This fonds illustrates the Honourable Iona Campagnolo’s careers as a broadcaster, a theatre producer, community leader, a politician, a feminist, a social activist, a speaker, a lecturer, a Chancellor, an advocate, a consultant and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Types of records reflective of her various careers include: speeches, correspondence, itineraries, contracts, draft manuscripts, newspaper clippings, background material, photographs and ephemera. The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds has been divided into the following thirteen series:
1) Photographs
2) Theatre & Community Development
3) Political Career
4) Non-political Activities
5) McMaster International Health Centre
6) Women in Power Project
7) University of Northern British Columbia
8) Fraser Basin Council
9) Miscellaneous – First Nations Material
10) National Speakers Bureau
11) Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
12) Honours & Awards
13) Political Papers
Running track visible in background.
Photograph depicts Campagnolo wearing sweat suit while sitting on exercise bike, lockers in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Hockey School, Terrace”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Hockey”.
Opposite shore in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Opening of Canada Games, St Johns NFLD, 1977, P.M. announces I am a Grandmother to the nation! Frank Moores”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “our villa”.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.199 - 2009.6.1.224.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Amber Gary__looking on unconsciously in the mirror! as Minister of INDER, José Garcia Bango, Alfredo Casonia, + ? + I confer on the writings of Ernesto Che Guevara as a philosophical ideal”.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “my beloved, 2 cabbaleros, Ian Howard, Eric Morse in Havana, 1977”.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
See item 2009.6.1.208 for image featuring similar content.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “La Bodeguita, Hemingways Bar in Havana, Angive shows us the mojitos motto -- ‘I drink my Daequiris a Las Floridas but I drink my mojitos at La Bodeguita’ Ernest Hemingway”.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.215 - 2009.6.1.217 for images featuring similar content.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.214 - 2009.6.1.217 for images featuring similar content.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.214 - 2009.6.1.217 for images featuring similar content.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Bodeguita Café, Havana 1977”.
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Campagnolo sits at table with Frances Pilfold, Chuck Pilfold, and several others. See items 2009.6.1.214 - 2009.6.1.216 for images featuring similar content.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Great Reseraunt in Havana - Jan/78, Frances + Chuck Pilfold of Pr. Rupert with me.”
Photograph believed to have been taken during a Ministry of Sport Tour in Cuba, 1977 - 1978. See also items 2009.6.1.198 - 2009.6.1.224.
Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada. See also item 2009.6.1.228 for image featuring similar content.
Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada.
Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada. See also item 2009.6.1.226 for image featuring similar content.
Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada.
Campagnolo stands on ice wearing high heels. Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada.
Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “The KGB + We in Vienna - World Hockey Championships 1977 - Geoff Gowen - Roger Jackson to left”. Building is the Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów, Warsaw, Poland
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “East Berlin GDR, Spt. Minister,” and “16394/2”. Photograph taken during European Sports Tour with Team Canada.
Campagnolo stands behind table with vase labeled “MS 78” with Team Canada Captain Marcel Dionne and five unidentified men.
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “307,” “(Fred Skombatti), Hockey Canada, Bronze Medal, IIHF, 1977, Marcel Dionne, Captain Team Canada”.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.249 - 2009.6.1.254.
Dionne stands on right.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.254.
Unidentified men can be seen in background, unidentified woman with camera walks in foreground.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.254.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.254.
Dionne holds celebratory crystal vase. Unidentified men look on from background.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.254.
Marcel Dionne and several unidentified men stand in background.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.254.
Celebratory crystal vase stands on table in foreground.
Item is one of 7 photographs accompanying letter from Derek Holmes, Hockey Canada to Iona Campagnolo, dated 24 November 1978, which reads: “Dear Iona, A few pictures recalling some of the happier moments in Canada’s otherwise stormy hockey scene which I thought you would appreciate.” Handwritten notation included with photographs reads: “Sport Minister in Europe - DDR - East Germany - Hungary - Poland - Austria”. See also items 2009.6.1.248 - 2009.6.1.253.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “-Glider- Sport Minister must do every sport! no hang gliding yet.”
Forest and mountain visible in background.
Banner visible in background reads: “Windsor, Home of the Team Spirit and Team Canada/Olympics ‘84”. Bid was unsuccessful -- 1984 Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles.
Crowd stands by sidewalk in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Arctic Winter Games - Hay River - Liard Entrance to Slodian [?]”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Spt Minister, Northern Winter Games, Hay River, Pine Point, NWT”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Arctic Winter Games, Hay River, NWT.”
Unidentified individuals stands in background.
Fenced area visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “1978, Commonwealth Games, Cda Gymnastic [?] Team, Edmonton”.
Unidentified individuals can be seen by picnic tables in background.
Tables and large tent visible in background.