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Political career records

series1960-2001, predominant 1972-2001F-347-3

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Held by
Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department via Simon Fraser University Archives & Special Collections
Dates
1960-2001, predominant 1972-2001 (indexed as 1960–2001)
Level
series
Extent
Analog materials: 3.85 m of textual records ca. 1,857 photographs ca. 218 newspaper issues 39 artefacts : 24 pins and button pins; 5 tote bags; 2 plastic yard signs; 3 rubber stamps; 1 desk flag; 1 spoon; 1 medal 11 multiple media disks: 8 3.5-inch floppy disks, 2 zip disk, 1 CD-ROM 1 audiocassette 1 mini-cassette 1 map Digitized materials: 1 sound recording (464.2 MB): wav (preservation copies), mp3 (access copies) - audiocassette 2 sound recordings (546.4 MB): wav (preservation copies), mp3 (access copies) - mini-cassette Born-digital materials: Zip disks: 200 MB textual records and other materials - zip disks
Scope & content
Series consists of records relating to Andrew Petter's political career from the early 1970s to the end of his second term as MLA in 2001. Activities and topics documented include Petter's early political work as a Ministerial Assistant for MLA Lorne Nicolson and involvement with the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the 1970s; campaign activities and election as NDP MLA for Saanich South in the 1991 provincial election; activities as MLA from 1991 to 2001, including constituency events and communications, speaking engagements, activities in several cabinet positions, the Nisga'a Treaty Final Agreement of 1998, BC NDP conventions from 1995 to 1997, and the 1998 Auditor General of BC's review of the estimates process in BC ("Morfitt Report"). Records include campaign materials, promotional materials and advertisements, publications and reports, correspondence, speaking notes, schedules, ministerial scrapbooks, reference materials, photographs, conference materials, awards and certificates, briefing materials, strategic planning materials, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and other materials. Series is arranged chronologically into three sub-series: \- [F-347-3-1](f--347-3-1): Early political work (1960-1990, predominant 1972-1979) \- [F-347-3-2](f--347-3-2): 1991 election records (1989-1997, predominant 1989-1991) \- [F-347-3-3](f--347-3-3): Member of the Legislative Assembly records (1979-2001, predominant 1991-2001)
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Genre / form
Textual records; Photographic materials; Multiple media
Language
chi, English, French, Italian
Access & use
Series includes copyright-protected materials owned by third parties (e.g. creators of reference materials, authors of incoming correspondence, newspaper publishers, photographers); for more information on using third-party protected materials, see the note on *Terms governing use* at the [fonds level](f-347). The bulk of the files are open without restrictions. Some files include a small number of documents that contain personal information; access to these documents is restricted, though the remainder of the file is open ("open with enclosures"). Some files are restricted in whole because they contain a substantial amount of personal information ("restricted"). Some files must be reviewed by an archivist for personal information before access can be provided ("pending review"). See the file lists and consult the reference archivist for more information.
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