Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
In nearly every case, “historical geodata” means a paper map. Digitizing that map gives us an image of a paper …
New in the public domain 2015
On January 1st, the copyright expired for some of our holdings: they are now in the public domain in Canada. …
Pacific National Exhibition photographs are now online
Thanks to funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program, we’ve recently completed a project to digitize over eight thousand …
November 2014 Vancity Theatre show now on YouTube
As we have before, we’ve put the video portion of last year’s Vancity screening on our YouTube channel. This does …
Happy Holidays
The Archives will be closed from noon December 24 to 9am Monday, January 5. This Christmas card was created by …
Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference 2014
In October, I attended the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in Savannah, Georgia. Here are …
Merging Time returns to the City of Vancouver Archives’ gallery
The newest Merging Time exhibit is now on display in the City of Vancouver Archives’ gallery. Since its initial showing …
A new “Through the Lens” at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
John Atkin and Michael Kluckner have curated two new “Through the Lens” shows for the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre’s digital …
There will be more than one archival screening at the Vancity Theatre this November!
This fall, the City of Vancouver Archives will present its fifth annual screening “Vancouver – A Progressive City!” at the …
Bring out your film and video! It’s Home Movie Day 2014
Join amateur-film enthusiasts, film and video archivists, and your neighbours for Home Movie Day 2014, this Saturday, October 18 at …