Denman Island Seniors and Museum Society (DSMS) fonds

DENMAN ISLAND SENIORS AND MUSEUM SOCIETY fonds  –  1980 – present – 8 cm. of textual material and photos and plans and maps

The Denman Island Seniors and Museum Society (DSMS) was incorporated on Oct. 22, 1980 by the members of the previous Denman Seniors Society in order to house the private museum collection of Doras Kirk and to construct a building for Seniors activities. The land on which the building sits was donated to the organization by Dr. Tess Truman, the president of the society at the time who also spearheaded the fundraising for the building. Construction was begun in 1982 and completed in 1984. The present museum addition was opened in 1995.

The fonds consists of :

(A.18.36.1-3) Loc.A-H-1 Founding documents; letters, photos, plans, drawings, contracts, constitution, clippings pertaining to the organization, fundraising and construction of the Activity centre and Museum in the early years 1980 – 1985. There are many letters to and from Tess Truman.

(A.18.11.8) Loc.A-F-1  Doras Kirk – Seniors Hall Construction;  photos of construction of the activity centre (gym) and fashion show and dinner fundraiser in the new building (1983) mounted on construction paper; clippings on the opening of the first phase of the hall (1981) and on the second phase, the activity centre, (1983-84) all mounted for display. Doras Kirk, Tess Truman, Lt. Gov. Rogers

(A.18.81) Loc.A-B-1 DSMS album of events; photos of construction of museum addition to the seniors building (1994): photos of Hawaiian themed fundraiser (1994); one clipping.

(A.18.94) Loc.Maps   Air photo map of Denman village for DSMS (2011).

(A.22.15) Loc.A-H-11 –  DSMS Minutes 2019-2021 approx. 100 pp. of minutes from DSMS meetings collected by Tony Gregson.

See also (A18.34.22) Loc.A-H-3 Seniors Hall and Museum in the Doras Kirk Collection and (A.18.34.6) Loc.A-H-3 Museums – Denman Isl. In the Doras Kirk Collection

DWELL DESIGN STUDIO sous fonds – 2011 – one map

(A.18.94) – Loc.Maps  –  Map – Denman Island Village Project is an air photo map of Denman village (downtown Denman) produced by Dwell Design Studio for the Denman Seniors and Museum Society. It contains proposals for a system of pathways for the village core. It is in colour and 60 x 90 cm.