Videos

Videos

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....

BC History in Fragments: What Lies Beneath Our Feet

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

Forgotten Stories, Silenced Voices: A presentation by Renée Sarojini Saklikar

As a poet and a writer she’s explored history (Children of Air India, un/authorized exhibit and interjections); science and poetry (Listening to...

Arrow Lakes archivist goes out with a bang … and a slidshow

On May 27, an large, appreciative crowd packed the Legion Hall in Nakusp to take in the final public presentation from Arrow...

Adventures in Digital History: A presentation by Dr. Kyle Jackson and students

How can historians use new digital tools to enliven and deepen our study of the past? In this presentation, Dr. Kyle Jackson...

VIDEO: A Scene from Princeton’s Mining History

In this presentation, Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat tell the story of a coal miners' strike in Princeton during the Depression. The...

The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow: A presentation by Catherine Clement

Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow, written by Catherine Clement and published by the Chinese Canadian Historical...

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...

Wendy Wickwire on Public History: Between the Professionals and the People

In case you missed it, we recorded Wendy Wickwire's presentation from our first virtual annual general meeting held on September 12th.

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...