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This fonds illustrates Bridget Moran’s careers as a writer, a social worker and a social activist primarily within the Prince George region of British Columbia. This fonds also contains records pertaining to her personal relationships with family and friends and her receipt of various honours and awards.

Types of records reflective of her career as a writer include: published articles and unpublished manuscripts, drafts and front cover mock-ups, correspondence with editors from Arsenal Pulp Press, grant applications, notebooks, background material, writer’s workshop invitations and overviews, photographs, oral history interviews and transcripts, and VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications.

Types of records reflective of her career as a social worker and social activist include: annual reports, work journals, correspondence and published newspaper articles re: social policy, photographs, and general background material. Correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings highlight her personal relationships, while her receipt of honours and awards is demonstrated through copies of letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, photographs, VHS recordings of award ceremonies, event itineraries, congratulatory correspondence, and invitations.

The Bridget Moran fonds has been divided into the following four series:

1. Published and Unpublished Materials
2. Career Related Materials
3. Personal Papers and Correspondence
4. Honours and Awards.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Alice Sanregret. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Arne and Carrie Mellows. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Carl Strom. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Crissie Ward and Laureen Stewart. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Frank and Carmen Vassallo. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Ivan and Bev Westerland. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with James Lorne McConaghy. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Jean May. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Jim and Dianne Humphreys. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Joe Rositano. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Joe Rositano. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with John Broderick. Includes one copy of the original recorded audio cassette; the original recording is not held by the archives.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with June Vandermark. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Kate Anderson and May Romanin. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and three copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Ken Sasaki. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and three copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Marilyn Wheeler. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Milly Saville. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Myra and Glen Hooker. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Ruth Cunningham, Lillian Coulling, and Evelyn Rebman. Includes two original recorded audio cassettes and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Sandra Trolian. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and two copies.

File consists of an audio recording of an interview with Virginia Karr. Includes one original recorded audio cassette and one copy.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, newsletters, advertisements, contracts, notebooks, audiocassettes of oral interviews and readings, transcripts, book launch announcements, front cover mock-ups, edited drafts, manuscripts, fact sheets, poems, catalogues, bookmarks, skits, conference events programme, poster, grant applications and related correspondence, a wooden placard, handwritten notes, book reviews, inquest reports, background material, VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications, and ephemera. This series contains material from all five of her publications:

1. (1988) Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
2. (1990) Judgment at Stoney Creek. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press
3. (1992) A Little Rebellion. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
4. (1994) Justa: A First Nations Leader. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
5. (1996) Prince George Remembered. Prince George, British Columbia: Moran Publishing.
   This series also consists of, but is not limited to, a number of unpublished manuscripts and drafts and/or writing contest submissions also written by Bridget Moran, such as:
   • "Mary and Me" (ca. 1998)
   • "Where Winds Come Sweet" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Horizontal Land" (ca. 1992)
   • "The Summer of '81"
   • "The Relief Cheque" (ca. 1998)
   • "The Case of the Box of Matches" (ca. 1987)
   • "Unholy Deadlock" (ca. 1990)
   • "The Numbers Game"
   • "Reflections on Theme" (ca. 1967)
   • "Come Hell or High Water" (ca. 1976)
   • "Man Alive"
   • "The Deadbeat Mystique"
   • "Hell on Wheels"
   • "Backstairs at the Palace"
   • "James MacCallum" (ca. 1984)
   • "Hushaby, Baby" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Decline and Fall of Mr. Sullivan"
   • "Case History of a Gadfly"
   • "Welfare and the Good Life"
   • "Childhood Memories" (ca. 1976)
   • "The Three Musketeers" (ca. 1974-75)
   • "A Child's Christmas in Saskatchewan" (ca. 1979)
   • "Diary of Success Homecoming"
   • "My Old Flame" (ca. 1992)
   • "O Ye Dry Bones" (ca. 1996)
   • "Supper, Little Children" (ca. 1983).

File consists of 1 audiocassette of interviews possibly by Bridget Moran with Arnold Davis and Claude Foot.