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Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 6, 2023

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated animals in nature that doubles as a calendar.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with animal kingdom, BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections

Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 7, 2022

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.

Posted in Events | Tagged with BC History, birds, birds in nature, children's literature, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections

Download Digital Colouring Books for UBC Thrive Month

Download Digital Colouring Books for UBC Thrive Month

By phoebe chan on November 5, 2021

UBC Thrive month is a time when we come together to explore ways to support our mental health. Colouring is an activity that can help you focus on the present and reduce stress. Try taking a break and check out⁠⁠ our Digital Colouring Books

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, open collections

Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 2, 2021

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new digital colouring book that doubles as a calendar. Celebrate #ColorOurCollections week with UBC Library’s ‘B.C. Historical Books’ themed digital colouring book.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections

More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online

More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, digitization, support

Image of a Bella Coola canoe, digitized by the United Church Archives in 2010, after receiving BCHDP funding.

BC History Digitization Program accepting submissions for funding until December 11, 2017.

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, BCHDP, IKBLC

Brewing Historian uses B.C. Historical newspapers archive to uncover the history of commercial brewing in B.C. between 1858 and 1982.

Brewing Historian uses B.C. Historical newspapers archive to uncover the history of commercial brewing in B.C. between 1858 and 1982.

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC Digital Newspapers Archive, BC History, digital archives

UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.

UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.

By michelle blackwell on September 7, 2017

The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC Digital Newspapers Archive, BC History, digital archives, Digital Initiatives, Heritage Vancouver, newspapers, open collections, Vancouver

B.C. Historical Newspapers Archive

B.C. Historical Newspapers Archive

By michelle blackwell on September 6, 2017

Posted in General | Tagged with BC Digital Newspapers Archive, BC Historical Newspapers Program, BC History, links

UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal

By michelle blackwell on August 8, 2017

UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with BC History, links, Media coverage, Rare Books and Special Collections, Susannah Weynton

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