Description:

This exhibit includes selections from the records of Peggy and Nicholas Abkhazi held in the University of Victoria Archives, including material relating to the interwar period, World War II and the design and creation of the Abkhazis' internationally renowned rhododendron...

Subject:

Local History, Families, and Military History

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photograph albums, photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts (documents)

Description:

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 History

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Western Europe,

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photographs and scrapbooks

Description:

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 Culture

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

correspondence and photographs