In September 2006, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia announced the BC History Digitization Program. The focus of the program is to promote increased access to British Columbia’s historical resources, including providing matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to our unique provincial historical material. Below is a list of successful applicants for 2009.
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Project Title: Hallmark Society Photograph Digitization Project Description: Project involves digitization of photographs most of which were taken during inventories of heritage structures in Greater Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Project Title: Jewish Western Bulletin Newspaper Digitization and Access Project Description: Digitize 36 rolls of microfilm representing the years 1923-1995 (40K pages) and 176 print copies representing the years 1996-2000 (3.5K pages) of the Jewish Western Bulletin. |
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Project Title: Ray Knight Collection Digitization Project Description: The project includes the digitization of approximately 3,000 historical photographs depicting the history of Ladysmith from the Ray Knight Collection. |
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Project Title: A Life in the Woods: Oral History from the West Kootenay Forest Description: This project will result in the digitization and provision of on-line access to sixteen oral history interviews and associated material relating to the history of forestry in the West Kootenay area. A Life in the Woods: Oral Histories from the West Kootenay Forests |
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Project Title: Rod LeMay and Maud Lane Sous-Fonds Digitization Project Description: Digitization of approximately 4,000 photographic images focusing particularly on the history of the pulp and paper industry in the Powell River area. |
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Project Title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project Description: The project is part of an on-going effort to digitize local newspapers from before the incorporation of Prince George to the present day. This phase will result in the digitization of approximately 36,000 additional pages of newspapers. |
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Project Title: Marshall Sharp Fonds: Salt Spring Island Aerial Photographs, Landscapes, Events and People Description: This project will allow the Salt Spring Island Archives to digitize approximately 15,000 photographic images from the collection of newspaper photographer Marshall Sharp that depict the historical development of the island community. |
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Project Title: Sechelt Community Archives Digitization Project Description: This is a continuation of a project that will digitization of 5,700 photographs, negatives and slides housed in the Sechelt Community Archives. |
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Project Title: BC Editorial Cartoons Collection Description: Project to digitize and describe an additional 800 items from the SFU Editorial Cartoons Collection. |
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Project Title: UBCIC Activism in the 80s Description: This project will result in the creation of two distinct multi-media digital collections that document the Indian Child Caravan and the Constitution Express. |
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Project Title: The Colonial Dispatches, 1846-1858 Description: This project will digitize approximately 8,250 images of Vancouver Island colonial dispatches (1846-1957) and entry books (1949-1867) and 250 colour copies of pre-1871 B.C. maps. |
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Project Title: BC City Directories Digitization Project, 1902-1915 Description: Part of a continuing effort, this project will digitize approximately 32,000 pages from the BC City Directories (1902-1915). |
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Project Title: Bill Silver Newspaper Collection Description: Digitization of approximately 18,000 pages of newspapers from the Omineca Express (1990-1997, 2000-2007). |
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Project Title: West Kootenay Women’s Association Archival Digitization Project Description: Creation of a multi-media digital collection by the West Kootenay Women’s Association to document the development of feminism in the West Kootenays. |
For more information please contact:
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Chris Hives |
Simon Neame |
Click on the markers to find out more information about each project. Projects funded for 2009 are indicated with a blue marker. You can use the arrow buttons or simply drag the map to see more locations, and you can use the zoom buttons to enlarge the map for a clearer view of the funded projects in the Lower Mainland area.
View Map of 2009 Funded Projects
