An undated handwritten biography of the Seidelman family by an unknown author. Biography is paper-clipped with a list of photographs of the Seidelman family (see Item 1 in this file).
The fonds consists of business and family correspondence, production material, newspaper clippings, photographs and scrapbooks.
The fonds is arranged into eight series: Dolly Halpern; Personal life; Vancouver Little Theater Association; Barnstomers; Theater Under the Stars; Pacific Shows Productions Limited; Watercolors; and Scrapbooks
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.
Photograph depicts the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.
Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.
Large caption written across top of image.
Note: Date of 1887 originally noted must be a mistake as Leonard Frank did not arrive on the west coast of North America, and more specifically in Vancouver or Victoria, until 1894. See "An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895 - 1944" by Cyril E. Leonoff.
Photograph depicts the arrival of the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.
Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.
Black and white photographic print of men working on railway (or possibly street car) tracks on Powell Street in the east side of Vancouver. Houses line either side of street with wood plank sidewalk on left side.
Verso of photograph reads "Please Credit Provincial Archives, Victoria, B.C.", "Powell Street - Vancouver, B.C. - 1889", "#15155"
Copy of a letter William Seidelman wrote to Mr. R. W. Armstrong of New Westminster, B.C., regarding a deed registration, dated September 14, 1889. Assumed sent from Seattle, Washington.