Friends of the Vancouver City Archives
1150 Chestnut Street V6J3J9 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Thanks in part to your donations this year, the Pender Guy Radio Collective audio tapes have been digitised and made available online (for fair dealing uses). Check out the City of Vancouver Archives ' blog post about it!

Thank you to everyone who donated to the Friends of the Vancouver City Archives on #GivingTuesday this year, and also throughout this year! We know it's been a challenging year (on every front!), so we especially appreciate your contributions this year which help us keep digitization moving forward.

Just a couple weeks until our chat with Margaret Andrews and Andy Yan - get your ticket today!

Tickets are selling fast to this (online!) event. We hope you can join us for this panel discussion on December 3rd!

Today is Giving Tuesday! We really appreciate your support, and your donations will go towards digitisation projects to make more of the Archives' materials available for free online! Donate today at https://www.canadahelps.org//the-friends-of-the-vancouver/ #GivingTuesday #GivingTuesdayCA

It's Cyber Monday! Be sure to visit our Redbubble shop for all your holiday gifting needs! http://fovca.redbubble.com/

We appreciate your donations all the time, but especially this year! We know it's a challenging year for many, and it has been for us too. The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives help get more and more records digitized and made available online, which in this time of social distancing means more records are available to people in the comfort and safety of your homes! We gladly accept donations year-round through CanadaHelps. https://www.canadahelps.org//the-friends-of-the-vancouver/

We're back! We've had to retool to bring our talks and discussions to a different forum, but our first online event will be this December 3rd, where John Atkin will host a panel discussion with Margaret Andrews and Andy Yan about two pandemics, a century apart. Tickets are $15 on Eventbrite!

We've loaded a bunch of new designs into our Redbubble store! Check it out!

Our Redbubble shop now has fitted 3-layer masks! Check out all the designs at https://fovca.redbubble.com!

One of our members donated some beautiful old photos to the City of Vancouver Archives in recent years, and they have just been digitised thanks to their support! Check out the W.H. Walsh Grocer photos here: https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/informationobje/browse

The City of Vancouver Archives has recently reactivated its Instagram account - follow them here! https://www.instagram.com/vanarchives/

Earlier this year, Co-op Radio's records were made available to the public online for the first time - be sure to check them out! https://www.vancouverarchives.ca//co-op-radio-fonds-now-a/

Thanks in part to your support, more photographs from the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives have recently been digitised and made available on the City of Vancouver Archives' website! Check them out now! https://www.vancouverarchives.ca//more-bcgla-photographs-/

Check out this fun not-quite-historically-accurate 3D animation of 1930s Vancouver!

Redbubble has just added jigsaw puzzles! Check out some of these designs in our store (and yes, we left some of them with a LOT of white space for the extra challenge!) https://www.redbubble.com/people/fovca/shop

In addition to masks, Redbubble has also added backpacks - we've only put them on a few designs in our store but they look pretty cool! https://www.redbubble.com/people/fovca/shop

It's true! Our store now has a number of different masks to choose from!

This photo of Kits Beach, taken in 1943 during military exercises, is the City of Vancouver Archives nod to the landings on the Normandy beaches 75 years ago today. http://ow.ly/egF350uyfIo #DDay #KitsBeach #WWII

Since we can't observe Italian Heritage Month together, the City of Vancouver Archives has helped the City put together a page on the City's website to commemorate the occasion! https://vancouver.ca/people-pro/italian-heritage-month.aspx

April 1977 - A Spring evening in Vancouver - like a scene out of Blue Velvet. City of Vancouver Archives photo 800-0022

From 1978, this archives photo (COV-S535-F4-: CVA 786-62.19) was the window display of a local car dealership. Does anyone remember exactly where it was? Do check out more photos from the City of Vancouver Archives!

The North Van Museum and Archives have found a way to make your Zoom calls more... historical!

The Archives' neighbour, the Museum of Vancouver, is looking for your coronavirus diaries. More details in this news story: https://www.narcity.com//museum-of-vancouver-wants-your-qu