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Language and Ancestry in Our Living Languages

October 10, 2015
Aaron M. Ward (čaačimḥi), Cultural Programmer at the Royal BC Museum, takes Curious on a personal exploration of how language creates a connection to ancestry. He discusses language revitalization projects across British Columbia and how these help communities revive their …
by Chahchumhi (Aaron M. Wells) | Published September 2nd, 2015 | Zero comments

Introducing the Moth Family

September 9, 2015
Generations of people have grown up at the Royal BC Museum. This includes the babies that come in strollers with their parents, the multitudes of youth that visit with their school groups, college students who find summer employment as camp …
by Kasey Lee | Published August 20th, 2015 | Zero comments

Me, my Dad and Webster

September 9, 2015
I had only been working at the BC Archives for about a month when I came across the Canadian Who’s Who [NW920 C212] in the library. For a lark, I decided to see if my dad’s name was in it. …
by Beverly Paty | Published August 18th, 2015 | Zero comments

Precisely!

December 12, 2014
Jack Webster was born in Scotland and started his newspaper career as a copyboy in Glasgow. After serving in WWII, he moved his young family to British Columbia where he began reporting for The Vancouver Sun in September of 1947. After a dispute about over-time pay, Jack left The Vancouver Sun and was fortunate that local radio station CJOR offered him a job doing a ten minute daily current affairs show.
by Ember Lundgren | Published December 14th, 2014 | Zero comments

Home

January 1, 2015
The prominent American writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that “home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.” He was someone who understood being displaced. Originally from Iowa, Stegner’s family moved to the Saskatchewan frontier in 1915. As family and environmental crises emerged, Stegner’s childhood became punctuated by relocation, denying him any opportunity to call one place home. His past and his home were never a place, but rather “what you can take away with you.”
by Jon Weller | Published December 12th, 2014 | Zero comments

A Movie Camera is a Time Machine

December 12, 2014
Motion picture film provides a record of passing time, rendered as a series of still pictures on a length of film stock.  After the advent of sound, commercial movies ran at a constant speed, dividing a second of movement into …
by Dennis J. Duffy | Published July 22nd, 2014 | Zero comments

A Fan of the Chinese Opera

October 10, 2014
This unusual footage shows a Chinese opera performance at a theatre in Vancouver’s Chinatown.  It was filmed from the audience seats (in at least three different camera positions) on February 8, 1944.  The footage was shot by Vancouver filmmaker and …
by Dennis J. Duffy | Published November 22nd, 2013 | 2 comments

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