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The Princeton and District Museum and Archives Society has announced the digitization of the Similkameen Star is finally complete. All issues of the newspaper from 1900-53 are available here.
The museum acknowledges funding assistance from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and all the staff and students at the UBC library in Vancouver who worked on the project. They gave special thanks to Mimi Lam and Robert Stibravy with UBC and to Joan Taylor Mayo who gave them copyright permissions.
"This has been the cumulative effort of many people over seven years and will serve as an invaluable research tool on the subjects of the people and places that make up the history of the district of Princeton," the museum said in a news release.
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For the first time in over a decade, you can watch a movie again at Victoria's 75-yearold Roxy Theatre.
Read more in the Victoria Times Colonist.
A new exhibit with a focus on LGBTQ history on the Saanich Peninsula has been unveiled at the Sidney Museum for Pride Month.
Bill Reid's The Raven and the First Men (Nick Kwan/Unsplash)
Following an 18-month closure for a $40-million seismic upgrade, UBC's Museum of Anthropology has reopened. While it has nearly 50,000 works from around the world, but the museum is best known for its Indigenous northwest coast art collection.
Read more from the CBC.
A sight-seeing train in Port Alberni returns to the track this month for the first time since 2018. The train is powered by a locomotive once used by MacMillan Blodel and uses cabooses that once belonged to CN Rail. It's hoped it will lead to reinstating service between Port Alberni and the McLean Mill National Historic Site.
The owners of the Dutch Bakery and Diner in Victoria, which the Schaddlee family has operated since 1956, have put their Fort Street building up for sale. But they are hoping the business will go on.
The Nelson Museum Archives and Gallery has officially launching a new permanent installation called We Love a Parade!, based on a 2021 gallery exhibition that celebrated the history of the West Kootenay Gays and Lesbians Society, meticulously compiled by longtime archives volunteer Michael Wicks.
Read more in the Nelson Star.
Two dozen long-forgotten scrapbooks have been rediscovered after more than a century on the top floor of Wongs’ Benevolent Association on Pender Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown (seen above). Read more in The Vancouver Sun.
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Bell Media is selling its Francis Rattenbury-designed building in Victoria. The building, constructed around 1907, is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Read more in the Victoria Times-Colonist.
It's June and that means it's time for the Great Canadian Giving Challenge once again!
The Great Canadian Giving Challenge is a national public contest to benefit Canadian charities. Every $1 donated to a registered charity in June via CanadaHelps, automatically enters the charity to win an additional $20,000 donation.
The $20,000 grand prize draw will take place on Canada Day July 1st where one lucky charity will win!
Through the Great Canadian Giving Challenge, we are raising money for the BCHF Centennial Legacy Fund, which supports community historians who are uncovering the diverse cultural, social, genealogical, and geological history of BC.
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The BCHF thanks all donors for their continued support.
British Columbia Historical FederationPO Box 448, Fort Langley, BC, Canada, V1M 2R7Information: 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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