The fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by a variety of B’nai B’rith lodges and chapters, including: Victoria Lodge #365 and Victoria Lodge #758; Vancouver Lions’ Gate Vancouver Lodge #668 (Samuel Lodge #668 ; Vancouver Lodge #668); B’nai B’rith Women; Lions’ Gate Lodge #1716; B’nai B’rith Youth Organization; District 4; Alec Jackson; and Lions’ Gate B’nai B’rith Building Society.
The fonds is arranged into 8 series: Victoria Lodge #365 and Victoria Lodge #758; Vancouver Lions’ Gate Vancouver Lodge #668 (Samuel Lodge #668 ; Vancouver Lodge #668); B’nai B’rith Women; Lions’ Gate Lodge #1716; B’nai B’rith Youth Organization; District 4; Alec Jackson; and Lions’ Gate B’nai B’rith Building Society.
Series consists of two items: booklet containing ten completed membership forms for Victoria Lodge #365, dated September 1886, registering Charter members of the Lodge; bound volume of minutes of the Victoria Lodge #365, the volume being shared with a successor B’nai B’rith Lodge, Victoria Lodge #758.
File contains 10 Victoria B'nai B'rith membership applications for: Morris Moss; Barnet Aaronson; Solomon Oppenheimer; Aaron Lewis; Joseph Davies; Philip A. Phillips; Barney Levy; Frederick Landsberg; Henry L. Salmon; and Joseph Brown.
Sub-series consists of administrative and operational records including minutes, correspondence, commemorative certificates, scrapbooks, manuals on ritual and programming, and reference materials.
File contains various photographs. Subjects include B'nai B'rith baseball teams, B'nai B'rith Lion's Gate Lodge No. 1716 executives, and the first installation banquet of B'nai B'rith in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the first B'nai B'rith installation banquet in Vancouver. Written on verso: First Installation Banquet of B'nai B'rith in Vancouver took place in 1910. The year in which Samuel Lodge 668 (now Vancouver Lodge) was founded. The late Judge Samuel Schultz, first local president of B'nai B'rith is sitting just to the left of the menorah.