Happy Holidays
The Archives will be closed from noon December 22 to 9am Wednesday, January 2, 2018. This greeting card “wishing health, …
Legacy Open Data Sets Now Available
We’re very pleased to announce that legacy versions of the City’s open data sets are now available through our online …
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 …
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 …