In 2016 the BC History Digitization Program awarded more than $150,000 to 16 different community groups in BC.
Historian Greg Evans is using the digital archive to research two-book series documenting the history of commercial brewing in the province.
The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.
UBC Library’s Susannah Weynton Journal
‘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
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.
A century’s worth of the Prince George Citizen was digitized thanks to support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for funding.
