February 2024 in the Archives

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
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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].