BC History Digitization Program 2020/2021 Call for Applications
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for project funding. The program, launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006, provides matching funds to support projects that make unique British Columbia content freely available. The BCHDP will be accepting applications for the 2020/2021 funding year. Applicants can receive up to […]
BCHDP 2019-2020 Recipients
Seventeen projects have been selected as the successful recipients of the 2019 -2020 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding 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 historical items, including images, print […]
City of Vancouver Archives completes Don Coltman photographs digitization project
Project title: Steffens-Colmer Studios and Don Coltman Company Photographs Digitization Project Institution: City of Vancouver Archives Description: 5,327 photographic negatives from the Don Coltman series of the Steffens-Colmer fonds were digitized. Don Coltman was a commercial photographer working in Canada and his photographs are a unique record of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland in the […]
MOV completes BC Bird Taxidermy and Product Packaging digitization project
Project title: BC Bird Taxidermy and Product Packaging Digitization Project Institution: Museum of Vancouver (MOV) Description: The Museum of Vancouver (Mov) has completed digitization of two cateories of artefacts with significant British Columbia stories to tell. The collections selected are bird taxidermy and product packaging. The artefacts selected includes 206 taxidermied birds and 1236 pieces of […]
BC History Digitization Program – 2018-2019 Recipients
Eighteen projects have been named as successful recipients of the 2018-2019 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding 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 historical items, including images, print and sound […]
VIVO Completes Stage 1 of the Gay Games | Celebration 90 Digitization Project
Project title: The Gay Games | Celebration 90 Digitization Project (Stage 1) Organization: VIVO Media Arts Centre Description: The 1990 Gay Games was held in Vancouver from August 4 to 11, 1990 and was open to athletes and artists of all sexual orientations. Approximately 7,300 athletes took part in 27 sports, with another 1,500 cultural participants attending. […]
Over 20,000 New Images Added to Museum of Vancouver’s Online Collection
Project title: BC Archaeology and Early Industry Digitization Organization: Museum of Vancouver Description: The goal of this project was to digitize both a significant portion of the BC Archaeological Collection and a smaller portion of the Vancouver History collection. All items in the St. Mungo Connery collection and 354 objects connected to Vancouver’s early industry were photographed and […]
BC History Digitization Program – 2017-2018 Recipients
Sixteen projects have been named as successful recipients of the 2017-2018 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding 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 historical items, including images, print and sound […]
100 years of Prince George Citizen and more
Project title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project Organization: Prince George Public Library Description: The Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project is a collaboration of the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library, the Geoffrey R. Weller Library and the Northern BC Archives at the University of Northern British Columbia. The digital collection provides digital access to all locally […]
Touchstones Launches Changing Waters
Project title: Changing Waters: The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on the Landscape of British Columbia from the Ron Waters Collection Organization: Nelson and District Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society Description: Changing Waters features more than 500 colour slides from the late 1950s to the early 1980s of the Kootenay Region, many from mining […]