For The Records

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Who keeps our histories? This exhibition space showcases the research of the BC Archives community. Genealogists, historians, and everyday visitors to the BC Archives share how archival records can be used and the unexpected histories housed within.

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Red-Breasted Nuthatch, ca. 1934
Red-Breasted Nuthatch, ca. 1934
Can you imagine a group of young women mountaineering high in the Rockies then sitting down to a cup of tea and a plein air painting session? After researching this artist I learned Hilda Vincent Foster composed this red-breasted nuthatch in the…
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Yokohama-e at the Archives
Yokohama-e is a genre of Japanese painting that developed in the early 1860s in Yokohama as a result of cultural and political intersection with Western nations after centuries of self-imposed seclusion.  These are paintings carried out in the…
Royal BC Museum Staff

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