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Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition
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.
More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online
One hundred and six years of British Columbia’s governmental papers are now available to anyone with a wifi connection and a device.
BC History Digitization Program accepting submissions for funding until December 11, 2017.
In 2016 the BC History Digitization Program awarded more than $150,000 to 16 different community groups in BC.
Brewing Historian uses B.C. Historical newspapers archive to uncover the history of commercial brewing in B.C. between 1858 and 1982.
Historian Greg Evans is using the digital archive to research two-book series documenting the history of commercial brewing in the province.
UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.
The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.
UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal
UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal
‘It is a different perspective’: UBC acquires rare travel diary of B.C. in 19th century
‘It is a different perspective’: UBC acquires rare travel diary of B.C. in 19th century
University acquires first known account of B.C. by an English woman
University acquires first known account of B.C. by an English woman
UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
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.