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Anon attended a literary event which featured and after party on the 2'nd floor where the "image bank" was housed in dozens filing cabinets. They may have digitized but they will not have destroyed archives.
>For many years, Vancouver has been home to several prominent figures in esoteric history, and centre for many esoteric and occult groups. For example, the North Shore was home to Charles Stansfeld Jones, better known as Frater Achad, who was considered the magical child of Aleister Crowley: the most notorious magician of the 20th century. Jones and Malcolm Lowry were friends, and Lowry’s personal library held many fascinating esoteric works, many by Jones or Crowley.
>On display at Rare Books and Special Collections will be works that are fundamental to esoteric thought, and esoteric works that have an interesting connection to major figures or organizations in British Columbia. Many might know that Malcolm Lowry had a long standing interest in the occult, and that Robin Skelton was a practicing witch. But did you also know that Alexander Maitland Stephens, the prominent Marxist and poet, was the head of a Theosophical lodge in downtown Vancouver? That there was a Rosicrucian temple in Vancouver? Or that there have been thriving Freemasonic lodges in British Columbia since 1860?
https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Magick-Occult-meetup/
The MI6 agent who brought 'LSD to the US was Humphry Osmond. He was in the Uranium mining business, and promoted his deals on what was then the Vancouver mining exchange", ran booze to the US during prohibition and trafficked in other contraband. Osmond was a member of the Royal Vancouver Yacht club - records might still be accessible. Found a bit on him in the city archive 10 years ago - but search was not exhaustive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Osmond