SAA 2017 Annual Meeting – Alike/Different
Last July, I was among the many archivists who, seduced by legends of the land of milk and honey food …
Vancouver property tax records to 2005 now available at the Archives
We are pleased to announce that after a significant transfer of records from the Revenue Services Department, the Archives can …
Hugh Pickett Gala
The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives with the support of Famous Artists, is hosting the Hugh Pickett Gala, Monday, …
Habitat Forum photographs now online
Thanks to funding from the Friends of the Vancouver City Archives and the generous support of a private donor we …
Vancouver’s unbuilt leisure palace
While working on rehousing some of our map collection, I recently came across drawings from one of the more interesting …
Association of Canadian Archivists Conference 2017
In early June, I attended the annual Association of Canadian Archivists conference in Ottawa. The theme was Archives, disrupted – …
Preserving the City’s website with Archive-It
We are pleased to announce that we have begun preserving and providing access to crawls (snapshots) of the City’s website …
What a gem! The Toni Cavelti fonds
We are pleased to announce that descriptions and accompanying scans for the records of prominent Vancouver-based jeweller Toni Cavelti are …
Architectural photographs: the Art Grice fonds
We have recently made descriptions and high-resolution scans available for the photographs in the Art Grice fonds. We have also …
Significant changes to our online search
NOTE: The clipboard feature described below is currently unavailable. We are working on the problem. Our online search has been …