Description:

According to a family friend, Audrey Alexandra Brown "showed early signs of some kind of ability" from a very young age. She was born in Nanaimo, B.C. in 1904, never went to high school, but wrote her first poem when she was six years old. Her work was brought to the...

Subject:

Authors and Literature

Location:

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

manuscripts (documents) and poetry

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)

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