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The Correspondence of Racey and Harrison Collection features previously undocumented correspondence between James Maurice (J.M.) Harrison and Kenneth Racey, as well as a selection of specimens that they exchanged with each other. J.M. Harrison (1892…

Gail McCance was born on December 18, 1924 in North Vancouver. A set designer on Broadway, a production designer for the movies, a veteran of 90 Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) productions, and an original founder of the Vancouver Opera Association (…

Tells the story of Marie-Louise, a postmistress with the supernatural ability to read through sealed envelopes. Through her revelations of secrets hidden within messages, we begin to learn about the Northern Ontario community.

This collection presents a series of documents relating to the creation of a large scale map charting the distribution of the indigenous languages across North America. The date and final use of this map are currently unknown. The assigned "…

The Terry and Sherrie Thorne Collection contains photographs, pamphlets, newspapers, and reports illustrating the rich history of the Squamish area, from 1890 to 1950. It is a selected portion of the materials in the Terry and Sherrie Thorne…

The Johnston Family Fonds contains selected materials donated by the Johnston Family to (fictional) The Archives of Home Economics. The Family Recipes series contains 85 recipe cards, alongside one spiral notebook, a bound book, and a three-ring…

This collection contains the full content of Indian Food: A Cookbook of Native Foods from British Columbia, a collection of recipes provided by individuals from several First Nations communities across coastal and interior British Columbia,…

This collection is a sample of four issues of a newsletters created by the Société Historique Francophone de la Colombie-Britannique for its members. The newsletter was published first under the name Le Chronologie and later Le Courrier. Together,…

ABOUT THE COLLECTION The Susan Tolway Family Fonds was donated to the Jewish Historical Society of BC by Susan Towley in February 2018 and digitizing began in January 2019. The JMABC Archives welcomes donations of material pertaining to the history…

A comedy about four Canadian men with differing personalities who take a weekend getaway camping trip.

Tells the story of Maurice Ruddick, a singer and one of 174 miners trapped beneath Cumberland No. 2 mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, 1958.

The Philip Francis Postcard Collection offers a glimpse into British Columbia’s past through postcards that highlight its people, events, industries, landmarks, and transportation. Many of these postcards come from the "golden age" of…

Murder-mystery set in The Blackfly Lodge, featuring a brother and sister drifting apart, and a family history of addiction.

Musical set in the Jazz age of 1930 Berlin as the Nazis are ascending to power. Play centres around the Kit Kat Klub nightlife and a relationship between an American writer and an English cabaret performer.

A group of people are brought together after the funeral of a gay dancer, Robbie, who drowned in a boating accident with his lover. The assortment of characters come to terms with their personal identities and lives.

Originally published in Spain in 1499, tells the story of a bachelor who uses a procuress Celestina to begin an affair with an unmarried girl living with her parents.

The three issues presented here have been digitized from a bound collection of Tumbler Ridge Chronicle-Mountaineer newspapers published in 1983. This collection has been created using the only known copies of the newspaper, which are kept at the…

Reflection | Representation | Remembrance: A Retrospective of the Works of Co.ERASGA (1999-2010) is a collection of image and textual materials commemorating the first ten years of Co.ERASGA contemporary dance company. As Co.ERASGA enters its…