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Buckaroos in BC: the Story of Ranching in British Columbia Virtual exhibit on the history of ranching in British Columbia, created by O'Keefe Ranch for Virtual Museum of Canada. Digitized Okanagan History: Historic O'Keefe Ranch Collection - Provides online access to archival materials from the O'Keefe Ranch that have been digitized.
This is a list of archives in Canada.. These archives, for the purposes of this list, are entities in Canada that work to acquire, preserve, and make available material as documentary evidence about a person, community, business, government, municipality, etc., for future generations. [1]
The Innovation Library is located downtown in the Okanagan Regional Library's Kelowna Branch. In 2017, UBC Okanagan partnered with numerous local museums and archives throughout the Okanagan region to initiate the Digitized Okanagan History project.
Regional districts came into being via an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act. [1] Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia were incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
Its quarterly magazine, British Columbia History, is dedicated solely to the history of the province of British Columbia. In 1923 the British Columbia Historical Association published its First Annual Report and Proceedings, edited by Walter Noble Sage. In 1937, it evolved into the British Columbia Historical Quarterly edited by W.K. Lamb.
This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of British Columbia. As of January 2020, there were 100 National Historic Sites designated in British Columbia, 13 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ).
Yoho National Park BC 51°26′04″N 116°20′53″W / 51.4345°N 116.348°W / 51.4345; -116.348 ( Kicking Horse Pass National Historic Site of Federal ( 10063 )