By sromkey on April 24, 2013
For this post, we’re pleased to introduce a guest blogger- Cari Postnikoff is a practicum student visiting us from the School of Library and Information Studies at University of Alberta. Here’s what Cari found in our collections related to the Columbia River: This is another installment of our series featuring B.C. places used as room […]
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By sromkey on April 22, 2013
From our friends at the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C.:
“CCHSBC is pleased to host “Saltwater City for Youth”, a one week day camp for young teens, August 12-16. The objective of the camp is to educate young teens about the role Chinese Canadians have played in the historic development of Vancouver and how they continue to shape the city. Field trips include Museum of Vancouver, Chinatown, UBC and Steveston.
Please visit the website www.cchsbc.ca for the registration form and more information. Inform your friends and relatives of this exciting opportunity to learn about Chinese Canadian history. Teens of all backgrounds are welcome. Early registration is recommended, $160 for CCHS members and $200 for non-members.
CCHSBC kindly acknowledges financial funding from the Province of B.C. and support from the Museum of Vancouver.”
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By sromkey on April 9, 2013
Passage of Dreams is a documentary filmed in 2012 and premiered at a special event earlier this year at UBC about Dr. Chung and his collection. We’re really excited to announce that it has been nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award which is part of the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan. Much of the documentary was filmed at the Chung Collection in the Rare Books and Special Collections branch, which was a fun and interesting experience for all of our staff. Our congratulations to director Karin Lee!
If you don’t happen to be in Saskatchewan and would like to see the film, DVD’s can be borrowed at several library branches.
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By sromkey on April 5, 2013
If you’re lucky enough to live in Vancouver or a place with a similar climate, you’re starting to see the cherry blossoms bloom. Vancouverites look forward to this time of year as our city is home to many cherry trees. According to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, the trend for planting cherry trees started in Vancouver in the early 1930’s when the mayors of Kobe and Yokohama donated 500 cherry trees to be planted in Vancouver, to honour Japanese Canadians who fought in WWI.
To honour this time of year, our featured photograph for the month of April shows cherry blossoms in Tokyo:
This photograph, like many from the Chung Collection depicting international scenes, is part of a scrapbook kept by world travelers on the Canadian Pacific Railway lines. These particular travelers took both the Empress of India steamship throughout Asia, and a train tour in North America. You can see in the bottom right corner that the photograph was distributed commercially and sold to travelers for their photograph album- this was common practice before owning a camera for your personal use became common. This album was assembled in 1910.
To check out good cherry blossom viewing and related events in Vancouver, be sure to check the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival website!
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By sromkey on March 28, 2013
Please note that Rare Books and Special Collections, the Chung Collection and University Archives will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday; however, we are open as usual on Saturday the 30th, from 12-5. Please check the Library’s Hours and Locations portal to see hours for other branches over Easter weekend. Amongst our English […]
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By sromkey on March 27, 2013
Due to a software upgrade to our Automated Storage and Retrieval System many of our archival collections and some of our book collections will be unavailable to request during the week of March 25th. We anticipate the system being fully functional again by Tuesday April 2. Our sincere apologies for this continue inconvenience. How do […]
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By sromkey on March 25, 2013
If you’re in the Victoria area, be sure to check out the “Floating on the Margins” exhibition at the Maritime Museum of B.C. The exhibition “illustrates the lives of early Chinese Canadian sailors and passengers on the Canadian Pacific Passenger Liners” and we’re especially pleased to have loaned a number of documents and photographs to their exhibition from the Chung Collection! The exhibition is on now, and will be available for viewing until May 28th.
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By sromkey on March 21, 2013
Due to a software upgrade to our Automated Storage and Retrieval System many of our archival collections and some of our book collections will be unavailable to request on March 25 and 26. We anticipate the system being fully functional again on March 27th. How do you know if an item is affected or not? […]
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By sromkey on March 21, 2013
Due to a software upgrade to our Automated Storage and Retrieval System many of our archival collections and some of our book collections will be unavailable to request on March 25 and 26. We anticipate the system being fully functional again on March 27th March 28th at noon. How do you know if an item […]
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By sromkey on March 21, 2013
In this post in our series of B.C. places used as room names in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, we are going to feature Trail, B.C. We are also going to talk about archival appraisal, but first- a little bit about Trail! Trail is a city in the Western Kootenay region of B.C., founded […]
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