Walt Taylor fonds - 2002.9 - View Finding Aid

The records illustrate activities of Walt Taylor (1919-2002) as a social activist in the Okanagan region of B.C. in the 1970s, and his involvement with political-environmental activist movements in the Bulkley Valley-Telkwa-Smithers area c.1980s-1990s. The Taylor fonds includes records of the Skeena Round Table for a Sustainable Society, the Northwest Study Conference Society and the Waging Peace Society; as well as, background research compiled for Taylor’s publication Waging Peace for a Living: An Action Plan for survival of life on earth (1999).

Holdings: 5.1 metres of textual records including:

• correspondence to and from activist organizations
• circulars to society members
• background papers on social activist issues
• background reports on BC First Nations environmental and land claims issues
• background studies on environmental & economic impacts of industrial developments proposed for Northern BC,
• newspaper clippings
• various publications

These records are of significance relating to proposed economic developments:

• open-pit mining
• fishing and forestry policies
• nuclear power
• documents pertaining to political-environmental actions conducted by Northern BC stakeholders such as First Nations (Gitskan and Wet'su'wet'en)
• NGO’s such as the Telkwa Educational Action Committee of Householders