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- Source of title proper: Title is based on the name of the archaeological project.
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1978-1980 (Creation)
- Creator
- Michael W. Cranny
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1950 - 1952, 1978 - 1980; predominant 1950 - 1952. (Creation)
- Creator
- Charles E. Borden
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Charles Edward Borden was born May 15, 1905 in New York City, raised in Germany. Returned to the United States and graduated from Berkeley with in M.A. in 1933 and then a Ph.D. in 1937 in German literature. After the war Borden began to become interested in Archaeology in British Columbia. He quickly progressed from amateur to professional and in 1949 was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology in the Departement of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in addition to keeping his position in the German department.
In 1945 Borden began to organize and conduct salvage archaeology projects in the face of development and the destruction of archaeological sites. After many years of lecturing, and serving on committees and boards, Borden played a major role in the passage by the British Columbia Legislature of the Archaeological Sites Protection Act in 1960.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Michael William Cranny is a Canadian author and archaeological scholar based in Victoria, B.C. Born in Liverpool, England, Cranny grew up in southern Ontario before moving to B.C. to complete his post-secondary education at the University of British Columbia. His Master of Arts degree was titled "Carrier settlement and subsistence in the Chinlac/Cluculz Lake area of Central British Columbia" and focused on the Chunlac Village site. Cranny later entered the Doctor of Philosophy program at UBC, focusing on education and history from 1998 - 2002 without completing a dissertation.
Cranny currently resides in Victoria and is the author of the Archie Stevens mystery series, as well as authoring a number of articles on archaeology and education.
Custodial history
Records from the Chunlac [Chinlac] Village Project has been in the custody of the Lab of Archaeology since it was received after the 1952 field season. During 1978 - 1980, Michael Cranny, a student at the University of British Columbia, investigated the Chunlac Village Project conducted by Charles Borden for his Master of Arts thesis which was submitted in May of 1986. Records produced by Cranny have been in the custody of LOA since being submitted in 1986.
In 2011, the collection was re-housed in the current LOA archives location (room 221A at MOA) and arranged and described to best reflect the original order in which Dr. Charles Borden created and maintained them. Borden stored records related to his archaeological activity separated by document type. This practice, as a way of filing for Borden, continued to be used by LOA in the post-Borden era (1978-present).
In 2023, the collection was rearranged and described to include new files and to better organize existing material to reflect the project’s history. File 2 of Series 4 was incorporated into the fonds in 2023, originally located in the “Interior Arch Survey, Series 3.”
Scope and content
The Chunlac [Chinlac] Village Project fond contains all of the records related to the archaeological activity that took place at Chunlac including the archaeological survey and excavation project conducted under the name “Chinlac” by Dr. Charles E. Borden and other participants during 1950 and 1952. Artifact records and related material from Michael Cranny's investigations from 1978-1986 are also included in this fonds.
The fonds is arranged into 4 series:
1 - Maps
2 - Field Notes
3 - Artifact Records
4 - Photographs
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- Michael W. Cranny (Creator)
- Charles E. Borden (Creator)
- John Henry "Jack" Sewell (Contributor)
- Alan Lyle Bryan (Contributor)
- Roy L. Carlson (Contributor)
- Martin Paul Robert "Marty" Magne (Contributor)