Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate
(B.C.)
Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate fonds. - 1860-1915.
1 cm of textual records.
The Congregation of Missionary Oblates was established in
1826. The first Oblate
missionaries came to British Columbia in 1858 after spending eleven
years in Oregon. By
establishing missions throughout British Columbia, the Oblates laid
the foundation for the
growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the province.
The fonds consists of records relating to activities of the
O.M.I. at Lake Okanagan and Kamloops (1860-1915).
O'Brien, Henry, 1836-1931
Henry O'Brien fonds. - 1917-1918.
1 cm of textual records.
Biographical information unavailable.
The fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence
with Prime Minister R.L.
Borden, J.S. Williams and other prominent political figures for the
period of 1917 to 1918. The
letters pertain to issues confronting the Canadian government
during World War I.
Odlum family
Odlum family fonds. - 1888-1927, 1939-1943.
66 cm of textual records.
From 1886 to 1889 Edward Odlum and his family lived in Japan
where he was engaged
in educational work. Odlum's son Victor was born in Cobourg,
Ontario and came to British
Columbia in 1889. He worked as a reporter and then editor in-chief
of the Daily World.
Victor Odlum served then as a member of the Provincial Legislature
(1924-1928) and also completed a distinguished career in the military.
The fonds consists primarily of material generated by Edward
Odlum (1850-1935). It
includes drafts of Edward Odlum's A Dictionary of Classical
Antiquity, references to the
Israelite movement and material he wrote and collected about Japan
(1888-1927). It also
includes editorial cartoons (1939-1943) which were collected [by
Victor?] after Edward's death.
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Office and Technical Employees' Union.
Local 378
Office and Technical Employees' Union, Local 378 fonds. - 1921-1982.
12.7 m of textual records.
An organization known as the B.C. Electric Employees'
Association operated as an
independent union from the 1920s until 1955. In 1955 it became,
through affiliation, Local 378
of the Office Employees' International Union. In 1964 the
International changed its name to
the Office and Professional [or Technical] Employees' Union.
The fonds consists of B.C. Electric Office Employees'
Association minutes (1921-1955)
and office files (1929-1962); O.E.I.U., Local 378 minutes
(1955-1964); O.T.E.U., Local 378
minutes (1964 -1980) and office files (1952-1978); office files for
the various B.C. Electric and
B.C. Hydro affiliates (1962-1978) and miscellaneous subject files.
The latest accession consists
of records relating to labour arbitrations between the Labour
Relations Board of B.C. and Union employees.
Inventory [PDF] available.
Ogg, Norman, collector
Place Name collection. - 1979-1980.
2.8 m of textual records.
Norman Ogg wrote to various cities, towns, villages and
districts in 1979 and 1980
requesting information about the origins of their names. The study
included Washington State
and all of the Canadian provinces with the exception of Quebec.
The collection consists of leaflets, pamphlets, brochures,
tourist guides, and various
information packages about various areas in general, together with
material about the origin of their place names and early history.
Title based on the contents of the collection.
Inventory [PDF] available.
O'Kill, Brian, collector
Malcolm Lowry research collection. - [196-?].
1.5 cm of textual records.
Biographical information unavailable.
The collection contains photocopied index cards of a
bibliography of articles, reviews,
etc. about Malcolm Lowry. Items that were not included in William
New's bibliography on
Lowry were copied. The collection also includes O'Kill's notes to
the index cards.
Title based on the name of the collector.
Olldym, John
John Olldym fonds. - 1986-1987.
30 cm of textual records
As a community activist, John Olldym served a Treasurer on the Executive Board of the Carnegie Community Centre Association, 1986 - 1987. The Carnegie Community Centre in the east side of downtown Vancouver is a main resource serving the social and recreational needs of the residents of the "Downtown Eastside".
The fonds consists of the records of the Carnegie Community Centre Association's activities and reports for the period 1986-1987. The records include the Board's administration and financial reports and printed material from both the Centre and external social organizations - government and private.
Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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One Big Union
One Big Union fonds. - 1920.
1 cm of textual records.
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada
met at the Western Labour
Congress in Calgary and resolved to conduct a referendum among
Canadian members to
determine if they would be willing to join a revolutionary
industrial union to be called the One
Big Union. By the end of 1919, a membership of 41,150 was reported
in the 101 local units of
the O.B.U. which included large parts of the mine, transportation
and logging labour force in
western Canada. Although by 1923 the union was reduced to
approximately 5,000, it served as
a pioneering effort for future attempts at industrial unionism. The
O.B.U eventually became
a regional affiliate of the Canadian Labour Congress.
The fonds consists of reports of the proceedings of the
first semi-annual convention of
the O.B.U. at Winnipeg in January 1920 and the second held at Port
Arthur in September 1920.
Also included are the results of voting in the O.B.U. locals
throughout Canada and brochures on the goals of the organization.
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O'Neal, Patrick
Patrick O'Neal fonds. - [ca. 1965] - 1975.
80 cm of textual records.
Patrick O'Neal was the western regional organizer for the
International Brotherhood
of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. Prior to his holding that
position, he served as
Secretary-Treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labour. In 1973 he
became vice-president and
director of Area XIV, United Paperworkers International Union.
The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, scrapbooks
and printed material relating
to O'Neal's activities, mainly in the field of union organization.
Onley, Toni, 1928-2004
Toni Onley fonds. - 1962-2004.
6 m of textual records.
2,716 photographs.
Toni Onley was a well-known Canadian landscape artist. Born
in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, he immigrated to Ontario with his family in 1948. After stops in
Penticton, Mexico, Vancouver, and England, he joined the University of British Columbia's
Department of Fine Arts in 1967 where he remained until 1976. He continued his painting of
scenes in B.C., the Arctic, Japan, China, India, and other locations until his death in 2004. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999.
The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, calendars, log books, financial records,
manuscripts, photographs, record books, galley files, subject files, sketchbooks, watercolours, and printed material available relating to his career as an artist.
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Orchard, Chauncey Donald,
1893-1972
C.D. Orchard fonds. - 1900-1963.
1.7 m of textual records.
75 sound cassettes.
15 photographs.
Born in New Brunswick, C.D. Orchard moved to British
Columbia in 1920 to join the
B.C. Forest Service after graduating from the University of New
Brunswick. He served in the
Forest Service for almost forty years as Chief Forester and became
B.C.'s first Deputy Minister of Forests.
The fonds consists of subject files and sound recordings
relating to the history of
forestry in the province, which Orchard created while under
contract to the University of
British Columbia. Some of the files consist of research material he
collected concerning
hand-loggers, camp living conditions, and wages and salaries.
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Orchard, Imbert, b. 1910
Imbert Orchard fonds. - 1910, 1961.
32.5 cm of textual records.
Biographical information unavailable.
The fonds consists of records pertaining to the production
of "The Way of the Indian",
a program produced by C.B.C. in 1961. It consists of transcripts of
the program and transcripts
of recorded interviews gathered to prepare the script. It also
includes three essays,
"Reminiscences of British Columbia from 1862" by Charles F. Morison
[n.d.], "A Recollection
of the Early Days in Northern British Columbia: Steamboating by
Steamwheeler on the Skeena
River" by J.W. Morison (1910) and a preliminary draft of "The
Documentary in Sound" by Imbert Orchard [n.d.].
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