The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937),...
The University of Victoria digital archive concentrates on a golden age of poster production, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. At this time, a faction within a divided Communist Party both perpetuated the former image of harmony and prosperity, and simultaneously...
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...
Personal collection of Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein, Rabbi of the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue in Victoria, B.C. from 1982-1998. Reinstein was a leading figure in Holocaust memorialization in Victoria and led the creation of both the Kristallnacht memorial ceremonies,...
The Abbatt family was a Quaker family who lived in the towns and villages of Preston, Ribchester and Garstang in Lancashire, England. Family members include Robert Abbatt, Jonathan Abbatt (1829-1905), and Mary Dilworth Abbatt (1828-1901). The collection is comprised of a...
The Book Arts Collection features selections from Special Collections relevant to historical and contemporary book arts and print culture, including binding, calligraphy, design, printing, papermaking, publishing, illustration, and typography.
The purpose of this...
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...