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• Social Credit pamphlets and application for membership
• Article from the Canadian Unionist by L. Wicks, Minister of Labour, ‘The BC Department of Labour’ (Nov. 1953) [2 pages]
• Miscellaneous election papers, including campaign dates and posters, itineraries, and returns as of June 9 and 12, 1953
• Newspaper clippings
• Wicks statement to the press, “Wicks Thanks Dewdney Electors”
• Map of Dewdney electoral district [handwritten notes on back]
• Correspondence re campaign expenses (July 1953)

• Correspondence re natural gas for Chilliwack, flooding of the Alouette River, and natural gas rates (1956-1959)
• Newspaper clippings
• Public Utilities Commission Report re Natural Gas for the Fraser Valley, (Dec. 16, 1955)

• Department of Labour dinner menu with numerous autographs on verso (Nov. 2, 1955)
• Correspondence and statements (May 1954 to Feb. 1957), including:
  · Reeve and Councillors, Corp. District of Pitt Meadows re a grant
  · Harry Allen, Secretary Maple Ridge Board of Trade re honourary position
  · C. S. Hope re. Living/health conditions at the corner of Churchill and River Road in Vancouver (May 27; July 21; Aug. 22, 1955)
  · The Honourable P. A. Gaglardi, re Mission bridge
  · Statement by L. Wicks re Mission Bridge (Aug. 20, 1955)
  · E. E. Chase, Secretary Mission Matsqui Emergency Crossing Committee, re Fraser River (Sept. 12, 1955)
  · W. Manson and N.R. Crump, Canadian Pacific Railways re repairs to CPR bridge at Mission City (Oct. 3-19, 1955 and March 21, 1956)
  · G. Mussallem, Mussallem Motors and R. Williston, Minister of Lands and Forests of BC, re timber sales (Feb.8 to Feb. 20, 1957)
• Newspaper clippings, re Fraser River service and Mission Bridge restoration
• Press release re engineering survey to be done for a high level bridge at Mission (Nov. 1, 1955)
• "Congratulations of the Restoration of the Mission City Bridge," speech by Wicks
• Memorandum of intention re construction of a railway from the southerly end of the Rocky Mountain Trench to the northern boundary of B.C. (Nov. 16, 1956)
• Memorandum of agreement re survey of water resources (Oct. 7, 1957)
• Documents re The Sommers Case, 1955,1958 - see also file 16

File consists of records including: a Receipt for Nomination-paper (1960) and copies of approvals under the Industrial Transportation Act, some signed by Wicks, who was serving as Minister of Railways in 1957 (1956-1957). Also includes the Wicks family Christmas card, 1957

File consists of records including: background material re: the CCF government, newspaper clippings, and correspondence

• Correspondence, including references to the new Trade Unions Act
• list of general elections held in Dewdney Electoral District from 1894 to 1956
• Newspaper clippings, news releases, and pamphlets, including campaign advertisements
• transcripts of political announcements on CKNW radio (Sept. 1956)
• Meeting summary at Dewdney Memorial Hall; Hon. P. A. Gaglardi speaker
  [summary incomplete]
• Preliminary statement of votes - General election 1956
• Grants in Aid of Local Government, April, 1956
• Lists of election workers

• Miscellaneous newspaper clippings and re-election advertisements
• Correspondence (Feb. 1956 to Dec. 1956) including references to
  · re-decking Dewdney Trunk Road Bridge, (April 9, 1956)
  · 1956 local government grant, (April 17, 1956)
  · Cost of Living Bonus (Sept. 7 to Dec. 28, 1956)
• Dewdney Social Credit Association Newsletter, Sept. 5, 1956
• Re-election pamphlet for L. Wicks

• Miscellaneous correspondence, April - Aug. 1957
• 1957 BC Social Credit League Constitution & By-Laws, [2 copies]
• Newspaper clipping re inauguration of Ft. Langley Albion ferry service
• Resolutions, Social Credit Dewdney Convention, Port Coquitlam (Oct. 9, 1956)