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Early period
- Date Range
- 1967-1993
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Sub-series
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- This sub-series contains of textual records, such as newsletters, reports, financials, grant applications, and correspondence created and/or used by curators and other museum staff. It covers the period from the museum's beginnings as a historical society in the 1960s to the hiring of its first lon…
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Sub-series
- GMD
- textual record
- Creator
- Bulkley Valley Museum
- Fonds No.
- OF1
- Series No.
- S1 SS1
- Accession No.
- 2017.22
- 2017.27
- 2017.63
- 2017.71
- 2017.72
- 2018.15
- 2020.8
- 2021.1
- 2022.1
- Date Range
- 1967-1993
- Custodial History
- All items were transferred from the Bulkley Valley Museum's internal files into the OF1 fonds.
- Scope and Content
- This sub-series contains of textual records, such as newsletters, reports, financials, grant applications, and correspondence created and/or used by curators and other museum staff. It covers the period from the museum's beginnings as a historical society in the 1960s to the hiring of its first long-term curator in 1993.
- Arrangement
- Files in this series include:
- F1) Newsletters
- F2) Reports (by curators and additional staff)
- F3) Finances
- F4) Collections, exhibits & projects - includes two museum ledgers from the 1960s-70s, an inventory from 1990, oral history notebook and CD, Killam research, historic point-of-intest signs project, GTP station conservation project, Project Pride, Central Park Building renovation project, photo survey of privately-held collections in the Valley, the original 1986 finding aid/file list for the James Cronin Collection, and others.
- F5) Grants
- F6) New museum/storage space
- F7) Correspondence - includes correspondence with the BC Provincial Archives, the Town of Smithers, the BCMA, the Smithers Gallery Association, the Museum of Northern BC, the Central Park Building Society, the Canadian Museums Association, and the Canadian Conservation Institute, as well as regarding the publication of Swamp to Village.
- F8) Press releases
- F9) Curator diaries - five diaries from 1979 to 1990
- F10) Education and programming
- Subject Access
- Bulkley Valley Museum
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Curators from this period include Susan Denny (1979 – October 1982), Tom Leach (February 1983 – June 1984), Jackson Hirota (September 1985-?), Ruth Murdoch (March 1986 – early 1989), Jim Whittome (April 1989-?), Lori Hudson (October 1989 – January 1990), Leah Hubensky (February 1991 – August 1992), and Sonya Ooman (September 1992 – February 1993).
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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