Over the past 7 months I’ve been lucky to sit on the BCHF Conference Committee to help bring a fantastic lineup of lectures, field trips, and events to our community.... read more →
About once a week I’m asked if everything we have at the Archives is available online. In the digital age, this is a fair question. There are many positive outcomes... read more →
February 15th was the first day on the job for our new Archivist, Tristan Evans. Tristan originally hails from Prince George, B.C., but has lived in California for many years.... read more →
The professional world of museum, archives and heritage in BC is full of acronyms: AABC,... read more →
By Janelle Haley, Museum Assistant, Summer Student 2016 If you came to the Archives or the Museum, or both, this summer there may have been a chance that you would... read more →
Sometime in 2015 Alain Nowak of... read more →
It's the common question that people ask each other at social events. What do you do? Whenever this question is posed to me, I smile, tell the unsuspecting victim that... read more →
One of last summer’s curatorial projects was to carefully remove the sugar and mould from the former Paramount Theatre’s popcorn machines (Summer Student Mikaela Ramdial and... read more →
Chilliwack Progress, January 7, 1892, page 1. "Nanaimo is now lighted by electricity." "Mr. Cory Ryder takes charge... read more →