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February 2024 in the Archives

2 February 2024

OBA PR 231 OB Houses 015 742 HAMPSHIRE - from McCann papers, photographic sample of Oak Bay houses by building era, ca. 2000/2001.

Public open hours: The Archives were open for enquiries and on-site research appointments 17.5 hours/week as usual, with drop-in hours on Tuesday mornings.

Enquiries: 16, of which 4 in person.

Running total for 2024: 30

On-site volunteer hours logged: 45 (5 volunteers)

Volunteer projects:

  • municipal demolished-property files indexing
  • historic building permits indexing
  • reference files overhaul
  • physical numbering of hundreds of items in several collections of personal papers, preparatory to cataloguing
  • assisting with enquiries research e.g. compiling data from city directories

Digital images:

  • Larry McCann & UVic students' photographic sample of Oak Bay houses by building era, photos taken ca. 2000-2002: 500 of 1700 digitized, upload pending further processing

Views on Flickr in December & January: 3.7K (total 253.7 K by 1 Mar, since 3 Mar 2022).

There are now 11,000 photos on the growing Oak Bay Archives Flickr account in addition to the 1300 on the District website.

Archivist's work (66.5h):

  • attended AGM of Anglican Diocese of BC's Archives Advisory Committee as their external professional member (starting year 2)
  • a print copy of Council minutes 1906-1912 is now available to consult in the Archives searchroom.
  • continuing shelf check & locations register update
  • scanning and processing of digital images as above, further processing of Annandale collection
  • enquiries research and responses, facilitating researcher visits, volunteer management & monthly bulletin

Questions or appointment requests? Please get in touch!

Website: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives
Photo Search: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives/photographs
More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakbayarchives/
Blog posts: https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives
Email:
archives@oakbay.ca
Phone: 250-598-3290

- Post by Anna Sander, 1 March 2024.

To cite: Sander, Anna. (2024, February). 'December & January in the Archives.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/december-january-in-the-archives [date accessed].