About The Bloggers

Main contributors
Leslie Mobbs is the City Archivist and Director of the Records and Archives Division of the City of Vancouver.

Heather Gordon is the manager of the City of Vancouver Archives and is responsible for its day to day operations. She serves as the primary editor of AuthentiCity.

Sue Bigelow is a Digital Conservator who is responsible for the preservation of both analogue and digital holdings and for our digitization program.

From 2009 to 2012 Courtney Mumma was one of our Digital Archivists responsible for managing, preserving and providing access to born-digital acquisitions.

Chak Yung is an Archivist responsible for managing and providing access to City government and private sector records.

Glenn Dingwall is a Digital Archivist responsible for developing policies, procedures and requirements for the Archives’ Digital Preservation Programme.

Cindy McLellan is a Project Archivist who is responsible for managing, preserving and providing access to digital, moving image and analogue records for specific projects – which now includes the B.C. Sugar fonds.  She also coordinates the volunteers.

Jill Teasley is one of our Digital Archivists responsible for managing, preserving and providing access to born-digital acquisitions.

Rosaleen Hill is an auxiliary Digital Conservator who is responsible for the preservation of both analogue and digital holdings.

Melanie Hardbattle is an auxiliary Archivist who is responsible for the processing of both city government and private sector records.

Jeffery Chong is an auxiliary archival assistant, who last year, was responsible for the outreach coordination of Vancouver 125 events.

Jesse Cumming completed a Communications internship at the Archives during the summer of 2012 as part of completing his degree at Concordia University in Montreal.

Archives staff
On staff are  archivists, conservators and technicians who  preserve our holdings and make them available.  They will show you what they do and feature  specific records, events, donors, researchers and new acquisitions.

Students
Graduate students fulfilling professional experience or internship requirements come from archival and conservation programs throughout the world.  Every year, we are privileged to have a new group of passionate students.  They will be sharing their experiences, observations and projects.