BC History Digitization Program
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Description:The LIVE Biennial of Performance Art was founded and produced by grunt gallery for its first four iterations 1999 - 2005. Initially conceived of and organized by Brice Canyon and Glenn Alteen, LIVE sought to highlight the well established but often underground tradition of performance art in...
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Description:Welcome to the home of ARCH – BC, the Archival Records of Ceramic History in British Columbia. Arch-BC is a site dedicated to the newsletters of the Potters Guild of British Columbia (PGBC) the oldest provincial ceramic guild in Canada. The newsletters date from 1965 and continue to be uploaded....
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Title:Description:The Skeena Journal was a local television program produced by CFTK TV out of Terrace British Columbia. The reoccurring series was made up of interviews and local stories that explored the North West. The themes for each episode were inspired by viewer’s suggestions and provide a glimpse into the...
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Title:Description:Billy Barker’s legendary gold strike on Williams Creek triggered a multi-billion dollar industrial revolution that literally built a province. Today, the extraordinary historic town of Barkerville stands as a living testament to BC’s golden beginnings. With its unique streetscape of more than 125...
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Title:Genre:dance (performing arts genre)Description:Karen Jamieson Dance under the artistic direction of Karen Jamieson was formed in 1983. Karen has created over 100 original dance works with original scores by over 20 respected Canadian composers, performed in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. Her work, Sisyphus was named one of the 10...
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Description:North Pacific Cannery’s history is unique and is comparable to few if any of the other canneries on the west coast of North America. North Pacific Canning Company was formed on November 28, 1888 and had almost 90 years continuous salmon production and fish processing until ending in the late 1970s...