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 …
Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference 2016
This past November I attended the 2016 conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It took place in …
New in the public domain 2017
On January 1st, the copyright expired for some of our holdings: they are now in the public domain in Canada. …
Happy Holidays
The Archives will be closed from noon December 23 to 9am Tuesday, January 3. This 1957 Christmas card to the …