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.
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.
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for funding.
The Okanagan Historical Society’s annual reports have recently been digitized by UBC Library.
A handful of First Nations projects and the first out-of-province initiative are among the successful recipients of the 2010/11 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) awards. The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique […]