Administrative
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions5339
- Date Range
- 1919
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Series includes records related to the administrative activities of the Association. The series contains the certificate of incorporation, declaration of association and by-laws, correspondence and financial statements. Correspondence includes letters regarding incorporation, specifications for rac…
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S1
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- 1988.1
- 1983.65
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- 1919
- Scope and Content
- Series includes records related to the administrative activities of the Association. The series contains the certificate of incorporation, declaration of association and by-laws, correspondence and financial statements. Correspondence includes letters regarding incorporation, specifications for race track and fence, and bids for clearing the fairground/ballpark land.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions4976
- Date Range
- [1919-2021]
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- The fonds is arranged into two series, Administrative and Fall Fair, and contains newspaper programs, prize lists, prize tickets, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, newspaper supplements, entry forms, certificate of incorporation and a brief history on the founding of the fair.
Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial
Association fonds
Fonds No. AF1
Physical Description: 18 cm of textual records, 38 photographs
Date Range: [1919-2021]
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch
Talk of forming a Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association to oversee the planning
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Other Title Info
- Title based on contents of fonds.
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- 1978.5
- 1983.9
- 1983.65
- 1988.1
- 2007.3
- 1994.7
- 1994.13
- 2020.6
- 2020.12
- 2020.34
- 2022.1
- Physical Description
- 18 cm of textual record, 39 photographs
- Date Range
- [1919-2021]
- History / Biographical
- Talk of forming a Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association to oversee the planning of an exhibition began in 1910 (Interior News, May 1910). Various names were used before incorporation, such as: Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association (Interior News, July 27, 1912), Bulkley Valley Agricultural Association and Farmer’s Institute (Omineca Herald, June 7, 1913) and Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition Association (Interior News, June 21, 1919). On July 14, 1919, the Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association was incorporated under the Agricultural Act. The mandate of the Association was to "advance the interests of agriculture and to hold an annual exhibition of agricultural products at Smithers, and to do all such other things the directors may decide for the advancement of the association, the farmers and farming." The first directors of the Association included A. Kilpatrick (President, Smithers), J. G. Wood (Vice-President, Telkwa), and L.B. Warner (Secretary Treasurer, Smithers), George Oulton (Smithers), A. J. Prudhomme (Telkwa), E. C. Barger (Telkwa) and William S. Henry (Smithers) (Interior News, June 21, 1919). Smithers held its first Fall Fair in Albert Park, September 30th, 1919. After several years the Fair became a three-day event, presenting a wide variety of exhibits including agricultural displays, livestock and logging shows, handicraft and homemaking exhibits, stage shows, and a midway. The Fair continues to this day, having been held every year since 1919, except for 1932-1933, 1938-1945, 1950-1952. A virtual fair was held in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds is arranged into two series, Administrative and Fall Fair, and contains newspaper programs, prize lists, prize tickets, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, newspaper supplements, entry forms, certificate of incorporation and a brief history on the founding of the fair.
- Arrangement
- Records were rearranged in September 2016 by Manda Haligowski to better reflect archival standards and to improve accessibility.
- Subject Access
- Bulkley Valley Fall Fair
- Bulkley Valley Exhibition
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Bulkley Valley
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Documents
Bulkley Valley Museum Fall Fair contract and maps
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions8948
- Date Range
- 1997
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual record
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- File contains a 1997 contract between the Bulkley Valley Museum and the Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association for booth space at the Fall Fair; there are also three maps of the Fall Fair grounds and the layout of the booths.
- Description Level
- File
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Accession No.
- 2020.12.1
- 2020.12.2
- 2020.12.3
- 2020.12.4
- Physical Description
- <1 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- 1997
- Custodial History
- Items were kept with BVM internal records for an unknown period of time before being removed and formally accessioned in May 2020.
- Scope and Content
- File contains a 1997 contract between the Bulkley Valley Museum and the Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association for booth space at the Fall Fair; there are also three maps of the Fall Fair grounds and the layout of the booths.
- Subject Access
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association
- Bulkley Valley Fall Fair
- Bulkley Valley Museum
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Fall Fair
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions5340
- Date Range
- [1919-2022]
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- This series contains all records related to the Fall Fair. Records include prize lists, programmes, Interior News supplements, prize tickets, meeting minutes, newspaper supplements, and entry forms.
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual record
- Other Title Info
- Title based on series contents.
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- 1978.5
- 1983.9
- 2007.3
- 1994.7
- 1994.13
- 2019.19
- 2019.20
- 2019.31
- 2020.6
- 2020.12
- 2020.34
- 2022.1
- Physical Description
- 14 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- [1919-2022]
- Scope and Content
- This series contains all records related to the Fall Fair. Records include prize lists, programmes, Interior News supplements, prize tickets, meeting minutes, newspaper supplements, and entry forms.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Bulkley Valley
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Fall Fair guest photos
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions9930
- Date Range
- 2002
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- 32 polaroid photographs of Fall Fair guests. Some were photographed standing with panels from the Pioneer Women of the Bulkley Valley exhibit. The majority of the photos were found with a typed slip of paper bearing a quote from the subject about their favourite memory of the Fall Fair. The people …
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Item Number Range
- P7690-P7692
- Accession No.
- 2020.34
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 38 photographs; colour
- Date Range
- 2002
- History / Biographical
- These photographs were taken in 2002 to showcase guests of the Bulkley Valley Exhibition (Fall Fair).
- Custodial History
- Photos P7690-P7692 were found in the museum's reference files in August 2020 and initially added to the BVM visual records collection. The remainder of the photos were found in Room 6 in September-October 2020 and added to the BVAIA fonds, after which P7690-P7690 were retroactively added as well.
- Scope and Content
- 32 polaroid photographs of Fall Fair guests. Some were photographed standing with panels from the Pioneer Women of the Bulkley Valley exhibit. The majority of the photos were found with a typed slip of paper bearing a quote from the subject about their favourite memory of the Fall Fair. The people photographed include: Jean Moisey, Jackie MacIntyre, Thea Dieleman, Neil and Alma Blabey, Jessie Wyllie, Janice and Fred Scott, Pat and Stewart Young, Rosarie Shea, Henry and Marg Lubbers, Vera Collison, Reg Beckley, Barb Martens, Jeff Chapman, Dan Gauthier, Linda Armstrong, Arline Widen, Frank Strimbold, Joan Wells, Bill Jaarsma, Herb Heal, Clifford and Zoe Gilker, Julian Patrick, Marcella Love, Diane Van Der Maulen, Annette Maze, Clara and Francis Reid, Robin Hawes, Harold Kerr, Doug Boersema, Veronika Gaube; Raelee, Araceli and Charmaine O'Coffey; Audrey Kruisselbrink; Chantal, Selina and Colton Gammie; Lorraine and Ted Cullis, Tina Veenstra, Donna Carpenter, Wendy and Emma Croft, Dorothy Giesbrecht, Alan Pickard, Paulie Threlkeld, Peter Haines, and Jane Young.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- None of the photos have been scanned or recieved P numbers except for P7690-P7692, which were found in collections earlier than the rest of the photos and retroactively added to this fonds (having previously been in the BVM visual records collection).
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Fall Fair Prize List
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions10028
- Date Range
- September 30, 1919
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Description Level
- Item
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- Date Range
- September 30, 1919
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Documents
Fall Fair Prize List
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions10029
- Date Range
- September 1925
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Description Level
- Item
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Accession No.
- 1971.17
- Date Range
- September 1925
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Documents
Fall Fair Prize List
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions10030
- Date Range
- August 1929
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Description Level
- Item
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Accession No.
- 2007.3
- Date Range
- August 1929
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Documents
Jean Moisey and Jackie MacIntyre
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions9696
- Date Range
- 2002
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Jean Moisey and Jackie MacIntyre standing next to a panel about Mary Sheehan Calderwood at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Item No.
- P7690
- Accession No.
- 2020.34
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- 2002
- History / Biographical
- Photo was taken 2002 as part of a series of photographs of Fall Fair guests.
- Custodial History
- Item was kept in the museum's reference files for an unknown period of time before being removed and accessioned in August 2020. It was added to the BVAIA fonds in September 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Jean Moisey and Jackie MacIntyre standing next to a panel about Mary Sheehan Calderwood at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Related Material
- Fall Fair guest photos file, AF1 S2
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Images
Neil and Alma Blabey at Pioneer Women exhibit
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions9698
- Date Range
- 2002
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Neil and Alma Blabey at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Item No.
- P7692
- Accession No.
- 2020.34
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- 2002
- History / Biographical
- Photo was taken 2002 as part of a series of photographs of Fall Fair guests.
- Custodial History
- Item was kept in the museum's reference files for an unknown period of time before being removed and accessioned in August 2020. It was added to the BVAIA fonds in September 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Neil and Alma Blabey at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Related Material
- Fall Fair guest photos file, AF1 S2
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Images
Thea Dieleman
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions9697
- Date Range
- 2002
- Collection
- Bulkley Valley Agricultural and Industrial Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Thea Dieleman at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- AF1
- Series No.
- S2
- Item No.
- P7691
- Accession No.
- 2020.34
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- 2002
- History / Biographical
- Photo was taken 2002 as part of a series of photographs of Fall Fair guests.
- Custodial History
- Item was kept in the museum's reference files for an unknown period of time before being removed and accessioned in August 2020. It was added to the BVAIA fonds in September 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Thea Dieleman at the Pioneer Women exhibit at the Fall Fair, probably in Davidson Hall.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Related Material
- Fall Fair guest photos file, AF1 S2
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Images
