The Archives at Vancity Theatre – A Distant Mirror & Reflecting the City
The Archives returns to the Vancity Theatre this November with Vancouver – A Distant Mirror. Over the summer, we worked …
Friends of the Vancouver Archives Photographic Cold Storage Facility
We have a specialized, custom-built freezer to provide the highest standard of care for the storage of our photographic materials. …
Putting the Goad’s 1912 Plan into Open Historical Map
We’ve had great response to making Goad’s 1912 Fire Insurance map available as a Vanmap layer and as downloadable open …
More improvements to our online search
We’ve recently updated our online search to add a few new features. DATE SEARCH In response to your suggestions, we …
Map repaired with a blank ballot
This year, we received funding from the B.C. History Digitization Program to digitize more maps and plans from our holdings. …
Association of Canadian Archivists Conference 2015
In June, I attended the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) annual conference in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Association of Canadian Archivists …
Our digitized maps are now available in TIF format
This post is of special interest to the mapping community and may be too technical for some researchers. We digitize …
Microfilm Scanners
In the last couple of years, we’ve been replacing our old, analogue microform reader-printers with new digital microform scanners. We’d …
Our online search has been upgraded
You may have noticed that our SearchArchives database looks a little different. For example, the information for a full record …
1912 historical layer now available in Vanmap
With funding from the City’s Chief Digital Officer and in collaboration with the City’s GIS and Open Data teams, there …