British Columbia Historical Federation

Objects have a life within a museum’s collection. That life may be short or long. New objects enter collections and others leave...

Today Indigenous people are struggling to negotiate treaties with the BC and Canadian governments and in other ways to re-assume meaningful say...

Victoria became John Adams’ adopted city in 1960. As a new kid who was interested in history, he tried to make up...

Nowhere is remembrance more evident than in Victorian funerary rituals, where a range of memento mori and markers of death served to...

Due to historical exclusion and colonial record-keeping practices, not many non-Indigenous families from minority groups can trace their family histories back to...

As the director of a non-profit museum, president of the Friends of the BC Archives, and an adjunct professor of BC history,...

The mistreatment of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s has traditionally been understood in terms of a temporary, wartime internment. Drawing upon the...

Collections manager Lisa Uyeda holds a lunchbox that belonged to Donald Masayuki who used it while attending school in Revelstoke where...

Even the smallest historic object, lost or actively discarded, decades or even centuries ago, has a story to tell. In this presentation...

In October 1922, a small group of interested citizens from Vancouver Island and the mainland of BC came together at the Provincial...

From left: Callie Anderson, Gary Mitchell, Shannon Bettles, Doug Brigham We are bidding adieu to three members of...