Videos
Videos
Interview: Lost Kootenays, Part 2
Mark Forsythe continues his conversation with Greg Nesteroff, co-author with Eric Brighton of Lost Kootenays: A History in Pictures. This time they...
1926 footage of Namgis First Nation discovered
Vernon historian/videographer Francois Arsenault has discovered footage of the Namgis First Nation filmed at Alert Bay nearly a century ago.
In Still Water- Avante Garde Hippies & The Grateful Dead – Professor Gregory Betts
The Vancouver Historical Society presents Poet and English professor Dr. Gregory Betts who discusses the impact of the Grateful Dead and the...
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...
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...
Wayne Norton of Victoria wins BC Historical Federation Best Article Award
The British Columbia Historical Federation is pleased to announce Wayne Norton is the recipient of the 2019 Anne and Philip Yandle Best...
The Peace Arch at 100: A presentation by Barb Hynek
This virtual field trip of Surrey's Peace Arch will take you on a tour through history to look at the origins 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.
Walter Moberly Monument
Did you miss the 2016 BCHF Conference in Revelstoke? On May 27th, the Walter Moberly Monument was unveiled at the Revelstoke Railway Museum. Cathy...
We Have Our Man: A presentation by Baltej Singh Dhillon
One of the most moving presentations of the recent BCHF conference was by Baltej Singh Dhillon, the first member of the RCMP...
