BCHF BUZZ May 2021
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Last chance to sign up for BCHF conference
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Registration is due May 31 for the BCHF virtual conference, to be held June 3-5, co-hosted by the Surrey Historical Society. Students can attend for free (email Laurie@bchistory.ca to obtain the access code). Links will be sent to registrants a week before the event. Societies also need to register to attend the AGM. |
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Meet the BCHF conference speakers
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The BCHF virtual conference features a diverse line-up of speakers and subjects as well as field trips. Click the button below for the full list.
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Book auction to take place online
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Each year the BCHF relies on a fun-filled silent
auction of books to raise money for its book awards program. This year’s virtual auction promises a great
selection and some healthy competition with other bidders. Bidding opens June 3 at 9 a.m. and goes
until June 5 at 8:30 p.m. We will
invoice winners and ship books afterward.
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Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC announces awards
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The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC (a BCHF member) has announced the 2021
winners of its awards, which includes another one of our members, the Lytton Chinese History Museum.
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Applications sought for Terry Reksten Memorial Fund
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The Friends of the BC Archives is now accepting applications for the
Terry Reksten Memorial Fund. The fund offers two $1,000 grants to help
community archives organize, preserve, describe and disseminate records
significant to BC and its regions. |
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Heritage Abbotsford launches online catalogue
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Trethewey House/Heritage Abbotsford |
Now you can browse more historical collections from Abbotsford. Heritage
Abbotsford Society has made its collections more accessible by
launching its collections catalogue online. |
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Royal BC Museum celebrates Asian Heritage Month
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May is Asian Heritage Month and the Royal BC Museum is celebrating
with online events and a pop-up exhibit. The museum is sharing stories
and experiences of Asian settlers in B.C. as part of an effort to
counter the recent rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the province. |
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Punjabi dining set joins 100 Objects of Interest
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Tamba dining set/Royal BC Museum |
A new item featured online by the Royal BC Museum’s 100 Objects of
Interest collection, is a tamba (Punjabi for mixed copper alloys) dining
set one man used on his voyage from Punjab to BC in 1927. |
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Canadian Nautical Research Society conference nears
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James Cookall photo/City of Vancouver Archives CVA 260-851
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The Canadian Nautical Research Society will hold its virtual annual conference and AGM June 10-12. Participation is free for members of the CNRS. To receive a link for the virtual conference, please send an email to CNRSConf2021@cnrs-scrn.org with “Conference registration” in the subject line. |
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Province announces $2M for Japanese Canadian seniors
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This 1942/43 building in New Denver shows living
conditions of Japanese Canadians at the onset of their internment. Courtesy Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre |
The BC government has announced $2 million for the Nikkei Seniors
Health Care and Housing Society to enhance programming for seniors and
local communities. The money is part of a provincial promise to honour
Japanese Canadians by recognizing the traumatic internment of almost
22,000 people beginning in 1942. |
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Fire damages historic Surrey hall
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A fire at Surrey’s historic Strawberry Hill Hall, built in 1909, has stalled a $1.2-million rehabilitation project that was expected to see the building converted into a preschool. |
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Historic Central Saanich barn to be demolished
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The building known as the White Barn, seen at left, and another (not pictured) are slated to be demolished. However, the main building in the foreground is not coming down. Google Street View |
Two historic farm buildings in Central Saanich, including one built in
1887, are to be torn down. Council decided last week against temporary
protection measures for two barns on the former Woodwynn Farms site
based on a report that says the buildings are at risk of collapse. |
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BC Road Trip Time Machine features Osoyoos to Creston, 1966
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The Ministry of Transportation has posted another in its popular series
of videos of BC highways as they were decades ago. The latest one takes
us from Osoyoos to Creston in 1966. Count the gas stations! They were everywhere. |
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The story of the Fernie station
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The Fernie CPR station is seen in the 1980s when it was on the brink of demolition. Al Peterson photo |
The Fernie and District Arts Council has produced a detailed story of The Arts Station, formerly the city’s CPR station. The station was built in 1909, on the same location as two previous
buildings destroyed by fire. For more than 30 years, it has been
Fernie’s centre for the arts. |
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The BCHF offers a number of advertising opportunities in our e-newsletter, which is distributed to our entire membership monthly. Advertisements are jpeg images sized to 600 px wide for electronic distribution. To submit an ad, contact Greg Nesteroff: greg@bchistory.ca
Members enjoy discounted advertising rates. Choose 12 months for the best deal:
1-3 months = $100 each ($100-$300 annually)
4 months = $90 each ($360 annually)
6 months = $80 each ($480 annually)
8 months = $70 each ($560 annually)
12 months = $50 each ($600 annually)
Rates for non-members are as follows:
1-3 months = $150 each ($150-$450 annually)
4 months = $140 each ($560 annually)
6 months = $130 each ($780 annually)
8 months = $120 each ($960 annually)
12 months = $100 each ($1,200 annually)
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