Series consists of correspondence, agendas, brochures, newspaper clippings, reports, project summaries, minutes, newsletters, presentations, pamphlets, proposals, member contact lists, information sheets, background papers, conference programmes and agendas, articles, society constitutions, press releases, grant applications, information kits, position papers, conference proceedings, petition forms, certificates of society incorporation, society by-laws, posters, action plans, and conference invitations pertaining to Walt Taylor's extensive involvement with various grass-roots level environmental, socio-political and peace movements while living in the Bulkley Valley region of British Columbia from 1982-2000. Organizations represented in this series include: End Legislated Poverty; Act for Disarmament Coalition; Nuclear Free America; Vancouver Green Women’s Caucus; Waging Peace Society; New Democratic Party; British Columbia Environmental Network; Skeena Roundtable for Sustainable Development; British Columbia Environmental Network; National Centre for Sustainability; Northwest Study Conference; Driftwood Foundation; Environmental Action is Our Children's Heritage (E.A.C.H.); Smithers Human Rights Society; Northwest Development Education Association; International Green Cross; Canadian Voice of Women for Peace; Canadian Environmental Defence Fund; Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade; Centre for Communication, Culture and Society; Sierra Club of British Columbia; B.C. Teacher’s Federation; Canadian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Human Rights Research and Education Centre; Canadian Network for Ethical Investment; Canadian Council for International Cooperation; Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia; Greenpeace; National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy; Harmony Foundation of Canada; Science Council of Canada; Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Employment and Immigration Canada; Tin-Wis Coalition Society; Community Futures Program – Smithers to Burns Lake; Smithers Branch of the Legal Services Society; Union of Concerned Scientists; Project Ploughshares – Smithers; Telkwa Foundation; Centre for Popular Economics; Nechako Environmental Coalition; British Columbia Utilities Commission; Friends of the Stikine; Mondragon Cooperative System (Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa); British Columbia Round Table on the Environment and the Economy; The Council of Canadians; B.C., Federation of Labour; Kamloops Women’s Resource Centre; Vancouver's Food Policy Coalition; British Columbia Human Rights Commission; The Fraser Institute; United for a Fair Economy; Conscience Canada Inc.; Learning Education Action & Development Smithers (L.E.A.D.S.); Canadian Peace Alliance; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Nuclear Free America; Peace Education Centre of British Columbia; The David Suzuki Foundation; Northwest Development Education Association; Workfare Watch; Nanoose Conversion Campaign; and the Christian Task Force on Central America.
This fonds illustrates Walt Taylor’s activities as a social activist in the Okanagan region of B.C. in the 1970s, and his involvement with political-environmental activist movements in the Bulkley Valley-Telkwa-Smithers area c.1980s-1990s. The Taylor fonds includes records of the Skeena Round Table for a Sustainable Society, the Northwest Study Conference Society and the Waging Peace Society; as well as, background research compiled for Taylor’s publication "Waging Peace for a Living: An Action Plan for survival of life on earth", (Victoria: Trafford Publishing, 1999). The Taylor fonds also contains records of significance relating to proposed economic developments, such as open-pit mining, fishing and forestry policies and nuclear power; and documents pertaining to political-environmental actions conducted by Northern BC stakeholders such as First Nations (Gitskan and Wet'su'wet'en) and NGO’s such as the Telkwa Educational Action Committee of Householders. Types of records comprising this fonds include correspondence to and from activist organizations; circulars to society members; background papers on social activist issues; background reports on BC First Nations environmental and land claims issues, background studies on environmental & economic impacts of industrial developments proposed for Northern BC, newspaper clippings, and various publications.
Sem títuloPhotograph features Bob Bossin holding a bottle of his “Home Remedy for Nuclear War”. Photograph was a "promo shot" created to advertise his show "Bob Bossin's Home Remedy for Nucelar War" - one showing of which occured in Smithers, B.C. on 18 October 1986.
Photograph is located in the following file: "Bob Bossin's Home Remedy for Nucelar War Show, Smithers, October 18, 1986" which also contains newspaper clippings, a show program, correspondence, newsletters, catalogue and a poster pertaining to this show.
Series consists of newsletters, correspondence, reports, conference programmes, poetry, agendas, brochures, newspaper clippings, articles, conference proceedings, position papers, fact sheets, technical assessments, press releases, political campaign material and briefs pertaining to Walt Taylor's extensive involvement with various grass-roots level environmental, socio-political and peace movements while living in the Okanagan region of British Columbia from ca. 1965-1982. Also included in this series is a very small amount of early correspondence (1951 & 1955) regarding a recent publication (1951) and an update of their activities (1955). Organizations represented in this series include: British Columbia Man & Resources Programme & Provincial Conference (1972-1973); South Okanagan Civil Liberties Society; Human Rights Commission of British Columbia; the British Columbia Conference on the Emerging International Economic Order (1979); United Nations Environment Programme; New Democratic Party; Conserver Society; Amax of Canada Ltd. Mine at Kitsault; South Okanagan Environmental Coalition; Southern Interior Ecological Liaison; Peace Valley Environmental Association; Friends of the Stikine; Canadian Friends Service Committee; Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry; Dai Dong of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; Institute for Food Development Policy; B.C. Hydro: Hat Creek Coal Fired Power Plant; the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace; and Amnesty International.
Series consists of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, posters, calendars, articles, information booklets, brochures, court documents, fact sheets, magazines, newsletters, and open correspondence related to Walt Taylors interest and research into issues of employment and unemployment; forestry economics; fisheries; bicycle helmet legislation; peace movements; poverty; wealth and taxes; housing; debt and deficit; education; transnational corporations; Canada Pension Plan; capitalism & socialism; costs of war; the World Bank; land use and agriculture; North America Free Trade Agreement; economics; racism; democracy; pollution; pesticides; alternative energy consumption; population growth; bioregionalism; biotechnology; Star Wars; and NATO low-level military training flights in Canada.
Series consists of posters, newsletters, maps, reports, articles, statements, conference proceedings, background papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, declarations, brochures, memoranda, proposals, speeches, publications, court documents, and telexes related to Walt Taylor's direct involvement with, or indirect research into, the following First Nations groups, individuals and events: Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en Tribal Council; Gitksan-Carrier Tribal Council; Cariboo Tribal Council, Tahltan Nation, Nisga'a Tribal Council, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, Council of the Haida Nation, Cree Nation, Leonard Peltier (Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations) Iroquois Nations, Nazko Nation, Kluskus Band and the Delgamuukw et al v. The Queen court case.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic environmental justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates. The CCPA publishes on a wide range of social, economic and environmental issues in formats that include research studies, short commentaries, articles in "The Monitor" (monthly national research magazine) and monographs. It is believed Mr. Taylor collected these publications to further his own research interests. For more information on the CCPA please visit <a href="http://www.policyalternatives.ca/">http://www.policyalternatives.ca/</a>.
This series consists of CCPA monographs, articles, research studies and issues of "The Monitor" magazine.