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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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British Columbia Union Databases, BC Electronic Library Network

"The British Columbia Electronic Library Network (ELN) is a partnership between the Province of British Columbia and its post-secondary libraries. ELN's purpose is to develop, promote and maintain sys...

http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=82

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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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Culture Canada: Government of Canada Guide to Canadian Culture, Heritage and Recreation

From the About Us section: "CultureCanada.gc.ca is the Government of Canada's one-stop Web access to government resources on the subjects of Culture, Heritage and Recreation. Created as part of the Tr...

http://culturecanada.gc.ca

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Heritage Burnaby: Personal History, Collective Memory

Heritage Burnaby brings together in one virtual location "all of the community assets, heritage services and historic collections managed by the City of Burnaby, British Columbia." As of its launch in...

http://www.heritageburnaby.ca/

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Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia: An Electronic Inventory

A catalogue with some digitized samples of Chinese language historical records preserved in British Columbia. From the About page (2003-03-07): "In response to the growing interest of researchers and ...

http://www.hclmbc.org/Index.html

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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 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 Leonard Frank Photograph Collection

This Canada's Digital Collection by the Vancouver Public Library describes the kinds of photographs taken by photographer Leonard Frank (1870-1944), along with biographical information about the photo...

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

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Vancouver's Golden Years, 1900-1910: Photographs by Philip Timms

This Canada's Digital Collection by the Vancouver Public Library describes the kinds of photographs taken of the City of Vancouver by photographer Phillip Timms (1874-1973), along with biographical in...

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

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