Videos
Videos
In Conversation with Barry Gough: Possessing Meares Island
British Columbia History magazine's Aimee Greenaway interviewed Dr. Barry Gough, award-winning author of Possessing Meares Island: A Historian's Journey Through the Past...
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....
Punjabi film shot in Barkerville released
A new film entitled ਛੱਲਾ ਮੁੜ ਕੇ ਨਹੀਂ ਆਇਆ (Chhalla Mud Ke Nahi Aaya — Chhalla Never Returned), shot in Barkverville and...
Wings Over Canada: Chinese Canadians in the Skies
This presentation recorded June 28 at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre in Vancouver includes the little-known stories of Chinese Canadian pilots.
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...
