Spotlight on the Archives' reference library - Municipal Hall foyer display January 2022

Did you know that Oak Bay Archives has a reference library?

The library was reclassified to suit its focused range of local history subjects and catalogued online in 2020-21; browse holdings at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/OakBayArchives

More about the reference library here

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Robert Taylor and Janet Morningstar. St Patrick Street, Oak Bay - Oak Bay Avenue to Brighton Avenue - an architectural and social history

Ron Baird Success story : the history of Oak Bay

Joan Hockaday Greenscapes : Olmsted's Pacific Northwest

Larry McCann Imagining Uplands: John Olmsted's Masterpiece of Residential Design

Henry Ewert Victoria's streetcar era

J. F. Bosher Imperial Vancouver Island : who was who, 1850-1950

Stuart Stark The B.C. Agricultural Association exhibition building at the Willows

Janet Bingham Samuel Maclure, architect

Douglas Parker No horsecars in paradise : a history of the street railways and public utilities in Victoria, British Columbia before 1897

Peter Corley-Smith Victoria Golf Club 1893-1993 : one hundred treasured years of golf

Betty Gordon Funke Tweed Curtain Pioneers

Gerry Chaster Trees of Greater Victoria : a heritage

Brandy J. Patterson A good investment: women and property ownership in a mid-twentieth century Canadian suburb, Oak Bay, British Columbia 1940 - 1960

Terri Hunter Under the Oaks : Tales of Oak Bay

Maureen Duffus A Most Unusual Colony: Vancouver Island 1849 - 1860

Crawford Kilian Go do some great thing : the Black pioneers of British Columbia

Grant Keddie Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912

Sylvia Van Kirk Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670–1870

Terry Reksten, Illustrated History Of British Columbia

____________ More English Than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria