British Columbia History Portal

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Albert Tissandier, Drawings of Nature and Industry in the U.S., 1885

A virtual exhibit and digitized set of drawings produced by French illustrator Albert Tissandier on four journeys to North America in 1885, 1886, 1890 and 1893. The collection includes scenes from Van...

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/tissandier/index.html

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Alberta InSight

Database of selected, digitized photographs preserved in Alberta's archival institutions. As of September 2004, over 3,600 photographs pertain to British Columbia.

http://asalive.archivesalberta.org:8080/access/asa/photo/

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BC History Digital Collections

Summary from the home page (2006 11 15): "This website consists of an inventory of digital collections about British Columbia history. The inventory currently includes approximately 100 digital histor...

http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/bchistory/

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Beinecke Digital Images Database

"The Beinecke Digital Images Database contains approximately 60,000 images of a wide range of materials from throughout the Beinecke Collections: photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, o...

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

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British Columbia Archives

The British Columbia Archives is the provincial government's central archives, as well as an archives for private records of provincial significance. Check here for access to the visual records databa...

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca

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British Columbia Through the Camera Lens of Philip Timms

This Canada's Digital Collection by the Vancouver Public Library is phase two of a project to digitize all the Philip Timms photographs in its collections. Phase one is titled Vancouver's Golden Years...

http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/timms_lens/

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Canada by Train

Summary (quoted from the Introduction): "Canada, by Train has three main sections. Ties That Bind provides a short history of railways in Canada and how they marketed their passenger services. It crea...

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/index-e.html

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Canadian Heritage Gallery

The Canadian Heritage Gallery (Mississauga, Ontario) publishes historic images and associated descriptive information; reproductions can also be ordered online. The site is endorsed by the Governor Ge...

http://www.canadianheritage.org/

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Canadian Pacific Railway Photograph Collection

This Vancouver Public Library digital collection describes and reproduces around 1,500 photographs that document the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in BC, along with biographical inform...

http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/cpr/index.html

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City of Richmond Archives

The City of Richmond Archives contains databases describing archival records, including special search interfaces for photographs and maps. The maps are available for viewing or downloading as Adobe A...

http://www.richmond.ca/archives/

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