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Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection
User Collection0Collections432WorksDescription:Else Lübcke Seel (1894-1974) Else Lübcke Seel was born in 1894 in Schivelbein, Pomerania. After the end of World War I, she moved with her mother and aunt to Berlin, where she worked in the archives of a bank. She began writing and became well-known in Berlin's...Subject:AuthorsLocation:British Columbia, British Columbia, CanadaResource Type:CollectionGenre:photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence -
Victoria Fire Insurance Plans
User Collection0Collections5WorksDescription:The Fire Insurance Plans (FIPs) from 1885 to 1916 are undoubtedly the best maps of Victoria for the period. Created by Charles E. Goad and Company to assist insurance underwriters in determining fire insurance risk these coloured maps show the developing...Subject:Local History and ArchitectureLocation:Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaResource Type:CollectionGenre:maps (documents) and historical maps -
John Gawsworth Collection
User Collection0Collections3WorksDescription:The John Gawsworth Collection is comprised of selections from the John Gawsworth Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries. John Gawsworth (1912-1970) was the pseudonym of Terence Ian...Subject:Authors and Arts and CultureResource Type:CollectionGenre:correspondence -
Aidan Higgins Collection
User Collection0Collections20WorksDescription:Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was an Irish novelist and writer, whose works include short stories, travel memoirs, essays, autobiographical fiction, and several dramas for BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Radio 1. Born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, Higgins’ upbringing and...Subject:Arts and Culture, Literature, and AuthorsLocation:Dublin, Leinster, IrelandResource Type:CollectionGenre:manuscripts (documents) -
Canadian Military Oral Histories
User Collection0Collections763WorksDescription:The Canadian Military Oral History Collection is composed of interviews of veterans of WWI, WWII, the Korean War and the War in Afghanistan. Over 370 recordings done by Dr. Reginald H. Roy and his students are the largest holding in this category. Historian Hal Lawrence...Subject:Oral histories, Interviews, and Military historyLocation:Canada, , CanadaResource Type:CollectionGenre:sound recordings, oral histories (literary works), and video recordings (physical artifacts) -
W.O.H. Dodds World War One Photographs and Scrapbook
User Collection0Collections186WorksDescription:Photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the life and service of Brigadier General W.O.H. Dodds, CMG, DSO, in the Great War of 1914-1918 and extending to his death on 25 August 1934. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian...Subject:Military HistoryResource Type:CollectionGenre:photographs and scrapbooks -
Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection
User Collection0Collections170WorksDescription:Victoria to Vimy, sponsored by a World War Commemorations Community Fund grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage, is a digital collection of First World War materials held at the University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. For this...Subject:Military History and Local HistoryLocation:Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Western Europe,Resource Type:CollectionGenre:photographs and scrapbooks -
Victorian Serial Novels Collection
User Collection0Collections245WorksDescription:Throughout the Victorian period, novels in serial parts were published in abundance in newspapers and magazines, by far the most popular form, or in discreet parts issued in instalments, usually twenty monthly issues. Many 19th century authors established themselves by...Subject:LiteratureLocation:United Kingdom, , United KingdomResource Type:CollectionGenre:serials (publications) and periodicals -
World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One
User Collection0Collections85WorksDescription:In 2008, Pacific Opera Victoria commissioned an opera from the play, Mary's Wedding. The play tells a story of love and remembrance set in the Prairies, the trenches of France, and the Battle of Moreuil Wood in March 1918. Three...Subject:Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and CultureLocation:Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaResource Type:CollectionGenre:correspondence and photographs -
Provincial Industrial School for Boys and Girls of the Province of British Columbia Collection
User Collection0Collections28WorksDescription:This collection is comprised of annual reports for the Provincial Industrial School for Boys of the Province of British Columbia and the Provincial Industrial School for Girls of the Province of British Columbia. Youth attended the schools when committed by juvenile...Resource Type:Collection