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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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Beacon Hill Park History

Written by Janis Ringuette, "This website presents a detailed chronological history of the Park from 1842 to 2004."

http://www.islandnet.com/beaconhillpark

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Beacon Hill Park History, 1842-2008

Janis Ringuette started researching and writing this comprehensive, illustrated history of Victoria's Beacon Hill Park in 2002.

http://www.beaconhillparkhistory.org/

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Beyond Nootka: A Historical Perspective of Vancouver Island Mountains

This Web site contains selected text and illustrations about Vancouver Island mountains, climbing personalities, and individuals after whom the mountains were name that was also published in a book of...

http://members.shaw.ca/beyondnootka/

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Beyond the Map: The Explorers of the Pacific Northwest

Produced with the Maritime Museum of British Columbia for the Virtual Museum of Canada, this Web site examines the European colonization of the Pacific Northwest, the effects which it had on the First...

http://www.beyondthemap.ca

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Campbell River Genealogy Society

On November 5th 2002, the Campbell River Genealogy Club became the Campbell River Genealogy Society. The Web site includes transcripts of the 1901 Canadian Census.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccrgc/

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Cowichan Bay, from 1850 to now ... (give or take a few years)

A history of Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, by Thomas Wagner. Also available for download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

http://cowichanbayhistory.org

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Esquimalt Municipal Archives

The Esquimalt Municipal Archives maintains the corporate records of the municipality and private records pertaining to the municipality.

http://www.mun.esquimalt.bc.ca/Main/archives.htm

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Gabriola Museum Archives

The Gabriola Museum Archives features records pertaining to this southern Gulf Island. The Web site features family histories, transcripts of selected articles from the Nanaimo Free Press about Gabrio...

http://www.gabriolamuseum.org/gmarch.html

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Graveyard of the Pacific: The Shipwrecks of Vancouver Island

A Virtual Museum of Canada Web site jointly produced by the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, the Museum at Campbell River, the Vancouver Maritime Museum and the Underwater Archaeological Society o...

http://www.pacificshipwrecks.ca

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