The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.
The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.
24 typed and handwritten pages of a group of letters acknowledging invites to the rededication ceremony of the synagogue on March 17, 1948, dated March 8 - March 12, 1948.
1 handwritten note expressing sympathy for the passing of somebody's grandmother. This event is likely related to the invite acknowledgement addressed to Mr. Ed. Mallek from Rabbi David C. Kogen (which can be found at A.2015.009.077, page 5-6) where Mr. Kogen states that he is sorry to hear about the death Mr. Mallek's grandmother. If this is the case, is it possible that Mr. Mallek is the intended addressee of the note, and that it was written sometime in March 1948.