BC History Digitization Program - 2011 Projects

BC History Digitization Program – 2011 Projects

June 25, 2013

In September 2006, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Library 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 2011.

Project Title: Opening the Vault: Providing Digital Access to New Resources for BC History Study – Port Alberni community development
Organization: Alberni Valley Museum
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project will provide opportunities for understanding community growth of Port Alberni by digitizing and providing online access to 2,900 images from the time period 1910-1960.

Project Title: Historic Photographs of Campbell River Digitization Project
Organization: Campbell River & District Museum & Archives Society
Amount: $6,000
Description: This project will promote and enhance access to the history of Campbell River, a unique BC coastal community, by digitizing a selection of images of defining events and settlers and their regional influence. Museum at Campbell River

Project Title: Cheslatta Carrier Nation Archives: “Our Gift to the World”
Organization: Cheslatta Carrier Nation
Amount: $7,500
Description: For nearly 30 years, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation have meticulously gathered, documented, preserved, and displayed the unique history of their people, land, and culture. Along with construction of Cheslatta.com, they are now ready to digitize these materials and make them available via the web.

Project Title: Burnaby Oral History Digitization Project
Organization: City of Burnaby Archives
Amount: $10,000
Description: The Archives holds approximately 100 hrs of oral history recordings of interviews with Burnaby pioneers. This project proposes the digitization of these analog records and the creation of a website that will allow the public the opportunity to search, browse, and listen to the interviews online. Heritage Burnaby Oral History Interviews

Project Title: City of Vancouver Map and Plan Digitization
Organization: City of Vancouver Archives
Amount: $11,800
Description: A selection of maps and plans from the Archives’ holding will be digitized and linked to existing descriptions in the Archives’ database. These images will be searchable and viewable on the Archives’ website as both large and thumbnail jpeg files.

Project Title: Emily Carr University Historical Calendar Digitization Project
Organization: Emily Carr University of Art + Design Library
Amount: $3,488
Description: Many instructors and administrators throughout Emily Carr University’s history have made major contributions to art and design, both nationally and internationally. Digitizing 83 years of school calendars will improve access for a broad range of researchers while preserving the original materials.

Project Title: Powell Street Digitization Project
Organization: Japanese Canadian National Museum
Amount: $8,612
Description: This project proposes the digitization and web access of 2,000 photographs, artifacts, and archival records related to the history of Vancouver’s historic Powell Street neighbourhood (sometimes called Japantown), the major commercial centre for Japanese Canadians before 1942. NNM Collection Database

Project Title: Oral History Collection Digitization and Access Project
Organization: Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia
Amount: $6,900
Description: This project is an initiative to make the Museum’s archival collections available on the Internet. The JMABC plans to digitize a portion of its Oral History Collection. Digitized interviews will be uploaded on the website. This will greatly enhance access and research, as well as promote and create awareness of the Museum’s collections. Oral Histories

Project Title: Kaslo Voices Video Project
Organization: Kootenay Lake Archives
Amount: $800
Description: This project will digitize, edit and produce an historical video documentary from analog audio and video material from 1985. Elders depicted in this material provide a unique record of early settlement of Kaslo and the surrounding area.

Project Title: Life Histories: Historical Manuscripts of the District of Lake Country
Organization: Lake Country Museum and Archives
Amount: $3,815
Description: The LCMA will digitize 47 original manuscripts which describe various aspects of Lake Country’s history from the late 1800s to the 1950s. The manuscripts will be accompanied by digitized archival photographs and will be available to the public through the Museum’s website. LCMA Manuscripts

Project Title: Year Two BC First Nations Collections Digitization
Organization: Museum of Vancouver
Amount: $13,444
Description: This is the second phase of a two year project that focuses on digital photography of BC First Nations collections at MOV. The Museum will finish the remaining Northwest Coast collections, the Interior BC collections as well as digitize a small collection of archaeology material related to the Musqueam First Nation. openMOV

Project Title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Prince George Public Library
Amount: $15,000
Description: The Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project began in 2007 with the aim to provide digital access to all locally published newspapers from before the incorporation of the city to present day. The goal for this coming year is to add another three to four years of newspapers to the Prince George Citizen by bringing the database up to 1980 to 1981. Prince George Newspapers

Project Title: Salt Spring Island News: The Driftwood, the second decade, 1970-1980
Organization: Salt Spring Island Archives
Amount: $5,000
Description: This project will digitize the second ten years (1970-1980) of the local newspaper, The Driftwood. Digitizing these frequently used materials will preserve the originals and facilitate access. The Driftwood

Project Title: Vancouver Punk
Organization: Simon Fraser University Library
Amount: $3,833
Description: Vancouver Punk was not only an important music genre, but also very significant in its role in many social, political, and economic causes. The centrepiece of this project will be the John Armstrong collection containing photographs, handbills and promotional materials, handwritten song lyrics, correspondence and other significant ephemera. Vancouver Punk

Project Title: Digital Imaging of the Spencer Entomological Collection’s Species at Risk
Organization: Spencer Entomological Collection, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Amount: $15,000
Description: This project will digitize two important sections of the collection, provincially endangered (Red) and threatened (Blue) listed species and pollinators, especially bees. Three views will be taken of each specimen of species with a Leica LAS montage system and the resulting images will be linked to a collection database. Spencer Entomological Collection database

Project Title: Digitization of Sunshine Coast Newspaper Archives, Phase I
Organization: Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project will create a comprehensive, publicly-accessible digital database of newspapers from the Sunshine Coast region. During Phase I, the issues of the Coast News in most urgent need of preservation (1945-76, 1983-87, and 1989) will be digitized and made available in an easily accessible web-searchable format.

Project Title: Abbotsford Living History Project
Organization: The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
Amount: $6,000
Description: The Reach’s Abbotsford Living History Project will digitize 8,000 images from their collection, provide online access, solicit feedback from the community and facilitate sharing through social networking sites. The Reach Archives

Project Title: A Legacy of the Flora of British Columbia: Digital Archiving and Presentation of the Preserved Plant Collections of John Davidson (1878-1970)
Organization: UBC Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Amount: $15,000
Description: This project aims to produce a digital image archive of 3,000 pressed plant specimens of John Davidson. John Davidson was a botanist for the BC Provincial Botanical Office, he created the Vancouver Natural History Society and was the first ‘demonstrator’ of the UBC Herbarium and Botanical Garden. His collections represent some of the earliest plant collections documenting the flora of BC (1912-1957).

Project Title: The Colonial Despatches 1860 and 500 early BC maps
Organization: University of Victoria Libraries
Amount: $11,000
Description: To date, the project has digitized Vancouver Island (VI) and British Columbia (BC) despatches, 1846-59, and over 250 early BC maps have been put online. This year the project will continue by digitizing the VI and BC despatches for 1860, making them available in the searchable eXist database, and licence maps from Hudson’s Bay Archives, BC Lands Title & Surveys Office for inclusion on UVic Library’s Early BC Maps portal. Colonial Despatches

Project Title: West Kootenay Women’s Digital History Project, Phase II
Organization: West Kootenay Women’s Association
Amount: $10,000
Description: WKWA proposes to digitize a unique part of BC’s culture and history. The second phase of this project will concentrate on the audio/visual portion of the digital archives, including interviews with significant figures in the feminist movement in the West Kootenays, as well as posters, photos, slides of various historical events. Kootenay Feminism

Project Title: Historical Photograph Digitization Project
Organization: West Vancouver Memorial Library
Amount: $6,300
Description: The project will digitize the historical photographs collection consisting of 3,800 images as well as 300 pages of local/personal histories. Digitization and online access to these materials will improve access and preserve the collection by minimizing the need to use the original photographs and documents. West Vancouver Historical Photograph Collection

For more information please contact:

Mimi Lam
Coordinator
BC History Digitization Program
bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca

Bronwen Sprout
Head
Digital Programs and Services

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BC History Digitization Program – 2010 Projects

June 25, 2013

Project title: Ray Knight Collection Digitization Program
Organization: Ladysmith Archives
Amount: $7,250
Description: This project will continue the work started in 2008 to digitize historical photographs of Ladysmith, including images of early logging equipment, trains, the coal mine, stores, hotels, and shipping wharves.

Project title: BC First Nations Collections Digitization
Organization: Museum of Vancouver
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project will digitize artifacts from the Museum’s BC First Nations collections. openMOV

Project title: Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Historic Photo Collection Digitization Project
Organization: Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
Amount: $12,500
Description: This project will digitize the historic photo collection of the Society’s Archives, containing unique images of Canada’s West Coast fishing and canning industries from the 1870s to present. Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Historic Photo Database

Project title: Initiation of online accessibility to Alberni Valley Museum historical photograph collection
Organization: Alberni Valley Museum
Amount: $9,500
Description: This project will digitize the Museum’s historical photograph collection, which documents general community history and gives an overview of Alberni Valley history.

Project title: Canadian Farmworkers Union Project
Organization: Simon Fraser University Library
Amount: $3,390
Description: Based on a representative selection of more than 300 significant items from the complete CFU archival collection, the centrepiece of the project will be a collection of photographs that document the unionization and larger social issues of farmworkers in the late 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection

Project title: Changes Upstream: Along the Kootenay River North of the 49th Parallel Before and After the Libby Dam, 1969-72
Organization: Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Amount: $3,000
Description: A selection of black and white images by photographer Stanley G. Triggs form the basis of this project. These photos document the homes, lifestyles and lands of communities along the Kootenay River during the summers of 1969-72. Changes Upstream: The Photographs of Stanley G. Triggs

Project title: Nicola Valley Museum Archives Preliminary Photograph Digitization
Organization: Nicola Valley Museum and Archives
Amount: $3,000
Description: This project will digitize historical photographs, dating to the late 1800s, including material from photographers James Teit and Harry Priest.

Project title: The Mountains Hold our Stories
Organization: Whistler Museum and Archives Society
Amount: $5,000
Description: The Whistler Museum and Archives Society and the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre will digitize a portion of their archival collections for a thematic virtual exhibit that will illustrate how the history and cultures of three distinct peoples was shaped by the unique environment of the Whistler area.

Project title: Prince Rupert Newspaper Project
Organization: Prince Rupert Public Library
Amount: $12,000
Description: The project will digitize issues of the Prince Rupert Daily News and produce a database of searchable images accessible online, starting with the first thirteen years of publishing, from 1911-1924. Turning the Pages: The Prince Rupert Newspaper Archvies

Project title: A Digital Archives of Methodist and United Church of Canada records relating to First Nations of British Columbia
Organization: United Church of Canada Archives
Amount: $14,434
Description: This project will digitize and organize thematically visual and documentary records relating to Methodist and United Church missions to the First Nations of British Columbia.

Up and Down the Coast: Records of Missions to First Nations in British Columbia

Project title: BC Saturday Sunset, 1907-1915 Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Vancouver Public Library
Amount: $3,506
Description: This project makes an early BC newspaper, currently available only on microfilm, available in an online web-searchable format accessible remotely and on site. The newspaper provides historical awareness of the issues and concerns of British Columbians at a time of considerable growth and development in the province.

Project title: BC City Directories Digitization Project, 1916-1930
Organization: Vancouver Public Library
Amount: $14,669
Description: This project will build on earlier digitization projects of the directories from 1860-1915, making them available in an online, web-searchable format.

Project title: Audio, Video, Film Digitization
Organization: BC Central Coast Archives, Bella Coola Valley Museum Society
Amount: $2,419
Description: The Archives will digitize its audio and video material, including oral history interviews about the community and tapes and films relating to local history.

Project title: Historic Logging Images of the Northern Vancouver Island Digitization Project
Organization: Campbell River and District Museum and Archives Society
Amount: $6,000
Description: A selection of images related to the history of the unique logging sites and methods in the Northern Vancouver Island region of BC will be digitized and made available online.

Project title: J.S. Matthews Photograph Collection Panorama Digitization Project
Organization: City of Vancouver Archives
Amount: $5,254
Description: This project will digitize panorama negatives and prints from the Archives J.S. Matthews collection, which document the industry, commerce and social history of British Columbia.

Project title: Japanese Canadian Photograph Digitization Project
Organization: Japanese Canadian National Museum
Amount: $10,828
Description: The project will digitize 2000 photographs relating to Japanese Canadian history, ranging in date and subject from early settlements and fishing communities, through the internment years, and through the redress movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

Project title: Langley Advance Historical Photograph Digitization
Organization: Langley Centennial Museum
Amount: $7,150
Description: The region’s oldest newspaper, the Langley Advance, has loaned the Langley Centennial Museum some 2000 photographs dating from 1950 to the 1980s. The project will digitize and upload these to the Museum’s website and, with the help of community volunteers, identify people and places not noted on the photos.

Project title: Jack Shadbolt Digitization and Online Resource Project
Organization: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Amount: $12,407
Description: The Gallery will create born-digital photographs of over 480 of Shadbolt’s drawings, paintings and collages and make them available as an online resource.

Project title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Prince George Public Library
Amount: $15,000
Description: This project continues work begun in 2007 to digitize the Prince George Citizen newspaper.

Project title: Salt Spring Island News: The Driftwood, the first decade, 1960-70
Organization: Salt Spring Island Archives
Amount: $4,000
Description: The project will digitize the first ten years, from 1960-1970, of the local newspaper, The Driftwood.

Project title: Abbotsford Living History Project
Organization: The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
Amount: $5,067
Description: This project will digitize 3000 photos from the Gallery’s collection. Images span the history of Abbotsford since the 1890s and cover a range of subjects such as community events, the flood of 1948, community streetscapes, and First Nations communities.

Project title: British Columbia’s Marine Diversity: A Digital Museum Collection
Organization: Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia
Amount: $15,000
Description: The Department has collected and identified an extensive invertebrate specimen library from the coast of British Columbia. The project will archive this diversity and create a digital record that will promote biodiversity knowledge and streamline future research both regionally and globally.

Project title: Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia Video History Collection
Organization: University of Victoria Archives
Amount: $3,000
Description: UVic Archives will digitize 18 video interviews with retired parks system employees and conservation advocates on the history of the BC parks system.

Project title: The Colonial Dispatches 1859
Organization: University of Victoria Libraries
Amount: $10,000
Description: This project builds on earlier work to digitize Vancouver Island and British Columbia dispatches.

Project title: Bill Silver Newspaper Collection
Organization: Vanderhoof Public Library
Amount: $4,500
Description: This project will build on work begun in 2008 to provide a comprehensive database of newspapers from the Vanderhoof, BC area, from the 1920s to the present.

For more information please contact:

Mimi Lam
Coordinator
BC History Digitization Program
bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca

Bronwen Sprout
Head
Digital Programs and Services

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BC History Digitization Program – 2009 Projects

June 25, 2013

Project Title: Hallmark Society Photograph Digitization Project
Organization: Hallmark Society
Amount: $4,592
Description: Project involves digitization of photographs most of which were taken during inventories of heritage structures in Greater Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s.Hallmark Society Archives

Project Title: Jewish Western Bulletin Newspaper Digitization and Access Project
Organization: Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia
Amount: $3,495.00
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.Jewish Western Bulletin

Project Title: Ray Knight Collection Digitization Project
Organization: Ladysmith Archives
Amount: $9,200
Description: The project includes the digitization of approximately 3,000 historical photographs depicting the history of Ladysmith from the Ray Knight Collection.Ladysmith & District Historical Archives

Project Title: A Life in the Woods: Oral History from the West Kootenay Forest
Organization: Nelson & District Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society
Amount: $3,000
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

Project Title: Rod LeMay and Maud Lane Sous-Fonds Digitization Project
Organization: Powell River Historical Museum & Archives Association
Amount: $6,675
Description: Digitization of approximately 4,000 photographic images focusing particularly on the history of the pulp and paper industry in the Powell River area.Rod LeMay and Maud Lane Photo Collection

Project Title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Prince George Public Library
Amount: $15,000.00
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.Prince George Newspapers Project

Project Title: Marshall Sharp Fonds: Salt Spring Island Aerial Photographs, Landscapes, Events and People
Organization: Salt Spring Archives
Amount: $10,000.00
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.Marshall Sharp Photo Collection

Project Title: Sechelt Community Archives Digitization Project
Organization: District of Sechelt
Amount: $5,000.00
Description: This is a continuation of a project that will digitization of 5,700 photographs, negatives and slides housed in the Sechelt Community Archives.Sechelt Community Archives

Project Title: BC Editorial Cartoons Collection
Organization: Simon Fraser University Library
Amount: $7,778
Description: Project to digitize and describe an additional 800 items from the SFU Editorial Cartoons Collection.SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection

Project Title: UBCIC Activism in the 80s
Organization: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Resource Centre
Amount: $12,600.00
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.Constitution Express Digital Collection

Indian Child Caravan Digital Collection

Project Title: The Colonial Dispatches, 1846-1858
Organization: University of Victoria Libraries
Amount: $10,000
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.The Colonial Despatches

Project Title: BC City Directories Digitization Project, 1902-1915
Organization: Vancouver Public Library
Amount: $15,000
Description: Part of a continuing effort, this project will digitize approximately 32,000 pages from the BC City Directories (1902-1915).BC City Directories

Project Title: Bill Silver Newspaper Collection
Organization: Vanderhoof Public Library
Amount: $5,580
Description: Digitization of approximately 18,000 pages of newspapers from the Omineca Express (1990-1997, 2000-2007).Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive

Project Title: West Kootenay Women’s Association Archival Digitization Project
Organization: West Kootenay Women’s Association
Amount: $4,000.00
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.Kootenay Feminism

For more information please contact:

Chris Hives
Coordinator, BC History Digitization Program
University Archivist, UBC Library
chris.hives@ubc.ca or 604-827-3951

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BC History Digitization Program – 2008 Projects

June 25, 2013

Project Title: Medical Artefact Digitization and Access Project – Phase II
Organization: British Columbia Medical Association
Amount:$8,000.00Description: This project will continue the work begun in 2007 to digitize medical artifacts from the museum’s holdings. These objects illustrate medical practice in British Columbia, including instruments used by medical practitioners over the last 150 years.BCMA Medical Museum

Project Title: Surrey Leader Press Negatives Project
Organization: City of Surrey Archives
Amount: $3,495.00Description: The City of Surrey Archives has a long-standing and very fruitful relationship with the City’s primary newspaper, The Surrey Leader (founded 1929). In 1992, a very substantial donation of the Leader’s photographic negatives (approximately 95,000 images) was made to the Archives by the editor, Andrew Holota. This project will digitize and make available about 3,000 of these images.SAMOA Discovering Surrey’s Past, Online

Project Title: Northern BC Historical and Economic Explorations – Photographs Digitization and Access Project
Organization: Northern BC Archives, UNBC
Amount: $3,500.00Description: In t heir 2007 funded project, the Northern BC Archives made over 2000 slides created by Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. available online. These document 35 years of natural resource industry activity in the Central Interior of B.C. This project will continue the work begun in 2007 and digitize images related to early 20th century exploratory expeditions to Northern BC conducted by stakeholders considering economic developments in its regions.Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. fonds

Project Title: NVMA Maps and Plans Digitization Project
Organization: North Vancouver Museum and Archives
Amount: $3,000.00Description: The North Vancouver Museum and Archives will digitize 200 significant items from its Maps and Plans collection. The group of 200 as a whole will represent the City and District equitably, and exhibit chronological depth, and geographic and topical breadth.As Dreamt, As Built: Maps and Plans of North Vancouver [N.B.: Select either “architectural plan” or “map” from the “Media Type” menu, enter your search term(s) and click “Search.”]

Project Title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Prince George Public Library, UNBC, CNC
Amount: $15,000.00Description: The Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project is a collaboration of the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library (CNC), the Geoffrey R. Weller Library and the Northern BC Archives at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). With the consent and support of the Prince George Citizen publisher, the collaborators joined together in 2007 in this shared project to digitize the Prince George Citizen and six early newspapers beginning in 1909. The collaboration continues in year two of this multi-phase project. In 2008 and 2009 the library will digitize the Prince George Citizen from 1961 to 1966.Prince George Newspapers

Project Title:Digitization of Nitrate and Acetate Negatives
Organization: Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Amount: $3,030.00Description: The project consists of scanning approximately 1000 nitrate and acetate negatives from Prince Rupert’s early photographers such as J. Dennis Allen, Ernest A. Woods, and W.W. Wrathall. The negatives depict the early history of Prince Rupert and the surrounding area.Prince Rupert City & Regional Archives Photo Collection

Project Title: Digitization of the Cariboo Observer Newspaper (1908-1967)
Organization: Quesnel and District Museum and Archives
Amount: $15,000.00Description: The Cariboo Observer will celebrate its 100th anniversary in August 2008. The Quesnel & District Museum and Archives will digitize the newspaper so that it can be retrieved and browsed by issue, or searched by key words selected by the reader/researcher. This phase of the project will digitize the first 60 years of the paper (1908-1967).Quesnel Cariboo Observer

Project Title: Hands Off! Responsibly Opening the Doors to Northeastern BC’s Fossil Resource Collections…
Organization: Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation and Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre
Amount: $15,000.00Description: This project will create an online database of 3-dimensional digital replica images and 2-dimensional digital images of fossil specimens collected from Northeastern British Columbia and archived at the Peace Region Paleontology Centre Collections facility, the natural history branch of the Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation.This project is still in progress and will eventually be hosted from the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre (P.R.P.R.C.)

Project Title: Open Reel Video Digitization: Best Practices on a Budget
Organization: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Resource Centre
Amount: $15,000.00Description: This project will develop, employ, and distribute specific tools, procedures, techniques, and workflows to digitize ½” open reel helical scan EIAJ video tape at minimal expense. Materials to be digitized include hundreds of archival video reels recorded by UBC IC staff in the 1970s. This footage has extremely high historical value for anyone researching or interested in political issues that affect First Nations in British Columbia.UBCIC 7th Annual General Assembly

Project Title: Bill Silver Newspaper Collection
Organization: Vanderhoof Public Library
Amount: $11,000.00Description: This project will digitize the weekly newspaper Nechako Chronicle and its successors, issues dating from 1920-1983. These newspapers record the development of the community of Vanderhoof and other nearby communities of Fort St. James, Fort Fraser, Fraser Lake, and several First Nations communities.Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive

Project Title: Robert Bateman Photographic Digitization Project
Organization: Royal Roads University Foundation
Amount: $12,600.00Description: A total of 3200 photographic slides representing the BC portion of the Bateman legacy will be digitized for this project. The Bateman archives reflect their role in environmental protection, their family life, and their artistic output.Robert Bateman Digital Archives

Project Title: Sechelt Community Archives Digitization of Historical Images
Organization: Sechelt Community Archives
Amount: $9,840.00Description: This project will digitize the 5700 photographs, negatives and slides housed in the Sechelt Community Archives. These images are part of the Helen Dawe Collection of materials relating to the history of the Village of Sechelt, and reflect the history of the village and the Sunshine Coast.Sechelt Community Archives Historical Photographs

Project Title: UBC Virtual Theatre Resource
Organization: UBC Dept of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing
Amount: $10,000.00Description: Theatre at UBC is digitizing their multimedia theatre archives, which chart UBC’s part in the birth of a regional theatre and the development of regional and guest theatre artists at UBC. The archives is composed of nine series, including an extensive range of photos, costume renderings, sound recordings, and moving images.This project is still in progress.

Project Title: BC Printing and Book Arts Digitization Project
Organization: Simon Fraser University Library
Amount: $9,600.00Description: The BC Printing and Book Arts Collection contains more than 500 items, including books, illustrations, broadsides, artwork, and other ephemera, from more than 30 provincial presses. The digitization of these materials will make an important part of BC’s cultural history freely and easily available to community members via the Internet. The flagship piece of this collection is the work of Jim Rimmer who is an esteemed typographer, designer, printer, and publisher based in New Westminster.BC Printing and Book Arts Digitization Project

Project Title: Colonial Dispatches for the Colony of BC 1858
Organization: University of Victoria Libraries
Amount: $10,000.00Description: The Colonial dispatches, which were sent by the governors of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia (1846-1871) to the Colonial Office in London, and the responses, are arguably the most important early documentation available concerning the history of the colonies and early relationships with the indigenous people of B.C. There are 28 volumes of dispatches; this project will make the 1858 volume, minutes, enclosures, correspondence, and transcripts available and searchable online.The Despatches of British Columbia

Project Title: O’Keefe Ranch Archives Digitization
Organization: O’Keefe Ranch and Interior Heritage Society
Amount: $4,000.00Description: The O’Keefe Family lived on their ranch, north of Vernon, from 1867 until 1977 and, over that time, accumulated a large collection of photographs, documents and other archival material relating to their lifestyle and occupancy of the site. The collection forms a unique record of one family’s occupancy of a ranching property for over a century. The project will make this valuable research tool available online to students and other researchers.This project is still in progress.

Project Title: Unique Photographs of Early Bowen Island
Organization: Bowen Island Historical Society
Amount: $9,000.00Description: The photographs in the Bowen Island historical Society’s collections are a pictorial record of the history and development of Bowen Island from the earliest habitation to the present day. A portion of the collection has already been digitized; this project will enhance the existing database, create the ability to search and display the collection through a web browser, make the 1,700 digitized photos available through the Internet and complete the digitization of a further 3,000 photos which will also be accessible through the internet.Online Photographic Database

Project Title: Dr. Gerald Straley’s Historical Collection of the Flora of BC
Organization: UBC Herbarium
Amount:$10,500.00Description: Dr. Gerald Straley (1945-1997) was a well known, respected and admired botanical expert on both cultivated plants and the natural flora of British Columbia. During his career at UBC, he was a research scientist and curator at the UBC Botanical Garden and the Director of the UBC Herbarium. This project will digitize Straley’s pressed plant collection, archival documents, and line-drawings.Dr. Gerald Straley’s historical collection of the flora of British Columbia digitization project

Project Title: Bella Coola Valley Digital Heritage: Phase II
Organization: Bella Coola Valley Museum Society
Amount: $6,000.00Description: The Bella Coola Valley Museum Society will digitize approximately 1000 images from their collection and add the images to the Society’s searchable database. The images portray logging practices between 1930 and 1957, and in the early 1970s and 1980s, and represent the history of Ocean Falls during its time as a booming city.Bella Coola Photograph Collection

Project Title: Online Photograph Database Project – The Otto Landauer Photograph Collection
Organization: Jewish Museum and Archives
Amount: $8,500.00Description: The Jewish Museum and Archive of BC’s online photograph database is an ongoing initiative to make the Museum’s collections available on the internet. In 2008-2009, the JMABC plans to digitize a portion of its Otto F. Landauer – Leonard Frank Photograph collection. Landauer spent part of his career photographing industrial and architectural activities in British Columbia and capturing the changing urban landscape of the province in a unique and beautiful way.The Otto Landauer Photograph Collection (Artefacts Canada)

The Otto Landauer Photograph Collection (virtualmuseum.ca)

For more information please contact:

Mimi Lam
Coordinator
BC History Digitization Program
bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca

Bronwen Sprout
Head
Digital Programs and Services

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BC History Digitization Program – 2007 Projects

June 25, 2013

Project Title: UBCIC History Online
Organization: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Resource Centre
Amount funded: $15,000Description: This project digitized a variety of multimedia materials produced during and related to the establishment and early years of the UBCIC, 1969-1979. Materials include an early run of the UBCIC’s newsletter, audio and video records, photographs, graphic materials, and textual documents. The newsletter collection documents the activities and history of the UBCIC and other First Nations groups in British Columbia during an era that tends to be overlooked in most approaches to the study of First Nations culture and history. In addition to the newsletters, other textual include position and policy papers, transcriptions of speeches, and biographical information. These materials illustrate the relationships between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians. Statements of and positions taken by the chiefs and community members have immense significance for Aboriginal people in British Columbia.UBCIC Digital Collections

Project Title: Prince George Newspapers
Organization: Prince George Public Library
Amount funded: $15,000Description: The Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project is a collaboration of the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library (CNC), the Geoffrey R. Weller Library and the Northern BC Archives at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). With the consent and support of the Prince George Citizen publisher, the collaborators digitized the microfilm of the Prince George Citizen and three early newspapers beginning in 1910. Whether researchers are looking for information on forestry, mining, resource development or searching family or legal matters, this newspaper database is an effective and efficient way to access valuable information not found in books or other documents.Prince George Newspapers Project

Project Title: Vancouver City Directories, 1860-1901
Organization: Vancouver Public Library
Amount funded: $10,453Description: The City Directories digitization project makes early BC directories available in a web-searchable format for users to access remotely as well as when in the library. These directories contain a variety of historically important information including: facts about BC communities (including population), listings of government offices and officials, operating newspapers, schools, libraries, advertisements, classified directories, specialized industry directories (in the early years) and directories of Vancouver and Victoria with listings under name as well as address, as well as name listings for towns throughout British Columbia. The information found in the directories provides wonderful historical snapshots of these communities at the time and because the directories were updated yearly, they also show the growth and development of the communities through time.British Columbia City Directories

Project Title: Indo-Canadian Oral History
Organization: Simon Fraser University Library and Archives
Amount funded: $15,000Description: This project digitized interviews conducted by Dr Hari Sharma, Professor of Sociology at SFU. The collection documents the histories of 37 immigrants from the Punjab Province of India who came to Canada between 1912 and 1938. The interview subjects, primarily Sikhs, discuss topics such as why they came to Canada, adjustment to Canadian society, family life, and their ongoing links with India. The digitized interviews are accompanied by English translations of the interviews. The project will enhance British Columbians’ knowledge of their multicultural history and contribute to our understanding of a large and important segment of BC’s population.Indo-Canadian Oral History Collection

Project Title: Northwood Photographic Images
Organization: Northern BC Archives, University of Northern British Columbia
Amount funded: $3,840Description:The Northern BC Archives digitized around 2100 slides created by Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. and make them accessible online. The slides document 35 years of natural resource industry activity by Northwood in the Central Interior of BC. The collection provides visual documentation of forestry conditions over a 35 year period which may act as a benchmark for documenting environmental change (landscape, forests) over time, and provides a visual documentary of natural resource extraction activity in the Central Interior, as well as an overview of the corporate activities of Northwood during its involvement in the industrial development of this region of the province.NBCA Northwood Photographs

Project Title: Demolished Residential Building Plans
Organization: City of Victoria Archives
Amount funded: $1,000Description: This project scanned and made web-accessible the City of Victoria Archives’ holdings of architectural plans of residential buildings that have been demolished. The holdings consist of 726 plans (of 468 individual buildings) ranging from 1907 to 1993 (predominantly 1907-1969). The material will be of interest to local, national, and international researchers interested in the history of Victoria’s domestic architecture.Demolished Residential Building Plans

Project Title: Evolution of Victoria, 1858-1912
Organization: University of Victoria Libraries
Amount funded: $4,652.64Description:This project provides researchers with online access to some of UVIC Library’s most significant materials relating to Victoria’s early history. These include 5 early hand-coloured maps, published 1855-1859; one rare book published by The Colonist, in 1891, which is full of contemporary illustrations and tables illustrating Victoria life, people, resources, industries and architecture; and one book of pioneer reminiscences about Victoria, published in 1912. It also includes six early tourist pamphlets of Victoria containing captioned early photographs of the city, Frank Sylvester’s diary (1874-1907), containing about 150 entries relating to contemporary life, travels and ships in Victoria during that period, six manuscripts of talks he gave to the Victoria Historical Society before 1908 about Victoria and his travel through the province in the 1850’s and 60’s, and records kept by Sylvester of his Alert Bay Cannery, 1888, and pamphlets and ephemera. BC historians, archaeologists, aboriginals, historical association members and members of the public will be interested in these never before digitized materials about early Victoria.Victoria’s Early History Collection

Project Title: Medical Artefact Digitization and Access Project
Organization: British Columbia Medical Association
Amount funded: $14,720Description: The museum’s holdings represent the largest collection in British Columbia devoted solely to the history of medicine in the province. The collection ranges from the earliest medical equipment used by pioneer physicians in the settlement of the province to the early adoption of modern medical technology. Approximately 520 items from the museum’s holdings will be photographed and images made available in QuickTime VR. QuickTime VR applicability will allow for online manipulation of images providing 360 degree views of selected objects. The digitized images will be useful to medical professionals, scholars, students of medicine and history, and to anyone interested in the development of medical practice and health care in the province.BCMA Medical Museum

Project Title: BC Packers Ltd Insurance Photos and Maps
Organization: City of Richmond Archives
Amount funded: $6,160Description: The City of Richmond Archives digitized photographs, insurance maps and site plans of BC Packers sites and properties (700 photos and 200 maps altogether). The records, dating from the 1920s through to the demolition of buildings on the Steveston site in 2001, demonstrate the impact of the fishing industry on the economic, social and environmental life of BC’s coastal communities. The images and maps are essential for a comprehensive historical understanding of land use and of the environmental and social impact of the fishing industry on the West coast, and together, they tell a graphic story of a once vibrant community.BC Packers Limited Insurance Collection

Project Title: Visual Records (historical photos)
Organization: Saanich Archives
Amount funded: $14,445Description: Saanich Archives has over 12,000 images documenting the early settlement of the Saanich area to the formation of the municipality and its subsequent development. Most aspects of life in Saanich from the 1880s to the 1980s are represented in this collection. For this project, the archives selected 2500 images that best illustrate the history of the municipality, resulting in research capability through the Internet for researchers outside the Greater Victoria area.Saanich Archives Photographs

Project Title: Hearing Hazelton History (oral histories)
Organization: Hazelton Area Historical Association
Amount funded: $3,100Description: HAHA’s collection policy focuses on material related to the geographic area in a 50 kilometre radius around Hazelton, BC. This includes the Village of Hazelton, the municipality of New Hazelton, the unincorporated communities of South Hazelton and Two Mile, six Gitksan villages, the Wet’suwet’en village of Hagwilget, as well as the Kitwanga Valley, the Kispiox Valley, the Suskwa Valley, and the Upper Skeena Valley. The project digitized audio tapes of personal interviews, narratives and life stories of various elders from the communities described above. The oral histories have been collected over a period of 30 years, and collectively describe life the in the Hazeltons over a period of several decades. The audio clips will then be made available in MP3 format from a website. Because of the unique nature of the Hazleton community, in that First Nations and Pioneer families have integrated so well, the HAHA expects there will be a great deal of interest in the stories from the community’s formative years.

Project Title: Semiahmoo Sun and White Rock Sun newspapers
Organization: White Rock Museum and Archives
Amount funded: $3,489.50Description: This project digitized issues of the Semiahmoo Sun and White Rock Sun from 1956 to 1966. (Editions from 1940 to 1955 have already been digitized.) Long before its incorporation in 1957 White Rock, BC was a self-aware community with a strong distinct identity. The Semiahmoo Sun (later the White Rock Sun), first published in 1939, was a very important voice for that identity.Semiahmoo Sun and White Rock Sun Collection

Project Title: VanDusen Garden slides
Organization: City of Vancouver Archives
Amount funded: $7,000Description: This project digitized the 5,250 slides belonging to the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association fonds in the Archives’ holdings. The collection includes images taken throughout the history of the Garden and records the specimens which were planted over the decades. The collection has broad appeal to those interested in gardens or garden history in BC and around the world. Further, the botanical images, precisely identified, will be of interest to anyone who needs visual identification of specimens and examples of specimens.VanDusen Garden Collection

Project Title: McLennan and McFeely catalogue
Organization: City of Vancouver Archives
Amount funded: $2,411Description: The project concerns one volume of approximately 1,700 pages, which was published in thematic sections from 1909 – 1914. It is a hardware catalogue, but includes a wide variety of items. Many of the products pictured and described were sold across North America. While the catalogue itself is rare and informative, it represents an important business in the history of Vancouver. The digitized catalogue will be of interest to museums and private collectors researching the usage of artifacts, to architectural researchers or owners of historic houses, and to social history researchers.McLenna and McFeely Catalogue

Project Title: Intellectual Access (CPR Photos)
Organization: Revelstoke Railway Museum
Amount funded: $3,120Description: This project digitized the photographic collection of the Revelstoke Railway Museum. These 3,370 unique images illustrate the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway within Revelstoke and the surrounding region dating from the late 1800s to the present. Railways are central to British Columbia’s and Canada’s history. These images are particularly relevant to BC history in that they show how the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway prevented the southern interior of British Columbia from becoming part of the United States.Revelstoke Railway Museum Photographs

Project Title: Salt Spring Island Pioneers, Landmarks and Buildings
Organization: Salt Spring Island Archives
Amount funded: $8,000Description: The Salt Spring Archives digitized several historically significant collections totaling over 2000 photos and audiotapes. Each of the collections represents people or institutions important to Salt Spring’s history. This project will give historians, genealogists, researchers, and the public access to a fuller, richer picture of life on the island in the past.Salt Spring Island Archives Collection

Project Title: Historic Video Archives Digitization Project
Organization: Satellite Video Exchange Society (Video In/Video Out Distribution)
Amount funded: $15,000Description: The Historic Video Archives Digitization Project aims to make significant artworks, community documentaries and video documentation of community protest and activism since 1973 available to the public. The SVES (Video Out Distribution) video archives holds approximately 8,000 videotapes, 4,000 of which are disseminated by the nonprofit Video Out Distribution, but many are languishing unplayable and deteriorating. This project cleaned and restored the most significant historical and artistic works and digitized them for viewing online. The project will allow community organizations to access important events and video documents from their history in British Columbia and make available seminal art works on video that were made at a time when Vancouver was at the apex of an International video art movement.VIVO Historical Video Archives

For more information please contact:

Mimi Lam
Coordinator
BC History Digitization Program
bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca

Bronwen Sprout
Head
Digital Programs and Services

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Remote Community Based Learning Fund Submissions Now Open!

June 18, 2013

1-Remote Community Based Learning Fund The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Community Learning Initiative are pleased to offer funding to faculty members creating remote community-based experiential learning (CBEL) opportunities for their students. This funding is intended to support collaborations between UBC students and organizations located in communities that are remote from Vancouver – defined as outside of the Lower Mainland.

CBEL provides students with the opportunity to apply their discipline-specific skills and knowledge, working in partnership with community-based organisations to resolve complex community challenges. By integrating these opportunities into course-work, faculty enable their students to test their assumptions, be exposed to new perspectives, as well as developing their teamwork and communication skills. These learning opportunities are often heightened in remote communities where local priorities and challenges can be very different from those in urban centres such as Vancouver.

Faculty are invited to apply for up to $5000 in the 2013/14 academic year. The funding is intended to cover:

Student travel to remote locations
Student accommodation in remote locations
Community events related to student projects – e.g. catering or venues for consultation events or workshops
Stipends for community partners who offer their time to support the student projects
Project supplies
Other costs directly related to the remote CBEL collaborations

Please note that only economy standard travel and accommodation will be funded. Funds are not intended for capital investments such as the purchase of teleconferencing equipment. Students who benefit from this funding will be expected to provide a short report, story, or video describing their experience working with a remote community partner. Faculty members interested in accessing these funds should provide a brief (1-2 page) proposal including the following sections:

1. Introduction: Provide a brief overview of your course, describe the community organization you are partnering with, the priorities they identify, and the nature and goals of the student projects.

2. Community as Co-Educators: Describe yourrelationship with the community partner, their capacity to act as a co-educator of UBC students, and the commitment they have offered to support the project (e.g. staff time, use of facilities etc).

3. Learning Objectives: Offer a summary of the learning objectives for the remote project, and how they link to the wider learning objectives for your course.

4. Budget: Please provide an itemized budget for the requested funding.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. For further information, or to submit your
proposal, please contact:
Rebecca Kindiak, Manager of Community-based Experiential Learning
UBC-Community Learning Initiative
rebecca.kindiak@ubc.ca
604-822-6133

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Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC: 2013 – Apply Now!

June 17, 2013

LIRNBC Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC (LIRN BC) is a collaborative approach to building on the capacities of rural, remote and Northern British Columbian communities. And we are delighted to be partering with this great initiative!

The LIRN process encourages local government, provincial, federal, First Nations, non-government organizations (community-based, regional and provincial) and businesses to work together to plan, deliver and evaluate a locally relevant learning initiative.

The 2013 Expression of Interest (EOI) application is now available and we are delighted to be new LIRN partner!Follow this link for more information or to download the EOI form or go directly to: http://www.sba-bc.ca/resource/lirn-bc-expression-interest-2013-14.

►The EOI must be received by June 28th, 2013 at 5:00 pm.

The EOI includes workshop summaries for 18 workshops offered by LIRN BC partner organizations. If your community is selected, you will be contacted by a LIRN BC partner who will work with you to design and deliver a learning event that meets the needs of your community. Successful applicants would be expected to provide publicity support, venue and refreshments.

The 2013 LIRN BC partners are:

Access to Media Education Society (AMES)
Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC
Fraser Basin Council (Smart Planning for Communities)
Heritage Branch – BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC (Small Business Accelerator Program)
Leave out Violence BC (LoVE)
PeerNetBC
Public Health Agency of Canada
Social Planning and Research Council of BC (Community Development Education Program)
YouthCO
EOI Details:

►The EOI must be received by June 28th, 2013 at 5:00 pm.Please do not exceed the provided space of the Application Section of the EOI. Follow this link for more information or to download the EOI form or go directly to: http://www.sba-bc.ca/resource/lirn-bc-expression-interest-2013-14.

►Return the Application Section only – pages 14 to 18 of this document – as a Word document by email to jsands@sparc.bc.ca.| Jim Sand, Project Coordinator, SPARC B (Social Planning and Research Council of BC).

►Special Instructions: Please do not exceed the provided space of the Application Section of the EOI. Return the Application Section only – pages 14 to 18 of this document – as a Word document by email to jsands@sparc.bc.ca.

Note: If you have any questions please contact Jim Sands at 604-718-7742 or jsands@sparc.bc.ca

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Benjamin Cohen – Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements

June 11, 2013

Benjamin Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. Established in May 1998, the Institute for European Studies (IES) is part of the University of British Columbia’s ongoing mission to advance international knowledge and research about Europe. This talk is the keynote speech at the Institute for European Studies (IES)’s the “Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements: Present & Future” international conference at UBC in June 2010.

Biography

Benjamin Cohen is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1991, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy. His research interests mainly involve issues of international monetary and financial relations, and he has written about matters ranging from exchange rates and monetary integration to financial markets and international debt. Cohen’s latest book, The Future of Global Currency: The Euro Versus the Dollar, was published in 2011 by Routledge Publishers.

Last updated June 18, 2013.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Cohen, B. J. (1998). The Geography of Money. Cornell University Press. [Link]

Cohen, B. J. (2012). The future of the euro: Rejoinder to Schwartz. Review of International Political Economy, 19(4), 709-710. [Link]

Cohen, B. J. (2012). The yuan tomorrow? Evaluating China’s currency internationalisation strategy. New Political Economy, 17(3), 361-371. [Link]

Cohen, B. J. (2012). The Future of Global Currency: The Euro Versus the Dollar. Routledge. [Link]

UBC Research Guides

Economics

International Developmental Planning

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