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  • HIV In My Day

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    108Works
    Description:
    HIV In My Day is a collection of oral history interviews with long-term HIV survivors and their caregivers conducted between 2017 and 2020 in British Columbia by a team of community-based researchers and peers. These interviews focus on participants’ experiences of the...
    Subject
    Interviews, Public Health, and Local History
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    sound recordings, video recordings (physical artifacts), and oral histories (literary genre)

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

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    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

  • Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams Face to Face Media Collection

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    15Works
    Description:
    <b>Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams</b> Lorna Wánosts’a7 Williams is Lil̓wat7ul, from Mount Currie, British Columbia. She is an Indigenous educator and language specialist. Being a survivor of federal day schools and residential schools, Wánosts’a7 has experienced...
    Subject
    Local History and Indigenous peoples
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    video recordings (physical artifacts) and sound recordings

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

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    12Works
    Description:
    <b>The films:</b> 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 As historical documents, Ko’s films are exceptional: in their record of family and community life in Victoria and the...
    Subject
    Families and Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    video recordings (physical artifacts)