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  • Provincial Normal School Oral Histories

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    23Works
    Description:
    These sound recordings are part of the Provincial Normal School Oral History Interview collection, held at the University of Victoria Archives. The Provincial Normal School (PNS) was established in Victoria, B.C., in January 1915, to provide preliminary and advanced...
    Subject:
    Local History, Oral histories, and Interviews
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    sound recordings and oral histories (literary genre)

  • Victoria Fire Insurance Plans

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    5Works
    Description:
    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 Architecture
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    maps (documents) and historical maps

  • Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

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    423Works
    Description:
    This digital exhibit originates with a web site, Victoria’s Chinatown: A Gateway to the Past and Present of Chinese Canadians, a partnership project between the Asian Canadian Working Group at the University of Victoria and...
    Subject:
    Local History and Arts and Culture
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs

  • Community Mapping Project

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    1Collections
    14Works
    Description:
    This collection consists of digital versions of several print community maps produced through a collaborative process between various community groups and the Common Ground Community Mapping Project and later with the Community Mapping Collaboratory (CMC) at the...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    maps (documents)

  • Victor Reinstein Collection

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    1Collections
    7Works
    Description:
    Personal collection of Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein, Rabbi of the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue in Victoria, B.C. from 1982-1998. Reinstein was a leading figure in Holocaust memorialization in Victoria and led the creation of both the Kristallnacht memorial ceremonies,...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    correspondence and manuscripts (documents)

  • Remembering the Holocaust in Victoria, Oral Histories

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    7Works
    Description:
    Who has commemorated the Shoah in Victoria, and why? In this collection you’ll find oral histories of key figures in Holocaust commemoration and education in Victoria BC, conducted by Jordan Stanger-Ross for the SSHRC funded Defying Hatred Project. Photo by Matt...
    Subject:
    Local History, Interviews, and Oral histories
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    oral histories (literary genre) and sound recordings

  • Samuel Maclure Architectural Drawings

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    2158Works
    Description:
    About this collection Samuel Maclure was born in New Westminster on April 11, 1860, the son of John and Martha Maclure, who had arrived in British Columbia the previous year as part of the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers. After elementary and high...
    Subject:
    Architecture and Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    architectural drawings (visual works)

  • Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

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    1Collections
    17Works
    Description:
    This collection was drawn from the local history holdings of the Greater Victoria Public Libraries (GVPL). Among the works included are a transcript of a talk given by Emily Carr about modern art, the Reminiscences of Bishop Cridge, a volume on Vancouver Island farming,...
    Subject:
    Politics and government, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    books

  • Pacific Opera Victoria Poster Collection

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    1Collections
    32Works
    Description:
    Pacific Opera Victoria (POV), founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1980, has earned a reputation as one of Canada's leading opera companies, thanks to its dynamic repertoire choices, its original productions, and its commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for...
    Subject:
    Local History, Performing Arts, and Arts and Culture
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    posters

  • Frank and Cecilia Sylvester Collection

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    1Collections
    56Works
    Description:
    This collection includes a selection of early Victoria and Vancouver Island maps, books, pamphlets and ephemera, together with archival material drawn from the Sylvester fonds. Frank Sylvester was an early Jewish settler to Victoria, involved in the Fire Department and...
    Subject:
    Families and Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    pamphlets, books, and maps (documents)