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On the house history hunt for 2116 Maple Street – Part 1: Fire Insurance Maps, Water Service Records and Building Permit Registers

House history research is one of the most common reasons people find their way to the Archives. As such, we …

Last July, I was among the many archivists who, seduced by legends of the land of milk and honey food …

We are pleased to announce that after a significant transfer of records from the Revenue Services Department, the Archives can …

The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives with the support of Famous Artists, is hosting the Hugh Pickett Gala, Monday, …

Thanks to funding from the Friends of the Vancouver City Archives and the generous support of a private donor we …

While working on rehousing some of our map collection, I recently came across drawings from one of the more interesting …

In early June, I attended the annual Association of Canadian Archivists conference in Ottawa. The theme was Archives, disrupted – …

We are pleased to announce that we have begun preserving and providing access to crawls (snapshots) of the City’s website …

We are pleased to announce that descriptions and accompanying scans for the records of prominent Vancouver-based jeweller Toni Cavelti are …

We have recently made descriptions and high-resolution scans available for the photographs in the Art Grice fonds. We have also …