BC Provincial Museum – The Past
Daily Colonist, November 18, 1962. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PROGRESS – BC’s Provincial Museum Steadily Expands. By G. Clifford Carl Seventy-five years ago, the Provincial Museum...
Read MoreTHE MASONRY WALL AT ENTERPRISE WHARF
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a popular course on geology at UBC. It was mainly about the then newly accepted theories...
Read MoreThe Negro Immigration Into Vancouver Island In 1858
B.C. Historical Quarterly, April, 1939 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bch/items/1.0190667#p28z-3r0f:%22british%20columbia%20historical%20quarterly%22%20AND%20%22april,%201939%22 The Negro Immigration Into Vancouver Island In 1858. F.W. Howay California was from the beginning a free State. Its...
Read MoreWho Created First Nations Residential Schools?
Sir John A. Macdonald is often vilified for creating the Indigenous residential schools that devastated so many First Nations communities. But a recent online presentation...
Read More585 Johnson Street – A Proposal for a New Building
585 Johnson St. Proposal Illustration by Studio 531 Architects. During the December 14, 2021 meeting of the Victoria Heritage Advisory Panel a proposal was presented...
Read MoreSaving Building With Seismic Upgrades
In the City of Victoria recent development proposals which involved historic masonry buildings in the downtown area have had engineering opinions put forward that, under...
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