Just What Do the Friends Do?

Glad You Asked… With donations and grants we have accomplished a lot over the years. Here are a few of the things we’ve funded and presented

PROJECTS AND EQUIPMENT FUNDED BY “FRIENDS”

Web publisher software for Archives web site (enables researchers to search database on the Web)
Dye-sublimation printer (allows photo prints from scanned images)
Scanning photographic images into database
Combined index for 7 volumes of J.S. Matthews’ Early Vancouver
Computer for research room
Lease of photocopier for public use
Reproduction of 1888 Vancouver directory
Bookcase
Contribution to memorial to J.S. Matthews – Mt. Pleasant
Establishment of Elizabeth O’Kiely book tribute
Photographic cold storage facility (for preservation of deteriorating photographic negatives)
Reproduction of damaged Vancouver directories
Re-describing Major Matthews photograph collection
City directories project
Scanning and description grant for Walker E. Frost fonds, Ship’s series 2 photographs

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Last Gang in Town Aaron Chapman
Vaudeville and Vancouver’s Great White Way Tom Carter and John Atkin
Vancouver Before the Railways Dr. Robert A.J. McDonald
Behind the Scenes – History of Theatre in Vancouver Norman Young
Captain Vancouver’s Voyage Dr. Robin Fisher
Vancouver Book Project Chuck Davis
Empress Ships of the C.P.R. Leonard McCann
W.J. Moore Panorama Exhibit Archives Staff
Early Vancouver Postcards Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion
Vancouver’s Forgotten Entrepreneurs Dr. Jean Barman
Greenhill Park Disaster Leonard McCann
Archives Roadshow – Preservation of Family Treasures Archives Staff
History of Vancouver Aquarium Dr. Murray Newman
Heritage Trees of Vancouver Clive Justice
Vancouver General Hospital and School of Nursing Marguerite Ford & Peggy Etchell
Heraldry in B.C. Robert Watt
Lion’s Gate Bridge Don Luxton
Pioneer Shipping on Burrard Inlet Robert Turner, Ken MacKenzie & Leonard McCann
Sports in Vancouver Jim Kearney
Streetcars & Transit in Vancouver Henry Ewert
Stanley Park’s Secret Jean Barman
History of Burrard Inlet Doreen Armitage
Short Pants to Striped Trousers; The Life and Times of a Judge Wallace Gilby Craig
In Skid Road Vancouver

FIELD TRIPS

SPECIAL EVENTS