Explore Open Collections: BC Historical Documents
Next Monday is BC Day! To celebrate, this post will introduce our BC Historical Documents collection and explore the early history of BC. Rare Books and Special Collections in the UBC Library houses an abundance of original documents related to the development of British Columbia and its economic, social, political and cultural history. We have […]
Streets in Downtown Vancouver
In the Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, we have historic photographs depicting street scenery in Vancouver in the early 1900s. This post will explore some of our favourite photographs, showing the major streets in Vancouver. We hope you can identify where the pictures were taken and how the streets have changed since […]
Advertisements in Newspapers
Historical newspapers are good resources for researching the political, social and cultural trends in local areas during specific historical periods. One of the interesting components are advertisements, which contain information about local businesses, and popular industries around the time. Like today, the papers had designed their advertisements to catch readers’ eyes and attract new customers. […]
BC-related Dictionaries
The BC Historical Books collection contains the digitized bibliographies of British Columbia. In the collection, there are 35 dictionaries related to BC History. Here, we will introduce some of our favourite ones! City Directories Do you have the White or Yellow Pages at home? UBC Rare Books and Special Collections has a collection of city […]
Fishing in Open Collections
Open Collections has several collections related to fishing. Today, we will introduce a few of these collections and our favourite digitized items! Fisherman Publishing Society Collection In the Fisherman Publishing Society Collection, we have digitized around 4,000 photographs taken from 1862 to 1989. The Fisherman Publishing Society formed in 1937 and had published a bi-weekly […]