Colecci?n C10 - Alain Boire collection

Área de título y declaración de responsabilidad

Título apropiado

Alain Boire collection

Tipo general de material

  • Documento textual
  • Material gr?fico
  • Objeto
  • Material cartogr?fico
  • Moviendo im?genes

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Título notas

  • Fuente del t?tulo: Title based on the contents of the collection

Nivel de descripción

Colecci?n

Institución archivística

Código de referencia

CA CCOQ C10

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Declaración de responsabilidad de edición

Área de detalles específicos de la clase de material

Mención de la escala (cartográfica)

Mención de proyección (cartográfica)

Mención de coordenadas (cartográfica)

Mención de la escala (arquitectónica)

Jurisdicción de emisión y denominación (filatélico)

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Fecha(s)

Área de descripción física

Descripción física

1.15 m of textual records
233 photographs : multiple processes ; b&w and col. ; multiple dimensions
46 contact sheets : b&w and col. ; multiple dimensions
1.71 MB of digital textual records
1.19 MB of digital photographs
368.12 MB of digital video materials
6 embossing seals : grey and blue metal ; multiple dimensions
2 CD-Rs : 4 KB of digital audio materials
1 map : b&w ; photocopy ; annotated ; 61 x 231 cm
1 glass milk jar lid : cardboard, red and blue ink

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Nota en las series editoriales

Área de descripción del archivo

Nombre del productor

(1957–)

Historia biográfica

Alain (Al) Joseph Boire (1957–) is an author, founding member and first president of the Maillardville Residents’ Association (MRA), and an active and passionate advocate for the Maillardville community.

Boire was born in Maillardville on October 15, 1957. He was raised in a French Canadian family and spent his formative years in the Maillardville community. He attended Notre Dame de Lourdes school, St. Thomas More Collegiate, École Montgomery Middle School, and Centennial School. Boire became a professional home inspector, and resided in Maillardville for most of his life.

Boire has been active in the Maillardville community in many ways. In 1981–1985, he was the Director of Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church, and during 2000–2005, Boire served as the director of Village Credit Union. Concerned with the developments in the community, Boire and a group of neighbours joined and founded the MRA in 2005, where Boire became the first president. The MRA was very active between the years of 2005 and 2011 and Boire was instrumental in starting long-standing community initiatives, such as its “Clean Up Maillardville” days, an Adopt-a-Street program, a Forum on Crime and a community website and directory. Boire was a founding member of the Maillardville Commercial and Cultural Revitalization task force committee on the MRA. Additionally, Boire joined the board of Place Maillardville Community in 2006, where he was Executive Director from 2011 to 2013.

In 2009, on behalf of the MRA, Boire completed research into the history of Maillardville for the community’s centenary. On their website they published ten short biographies each month on a specific decade in Maillardville’s history. Over the next seven years Boire intermittently returned to the project. In honour of Coquitlam’s 125th anniversary in 2016, Boire completed his research and published his book, "With Hearts and Minds: Maillardville, 100 Years of History on the West Coast of BC."

Boire was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012. In 2018, Boire and his family moved to Smiths Falls, Ontario.

Historial de custodia

The materials were accumulated and created by Al Boire for his book about the history of Maillardville, "With Hearts and Minds." The collection also includes materials from Caisse Populaire that were given to him when the assets were sold to VanCity Credit Union. The remainder of the collection was accumulated by Al Boire in the course of exercising his duties on a number of boards and organizations like the Maillardville Residents' Association and Place Maillardville. They were transferred to the City of Coquitlam Archives in 2018.

Alcance y contenido

The collection consists largely of research materials and notes created in the preparation of Boire's book "With Hearts and Minds" published in 2016. The remainder of the collection consists of materials collected by Boire from Caisse Populaire Maillardville Credit Union, as well as accumulated material pertaining to Boire’s involvement in several community initiatives, such as the Maillardville Residents' Association, Maillardville revitalization and planning, and Place Maillardville.

Materials include correspondence, photographs, administrative records, interviews, reports, handwritten notes, clippings, advertising and professional materials, newsletters, research materials, prints, postcards, ephemera, a map, embossing seals, a lid from a glass milk bottle, and other documents. The collection also includes a manuscript copy of “With Hearts and Minds”.

Área de notas

Condiciones físicas

Some photographs in the collection were pasted back to back to a sheet of paper; removing them would have damaged the records so the archivist kept the photographs in their received state.

Arreglo

The collection did not have any discernable original order; therefore, the archivist re-arranged the collection into three series based on function to increase the ease of use by researchers.The archivist used formal titles whenever possible, but some file titles are supplied.

Idioma del material

  • inglés
  • francés

Escritura del material

Ubicación de los originales

Disponibilidad de otros formatos

The key to Boire's map subdivisions as well as the Caisse Populaire of Maillardville display materials are available in a digital format.

Restricciones de acceso

Boire's manuscript, the CBC broadcast in his research materials, as well as some photographs are under copyright.

Condiciones de uso, reproducción, y publicación

Instrumentos de descripción

File list available.

Materiales asociados

Acumulaciones

No further accruals are expected.

Identificador/es alternativo(os)

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Número estándar

Puntos de acceso

Puntos de acceso por autoridad

Área de control

Área de Ingreso