More and more archival material is becoming available for students, researchers and history buffs at the click of a button. From the University of British Columbia Open Collections comes this example: the Uno Langmann Postcard Collection.

Barrowclough, George Alfred. Carnegie Library, Vancouver, B.C.,

[between 1910 and 1920?].

More than 18,000 photographs were donated to UBC by the Langmann family; many of them are now digitized and available online. Search the collection HERE:  There are also historical British Columbia newspapers, books, the extensive Chung Collection and more. Visit HERE.

As of January, the Canadiana collection is adding more material for people to explore after its merger with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).  Now 60 million pages of digital documents are available at no charge. Read the story HERE.  See the online collections HERE.  Once you dive in it may take a while to come back up for air! Enjoy.

 

From ‘Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon’, 1860

 

Valley Sentinel Newspaper, 1921

 

From publication: Langley British Columbia, the banner agricultural district of the Lower Fraser Valley (1919)