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Mission Community Archives

Acquires, preserves and makes available historic records of Mission City. Site includes a brief narrative history and timeline of Mission.

http://www.missionarchives.com/

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Moodyville, A Lost Community

A Macromedia Flash-enabled presentation on the history of Moodyville, the earliest White settlement on the north shore of Burrard Inlet where the City of North Vancouver now exists. The site includes ...

http://www.cnv.org/moodyville

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Onderdonk's Way

A virtual exhibit curated by Roger H. Boulet for the Kamloops Art Gallery, Onderdonk's Way "features the archival photographs documenting one of the most remarkable engineering feats in Canada's histo...

http://www.kag.bc.ca/Exhibitions/AllAboard/allaboard.html

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Slumach, A Web site for all who prefer facts over fiction

Summary from the front page: "This site is about an elderly Native man known as Slumach who once lived where the Pitt River flows out of Pitt Lake. In 1891 he was hanged in New Westminster for the mur...

http://www.slumach.ca/

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Surrey History

Illustrated, documentary site about the City of Surrey based in part on the author's Master's thesis, "The Historical Geography of South Surrey, British Columbia."

http://www.surreyhistory.ca

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The Artray Photograph Collection: Vignettes of Postwar Vancouver

This Vancouver Public Library digital collection describes and reproduces around 1,000 photographs taken by the Vancouver firm of Artray Limited, which was started in 1948 by Art Jones and Ray Munro, ...

http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/artray/index.ht...

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The Children of Fort Langley

The Children of Fort Langley traces the descendants of Fort Langley employees, and contains many valuable links to resources pertaining to the fur trade period.

http://www.fortlangley.ca/

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The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, 1850-1950

This site integrates source material on the Chinese in British Columbia from the University of British Columbia's Chung Collection and the City of Vancouver Archives Yip family and Yip Sang Ltd. fonds...

http://www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc/

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The Heritage Resources of Maple Ridge

Originally published in 1998, this Heritage resources inventory for the District of Maple Ridge was revised in 2001 for the Internet edition.

http://www.mapleridge.org/municipal/committees_commissions/h...

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The History of Metropolitan Vancouver

This Web site publicizes the development of local historian Chuck Davis' book scheduled for publication in 2007 by Harbour Publishing and titled The History of Metropolitan Vancouver. Site features in...

http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/

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