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Pete White Fonds

  • 2017.020
  • Fonds
  • 1888 - 2022

This fonds has been arranged into five series based on the creator’s order. These series are as follows:
Series One: Songwriting
Series Two: Screenwriting
Series Three: Digital Print Writing
Series Four: Writers Guild of Canada
Series Five: Kaslo/Kootenays and Mining
Series One: Songwriting includes records pertaining to White’s songwriting career with Paul Hann. This series has been arranged into subseries as follows:
Subseries One: Commercial Releases includes Paul Hann’s commercial albums and singles, with songs written by White. Records in this series include 12 in. vinyl LPs for “A Fine White Thread,” “Another Tumbleweed,” “Paul Hann,” “High Test” and “Hometown Hero.” It also includes 8-track cassettes of “A Fine White Thread,” “Another Tumbleweed,” and “Paul Hann.” This subseries also features commercially released compilation albums featuring Paull Hann, including “In the Dawning: A Story of Canada” on 12 in. vinyl as well as compact disc. It also includes “The ACME Sausage Company,” a compilation of CKUA radio featuring a performance by Paul Hann. Finally, this subseries includes the limited release compact disc “Acrid Smoke and Amber Drink: The Lost Songs of Pete White and Paul Hann 1968-1978.”
Subseries Two: Original Recordings and Digital Transfers includes various recordings made by White and Hann on ¼ in. audio tape as well as 2 in. audio tape. This includes registration demos for BMI, outtakes, unreleased singles, interim mixes, and master recordings of songs and albums. This also includes recordings made by Paul Hann and the band Canadian Club for CKUA radio. Finally, this subseries includes digital transfers of audio tapes to compact disc.
Subseries Three: Film and Television Soundtracks
This subseries includes recordings made by White and Hann for film and television soundtracks on ¼ in. audio tape. This includes compositions for “The Parent Puzzle,” “Faces of Yesterday: History of Schooling in Alberta”, “Prairie Years,” and “Come Alive.”
Subseries Four: Songs Lists, Lyrics, Chronologies includes records related to White’s songwriting and publishing career with Paul Hann. Records in this subseries include songs lists and publisher share information, music and lyrics, contracts, and correspondence.
Subseries Five: Business Affairs includes records related to the business and management side of White’s work with Paul Hann. Included in this subseries are correspondence, performance contracts, mechanical license agreements, songwriting and publishing agreements, recording contracts, original music service agreements and composers’ agreements, song registration forms, and royalties statements.
Subseries Six: Promo Materials and Photos includes records related to the promotional aspects of White’s work with Paul Hann. Included in this subseries are press kits, aggregated reviews, and promotional photographs.
Subseries Seven: Clippings and Ephemera includes newspaper and magazine clippings related to White and Hann’s music career, as well as festival and performance programmes. This subseries also includes copies of the book “The Game of Our Lives” by Peter Gzowski, which includes the lyrics to White and Hann’s song “Hometown Hero” in its preface.
Series Two: Screenwriting includes records related to White’s screenwriting career, and it has been arranged into the following subseries based on a career chronology provided by the creator:
Subseries One: One-Off Short Films includes records related to short films written by White. Records in this subseries include screenplays, shooting scripts, and script outlines. Works represented in this subseries include: “Starting Over,” “The Treasure,” “Generations”, “The Ballet Class,” “Snowbirds,” “Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame,” and “Scarlet Heritage.”
Subseries Two: Television Series includes records related to television shows written by White. Records in this subseries include screenplays, shooting scripts, treatments, outlines and premises, episode screeners and dubs, correspondence, press clippings, show prep memos, cast lists, shooting schedules, day out of days schedules, beat sheets, and notes. Works represented in this subseries include: “The Parent Puzzle,” “Stony Plain,” “The Beachcombers,” “Danger Bay,” “The Campbells,” “Bordertown,” “Airwolf II,” “Family Pictures,” “War of the Worlds,” “Jericho 911,” “Northwood” and “Da Vinci’s Inquest.”
Subseries Three: Television Movies includes records related to television movies written by White. Records in this subseries include correspondence, treatments, outlines, screenplays, shooting scripts, production stills, promotional one-sheets, crew lists, call sheets, press clippings, preliminary VHS screeners, a production cap and crew t-shirt, as well as research interviews on audio tape. Works represented in this subseries include: “Striker’s Mountain,” “The Legend of Ruby Silver,” and “Peacekeepers.”
Subseries Four: Screenplays includes records related to screenplays written by White. Records in this subseries include screenplays, one-sheets, film proposals, and research materials. Works represented in this series include: “Four by Four,” “Slug Addiction: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale”, “Nighthawk Crossing” (also known as “Crossing the Line”), “Scarlet Ladies,” “Mungo” and ‘Love and Genius.”
Subseries Five: Mini-Series includes records related to mini-series written by White. Records in this subseries include screenplays, development and series outlines, correspondence, notes, outlines, beat sheets, writer’s agreement and transfer of rights agreement, and research reports. Works represented in this subseries include: “The Temptations of Big Bear,” “Mountain Men,” “The Columbia Dams,” “Midnight Son,” “Thompson & Tyrell” and “The On-to-Ottawa Trek.”
Subseries Six: Movie Treatments includes records related to movie treatments written by White. Records in this series include treatments, synopses, and outlines. Works in this subseries include: “Bernie & The Guy,” “Craig’s Man,” “Lawrence After Arabia,” and “The Flying Bandit.”
Subseries Seven: Pitches includes records related to various pitches written by White. Records in this series include one-sheet pitches, story pitches, synopses, outlines, notes and research materials. Works in this series include, but are not limited to “Headless Valley,” “The Cheaters,” “Fall of a Prince,” and “Detachment.”
Subseries Eight: Screenwriting Projects Research Materials consists of records related to research done by White, predominantly pertaining to a potential series entitled “The Denisons of Canada.” Records in this subseries include grant applications, correspondence, a television series treatment, and a project description. It also includes a substantial amount of research materials, including books, book and journal excerpts, copies of historical records including maps, photographs, correspondence and diaries, archival finding aids, genealogical records, and bibliographies. Also included in this subseries are research files for a potential new instalment of “Peacekeepers,” set in Cyprus, in 1974, as well as research for a project entitled “Graveyard of the Pacific.”
Subseries Nine: Awards consists of awards and nominations received by White over the course of his screenwriting career. Included in this series are Gemini nomination certificates for “Striker’s Mountain,” “The Legend of the Ruby Silver,” and “Peacekeepers.” It also includes awards statuettes from the Writer’s Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards, for “Ruby Silver” and “Peacekeepers.”
Subseries Ten: Miscellaneous Files includes records labeled as miscellaneous by the creator, as well as records not easily ascribed to a particular title or production. Records in this series include correspondence, WGC project registrations for various titles, matted postcards, research clippings, a brochure for White’s production company (Kicking Horse Productions), writer’s contracts and purchase agreements, and a disc containing professional photographs of White.
Subseries Eleven: Books and Reference Materials consists of books related to White’s screenwriting career. Works in this series include “Telling It: Writing for Canadian Film and Television,” (which includes a chapter by White), and “Big Screen Country: Making Movies in Alberta.” It also includes two screenplays not written by White, a book about the Avro Arrow, and an Orenda Engines branded lighter.
Series Three: Digital Print Writing includes records related to White’s digital print writing work (including novels, novelizations, and memoirs). Included in this series is a copy of White’s novel, Crimea Sabre, as well as printing order details pertaining to this book. Also included in this series are research clippings pertaining to “Crimea Sabre.” This series also includes an essay by White about the founding of the Council of Canadians. This series also includes personal short stories, genealogical research records (including family trees, correspondence, copies of military service records, and scans of family photos), and a small amount of White’s personal materials (high school report cards, membership cards, track and field ribbons).
Series Four: Writer’s Guild of Canada includes records related to White’s work with the ACTRA Writer’s Guild as well as the Writer’s Guild of Canada, and the arrangement is largely based on the creator’s original order. Records in this series include correspondence, clippings, policy and discussion papers, policy proposals, lists of guild personnel and portfolios, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, forum and working group agendas, priorities and action items lists, speeches, and notes. It also includes a full run of “The WGC News” newsletter, as well as a run of “Canadian Screenwriter” magazines from White’s time as Guild president. Finally, this subseries includes a USB key of digital files relating to White’s time as WGC president.
Series Five: Kaslo/Kootenays and Mining includes records related to White’s time as a miner, resident of Kaslo, British Columbia, and work with the Kootenay Lake Historical Society. Records in this series include newspaper and magazine clippings and brochures pertaining to home design and home building. It also includes research and copies of archival materials pertaining to the history of mining in British Columbia. It also includes historical publications by the Geological Survey of Canada, and books pertaining to the Kootenays, including a first edition of the 1888 travelogue “A Ramble In British Columbia.”

Pete White

Page 1

Tenth anniverdary of the establishment of the congregation in Toronto.

Page 2

Reverend Ken Imai on stage.

Page 3

Top photograph Ken Imai gives communion. - Bottom photograph Rector Judd greets a parishoner.

Page 4

Group photograph of the congregation.

Page 5

Group photograph of the congregation.

Page 8

Left is the news clipping which appeared in The Anglican. - Right photograph is of Rev. H. Kano.

Page 9

Top photograph features 5 men around a table during a Great Christina Rally, sponsored by St. Andrew's with support of the two Japanese papers and the JCCA. - Bottom photograph features Rev. Hisanori Kano, Ken Imai, and another man.

Page 11

Top photograph is of St. Alban the Mrtyr, on Howland Ave. where the first service took place on October 15, 1961. Bottom photograph is of the sign infront of the cathedral.

Page 15

William Ross Macdonald walks towards the church.

Page 16

Five visiters shake the hand of the Reverend.

Page 18

Group memorial photograph of the 25th anniversary service of the St. Andrew's Japanese anglican Congregation.

Page 19

Above the photograph is text, explaining that a Thanksgiving plaque was presented to St. James Cathedral.

Ken Biography

Photograph of a group of people, presumably in Japan. Possibly a graduating class as the group of people stand at the front of an auditorium.

Page 20

Interior of St. James Cathedral.

Page 21

Group photograph of those joining the pilgrimage to the Holy land and Cantebury, led by Ken Imai and his wife.

Page 22

Group photograph taken to comemorate the St. Andrews room renovation.

Page 23

Top of the page has the textual information in English, below is the photograph of those in attendence, and below that is text in Japanese.

Page 24

Photograph taken at the testimonial dinner for the former missionaries, held in Toronto, 1973. - Between pages 24 and 25 are loose textual material, including a timeline of St. Andrew's events, the mandate of induction of Paul Ken Imai to the incumbency of St. Andrew's Japanese Congregation, and the letter that accompanied Ken Imai's certificate of registration under the marriage act as a person authorized to solemnize marriage in the province of Ontario.

Page 25

Group photograph taken at the testimonial dinner for the former missionaries.

Page 26

The top of page has the short descriptive text. Below that is a news clipping announcing the new Canons, including Ken Imai. The bottom of the page has the photograph, where Ken Imai is in St. James Cathedral with the Bishop.

Page 27

A copy of the invitation to the Collation service. Bottom left of the page is the photograph of attendees eating and a table. The bottom right photograph is of Ken Imai.

Page 28

Group photograph taken of the reverends at a joint service of Asian Congregations at St. Andrew's.

Page 29

The top of the page has text, stating that the Renraku-kai was established in December 1975. The first image below that is of the orginal members. Bottom image is of the members years later in Sam restaurant.

Page 33

Top of the page as discriptive text. Below that is the photograph of Imai on stage. Bottom left of the page has a copy of an article written in Japanese. Bottom right of the page has a photograph of Imai shaking hands with another on stage.

Page 34

Top of the page is a large group photograph of the church school in the church. Bottom left fo the page is an image of the church school teachers. Bottom right is a child looking at a painting of the three wise men.

Page 36

Photograph at the top of page shows tents and picnic benches being set up. Middle photograph is of the Youth Group around a bench. Bottom photograph shows a tent and scenery as people set up.

Page 37

Top photograph is from the Tomonokai Picnic and shows people eating at a bench. The middle polaroid I salso of a picnic. The bottom photograph shows a child playing with their food, from a chruch picnic.

Page 38

At the top of the page is a photograph of Rev Imai at a cemetary visit. The bottom photograph is also of Imai in a cemetrary, the back of the photograph has Japanese written on it.

Page 39

Top photograph is of presumably a family, the bottom photograph is of three women. Taken at ACW Japan Night.

Page 40

First photograph shows a group holding a poster with a phone. The bottom photograph has a group where the front two people where academic hoods. Page is titled Inochi No Denwa.

Scrapbook

Scrap book covering the 50th wedding anniversary of Ken and Yachiyo Imai. It also covers the career of Ken Imai, including yearly letters and news clippings often written in Japanese. Many papers are loose between the pages of the scrap book.

Michael Murakami accession

Accrual consists of photographs and negatives collected and taken by the donor’s parents, Aiko and David Murakami. Photographs are primarily from Aiko (nee. Kondo) Murakami and her family in Victoria, B.C. The photographic negatives are primarily taken by David Murakami. They include scenes of the Steveston fishing industry, and those who worked in it. The negatives also include images from the Japanese Canadian internment camps in Kaslo and New Denver, where the family was living. There are also some family photographs and accompanying negatives of the Murakami’s and their friends in Toronto, O.N.

Beach

Mary [Matsuye] Mori, Ron Mori, Nancy Mori, Doris Mori, and an unidentified woman at Corovova [Cordova] Bay in Victoria B.C.

60th Birthday party

Peter Karutsu, Toki [Kondo], Edward, Beverly, Ban Chan [Kinu Kondo], Eichi [Kondo], Chan Chan [Shinjiro Kondo], Finks [Fumiko Kondo], Seije Mori, and Doris Mori sit around a table to celebrate a 60th birthday. Taken in Victoria, B.C.

Christening gown

Michael Murakami as a baby. He is wearing a christening gown sent to him by his cousin Fink [Fusako] Kondo from Hamilton.

Fichi

Photo of Fichi with two other men, skating in Schreiber Ontario.

Straith family

Aiko and the Straith family. Aiko worked for the Straith family as a domestic in Victoria, B.C. Mr. Straith was a lawyer there. The photograph was taken by Dave [David] Murakami when the Straith family came to visit Aiko, possibly in Nelson B.C. or Toronto O.N.

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