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  • 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

  • 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

  • Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection

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    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 War One Photographs and Journals

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    Description:
    World War One photographs and journals selected primarily from the Archie Wills fonds. Archie H. Wills (Henry Archibald Wills) was born in Victoria, British Columbia on 11 September 1892. His parents, Frank Henry Wills (1864-1953) and Sarah Ann Porter (1861-1946)...
    Subject:
    Military History
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs and diaries

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

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    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

  • Vic West Football Club

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    35Works
    Description:
    The Vic West Football Club was established in Victoria, BC in 1896 and is one of the longest running soccer clubs in Canada. This collection contains scrapbooks, newspaper articles, photographs of men’s and women’s teams, and other documentation of the club’s history. ...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs

  • W.O.H. Dodds World War One Photographs and Scrapbook

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    Description:
    Photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the life and service of Brigadier General W.O.H. Dodds, CMG, DSO, in the Great War of 1914-1918 and extending to his death on 25 August 1934. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian...
    Subject:
    Military History
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs and scrapbooks

  • World War One Photographs by J. A. Millar

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    Description:
    This collection is made up of photographs by J. A. Millar depicting scenes of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Valcartier Camp, at Quebec, and at Gaspe Harbour immediately prior to sailing to Britain in 1914. Also included are a few loose photos by unknown...
    Subject:
    Military History
    Location:
    Canada, , Canada and United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photograph albums, photographs, and diaries

  • Saul Holiff Collection

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    Description:
    This collection features materials from the archives of Saul Holiff, the Canadian manager of one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Johnny Cash. Holiff, who started out as a concert promoter in the late 1950s in London, Ontario, managed Cash from...
    Subject:
    Performing Arts, Arts and Culture, and Local History
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs

  • Gisèle Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris

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    Description:
    This exhibit features a series of photographs taken of James Joyce during his last years in Paris. The photographs were taken by Gisèle Freund and feature Joyce, his friends, family, and contemporaries including W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller and Virginia Woolf....
    Subject:
    Authors and Arts and Culture
    Location:
    Paris, Île-de-France, France
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs