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By michelle blackwell on August 1, 2019
One hundred and six years of British Columbia’s governmental papers are now available to anyone with a wifi connection and a device.
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By michelle blackwell on October 16, 2017
In 2016 the BC History Digitization Program awarded more than $150,000 to 16 different community groups in BC.
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By michelle blackwell on September 11, 2017
Historian Greg Evans is using the digital archive to research two-book series documenting the history of commercial brewing in the province.
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By michelle blackwell on September 7, 2017
The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.
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By michelle blackwell on September 6, 2017
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By michelle blackwell on August 8, 2017
UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal
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By michelle blackwell on August 8, 2017
‘It is a different perspective’: UBC acquires rare travel diary of B.C. in 19th century
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By michelle blackwell on August 8, 2017
University acquires first known account of B.C. by an English woman
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By michelle blackwell on August 1, 2017
The journal kept by Susannah Weynton documents four months spent on Vancouver Island at Fort Victoria and Fort Rupert and on the mainland at Fort Langley between March and July 1850.
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By Clare Yow on December 1, 2016
A century’s worth of the Prince George Citizen was digitized thanks to support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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