Well... on Day 9 of this Vancouver Genealogy Challenge, I encouraged you to learn about Vancouver's history, neighbourhoods and transportation by looking at streetcar development.
Today, Day 11, I'm introducing you to a wider source for Vancouver history - the Vancouver Historical Society: http://vancouver-historical-society.ca/index.html
The Society meets regularly at the Museum of Vancouver and, if you can't attend, the meetings are live-streamed on YouTube where there are archived talks you can catch up with: ::https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqrxLzWptopnfoBjkHTgn1w
The Society's next meeting is May 25, 2023. The speaker is John Belshaw on "Reckless Riders and Reckless Writers: Cycling Accidents in the News since 1886".
Further into the website is "The Story of Vancouver": https://www.vancouver-historical-society.ca/blog/ where you can "Read Vancouver’s history from the beginning to the present like you haven’t seen it before by theme and topic through quotes, photographs and a written narrative." I recommend this as an easy way to learn about or review the City's history.
There's a nice list of Sources too which includes a good number of very useful books, all of which should be available through Vancouver Public Library or at one of Vancouver's great bookstores.
The photographs add a lot to Vancouver's story. These are mostly from the collections of the City of Vancouver Archives and the Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections.
Staff at the News-Advertiser Building, Vancouver, BC; Date: 189-. Photographer, Bailey Bros. Courtesy Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections: Accession # 19842. Public Domain.
VPL Special Collections: https://www.vpl.ca/digital-library/historical-photographs-bc-and-yukon
Just for genealogy fun: Can you think of just 2 ways to find out more about these people working for the News-Advertiser in Vancouver in the 1890s?
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