Fonds 2023.001 - Arlee Gale Fonds

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Arlee Gale Fonds

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  • Graphic material
  • Textual record

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2023.001

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  • 1933 - 1937 (Creation)
  • 7 November 1805 (Creation)

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9 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14.5 cm or smaller
6 album leafs (24 photographs : b&w and col. ; 17 x 25 cm or smaller)
1 cm of textual records (1 pages ; 44 x 56.5 cm)

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Name of creator

Gale, Arlee (unknown-)

Biographical history

Arlee Gale has been a long-term volunteer at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, and is a current volunteer at the West Vancouver Art Museum. She was always involved in some aspect of clothing and textiles, whether it was teaching, retail or research and consulting. While volunteering at UBC’s MOA she has held many positions including Treasurer, Internal Coordinator and President. The experience of teaching textiles and clothing courses at UBC; owning a fabric store, and working with large garment manufacturers has given Arlee extensive knowledge of textiles. She joined MOA as a volunteer hoping to work with the fabric collections and is now the co-founder of the Textile Committee at MOA. Cousin to Richard Thomas Low a federally-appointed judge in Canada. Arlee is known to be active in her community, including contributions to Senior Living magazine, donations to West Coast LEAF (Legal Education and Action Fund), the Arts Club of Vancouver Theater Company, The textile Museum of Canada, and the West Vancouver Art Museum. She is currently living in West Vancouver.

Custodial history

Gifted to the Museum by Arlee Gale.
Newspaper was given to her in an envelope addressed to the Principle of Berthelet School in Montreal.

Scope and content

The Tofino series contains photos and photo album leafs that depict Tofino and the surrounding area, seiners and trollers fishing from 1933-1937. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of the Nuu—chah-nulth people, south of Clayoquot Sound. Settlers came to the site and the surrounding around starting in the 1890s. Officially named Tofino with the opening of a post office in 1909, although its first store was opened in 1901, a school in 1906 and a wharf and lifeboat station in 1908 and its church in 1913. Tofino was incorporated as a municipality in 1932. Tofino developed around the fishing and logging industries, now known for its natural beauty and a great destination for outdoor recreation.
The newspaper covers the events of the naval action that lead to Lord Nelson’s death. Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was a British Naval Commander known for victories in battles such as the Nile in 1798 and of Trafalgar in 1805, where he was killed. He was promoted to captain in 1779 when he was 20 during the American Revolution.

The fonds consists of:
1 series that contains 9 photographs, 6 photo album leafs
1 newspaper

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The material was arranged according to the original filing system of the creator.

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  • English

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Location of originals

MMBC off-site storage. Misc Tall Box #3 and 41.1.2 oversized box.

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All requests for use must be made through the MMBC Research Request program (http://mmbc.bc.ca/collections/library-and-archives/research/). Please note that fees may apply.

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Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD), 2008 edition.

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December 2023

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