June 2024 in the Archives
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, plus 4 hours at the June Night Market on Oak Bay Avenue, which generated many conversations and 15 written enquiries. We also took a night market-style table of resources outside one Tuesday morning.
Enquiries: 21, of which 15 in person.
Running total for 2024: 96
On-site volunteer hours logged: 51 (5 volunteers)
Volunteer projects (ongoing):
- municipal demolished-property files indexing
- historic building permits indexing, now complete to end of 1955 - view here
- scanning photographs - completed: Martin album
- physical numbering of hundreds of items in several collections of personal papers, preparatory to cataloguing. Completed: Martin album, Pattinson album and scrapbooks, long run of Campbell scrapbooks.
New articles on Connect:
- Images on the Oak Bay Archives Banners
- Donating records to the Archives
- Why the Archives does not collect copies of records from loans or other archives
- List of Reeves/Mayors and Councillors of Oak Bay, sorted alphabetically by surname and chronologically by first year served
Views on Flickr in June: (6.5K, total 294.9K by 2 July,since 3 Mar 2022).
Archivist's work:
- preparing reference and outreach materials for summer Night Markets
- staffing Night Market table & responding to ensuing enquiries
- Connect articles listed above
- final stages of catalogue descriptions of PR 106 Pattinson family papers
- final stages of catalogue descriptions of PR 127 Barber family papers
- internal and external enquiries research and responses, facilitating researcher visits, volunteer management & monthly bulletin - #52
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, 2 July 2024.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2024, July). 'June 2024 in the Archives.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/june-2024-in-the-archives [date accessed].
