2022 Victoria
2022 Victoria
60 Second Decades
During our 2022 conference, each session began with a minute-long video consisting of historic moments and pictures from the BCHF's first century....
Accessing Residential School Records
Content warning: This video relates to Indian Residential Schools. A reminder that the Indian Residential School Survivors Society has a 24 hour...
The Second World War in BC History and Public Memory
Scott Sheffield's investigations of the academic literature on the Second World War in BC revealed a surprising dearth of literature explicitly exploring...
BC History: Objects, Collections and Change
Objects have a life within a museum’s collection. That life may be short or long. New objects enter collections and others leave...
History as a Tool for Reconciliation
Today Indigenous people are struggling to negotiate treaties with the BC and Canadian governments and in other ways to re-assume meaningful say...
Victoria in 1922: A Re-creation
Victoria became John Adams’ adopted city in 1960. As a new kid who was interested in history, he tried to make up...
A Photo Taken, A Memory Preserved: The Material Act of Remembering
Nowhere is remembrance more evident than in Victorian funerary rituals, where a range of memento mori and markers of death served to...
A Tale of Two Families: BC’s Intercultural Family Teachings
Due to historical exclusion and colonial record-keeping practices, not many non-Indigenous families from minority groups can trace their family histories back to...
Access to Memory: Reflections on Government Support for Public History
As the director of a non-profit museum, president of the Friends of the BC Archives, and an adjunct professor of BC history,...
A New Perspective on the Uprooting and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
The mistreatment of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s has traditionally been understood in terms of a temporary, wartime internment. Drawing upon the...
