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Series consists of daily diaries, notebooks, dream diaries, and travel diaries kept by Braid over a period of nearly 50 years. The diaries capture her reflections on various events in her life and in the world, the progress of her writing, and relationships with her family, friends, and others.

Fonds consists of records relating to Braid's life and work as a student, teacher, carpenter, and writer.

The first five series from Braid's first donation in 1995 are comprised primarily of interview material relating to Canadian women in trades, in the form of sound recordings, transcripts, notes, and drafts of profiles generated by Kate Braid in the course of four projects: her Master's thesis (1978-1979); a convention in Holland and subsequent trip to Denmark (1984); the Labour Canada booklets (1988); and the CBC Ideas program (1990). Also includes some correspondence, logbooks and published reference material.

The next series from several additional accruals in 2009 to 2013 consist of records arising from many aspects of Braid's life. These records include drafts and notes from Braid's writing, projects for CBC Ideas, women in trades, her company, Sisters Construction, and other writing and teaching projects.

There is also a large series of correspondence, including letters and emails (printed out) between Braid and other writers, her family, and business correspondents. Finally, there is a series of Braid's diaries, which she has kept regularly from the 1960s to 2012.

The fonds is arranged in 24 series:

1. Master's thesis interviews
2. Europe interviews
3. Labour Canada interviews
4. CBC interviews
5. Women in trade
6. In Fine Form: the Canadian Book of Form Poetry
7. Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local
8. A Well-mannered Storm: the Glenn Gould Poems
9. Emily Carr: Rebel Artist
10. Inward to the Bones: Georgia Okeeffe's Journey with Emily Carr
11. Vancouver Island Highway Project Road to Equity
12. CBC Ideas: Men of the Deep
13. Appointment calendars
14. Correspondence
15. Personal and early accomplishments
16. Writing and teaching projects
17. Turning Left to the Ladies
18. Journeywoman
19. Diaries
20. First drafts and handwritten notes
21. Sisters construction
22. Publications
23. Covering Rough Ground
24. To this Cedar Fountain

Series consists of project notes, invoices, correspondence related to Braid's company Sisters Construction, which later became Sisters Productions.

Series consists of Braid's valedictory address at Mt. Allison University in 1967, her graduation photograph, ad old passports.

Series consists of publications in which Braid's writing has appeared.

Series consists of correspondence, both letters and electronic mail (printed out) of Braid's vast and wide-ranging volume of communication with colleagues, publishers, editors, fellow writers, friends, family, and lovers. Series is arranged in 3 subseries: Business correspondence, Correspondence with writers, and Personal correspondence. After 2006 the Personal correspondence subseries also contains correspondence with writers.

Subseries consists of personal correspondence with Braid's parents, siblings, friends and former lovers. In about 2006 the subseries also includes correspondence with fellow writers.

Series consists of records relating to many different writing projects in which Braid was involved, including Poetry in Transit, Poetry Train, Prosody group, Sex Death and Madness writing group, League of Canadian poets, The Fish Come in Dancing, CBC Ideas, Victoria School of Writing, and the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union, among other projects.

Series consists of records relating to Kate's prose memoir Journeywoman. The non-fiction account was originally conceived as a novel (featuring a carpenter named Kelly) but over the years evolved into a memoir. Records include drafts of the novel, drafts of the memoir, early edits, notes, and correspondence.