Online Extras
Online Extras
New study guide designed to rethink BC’s history
Grades 8 through 12 students can deepen their understanding of social injustices and discriminatory policies in British Columbia with a new study...
Interview with Michael Layland
BC Historical Federation Vice-President Mark Forsythe caught up with the 2019 Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing prize winning author Michael Layland to...
Tashme today
The Spring 2020 issue of British Columbia History features a story on haiku poetry written in the Tashme Japanese-Canadian interment camp. Here...
Descendants of 7th Canadian Cavalry Field Ambulance members sought
The Menin Gate, seen in 2003, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium dedicated to British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in...
It happened one Christmas in Sweetwater
The following story by Dayle Sheridan takes place at Sweetwater school in 1949, during her second teaching assignment, and was included in...
Celebrating 20 years of the BC Dairy Historical Society
By Mike Yusko
Dairy farming in BC began in 1827 with the arrival...
British Columbia History magazine online extra: UVic’s law libraries
The Faculty of Law and the Diana M. Priestly Law Library at the University of Victoria as facilitators for the study of legal history in British Columbia – forty years on.
Nakusp’s grand old Centennial Building: From two-room schoolhouse to cultural hub
Just north of Nakusp's busiest intersection sits the Centennial Building, one of Nakusp's oldest buildings. First built as a two-room school house, this building...
