Historical zoning maps available
We’ve made a group of zoning maps available online. These are frequently consulted by our researchers, so we’ve made them …
Third wave of BC Sugar records now available
We are pleased to announce the public release of the third batch of records from the British Columbia Sugar Refining …
Map of New Westminster District – a collaboration
We have a very large and rare 1905 map in our holdings that was dirty and falling apart. Last year, …
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 …