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  • Victoria On Stage Posters

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    87Works
    Description:
    The <a href="https://vostheatre.ca/">Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre Society (VOS)</a> is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization established in 1945 with the purpose of bringing top-quality live musical theatre to Victoria, B.C. VOS has...
    Subject
    Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    posters

  • Victorian Serial Novels Collection

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    245Works
    Description:
    Throughout the Victorian period, novels in serial parts were published in abundance in newspapers and magazines, by far the most popular form, or in discreet parts issued in instalments, usually twenty monthly issues. Many 19th century authors established themselves by...
    Subject
    Literature and Arts and Culture
    Location
    United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    serials (publications), periodicals, and fiction (general genre)

  • 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, <a href="http://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/">Victoria’s Chinatown: A Gateway to the Past and Present of Chinese Canadians</a>, a partnership project between the Asian Canadian Working Group at the...
    Subject
    Local History and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • W.S. Graham Collection

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    2Works
    Description:
    W. S. Graham was born in Greenock, Scotland. He was generally known as Sydney to his friends, but occasionally used the name "Jock". He began his working career as a journeyman engineer before becoming a full-time poet. He married Nessie Dunsmuir in 1954. Among...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Authors, and Art
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents), notebooks, and drawings (visual works)

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

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    85Works
    Description:
    In 2008, <a href="https://pacificopera.ca/">Pacific Opera Victoria</a> 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...
    Subject
    Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and photographs