Nakayama, Gordon Goichi, 1900-1995
Gordon Goichi Nakayama fonds. - [ca. 1930]-1995.
ca. 15 m of textual rexords
ca. 1000 photographs

Born in Ozu, Japan, in 1900, Gordon Nakayama came to canada in 1919, was ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Canada in 1939 and served in the church in Vancouver prior to the evacuation to the B/C. interior in 1942 and Coaldale, Alberta after World War II. He travelled in portions on Canada, United States, Japan, and other parts of Asia on missionary activity on behalf of the Anglican Church, in addition, he wrote ca. 15 books in the Japanese language on theological and philosophical matters.

The fonds consist of correspondence, printed material, financial records, notebooks, manuscripts drafts, and photographs relating to his activities with the Japanese Canadian Anglican Church in Vancouver and Coaldale as well as his missionary activity, conference attendance and other travels. In addition, the fonds contains extensive correspondence with his family, including his daughter, well-known writer Joy Kogawa. Although the English language is evident, much of the material is in the Japanese language.

Title based on the contents of the fonds.

Much of the material is in Japanese

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National Association of Marine Engineers
National Association of Marine Engineers fonds. - 1902-1966.
3.5 m of textual records.

The National Association of Marine Engineers was founded in the 1880s. Its membership included the steamship and associated workers employed by companies such as British Yukon Navigation Company, Canadian National Railways, Canadian National Steamship Company and Shell Oil of British Columbia. The N.A.M.E. was affiliated with the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway and Transport Workers prior to its merger with the Canadian Merchant Service Guild in 1966.

The fonds consists of minutes of Council No. 7 (1902-1921, 1938-1951), minutes of Council No. 4 (n.d.), financial records, agreements, membership and attendance records, towboat grievances, printed material, credit union material, all relating to the N.A.M.E. Also included are Ladies' Auxiliary records and L.H. Charlton's correspondence.

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New Democratic Party of British Columbia
New Democratic Party of British Columbia fonds. - 1940-1974.
28 m of textual records and other material.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation unified labour and farm groups across Canada after its creation in Calgary in 1932. In 1961 the C.C.F. became affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress and evolved into the New Democratic Party.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the N.D.P. and C.C.F. in B.C. Included are notices and agendas, minutes, correspondence, membership lists, financial records, policy, policy committees, maps, photographs, convention proceedings, geographical materials and constituency records. Also included are films and sound recordings.

Includes: 25 maps, 200 photographs, 4 film rolls and 28 sound tape reels.

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New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Delta Constituency
Delta New Democratic Party Constituency fonds. - 1938-1970.
39 cm of textual records.

Administrative history unavailable.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, clippings, and reports of the Whalley N.D.P. Club and its predecessors, the Newton local of the Socialist Party of Canada, East Whalley C.C.F. Club and West Whalley C.C.F. Club. Also included is a minute book of the Delta N.D.P. constituency and outgoing letters from Len Shepherd (1938-1943).

New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Little Mountain Constituency
New Democratic Party of British Columbia, Little Mountain Constituency fonds. - [ca. 1972-1984].
1.5 m of textual records.
10 photographs.

The Little Mountain Constituency of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was represented in the Provincial Legislature by Phyllis Young and Roy Cummings, 1972-1975. The two members were defeated in 1975 and the riding did not elect an NDP member until the 1991 election.

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, subject files, financial records, and printed material relating to the activities of the association.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Standing Committee on Women's Rights
New Democratic Party of British Columbia, Standing Committee on Women's Rights fonds. - 1973-1984.
1.6 m of textual records.
18 sound cassettes.

The Women's Rights Committee was officially established in 1971 as a standing committee of the provincial N.D.P., but its roots date back to the 1962 Women's Committee. The general function of the Women's Rights Committee is to develop policy on women's issues and to encourage the participation of women in the political process. The Committee set up the Task Force on Older Women in 1979 to conduct research, hold hearings and make recommendations.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to B.C. Women's Rights committees as well as to the Task Force on Older Women in British Columbia. Included are sound recordings (cassettes) of hearings conducted by the Task Force, steering committee annual files (1975-1983), correspondence, committees, conferences, subject files, newsletters (1973-1984), publications, ephemera and resource files. The Task Force records include administration files (1979-1983), correspondence, briefs, hearings, publications, ephemera and printed material.

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New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Area Council
Vancouver Area Council of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia fonds. - 1972-1976.
27 cm of textual records.

The Vancouver Area Council of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia took an interest in Vancouver civic politics in 1968.

The fonds consists of minutes of meetings (1974-1976), campaign reports, correspondence and printed material relating to the Council's activities (1972-1976).

New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Burrard Constituency Association
Vancouver Burrard New Democratic Party Constituency Association fonds. - 1962-1978.
30 cm of textual records.
100 photographs.

Administrative history unavailable.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed material relating to the activities of the constituency office and two of its elected members, Rosemary Brown and Norman Levi.

New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver-Kingsway Constituency Association
New Democratic Party, Vancouver-Kingsway Constituency Association fonds. - 1956-1975.
46.5 cm of textual records.
3 maps.
19 photographs.

Administrative history unavailable.

The fonds consists of minutes, agendas, reports, correspondence, notebooks, financial records, lists, speeches and subject files generated by the Vancouver Kingsway Constituency Association of the N.D.P. (1972- 1975). Also included are minutes of the Vancouver East Riding Association (1957-1958), records of the C.C.F. Provincial Executive (1955-1959), minutes of the Greater Vancouver Water and Drainage Workers (1964-1966), maps, surveys and photographs.

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New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Vancouver Women's Committee
Vancouver Women's Committee of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia fonds. - 1961-1963.
2 cm of textual records.

The Women's Committee of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia discussed issues relating to women and brought resolutions forward to conventions.

The fonds consists of records of the Vancouver Women's Committee of the N.D.P. (1961-1963). It consists of a handwritten minute book into which have been inserted some loose typed and handwritten material, chiefly correspondence, and some lists of names.

Newton, Norman, 1929-
Norman Newton fonds. - 1949-1986.
1 m of textual records.

Norman Newton, a Vancouver native, worked at a variety of jobs. He spent time in England in the early 1950s, where he worked for the BBC. In 1949 his first radio transcript was accepted by C.B.C. Radio in Vancouver. He was employed by the C.B.C. for several years, and eventually became the senior drama producer. Newton's prime literary interest is poetry, although he has written novels, plays, histories and one libretto for the first all-Canadian opera ever to be produced in Canada. Newton resides in Vancouver.

The fonds consists of correspondence carried with peers and publishers, manuscripts of works both published and unpublished, and critics' reviews of published material. Correspondence with Derek Healey and Tibor Serly provide the framework for collaborations created, primarily by mail, with each person.

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Nicol, Eric Patrick, 1919-
Eric Nicol fonds. - 1944-2005
8.84 m of textual records and other material.

Eric Nicol was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1919. He later moved to Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia where he started his writing career as a contributor to the student newspaper, The Ubyssey, with a humour column written under the pseudonym Jabez. He received his B.A. with honours in French in 1941. From 1942 to 1945, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, contributing to service publications such as Wings and Torch. He returned to UBC after the war as an instructor in English and received his M.A. in French in 1948. After spending one year at the Sorbonne, Nicol moved to London where he wrote several comedy series for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He also wrote occasional columns for the Vancouver Province. In 1948, his first book, Sense and Nonsense was published. He returned to Vancouver as a columnist for the Province where he worked from 1951 to 1985. His comments included columns on many contentious issues including capital punishment and fluoridation. Nicol's writing career encompasses a wide range of activity including stage plays, radio and television plays, revues, radio and television variety shows, magazine articles, and humour and historical books. He received a Leacock Medal for Humour on three occasions.

The fonds consists of Nicol's business correspondence, drafts for various writings, scripts for plays and shows, drafts and copies of his columns, reference materials, reviews of his work, printed materials featuring his articles, photographs of Nicol and subject files. His writings are categorized into radio scripts, television scripts, stage scripts, books, articles, short stories and other writings.

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Niven, Frederick John, 1878-1944
Frederick Niven fonds. - 1919-1938.
42 cm of textual records.

Frederick Niven was born in Valparaiso, Chile, but left for Scotland at the age of five. Ill-health forced him to move to the drier climate of the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia to live with missionary friends of his mother. After travelling between Scotland and Canada, Niven finally settled in British Columbia.

The fonds consists of the prose manuscripts "Mine Inheritance", "When I was a Child" and "The Transplanted", with various transcripts, as well as the "Colour of the Canadian Rockies" which contains about 60 miscellaneous portions of a carbon typescript of an unidentified novel on the reverse sides. The fonds also includes four outgoing letters to different individuals dated 1919, 1929 and 1938.

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Norman, E. Herbert, 1909-1957
E. Herbert Norman fonds. - 1941-2001.
60 cm of textual records.
1 film.
260 photographs.

E. Herbert Norman was born in Japan to missionary parents. He was educated by his mother, and then attended the Canadian Academy in Kobe. Ill with tuberculosis in 1926, he returned to Canada where he finished his senior metriculum in Ontario in 1928. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1933, and then completed a second B.A. in classics in 1935, his M.A. at Harvard in 1937 and his Ph.D. in 1940. Norman joined the External Affairs Department and was posted to Tokyo in 1940. He was interned after the Japanese entry into World War II but returned to Canada in 1942. Following World War II Norman served as Canada's highest ranking diplomat in Japan. In 1953 Norman was made High Commissioner to New Zealand and was then sent to Egypt in 1956. Allegations of Norman's communist sympathies led him to commit suicide in 1957.

The fonds consists of business and personal correspondence, clippings, ephemera, a black and white film of E. Herbert Norman's Award Presentation, manuscripts, legal documents pertaining to his published works, speeches, conference papers by Japanese scholars and miscellaneous Japanese material.

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Norman family
Norman family fonds. - 1922-1986.
13 cm of textual records.
31 photographs.

Howard Norman (1905-1986) was born in Japan and after graduating from the University of Toronto he studied to become a minister. Ordained in 1931, he returned to Japan where he served until 1941. Norman was minister at St George's United Church (Vancouver) from 1941 to 1947 during which time he was very active on behalf of Japanese Canadians. After returning to Japan in 1947 where he served in various capacities, Norman retired to Canada in 1972.

The fonds consists of correspondence between E. Herbert Norman and his family (1922-1957), Norman's will and photographs of him and other family members. There are also articles about his career and other biographical information gathered for tributes after his death. The fonds also includes material generated by Howard Norman.

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Norris, Thomas Grantham, 1893-1976
Thomas Norris fonds. - [ca. 1920-ca. 1974].
9.5 m of textual records.
3 photographs.

Thomas Gratham Norris was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He articled with the law firm Barnard, Robertson and Heisterman and was admitted to the B.C. bar in 1919. Norris practised in Vernon and Kelowna as a lawyer for the Soldier Settlement Board and later in private practice. He eventually moved to Vancouver and continued to work in private practice until 1959 when he was appointed to the B.C. Supreme Court. In 1960 Norris was elevated to the B.C. Appeal Court. In 1961 he also sat on the Canadian Court Martial Appeal Board as well as acting Deputy District Judge of the Admiralty. Norris was president of the Kelowna and Vancouver Board of Trade, and president of the Vancouver Bar Association. He also served as a Bencher of the Law Society from 1944 to 1957 and was elected Treasurer of the Law Society of B.C. from 1957 to 1958.

The fonds consists of correspondence and printed material, including scrapbooks, relating to Norris' activities as the judge in charge of the "Industrial Commission as to Shipping in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River System," 1963. It also includes case notes and legal papers relating to other cases, 1947 to 1971. It documents Norris' career as a lawyer and as a judge between ca.1920 and 1970. The fonds also includes professional files from his Kelowna practice, subject files created during his tenure on the Supreme and Appeal Courts of B.C., correspondence, other files and photographs of the Law Society Convention 1952.

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North, George, 1920-1990
George North fonds. - 1910-1975, predominant 1960-1969.
3.5 m of textual records ; 19 photographs

George North (1920-1990) was editor of The Fisherman, the newspaper of the UFAWU from 1946 to 1968. He became a staff member of the British Columbia Teachers' Federation in 1975 and head of the Federation's Bargaining Division from 1980 to 1990.

The fonds consists of George North's research material on the fishing industry in British Columbia and union organizing in it in preparation for his book, A Ripple, A Wave, a story of union organization in the B.C. fishing industry. The research material includes information on the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union (UFAWU), British Columbia Salmon Canners' Association, and Inverness Cannery.

Title based on the contents of the fonds.

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Northwest District Council of Carpenters
Northwest District Council of Carpenters fonds. - 1922-1982.
8.7 m of textual records.

The Northwest District Council of Carpenters was established in 1971 from Locals of the Carpenters in Kitimat and Prince Rupert and one Local of the Piledrivers and Bridgemen. The history of Local 1735 dated back to 1909 when Local 1735 was first chartered by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

The fonds consists of minute books for Carpenters' Locals 1735 (1922-1977) and 1081 (1953-1972) and the Piledrivers' Local 1549 (1944-1954). The fonds also includes correspondence, subject files, collective agreements and financial records from the union offices in Prince Rupert and Kitimat/Terrace.

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November House
November House fonds. - 1971-1985.
2.7 m of textual records.

November House was established as a publishing company in 1969 after Jake Zilber (of the University of British Columbia's Department of Creative Writing) approached literary agent Cherie Smith for assistance in publishing a book written by a student. Smith assumed the initiative to establish the company, and the book, Summer of the Black Sun by Bill O'Brien, became November House's first title. Since this time the company has grown and published many other books.

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records and manuscripts generated through the publishing activity of November House.

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