More digitized maps are available in TIF format
This post is of special interest to the mapping community and may be too technical for some researchers. This is …
Our Expo 86 holdings
Thirty years ago on May 2, 1986, Vancouver’s World’s Fair, Expo 86, was officially opened by TRH Charles, Prince of …
Happy Birthday, City of Vancouver
Today is Incorporation Day, marking 130 years since the City was officially incorporated. The City of Vancouver is 130 years …
Over 2100 more maps are now online
Thanks to funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program, we’ve recently completed a project to digitize over 2100 maps …
New Gallery Exhibit – Postcard Views
A new exhibit, titled Postcard Views: Classic Vancouver Postcards in Drawings and Paintings, is now showing at the City of …
Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference 2015
In late November, I attended the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in Portland, Oregon. Here …
Our Goad’s Vanmap project won a Heritage BC award
We’re pleased to announce that our project to create a historical layer in Vanmap from the 1912 Goad’s Fire Insurance …
iPRES International Conference on Digital Preservation 2015
This past November I attended iPRES 2015. iPRES is one of the foremost international conferences on digital preservation, and the …
New in the public domain 2016
On January 1st, the copyright expired for some of our holdings: they are now in the public domain in Canada. …