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  • Victoria Feminist Newsletters

    User Collection
    1Collections
    339Works
    Description:
    This digital collection documents organizing and awareness activities of Victoria-area feminist groups, and consists of 339 issues from 17 feminist newsletters dating from 1970 to 2002. These newsletters form a part of the Victoria Women’s Movement Archives...
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection

  • Victoria Fire Insurance Plans

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    1Collections
    5Works
    Description:
    The Fire Insurance Plans (FIPs) from 1885 to 1916 are undoubtedly the best maps of Victoria for the period. Created by Charles E. Goad and Company to assist insurance underwriters in determining fire insurance risk these coloured maps show the developing...
    Subject
    Local History and Architecture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    maps (documents) and historical maps

  • Victoria Holocaust and World War II Memory Digital Collections

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    1Collections
    141Works
    Description:
    A digital collection of material relating to the Victoria Holocaust and World War II Memory Archive at the University of Victoria Libraries
    Subject
    Military History and Local History
    Resource Type
    Collection

  • Victoria On Stage Posters

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    1Collections
    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

  • Victoria Police Department Charge and Mugshot Books

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    1Collections
    16Works
    Description:
    This digital collection consists of a number of Victoria Police Department log or “charge books,” and "mugshot books" compiled between the 1870s and the early 1900s. The handwritten charge books are a record of the arrests made in Victoria, British Columbia,...
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs and photograph albums

  • Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection

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    1Collections
    170Works
    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

  • Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

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    1Collections
    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

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

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    1Collections
    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