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  • Notebook 23 - [Diary, prose, draft letters 1928-34]

    Subject:
    Norddeutscher Lloyd, Authors, Literature, Authors, German, and Voyages and travels
    Creator:
    Seel, Else, 1894-1974
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    ger
    Date Created:
    1928 to 1934
    Rights Statement:
    Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    ELS 2/3/1
    Extent:
    40 leaves ; 16.5 x 10.5 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    British Columbia--Tahsta River, British Columbia--Hazelton, and British Columbia--Wistaria
    Coordinates:
    55.24973, -127.67025 and 53.84977, -126.27
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Black limp cover. Handwritten in ink and pencil. A number of blank pages at the end of the notebook.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    letters (correspondence), literary works, diaries, drafts (documents), and short stories
    Archival Item Identifier:
    Accession Number: 1978-001; File: 1.10
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC111
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/else-lubcke-seel-fonds
    Date Digitized:
    2023-02
    Technical Note:
    Scanned as double page spreads on Plustek OpticBook A300 at 600 dpi TIFF scanned by PD. Metadata by KD.

  • St. John Family Collection

    User Collection
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    4Works
    Description:
    The St. John family includes the surgeon Valentine St. John (1883-1964) and his mother Aglae de Jora St. John. Aglae de Jora St. John was Romanian. Her husband, Dr. St. John's father, was a British diplomat and cousin of the 4th Viscount Bolingbroke. The surgeon...
    Subject:
    Voyages and travels, Families, Politics and government, and Military history
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    diaries and manuscripts (documents)

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

    User Collection
    1Collections
    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

  • Journal of John Work : a chief-trader of the Hudson's Bay Co. during his expedition from Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest

    Alternative Title:
    Early Western Journals, Number 1
    Subject:
    Indigenous peoples, Voyages and travels, Fur trade, Hudson's Bay Company, and Fur traders
    Creator:
    Work, John, 1792-1861
    Contributor:
    Phillips, Paul C. (Paul Chrisler), 1883-1956 and Lewis, William S. (William Stanley), 1876-1941
    Publisher:
    Arthur H. Clark Co.
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1923
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    GVPL Call Number: 979.5 WOR 2006
    Extent:
    209 pages ; 25 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    British Columbia and Pacific Northwest
    Coordinates:
    45.99696, -118.49854 and 53.99983, -125.0032
    Chronological Coverage:
    1831-08-18/1832-07-27
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Contains plates, map, and a portrait.
    Physical Repository:
    Greater Victoria Public Library
    Collection:
    Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection
    Provenance:
    Greater Victoria Public Library
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    books and diaries
    Date Digitized:
    2014-02-28
    Technical Note:
    Technical metadata provided by JF, cataloguing metadata provided by GF and KD.
    Keyword in Context:
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