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Talks and speeches

Series consists of talks and speeches given by Mitch Taylor to various organizations relating to establishing, growing and operating Granville Island Brewing (GIB); the brewing business; the GIB brewing process; and Taylor’s experiences as an entrepreneur.

Executive

Series consists of correspondence and related records of the Executive Council. Included are records reflecting issues of the day, and the general scope of activities of the members of the Executive Council.

Finance

Series consists of records relating to the financial responsibilities of the organization. Included are Executive budgets, club budgets, expense vouchers, Auditors' Reports, and financial statements.

Budget and financial records

Series consists of records relating to the management of the financial resources of the School and its predecessors. Activities and events documented include budget planning, funding and grant requests. Records include budgets, budget submissions and supporting papers; correspondence and reports; faculty, TA and sessional requirements, requests and authorizations; applications and proposals; capital equipment requests; and notes and working papers.

Chair's correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Chair's/Director's correspondence with School program areas and faculty, other university departments and external (non-university) individuals and organizations. Activities, events and topics documented include policy development, faculty and student relations, reference letters, graduate student review, facilities and space planning in the West Mall Complex, collaboration with other university departments and research and consulting for external organizations. Records include correspondence; reports; notices; letters; invoices; newsletters; proposals; and working papers.

Student relations files

Series consists of records relating to students of the School and its predecessors. Activities, topics and events documented include the development of student-related policies (lab and workshop fees, reviews of student productions, and guidelines for MAs by special arrangement), and student projects (including the film "The Painted Door", a dance lecture / demonstration project in secondary schools, and a study of Vancouver public art entitled "Art for View").

Records include correspondence, project budgets, invoices, grant application forms, questionnaires, and project products (script, booklet).

Computing laboratory, centre and facility files

Series consists of records relating to the establishment and operation of computing laboratories and other facilities used by students and faculty for research and coursework completion. Activities, events and topics documented include the Centre for Systems Science (CSS), the Computer Graphic Centre, the Computing Centre, and the proposal for a remote academic terminal. Also included are records on the Computer Assisted Instruction Centre (CAI), Computing Science Instruction Lab (CSIL), and the Laboratory for Computing and Communications Research (LCCR).

Records include correspondence, reports, course files, policies and proposals, and working papers.

Departmental correspondence

Series consists of the Chair's correspondence with University administration and other departments. Activities and events documented include budget preparation, conference planning, and program development. Records include correspondence, publications, and a single issue of the departmental newsletter.

Facility records

Series consists of records related to proposed and actual athletic and recreational facilities, including government funded athletic training centres, a winter sports complex/ice arena, the Sports Medicine Clinic, the Outdoor Recreation Centre, and the Aquatic Centre. Activities and topics documented include planning and maintaining athletic and recreational facilities; and managing personnel. Predominant document types include correspondence, reports/proposals, a feasibility study, and a facility and budget questionnaire.

Administrative files

Series consists of records relating to the administration of the School office and management of relations with non-academic employees. Activities, events and topics documented include capital budget planning; search for School chairman; enrollment and registration issues; fundraising; faculty workshops and retreats; the appointment of Teaching Assistants and Sessional Instructors; space requirements and the move to the Applied Sciences Building.

Records include budgets, correspondence and reports, capital equipment requests, planning documents, notes and working papers.

Shrum and SFU interviews

Series deals with the relationship between Gordon Shrum and Simon Fraser University. Interviews and supporting materials emphasize Shrum's work at SFU in contrast to biographical materials that describe Shrum's entire life. Series contains unedited and edited transcripts and audio recordings of an interview of Gordon Shrum conducted in 1974 by Liisa Fagerlund, a librarian and University Archivist. The interview was part of an SFU oral history program.

Series also includes recordings of several television shows in which Shrum is interviewed. There are two appearances on the Vancouver show, one broadcast in 1977 and another in 1985 which includes a presentation by Iona Campagnolo of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Gordon Shrum. There are also two episodes of the Jack Webster show: the September 9, 1980 show, in which host Jack Webster interviewed Shrum and SFU President George Pedersen; and another from November 15, 1983 which commemorates the life of Gordon Shrum upon the establishment of the Shrum Science Chair at Simon Fraser University.

Series also contains textual material, and audio and video recordings of the dinner held in honour of Shrum to establish the "Gordon M. Shrum Chair in Science" November 19, 1983.

Recreational club records

Series consists of records related to the operations of recreational clubs. Activities and topics documented include the establishment of general club guidelines; objectives of the Athletic Clubs Council; and operations of the cricket, rugby, sailing, skiing, and soccer clubs. Predominant document types include correspondence, handbooks, statements of objectives, minutes, press clippings, rosters, schedules, club histories and statistics, photographs, news bulletins, rule books, and reports.

Correspondence

Series comprises correspondence conducted by the Media and Public Relations office related to its mandate and functions. Activities documented include liaison with the media (press, radio and television), liaison with University officials and other departments, production of publications (Takkali, Simon Fraser Week, Research Directory), production and distribution of University Christmas Cards, and the administration of the Speakers' Bureau.

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.

Administrative files

Series consists of records relating to various administrative activities carried out by the department, including work study programs for students and an honorary degree nomination (Muriel Duckworth). Records include correspondence, proposals, and nomination documentation such as CVs, articles, and other background documentation.

Curriculum and instruction files

Series consists of records relating to the development and delivery of courses that constituted the Canadian Studies program including courses for the certificate in French Canadian Studies and a proposed French bilingual program. Records include correspondence, proposals, reports, course outlines, and other documents.

SFU correspondence and subject files

While still a faculty member at UBC, Baker became one of the chief contributors to John B. Macdonald's report, Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future. This report led directly to the government's decision to establish a second university (SFU) in the Lower Mainland. Baker also served on the provincial Academic Board for Higher Education, established to advise the government on applying the recommendations of the Macdonald Report.

Records in this series relate to Baker's work on the Macdonald Report and the Academic Board as well as his role as academic planner and a charter faculty member in the early years of SFU. These files supplement the official records of the Office of Academic Planning, F 49. Includes personal and professional correspondence, reports, reference materials, a memoir by Baker about the early history of SFU, and other documents.

General Correspondence and Documents

This series consists of original correspondence from Doukhobors in various capacities writing about their experiences with the police or the legal system, other Doukhobors, factions, etc. Mostly dating from late 1940s-1980s. The series includes records relating to the CCUB, the USCC, the CCBRD, the Sons of Freedom, J. J. Verigin, and S. Sorokin. This series contains letters, legal documents, statements, writings, lists, affidavits, reports, song texts and poems, newspaper clippings and other accompanying documents.

The records are in Russian and/or English; some are printed and some are handwritten, some have accompanying transcriptions and/or translations; some are original documents and some are photocopies.

Field school files

Starting in 1977 in Guatemala, the Latin American Studies program operated field schools during the summer in various countries. Subsequent field schools were held in Guatemala in 1978 and 1979; in Peru in 1981; in Mexico in 1983 and 1985; and in Cuba in 1988. The field schools provided courses and tours to local archaeological, historical, and tourist sites. Series consists of records relating to the operation of the field schools.

Records include brochures, program descriptions and schedules, course outlines, progress and final reports, correspondence, lists of participants, and other documents.

Arrow Lakes Resettlement project files

Wilson worked for B.C. Hydro for two years (1964-1966) as the relocation planner on the Columbia River Power Project. He helped to establish new communities for the people of the Arrow Lakes region who were displaced by the project. Includes Wilson's personal memoir, "The Columbia River Development: Looking After People in the Way," as well as correspondence, publications, other documents, and photographs.

Scholarships, awards and bursaries

Series consists of records relating to the administration of graduate scholarships, awards and bursaries offered by SFU, private citizens and companies, and national granting agencies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Records include terms of reference, adjudication guidelines, correspondence, working papers, reports, and financial statements.

Printed materials

Series consists of printed and published materials relating to the promotion and advertisement of department courses, programs and activities. It includes brochures, pamphlets, and circulars; materials from the 1960s prepared by the Academic Board for Higher Education in British Columbia; the departmental newsletter Bio-Bull (1975-1976); a report by marine biology students on British Columbia as a maritime province (1975); and a report of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group on its activities for the period 1983-1988.

Labour Canada interviews

In 1988 Kate Braid traveled across Canada interviewing tradeswomen for inclusion in two booklets she produced for Labour Canada -- Building the Future: Profiles of Canadian Women in Trades and Looking Ahead: Profiles of Two Canadian Women in Trades. Series includes audio cassettes, transcripts, notes, drafts of profiles, a logbook, correspondence, government publications and reference material.

Corporate records

Series consists of corporate records for Nunanga Publishing Ltd. These include minutes, resolutions, contracts, agreements, invoices, shares, Nunaga’s logo design, and financial and tax records.

Objects

This series contains two synthesizers (Buchla 400 and The Black Box), an Atari computer, as well as various small objects and artworks from Bartlett’s possessions.

History and organization files

Series consists of 13 files created by Nikki Sones relating to the evolution of the gallery and its programs. Records include correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, budget summaries, news clippings, interview transcripts and audio cassettes.

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