Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia

The Elders Council is an independent society, whose members are retired parks system employees and conservation advocates who have dedicated a significant portion of their lives to parks and protected areas in B.C.

This collection consists of video history interviews with park pioneers, as well as some events, created by EKOS Communications in partnership with the Elders Council for Parks of British Columbia to commemorate the 100th anniversary of BC Parks in 2011 and audio recordings of oral histories related to the development of BC Parks.

The Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia video history collection was digitized through the support of the BC History Digitization Program, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. Description of the c.1970s-1990s audio histories was supported with a gift from the Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia.

Please note that some of these records contain derogatory language describing Indigenous, Japanese, and Chinese peoples. There are also graphic descriptions of cruelty towards animals as well as graphic descriptions of deceased persons.

Collection thumbnail from the Elders Council for Parks BC website https://www.elderscouncilforparks.ca

Resource type

• Collection

Subject

• Environment
• Oral histories

Genre

• sound recordings
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• interviews

Location

• British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

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