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  • Herbert Geddes

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    100Works
    Description:
    Herbert Geddes was a manager for G.R. Gregg and Company, importers and exporters, in Vancouver and Winnipeg. He was sent to Japan and was based in Yokohama between 1908 and 1918. Geddes was manager for Gregg and Company in Vancouver until the mid 1950s. He willed the...
    Subject:
    Voyages and travels
    Location:
    Japan, , Japan
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs

  • Transvestia

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    114Works
    Description:
    In 1960, Virginia Prince founded Transvestia magazine. Published six times a year in Los Angeles by Chevalier Publications, 1980-1986, it was edited by Prince until 1980, and then sold to Carol Beecroft, who acted as editor until 1986. Transvestia was the first...
    Subject:
    Transgender
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    periodicals

  • Victoria Digital Holocaust Archive

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    0Works
    Description:
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection

  • Transgender Scrapbooks

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    13Works
    Description:
    This digital collection is composed of 13 large scrapbooks from the University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive (TGA) Collection. The Ulster TGA Collection forms a significant part of...
    Subject:
    Transgender
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    scrapbooks and photographs

  • Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection

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    121Works
    Description:
    The Canadian Scottish Regiment incorporated earlier First World War Victoria regiments. On 15 March 1920, Victoria's 88th and 50th Regiments were reorganized into the Canadian Scottish Regiment Non-Permanent Active Militia. On 1 August 1930, The Canadian Scottish again...
    Subject:
    Military History and Local History
    Location:
    Canada, , Canada and Western Europe,
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    diaries and manuscripts (documents)

  • Louis Maria Niels Peder Moe Collection

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    2Works
    Description:
    Louis Maria Niels Peder Moe (April 20,1857 – October 23, 1945) was a versatile and prolific illustrator, graphic designer, painter, draftsman, cartoonist, sculptor, and author. He was born in Tromøy, Ardenal, Norway. His parents were Halvor Georg Theodor Moe (1826-1877)...
    Subject:
    Artists, Literature, and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    books

  • Hudson's Bay Company Maps

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    101Works
    Description:
    The Hudson's Bay Company had the exclusive right to trade with First Nations in what is now British Columbia throughout most of the Nineteenth Century. These 100 maps provide a graphic view of the development of the Province from 1842 until the 1860’s when the company’s...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    historical maps and maps (documents)

  • Katharine Maltwood Collection

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    54Works
    Description:
    Katharine Emma Maltwood (nee Sapsworth) was an artist and author who held a life-long fascination with ancient history, folklore, mythology, spirituality, and the occult. Born in London in April 1878, Maltwood was influenced by the arts and crafts movement and studied...
    Subject:
    Artists, Local History, Authors, and Arts and Culture
    Location:
    United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs

  • Audrey Alexandra Brown Collection

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    115Works
    Description:
    According to a family friend, Audrey Alexandra Brown "showed early signs of some kind of ability" from a very young age. She was born in Nanaimo, B.C. in 1904, never went to high school, but wrote her first poem when she was six years old. Her work was brought to the...
    Subject:
    Authors and Literature
    Location:
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents) and poetry

  • Chinese Canadian Collection

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    59Works
    Description:
    This collection contains documents drawn from the fonds of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association held in the University of Victoria Archives. Most items are handwritten in traditional Chinese script with English translations but there are also documents in...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    China, , China and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents)