21*02
W. C. BENNETT, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1973-1974 |
| Extent |
30 cm. + 100+ photographs |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs; published material |
| General Note |
These are not the records of W.A.C. Bennett, former premier of B.C. |
| Restrictions |
An appointment is necessary. |
| Summary |
Scrapbooks of photographs and newsclippings from W. C. Bennett's term as mayor of Kelowna, July 1973 to December 1974. |
21*11
GOLDIE FAMILY, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1913-1986 |
| Bulk Dates |
1913, 1967, 1986 |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs |
| Restrictions |
Available by prior appointment apply to Mrs. Anne Land approved and accredited researchers only. |
| Summary |
An album of photographs taken by a young woman on a 1913 holiday at the Rainbow Ranche in Okanagan Centre (co-owned and managed by James Goldie), and the Calgary Stampede; a privately published account of John Goldie's diary of a Journey Through Upper Canada and Some of the New England States 1817; a manuscript of Goldie family history 1793-1986; a David Alexander Ross family tree 17??- . |
21*13
CLARENCE HENDERSON, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1944-1965 |
| Extent |
1 item |
| Type of Unit |
photographs; published material |
| Restrictions |
An appointment is necessary. |
| Summary |
Scrapbook with photographs and some newsclippings about Henderson's Cleaners Limited. |
21*24
MCDONNELL FAMILY, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1900-197? |
| Restrictions |
Available by prior appointment apply to Peter and Nancy McDonnell approved and accredited researchers only. |
21*24*01
DOROTHEA ALLISON, PAPERS B. 1878 - D. 1981
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1912-1935 |
| Extent |
30 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text |
| General Note |
Dr. Duane Thomson has typescipts of letters from Dorothea Allison to her sister, Milborough, written from Oyama, 1912-1922. |
| Summary |
Letters from Dorothea Allison's mother and sisters in England, Burma, India and Australia, and from Father Aelred Carlyle, a Roman Catholic priest at Bear Creek, in the Central Okanagan. |
| Other Sources |
Dr. Duane Thomson |
| Address |
History Department, Okanagan College, 1000 KLO Rd., Kelowna, B.C., V1Y 4X8 |
21*24*02
ROBERT ALLISON, PAPERS B. 1871 - D. 1960
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1908-1960 |
| Extent |
5 items. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs |
| Summary |
Bound record books and a photograph album. Includes: diary of mixed farming 1913-1915; income from orchard 1924-1925; crop records 1937-1952; crop statements from the Vernon Fruit Union 1960; photographs of Allison's tent, house and orchard in Oyama taken by Schofield of Vernon. |
21*24*03
RAINBOW RANCHE LIMITED, RECORDS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1900-1954 |
| Extent |
73 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; maps & plans; photographs; published material |
| Summary |
Photographs, maps and plans, reports, soil analyses, orchard diaries, financial records, income tax returns, time books, agreements of sale, certificates of shares, inventories, fruit labels and newspaper clippings pertaining to James Goldie and the Rainbow Ranche. Includes fruit lables from the Okangan Valley Land Company Limited and Terrier Mutual Fruit Company Limited, and a 1907 plan of the Okanagan Centre townsite. |
21*25
POOLEY FAMILY, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1896 - 1965? |
| Bulk Dates |
1904-1915 |
| Extent |
50 cm. + 5 maps |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; maps |
| General Note |
The Pooley Family Papers are in the custody of Mrs. Adair Hobson. |
| Restrictions |
An appointment is necessary. |
| Summary |
Local and family history by Nigel R. C. Pooley, business papers of W. R. Pooley. Includes papers pertaining to the South Kelowna Land Company, Kelowna Land and Orchard Company, Kelowna Fruitlands Company, and to the Belgo-Canadian Fruit Lands Company, as well as maps of land development and parcels of land in East Kelowna. |
| Other Sources |
1) Mrs. Mary Pooley. 2) Provincial Archives. |
| Address |
Respectively: 1) Box 33, Pooley Road, Kelowna, B.C., V0H 1G0 2) Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X4 |
21*26
MIKE ROBERTS, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1960s- |
| Extent |
600 slides + 3 video recordings. |
| Type of Unit |
slides; videorecordings |
| Restrictions |
An appointment is necessary. |
| Summary |
Slides and videorecordings pertaining to the Okanagan and Kootenay areas. Includes videorecordings of logging, the Kettle Valley Railway line, interviews with Kelowna Lee (assumed to be Kelowna's first Chinese baby), and members of the Canadian School of Dance, as well as videorecordings of many other items of local interest. |
21*27
SURTEES FAMILY, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1893-196? |
| Bulk Dates |
1893-1919; 196? |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; paintings and drawings; photographs |
| General Note |
Lady Aberdeen's brother, Coutts Marjoribanks, remained in the Okanagan and was the grandfather of John Surtees. |
| Restrictions |
Apply to Mrs. Ursula Surtees an appointment is necessary available to accredited and approved researchers only. |
| Summary |
Signed watercolours from Lady Aberdeen's sketch book, painted when her husband was Governor General of Canada 1893-1898; an annotated edition of Through Canada with a Kodak, which also contains an extra photograph of Lady Aberdeen; photographs of Lady Aberdeen as a young girl, Marjorie Gordon, of scenes of Okanagan Lake, the Coldstream Ranche near Vernon, Indians, and the police-waggon at Regina all likely taken during the 1890s, of Ishbel Marjoribanks in the early 1900s; 1960s reminiscences and correspondence from Ishbel Marjoribanks in boarding school to Okanagan Mission resident, Dorothea Walker; correspondence from Marjorie Pentland, daughter of Lord and Lady Aberdeen. Water colour sketch book includes scenes of the Okanagan Valley, the Kootenays, the Fraser River, Banff, Vancouver, Quebec and Ontario. |
21*27*01
ART COLLECTION
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1950- |
| Extent |
20+ items. |
| Type of Unit |
Paintings & drawings |
| Restrictions |
Apply to Mrs. Ursula Surtees an appointment is necessary available to accredited and approved researchers only. |
| Summary |
Paintings of Okanagan scenes and people by local artists: Gwen Lamont, Primrose Upton, Helen Beattie, Ursula Surtees, and others. Includes scenes of Okanagan Mission, and Kalamalka and Okanagan Lakes; and portraits of local Indian children. |
21*30
THOMSON FAMILY, PAPERS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1893-1985 |
| Extent |
3.78 m. |
| Restrictions |
An appointment is necessary approved researchers only. |
21*30*01
ART COLLECTION
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1906-1985 |
| Type of Unit |
paintings |
| Summary |
Watercolours of Okanagan scenes by H. M. Duke, Sophia Atkinson, Arthur Drake and Gwen Lamont, as well as portraits by Gwen Lamont. Includes one painting of the early Thomson home "Craigielea", built in 1891 and turned into the Bellevue Hotel in 1907. |
21*30*02
BEATRICE HARDIE, PAPERS B. 1892 - D. 1986
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1893-1940s |
| Extent |
42 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs |
| Summary |
Baptism certificate from Bethel Presbyterian Church in Benvoulin 1893, birth certificate, will, passport, correspondence, momentos and photographs. Includes documents relating to the years spent in the Sudan with her husband, an engineer and surveyer with the British government 1921-1940s. |
21*30*03
OKANAGAN MISSION PRODUCERS LIMITED, RECORDS
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1932-1956 |
| Extent |
67 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text |
| Summary |
Ledgers, journals, time books, bank books, box labels, bank notes, cheque stubs, and invoice books of the vegetable business, Okanagan Mission Producers Limited, which was owned by John Stanley Thomson, J. B. Knowles and Hilda Gladys Thomson. Includes records of returns from the Kelowna Growers' Exchange as well as records from the Thomson Brothers business. |
21*30*04
PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1890s-1950 |
| Extent |
60 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
photographs |
| Summary |
Albums, negatives and individual photographs pertaining to the Gifford Ratter Thomson family, the Wilberforce Magnus Thomson family, and a 1922 trip to Banff, as well as social life in Westwold and Okanagan Mission 1939-1950. Includes photographs of C. Gifford W. Thomson in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, of Hilda Gladys Thomson's (nee Wakley) family in England, of the Okanagan Mission School building, the first Kelowna airport, the lake ferry, the Kelowna Regatta, and the Thomson farm in Okanagan Mission, plus a photograph of an Okanagan scene stamped "C. W. Holliday". |
21*30*05
GIFFORD RATTER THOMSON, PAPERS B. 1848 - D. 1932
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1876-1932 |
| Extent |
3 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; published material |
| Summary |
Marriage certificate, family tree, personal correspondence, memoirs of his early voyages as a sailor, newspaper clippings, notes on World War I experiences of his son Wilberforce M. Thomson, business correspondence, and an obituary. |
21*30*06
HILDA GLADYS THOMSON, PAPERS B. 1898 - D. 1953
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1909-1949 |
| Extent |
77 cm. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs; published material |
| Summary |
Correspondence, memorabilia, time books and farm receipts pertaining to Thomson Brothers, the family business; Soldier Settlement papers and photographs; correspondence from Wilberforce M. Thomson to his sister Dorothea Walker during World War I, as well as letters he received from friends and relatives at the same time; correspondence from Hilda Thomson to her son C. Gifford W. Thomson during World War II. Includes a 1909 book of photographs by early Kelowna photographer G. H. E. Hudson, and a glass negative of troops on the Kelowna dock taken during World War I. |
21*30*07
JOHN STANLEY THOMSON, PAPERS B. 1890 - D. 1979
Abstract:
| Inclusive Dates |
1905-1976 |
| Extent |
1.08 m. |
| Type of Unit |
ms. & text; photographs |
| Summary |
Diaries of farm work and social activities, farm accounts, cash books, Soldier Settlement papers, and legal papers, photographs and correspondence. Includes records pertaining to Thomson Brothers, the settling of the Wilberforce Thomson estate in 1934, and World War I correspondence to his sister Dorothea Walker. |
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