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  • Provincial Industrial School for Boys and Girls of the Province of British Columbia Collection

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    29Works
    Description:
    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...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    publications (documents)

  • British Columbia Historical Maps

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    891Works
    Description:
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    historical maps and maps (documents)

  • British Columbia Legislative Assembly Sessional Clippings Books

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    266Works
    Description:
    These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)...
    Subject:
    Politics and government and Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    newspaper clippings and clippings (information artifacts)

  • Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams Face to Face Media Collection

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    15Works
    Description:
    Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams is Lil̓wat7ul, from Mount Currie, British Columbia. She is an Indigenous educator and language specialist. Being a survivor of federal day schools and residential schools, Wánosts’a7 has experienced the...
    Subject:
    Local History and Indigenous peoples
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    video recordings (physical artifacts) and sound recordings

  • Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia: Indian Reserve Maps

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    361Works
    Description:
    This digital collection includes 362 scans of cartographic records held by the Surveyor General of BC that relate to Indian reserve land in British Columbia. The plans and maps include originals, copies and tracings created before or during the time of the Joint Indian...
    Subject:
    Indigenous peoples and Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    maps (documents) and historical maps

  • Early British Columbia Maps

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    248Works
    Description:
    These maps, from the National Archives of the UK, primarily span the dates 1846-1876 and show the development of the territory from the two founding colonies until after the Province joined confederation. A few earlier maps were collected by the Colonial Office in...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    maps (documents) and historical maps

  • Hudson's Bay Company Maps

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    101Works
    Description:
    The Hudson's Bay Company had the exclusive right to trade with First Nations in what is now British Columbia throughout most of the Nineteenth Century. These 100 maps provide a graphic view of the development of the Province from 1842 until the 1860’s when the company’s...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    historical maps and maps (documents)

  • Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia: Early British Columbia Maps

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    536Works
    Description:
    This digital collection includes scans of a selection of maps, sketches, tracings and notes created between 1846 and 1895 and held by the Surveyor General of BC. All relate to land use, landforms, and surface cover across the province of BC and record geographic features,...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    historical maps and maps (documents)

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

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    497Works
    Description:
    Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010) is often referred to as the “father of Canadian ecology.” From his formative years roaming the mountains around Vancouver collecting museum specimens of mammals and birds to his last years as a major contributor to the voluminous and...
    Subject:
    Voyages and travels, Environmental Studies, and Local History
    Location:
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    diaries, video recordings (physical artifacts), and photographs

  • HIV In My Day

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    108Works
    Description:
    HIV In My Day is a collection of oral history interviews with long-term HIV survivors and their caregivers conducted between 2017 and 2020 in British Columbia by a team of community-based researchers and peers. These interviews focus on participants’ experiences of the...
    Subject:
    Interviews, Public Health, and Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    sound recordings, video recordings (physical artifacts), and oral histories (literary genre)