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  • Oluna Ceska and Adolf Ceska Collection

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    109Works
    Description:
    The Oluna Ceska and Adolf Ceska Collection is comprised of botanical illustrations and scientific illustrations by Oldriska (Oluna) Ceska (1938-2022). The drawings, which Ceska created in both black and white and colour, largely highlight flora from southern Vancouver...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture and Local History
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    drawings (visual works)

  • Pacific Opera Victoria Poster Collection

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    32Works
    Description:
    Pacific Opera Victoria (POV), founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1980, has earned a reputation as one of Canada's leading opera companies, thanks to its dynamic repertoire choices, its original productions, and its commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for...
    Subject
    Local History, Performing Arts, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    posters

  • Provincial Industrial School for Boys and Girls of the Province of British Columbia Collection

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    29Works
    Description:
    This collection is comprised of annual reports for the Provincial Industrial School for Boys of the Province of British Columbia and the Provincial Industrial School for Girls of the Province of British Columbia. Youth attended the schools when committed by juvenile...
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    publications (documents)

  • Provincial Normal School Oral Histories

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    23Works
    Description:
    These sound recordings are part of the Provincial Normal School Oral History Interview collection, held at the University of Victoria Archives. The Provincial Normal School (PNS) was established in Victoria, B.C., in January 1915, to provide preliminary and advanced...
    Subject
    Local History, Oral histories, and Interviews
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    sound recordings and oral histories (literary genre)

  • Remembering the Holocaust in Victoria, Oral Histories

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    7Works
    Description:
    Who has commemorated the Shoah in Victoria, and why? In this collection you’ll find oral histories of key figures in Holocaust commemoration and education in Victoria BC, conducted by Jordan Stanger-Ross for the SSHRC funded Defying Hatred Project. <i>Photo by...
    Subject
    Local History, Interviews, and Oral histories
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    oral histories (literary genre) and sound recordings

  • Samuel Maclure Architectural Drawings

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    2158Works
    Description:
    <b>About this collection</b> Samuel Maclure was born in New Westminster on April 11, 1860, the son of John and Martha Maclure, who had arrived in British Columbia the previous year as part of the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers. After elementary...
    Subject
    Architecture and Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    architectural drawings (visual works)

  • Saul Holiff Collection

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    80Works
    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

  • 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

  • Victor Reinstein Collection

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    7Works
    Description:
    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,...
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and manuscripts (documents)

  • Victoria Digital Holocaust Archive

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    4Collections
    155Works
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection