Victoria College Fonds in Context
The Archives serves research and teaching needs by preserving the institutional archives of the University of Victoria and its predecessors, Victoria College and the Provincial Normal School. Additionally, the Archives acquires private material from individuals and organizations associated with the University and its predecessors. In a wider context, the Archives acquires private archives of the environmental movement, the women's movement, labour, ethnicity, arts and culture in the southern Vancouver Island region.
The Victoria College fonds provides valuable evidence of the development of higher education in British Columbia from 1903 to 1963. The term "fonds" refers to all the original documents that were accumulated and used by an organization or individual in the course of its activities and functions, and then set aside for preservation and future use.
During the Lansdowne campus years, the archival records of Victoria College were stored in the Record Room of the Ewing Building. When the College moved to the Gordon Head campus in 1963, the records were deposited in the Registrar's Office of the University of Victoria. In 1975, they were officially transferred to the custody of the newly established Archives in the McPherson Library. The following series are included in the fonds:
- Building Committee minutes, 1958-1960
- Co-ordinator of Athletics correspondence, 1953-1959
- Department of Biology laboratory marks, 1937-1958
- Faculty of Education minutes, 1958-1963
- Office of the Bursar payroll records, 1948-1955
- Office of the Principal correspondence, 1908-1957
- Office of the Registrar records, 1903-1962
- University Development Board minutes, 1960-1963
- Victoria College Calendar, 1921-1962
- Victoria College Council minutes, 1945-1963
- Victoria College Library records, 1911-1962
- Victoria College Faculty Board minutes, 1927-1963
The Archives has a University Publications Collection that includes several important student publications. They provide evidence of the development of students' academic and social life throughout the Victoria College years, and are listed by date of publication:
- Camosun, 1906-1915
- Victoria College Annual, 1923-1932
- Victoria College Student Handbook, 1928-1963
- The Craigdarroch, 1932-1946
- The Microscope, 1938-1940, 1946-1948
- Tower, 1946-1968
- Martlet, 1948-present
The Archives also has several fonds and collections documenting the activities of student and faculty related to Victoria College:
- Archives Photograph Collection
- Archives Victoria College Oral History Collection
- Joyce Clearihue fonds, 1943-1972
- Gordon Fields fonds, 1936-1977
- Mona Morley fonds, 1931-1984
- Victoria College Alma Mater Society fonds, 1943-1945
- Victoria College Athletics Council fonds, 1956-1963
- Victoria College Faculty Association fonds, 1938-1963
- Victoria College Literary and Arts Society fonds, 1928-1938
- Victoria College Men's Undergraduate Society fonds, 1953
- Victoria College Student Christian Movement fonds, 1956-1968
- Victoria College Students Council fonds, 1928-1963
- Victoria College Women's Undergraduate Society fonds, 1946-1961
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