News from the Archives

Public Events

• Exhibit installation of Our Hudson’s Hope Cowboys: Packers on the Trail – a celebration of the 1934 Charles Bedaux Expedition exhibit from Hudson’s Hope Museum & Archives (October 2010 – April 2011)
• UNBC speakers series featuring Ross Peck of the Hudson’s Hope Historical Society, talk entitled: “On the Trail with the Cowboys of the 1934 Bedaux Expedition” (Dec. 8, 2010)
• UNBC speakers series featuring Jay Sherwood author of Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-39; an event planned in partnership with the PG Public Library and the UNBC Arts Council. (Oct.19, 2010)

Recent Projects

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Cassiar Digitization & Identification Project Thank you to the Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations Program, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Council of Archives for their generous funding towards this project which enabled the digitization of many of the photographic records of the one-industry town of Cassiar, BC. Also, a sincere thank you to the many former Cassiar residents who responded to our photo identification requests, and to Herb Daum for his liaison work with the community through the Cassiar community website. (Summer 2010)

Walt during his Seneca days, 1960s (Accession No. 2002.9)

Waging Peace for a Living: The Walt Taylor fonds Thanks to the generous support of the National Archival Development Program, the Northern BC Archives & Special Collections completed the arrangement and description of 5.11m of textual records created by Walt Taylor – social activist, staunch environmentalist and author. (March 2010)