Gray's Publishing fonds. [1962-1978].

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Gray's Publishing fonds. [1962-1978].

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The fonds consists of records documenting the administrative and operational activities of Gray's Publishing Ltd., including financial records, files relating to promotion and advertising, drafts of books published by Gray's and books initially accepted but never published; book lists and correspondence of the B.C. Department of Education; correspondence with authors, book and magazine publisher, lawyers and accountants; book publishing surveys conducted by Statistics Canada; guest books signed by attendees at publishing conferences; and material relating to bankruptcy including past due accounts and lists of creditors. There is correspondence and are manuscripts from about 70 authors. These include Lewis Clark, George Clutesi, Sister Mary Margaret Down, Godfrey Halloway, S.W. Jackman, Lawrence Jackson, Charles Lillard, Harry Marriott, Hazel O'Neail, Thead Pearse, Sarian Stump and Allen Wright.

18.5 m of textual records.

University of Victoria Libraries, UVic

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University of Victoria Libraries, UVic

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Campbell, Gray, 1912-2000.

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Gray Campbell was born in Ottawa in 1912 and joined the RCMP in 1929 and was posted to Banff, Alberta. In 1939 he resigned from the RCMP and joined the RAF. He taught pilot training at Cranwell College, England and then in Swift Current Sask. before piloting Lancaster bombers in WWII. He received the DFC. He married Eleanor Benson of Yorkshire in 1941. After the war they established a ranch in southern Alberta, as related in Campbell's book, We Found Peace (later expanded in Butter Side Up). The...

Gray's Publishing Limited (Sidney, B.C.)

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Gray's Publishing Ltd. was established in 1962 in Sidney, B.C., by Gray Campbell, who moved to Sidney from the Prairies in the late 1950s. It sought to reach the regional Canadian market and publish books of particular interest to western Canadians. Gray's published some 70 titles in all, including George Clutesi's "Potlatch" and "Son of Raven, Son of Deer"; S.W. Jackman's "Portraits of the Premiers"; and histories of the B.C. fishing industry and gold rush days, as well as textbooks on mathemat...