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Hornby Island Wine Club Collection

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Hornby Island Community Archives

R.G. 40

Acc. No.: 2020-01-22/103

Finding aid created by Regan Fahey

Last updated: January 2020

Title: Hornby Island Wine Club Collection

Level of description: Collection

General material designation: textual records and graphic materials

Extent: 13 cm

Creator(s): Hornby Island Wine Club aka Hornby Island Wine Makers Club

Dates of creation: 1992-2017

Administrative history: Established in 1992 by David Fuller “the club” (as it was referred to) was intended to encourage the improvement of individual wine making skills by sharing information and ideas regarding materials, techniques and processes as well as through social and competitive means. The club met monthly (with the exception of July and August) for tastings and competitions of homemade and store bought wine. On occasion some members travelled on trips together to the wine of regions of British Columbia.

Scope and content: Administrative files of the Wine Club, photographs of wine tasting excursions some members attended and ephemera.

Source of supplied title: Title is based on the creator of this collection

Immediate source of acquisition: Christl Hansen, a member of the Wine Makers Club, donated the material to the Hornby Island Community Archives in December 2019.

Arrangement: The majority of records were labeled and filed in binders upon their arrival to the Archives. The lables and original physical order of the materials have been retained in the archival arrangement. Some loose papers accomponied the binders and have been arranged in chronological order.

Language of materials: English

Record no.: 40

Repository: Hornby Island Community Archives

Finding aids: Finding aid available with file level control

Accruals: Further accruals are not expected

File Inventory

Box 1

1-1 Hornby Island Wine Club, 1992-2008

Re: labels, treasurer and minutes

1-2 Hornby Island Wine Club, 1994-2000

Re: minutes, treasurer, membership, correspondence, AGM minutes, operating procedures, and competitions

1-3 Hornby Island Wine Club, 1993-1999

Re: membership, programs, trips, competitions, judging, trip planning, correspondence and AGM Year End Reports

1-4 Hornby Island Wine Club, 2002-2008

Re: finance and AGM

1-5 Hornby Island Wine Club, 2001-2008

Re: constitutions and by-laws,operating procedures,programmes and minutes

1-6 Minutes and Correspondence, 2003, 2005, 2007-2012, 2014-2017

1-7 Photographs, 2015 (24 photographs on 5 sheets of photo paper)

Re: wine tasting trip to Kelowna and Summerland

1-8 Scrapbook and Photograph Album, 1993 (36 photographs)

1-9 Ephemera n.d, 2002, 2012

Re: Constitution and bylaws, logo, certificate, judging standards, lables, and 10th and 20th Anniversay dinner menu’s