British Columbia History Portal

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"A Moment in Time": A Collection of Henry Twidle's Photographs

Amateur photographer Henry Twidle (1879-1956), an English immigrant, worked for the B.C. Mills Timber & Trade Company at Rock Bay in the early 1900s and later relocated to Granite Bay on Quadra Island...

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/momentintime/def...

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Alaska Historical Collections

Summary: "The U. S. Congress created the Alaska Historical Library and Museum on June 6, 1900. ... A U. S. Attorney General's opinion in 1922 declared the Alaska Historical Library and Museum a territ...

http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist.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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B.C. 150: Celebrating 150 Years of British Columbia

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation assembled a Web site commemorating the 150th anniversary of British Columbia and inviting public submissions of photographs and stories. The site also includes a ...

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/150

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Balance of Power: Hydroelectric Development in Southeastern British Columbia

A Virtual Museum of Canada site documenting the history of hydroelectric development in southeastern British Columbia through interactive maps, photographs and text.

http://virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Hydro/en/index.php

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BC Explorers: A Digital History of the Pacific Northwest

Douglas Dunn created this site "to allow individuals to share information about some of the historic and interesting sites in the Pacific Northwest." The site includes digitized content from various h...

http://www.bcexplorer.org

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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 Archival Information Network

The Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) maintains this gateway to archival information in British Columbia and the rest of Canada. The principal resources here are the British Columbia Arc...

http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/bcain.html

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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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