Feature Place at IKBLC: Keremeos
Posted in Resources on Jul 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Keremeos is located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia and is in the Similkameen Valley.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Muskwa River
Posted in Resources on Jul 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Room 416, a group study room on the fourth floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Muskwa River.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Skeena River
Posted in Resources on Jun 16th, 2011 No Comments »
The Skeena River Room, room 317 in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, is a group study room that is named after the Skeena River, the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia’s borders (the largest being the Fraser River). Six-hundred and twenty-one kilometers long, it flows south and west through the Skeena and Coast Mountains, [...]
Feature Place at IKBLC: Hartley Bay
Posted in Resources on May 27th, 2011 No Comments »
This week, we are taking a closer look at the community of Hartley Bay — the community that the Hartley Bay Meeting Room (room 266), in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre is named after.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Kootenay River Room
Posted in Resources on May 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Kootenay River Room, a large, bright and airy group study room (room 422) on the 4th floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Kootenay River
Featured Place at IKBLC: Slocan
Posted in Resources on May 20th, 2011 No Comments »
This week’s featured place name and Irving K. Barber Centre room is Slocan.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Sandspit
Posted in Resources on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Our featured place this week is Sandspit, a small community of approximately 400 people, located on the northeastern tip of Moresby Island, near Spit Point
Featured Place at IKBLC: Fernie
Posted in Resources on May 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
In our ongoing series of B.C. place names used in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this week we will look at Fernie, B.C.
BC History Digitization Program: 2011 recipients
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Twenty-one projects from around the province have been named as successful recipients of the 2011 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding awards. The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique historical items, including [...]
Featured town: Bella Coola at IKBLC
Posted in News on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
In a new series of blog posts, Rare Books and Special Collections will be featuring a historic document, photograph or map related to one of the B.C. towns represented in the room names of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Receipt from A.C. Christensen & Son, Bella Coola To kick things off, we’ll start with [...]
Minghui Yu
Allan
Simon Neame
Glenn Drexhage
Kyuwon Kim