“Through the Lens: Building Vancouver’s History” at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Join historians John Atkin and Michael Kluckner in the Space Centre‘s digital Planetarium Star Theatre to look back at Vancouver …
Vancouver’s Home Movie Day event October 19
Vancouver will have an International Home Movie Day event this Saturday afternoon. All are welcome, even if you don’t have …
Boxes and More Boxes: Constructing Safer Housing for Panoramic Glass Plate Negatives
This post was written by Kathy Kinakin, one of our volunteers. What to do when set to the task of …
Science – how sweet it is! From sunshine to sugar, growing it right
Fifth in a series about the BC Sugar records In an earlier post we showcased the work of BC Sugar …
Vancouver Fashion Week
Next week is Vancouver Fashion Week. Let’s look at some of the records we have related to fashion. We have …
Our students – Melanie Leverich
After two terms at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC, I was lucky to spend twelve …
Our students – Cristen Polley
Since I began my archival studies degree, I have been keen to get some hands-on experience. This summer, the City …
Exploring Vancouver’s fast food past
This post was written by Christine Hagemoen. As a volunteer at the Archives, I was recently tasked with sorting through …
Camping at the Seaside: The “fashionable” thing to do in summer
From about 1894 to 1908, summer camping on the beach was considered a fashionable holiday tradition, enjoyed by many of …
Captain George Vancouver: original documents
. . . I am once more entrap’d in this infernal Ocean, and am totally at a loss to say …