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  • 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 Digital Holocaust Archive

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    3Collections
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    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection

  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Collection

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    24Works
    Description:
    This collection contains exhibition catalogues published by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
    Subject:
    Arts and Culture and Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection

  • Mathew Ko Colour Films : Victoria's Chinatown and Region

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    12Works
    Description:
    The films: The amateur films of Mathew Ko date from the late 1930s to early 1950s and are examples of the popular home movie genre. As historical documents, Ko’s films are exceptional: in their record of family and community life in Victoria and the region...
    Subject:
    Families and Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    video recordings (physical artifacts)

  • Abkhazi Archives

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    35Works
    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, and correspondence

  • Pacific Opera Victoria Poster Collection

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    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

  • Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

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    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

  • Community Mapping Project

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    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)

  • Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection

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    170Works
    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

  • World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One

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    85Works
    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