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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer’s Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives
- Finding queer joy in the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives: Out On Campus records now available
- Glossary
Thematic Research Guides
The ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives' finding aids are provenance-based (i.e. organized by the creating bodies, persons or families). To supplement these, we also prepare subject-based thematic guides.
Last updated: Sep 3, 2024
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives Holdings: Thematic Groups
All fonds and collections organized by broad thematic subject categories, with links to online finding aids. Format: pdf. Last updated: September 2024.
British Columbia Beer History Archive
In 2021, the Archives began to acquire records relating to British Columbia's brewing history – from documentation of BC's early, pre-Prohibition brewers to the records of the contemporary craft beer scene. Read more about our holdings, recent acquisitions, and other research resources on BC's beer history. Format: online. Last updated: May 2024.
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Heritage Displays
Display posters originally created for ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's 40th Anniversary (2005), then redesigned in 2022. The displays are mounted along the walls of the corridor leading to the Archives on the ground floor of Maggie Benston Centre. Format: jpg. Last updated: 2022.
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CREATIVE British Columbia: a Guide to Arts and Culture Resources in the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Archives
This guide highlights individuals and organizations that have contributed to the arts and cultural life of British Columbia and whose records are preserved in ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's archival holdings. Format: pdf. Last updated: 2012.
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Campus Politics: A Guide to Sources
The Archives holds a wealth of material relating to the history of campus politics at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: protests, demonstrations, sit-ins, occupations, strikes. This guide briefly describes key events from 1965 up to the 1980s, identifies the main records creators, and traces the fate of their records. Format: pdf. Last updated: March 2010.