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Directory Assistance: For What City?

30 Oct 2024 1:16 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


The UBC Library needs your help! They are digitizing British Columbia directories in order to make them available publicly online, and are looking for 2 indexes. Can you help find them? Read the request from Doug Brigham below:

"I'm reaching out to the local history community to try and locate copies of two indexes for British Columbia directories:

  1. The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Nineteenth Century Directories: A Bibliography and Index (Lutz & Young, 1988)
  2. The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Directories, 1901-1940: A Bibliography and Index (Young & Lutz, 1992)

I would like to digitize the indexes as part of a project I'm working on: a map-based platform for locating BC towns and directories. The indexes are held fairly widely in libraries, but I'm having trouble locating copies that I can use for digitization.


If you have copies of either of these indexes that you are willing to sell or donate to the project - or if you know someone who might be - I would appreciate hearing from you!

And if you'd just like to connect to talk about BC directories, I'd love that too."

If you can help, contact Doug at doug.brigham@ubc.ca 

British Columbia Historical Federation
PO Box 448, Fort Langley, BC, Canada, V1M 2R7

Information: info@bchistory.ca  


With gratitude, the BCHF acknowledges that it carries out its work on the traditional territories of Indigenous nations throughout British Columbia.

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