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B.C. Provincial Archives
The B.C. Provincial Archives are in Victoria, and hold a vast collection of
historical information relating to B.C. A web page is available that gives
information about the various collections and has a search engine that provides
on-line researchers a way to identify sources and contact the archives staff by
telephone or e-mail.
Maltwood Museum and Gallery
(info)
North Vancouver City Archives
(info)
Presentation House Gallery
Presentation House Gallery is in North Vancouver, and specializes in photography.
They have held exhibitions of historical local photographers.
University of British Columbia
Special Collections
Main Library - Fine Art division
Main Library - Theses and Dissertations
Education department Rare Book collection
Vancouver Art Gallery - Exhibition List
The Vancouver Art Gallery maintains a record of all exhibitions held at the
Gallery, beginning with their first show in 1931. This information has been
indexed in a number of ways, most recently into a web-based on-line database.
This information is available for free at the Art Gallery Library. The Library
is open on a limited schedule, you should telephone ahead to confirm times.
The gallery presented nearly 1,000 exhibitions from 1931 to 1950, displaying almost 50,000 artworks. Many of these exhibitions were of American or European or Eastern Canadian artists, and as such they did not fit into the general intent of this project and were not included. This still left well over 200 exhibitions of relevance at the gallery. They hosted the B.C. Society of Fine Arts annual exhibitions, the Vancouver Art School annual shows, the art school graduate society shows, PASOVAS shows, shows of private art academies, and solo shows of many local artists.
Vancouver City Archives
The Vancouver Archives have extensive collections of information that is of
relevance to the art researcher. For example, the B.C. Society of Fine Arts
fond is on file there. The archives also has a large collection of paintings
from early days in Vancouver, as well as thousands of historic photographs.
Vancouver Public Library
The Vancouver Public Library has a number of sources of information for the art
researcher. The Fine Arts division has many files and books of use; the Northwest Room
at the Main Branch has numerous historical documents; and the newspaper files on micro-film
have extensive information from that early period.
daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/aich/user/www/sf
Artists of British Columbia
The Vancouver Public Library has an on-line list of B.C. artists (up to the current
date) for whom they have files in their Fine Arts division.
www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/art/visual
B.C. Provincial Archives Vital Statistics On-line
The B.C. Provincial Archives in Victoria has a searchable database of births,
marriages, and deaths in British Columbia from colonial times onward.
www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
This project by Concordia University is compiling an extensive amount of
information on early Canadian women artists, and making it available on the web.
cwahi.concordia.ca