The Maltwood Art Museum and the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria invite you to a public symposium on Women and Art in Early Victoria on Sunday, November 28, 2004, from 1 to 4 pm in the University Centre Building Room A180 (Senate Chambers). Hosted in conjunction with the exhibit "A Woman's Place:" Art and the Role of Women in the Cultural Formation of Victoria, 1850s-1920s, speakers include exhibit co-directors Dr. Karen Finlay and Jennifer Iredale, John Adams, Kathryn Bridge, and Kerry Mason.

Thursday, November 25th: Speaker - Dr. Sylvia Van Kirk, retired history professor from the University of Toronto, will speak on "Captain William Henry McNeill and his Family". The meeting will be at the James Bay New Horizons Centre, 234 Menzies Street at 7:30pm. Visitors are welcome.

Thursday, December 9th: Christmas Dinner at the Gorge Vale Golf Club, 1005 Craigflower Rd. Social hour at 6:00pm; dinner at 6:30pm. Speaker - Bill Barlee, retired teacher, MLA, Tourism Minister, television personality and avid historian, will speak on "The Old West". Members and guests are welcome. Cost for dinner is $25 per person. Reserve by December 3rd by calling Pam Odgers at 477-3924.

This year Archives Week in British Columbia falls between November 14 and 20, and includes Douglas Day, marking the establishment on November 19, 1858 of the mainland colony of British Columbia under its first governor, Sir James Douglas. The theme for 2004 is "Celebrating Women's Organizations".

For more information and to download this year's Archives Week Poster, please consult the Archives Week 2004 homepage on the AABC web site at: http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/archweek2004/.

Friends of the B.C. Archives Lecture "The Green Hill Park Disaster"

In March of 1945, Vancouver came unwittingly close to a major disaster, when the Canadian Park Steamship Company freighter SS Green Hill Park caught fire and exploded in the harbour. Her cargo included 8 railcar loads of rocket flares and 100 tons of sodium phosphate, and the initial explosion blew windows out throughout the downtown area. Two crewmen and 6 longshoremen died before the ship was towed out to Siwash Rock near Stanley Park and the fire was eventually extinguished. Leonard McCann, Curator Emeritus of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (and also a member of the Board of the Friends of the B.C. Archives) will talk about his research into this event, and the true cause of the disaster.

For more information about this event contact Ann ten Cate, Outreach Coordinator, B.C. Archives, 250-387-2970 or Ron Greene, Secretary of the Friends of the B.C. Archives at 250-598-1835. This event is free for Friends of the B.C. Archives, $5.00 for non-members, payable at the door. Call in advance for information about handicap access.

The Pleasures of Archival Research: A Legal Historian?s Perspective

Professor Hamar Foster, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

Sunday, October 24th, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Newcombe Conference Hall, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria

Noted legal historian Hamar Foster will talk to the Friends of the British Columbia Archives and any interested members of the public about his interest in aboriginal title, and how archival records provide the underpinning for research in this area. Professor Foster is currently working on a book on the campaign for aboriginal title in BC between 1906 and 1928.

This public lecture is free. For more information about this event contact Ann ten Cate, Outreach Coordinator, B.C. Archives, 250-387-2970 or Ron Greene, Secretary of the Friends of the B.C. Archives at 250-598-1835. Call in advance for information about handicap access.