BC History Digitization Program: 2025/2026 Call for submissions
The British Columbia History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting applications for project funding. The program, initiated by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006, provides matching funds to support digitization projects that make unique British Columbia content freely available. Since its inception in 2006, the BCHDP has awarded more than $2 million of […]
Digitization of Lumber Worker Newspaper Project Complete
Kaatza Historical Society has completed its digitization of Lumber Worker Newspaper Project.
Digitization of Behind the Lens: The Okamura and Banno Families Complete
Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre has completed its digitization of Behind the Lens: The Okamura and Banno Families.
Digitization of City of Vancouver Heritage Inventory Photographs Digitization Project (Phase Two) Complete
The City of Vancouver Archives has completed its digitization of City of Vancouver Heritage Inventory Photographs Digitization Project (Phase Two).
BC History Digitization Program: 2024/2025 Call for submissions
The British Columbia History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting applications for project funding. The program, launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, provides matching funds to support projects that make unique British Columbia content freely available. Applications are due by Friday, December 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm PST.
2023/2024 BC History Digitization Program Call for Applications
The British Columbia History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting applications for project funding. Applications are due by Friday, December 9, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PST.
Digitization of 20 in 2020 Complete
The Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre has completed its digitization of 20 in 2020.
Are Canada’s pipeline approvals at odds with our climate commitments?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. For years the possibility of new and expanded pipelines running across BC have raised questions related to First Nations land rights, coastal tanker traffic, and the nature of inter-provincial relationships. Underlying these questions, however, has always been the larger question of […]
14th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium
March 4 5pm – March 5 3:30pm | First Nations Longhouse, UBC | This year the Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (IGSS) explores transformation through Indigenous Research and Knowledge by thinking about how research interacts with community and how community shapes research.
Eric Peterson – Hakai Research Institute
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In this talk, Hakai Beach Institute co-founder Eric Peterson discusses the work of the institute, which is located on the only deeded land of an uninhabited island, Calvert. Calvert Island is 161 square kilometers and is in turn in the middle of an uninhabited 1,200-square-kilometer marine-conservation […]