So this is the first final version of the website for the project BC Through Arriving Eyes. I am almost done with the immigrant stories & wanted to share the first screenshots of the website. I finished almost all transcripts of the conducted oral history interviews, included all photographs and designed the websites. In April next years we will film short documentaries about each interviewed German speaking immigrant which will also be included in the website.
During the last two weeks I conducted two more oral history interviews in Victoria & Robert’s Creek. Right now I am working on the transcription of the interviews & formatting the collected photographs. Have a first impression & click through the pictures I posted.
Over the summer I interviewed the first German-Canadians for the research project. Hans & Barbara Milewski immigrated to Canada in the 1950’s from Germany and are both now over 90 years old. I interviewed them for several hours in their home in Maple Ridge, BC and collected hundreds of photos of their life in Canada. It was wonderful to meet and get to know them and I hope it will be as interesting for you to listen to them telling the story of their life in Canada. As long as the project website is not online I am posting some interesting photographs of them here on this blog.
