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Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 2—Barkerville’s Chinatown

By Jill Henderson on July 17, 2025

In Part 1 of our two-part series about British Columbia’s ghost towns, we explored an influential event in the province’s labour history: the 1935 Corbin Miners’ Strike. This week, we’re taking a look at Barkerville’s Chinatown, one of the first established Chinatown neighbourhoods in Western North America. While often historically omitted from B.C.’s ghost town […]

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Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 1—The Corbin Miners’ Strike

By Jill Henderson on July 3, 2025

One of our most popular blog posts of all time examines the captivating story of northern British Columbia ghost town Anyox, a former company-owned mining community abandoned in 1935. Anyox, B.C. (early 1900s) This week, we bring you Part 1 in a two-part series exploring lesser-known British Columbia ghost town stories. To kick off the […]

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Here for a Good Time, and a Long Time: Ephemera in Open Collections

By Jill Henderson on June 19, 2025

Ephemera, by its very definition, was never meant to stick around. Defined as items that have been preserved despite the fact that they were not intended to be at their time of production, the term is used to describe commonplace paper objects like flyers, menus, event tickets, postcards, and more. Valentine’s card (1919) from the […]

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Indigenous Stories of the Klondike Gold Rush: Part 2 – Chief Isaac

By Jill Henderson on June 5, 2025

In our last post, we introduced the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people and the important role they played during the Klondike Gold Rush era, guided by photos from the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection. This week, we examine the impacts the Gold Rush migration had on the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and their traditional territory, and meet ever-revered […]

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Indigenous Stories of the Klondike Gold Rush: Part 1 – The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in

By Jill Henderson on May 22, 2025

In last month’s blog post, we took you on an introductory tour of the realities of the Klondike Gold Rush era alongside the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection. We continue this tour with Part 1 of a two-part series about Indigenous stories of the Klondike Gold Rush, namely that of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people. […]

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“You Got to Speak Your Mind”: The 1960’s Berkeley Protests

By Jill Henderson on May 9, 2025

In the 1960’s, tensions around free speech, civil rights, and the Vietnam War were growing at the University of California, Berkeley. Students were organizing politically and becoming increasingly emboldened in their expressions of outrage through civil disobedience. The 1960’s Berkeley protests represented the largest organized student demonstrations to date, drawing unprecedented numbers, producing tangible results, […]

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