Cats in the Archives
It appears that people have always taken photos of their cats to share; it’s not just a Web obsession. Here …
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861 -1913
One hundred years ago, on March 7, 1913, Emily Pauline Johnson died in Vancouver. She retired here in 1909 as …
The Map and Plan Digitization Project
Thanks to funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program, we’ve completed a project to digitize 512 maps and plans …
Our students – Allison Hasselfield
As a student in the Master of Library and Information Studies degree at UBC, I never thought that I would …
Australia Day
January 26 is Australia Day, Australia’s national day. We have records that show some of Vancouver’s interactions with Australia and …
2012 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference
In early December, I attended the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in Seattle. Here are …
Happy Holidays
The Archives will be closed from noon Monday December 24 to 9am Tuesday January 2. See you in the new …
Spotlight on volunteers – Sean DeMaio
Sean DeMaio volunteered for us for three months in the fall of 2012. In this short period of time, he …
Exploring lenticular Kodacolor
The use of colour in film remains one of the longest and richest currents in the history of motion pictures. …
Snipes on flickr
We’ve put images of our entire collection of lantern-slide snipes on flickr. They were collected by Major Matthews, the first …