. Verigin (Chistiakov) took over the leadership of the CCUB in 1927. In the mid 1930s, in efforts to unite all the Doukhobors, Chistiakov created organization known as the Society of Named Doukhobors that was renamed the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC) in 1940s. In 1938, the CCUB as an organization was dissolved due to bankruptcy and the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC) replaced it.
This series is divided in to four sub-series: 1: Circular letters; 2: Correspondence; 3: Meeting minutes; 4: Documents; 5: Writings; 6: Financial records.

This series consists of a photocopy of transcripts of 18 interviews with members of Doukhobor community. Transcripts are in Russian and English.

Series consists of the Department Constitution.

Series consists of records relating to the physical facilities of the Department of Kinesiology. Series includes correspondence, memos, financial records, photographs and architectural plans.

Series consists of Parker's subject and research files; includes a copy of her paper co-authored with Sibylle Klein, "Developing An Ideology: the Feminist Movement in North America." Record types include notes and drafts, news clippings, reprints, broadsheets, position papers, briefs, and newsletters.

Series consists of the records of various departmental committees. It includes circulars, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and memoranda.